My Stand-in is Steve
Chapter 46

See? This Is What You Call Professional

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System Prompt: You have researched the structure of the 'Asgardian Javelin' and gained 12% new mod download access.

"Hmm?"

After hearing the prompt, Fang Mo subconsciously lowered his head for a look.

This Asgardian soldier's corpse really was a little different. Everyone else had been carrying longswords, but it had a javelin clutched in its hand.

Of course, Fang Mo had already touched the longswords, and they could not trigger any mods.

After thinking it over, Fang Mo began wandering among the corpses of these Asgardian soldiers.

Before long, he spotted a soldier's corpse gripping a Battle Axe. To test his guess, Fang Mo bent down and touched the axe.

The electronic voice immediately rang out the next second.

System Prompt: You have researched the structure of the 'Asgardian Battleaxe' and gained 12% new mod download access.

Upon hearing this electronic prompt, Fang Mo finally understood.

So he began picking through the soldiers' corpses. Whenever he saw a strange weapon, he reached out and touched it. Before long, another prompt sounded.

System Prompt: You have researched the structures of 'Battle Axe,' 'Javelin,' 'Dagger,' 'Short Scimitar,' 'Broadblade Sword,' and more. You have gained download access for a new mod. System Prompt: Unified Engineering mod download has begun.

After successfully unlocking a new mod, Fang Mo finally left the underground space in satisfaction.

Steve's ability truly was convenient. Once blocks mined with Silk Touch were placed back, there was no trace that they had ever been dug up.

By the time Fang Mo left the Asgard Treasury, the commotion caused by the Frost Giants had basically reached its end.

This was, after all, the Asgardians' home ground. No matter how formidable a few sneaking Frost Giants were, they could not withstand the swarms of Asgardian Warriors.

As the battle drew to a close, Fang Mo used the Manyullyn Cleaver to kill two Frost Giants, pretending that he was helping.

Yet just as the Frost Giants had been completely wiped out and the Asgardian warriors let out sighs of relief, a terrifying boom suddenly came from the distance. Brilliant light immediately illuminated half of Asgard's sky. Everyone was frightened stiff and craned their necks toward the source of the sound.

When they looked, they discovered that the Bifrost palace was spinning at high speed.

Normally, when the Bifrost activated, it only did so for an instant. But now it was continuously releasing energy. Although these Asgardian warriors did not understand the details, they could clearly sense that something was wrong.

"Hmm?"

Fang Mo naturally noticed it as well.

But compared with everyone else's tension, he felt more confused than anything.

In the original story, Loki had planned to destroy Jotunheim with the Bifrost. The Bifrost created a spacetime tunnel using massive amounts of energy. To travel between the Nine Realms, it only needed to activate for a moment, and everyone would descend upon another planet along a beam of light.

But if the Bifrost remained activated, its enormous energy beam would continuously bombard another planet's surface.

As time passed, the astounding energy released by the Bifrost could even melt through the crust and blast the planet's core into fragments. At that point, the Bifrost would become a planet-killing cannon, reducing the entire world to debris.

In the original story, Loki had known this, which was why he used the Ancient Winter Coffin to forcibly freeze the operating Bifrost and keep it open, intending to destroy all of Jotunheim.

But that was the original plot.

Loki did not even have the Ancient Winter Coffin now, did he?

Fang Mo had just researched that thing, and it had even unlocked a Thermal Expansion mod. So how exactly had Loki kept the Bifrost activated?

Fang Mo was a little curious too.

With that thought, he flew directly toward the Bifrost.

Although the Ender Field could not control living entities, Fang Mo himself did not count. Flying all the way there, he soon landed atop the Bifrost.

The Teleportation Chamber in the distance was spinning wildly, utterly unhinged.

An astonishing beam of energy shot from the top of the Teleportation Chamber and blasted straight into the void. Clearly, the other end of this spacetime tunnel was Jotunheim.

As for Thor and Loki—

The two brothers were currently putting on a family brawl.

Loki obviously could not beat Thor, but Thor appeared to be injured now. He clutched his lower back while constantly dodging Loki's stabbing knife.

"I never wanted the throne!"

Loki gritted his teeth as he stabbed at Thor and roared, "I only wanted the same treatment as you!"

"This is so stupid, Loki!"

Thor retreated as he said, "I know it's all my fault, brother. Can you just..."

"Who's your brother?!"

Hearing that, Loki seemed to become even more agitated. But before he could finish, a fierce gust of wind suddenly rushed at him, followed by a cleaver as broad and thick as a door flying straight toward him.

"!"

With danger at hand, Loki's pupils shrank in fright. He hurriedly crouched down and covered his head in an awkward defense.

The cleaver flew past his scalp the next second and slammed into the Teleportation Chamber behind him with a boom. It was unclear what it damaged, but after another loud bang, the thing caught fire.

"Ah, well..."

Fang Mo, who had just arrived, froze at the sight.

"..."

At the same time, Thor turned to glance at him.

"Ahem, minor issue." Fang Mo deliberately coughed, then deliberately changed the subject. "So what happened to you? Didn't you get your divine power back? You can't even beat Loki?"

"He ambushed me."

Thor only had one track in his mind, so after hearing Fang Mo's words, he was immediately led astray. "I was going to talk things out with him properly, but he plotted to steal Heimdall's sword and activated the Bifrost. I got stabbed while trying to save Heimdall."

"Stabbed you in the kidney again?"

Fang Mo looked at Thor, saw him clutching his lower back and baring his teeth in pain, and could not help mocking him. "Do you think Loki's jealous of Jane Foster? Otherwise, why does he keep stabbing you in the kidneys?"

"Huh?"

Thor was stunned by that. But the Teleportation Chamber behind them suddenly shuddered violently the next second, and more flames burst out from within. It was probably overloaded or something.

Seeing this, Thor realized he could not delay any longer.

He wanted to enter the Teleportation Chamber and pull out Heimdall's sword, but after Loki's meddling, the chamber was filled with chaotic energy currents. There was no way in.

After hesitating again and again, he finally made up his mind and raised Thor's Hammer high.

But just then, a hand suddenly grabbed his wrist.

Thor turned his head in confusion and discovered that the one stopping him was Fang Mo. But the situation was truly urgent, so Thor quickly wanted to explain that he had to destroy the Bifrost immediately.

Before he could speak, however, Fang Mo suddenly spoke first.

"You want to mine the Bifrost, right? But honestly, you shouldn't use a weapon made of Uru as a tool." After saying that, Fang Mo smiled faintly, and Steve, carrying a pickaxe, instantly appeared behind him.

"Move aside. Let the professional handle it."

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