Chapter 216: Delivering the Message (Part II)
Malekith is also the number one figure in the evil camp, after all, he was once the lord of the 'Nine Kingdoms', and he himself is also a god-king level powerhouse, even if he is unfortunately defeated, no one dares to underestimate him.
There are also a lot of rumors about his information.
The difference is only that some of the rumors are true and some are false.
There is no impermeable wall in this world, and as long as Malekith is still active, there will inevitably be news coming out.
As for how to tell how many dry goods are in these rumors, it depends on personal wisdom and ability.
Of course, Loki does not have the status of Malekith in the dark world, both in terms of status and strength, but sometimes the circle does not rely entirely on strength, and the brain is also a very important thing.
Loki has the title of the god of lies in the 'Nine Kingdoms', and he can play the 'Gods' all around, and his 'Record' is not just one New York War, and there are few people who hate him in the 'Nine Kingdoms'.
With this not-so-positive ability, Loki is also at home in the dark world.
Don't look at the Zetarians who didn't take him seriously when they asked him to be the leading party, as if they could throw him away as an outcast at any time, if he really wanted to leave, it would be strange if the Zetarians could catch him.
You must know that in the original direction of the world, Loki was able to hide in front of Malekith and fake his death once.
There are many people who can defeat Loki, but there are really not many who can kill him.
If you want to know Loki best, it's definitely Thor, the older brother who grew up with him, who didn't run away.
It is precisely because of knowing Loki that Thor knows that although Loki likes to deceive people, he always has a purpose in deceiving people, and he will never be bored enough to make up fake news that Malekith is coming back for revenge in order to scare him.
This is not in line with Loki's personality.
"Father, this matter must not be careless, if Malekith is really back and lurking on Earth, we must prepare in advance!" Thor saw that Odin was silent, and he was a little anxious.
"Of course I know that." Odin spoke slowly, "I have never been confronted by Malekis, but I have lived through that era and know the gravity of this matter better than you...... I'm just wondering if there's a conspiracy behind this, and why Malekis, who has been waiting for thousands of years of revenge, was smashed by a human being......"
"Thisβ" Thor couldn't help but get stuck there.
Because he couldn't explain it either.
Obviously, Odin had already thought about all the problems he was thinking, but Odin was thinking more deeply than he was.
If Malekith really decided to come back for revenge, why did he wait thousands of years to return, was it just because the Nine Realms were about to coincide again?
However, in the thousands of years since he left, the Nine Realms have overlapped several times, and this is not the first time.
It is obviously unreasonable to explain this alone.
Putting this aside, even if there is no special reason, how could the strength and city of Malekis, who had waited for thousands of years to find the opportunity for revenge, be so easily seen through by a human in advance?
Thor may ignore this issue because he has met Zhang Taibai and has a good sense of Zhang Taibai.
Odin won't.
As the king of Asgard and the lord of the 'Nine Kingdoms', he thinks more carefully than Saul.
If Malekith is really on Earth at the moment, and this news is true, then Odin is very skeptical that this will be a deliberate game set up by Malekis, deliberately conveying this news, just to design him.
It's not that he has persecution paranoia, or that he has the kind of 'people who always want to harm me', but that Asgard can't live without him, at least not at this stage.
If something happens to him now, Marekis will lose his greatest restraint, if not immediately reinstated.
This made him wonder if this would be a play directed and acted by Malekis.
In order to kill him.
I have to say that sometimes information asymmetry does cause a lot of misunderstandings.
Probably even Malekith himself could not have guessed that his whereabouts would be seen through by an earthling, let alone that he would return to the 'Nine Kingdoms' and that the news of infiltrating the Earth had already been known to Asgard.
In fact, not to mention the two of them, even Zhang Taibai himself didn't expect Odin to have such suspicions.
If he could have guessed, he would have thought of a way to persuade Odin in advance, so as not to have a misunderstanding.
"Shall we just sit idly by?" Thor couldn't think of what to do for a while, but he couldn't do it if he completely ignored the distress message from Zhang Taibai's white hair.
