Uncle?

Seeing the disbelief on Thor's face, Lu Qi gave his waist a shake.

A token hanging at his waist swayed, drawing Thor's attention.

"This is..."

Thor looked utterly shocked, and Lu Qi smiled at him.

"Who made this token? How dare they forge my father's handwriting?"

Lu Qi's smile turned into a face full of question marks. How could it be forged? Odin himself had given this to him.

Seeing Lu Qi's baffled expression, Thor burst into laughter.

"Whether you're from Midgard or somewhere else, and no matter where you made that token, don't think I'll believe you, because!"

Thor looked at Lu Qi and said smugly, "My father is an only child! He has no brothers! There can't possibly be some prince!"

Lu Qi looked at the resolute-looking idiot known as the God of Thunder, unable to believe it.

"Can't you sense your father's divine power?" Lu Qi pressed the token hard against Thor's face, making him feel it properly.

Thor tried to push Lu Qi's hand away, but without his divine power, he was no match for Lu Qi in strength.

Humiliated and enraged, Thor was forced to endure the insult of an ant. Striking an unyielding pose, he roared, "If my father hadn't taken away my divine power, how could I let you humiliate me like this? Ptooey!"

A glob of spit flew out, but naturally, it didn't hit Lu Qi. After all, Lu Qi was holding his head down.

But the spit landed on someone else's dress shoe.

"Oh ho." Lu Qi looked at the innocent-faced Coulson, then at Thor, who would rather die than submit.

Coulson stared expressionlessly at the spit on his shoe. He lightly raised his foot, letting the rain wash the shoe clean, along with his sock and foot.

"So how did you end up with another nephew?"

Ignoring the guy being held down, Coulson spoke to Lu Qi.

"Uh, I just got one yesterday. I became sworn brothers with his dad yesterday."

The ignored Thor finally took advantage of Lu Qi's distraction and broke free. He climbed out of the dirt pit, turned around, and shouted smugly at Lu Qi.

"My father is the revered king of Asgard. How could he possibly associate with someone like you? If my divine power hadn't been sealed, I'd smash someone like you to pieces with one hammer blow!"

Looking at Thor's foolish face, Lu Qi sighed. Why would Odin ever consider handing the throne to this fool? He had barely escaped an enemy he couldn't defeat, yet instead of running, he was standing here talking tough? He was in the enemy's headquarters!

If this guy became king of Asgard, it would be a miracle if Asgard wasn't destroyed.

Well, it did seem Asgard really had been destroyed. Though Ragnarok had been to blame, Thor had also played a part.

After all, rather than the God of Thunder, Thor was more like the Hammer God. Without that hammer, he was just a brute with a bit more strength.

If he had awakened earlier, what would there have been to fear from Ragnarok? He could have just shoved his sister back into the Underworld.

Thinking of that, Lu Qi shouted at the smug Thor, "You keep saying that if you had your hammer, you could smash me. But without your hammer, can you no longer be the God of Thunder?"

Lu Qi easily climbed the stairs beside the dirt pit and came to stand before Thor.

"Was your father called the king of gods because he possessed Gungnir?"

"No!" Thor said decisively. "My father is the king of gods because of his incomparably powerful strength."

"Then why would you stop being the God of Thunder just because you don't have a hammer?"

Thor was momentarily speechless, unable to find a rebuttal.

"If you're only the God of Thunder because you have a hammer, then you can only be called the Hammer God!"

Seeing Thor fall into thought, Lu Qi grabbed Thor's hand and rapidly flew toward the sky.

Even while carrying someone, with his current energy, he could still reach nearly five hundred meters per second.

Ignoring Thor's screams and struggles, Lu Qi quickly reached an altitude of ten thousand meters.

Under the moonlight, Lu Qi looked at Thor dangling from his hand. Even facing the sound barrier head-on only made him a little uncomfortable?

But.

"At this height, even if you're Asgardian, you'll turn into a pile of meat if you fall. Want to experience it, Hammer God?"

Thor realized that too. He stopped struggling and instead tightly gripped Lu Qi's hand.

Thor glanced at the clouds below and couldn't help closing his eyes. He could once have faced this height with ease, but now the sight filled him with fear.

Watching the terrified Thor, Lu Qi slowly lowered his hand, letting Thor properly feel the planet's pull.

Looking at Thor, who had shut his eyes and was pretending to be an ostrich, Lu Qi slowly said, "Aren't you a god? Why don't you even have the courage to face this danger? Or are you just an ordinary Asgardian who can only have divine power while holding that hammer? Hammer God Thor?"

Lu Qi used provocation on Thor! It was super effective!

Thor indeed opened his eyes. Not only did he stubbornly glare at Lu Qi, he even gave the ground below a provocative look.

Single-celled organisms were so easy to fool.

Lu Qi smiled darkly, then pried Thor's hands apart.

"Just do it! Do it!"

As Thor fell, Lu Qi entered free fall as well, descending behind him. While taking out a camera and snapping pictures, Lu Qi shouted at Thor.

"Odin above! Aaaahhhh!" Thor kept plummeting. This planet's damned gravity was trying to kill him!

