Chapter 4670: Desperate Escape (49)

Thor knew that Loki was very afraid of pain. Actually, there is no one in this world who isn't afraid of pain. Pain interferes with a person's thinking and causes movements to lag. Even if one isn't afraid of the pain itself, one will fear these side effects, because they are fatal on the battlefield.

However, Asgard is a civilization that does not allow weakness. To be precise, their martial spirit dictates that no one can comfortably shout in pain. Because if it's just oneself hurting, it might just be oneself dying, but if one shouts out and interferes with others, it's everyone dying together. Everyone must appear tough enough so as not to drag down their teammates.

In such an atmosphere, being able to remain weak, being able to retreat and shout in pain, is actually a special kind of right. Even if it is only for one or a few people, it represents great trust.

Thor also didn't remember how many times he had seen Loki's tears. Most were when they were young, when they teamed up to cause trouble and there were always accidents. Loki would cry when he got hurt, and Thor wouldn't lecture him on being weak like ordinary Asgardians, but would coax him while helping him hide it, telling outsiders that it was all his own fault.

After growing up a bit, Loki started doing some pranks targeting Thor, sometimes tricking him into being trapped somewhere, sometimes hanging him up with vines. Thor's funny appearance could always make him laugh out loud. Thor felt that was good, because it was always better than watching Loki cry.

Later, they had disagreements, and their relationship was no longer so close. At this time, Thor even somewhat missed Loki's tears, because compared to him always standing in the dark, looking at himself with a complex expression, crying or laughing was better.

Such a relationship lasted for a long time, even until after he ascended the throne. The roles of God King and Prince really couldn't be called close. They had their own divisions of labor and were always busy with their own things. Occasionally, family gatherings always talked more about the recent situation in Asgard. Perhaps, this is the fate of royal family members.

But in this dungeon, they seemed to have returned to their childhood. Loki was angry one moment and crying the next. Thor coaxed him, helped him block trouble, and tried hard to make him happy. Up until this level, everything was like reliving an old dream.

But unfortunately, this old dream between the brothers, besides snuggling together and adventuring together, also had differences in status, differences in race, and the principles of monarch and subject. Separated by Xiangong, separated by Asgard, separated by the roots and branches of the World Tree.

"I've had enough," Thor suddenly said. "I've had enough of all this. I think we need to quit, Loki."

"What madness are you spouting?!" Loki, who was still calculating the distance, looked up at him and said, "This is the last level. After completing it, we will..."

"I don't want to clear the level anymore," Thor said. "We need to quit."

Loki stood up. He clenched his fists, but clearly was still enduring it, saying: "Yes, now it's my turn to remove the ring on my collarbone. This might be very painful. I also can't say I can fully withstand it. But I also said, you can't always be like this..."

"Like what? Depriving you of the right to be a hero?" Thor looked very calm. He said, "You know I just hate this atmosphere that leaves you with no choice. If I hate heroes, it's only because of this."

Loki was stunned. Some memories that were very distant to him surged up. It might have been some battle, or it might have been a martial arts competition, where someone wanted him to go on stage and fight some great general.

Loki wanted to go up. He also didn't feel he couldn't beat him, because he had magic. Although the Aesir also had divine power, their control over energy was not as exquisite as his, and even if their physical conditions were better than his, they might not necessarily win.

But Thor firmly disagreed. Not only did he not let Loki go on stage, but he also beat up the people who were egging him on and his target opponent together.

When Loki was young, he had also suspected whether Thor did this to suppress him, not let him show himself, or was full of control, overly worried that he would get hurt, so he didn't let him go on stage.

Originally, Loki thought he didn't remember what Thor had said at the time. But when the same words rang in his ears, the distant and blurry memories suddenly became clear.

"Do you know, Loki? I hate this kind of Asgard. They are treating excluding dissidents as unity. If a person doesn't become a certain way, they have to be excluded from this group, then what are we fighting for?"

Yeah, what were they fighting for? Loki had also thought about this question at the time, but there was no answer. Later, he understood that the question itself was the answer—Thor was questioning Odin.

Odin had long said that fighting was for victory, for the honor of Asgard. But if Thor agreed, he wouldn't have asked this question. Since he asked, it meant Thor didn't agree with this set.

But Thor always kept the honor of Asgard on his lips, every day it was for Asgard, for the Aesir, for winning the support of the Asgardians, even not hesitating to take risks, sometimes even being called greedy for merit and advancing rashly.

This always made Loki feel very split, as if a philosopher and a battle maniac lived in Thor's body at the same time. He didn't know which one was the real him.

But when he came into contact with the multiverse and knew that the vast majority of Thors chose to become Thor, stay on Earth, and join the Avengers, instead of inheriting the throne of Asgard, Loki understood that Thor still refused to walk Odin's path. These two biological father and son, who seemed incomparably similar, turned out not to be on the same path after all.

