Hela arrived a little earlier than expected, but she still complied with the requirement that all alien visitors must wear terrestrial costumes in the pop-up bulletin that S.H.I.E.L.D. and Holy of Holies had teamed up to make outside Earth, and it looked like she was doing more than that, as her outfit was clearly matched, rather than a casual magically conjured up one that was okay to look at like Thor and Sif did.

The slender goddess of the underworld wore a slim black dark striped turtleneck sweater on the upper body, a Louis Vuitton classic pattern on the shoulders, a lotus bud-style hip-wrapping skirt on the lower body, a slightly velvety matte leggings are new to Chanel this year, and a slightly professional style heel with pointed toes on the feet.

The most striking thing is that she wore a gorgeous pure white mink fur shawl, the middle of the shawl is wide and the sides are narrow, unfolded like a bamboo leaf, and the two ends of the bamboo leaf are decorated with gorgeous gemstone tassels, the end of the shawl is held in her arms, and even the nails are made of black and gold manicures, slightly longer fingers, with sharp aggression.

Her black hair was tied back in a semi-curved knot, with a curved hairpin encrusted with rubies pinned underneath, two strands of curls on her forehead on either side of her cheeks, and her skin was sickly pale.

"Don't look at me like that, I used to come to Earth to play when I was a kid." Hela's voice was very hoarse, and when she opened her mouth, the tone that seemed to have been burned by fire was first squeezed out, and then it was like a substantial tone that was squeezed out with great difficulty, making people shudder unconsciously.

"Very beautiful, ma'am." Nick complimented him heartily, then patted Thor on the shoulder and said, "Look at people, every time you are asked to wear a human outfit, it seems to kill you." ”

"Come on, every time I'm almost on Earth, I remember your troublesome rules, so I can only use magic to get myself casually." Thor also complained, "You should put the announcement at the gate of the solar system, at least at the door of your dimension, right?" ”

"You want me to go back to Asgard? Interesting. Hela's tone was very flat, only a little higher at the end.

"We're talking about it." Thor lowered his head and stomped the ground with his boot, and said, "I know this is a bit abrupt, but the troubles in Asgard have been going on one after another recently, and they are not a big deal, but they occupy too many people's energy. ”

"I've never thought of Asgard as such a complicated country." Thor shook his head and frowned, "I've never found it so difficult to rule Asgard. ”

It is quite unusual to hear a ruler tell about his own difficulties, and most kings are accustomed to showing their strength and perfection, showing a confident posture that they have an answer to any question, as Thor has done in the past.

But apparently, the recent situation in Asgard had made him feel a little confused, as he said, with endless troubles like appendages, but there was not even a single enemy to fight in these things.

He can no longer raise his weapon and charge at the enemy as he has done in the past, but will sit in the government affairs hall all day to check the income and expenditure statements, keep an eye on the progress of the construction of the project, listen to the information transmitted from the economy and society, and observe the movements and reactions of the personnel of various departments after the restructuring.

In this mode of rule, Thor has no one to refer to, Asgard has been at war for the first half of his life, but he has come here, looking at sociology and the interstellar situation, martial arts and civil rule are completely different, and Thor can't be self-taught.

Of course, Hela has never been in the martial arts, but she has at least gone to the extreme of martial arts, so her opinion is still worth considering.

"At all times, there are a lot of contradictions within Asgard, and this country has never been simple." Hela's voice spread, more rational than expected: "War abolishes this contradiction, because in the time of outward expansion, everyone is busy competing for external interests. ”

"If you abandon the path of war, you can only stabilize your rule by letting them check and balance each other and constantly wear down in internal contradictions."

That's when Nick spoke: "If there is only one interest group in a class and group, then they are destined to come to you for trouble, if you split them into two, he will go for trouble with each other, and what you have to do is change from dealing with the trouble they give you to constantly balancing the confrontation between the two sides." ”

"The problem facing Asgard now is that Frigga withdrew too early, she and Sif did not have any confrontation, and all the power was in the hands of Sif in this way, so the interest group that originally obeyed Frigga's orders was busy making trouble for Sif Sif ."

"You mean, I'm supposed to split them in two?"

Nick shook his head lightly and said, "You should build a team outside of them, and then let them form a counterbalance, which is why I advised you to find Hela, if Frigga can't play the leader of another group, then the eldest princess of Asgard will come." ”

Thor's eyes widened slightly, but Nick said calmly as usual: "There must be conservatives among them who fall to Siv because they are afraid of Hela, and those who feel that it is more promising to follow Hela will naturally rally around her." ”

"It's the same with Yu Luoji, doesn't she have no followers? With her alone, everyone can choose to follow her or not, but if there is Hela, they can only choose to follow Rogie or Hela, because anyone who does not stand in line may be cleared by Hela. ”

"Then there will inevitably be a group of people who will side with Rogie out of disgust or fear of Hela, and the following for profit is much more stable than for emotional needs."