"Thor, now only you can save yourself!"

Lu Qi shouted at Thor, but Thor was louder than him.

This was awkward. Seeing that Thor didn't respond no matter how much he shouted, Lu Qi simply drifted beside him and viciously slapped him twice across the face.

"Thor, now only you can save yourself! Think carefully. Who exactly are you?"

Leaving behind those words, Lu Qi decisively slipped into the Shadow Dimension, cutting off Thor's last shred of hope.

Thor had only just calmed down physically when he saw Lu Qi vanish without a trace.

Looking at the vast height below him, Thor was terrified, but the pain in his face kept him calm.

"Damn bastard! I, Thor, the God of Thunder, will definitely feed you to the fish in the moat!"

Thor shouted, but no one answered. The constant pain in his face reminded him of that bastard.

"What do you mean, who am I? Aren't I just me?"

Thor shouted as he quickly passed through the clouds. Now he could see the hazy ground below.

As the ground before him drew closer and closer, Thor couldn't help closing his eyes again.

"Aren't you a god? Why don't you even have the courage to face this danger? Or are you just an ordinary Asgardian who can only have divine power while holding that hammer? Hammer God Thor?"

Lu Qi's voice seemed to echo beside his ears. In a daze, Thor thought, Am I not a god? Aren't Asgardians like gods to the people of Midgard?

Then I'm a god. I am Thor, the God of Thunder!

As if he had understood something, Thor abruptly opened his eyes and looked at the rapidly approaching ground.

It was as though he stood only a thin membrane away from some unknown realm, yet he simply couldn't break through it. Thor shouted something and crashed straight toward the ground.

Still failed, huh. Lu Qi had appeared beside Thor at some point. The moment he saw Thor close his eyes, he had kept repeating what he had just said, but he had no idea whether Thor had taken it in.

Seeing the ground getting closer, Lu Qi could only move toward Thor first, preparing to take him into the Shadow Dimension. He happened to see Thor open his mouth and was just about to hear what he wanted to say.

?

How depressing. He had thought Thor was about to shout something important, but at a time like this, he was still cursing him?

Lu Qi shook his head, but still took Thor into the Shadow Dimension.

Looking at Thor inside the Shadow Dimension, Lu Qi sighed. He removed Thor's momentum and prepared to hurry up and throw him out. Otherwise, Thor might be assimilated by Dark Energy.

Imagining Odin seeing a crippled Thor and then viciously stabbing himself with Gungnir, Lu Qi broke into a cold sweat and prepared to throw Thor out.

Normally, Lu Qi could freely throw anything without energy into or out of a dimension. But just as he was about to throw Thor out, a surge of energy suddenly erupted inside Thor.

Powerful currents surged from Thor's body, directly annihilating the Dark Energy within him and in a small circle around him. But this was Lu Qi's home ground.

Hundreds of thousands of streams of Dark Energy seemed provoked and all rushed toward Thor.

Lu Qi was startled and hurriedly controlled the Dark Energy, slowing it down and barely maintaining the vacuum circle Thor had created.

"Don't resist. I'll send you out!"

Having exhausted all the power that had just appeared in his body, Thor had been despairingly staring at the seemingly boundless Dark Energy around him. But the next second, his enemy appeared before him.

After regaining his divine power, Thor was shocked to sense that the token at Lu Qi's waist contained his father's divine power.

So this guy really was my uncle?

Without resisting, and with no energy left to resist anyway, Thor was directly sent out of the Shadow Dimension and returned to the S.H.I.E.L.D. base.

Coulson had been confused when he saw Lu Qi take Thor and shoot into the sky.

Earlier, he had sent someone to investigate the information revealed in Lu Qi and Thor's conversation. After receiving the report, someone suddenly appeared before him the next second.

Thor slammed onto the ground, dropping to one knee as several arcs of electricity flickered uncontrollably across his body. After taking several deep breaths, he finally brought the newly awakened energy in his body under control.

"My god, this is..."

Suddenly realizing he was kneeling before a nearly bald man, Thor was startled and hurriedly stood up.

"It's fine. Consider it an apology, Coulson."

Lu Qi appeared behind Thor, putting away his camera before speaking.

"So you really are my uncle?" "So he really is the God of Thunder?"

Thor and Coulson turned toward Lu Qi and spoke at the same time, causing Lu Qi to freeze.

He wasn't running dual cores. How was he supposed to listen to them both at once? Helplessly wiping rainwater from his face, Lu Qi sighed.

"So are we going to keep standing in the rain to talk? It has a certain atmosphere, sure, but I'd rather stay in a warm little room."

Coulson glanced at Thor, then turned and walked toward the room enclosed by tarps.

Thor stared blankly at Lu Qi for a while, then followed Coulson inside.

Lu Qi looked at the hammer at the bottom of the pit. This guy had actually even forgotten his hammer.

Picking up the hammer, Lu Qi happily ran indoors and saw that his phone was still charging there.

He tossed the hammer to Thor and pounced on his phone.

"What is it?"

Lu Qi looked at Thor's displeased expression and asked in confusion.

