Chapter 1071 Ordinary Daily Life Before Christmas (Part 1)
The garden of the fairy palace is always full of special vitality no matter what season it is. After this beautiful land enters winter, evergreen trees replace the original lush broad-leaved forest, adding a primitive and wild atmosphere to the place.
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Pushing aside the branches of shrubs with bright red fruits hanging on them, and walking across the stone road, in front of you is a square that suddenly opens up, and a fountain that has been frozen into an ice sculpture.
Covering the edge of the fountain, the surface of the thick snow suddenly moved. Soon, a small pit sunk there. A butterfly folded with yellow letter paper flapped its wings twice and removed the snow covering it.
The snow was shaken off, and it flew around in flexible circles.
Flying over the water column of the fountain, skimming over the moist soil, gently tapping water on the gurgling stream formed by the melted snow, and then bringing this moist coldness to a white and slender hand.
With sharp-jointed fingers, he gently closed the heavy book, smoothed the black hair on his head, and turned to look at the blond man walking towards him.
"Frigga knew you were studying here, and she asked me to bring you the cloak to prevent you from freezing." Thor handed the cloak to Loki.
Luo Ji took the cloak, but did not put it on her body. Instead, she held the cloak and looked at Thor. She tore out a page from the notebook under the book, handed it to him, and said: "This is from Kama Taj."
Asgard’s Christmas gift, if there is no problem, please inform Sif and ask her to prepare to lead the team to welcome it.”
Thor frowned, took the piece of paper, and looked at the many nouns unique to the human magical world written on it. He put the paper down, looked at Luo Ji and said: "Christmas gift? In so many years, I have never heard of it.
Sgard received a Christmas gift from Karma Taj, the father of the gods should not have hid it from me..."
"They gave it away for the first time this year." Luo Ji tilted her head and said, "But you should also know why. Didn't you compensate for the loss of the Time Stone in the Holy of Holies some time ago? This is part of my share.
"
Thor was stunned on the spot, not understanding the logic of Luo Ji's words at all, so he walked to the other side of the flower pavilion table and sat down. While playing with the paper butterfly on the table, he asked: "What's the difference between this and Luo Ji's words?"
What does it have to do with me compensating the Holy Saint? Isn’t it because you secretly replaced the Time Stone and caused them losses, so we have to compensate them?"
Luo Ji pursed her lips helplessly and looked at Thor with an expression like "Why do you never understand?"
Then, she slapped the notebook on the table angrily and said: "I swear, this is the last time I explain similar principles to you. In the future, don't ever want to hear any similar topics from me again, please."
Er Odinson! You idiot!"
Thor wasn't angry either. He just smiled, looked at Luo Ji and said, "Isn't this great? You are very good at things that I don't understand. Our abilities complement each other and we are a golden partner..."
Hearing Thor's last words, Luo Ji's eyes dimmed for a moment, but then she cleared her throat and asked Thor:
"Let me ask you, the Mage Supreme has lost the Eye of Agamotto. Does he need to find it?"
Thor nodded and said: "Of course!...Wait a minute, you secretly changed the Eye of Agamotto. He already knows this and won't he ask you for it?"
"Then what if I don't pay him back?"
"Then can you beat him?"
Luo Ji rolled her eyes and said, "If I can't beat Gu Yi, how can I beat Stephen? You are too underestimated as the number one mage in the nine realms."
"Stop being so pretentious." Thor shook his head and said, "Just tell me if you have anything to do. Don't ask me again. I can't guess anything."
Luo Ji sighed and said as if she had no choice but to say: "The Supreme Mage belongs to the Holy of Holies, and now, the Holy of Holies needs to operate in the human world, so most of the field departments are under the management of SHIELD."
"The Sorcerer Supreme's time gem has been lost, so it is natural for the Holy of Holies to find it. However, if the wizards of the Holy of Holies want to enter the human world to search for it, they need the consent of SHIELD."
"So, in order to prevent these mages from disrupting the order of the human world, SHIELD, which is conscientious and conscientious, should start a series of trainings in advance to educate them about the rules of the human world?"
"Wait!" Thor interrupted Luo Ji and said, "Aren't all those operators in the Holy of Holies Nick from prison..."
"Don't talk nonsense!" Luo Ji raised her voice again, interrupted him, and said, "What does it mean to be out of jail? That is the human special talent reserve management center, and that group of people is specially assigned to the Holy of Holies to promote God's
Diplomats communicating with SHIELD and Kamal Taj..."
Thor spread his hands and said, "Okay, whatever you say is what it is."
"If you want to start the training of mages, you will naturally need a training base and manpower. Of course, this is okay. However, when they come to the human world to search, they will naturally need some assistants and security personnel. A team of 30 mages will be equipped with 30,000
Human security personnel shouldn’t be too much, right?”
Thor looked at Luo Ji blankly, and Luo Ji started to count on his fingers again: "The Eye of Agamotto, as a long-standing artifact of the Supreme Mage, was accidentally lost due to force majeure, so it should naturally be reported as a major loss of items...
…”
"Stop!" Thor stretched out a hand again and said, "Didn't you lose it? At that time, didn't Stephen find out that the Time Stone was with you?"
"But I won't pay him back!" Luo Ji said confidently.
"Then he won't ask you for it?"
"But he can't beat me!"
