sinovels Chapter 104 The boss woke up and first used his teeth to open a bottle of soda to moisten his throat
Chapter 104 The boss woke up and first used his teeth to open a bottle of soda to moisten his throat
Loki met Thor's gaze, which seemed to spew forth flames, and felt a bitter taste in his mouth, unable to utter a single word.
How can he explain this?
He claimed to be full of ambition and wanted to become king of Earth, but he ran into a rock that was even more terrifying than Odin. His artifacts were broken, he was detained, and he was forced to sign a lifelong contract to sweep the streets.
If these words were to reach Asgard, the face of the god of mischief, along with the face of the entire Asgardian palace, would be thrown into the fires of Muspelheim and burned to ashes.
"Don't ask anymore!"
Loki waved his hand impatiently, bent down to pick up the broom that Thor had rejected, and began sweeping the fallen leaves on the ground listlessly.
His movements were haphazard, but his eyes were fixed on the vermilion door, filled with fear, humiliation, and a hint of awe that he himself could not understand.
"Sir Saul, this is not the place to talk," Li Zhenguo stepped forward to defuse the situation. He pointed to the alley entrance, "Let's go back to the car and wait. Standing here is too conspicuous."
Saul's chest heaved violently as he finally forced down his surging anger and questions.
Li Zhenguo is right.
He nodded with a stern face and followed Li Zhenguo toward the alley entrance.
Loki hesitated for only a moment before picking up his broom and following after him.
He dared not stay here alone.
If the boss woke up and found out that he had abandoned his post... he didn't even dare to think about the consequences.
Back in the black Hongqi sedan, Li Zhenguo wisely stood guard outside the car, leaving the two brothers from the Divine Realm a private space.
Inside the carriage, the air felt as oppressive as solidified lead.
Thor remained silent, staring intently at Loki with his sharp blue eyes, his gaze seeming to burn two holes in him.
"Now, can you tell me?" Thor's voice was low, carrying the suppressed tension before thunder. "Who is that 'boss'? Why are you sweeping here? And who was that guy in the golden armor? What exactly happened here?!"
A barrage of questions rained down on Loki like a hammer blow.
Loki was driven crazy by the questions, and in frustration, he grabbed at his prized black hair, completely abandoning any semblance of his former image.
He leaned heavily back in his seat, exuding an aura of utter despair.
"Sigh, it's pointless to talk to someone with a brain full of muscles like yours."
"You only need to know a few things."
"First, that 'boss' is named Lin Fan. He's not human; he's a monster, a monster that our divine race can't comprehend at all."
"Secondly, I'm sweeping here because I lost. He broke my Mind Scepter in two fingers on the spot, and pried off the gems on it, calling it a 'service fee.' I'm now his employee, with a lifetime contract, and the penalty for breach of contract is the annihilation of my soul."
"Third, that golden-armored man was Aiolia, one of the twelve Gold Saints. They're all the boss's employees, in charge of security. Each and every one of them is stronger than you think of them as 'powerful'."
With each word Loki spoke, Thor's face paled a little more.
When Thor heard that "the core gem of the Mind Scepter has been taken away," his breath caught in his throat!
"What did you say?! The jewel on the scepter... he pried it off?" Thor's voice changed, with a slight, almost imperceptible tremor.
Although he didn't know as well as Loki what that gem was, he understood that it was a treasure bestowed by his father Odin, one of the most indestructible substances in the universe, containing the power to distort reality!
Now, Loki is telling him that the thing... was... pried off by hand?
"Yes, two fingers, just like pulling weeds out of the yard, 'snap'."
Loki made the gesture expressionlessly, his eyes vacant.
"Then he put the jewel in his pocket, threw the bare scepter back at me, and said it was my 'fire poker'."
Thor: "..."
He felt as if his divine CPU had completely burned out.
"Those...those twelve Gold Saints?" Thor struggled to turn his stiff neck, trying to process this overwhelming information.
"Oh, them." Loki curled his lip, his tone so sour it could make your teeth ache. "They're a renovation team that the boss 'hired' from another pantheon. Because they're good at building houses, the boss was so pleased that he just grabbed an ancient god, crushed its divine core, and gave each of them a piece as 'overtime pay'."
Thor: "…………"
He couldn't utter a single word.
Crushing the divine essence of an ancient god...as overtime pay?
What level of being could do something like this?
Even the wildest dreams of the bards of the Nine Realms wouldn't dare to compose such an outrageous epic!
He stared intently at Loki and found that although the other man's eyes were full of humiliation and resentment, there was not a trace of falsehood in them.
Thor's heart sank little by little into an abyss.
He finally realized that what he was facing this time was neither a powerful mortal nor a reclusive god.
That might be an existence that transcends the concept of "god" itself.
Just then.
"Squeak—"
A soft sound of a wooden door turning came from the direction of the courtyard house, sounding particularly clear in the quiet alley.
The two brothers inside the car and Li Zhenguo outside all felt a sudden jolt in their hearts, and all three pairs of eyes turned to them simultaneously.
A young man wearing a white T-shirt, beach shorts, and flip-flops was yawning and stretching as he strolled out of the yard.
He was still sleepy-eyed, his hair was a little messy, and he exuded a lazy feeling of just waking up from a nap, just like the big boy next door.
He is Lin Fan.
Lin Fan woke up.
I slept well, but when I was about to wake up, I felt like it was noisy outside.
He walked out of the courtyard, intending to buy a bottle of iced soda from Old Zhang at the alley entrance to quench his thirst.
Then, he saw the black car parked not far away, Li Zhenguo standing straight beside the car, and the two foreigners with striking hair colors inside the car.
"Hey, Lao Li, you're still here?" Lin Fan greeted him casually.
"Mr. Lin! You're awake!"
Li Zhenguo shuddered and immediately jogged over, his face beaming with a respectful smile.
"Um... there's something I wanted to report to you."
Lin Fan's gaze fell on Thor and Loki as they got out of the car.
He glanced at Thor's muscular physique, then at Loki's constipated expression, as if his parents had just died, and raised an eyebrow slightly.
"What? The janitor, did you bring your family to visit the office?"
His tone was flat, revealing no emotion whatsoever.
Yet it was this ordinariness that gave Thor an indescribable feeling of suffocation. He felt as if he were facing not a person, but a dead sea without wind or waves, beneath which lay an ancient behemoth capable of devouring stars.
Lin Fan ignored them and walked straight to the small shop at the entrance of the alley, muttering to himself, "It's really hot today, I need to have something cold to drink."
He seemed not to have given the two princes of Asgard even a second glance, from beginning to end.
When he returned carrying a glass bottle of orange-flavored soda, clattering back and forth in his flip-flops, he found the three men still standing there like three wooden stakes.
He walked to the stone stool at the entrance of the courtyard and sat down. Without using a bottle opener, he simply used his teeth to bite open the bottle cap with a "pop".
"belch……"
He tilted his head back and took a big gulp, letting out a satisfied burp before lazily raising his eyelids to look at the stiff-bodied Thor.
"Speak, what is it?"