My Stand-in is Steve
Chapter 48

Bridge Tycoon Fang

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"If you satisfy me, I'll pretend nothing happened."

Fang Mo said directly, "But if you can't satisfy me, then no one can save you today. I'll kick you straight into spatial turbulence."

"In front of Thor?" Loki couldn't help but say, "He won't just watch me die."

"Do you have a knife?"

Fang Mo suddenly asked, "Give me one first, and I'll show you a good trick."

"Huh?"

Loki froze, not understanding Fang Mo's intention for a moment.

"Stop dawdling," Fang Mo urged, raising the heavy Cleaver in his hand. "Hurry up."

Seeing this, Loki quickly flinched and then pulled a dagger from his bosom and handed it to Fang Mo. To his surprise, after taking the dagger, Fang Mo, without a word, plunged it into his own chest.

"???"

Loki's eyes widened in shock.

"See? This is my special skill, I kill myself." Fang Mo had a dagger stuck in his chest, but his face was expressionless. "When Thor comes out later, I'll say you were stubborn and tried to sneak attack me, and I kicked you off the Bifrost."

"You..."

Hearing this, Loki became a little anxious. He had to admit that the other party's idea was too devious. Loki couldn't even tell who was the God of Lies and Mischief between them.

"Alright, the timer starts now."

Fang Mo didn't give Loki any time to think and directly took out his phone to start the timer.

"Okay, okay."

Seeing that resistance was futile, Loki quickly raised his hands in surrender. "If you don't throw me down, you'll gain the friendship of the Asgardian Prince. How about that?"

Fang Mo didn't even bother to speak, looking at Loki with the gaze one reserves for the intellectually challenged.

"Then... then let's rephrase."

Seeing that his trick wouldn't work, Loki immediately changed his approach. "I know many secret passages in Asgard. If you let me go, I'll tell you their locations. You can enter and exit Asgard anytime you want, without even needing the Bifrost."

"I'm friends with Thor now, and an ally of all of Asgard,"

Fang Mo retorted directly. "I'm here to visit, not to have an affair. Do I need to sneak into Asgard in such a roundabout way?"

"Then..."

Loki tentatively asked, "I'll teach you magic?"

"Your illusions?" Fang Mo directly raised the Cleaver in his hand. "Come on, ask the kitchen knife in my hand. Ask it if I need that stuff."

"Besides illusions, I know some other magic,"

Loki quickly said. "I heard you're also a mage in Midgard. It would be good for you to learn some magic from the Divine Realm. Look at the... uh, weapon in your hand. You've been holding it, so you probably don't have any storage-type spells, right?"

"Storage-type spells?"

Fang Mo asked, "Like a Space Ring?"

"Space Ring?" Loki froze for a moment, then quickly nodded. "Yes, yes, yes, it's a spell with similar functionality. Look."

As he spoke, he took off his helmet and began to demonstrate.

Loki spread his hands, and the helmet suddenly floated in mid-air. Then, he brought his hands together, and the helmet disappeared.

Seeing this, Fang Mo had a flash of recognition.

Yes, in the original story, Loki had used this kind of magic, like when he suddenly produced the Ancient Winter Coffin to attack Heimdall in Thor 1, or when he would suddenly pull a small knife from his hand.

The scene that impressed Fang Mo the most was when Loki handed the Tesseract to Thanos. He had nothing in his hand, but then he reached into the void and the Tesseract appeared. Of course, Doctor Strange also seemed to know a similar spell, hiding the Time Stone.

This spell would be very useful to Fang Mo.

After all, he was different from Steve. Steve had the Alchemical Bag, his own backpack, and an item inventory. Although Fang Mo's body had also been digitized, he didn't have a backpack or anything similar.

It was indeed troublesome sometimes when items that had been materialized couldn't be put back into Steve's backpack.

With this thought, Fang Mo decided to try learning this spell.

However, to his surprise.

Before he could even speak, a system prompt suddenly sounded in his mind.

[System Prompt: New module feature detected. Download permission will be granted after research.]

"Huh?"

Upon hearing this prompt, Fang Mo froze and instinctively looked at Loki in front of him.

Of course, Loki couldn't hear the prompt. He didn't know if Fang Mo was interested in this spell, and if not, he would really be kicked down. So, he was looking at Fang Mo with a nervous expression.

"Alright, you pass."

Fang Mo shrugged and canceled the countdown on his phone. "When we go back later, remember to teach me this spell."

"No problem."

Seeing Fang Mo nod, Loki finally breathed a sigh of relief.

And at that very moment, Thor, completely bewildered, returned carrying Heimdall's sword.

"Why did that take so long?" Fang Mo glanced at Thor and asked deliberately, "Don't tell me you were using the Teleportation Chamber's restroom? Constipated or something?"

"Heimdall's sword got stuck, and it took me a little while to pull it out."

Thor scratched his head, looking somewhat perplexed. "That's strange, the Energy Hub has never had this problem before. That weird purple energy... could it be that the hub was damaged internally due to the overload from just now?"

"We can talk about this after Odin wakes up,"

Fang Mo patted Thor's shoulder. "After all, you're a warrior, not a craftsman. It's better to leave the repair of the Energy Hub to them."

"Alright."

Thor nodded, then said apologetically to Fang Mo, "However, repairing the Bifrost is a major undertaking. Fang Mo, I'm very sorry, but you probably won't be able to return to Midgard for now."

"Is the Teleportation Chamber very difficult to repair?"

Fang Mo asked curiously.

"No, the Teleportation Chamber is just a magical rune activation device. The craftsmen of Asgard can fix it in a few days," Thor said. "The Bifrost is the difficult part to repair. This thing..."

"Oh, that's fine then."

Hearing this, Fang Mo waved his hand dismissively. "This thing doesn't need repairing, watch if you don't believe me."

As Fang Mo thought it, his Stand-in, Steve, instantly took out the Bifrost Block and placed it back in its original position, one by one. In less than a few seconds, the Bifrost, which had been broken in two, was restored to its original state.

The colorful halo began to flow within the bridge again.

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