"I'm not the Hammer God. I'm the God of Thunder!"

Thor set the hammer aside, with a few arcs of electricity still flickering over his body.

"Got it, got it!" Lu Qi hurriedly moved his phone away. He didn't want this fool to break it.

Thor was finally satisfied and quickly picked up his beloved hammer.

He had only been answering Lu Qi's earlier question. Now that Thor had his hammer back, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

After regaining his divine power, Thor could naturally lift the hammer again. Compared to his previous crude methods of smashing things with it and shooting lightning, he could now use the hammer in more varied ways in battle, such as smashing things while firing lightning.

Feeling the feedback from his beloved hammer, Thor gave two foolish chuckles, but quickly remembered there were outsiders present and resumed his dignified expression.

He hurriedly restrained his smile, only to see someone's disdainful gaze.

This guy looked exactly like his father.

The moment Lu Qi saw Thor like this, he knew Thor truly was Odin's biological son. Their synchronization rate was practically one hundred percent. It was impossible to even complain.

After composing himself, Thor said to Lu Qi, "So you really are my uncle?"

"Ah, good nephew. Call me something nice."

Lu Qi said with a smile.

"...Uncle..." After a long silence, Thor still called him uncle.

Lu Qi quickly nodded in response. "Ah, good nephew. Too bad I don't have any gifts for you. Want some Happy Beans? I'll have the ninjas win some for you on the spot."

Coulson looked at the two, who seemed so deeply affectionate, and found that he couldn't even get a word in. After thinking for a moment, he said to Lu Qi.

"So this guy really is the God of Thunder from mythology?"

"Genuine article!"

Lu Qi nodded.

"Odin and the rest really exist too?"

"Of course! I became sworn brothers with him just yesterday!" Lu Qi shook the token at his waist. "I'm now Asgard royalty's specially appointed diplomatic representative on Earth, so be more polite when you talk to me from now on!"

Coulson couldn't be bothered to play along with Lu Qi. Thinking that all those myths were real made him feel certain he was going to lose his hair.

Remembering how Thor had spat on his shoe earlier, he hurriedly had agents take the shoe away for study. He also had them collect all the soil washed by the rain. Maybe they could discover something.

Why did I wash the shoe? Great, now the director is definitely going to chew me out!

Coulson sighed weakly, but quickly pulled himself together. As an agent, he had a strong ability to adapt.

He sent the director a brief message, making the director stay up late with him, then turned around and sat back down, intending to learn more intelligence.

"My father came here yesterday?" Thor asked first. He had plenty of questions now.

"More accurately, he didn't come here. He only spoke with his spiritual projection for a while."

Coulson silently nodded. Remembering Lu Qi spacing out yesterday, he guessed that had been when it happened.

"My father... did he say anything about me?"

Lu Qi had already started a game. During the loading screen, he glanced at Thor.

"He didn't really say anything. It's just highly likely that you won't become king."

Thor laughed at himself. "I really don't have what it takes to be king. My power is still too weak." Remembering his helplessness in the Shadow Dimension, and the sensation of being watched by countless dangerous enemies, Thor felt powerless.

He was still too weak...

However, looking at the token at Lu Qi's waist, Thor comforted himself. "This man is Father King's brother! Of course he's this strong! Besides, I wasn't completely unable to fight back. I still had the ability to resist. As long as I keep getting stronger, I can defeat this uncle. And if you round that up, it means..."

Lost in strange fantasies, Thor wore an odd smile and fell silent.

Coulson gave Thor a strange look, suppressing the urge to wipe away his drool. He looked at Lu Qi and asked, "What do you think they are? What impact will their existence have on us?"

Lu Qi glanced at Coulson. "Don't worry too much. They're different from the gods in mythology. You can think of them as technologically advanced aliens..."

Thinking about how life in Asgard was even more primitive than Kamar-Taj, Lu Qi suddenly fell silent. Still, he continued, "They're still quite powerful. They have the Bifrost to transport armies in large numbers, and if they keep it open, it can even be used as a planet-killing cannon."

Coulson wiped rainwater from his face and continued asking, "Anything else?"

"Odin, I suppose. He's not as powerful as he is in mythology either."

Seeing Coulson gradually lean closer, Lu Qi casually said, "He can't destroy the world, but smashing two planets to pieces would be pretty easy."

Without batting an eye, Lu Qi described Odin's peak strength. Odin still had that kind of power now, but his body could no longer withstand it.

Lu Qi glanced at Thor, who was still lost in his strange fantasy, and whispered to Coulson, "This guy is Asgard's heir to the throne, you get it, right? His status is only a tiny bit lower than mine, but you still can't ignore him. You understand what I mean?"

Pretending to understand the first meaning but not the second, Coulson looked at the foolishly grinning Thor and felt that keeping this guy from causing trouble on Earth—and turning it into some diplomatic incident—would already be difficult enough.

Sigh, he should first give the director a brief report.

Coulson couldn't make the call on something this important. He could only hand it over to his direct superior, unaware that an agent in the shadows had sent some information elsewhere.