Chapter 1608

Luo Ji lay on the bed, half-closing her eyes. She turned her head away, not daring to look at Frigga's expression. She still felt a bit guilty, but hearing Frigga scold Odin made her feel a bit satisfied. She hovered between these two emotions, feeling very conflicted, much like all those who had listened to Shiler's words in the past.

A trap laid ten million times would still catch someone, which naturally meant it had its own exquisite nature. Luo Ji thought this to herself. She knew very well that whatever Shiler offered would surely be a devious trick, but she still couldn't help but want to see the effect of this move.

The cause was that although Luo Ji had begun to consider the health of her future offspring, she was still facing a troublesome matter that needed to be resolved immediately: Frigga's matchmaking. Luo Ji didn't really want to participate in that absurd matchmaking show, so she had to find an excuse to decline it.

By this time, Nick had already learned that Shiler had returned from the Death Realm, but he was very dissatisfied with Shiler letting the female agent be absent from work for so long. He demanded that Shiler pay the female agent's lost wages before he could take back both of their corpses, and he had to guarantee that there wouldn't be such a sloppy death next time—at the very least, work had to be arranged before dying.

Shiler couldn't be bothered to argue with Nick. He went directly to find Luo Ji. He had Luo Ji use illusions to deceive S. H. I. E. L. D.'s security devices to steal back both of their corpses. Luo Ji was just worrying about how to decline the matchmaking, so she arranged a deal with Shiler: Shiler would provide advice to Luo Ji, and Luo Ji would help Shiler get the corpses back.

Getting the corpses back went very smoothly, but the advice Shiler provided to Luo Ji could only be described as having an aesthetic that disregarded the physical and mental health of the Asgardian royal family members.

The content was very simple—to put it bluntly, it was to feign illness. It was an idea that anyone aged ten or older would know was just parents pretending not to see through their children's act, but Luo Ji was the type of person who would never give up any chance to test whether others loved her.

Thus, after returning to Asgard, Luo Ji began to work desperately. She handled government affairs, internal affairs, and military affairs all at once. On one hand, she kept an eye on hundreds of renovation and reform projects within Asgard, and on the other, she ran to the Ring Sector every day to participate in various social activities representing Asgard.

After working busily like this for a few days, Luo Ji naturally fell ill. Strictly speaking, it couldn't be considered feigning illness; she was truly exhausted.

When a person falls ill from overworking, even if their relatives are angry, they can't blame them too much. On one hand, they have to take care of the other person's emotions, and on the other, Luo Ji was working hard for Asgard, so it wasn't good to say harsh words. Thor was trapped in these emotions, feeling both distressed and angry, but unable to say anything.

Frigga and Odin were even more so; they cast aside the matters of matchmaking and marriage and began to fully study what was going on with Luo Ji's constitution.

"Loki is indeed somewhat congenitally deficient." Odin cleared his throat as he left Luo Ji's room and walked toward his own bedchamber, speaking first. "When I found him, his physique was much smaller than that of a normal Frost Giant newborn, and his mental power development was incomplete."

"But for all these years he has been growing, you never thought to strengthen his physique!" Frigga carried her staff and walked quickly ahead, not even looking back at her husband. She spoke in an annoyed and self-reproachful tone, "It's also my fault. Loki had never fallen ill before, so I thought it was fine. Who knew that now he would actually..."

"She has been working too crazily during this period. You should talk to Thor about this, and then I will go ask an old friend of the Dwarf race to see if they can find anything to improve her weak constitution from the root."

The couple discussed for a long time without coming up with any good method for rapid improvement, so they could only recuperate slowly. But at the very least, for the next few hundred years, their focus would be on Luo Ji's health rather than her marriage.

On the other side, the ultimate tug-of-war between Thanos and Death continued. But ever since Thanos, the cook, stopped looking at recipes and started looking at psychology, a subtle change had occurred in the relationship between the two.

During Thanos's youth, he had been deeply influenced by Death. For a very long time, he was infatuated with this goddess. Death could be said to be the culprit behind many of his crazy slaughtering acts.

Originally, if things had continued to develop like this, Thanos would still have embarked on that path of seeking the Infinity Stones and eliminating life in the universe. But just as this path was starting, Shiler appeared.

Shiler had an influence on both Thanos and Death, but it was mainly a significant influence on Death, keeping Death busy dealing with his tangled plans, and then letting Death experience several rounds of strict crackdowns, leaving Death with no time to manage the several candidates for her emissaries for a very long time.

Sentient beings are all forgetful. Sometimes faith is like a romance; after an initial period of crazy infatuation, if it is met with a long period of calmness, fatigue and boredom will surge like the tide. Not to mention that Thanos wasn't destroying the universe full-time now; he had his own career and was busy from morning till night. As time passed, the impression Death left in his mind wasn't that deep anymore.

Once a "simp" wakes up, when he looks back at the past, he will definitely want to slap his former self. Thanos going to listen to Shiler's psychology class was because he wanted to understand things clearly even if he were to die.

Before this, Thanos had vaguely felt that something was wrong. Besides the influence Death exerted on him at the magical level, her words and actions also carried strong guidance. After Thanos was no longer so crazily infatuated with her, he grasped a key point, but it wasn't systematic.

