"Loki?" The old man froze when he heard the name. "Loki is here too? Since when?"
The confusion on his face did not seem feigned. In other words, he truly had not seen Loki, at least not recently.
Of course, that did not mean Loki had never come here. Considering his shapeshifting ability, he could easily have turned into a bird or insect and slipped onto the island behind the old man's back without anyone noticing. He might even have found where Jörmungandr was sleeping.
But if that was the case, Zhang Heng and Fan Mei Nan's original plan had fallen through. They could not learn Loki's whereabouts from the old man.
Although β had lured the three of them onto this abandoned subway line, Zhang Heng could still sense Loki's influence behind the incident. Yet he did not quite understand what Loki's objective was.
Was Loki targeting him? Since Fan Mei Nan had failed to make a move against him, had Loki sent β to lure him here in the hope that the black giant python on the island would kill him? If so, Loki was underestimating him far too much. Or perhaps Loki simply wanted to use his hand to kill the black giant python, making him an enemy of Jörmungandr?
For now, that seemed to be the most likely conclusion.
But Jörmungandr, as a monster that appeared in Ragnarok, already had plenty of enemies. Every god in Asgard wanted it dead. If Zhang Heng had not been so unlucky as to show up right in its lair, Jörmungandr probably would not have gone out of its way to seek revenge on him.
While fighting the black giant python, Zhang Heng had once suspected that Jörmungandr might descend in some manner after he killed the python. But the