Chapter 2694: Hollywood Rhapsody (Part 53)

Shiler could roughly understand the logic Loki mentioned. For a long time, probably during the period from their youth to adulthood, Loki's identity was very awkward.

When they were children, they didn't have any obligations and responsibilities. After all, Asgard was crazy again, and it was impossible to let children go to the battlefield. According to Shiler's understanding, Asgard's fertility rate was very low, and every child was a treasure. Their childhood could be considered to have been spent in a carefree environment.

But once they started to grow up, they had responsibilities that they must bear, that is, like every Asgardian, to add bricks and tiles to their country with war merit.

War was a machine that couldn't stop in a normal way once it started. Every Asgardian involved in it had unspeakable difficulties, was involuntary, but also enjoyed the benefits brought by war dividends, so naturally, it was impossible to stay out of it. Odin was also like this.

As a monarch, since he started this huge war machine, his sons must also know how to drive this car. Thor, as the heir chosen by Odin, had to prepare early so that he could take over the reins of the wild horse from his father's hands.

Loki was not an heir. To be precise, Odin couldn't let Loki inherit Asgard, because whether it was physique or identity, he couldn't bear such responsibility, so it was best for him to stay away from these things.

Even if he wanted to do it, Odin would definitely exclude him from the power center early, which was good for everyone. Thor could better bear the responsibility, Loki hadn't tasted the taste of power, and wouldn't have the loss of losing it, and Odin himself could smoothly hand over Asgard to the heir.

The only sacrifice in this was Loki, because in the big environment of Asgard, everyone must make contributions for victory. If you can't fight, then go to logistics. If you can't manage logistics, go to scientific research. If you can't even do research, stay at home and have children.

But Loki couldn't do any of the above.

First, because of physical problems, he couldn't fight. His deception magic wasn't suitable for the front battlefield and didn't have the efficiency of Asgardians' boarding battles at all. It was thankless to force it.

He couldn't manage logistics either. This aspect had always been the responsibility of Frigga. Only the Queen had the qualification to share half of the God King's power. A prince couldn't do it. Odin wouldn't give Loki such a vague idea.

He couldn't do scientific research either, because most of Asgard's weapons and spaceships relied on divine power. Loki's divine power was weak, and he couldn't participate in most experiments. The rest were the same as logistics work. Mastering weapons was also a ticket to enter the core of power. Odin wouldn't give him such an idea.

That left only one method, which was to reproduce offspring. Although Loki didn't know he was a descendant of Frost Giants at that time, he also knew that his congenital weakness had a certain possibility of being inherited by offspring, which not only couldn't add bricks and tiles to Asgard, but also easily dragged his feet.

But Loki had always had an obsession with offspring, just like he easily accepted Helen's existence, just like he was now willing to go on a blind date across the universe to get a child, and even failed several times without giving up.

Shiler had always thought that he valued his reproductive value so specially, just like some human parents who wanted to use children to make up for their own shortcomings and realize their wishes.

People always have such a vision, hoping to raise the child version of themselves again, and use a completely different way without regrets to make up for their childhood that was not happy enough.

Loki should have been like this too, existing in Asgard with such an identity. He must have had too many regrets that would always enter his dreams. If he had offspring, he could make up for these regrets.

But now it seems that this is not the case. He doesn't need to raise himself again, because there has always been someone raising him in a normal way, and that is his brother Thor.

Sometimes Shiler also found it difficult to distinguish whether Thor was really simple or wise but appeared stupid, or whether he was originally a combination of both.

From ancient times to the present, there were few people who could only play the role of the simplest brother in complex royal power struggles, and Thor was one of them, and he was firm from beginning to end.

In others, Loki had many identities, such as a non-heir who couldn't touch power, a weak and sick mage, an unpopular second prince, but these perceptions of others about him seemed unable to affect Thor, and even Odin's perception of Loki couldn't affect him.

Thor's logic in treating Loki was never on the same line as others. He excluded all complex identity perceptions and firmly and resolutely only treated Loki as a brother.

Looking at it this way, many of his shocking actions had explanations. He brought Loki to the front line not to express dissatisfaction with Odin, or to deter others. He just wanted Loki to exercise his body, because he had also obtained a better physique through fighting and exercise.

He let Loki's pranks go, not because he wanted to indulge Loki or kill him with kindness, nor because he was really stupid and didn't have the ability to see through it, but because he just wanted to let his brother go and not care about him.

He let Loki be a prince not because Loki had this ability, or because there was no better choice besides Loki, but because he trusted Loki.

Those regrets that should have appeared in Loki's life didn't seem to need to be made up for in Thor's attitude.

