325. Loki, the evil god
But after Zhou Chu took the second bag of gold coins, he didn't immediately say the second piece of information, but looked at Loki with a smile.
"Before I say the second piece of information, I want to know what kind of strength your temple needs?"
It is impossible to give up all your own, and then let the other party choose and make yourself passive.
Loki froze for a moment, then laughed.
"Sure enough, those who dare to trade with such information are cautious and cunning enough."
It looks like a compliment, but it's actually irony, because you don't know what is in front of you, but Loki and I.
I was so sarcastic in my heart, but my mouth was beginning to lay the trap of pre-conceived and prepared.
"Ah, about this, I don't know if Your Excellency knows about the Dao, and one of the ruins that appeared near Noorliste is a Norse temple?"
"Please continue."
"Here's the thing, some time ago, among the ruins that suddenly appeared wildly, one of them did belong to the Norse Temple, but because our relationship with other countries on the continent is not very good, so it has been shelved and not explored, but this has caused a beautiful misunderstanding to other countries, mistakenly thinking that we have given up on this ruin, so some people have begun to ...... it."
"Who?"
Zhou Chu asked, he began to understand Loki's intentions, but he was still trying to get more details, enough to make himself more clear about whether he should jump into this trap or not.
It's so smart, Loki cursed in his heart, but still smiled and said nonchalantly.
"Not too much. That is, they always feel that the world is the Holy See of their Holy Roman Empire, as well as several pro-church countries in neighboring Northern Europe. ”
"Understood, please continue."
"When they learned that someone had tried to get their hands on the precious ruins and wealth of our temple, the adults above were very angry, so they sent us over, but ......" Loki showed an embarrassed expression here, "The temple has been fighting with the countries of the continent all year round, and the elite troops are still on the front to contain the countries, so there are not enough people who can be drawn, to be honest." Send us out this time. I'm not too sure. ”
"Not too sure?"
"Well, yes, you see, I'm just a newcomer to the Temple. A person who has just been promoted to a high-ranking priest. can be assigned as the commander of such an important matter. As you can imagine, the temple was starved of manpower. ”
"So what you mean is that you want to recruit people from outside. To assist you in this quest to explore the ruins and retrieve the riches? ”
"Clever!" Loki snapped his fingers and smiled, "You know, what we are facing, but the church, presumably the sniper and resistance we will face at that time, can be regarded as difficult, if there is no strong force as foreign aid, I am afraid that this time, I will be questioned when I go back." ”
Speaking of which, if this is really the case, it can be led by an evil god, the brother of Odin, the father of the gods of the Norse temple, Loki, the god of fire and fraud, how strong and how much nothing can be done in the Nordic temple......
Quietly analyzing this in his heart, Zhou Chu nodded very seriously.
"Understood, it's just, aren't you worried that the foreign forces will also be greedy and seize after seeing the wealth of the ruins?"
"Ah, of course I've thought about this." Loki replied with an expression that I still understand, "No one can not have a heart of greed and desire, our temple and the church are not the same, for greed and desire, although it is not in favor, it is not as disgusted as the church to refuse to admit it, so if you can get help, then those who explore the ruins with us can get one-fifth of the wealth and treasure in the ruins in the end, no, if the amount of power is enough, one-third can also be." ”
Seeing Zhou Chu thoughtfully, Loki hurriedly added.
"Don't get me wrong, there is a proverb in our Nordics that instead of satisfying the vulture that hovers so that there is not a single flesh left behind its bones, it is better to give up a piece of meat to satisfy the wolf who is not too hungry, so as to ensure that he can cross the tundra of the long winter."
The implication is that rather than giving up the ruins to the enemy and the church, it is better to give up some of them to ensure that you can get the rest as well.
Zhou Chu was silent, but his mind was hovering rapidly.
Trap, undoubtedly a trap, Loki clearly needs a cannon fodder to collide with the church and profit from it, and for this reason he will not hesitate to use a third of the treasure as bait.
In other words, this is a trap on the surface, a naked trap, so naked that anyone can see it, and it is obvious that everyone who faces this trap only needs to face one choice: interests, wealth, or their own safety.
There has never been a shortage of people who take risks for these people in this world, and all they need to face is a choice.
But Zhou Chu thinks that it is not so simple, there must be something else behind this.
