While Zhang Heng and Fan Mei Nan were talking, Ma Lu had remained silent, but now he could no longer hold back. "Sorry, but this Loki and female giant you mentioned just now... they're all code names, right?"
Middle-aged men like Ma Lu, with elderly parents above them and young children below, spent most of their time working to support their families. They had little leisure time of their own, and their usual entertainment was simple: watching games with friends and knocking back a few beers. He did not go to the movies or read novels, and he knew almost nothing about mythology, especially Western mythology.
So the names Zhang Heng had mentioned were all unfamiliar to him. Still, he could tell that none of the characters in the story were ordinary people, especially someone called Thor. It sounded like the folk tales of the Thunder God and Lightning Mother he had heard as a child.
And now Zhang Heng and Fan Mei Nan were seriously discussing monsters from legends right in front of him, giving Ma Lu an absurd feeling he could not shake.
Zhang Heng did not explain in detail. He only said, "Just think of our opponent this time as a giant snake."
"A giant snake? How big?"
"That's still unknown, but it definitely isn't as big as it was in the legends," Zhang Heng reassured him.
Jörmungandr was also known as the great serpent that encircled Midgard.
But if it were truly as large as described in Norse Mythology, its body would have been able to circle the Earth once. That was obviously impossible. In fact, most of the supernatural creatures Zhang Heng had encountered so far had not been as powerful as they were in their original stories. Otherwise, if even one of them appeared