Chapter 2697: Hollywood Rhapsody (Part 56)

"What did he do to you?" Shiler looked at Loki opposite and asked. Now only the two of them were left, because Stark went to mock Strange again, Strange left with a flick of his hand, and Stark also left because of boredom.

"He didn't do anything." Loki was still a bit absent-minded and said, "He didn't become a cruel lunatic, just became a normal person."

"He imprisoned you?"

"Something like that." Loki twisted his fingers and said, "I was constantly breaking away from his control, and after I did some outrageous things as usual, he put me under house arrest."

"How long?"

"Twelve hundred years." Loki took a deep breath and said, "Until he became the God King, Asgard at that time had completely forgotten my existence."

"Only he remembered you."

"Yes, I know this, but he also acted as if he had completely forgotten me." Loki finally showed a trace of painful expression and said, "He didn't come to see me."

"This is not a long time that is completely unbearable for Asgardians." Shiler thought for a moment and said, "Maybe equivalent to ten years?"

"But he didn't come to see me." Loki raised his voice and said, "From the moment we had memories, we accompanied each other, and this time he didn't even come to see me once in twelve hundred years. He is simply crazy!"

"The one who is crazy is you." Shiler looked into Loki's eyes and said, "You have always believed that he would come. Only by holding hope will you be painful."

"Of course he would." Loki's eyes widened and said, "He couldn't just give me up. This is completely unreasonable!"

"He might just want to give you a small lesson, or he might be completely disappointed in you, or even more likely he is busy with his God King career and has completely forgotten you."

"This is impossible!" Loki's voice almost attracted the sight of people nearby. He soon realized this and lowered his voice, saying, "This is completely nonsense. The trouble I caused before was much bigger than this."

"But when you no longer treat him as the main target of inducement, you should expect that the chain will always loosen or even break one day. If you want him to care about you, you must make him care about you all the time. If you let go, you have to accept that he might disappear without a trace."

Loki swallowed his saliva, suddenly stared at Shiler's face and said, "Who are you?"

Shiler showed a brilliant smile and said, "A person who is very similar to you, but does better than you."

"Your failure is ultimately because you invested too much emotion, which made you lose yourself, no longer confident that you are the absolute subject. Once you start to worry about gains and losses, you will never stop until you test an answer."

"Just like you raised a fish. Every time you feed it, it will obediently kiss your fingers. You think you tamed it, but you are always suspicious, so one day you brought the fish tank to the seaside."

"You poured the fish into the sea, held the food in your hand, and thought that only in this situation would it come back, and you were the one who truly tamed it. But it didn't come back, it disappeared."

"Maybe it will come back once or twice, but one day it will disappear. The moment you have doubts about whether you tamed it, the ending is doomed."

Loki looked at Shiler and didn't speak. He saw a strange soul on that familiar face, looking simply a thousand times more evil than him.

"The thing that tamed the fish was never the food in your hand or your hand, not your diligence and payment, but the fish tank that trapped it, the situation where it had no choice."

"If you were three brothers, not two, if your brother had a brother who was more like him or more like Odin, do you think he would still choose you?"

"Enough." Loki stared at him dead and said, "There is no such possibility, he only has me as a brother."

"Don't be so excited." Shiler said lightly, "At least you are not stupid enough to go home. Thor on the main timeline knows nothing. You can treat your previous failed attempts as if they never happened, continue to be friendly with him, and whitewash the peace."

Shiler leaned his body forward, kept smiling, looked at Loki with smiling eyes, and said word by word, "You won't bring the fish tank to the seaside a second time, right?"

Loki clenched his fists, his fingertips almost piercing his palms, then opened his trembling hands, his fingertips pressing tightly against the table.

"You are enduring." Shiler still smiled and said, "Trying to suppress the devil in your heart who wants to do this, but I said, the moment you have doubts, the ending is doomed."

"No, it can't be like this." Loki's expression completely shattered. He leaned his body closer and said, "Really, Thor won't treat me like this."

"Whether he will or not doesn't matter. What matters is that you want to try. One success won't satisfy you, because you are always thinking about previous failures, always wanting to make the conditions harsher to ensure that your success is a real success, but that will only make the fish swim back to the sea faster."

Loki took a deep breath, looked away and looked up, he suddenly realized something, turned his head and stared at Shiler fiercely and said, "This is all your conspiracy, you let me try."

"I just indulged you." Shiler smiled and said, "Didn't remind you of the possible bad consequences, but it definitely can't be called instigation."

"What do

"I didn't intend to do anything at the very beginning." Schiller thought for a moment, appearing to be rummaging through his own memories, then said: "Oh, do you still remember that time when all of you distanced yourselves from me..."

Schiller did not seem to be recalling his own affairs, but rather stating another person's experiences in the first person. He said: "Someone fired me, someone stopped letting me treat them, and someone even stopped seeing me altogether. Do you still remember that time?"

Loki looked at him, not understanding why he had suddenly brought this up.

"I learned through a certain channel that this suggestion was proposed by you." Schiller said: "It was you who told one of them that perhaps doing so would be beneficial to me, and then everything that followed happened."