First of all, he was not faced with a stupid or self-righteous sacrifice, but Loki.
Moreover, it's not that there is no lack of strength, not to mention anything else, just the evil god Loki himself, who is probably able to fight against the people in the church who attack the ruins, and then, Zhou Chu doesn't believe it, and there are no awakened people who come here.
Therefore, the evil gods and the awakened will not be able to fight against the team of the church if they recruit some cannon fodder casually.
So, what about something deeper? What is it?
Zhou Chu was thinking about this question.
Loki......
Loki's Story......
Zhou Chu's mind suddenly remembered a story about Loki in Norse mythology.
Thor's wife, Sif, is a beautiful and kind goddess, and she has extremely beautiful, long blond hair, which causes Loki to play a prank. And one day, while Sieve was asleep, he cut off the blonde hair that Seve was most proud of.
Thor was furious and found Loki, intending to pull out all the bones on his body, and caught Loki, who begged desperately for mercy and could only swear that he would go to the skilled craftsmen of the dwarf kingdom to create an identical pair of gold hair for Seve and grow like real hair, so Thor let Loki go.
So Loki found the most famous dwarf Ivanti and his disciples in the dwarf kingdom deep underground, and after using Ivan to create three treasures, he used these three treasures to anger the other dwarf blacksmiths, who were also Ivandi's eldest son Hindri and another son Bullock, and made a bet with Bullock with his rhetoric, if Sindri could create three other things as magical as these three treasures, then he would give his head.
So Bullock made a bet with Loki and decided to let the Norse gods judge him.
Eventually, Sindri made a gold bracelet, a gold-maned boar, and a hammer, and then traveled with his brother Bullock to the place where the Norse gods lived.
Seve got the golden hair, and Odin got the spear made for him by the gnomes, this spear was the sharpest weapon in the world at that time, no shield could resist it, and once it was thrown, it would never miss the target, and the other god, Frey, got the ship, and since then Frey has a treasure ship that can be folded and put in his pocket, and can be opened to accommodate thousands of troops.
And the dwarf Bullock gave Odin a golden bracelet, a magical bracelet that would give birth to eight identical bracelets every nine nights. Brock then presented Frey with the golden-maned boar, which could travel day and night, not only over mountains, but also over oceans and lakes, and in the darkness of the night, the golden-maned boar on its head would glow, illuminating the path as if it were day.
Eventually, Bullock gave the hammer to Thor, telling him that it was the most powerful weapon in heaven and earth, and that when Thor threw it at the target, nothing would be crushed. And no matter how far Thor throws it, it will automatically fly back into Thor's hand after hitting the target.
This hammer is the most familiar hammer of Thor, the most familiar in Norse mythology.
Since Loki often teased and deceived the Norse gods, after discussion, Odin, Thor, and Frey judged Thor's hammer to be the best treasure and artifact, and announced that Loki and the dwarf brothers would win the bet with Sindri and Bullock, and Loki was required to hand over his head to the other party as agreed in the bet.
And Loki escaped again, but was captured by Thor, so Loki used rhetoric to make Brock unable to cut off his head, but after the end, Brock and Sindri still succeeded in temporarily sealing Loki's mouth.
This seems to be one of the few records in Norse mythology of Loki failing in his field of expertise, but at the same time, it is also mentioned that after the end of the bet, Loki's steps to leave were triumphant.
For what? It seems that Loki lost the bet, failed, and was punished, but instead of being angry or angry, he was triumphant?
Because quite simply, in this time Loki's failed bet, Loki lost, failed, and was punished, but he got six treasures and artifacts for the Norse gods, Odin's spear (Eternal Spear), the golden bracelet, Sieve's blonde hair, Frey's ship (SkidPlatney) and the golden boar, and Thor's famous Mjolnir.
In the case of Zhou Chu, maybe he would choose this way, choose to fail, but he can bring greater benefits and benefits to his side, or maybe when Loki set the bet at the beginning, he didn't care about winning or losing, because whether he won or lost, the Norse gods would get the three artifacts he found, as well as the other three artifacts that his opponent carefully crafted in order to bet with him. (To be continued......)
PS: December, I can only say December, it's been a year since the nightmare began, so in December, let's see if a certain cat can go crazy. Everyone, please prepare and keep the tickets and rewards in your hands, if you can, in December, go crazy together.