Thor slapped his head, and Luo Ji continued: "The Eye of Agamotto was snatched away by the number one mage in the nine realms. Neither the Sanctum Sanctorum nor SHIELD has the ability to snatch it back. What's not a loss?
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"In addition, in order to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future, the Holy of Holies should naturally strengthen security management. In addition to adding a security team of 100,000 people, the current security personnel must also be trained..."
"What's the point of this?" Thor said in confusion: "Even...even if Nick and Strange want money, what does this have to do with you? You don't need human currency!"
Luo Ji looked up to the sky and sighed, and said: "But, I helped them get the funds they wanted, and even helped them get compensation from you, so when they distribute dividends, should they also help me?
Send magic items and energy equal to the Earth’s assets to Asgard?”
Thor's eyes widened and he looked at the list in his hand. After reading it carefully for a while, he said slowly: "Don't tell me, there is really something good in this. The fragments of the stars guide the magic and melt the gold. This
Gu Yi should have gotten them all, right? You can actually let stingy humans give these things away?"
Luo Ji rolled her eyes again and said, "Because, this is of little use to them. The main function of the protoss fragments is to build teleporters between starships, but humans have neither starships nor teleporters."
, they have hanging rings.”
"The molten gold is used to cast the magic circuit of the staff, but the magicians of Kama Taj don't need a staff, let alone the Ancient One. Only those of us who have too much divine power and have no place to use it need to use it.
A staff that controls the power and precision of magic..."
Luo Ji sighed and said: "These are the rags that Ancient One picked up from all over the universe. If they can't be loaded, they go back to Karma Taj to unload them. Until recently, Karma Taj's warehouse couldn't load them anymore..."
"They want to get these things away, but they can't give them to us for free. As you said, those humans are extremely stingy."
"That's why I secretly exchanged the time gem and asked you to give them the technology for the spaceship bridge and monitoring equipment they need, and then they will give these materials to us in the name of Christmas gifts..."
"Then why can't we just exchange?" Thor asked again.
"If it's a direct exchange, it becomes a deal." Luo Ji spread her hands on the table and said, "Do you think the Asgardians can accept that the great Asgard is equivalent to a weak human being?"
A trade? They only want to accept tribute from humans."
"Furthermore, these weak humans are not willing to trade with Asgard. Not to mention that these piles of things are really useful to us, even if they are just a pile of real rags, they will keep them in the warehouse until the end of time, in order to prevent one day from being innocent.
It might come in handy.”
Luo Ji looked into Thor's eyes and said: "Thor, you are not only a general and king now, but also a politician, and the first thing a politician must learn is how not to be responsible to your voters."
Thor opened his eyes wide, but Luo Ji said very confidently: "Few people in Asgard can understand what we are facing now and what kind of pressure we have to support human beings, even in some cases."
On the other hand, we have to please them..."
"If we announce all these plans, what we will get will not be support, but endless condemnation and protests. But if we tell about Ragnarok, what awaits us will be panic and rebellion.
.”
After hearing this, Thor also sighed and reluctantly nodded, agreeing with what Luo Ji said. After all, he also knew that if he wanted to deal with the God of Twilight, he must gather all his strength, and the potential is huge.
Human beings are also targets that need to be won over.
However, it is impossible for the superior gods of Asgard to accept that they have to ask for help from humans. As long as the truth about Ragnarok is not announced, everyone will think that this is Thor using his power for personal gain.
But if the truth is announced, let alone whether the Asgardians will believe it. Even if they believe it, it will only cause panic and uneasiness. Facts have proved that the vast majority of extreme militants can only accept victory.
, cannot accept failure.
If they knew that Asgard was doomed to fail, Thor knew what kind of turmoil it would cause without even thinking about it.
Even if every god in Asgard is loyal and willing to fight with Thor until the last moment, their long-term thinking inertia also makes them lack political thinking, which will cause Asgard to suffer diplomatic losses. At this time, Loki
The role he plays is indispensable.
"That's it. We reached a deal and each got what they wanted. At the same time, it also allowed the factions on Earth that are closer to Asgard to get more funds and draw closer to the Holy Saint.
So, the distance between SHIELD and Asgard..."
Luo Ji took stock of the gains from this small time gem theft case, and Thor couldn't help but sigh: "In the whole of Asgard, you are the only one who can do this kind of thing. If you expect me and Sif, you will lose your head."
I can’t think of such a series of complicated plans..."
Luo Ji shook her head and said: "This is actually not difficult, but you don't think about it. In other words, Asgard didn't have any diplomacy before, and our only diplomatic method was naval guns. However, things are different now.
Already..."
"Don't say that, Luo Ji, others can't do it, but what you can do is of course your strength." Thor leaned back, leaned on the back of the chair, raised his head and said, "I really don't
I dare to imagine how painful it would be if I were the only one facing the doomsday that was destined to come."
Luo Ji shook her head and said: "Even until the end, you will not be alone. Although humans are very stingy when it comes to money, their emotions are so abundant that they wish they could give everyone a share."
Thor thought of many people, including those who had helped him when he was living on Earth. He nodded, and then said, "I'm going to Earth to spend Christmas with my friends. What about you?"
"I have no friends." Luo Ji stood up holding the book.
The divine girl turned her head and looked into the distance, where there were the silver-covered spires of the fairy palace on the horizon, the smoke rising from the martial arts arena, and the backs of pine trees standing on the ground like guards.