Then looking at it from another angle, Loki's move to want a child might have the opposite motivation. If Thor gave birth to a child, and he also gave birth to a child, then there might be a pair of brothers like them in this world again.

Loki thought this was a happy thing.

Saying that he wanted to use children to distract Thor's attention, in essence, it was nothing more than that. Loki was getting more and more anxious, probably not because of Frigga's urging about his lifelong events, purely because Thor's child was about to be born. If he didn't give birth again, the age gap between the two children might be large, and they wouldn't be able to play together.

Loki actually hoped that his child could have a childhood like his own. When he reached this conclusion, Shiler felt it was very counter-intuitive.

Because from the perspective of public cognition, Loki's childhood wasn't very happy. After all, he was weak and sick, always the one who wasn't chosen, and he couldn't compare to his brother in any way. Each of these was an indelible shadow for childhood.

Generally speaking, the fertility desire of people with such a life would decrease, just like a person with an unhappy original family doesn't hope that their child will repeat their own mistakes.

But Loki actually felt that such a childhood was very happy. He hoped that the arrival of a child could reproduce all this, even if this child was very likely to be like him, and his physique wasn't that good, but he believed he could get the same happiness as himself back then.

That is to say, in Loki's eyes, Odin's non-choice back then, the non-recognition of Asgardians, the weakness and torture of illness, all these negative emotions added up were not worth mentioning compared to the positive emotions Thor brought him.

Shiler was really a bit curious about how Thor did it. After all, although he was Loki's psychologist, he really didn't intervene in the private life of the two brothers. In Loki's words, Thor was a reckless man and a fool, and never had any good words.

It wasn't easy to have a chance to return to the past. Shiler wanted to see what magic Thor had. Loki wasn't the kind of person who was easily satisfied, or rather, he and Shiler had essential similarities. Both were very greedy, and the demand for feelings could be called insatiable.

After a while, the door was knocked. Loki opened the door, and a tall figure blocked the light tightly.

"Are you okay?" Thor asked with a muffled voice, "What's wrong with you? Sif said you insisted on wearing that ragged clothes. What's so good about that?"

"What does it have to do with you?" Loki rolled his eyes and walked into the room. Thor also walked in. He rubbed under his nose and said, "That... you didn't get hurt, right?"

Loki opened his arms slightly. Thor looked at him carefully, then said with some annoyance, "Then why did you tell the doctors you were hurt? Didn't I tell you not to lie to people?"

"That was their own diagnosis." Loki's white eyes were about to roll to the sky. He said, "I said I wasn't sick, they insisted I was sick, and that Heimdall..."

"You must have lied to them." Thor had an expression of "I don't know you yet". He said, "Even if you didn't lie to them, you intended to lie to others, but you can't lie to me. Follow the patrol fleet to patrol tomorrow, I'm leaving."

He turned and walked out. Before he walked out of the door, he couldn't help but look back at Loki. Loki turned his back to him and looked out the window, not even giving him a look. Thor had to stand by the door and said, "If you are really uncomfortable, then go the day after tomorrow, but you are not allowed to lie to people again."

Loki still ignored him. Thor stood in place, sighed, shook his head, and turned to leave.

Shiler said in the communication, "What kind of attitude is this? Why did he insist that you lied?"

"Didn't I lie?"

"Ah?"

Shiler was stunned, and then said, "But you didn't lie to those doctors, it was them who insisted you were hurt."

"But didn't I lie to Shi Difen?"

Shiler paused slightly and said, "But this isn't the same thing, right?"

"He didn't say I must be lying to the doctor either. He knew I might be lying to others, and might even know I was lying to the fuzzy shadow that fought with him, but he didn't stop me."

"So?"

Loki stood by the window looking at the planet flying past the side of the fleet, saying, "You and Shi Difen didn't realize the seriousness of this matter—I, the second prince of Asgard, a person who originally wouldn't go to the front line, finally appeared on the front line."

"Today, dressed strangely, behaving abnormally, missing for a long time during the process of the team guarding the stronghold, followed by a mysterious person attacking the heir of Asgard, questioning Thor with words."

"After being locked in the room by the emperor, he disappeared again, privately meeting the tracker of the fleet openly, refusing to explain after returning, and also intending to push the pot to the heavy minister Heimdall."

"I ask you, if this matter were placed in the royal family of humans, what would be my end?"

Countless fragments from the five thousand years of Chinese history flashed in Shiler's mind, and then he said affirmatively.

"If you can still stand here and breathe, Odin and Thor would have to carry the curse of indecision." ===== CHAPTER 2695 =====