"Of course not." Odin shook his head and said, "Whether this is true or not, whether or not Malekith acted in a play specifically to design me, we can't ignore it...... If he does come back, this is also a great opportunity to get rid of him, lest he come back to trouble you one day after I die. At this, Odin's eyes glazed out.
Malekith had been thinking about coming back for revenge, and he had been thinking about never being in trouble.
As long as Malekith is alive, he will always be an uncertain factor for Asgard.
"Can you please stop talking about death all the time......" Thor frowned.
"There will come a day, my child." A rare kind smile appeared on Odin's face, "The lifespan of our Aesir Protoss is longer than that of many races, but it is also limited, not to mention compared to those creatures in the universe that are truly close to gods, even the Dark Elves have a much longer life than us." β
"That guy is older than my father, but he's destined to outlive me, and even you won't be able to outlive him, so I have to plan for the worst......"
Thor fell silent.
It was a heavy topic for him, but he had to face it, and he didn't know what to say.
Odin looked more carefree, and continued to smile and said, "Actually, I've been thinking about whether to fake his death once to trick him back and help you solve this hidden danger in advance, but I didn't expect him to return by himself." β
Thor: "Isn't that just right, father, that you're going to have that plan?" β
Odin shook his head, "Malekis, it's definitely going to be eliminated, but there's no hurry. β
Thor was stunned.
Not in a hurry?
It's all burning buttocks, and seeing that Malekith is going to stir up trouble on the earth, isn't there a hurry?
"Whatever his intentions are, if we stand still, he will surely show his feet...... All we have to do now is watch in the dark, confirm that he is really back, and then wait for the chance of a thunder strike. β
Standing still? Secretly observing?
When Saul heard this, he immediately said with some dissatisfaction, "But what about the earth, and Zhang and Tony, if that is really Malekis, Zhang and Tony will be in danger......"
Judging from the information conveyed by Heimdall, Zhang Taibai and Tony are on that island.
Although Thor and Tony didn't deal with each other much at first, the two of them can be regarded as a friendship, and they are partners who can trust each other's lives, even if he can not care about Zhang Taibai, he can't care about Tony's safety.
"Alright." Odin interrupted Thor and said lightly, "My child, I have no objection to you making friends with earthlings, and I won't even object to you finding an earthling as a girlfriend...... But you have to understand who you are! β
"You're the son of Odin!"
"The future king of Asgard!"
"It is the future co-master of the 'Nine Great Kingdoms'!"
"When you think about the problem, you can't just consider the life and death of one or two people, you have to worry about the survival of the entire 'Nine Kingdoms', understand?"
"Once Malekis's conspiracy succeeds, the entire 'Nine Kingdoms' will fall back into chaos, countless races will be in turmoil because of this, and countless lives will be lost because of this, isn't this more important than the safety of a few people?"
"I'm ......," Thor tried to argue, but he didn't know where to start.
"Go ahead, you don't have to worry about this matter, just leave it to me." Odin said with a final word, "If you can, I will try to save the lives of your friends." β
"Father......" Thor still wanted to speak.
"Go ahead!" Odin's voice grew louder and interrupted again.
Seeing that Odin didn't even look at himself, Thor understood that it was useless to say anything.
He knew Loki's character and, of course, Odin's father's character.
The things that Odin decides never change.
Thor took a deep breath, bowed slightly to Odin and said goodbye, and turned to leave.
When Thor's figure disappeared from the palace gate, Heimdall sighed, "Won't this be too cruel, king?" β
"It's better than letting him die on his own indecision one day in the future." Odin said lightly, "He is too close to the earthlings, which is not a good thing for him in the future, and I just take this opportunity to calm him down......"
"And the other side of the Earth?" Heimdall asked.
"I have my own arrangements."
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The father-son dispute that happened in Asgard, Zhang Taibai had no way of knowing, and it was impossible to predict it.
From his own point of view, or from the perspective of Asgard, Odin really doesn't need to care too much about the life and death of a few people on the earth.
