Chapter 1819
Natasha walked quickly through the S. H. I. E. L. D. corridor with her phone. She pushed open an office door and turned her body to close it. Words like "hammer," "Xinmoxigezhou," and "alien" frequently appeared in her speech.
Coulson handed her a cup of coffee. Natasha glanced at it and then set the coffee cup aside. Coulson showed a puzzled expression, but Natasha ignored him.
Soon, Natasha put down her phone, took her leather jacket from the side, put it on, waved at Coulson, and said, "Emergency mission, Xinmoxigezhou, departing in ten minutes!"
The whirlwind kicked up by the helicopter rotor raised a large amount of dust. When Natasha stepped off the helicopter, she couldn't help but wave her hand in front of her face and cough twice.
She stood on the roof of the base, looking out at the colorful land of Xinmoxigezhou, while Nick was constantly on the phone as usual.
They soon passed through the protective fence, arrived at the scene of the incident, and saw the familiar hammer. Natasha raised her eyebrows, circled it twice, looked at the person in charge, and said, "You mean no one can pick it up, so you just fenced it off?"
Nick took a deep breath, appearing very angry. His hand pulled aside the hem of his jacket, and he looked at the person in charge, saying, "Do you know how busy I am? You actually called me here for a hammer? I thought you had already caught an alien!"
The person in charge said somewhat awkwardly, "We only made a preliminary judgment that this is an object from outer space. As for whether there are aliens, it's not certain yet."
Looking at Nick's increasingly dark complexion, the person in charge hurriedly added, "But regarding the report on this hammer, we absolutely did not exaggerate. We found strong agents, boxers, and even retired special forces instructors; no one can pick it up."
"Of course, we also started engineering machinery, such as cranes, excavators, etc., but the soil under it seems to have been solidified. Nothing can destroy it."
Nick stared at the person in charge while walking toward the hammer. The expression on his face seemed to say, "If you dare to play me, you can stay in Xinmoxigezhou for the rest of your life."
He walked to Natasha's side, reached out to grab the hammer's handle, and pulled upward with force. The hammer didn't move at all.
Nick changed his posture, grabbed the end of the hammer handle with both hands, stepped on the ground with both feet, bent his knees and waist, and then lifted upward with force. After an "uh" sound, he sat on the ground with a thud.
Coulson hurried over to help Nick up. Nick waved his hand at him impatiently, telling him to go through the special item containment process.
Natasha, on the other hand, was interestedly hugging her arms and looking at the hammer. She had naturally experienced this once, but when she arrived, Lei Shen had already arrived, so the focus of attention became the alien, not the hammer.
Afterward, she had seen this hammer in Loki's hands several times. She heard that this weapon was called "Mjolnir," originally Lei Shen's weapon, which was later thrown to Earth after Odin cast a seal on it.
However, after Lei Shen succeeded to the throne, in order to continue the style of the All-Father, he switched to using a spear. This hammer was carried in Loki's hands every day. When the Asgardian court system was reformed, it became his sharp tool for playing whack-a-mole. Wherever something was wrong, he would knock it. It was like a Shangfang Sword—execute first, report later.
Natasha really hadn't pulled the hammer before, so she looked left and right, licked her lips, walked over, stretched out her hands, bent her knees and waist like Nick, and exerted muscle force.
With a "bang," she also sat on the ground with a thud, except she brought the hammer with her.
Hearing the sound, everyone turned to look at Natasha. Looking at the hammer in her hand, everyone was stunned, including Natasha herself.
Just at the moment Natasha went to pull the hammer, Loki in the Star-Eater Engine snapped his fingers, and a ray of light swept across the surface of Mjolnir.
Then he said very excitedly, "I can't wait to see the expression of the Lei Shen of this world. The hammer he has been thinking about day and night was actually picked up by a human woman. Hahahahahahahaha!"
Lei Shen reached out from behind to rub the head of Loki, who was laughing wildly, and shrugged helplessly at the performance of his younger self who was about to fall into everyone's eyes.
Natasha stood up from the ground, exhaled, and looked at the hammer in her hand.
Ignoring Nick's roar at the person in charge in the background, she swung the hammer and found that this thing was not heavy, so she swung it a few more times.
"Crack!"
A bolt of lightning struck straight onto the base's satellite antenna, startling everyone. Natasha reflexively jumped back two steps, staring wide-eyed at the place where the lightning fell.
Suddenly, she understood something. She looked down at the Mjolnir in her hand, then looked up at the empty sky. Obviously, she was looking at the two Lei Shen brothers in the Star-Eater Engine.
Except for the two of them playing tricks, it was impossible for anyone to lift the seal of Mjolnir in advance and let her have the power to use Mjolnir. However, with this, what about the Lei Shen of this universe?
Just as Natasha thought of this, she heard a commotion at the entrance. After the person in charge received a call, he shouted, "Intruder! All security personnel, take your positions. Repeat, we have been invaded..."
Natasha knew it must be Lei Shen the God of Thunder who had come. But she looked at the sky outside and felt something was wrong. She remembered that the Lei Shen of her universe should have come at night. Why did the Lei Shen of this universe come so early?
Natasha stood on the spot holding the hammer, struggling with whether to put the hammer back. According to her experience dealing with the early Lei Shen, this big guy was relatively fragile inside at this time. If he saw a human woman holding his hammer and being able to use the power of thunder, he might collapse on the spot, adding a lot of trouble to S. H. I. E. L. D.'s work.
