Chapter 230: Loki (Part 2)

At the entrance of the S. H. I. E. L. D. laboratory, Loki looked at Eddie and said: "You mean, you want to borrow my body to devour another symbiote?"

Venom said straight to the point: "I can give you 30% of the power as my rent. Believe me, that's not a small amount."

He turned his head and glanced at Riot in the laboratory and said: "The energy remaining on him now should be very pure..."

"I refuse." Loki answered very crisply.

There was no special reason, and it wasn't because he didn't want this energy, it was just because Loki and most people with his personality were skeptics. They didn't hope for another intelligent life to enter their brains.

Venom didn't feel surprised at all, he just continued: "One of my hosts was once Tony Stark. You should have heard of his deeds of ascending to become the 'One' by relying on magic power and infinite wisdom..."

"Don't you want to experience that kind of wisdom?"

Loki was silent. People with his personality indeed had another common trait, which was absolute confidence in their own wisdom.

As a participant throughout the entire Knull serving incident, Loki certainly knew of Stark's deeds. As a mage, his understanding of occult knowledge was far superior to that of humans. He was very clear that the deposit energy Stark had obtained from the demon god was not enough to elevate any single-universe creature. Therefore, the only problem might lie in Stark's extraordinary intelligence.

People like them were very strange. On one hand, they felt they were the smartest people in the universe, and on the other hand, they were curious about the degree of wisdom of other smart people. Loki had to admit that he was moved.

"Among my hosts, there was also someone whose wisdom was not inferior to Stark's. Although I can't say his name, I think that won't disappoint you." Venom added another weight to the scale.

Beside him, Phantom looked at Loki's moved expression. She very much wanted to remind Loki that Venom had once played with poop, but felt it wasn't very easy to speak.

"You are a god-race. Your physical fitness can accept two symbiotes parasitizing in your body at the same time, and you are also a mage, possessing a mental barrier that can resist the attack of chaotic power on your spirit..."

"You won't suffer any losses, but you can experience the peak wisdom of the human race. How about it? Interested?"

"If you had asked me this question two months ago, before I came to Earth, then I would have given you a negative answer. But recently, I have witnessed the magic of the human species. Therefore, I am indeed curious..."

Phantom's words to dissuade Loki were already on her lips, but Venom glanced at her, and in the end, she closed her mouth and said nothing.

Venom's method of switching hosts was very simple. He controlled Eddie to put one hand on Loki's shoulder, and then Eddie twitched. Immediately following, Loki instinctively raised his head and took two steps back.

He heard Venom's voice ring out in his heart: "... Hmm???"

"What's wrong?" Loki asked.

"No... nothing." There was some unresolved doubt in Venom's voice. Loki continued to ask him: "What's the next step?"

"I need to adapt to the host's body. Let's come back in a few days."

After saying this, Venom fell silent. Loki couldn't feel at all that there was an extra symbiote in his body. After leaving the S. H. I. E. L. D. base and returning to the streets of Manhattan, Loki just wanted to use his teleportation ability, but Venom's voice rang out again: "Don't teleport. Let's walk back."

"Is this a special hobby of your species?"

"No, it's just good for your mental health, because next, I'm going to read your physical examination report."

"Physical examination? Symbiotes have this function?"

"This is the most basic function of a symbiote, but I usually don't feed the report back to the user, because for humans, knowing how many cells their body is composed of has no meaning,"

"It has no meaning for the Aesir either." Loki replied to him.

"The problem lies right here."

"What?"

"The Aesir..."

"What's wrong with the Aesir?"

"I'm very curious." Venom's tone was very complicated. He asked: "What exactly is it that has made you firmly believe for so many years that you are an Aesir?"

"I..." Loki felt he didn't understand the grammar of this symbiote. He asked: "What do you mean? What do you mean by 'I believe I am an Aesir'?"

"This is a euphemism." Venom's voice echoed in Loki's mind: "My conclusion here is that you are not an Aesir at all."

"... What did you say???" Loki stopped walking, asking in shock and doubt.

"Symbiotes once suffered thunder attacks from the Aesir. This attack caused fatal damage to the vast majority of symbiotes, and it also engraved this power into our gene bank."

"I just performed a detailed comparison and then determined that you are absolutely not an Aesir."

"What on earth are you talking about?" Loki asked incredulously.

"You'd better believe my conclusion. This is the talent symbiotes are born with. We are the most accurate physical examination machine in the universe."

"I felt the emotion you were unwilling to admit, but there were clues in your surface memory long ago."

"Your constitution is very weak, a big gap compared to your peers, and you can't lift those divine artifacts like giant hammers or heavy swords..."

"Whether it's constitution, strength, or personality, haven't you felt that you are a bit out of place?"

Loki froze. After a few seconds, he put his hand down and turned back to walk, his pace a bit stiff.