Loki heard Schiller muttering: "Strange was just a smokescreen; Greed originally intended to take revenge for this... Good heavens, this list of enemies is truly long enough. Should I say his revenge operation is too inefficient?"

Loki was simply dumbfounded. He looked at Schiller and said: "Don't tell me that this entire incident was just for this?"

"Wait a moment." Schiller made a gesture, then began to recall again, appearing to be searching for something. Suddenly, he said: "Oh, found it... The original script does indeed seem to be like this."

"You were riding high a while ago, and it could be said that you fulfilled the last regret of your life, which was the issue of your status in Xiangong. You became the Prince of the Blood beneath ten thousand, simply in high spirits."

"But more recently, you haven't been so satisfied. The desire to have an heir has never been fulfilled; you keep hitting walls and still cannot find the root of the problem."

"This kind of mood swing will cause a crack in your temporarily stable spirit. You are in urgent need of psychological comfort. Generally speaking, comfort in this situation can only be brought to you by Thor."

"The Thor of the real world is very busy. You have no way to demand that a father-to-be whose child is about to be born put all his attention on you, or rather, you are afraid that if you made such a demand, he would refuse you."

"But you know there is someone who will never refuse you, and that is the young Thor. He always stands firmly on your side and always projects the most attention onto you."

"But things have changed and people are different. You both obtained the endings you wanted, but that period of time, once passed, is gone. It can never return... is that right?"

"When I decided to travel back to the past to fill in a backstory for myself, I realized that I could use my actions to hint to you that although the past is past, it does not mean you have no way to return to the past. Time tributaries, what a wonderful tool, allowing you to conduct harmless attempts... but this is like a Pandora's box."

"Once you open it, if the result inside is not what you wanted, everything becomes irreversible. You will inevitably take your fishbowl to the seaside again and again, until you have let all the fish go."

"Just because of that suggestion I once made?" Loki said angrily: "I swear, that wasn't to tease you. I thought it would really have an effect, and in fact, it did!"

"Yes, so this kind of retaliatory behavior is meaningless." Schiller said: "The vast majority of Greed's retaliatory behaviors are meaningless. Compared to revenge, it is more like finding an excuse to deepen the connection between you."

Loki seemed to understand something. He said: "So he has a foolproof solution, right? Just like he did for others in the past. This will not only not cause me real harm, but will actually be beneficial."

"Yes, the original plan was like this. You would only be sad and distressed for a period of time, which is what he called revenge, but in the end, you would still benefit from it, and then you both would lightly brush over the past, treating it as a harmless joke."

"So how do we solve it?" Loki felt his throat go a bit dry. He said: "How can I make Thor choose me unwaveringly?"

Schiller suddenly laughed. Loki then realized that he seemed to have been a bit too straightforward, but he still looked at Schiller with some anxiety.

"Thor has always been choosing you." Schiller said: "He doesn't come to see you not because he has forgotten you or wants to teach you a lesson; he is doing it to protect you."

"But even if he came to see me, no one could..."

"Shi Difen believes that Xiangong is still persecuting you. He has always wanted to take you away. You know what an extreme person he is. Do you think a Sorcerer Supreme harboring extreme thoughts wouldn't cause trouble for the newly enthroned Thor?"

Loki fell silent, then he stared at Schiller again and said: "So you having me go and seduce Strange was completely a smokescreen. You were just trying to mold his extreme emotions."

"Yes." Schiller nodded and said: "This kind of emotional manipulation is too low-level. I was just trying to make him pressure Thor."

"Then even if he locks me up, he can still see me."

"No, he cannot. Have you forgotten the Eye of Agamotto?" Schiller said with a smile: "It is like a ticking time bomb left inside Xiangong. You brought it in yourself and have kept it by your side the whole time. Any move Thor makes could cause this big bomb to explode."

Loki opened his mouth. He could imagine how things would develop. Even if Thor only locked him up for a day, the atmosphere would certainly not be good when they met again, and if all this were seen by Shi Difen, with his extreme personality, there is no telling what kind of scene would be made.

But in all fairness, if Thor wanted to take that thing away, Loki would absolutely not give it to him. Even if he only locked him up for a day, Loki would definitely be stubborn and refuse to give it to him.

Thor is clear on this point, so he can neither ask for it nor go to see Loki under the surveillance of the Eye of Agamotto.

Thus, the three of them together constituted this deadlock.

Loki took a deep breath, stared at Schiller with a gloomy gaze, and said: "You guessed the reaction of every one of us."

"So I only needed to guide the situation."

"Make me anxious and worried."

"Only then could you take the bait."

"And then treat you as a savior."

"I have been doing exactly that."

"You look completely unrepentant."

"Because there is no need." Schiller said: "The type of treatment method you proposed is effective, but the disappearance or reduction of a symptom does not mean health, or rather, the morbid symptoms you think you have are actually healthy enough."

"You have already proven that you cannot accept what is at the bottom of the lake, so do not try to break the calm on the surface again."