And in the course on mental manipulation and controlling others, Thanos truly learned the secrets behind this—there really was a discipline in this world that systematically guided people on how to control and manipulate others.

In the several hours of private conversation with Shiler, Thanos learned as much knowledge as he could from Shiler. It is said that if you hold a hammer, everything looks like a nail; if you hold a textbook on psychological disorders, you will find that everyone around you is a lunatic.

After understanding various techniques and principles, Thanos compared them one by one with the words and actions Death had once displayed in front of him, and then discovered that the other party had been manipulating and using him from beginning to end.

Those techniques were simply obvious, and each one could find a corresponding prototype in the theory, and they weren't even very advanced techniques; they could only be called typical.

Thanos didn't have no temper, and no one would feel very good knowing they had been manipulated and used. But he was clearly a ruthless character who knew how to endure, and having mastered more knowledge of manipulating others, he was also rubbing his hands, intending to use Death as the first object of practice.

Many people have the impression of Thanos as being about the Infinity Stones and the Mad Titan, but in reality, Thanos is an intelligence-type character. His intelligence cannot be underestimated, and his understanding and caution are second to none in the universe.

Then Death discovered that this fake love game had suddenly increased in difficulty from simple to very difficult. Every response from Thanos seemed to have something wrong, but Death couldn't say exactly what was wrong, because Thanos still appeared infatuated and affectionate.

It can be said that these rule-based gods fall into the hands of any weak existence not because they aren't strong enough, but because they care too much. Once they get into a dead end, their intelligence drops significantly, and once they have prejudice, their overall perspective disappears.

Simply put, Death was anxious again.

It didn't matter that Death went to pester Thanos; her work was left unattended, which led to Infinity, who was currently managing the universe, becoming anxious as well.

Eternity ran back to the interior of the Great World on the pretext of research every day. Although everyone knew he wasn't really on a business trip, no one could stop him, because his immediate superior, Adam, was also on a business trip.

Adam was afraid of being discovered by the main body of the Great World for causing trouble, so he was busy eliminating criminal evidence inside the Great World. Occasionally, when he came back, he would at most give Infinity some verbal encouragement and wouldn't help at all.

Death had originally liked to engage in small tricks, but at least she did some work. Survival and destruction are the two eternal themes of the universe, and Death occupied half of them, so her work responsibilities were naturally very important. But now that she had set her sights on Thanos, she had completely abandoned the maintenance of the Death Realm.

The structure of the universe is very exquisite, but not as exquisite as one might imagine. There are many times when some inexplicable bugs appear, so although Death usually stays in the Death Realm doing nothing, she would still go to fix them if loopholes appeared.

Now, the company boss and the team leader had both gone on business trips, one colleague was skipping work to date, one was slacking off at their workstation, and one was just eating and eating in the cafeteria. Infinity, the only one working in the entire project team, was on the verge of a breakdown.

But just a few days ago, he had changed from an employee who could quit at any time to one of the company's partners, so the company's profit and loss had a huge impact on him personally. So, he had to work whether he wanted to or not. Taking over Death's responsibilities, Infinity was completely swamped.

But he wasn't the only unlucky rule-based god; Annihilation had also been very unlucky recently, and he was unlucky in an even more inexplicable way.

After the new wave of thought broke out on Earth, all the Spider-Men in the Central Universe were inevitably drawn into various disputes. Of course, Shiler directing Hydra to send the contact information of the Spider-Men to the editors-in-chief of various newspapers participating in the debate and calling them new critics might have been part of the reason, but it certainly wasn't all of it.

As Gwen said, Spider-Men are indeed very good at arguing. Although they don't argue with anyone in daily life, they are never behind when it comes to debates about truth.

After putting on the mask of a fake identity, Spider-Men were naturally talkative, had superb memories, could draw inferences about any subject, and had energy far beyond ordinary people. They could argue for three days and three nights without getting tired. Once they stepped onto the stage of newspaper commentary, they immediately amazed everyone.

But in fact, the vast majority of humans in this world are not as smart as Spider-Men, and those who dare to express their views are not necessarily very powerful. More often, they are just shameless. Arguing with idiots always makes people angry. Even though the temper of Spider-Men is already good to a certain extent, it is still difficult to avoid getting themselves angry enough.

What made them the angriest was that a group of people calling themselves Nihilist believers suddenly jumped out to challenge the Spider-Men, refuting whatever views the Spider-Men published, saying bad things about whatever the Spider-Men said was good, simply arguing for the sake of arguing twenty-four hours a day without stopping.

In the office of the S. H. I. E. L. D. psychologist, the originally spacious and bright office was now forcibly crammed with more than thirty desks. In addition, more than thirty agents were frantically typing on keyboards at their desks, while Shiler stood by the window with his arms crossed, staring at them, pointing at one of them from time to time and saying:

"Type faster! Before two o'clock this afternoon, the Spider-Men will release a new round of views. Refute them according to what I said before. If they publish three articles, we will publish five."

"No one is allowed to be lazy. Remember, Nihilism is an inseparable part of Hydra's doctrine. Long live Hydra!"