On the streets of Manhattan, even though summer had passed, the noon sun was still very intense. Loki walked in the middle of the pedestrian path, not even hiding in the shadows at the edge of the building.

He had also once arrogantly mocked humans who couldn't use magic for wasting most of their lives on the road, but now he discovered that walking was not just a process of rushing to a destination, especially when you had no destination at all.

Loki didn't know where he was going, but he still walked forward, as if in every dusk of Asgard, he became a tiny black dot, crossing the bridge in front of the Xiangong gate, walking through one archway after another.

This road leading to the Xiangong always felt very long in his memory, because that was the only area in Asgard that didn't allow magic teleportation. In his childhood, he had complained countless times that this kind of long walking wasted his life.

But I don't know when it started, he began to enjoy this process, and even hoped that this process would be longer, so that he would never have to enter the gate of the Xiangong and face the person he least wanted to face.

What made him feel even more absurd was that at this very moment, the only thing that could bring him some comfort was the process of walking on the ground like a mortal.

Time always passes quickly when thinking. Unknowingly, Loki had actually walked to the entrance of the apartment. He looked back and found that the street he walked on was indeed just an ordinary street, not the magnificent and spectacular bridge of Asgard. What he was facing now was also just the unit door of an apartment, not the entrance to the Xiangong.

The elevator door opened, and footsteps echoed in the empty corridor. The light sound of the key inserting into the lock seemed a bit abrupt. And when the door was pushed open, Thor, who was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window fiddling with an electric clothes rack, turned his head, saw Loki standing outside the door, and asked: "Why are you back at this time? Aren't you going to work?"

The sunlight outside the window made Thor's back show some hazy halos, just like the halo on Odin's throne. Loki closed his eyes in a daze. He took two steps forward, then held onto the wall and knelt halfway, just as he often did when seeing Odin.

Thor showed a somewhat panicked expression. He hurried over and asked: "What's wrong with you? You... wait, your divine power hasn't been stripped, so you shouldn't be sick? How..."

He had just taken out his phone to make a call when Loki stood up, pushed Thor away, and walked into his bedroom, slamming the door shut with a "bang."

Thor was a bit confused. He muttered a few words and continued to fiddle with his clothes.

Loki held onto the door with one hand, trembling all over. He took a few deep breaths, then dragged his heavy footsteps to the bed and leaned against the edge of the bed.

"What are you still doubting?" Venom's voice rang out in Loki's brain: "According to my current feeling, your wisdom is indeed very outstanding, so it shouldn't be difficult to find those clues in daily life."

"Or is it that your ability to deceive yourself has reached the point where you can really deceive yourself, allowing you to stay in the chicken coop as a duck with peace of mind?"

"No, I'm just thinking..." Loki's voice contained complicated emotions.

Loki, leaning against the head of the bed, moved his Adam's apple. He looked up at the ceiling.

A very obvious fact is that if he is not an Aesir, then Odin cannot be his biological father, and Thor will not be his older brother.

It's not that Loki hadn't doubted why his constitution was so poor, but he didn't dare to ask the All-Father Odin, and his mother Frigga always explained to him that this was congenital deficiency and that he was unlucky.

Loki didn't know how he convinced himself with such a loophole-ridden reason, but in his memory, there was more resentment for unfairness and jealousy for Thor.

When he was searching through his memory, those fragments hidden in the corners were still dug out. All the children were willing to play with Thor because he could always lift the biggest stone. In the duel competition, he could only stand in the last row and watch from afar because he knew he wouldn't have a chance to play.

"I tasted a hint of revenge in your emotions, but it was mixed with too many impurities. The taste is very bad, I don't like it." Venom's voice suddenly became a bit shaky. He said: "Revenge should be pure. What have you mixed into it?"

Loki ignored him. After recovering from the initial shock, Loki's mood became even more complicated. To say that all the partial actions of Odin in the past had explanations, but what was going on recently?

Loki recalled very confusedly and found that he actually hadn't done anything special, but his treatment and Thor's treatment were completely reversed.

Thor was thrown to Earth, without weapons, without divine power, hungry and cold, while Loki was standing among countless cosmic demons. Odin introduced him to those demons as his son, the Prince of Asgard, and the most talented and potential mage in the Nine Realms.

Then Odin left a position for him on the power channel, and later simply started to instill those powers into him, and finally even gave him a position as a true god, and he was the first among his peers to obtain the position of a true god.

Loki never dreamed that he would be the one to receive this honor. Even without counting Thor, there were too many excellent warriors among his peers in Asgard. They charged to the front, blocked the enemy at the back, were loyal to Odin, and were the pillars of Asgard's future.

The reason why Loki had stayed on Earth until now was also because he didn't want to face these people. He could imagine the questioning look in their eyes when they looked at him, as if he were a thief who had stolen the honor that originally belonged to Thor.

Actually, not just them, Loki himself was also doubting. ===== CHAPTER 231 =====