Loki: Will This Ever End?

Soon, only Tony and the Winter Soldier remained in the room.

"James Buchanan Barnes? I saw your profile at the Captain America Memorial Hall."

"You're Howard's son, just call me Bucky."

"Just call me Tony." Tony stood at the window, gazing out in a daze.

"Alright, I'll find three corpses to impersonate Howard and Carter. As for you, go home and be a good heir!"

"Are you going back?"

"Of course, I will remain undercover until Captain Nick has wiped out all Hydra!"

"Hydra, is it? You tried to kill my parents, I'll make them pay!"

Tony turned to Bucky: "How about I come along?"

"Child..."

I'm turning 21 soon!

"... Okay, if you want to be with me, first learn to speak a few sentences."

"What?"

"Hail Hydra!!"

"Hydra... long live?"

"Wrong tone, start over!"

"Hydra..."

"Very good, that's it. Let's do it one more time."

Long Island, New York, 2000

Lin Xu and Steve's group were brought here by Loki.

"There's no place for you in this universe. Find a place to settle down. I believe Agamotto won't make things difficult for you."

Loki stood at the edge of the portal, a backup plan he had left when he last broke away from this timeline. But since he was sending someone across illegally, it was better to be polite.

"Fengxian... Uncle, if you have the chance to visit TVA, I'd like to know what my counterpart in your universe is like."

"Ahem, I'll definitely do it next time..."

"Goodbye!"

After Loki left, Lin Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this Steve wasn't from 616, otherwise he might have really gone with him to fight Doctor Doom.

"Ouch..." Howard felt a sharp pain in his scalp and turned to look at Lin Xu: "What are you doing?"

Ignoring Howard's complaining expression, Lin Xu put the plucked hair into his wallet.

"We may have to part ways next."

"You are my housekeeper!"

"Sorry, Howard, you're fired!"

"Where are you going?"

"Seeing some old friends."

Steve suddenly realized, "You've been here before! You just tricked the God of Mischief!"

Lin Xu laughed, ruffled Sharon's messy hair, turned and left, leaving the others with a receding figure.

Steve: "He just left like that?"

Howard: "What's the point of staying? He used to follow me, probably to save me. Now he's truly himself."

Kamar-Taj

Lin Xu looked at the three statues in the square and smiled slightly. They were indeed much more pleasing to the eye.

The last time I came to this universe, there were only two statues. Agamotto was still alive, so no one built his own. Now, finally, there is a statue of Agamotto.

I'm not dead yet.

"Of course I know..."

Grass!

Lin Xu was speechless. "Do all you 'spiritual' types enjoy snooping on other people's privacy?"

"No, it's just that you thought of my name, and I naturally established a connection with your mind. This isn't mind reading."

"That's a good explanation, don't bother explaining it again next time!"

Lin Xu looked around but couldn't see where Agamotto was, so he simply flew over and sat down on the statue's shoulder.

"How are things?"

"It's alright. The timeline has been reinforced, and when I have nothing to do, I can even virtually travel through different cultures and experience different customs. It's quite pleasant."

It was still that melodious London accent, but Lin Xu had never found it so pleasant to hear.

"If Ancient One knew that work could be this easy, she would be so envious."

"Haha, every universe is different, and the crises they face are different too. Let's talk about you. The divine power conversion seems to have been very successful, but why can't I sense the White Magic Book anymore?"

"Oh, in my universe, a dimensional demon was eyeing it, so I had someone help me block it."

"Wow, they can even block me, the original owner, too? Who is this guy, so awesome?"

"Chthon, Cyttorak!"

Agamotto:!!

"By the way, now that I've achieved divine form, the Eye of Agamotto's time-blocking effect no longer works on me. Should I return it to you?"

"... You didn't need to say such insincere words."

"Ah, I forgot you can read minds too..."

"I already told you that's not mind reading..."

"It makes no difference to me."

"Alright, get lost!"

"Wow, they're already kicking me out, without even offering to invite me to stay for dinner..."

Before Lin Xu could finish speaking, he felt a dizziness, and the scene before him changed; what was originally evening had turned into the scorching daytime.

Looking around, all that could be seen was a desolate Gobi desert, with only an abandoned factory and a railway line in the distance, and withered shrubs.

"Hey, I've got a short temper! What did I do to deserve this?"

Silently chanting the incantation, the Mystic Portal opened, and Lin Xu plunged inside.

"Tonight's dinner is something I really must have... wait, what the hell! Where's my huge Kamar-Taj?"

Lin Xu stood there at the entrance of a temple.

The tourists and lamas around him were so frightened by his entrance that they scattered and fled.

"So, it's not going to some other place, it's going to another universe? I don't think I offended him, did I?"

Lin Xu carefully recalled his conversation with Agamotto and was quite certain of this. He also believed that Agamotto wouldn't be such a petty person.

So where does the problem lie?

As for Steve and the others, he wasn't worried.

Upon entering the Agamotto universe, Lin Xu recalled the White Magic aura he sensed in the forest when the elderly Captain America returned to the Endgame universe. (Chapter 44)

If nothing unexpected happens, the elderly Captain America should have been sent back by Agamotto.

At the time, Steve also brought two vials of the Third-Generation Super Soldier Serum produced in 2008, while Howard has now developed the second generation. Eight years is enough time for Howard.

As for why there were no fourth or fifth generations?

Howard is already quite old; it's amazing that he can play for another eight years.

Unable to understand why Agamotto did this, Lin Xu retreated back to the Gobi Desert.

Magic is different from technology. Magical time travel will inevitably occur at a crucial juncture in a certain event. This is what the Ancient One told him. Now he is going to see which universe this is.

Loki dragged his weary body back to TVA. Although this unexpected event led to changes in the Winter Soldier and Stark, it only created one more timeline, which was already a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

That's multiverse after all! And he's his uncle from one of his universes!

Then he wondered, if Thor had children in the future, how would he get along with them?

Clang~

The office door was pushed open.

"Another timeline is inaccessible!"

Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!