Chapter 224: Loki (I)
In the office of the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, Eddie put the cup on the table, took off his coat, hung it on the back of the chair, and then sat on the office chair, a young employee knocked on the door and walked in and said: "Editor-in-chief, tomorrow's materials will be later, and there is something wrong with the printer." ”
"The printer is broken again? Well, let Dimon call the logistics department and send someone to fix it. ”
After the employee left, Eddie sighed and picked up a copy of the latest magazine from his hand and read it.
That's right, after this turmoil, Eddie became the editor-in-chief of the news and current affairs section of the Global Times.
The fact that the military wants to find an agent to support the Life Foundation is only a short sentence, but the process is still a bit complicated.
In any case, this matter did not succeed under Eddie's interference, and aside from the unknown number of backup plans in the process, the result was that the agent of the Life Foundation got out, and the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, that is, Eddie's original top boss, got out.
Before the dark history of Drake's use of homeless people for human experiments was unearthed, Eddie's immediate boss wrote a lot of reports for Drake.
After the black history was exposed, Eddie's reputation was completely reversed, and he became a heroic reporter who was not afraid of the powerful and spoke up for the people at the bottom, on the contrary, the editor-in-chief became a street rat that everyone shouted at, and even the Global Times was also greatly discredited.
In order to reverse the criticism, the Global Times had to contact Eddie again and invite him to become the editor-in-chief of the news and current affairs section, hoping that Eddie's reputation as a heroic reporter would wash away this stain.
Eddie actually still has a lot of backbone, but backbone is backbone, and they give too much.
Even with Venom, Eddie is a human being, needs to eat, drink, and rent, and if he doesn't have a stable job, his car loan that is months past due and the late fees attached to it will bankrupt him completely, and in order to prevent this from happening, Eddie became an editor-in-chief of the Global Times.
Venom can be said to hate iron but not steel.
Eddie sat at his desk and took a sip of his coffee, sighing contentedly, Venom saying in his head, "You're simply the most unpursued host I've ever met." ”
"I don't know what your host was like before, but I'm happy with it." Eddie leaned back in his comfortable chair and said, "After the torture of that broken apartment in Hell's Kitchen, I now know how comfortable a Midtown apartment is." ”
"And this office." Eddie looked up and said, "The light is right, the heating is plentiful, and it's spacious." ”
He threw the magazine in his hand on the table and said, "The most important thing is that the salary is quite good. ”
"Huh." Venom responded with only a sneer, after all, all his previous hosts were either saving the world or on their way to save the world, and now Eddie was either touching the fish or on the way to the fish every day.
In fact, the work of the editor-in-chief is not easy, there are a lot of things to keep an eye on, and the work to be done is also very miscellaneous, but the Global Times hired Eddie not because he wanted him to be a good editor-in-chief, but just to spend money to buy fame, so Eddie's work is not busy, and he can even have time to rebuild his ex-girlfriend Anne.
As he fished in his office until the end of the day, as he walked out of the building, Eddie glanced at his watch and said to Venom, "You know, I was going on a date with Anne tonight." ”
"And then her off again with your brainless bunch of stupid words......"
Eddie shook his head helplessly, and Hill, who was waiting at the door, shook his hand and said, "Let's get in the car first." ”
About half an hour later, the two appeared at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, and Hill said to the venom in Eddie's body, "There is more power left in the riot than we thought......
"But you can't actually get it out, can you?"
The two stopped at the door of the lab, and Hill looked into Eddie's eyes and said, "I'll admit that the research process didn't go well, and humans have little control over this almost magical power. ”
"Frankly, we are indeed borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, but the price we offer is low enough, believe me, it is a fair deal."
Walking into the lab, Riot was encased in a jar, his body still gray, but surrounded by some black mist, just like the chaotic forces that appeared on him that day.
The phantom said through Ciel's mouth, "How are you going to absorb it?" While you're not part of the Agents of the Universe, I'm going to tell you that in the current mainstream of symbiote society, we don't advocate devouring our own kind. ”
"It's not because of any moral code, but because receiving too many genetic selections from the same kind at once can cause the symbiote to become delirious."
"I have a way of stripping this energy out, but I have to get out of my current host to do so." Venom shook his head and said, "I wouldn't put myself in such a dangerous situation, let alone do all this under S.H.I.E.L.D. surveillance. ”
"I've asked this many times...... "But I'm still going to say, are you really Venom?" Why are you so ......?"
"Don't talk stupid...... I intend to devour this power in the host's body. ”
"No, you can't do that." The Phantom Demon controlled Ciel and stepped forward, trying to stop him, "First, it is absolutely impossible for your host to withstand the parasitism of two symbiotes in his body together, second, the process of the symbiote devouring the symbiote will be very violent, and it is absolutely impossible for his physical body to withstand this impact, and third, the chaotic force will impact the human spirit and make people crazy." ”
"In short, your current body will never support you to do this, and I will not allow you to harm your human host, which violates the guidelines of cosmic agents......"
"Who said I'm going to do this inside this host?"