Not to mention a few people, even if hundreds of millions of people die on the earth, what is it to Odin?
In terms of the long life span of the Asgardians, the earth has long been unknown how many cycles of life and death have been experienced, and human beings cannot really treat Asgardians as equals, if they are not like ants.
Unless there is an invasion from outside the 'Nine Kingdoms', Asgard will come to the rescue.
Because that involves the issue of land grabbing, no matter how you say Asgard is also the nominal co-master of the Nine Realms, and outsiders are not allowed to show off their might.
Like the last Zitari invasion, if the invasion is really successful, if it takes over the territory on Earth on a large scale or tries to completely occupy the Earth, Asgard will definitely not sit idly by.
It's just that in that case, the casualties of the earthlings will be large, and it can't be just a little bit like New York.
It's the same thing this time.
If it was really Malekith who had returned, Odin would have to try to get rid of him.
But before that, whether Malekith will cause turmoil on the planet and how many people will die is not Odin care.
No matter how 'God's perspective' Zhang Taibai is, he has only lived for a few decades, and he didn't expect Odin to think like this at all.
In addition, it was not only what happened on Asgard's side that Zhang Taibai did not expect.
At the same time, Fury's situation was definitely unexpected by Zhang Taibai.
After receiving the message from Taixu, Fury immediately left the 'S.H.I.E.L.D.) headquarters alone in a small fighter.
It didn't take long for him to be over a manor.
This place Zhang Taibai is definitely not unfamiliar, because this is the mysterious manor that Tony brought him to, and he has also become the highest-level member of this mysterious manor, the Zijin member.
After Fury landed, he was quickly taken to the second floor of the manor by the waiters of the manor.
"See you again, Fury, I thought you'd never come to me again." When Fury was taken to an office on the second floor by the waiter, a man in the office who was sorting out the bookshelves with his back to him suddenly turned around and looked at him with a smile.
If Zhang Taibai was here, he would definitely be shocked!
Because the owner of this mysterious manor who spoke, he had already seen it!
It was the fourth senior brother Gu Wenhui, who he had only met two or three times, and was the least familiar among the senior brothers!
Among those senior brothers in the Luofeng Martial Arts Pavilion, Zhang Taibai's best relationship must definitely be the third senior brother Hua Tianwen, because since he joined the martial arts hall, it was Hua Tianwen who helped him in every detail and took the most care of him.
After Hua Tianwen's death, the most familiar person with Zhang Taibai was probably the fifth senior brother Alex, and the two had the most dealings, and Zhang Taibai also matched Evelya's roommates Joanna and Alex.
followed by the two senior sisters, senior brother Jiang Shan, eighth senior brother Rex, and so on.
But if you want to say who he is most unfamiliar with among these senior brothers, it is undoubtedly this fourth senior brother Gu Wenhui.
From the very beginning of the meeting, he felt that this fourth senior brother gave people an inexplicable sense of alienation, although the other senior brothers told him that this fourth senior brother was this character, the same for everyone, not against him.
But even so, it was impossible for him to take the initiative to get close to this fourth senior brother.
He didn't suspect that the other brothers were lying to him, there were already many people in his life who always gave people the feeling of rejecting people thousands of miles away, no matter what the reason, it always existed objectively.
Therefore, Zhang Taibai's attitude towards this fourth senior brother is not far or close, not deliberately close, nor deliberately estranged.
But he would never have linked this Fourth Senior Brother with the Mysterious Manor Owner who was famous in the entire Transcendent World, because the gap between the two was too great!
Luofeng Martial Arts Pavilion is just a martial arts hall in the ordinary world, even if Li Luofeng, the pavilion master, does have this ability, he is already a person from the transcendent world, but there are only a few of his disciples who can be regarded as transcendental.
Before Zhang Taibai, it may have been the senior brother Jiang Shan and the fifth senior brother Alex who stepped into the transcendent world with half a foot.
Including this fourth senior brother Gu Wenhui, he doesn't have much extraordinary strength on the surface.