Thor climbed up above the ceiling first, then reached down and pulled Loki up too. Loki was still muttering complaints. "How was this puzzle designed? Why did we have to use brute force? So he only knows how to make traps that stab people?"
"I feel like there must have been some puzzles we didn't solve," Thor said. "At this rate, we might be the slowest."
"Impossible. We searched every clue. I clearly solved the word puzzle on the wall, but there was nothing pointing here at all."
"But brute force is still a method," Thor said. "Besides, this place isn't big. Other than those dozens of meters of corridor, there are only three rooms in total. Searching them all wouldn't take long."
"I'm just not satisfied," Loki said. "Because the clues weren't clear, we had to use brute force. That slowed us down. What if it turns into a race later..."
"Do you think this will be a race?" Thor said. "I think it's the exact opposite. Going a little slower might not be a bad thing."
"Then tell me what good that could possibly do." Loki's tone was still full of resentment. "If our opponents were all people like Batman, I'd accept it. But if there are a few idiots in there and we still fell behind them, I'm going to ask the puzzle designer exactly what he was thinking..."
"All right, all right, Loki." Thor had no choice but to soothe him. "We don't have to be first in everything. At least the two of us made it here without really getting hurt, didn't we?"
Loki opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something else, but soon closed it again. Thor looked at him with some concern. In the firelight, Loki's face looked a little