"If you satisfy me, I'll pretend none of this ever happened."
Fang Mo said bluntly, "But if you can't satisfy me, then no one will be able to save you today. I'll kick you straight into the spatial turbulence."
"In front of Thor?" Loki could not help saying. "He wouldn't just stand by and watch me die."
"Do you have a knife?"
Fang Mo suddenly asked, "Give me one first. I'll show you something good."
"Huh?"
Loki froze for a moment, unable to understand Fang Mo's intentions.
"Quit dawdling." Fang Mo raised the heavy cleaver in his hand as he urged him on. "Hurry up."
Seeing this, Loki quickly shrank his neck and pulled a dagger from his robes, handing it to Fang Mo. To his surprise, after taking the dagger, Fang Mo stabbed it straight into his own chest without another word.
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Loki's eyes widened in shock.
"See? This is my special skill—I kill myself." A dagger was embedded in Fang Mo's chest, yet his expression did not change at all. "When Thor comes out later, I'll say you refused to repent and launched a sneak attack on me, so I kicked you off the Bifrost."
"You..."
Hearing this, Loki began to panic. The other man's idea was simply too shameless. Loki could not even tell who between them was truly the God of Lies and Mischief.
"Alright, the timer starts now."
Fang Mo did not give Loki any time to think. He pulled out his phone and started the countdown.
"Fine, fine."
Seeing that there was no way around it, Loki could only hurriedly raise his hands in surrender. "If you don't throw me down there, you'll gain the friendship of an Asgardian Prince. How about that?"
Fang Mo could not even be bothered to respond. He merely looked at Loki as if he were an idiot.
"Then... let's put it another way."
Seeing that tricks would not work, Loki immediately changed tactics. "I know many secret passages in Asgard. If you spare me, I'll tell you where they are. From then on, you can enter and leave Asgard whenever you want, without even using the Bifrost."
"I'm friends with Thor now, and I'm an ally of all Asgard."
Fang Mo asked directly, "I came here to visit, not to sneak around for an affair. Why would I need to sneak into Asgard in such a roundabout way?"
"Then..."
Loki asked cautiously, "What if I teach you magic?"
"Your illusions?" Fang Mo raised the cleaver in his hand. "Come on, ask my watermelon knife whether it thinks I need that crap."
"Besides illusions, I know some other spells too."
Loki hurriedly said, "I heard you're a mage in Midgard as well. Learning from Asgardian magic would be good for you, wouldn't it? Look at that... uh, weapon in your hand. You keep carrying it around, so you probably don't know any storage magic, right?"
"Storage magic?"
Fang Mo asked, "Like a Space Ring?"
"A Space Ring?" Loki paused, then quickly nodded. "Yes, yes, magic with that kind of function. Look."
As he spoke, he took off his helmet and began to demonstrate.
Loki spread his hands, and the helmet suddenly floated into the air on its own. Then he brought his hands together, and the helmet vanished instantly.
Seeing this, Fang Mo remembered something.
Yes, Loki had used this kind of magic in the original story. For example, in Thor 1, he suddenly pulled out the Ancient Winter Coffin to attack Heimdall, or casually produced a small knife from his hand.
The scene that had left the deepest impression on Fang Mo, though, was when Loki handed the Tesseract over to Thanos. His hands had been empty, but with a grab at thin air, the Tesseract appeared. Of course, Doctor Strange seemed to know similar magic too, hiding away the Time Stone.
This spell would be quite useful to Fang Mo.
After all, he was different from Steve. Steve had an Alchemical Bag, his own backpack, and an inventory. Although Fang Mo's body had also been datafied, he did not have anything like a backpack.
Some items that had been manifested in reality could not be put back into Steve's backpack, which was indeed troublesome at times.
Thinking this over, Fang Mo decided to try learning this spell first.
However, something unexpected happened.
Before he could even speak, a System Prompt suddenly rang out in his mind for no apparent reason.
System Prompt: A new mod feature has been detected. Research it to obtain download authorization.
"Hm?"
Hearing the prompt, Fang Mo paused and subconsciously looked at Loki in front of him.
Naturally, Loki could not hear the prompt. He had no idea whether Fang Mo was interested in the spell, and if this did not work, he really would be kicked down. He stared at Fang Mo nervously.
"Alright, you pass."
Fang Mo shrugged and canceled the countdown on his phone. "When we head back later, remember to teach me that spell."
"No problem."
Seeing Fang Mo agree, Loki finally let out a long breath of relief.
At that moment, Thor returned, looking utterly confused as he carried Heimdall's sword.
"Why did that take so long?" Fang Mo glanced at Thor and deliberately asked, "Don't tell me you went to the bathroom in the Teleportation Chamber. Constipated?"
"Heimdall's sword was stuck. It took me a little time to pull it out."
Thor scratched his head, looking somewhat puzzled. "Strange. The Energy Hub has never had this problem before. That strange purple energy... could the overload just now have damaged something inside the hub?"
"Let's wait until Odin wakes up before discussing that."
Fang Mo patted Thor on the shoulder. "You're a warrior, not a craftsman. Leave repairing the Energy Hub to those who know how."
"Alright."
Thor nodded, then said apologetically to Fang Mo, "But repairing the Bifrost is a huge undertaking. Fang Mo, I'm sorry, but you may not be able to return to Midgard for the time being."
"Is the Teleportation Chamber difficult to repair?"
Fang Mo asked curiously.
"No, the Teleportation Chamber is only a magical rune activation device. Asgard's craftsmen can repair it in a few days," Thor said. "The real difficulty is the Bifrost. This thing..."
"Oh, then it's fine."
Hearing that, Fang Mo waved his hand. "There's no need to repair this thing. If you don't believe me, watch."
With a thought from Fang Mo, Stand-in Steve instantly pulled out the Bifrost Block and placed it back in its original position piece by piece. In less than a few seconds, the Bifrost, which had been broken into two sections, was restored to its original state.
A rainbow glow began flowing through the bridge once more.
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