Compassion, Loki thought, this is the biggest difference between them. Odin is like a god because he lacks compassion, and Thor is more like a god because he possesses compassion.

What is fighting for in the end? Odin believes it is the realization of self-worth, and victory is the expression of honor. While Thor believes that fighting is to protect the weak, and if the existence of the weak is not allowed, then fighting is meaningless.

Thor charges into battle so bravely, not because he really agrees with Odin's set, but because he has Loki by his side. He allows Loki to be weak, so he needs more powerful combat power to protect Loki.

"I don't like this," Thor repeated again. "Everyone is so powerful, calm, as if everyone is completely unaware of breaking their collarbones. Then they say 'It's your turn, Loki.' Do I have to stand here and listen to them say that?"

Loki retreated, he was even somewhat afraid. He reached out and touched his collarbone, subconsciously took a step back, leaned against the wall, and looked at Thor, saying: "The dungeon limits pain, the most painful is probably just being hit on the foot. Actually, it's also..."

"Loki, in this matter, you will always be the one who yields first between the two of us. You are the one who recognizes Asgard more. What a pity you aren't an Aesir."

Loki couldn't stand Thor talking to him like this, because it was infinitely close to a lecture. But he was already guilty, and for a moment he couldn't think of any rebuttal, because Thor was right. In resisting the Spartan atmosphere of Asgard, he was often the one who retreated first, while Thor always fought to the end and never yielded.

Others were originally watching with great interest, but once Thor said this, they also realized the seriousness of the matter. Thor's tone, neither yin nor yang, meant he was truly angry.

"Clap, clap, clap!" Harley patted the skylight baffle hard, "Hey! You guys talk if you want, don't drag us into it! We didn't say we definitely let you participate in the plan!"

"That's right," Pamela also shouted towards the hole, "You think we all agreed to the plan, so we could watch them break their collarbones, but actually, it's because there are only two people on one floor, and I can't hold down this mental patient! If I could beat her, would I let her do this?"

"Exactly," Lucifer at the very top also chimed in, "It's not that I agreed to let him do this; I just couldn't stop him."

"It's the same for others, you?" Thor ran to the hole to confront them. And Loki couldn't accept Charles's statement either.

"You two stop joining in the fun, okay?" Loki said, "Here you say you can't stop him, I won't pick on you. Outside you can't stop him either? Who are you lying to?"

"You know, he has a helmet..."

"That helmet is useless!" Thor sprayed him, "He built you a brainwave amplifier the size of a planet, and then only built himself a broken helmet. That helmet is even peeling paint on the side. When it was built, Washington wasn't dead yet, right?"

"Do you have the nerve to talk about us?" Eric also couldn't listen anymore, "Clearly there is no blood relationship, and it's fluid gender, you haven't gotten married for thousands of years, what's the problem, you know in your own hearts."

"What kind of fart are you releasing!" Thor sprayed at the small window, "That's my brother! We aren't the kind of gods made up in your human mythology who don't think about anything but their lower bodies every day! I'm too lazy to talk about you two. Why, did the human gay legalization movement start too late, and miss you two?"

"What's wrong with the gay legalization movement?!" Pamela wished she could stick her head out and spray, "Gods should stay out of human affairs!"

They sprayed fiercely there, not noticing at all that the other person on their side had quietly retreated at some point. In the end, it was Anatoly who stood up to end the endless quarrel.

"Alright, stop talking!" Anatoly shouted, "You want to quit, right? That's fine, but after you quit, write a bad review immediately..."

"You don't need to tell us that, we will write it," Thor said, "Clearly we have already walked according to the clearance process, but were inexplicably blocked, of course, this deserves a bad review!"

"Speaking of which, what exactly did those two go do?" Harley asked somewhat puzzled, "Even if they were trapped, they shouldn't be trapped for so long, right? With their capabilities, they should have..."

Suddenly, with a "swish," all the lights went out. Accompanied by a slight vibration, the sound of the winch rotating became faint until it stopped completely.

"Power cut?" Harley said somewhat surprised, "Someone cut the power supply?"

"How is this possible? When we went to the central energy control room, didn't we find that the power supply was protected?" Harley said with a frown, "That thing has no switch on the outside at all, there's no way to cut it off through normal means, maybe the organizer needs to use a remote control or something to turn it off."

"Batman," Anatoly said, "They couldn't be willing to just quit like this, they must have gone to investigate the clues."

"Sure enough, is it Batman saving the world again in the end?" Pamela said with some emotion, "Truly worthy of being the savior." ===== CHAPTER 4671 =====

"As expected, is it Batman saving the world again in the end?" Pamela said with a sigh. "He really is worthy of being the savior."