Hela listened to Nick's story like a bystander, looking interested, and finally Nick concluded: "After the war, the country is like a pool of stagnant water, without external support, the hungry wolves will start to make trouble, you have to bring in living water, let the people below bite each other, let them fight and solve the problems themselves." ”

"Sounds very evil." Thor said with a frown.

"Power struggles are all evil." Unexpectedly, Steve said, "It's always been like this since ancient times, so I've always avoided getting involved." ”

Hela's gaze fell on Steve's face, Steve frowned slightly, and then turned his head, Captain America rarely makes this kind of evasive gesture, he is honest and fearless in the face of most people.

But Hela's gaze is too aggressive, she doesn't look like the slightly seductive look that Natasha has when she flirts with Steve, but a very pure scrutinizing and even staring gaze, like looking at a toy in the window, and the message is only "I'm interested, so I'll get it".

Of course, Hela didn't really want Steve, she just seemed used to looking at men like that, which was all the more surprising considering she was a royal princess in a completely traditional patriarchal society like Asgard.

The more he came into contact with Hela, the more Thor could understand why even Odin thought Hela was too extreme, she was a strange flower growing out of a barren field, as if she was completely uneducated and socially domesticated, not subject to anyone's gaze, the wilder and more powerful.

"Rocky, she's been ...... lately," Thor took the initiative to bring up the topic, but he also knew that Hela and Rockie had some conflicts, so he didn't know how to speak.

In the end, it was Sif who said tentatively: "The love life seems to be a little annoying to both Rogie and Friggia, she seems to be at odds with some parts of herself, can you go talk to her?" ”

To the surprise of both Thor and Sif , Hela nodded after a little thought, she agreed so happily, but it made Thor a little suspicious, and now Thor's state is "there are always people who want to kill Rogie".

"Rogie sent Gwen to Dr. Schiller, but she should go back to the cottage to drop off her bought, and you should be able to meet her there." Nick said with a pat on his chin in the direction of the lakeside cabin.

As he said, Hela was walking up the steps in front of the hut when she met Rogie who had finished putting her things out, and Lorge was startled by her, if it weren't for the wall behind her, she would have scurried to the other side of the lake.

Hela turned around and didn't look at Rogie, but said to herself, "Let's go for a walk by the lake." ”

Rogie looked at her departing back, stood there and pondered for a while, but still followed her.

The two walked to the reeds of the pebble beach, staring at the endless lake, the heat of the sun casting a mist above the thick ice, and the shadows of the distant mountains growing greener in the darkening sky.

"Why don't you choose to continue to be a prince?" Hela asked.

Rogie smiled as if she knew she would ask, and said, "Because Frigga wants a daughter, she doesn't want to force me, but I can see that she is happy to have a princess with her." ”

"Do you think it's because of me?"

Hela's question was so straightforward and one-sentence that Loki was silent for a while before she said, "Maybe at first, yes, she wanted to make up for your regrets, but in fact you are more like Odin, and I am more like her, what mother doesn't want a daughter who is exactly like herself?" ”

"But you feel like you're struggling, because being a woman of status in Asgard has so many difficulties and too little to gain."

Rogie pursed her lips and looked into the distance, and said, "I don't want to overdescribe this, in fact, it's not the biggest difficulty in my life, but what makes me a little confused is that it seems that you are all doing well, but I can't." ”

"Because you're still looking at things from a man's point of view." Hela tilted her head slightly to look at Loki, Hela's height was already very tall, almost about the same as Thor, and Loki was shorter when she became a woman, so there was a slight height gap between the two of them.

"I don't understand." Rogie shook her head a little confused and said.

"Men don't have a natural reproductive function, so they sow as much as they can, chasing every woman of the right age in the prime of life, and their primitive instincts tell them that it gives them more chances of having offspring."

Hela's tone was deep, even a little muffled, as if the cold wind near evening could not blow away, but fell heavily to the ground and into the earth.

"Women, on the other hand, have the ability to have children, but we have to be responsible for the safety of the offspring during childbearing and the quality of the offspring, so we need to find the strongest of all men."

"Men are promiscuous, women are strong, the essence is the impulse to reproduce that urges us to do so, this is the primitive instinct that perpetuates a civilization, and no one can blame it."

"We all look for the best within the scope of what we can seek, not the most suitable for ourselves, they miss us, we pick them, and they all follow this law."

"Sounds so...... Barbarous. ”

"Instinct is always savage, simple and straightforward, driven entirely by desire, which makes reproduction more efficient and civilization lasts longer."

Hela turned her head back, staring into the distance as well and said.

"Don't think they're insulting you by affirming your fertility value, and when they gaze at you as an object of reproduction, you should follow that law and gaze at them."

"When they're thinking about whether you can have offspring with their genes, you should also be thinking about whether they're able to provide good genes. Is there a safe enough environment and abundant assets to ensure the safety and well-being of you and your descendants? ”

"If you don't have any, it proves that his best object is 108,000 miles away from you, and this dreamy gaze can be gently put down, don't care."