Chapter 96 The curtain rises
SHIELD - Helicarrier

"I...where is this..."

Thor slowly opened his eyes. What he saw before him was not the familiar, magnificent Asgard Palace, but an unfamiliar ceiling. The air was filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant.

The faint pain in his body reminded him all the time that everything that happened yesterday was not a dream.
"Are all the people on Earth so scary now?"

Recalling the brilliant light that seemed to penetrate the stars, Thor felt a little frightened.
If I hadn't blocked the artifact Mjolnir in front of my chest in time and absorbed most of the damage,
He was also not sure whether he could really survive such a horrific attack without any defense.
Thor touched the pinholes on his arm in a daze, and stood up.

Thanks to the power of the Asgardian royal family flowing in his blood, his recovery ability is much stronger than that of ordinary Asgardians, and his injuries have almost recovered.
However, the hair that has been burned by the high temperature can only wait quietly to grow again.

So, with a big bald head, Thor walked out of this room that seemed to be built just for him.

He met a bald man like himself, but darker.

With an eyepatch covering one eye, he was wearing a patent leather coat and the same turtleneck sweater that he never changes under - it was Nick Fury.

"You're awake, Mr. Thor."

Nick Fury spoke in a deep voice,
But Thor only asked eagerly,
"Where's my brother Loki?!"

"follow me."

Soon, the two arrived at the conference room, and Thor saw Loki imprisoned in a thick resin glass cell in the center.

But he didn't look well, with a bruised face and nose, and even a little funny.

"Loki, what's wrong with you!?"

Thor hurried forward and asked with concern,

But Loki, who was too concerned about his reputation to say a word, said nothing. He couldn't tell his own brother: I was almost beaten to death.

To be precise, Loki could not admit his failure in person.

But following Loki's somewhat resentful gaze, Thor noticed a young man sitting in a corner of the conference room, fiddling with the coins in his hand as if no one was around - it was Link.

Thor quickly walked up to Link, stared at him closely, and asked in a deep voice,
"You beat my brother like this?"

"Yes, that's right."

Link continued to fiddle with the coin that was flipping between his fingers. Without even looking up, he responded. His nonchalant tone slightly annoyed Thor.

"伱......"

Before Thor could finish his words, he saw Link's eyes slightly raised, and his pupils seemed to be flashing with a "vortex" of red and dark purple, which was bottomless. Danger!
Feeling the deadly threat and the bone-chilling chill rising from behind,

Subconsciously, Thor clenched his palm, and the artifact Thor's hammer Mjolnir, which was kept in the temporary laboratory, began to tremble slightly.
In an instant, it began to speed up and rushed towards Thor, piercing through layer after layer of metal walls.

After a few breaths, Thor's hammer passed over Nick Fury's head and appeared in Thor's palm just right.
He gripped the hammer tightly, ready for battle, his eyes fixed on Link.

However, Link only glanced at the hammer in Thor's hand and said with a smile,
"Why don't you ask your brother what he did?"

The plain words were like a sharp sword, piercing Thor's heart.
He naturally knew the character of his younger brother Loki. Since he was a child, he liked to get into trouble and stir up trouble. His name: the God of Mischief and Deceit, also appropriately reflects Loki's nature.

Then, Nick Fury, with a dark face, came forward and told Thor what his brother had done on Earth.

As he spoke, Thor felt a little ashamed, but he still raised his head firmly.
"Loki is my brother and an Asgardian. He must return to Asgard with me!"

Nick Fury was about to speak when he was interrupted by a figure walking into the conference room.

"But he has to pay a price, and the [Cosmic Cube] has not been found yet."

Thor turned his head and looked. Although this face was a little unfamiliar, from the metal devices attached to it and the classic red and gold color scheme,
He still recognized that this was the man who had injured him last night - Tony Stark.

Subconsciously, his body tensed up and he held Thor's hammer in his hand.

"Why, do you still want to fight? Or do you want to do it again?"

Tony Stark showed disdain on his face, and the metal device on his torso began to gradually deform and shrink, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little solemn.

Bruce Banner, who had not spoken for a long time, stood up and acted as a peacemaker, changing the subject.
Everyone sat back at the conference table, and the atmosphere gradually eased.

"What exactly does Loki want to do?"

Steve Rogers asked, but Thor quickly gave the answer.
"He has an army of Chiritans, from other worlds."

"So the Cosmic Cube can open a wormhole in space and allow this army to descend on Earth, right?"

Nick Fury put forward a guess, but Thor did not deny it, and everyone fell into a brief silence. After all, this was a heavy topic.

But only Link looked at the figure slumped on the ground in the glass cage with interest.
Obviously, Loki has woken up, and his unconscious appearance is just a disguise. It can even be said that he has begun to secretly cast magic, trying to influence the minds of everyone in the meeting room.
Amplify the emotions and thoughts in everyone's heart, and make the "Avengers" who are not very united gradually begin to fall apart - this is Loki's plan.
The psychic staff placed on the experimental table, although it looked normal on the outside, actually, the psychic power inside it had begun to spread.
But for Link, who already possesses the [Bio-Force Field] and the title of "Mind Ruler/Head of the Heart", and has extraordinary mental perception, this is undoubtedly a case of covering one's ears and stealing the bell, and it is also useless.
The power of the Mind Staff is isolated from the body.
But other people in the meeting room have already begun to show signs of friction and conflict.
However, in order to keep the plot going and to have more fun,
Link had no intention of stopping or reminding them, nor did he have the obligation to do so.

He was more like a "bystander" who stood aside from the incident, quietly watching all this and waiting for the next good show to begin...

(End of this chapter)