The phantom still shook his head and said, "Even if you change the host, the result will be the same, the body of an ordinary human will never be able to withstand this kind of impact. ”
"I know that you have parasitized a child named Peter before, although he has strong physical fitness, but the impact of the chaotic force on the spirit is magical, he still can't resist it, which will be very risky."
"If humans can't do it, what about the Aesirs?"
The phantom was stunned, he looked at Venom and said, "Aesir? Are you crazy? Their Thor almost killed us! ”
"Look at your gene pool, it clearly records the power of that thunder, and the vast majority of symbiotes are allergic to the Aesir......"
"I'm not allergic to anything other than mentally retarded."
"But where are you going to find it...... You can't be a prince who wants to parasitize Asgard??? The illusion said incredulously, "You're really crazy!" Odin won't allow this to happen. ”
"Odin is asleep."
"Yes...... Even if Odin doesn't care, they won't agree to you parasitizing them, right? Their senses are much more sensitive than those of humans, and it is impossible for them to secretly parasitize without being detected. ”
"So I'm not going to secretly parasitize, I'm going to negotiate terms with him."
As the sun goes down, the larger the tall buildings, the longer the shadows spread, like the fence through the river, through which the setting sun flows and is grated into fine gold threads.
Manhattan was busy after work hours, most of the elite in suits and leather shoes were hurrying down the street with their briefcases, and the coffee shops and restaurants along the road were overcrowded, Loki took a look at his surroundings and found no place to avoid the crowds, and finally decided to take a taxi.
The taxi pulled up outside an apartment building on West Street Central Station, and it was getting dark when Loki walked into the building.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Thor sitting on the couch, drinking beer and eating fried chicken, Loki didn't have time to scold him, walked quickly to the entrance, opened his briefcase, took out his computer, and then dialed his phone and said, "Sorry, Mr. Hall, I'm already home, I'll tell you about our plans for this quarter......"
Loki was talking to the other end of his phone while controlling the computer, and listened to the sounds of "click, click" and "ton, ton, ton, ton".
Finally, he finally couldn't take it anymore, and after hanging up the customer's phone, he turned to Thor and said, "Why didn't the Father of the Gods see you like this??? I really should ......."
"I paid the rent, so you can't care what I'm doing in this house." Thor took another bite of the fried chicken and said, "And unlike you who sit in the office, repairing a car is a manual job, if I don't eat more, where will I have the strength to work the night shift?" ”
"I ......"
Loki covered his forehead, deeply regretting his previous failure to control the fire and blow up the house.
After the chaos in the previous apartment, they had to move, although Odin paid the foster care fee, but S.H.I.E.L.D. refused to let the two live separately, and the reason given by Nick was that S.H.I.E.L.D. was understaffed and could not protect them in two groups, but Loki knew that it was purely Nick who hated Odin for giving less.
So the two of them still had to live together.
Loki was determined to make a name for himself on Wall Street, so he worked very hard and was very effective, he had a lot of big clients in his hands, and other retail investors were willing to come to him, so he was very busy now, working more than 18 hours a day.
And Thor, he still works in that garage, but from a small worker, to a regular worker who can repair independently.
In the few weeks since Loki joined Wall Street, he has seen the diversity of human populations, and during these days, he would wonder every night how he wasn't Thor, and he could hack some difficult customers to death with a single thunderbolt.
And Thor also faced the same problem, because of the frequent physical communication with the car owner, he was often deducted from his salary, if it wasn't for the owner of the garage to see that he was big enough to hold the scene, he would have been fired a long time ago.
These two people have their own ways of being busy, and each has their own way of being tired, but what is very strange is that this kind of busyness and tiredness has made them a little more harmonious in their relationship, after all, the resonance between social animals and social animals is very subtle, but very strong.
After dealing with a lot of troublesome customers, Loki walked to the couch and sat down, he took out a can of beer from Thor's beer pile, opened the can and poured it into his mouth, Thor took a bite of the fried chicken and said, "I didn't like you to drink and find a wine glass, you didn't look like an Asgardian warrior at all, but now it's much better." ”
Loki didn't want to pay much attention to him, he was just thinking about why human beings could ask one question after another beyond his comprehension, even when he stood on the branch of the World Tree and looked at the endless vast starry sky of the Nine Realms, he had never thought about the truth and origin of the universe so deeply as he did today.
Taking another sip of beer, Loki thought, Wall Street is really a good place for mages to cultivate, as long as you work here for two months, your depth of thinking about the universe will reach a whole new level.
There was no light in the living room of the apartment, only the light on the TV was constantly flickering, and Thor looked away from the variety show on the TV, and he said with some hesitation: "How is Asgard doing?" ”
Loki put down the can, wiped his lips, then glanced at the shirt dripping with beer, and said, "What happened to Asgard has nothing to do with you, and you can't go back anyway." ”
Thor squeezed the can in his hand hard, and the beer spurted out of the spout, sprinkled onto his hands, and dripped onto the floor, Loki glanced at the floor and said, "Tomorrow you mop the floor." ”
Just as Thor wanted to continue talking, a bell rang in the empty living room, Loki took out his phone from his side, and said, "Hello, I'm Odinson......"
Hearing his claim, Thor pinched the can again, poured the rest of the liquor into his mouth, and said nothing.
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