But just at this moment, the commotion outside grew louder. Natasha felt something was wrong. She rushed out holding the hammer and saw Hawkeye Barton drawing his bow and shooting arrows at a blond strong man.
"Stop! Barton!" Natasha roared.
Natasha's shout made Barton hesitate. After seeing the hammer in Natasha's hand, he released his hand in shock, but because the force of drawing the bow was insufficient and he didn't aim accurately, the arrow missed.
Only then did Natasha focus her attention on the chaotic situation in the field. At this time, the blond strong man had already knocked over a team of security personnel, and the fragments of the door he had torn apart were lying nearby.
Natasha gritted her teeth and cursed. She didn't know that Lei Shen had caused such a big stir when he first came to Earth.
But Lei Shen in the Star-Eater Engine stood up with a "swoosh." He narrowed his eyes and stared at his other self on the screen, saying, "Something's wrong."
Loki also walked up, looked at Lei Shen's performance in the fight, shook his head, and said, "Even the Lei Shen of that time couldn't fight so chaotically. What's wrong with him?"
Looking at Lei Shen's state, Loki's face became increasingly heavy.
Natasha and Hawkeye both discovered that Lei Shen's state in the field was wrong. The two exchanged a look. Hawkeye changed the arrowhead in his hand to a net arrow, while Natasha raised the hammer.
"Crack," a thunderbolt struck in front of Lei Shen. Lei Shen stared blankly at the place where the power of thunder dissipated. With a soft sound, a large net pressed him to the ground.
Lei Shen struggled desperately, constantly making painful roars. Natasha was about to go over to check the situation when Nick roared from the side, "Don't go over."
The next second, Lei Shen tore apart the net and leaped out, pouncing toward Natasha.
Natasha raised the hammer in her hand to block. Lei Shen's heavy punch hit the surface of the hammer. With a "bang," Natasha flew backward. In the air, she turned around, supported her hand on the ground, and landed steadily.
Looking at Lei Shen's painful expression, although Natasha was puzzled, she could only choose to avoid the edge for now.
Just at this moment, a woman suddenly rushed in from the broken door. Behind her was the car that had just stopped. After Coulson saw her face, he hurried forward to stop her.
"Dr. Foster, Dr. Foster, calm down, he is very dangerous now!"
The woman called Dr. Foster turned back and roared at Coulson, "If you hadn't taken away my data on atmospheric research, how could he have rushed here?!"
"Lei Shen! Lei Shen! Listen to me, calm down. We can talk about anything properly. You can't do this..."
But responding to her was a painful roar. Lei Shen pounced toward her, but fell to the ground halfway. He covered his chest and said vaguely, "Go, Jane, go, uh... uh..."
Lei Shen kept twitching on the ground like a fish out of water. Jane looked at him in shock, turned to look at Coulson, and said, "What the hell is going on? What did you do to him?"
"Get out of the way!" Natasha coldly pushed Jane away, walked up, and pressed the hammer onto Lei Shen's chest.
She knew that Lei Shen couldn't lift this hammer before obtaining the recognition of Mjolnir, so she wanted to rely on this point to calm Lei Shen down.
But after the hammer was placed down, although Lei Shen stopped moving, he was still full of pain, and his limbs were twitching.
Now the people of S. H. I. E. L. D. didn't understand what was going on. Natasha reached out and touched the healing potion Nick had given her before, but thinking that the Tony of this universe should have died due to the potion injection, she was a bit afraid to use the potion on Lei Shen. The death of an Asgardian prince on Earth would be a huge trouble.
With a "swish," a dark green figure appeared beside Lei Shen. He was wearing pitch-black armor, a green cloak, and a dazzling golden horned crown on his head.
"Move aside, I'm his brother."
Natasha's pupils shrank, but a golden staff appeared in front of her and gently pushed her back.
The vigilant expression on Natasha's face disappeared instantly. She took two steps back, hugged her arms, and looked with interest at this Loki who was familiar yet strange.
Loki slowly knelt down halfway and reached out to grab the Mjolnir pressing on Lei Shen. Lei Shen shook his head very painfully, constantly saying in his mouth, "Go... go!"
Loki smiled triumphantly at him, but the next second he heard Lei Shen say with unfocused eyes, "Go... Loki... danger... heart! Go..."
Loki pinched the handle of Mjolnir, threw the hammer aside, reached out and pressed Lei Shen's chest. The moment the magic light flashed, Lei Shen's muscles relaxed.
But Loki stood up with some doubt. He stared at Lei Shen, constantly looking him up and down, then turned back and made a lip-reading gesture to Natasha: "He's fine."
Natasha also became puzzled. She clearly saw Lei Shen going crazy because of pain. That kind of chaotic state shouldn't have been faked, but Loki said he was fine. The Lei Shen of this period shouldn't have been smart enough to fake madness, right?
With a flash of light, Loki disappeared. In the midst of Lei Shen's shocked expression, Natasha picked up Mjolnir and pointed at him, saying, "You'd better explain clearly what's going on, otherwise..."
"Crack!"
A lightning bolt struck the ground less than ten centimeters in front of Lei Shen. Lei Shen raised his eyes, looked at the strand of hair in front of his forehead that had been scorched black with crossed eyes, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said.
"I am the Prince of Asgard, you can't treat me like this!"
End of Chapter
