Chapter 2698 Hollywood Rhapsody (56)
Chapter 2698 Hollywood Rhapsody (56)
Chapter 2698 Hollywood Rhapsody (Fifty-Six)
"What did he do to you?" Schiller asked Loki opposite him. Now there were only two of them around, because Stark mocked Strange again, and Strange walked away. Stark also left because of boredom.
"He didn't do anything." Loki was still a little dazed. He said, "He didn't become a cruel madman. He just became a normal person."
"He imprisoned you?"
"That's about right." Loki twisted his fingers and said, "I was constantly escaping his control, and one time when I did something out of line as usual, he put me under house arrest."
"how long?"
"One thousand two hundred years." Loki took a deep breath and said, "Until he became the God King. By that time, Asgard had completely forgotten my existence."
"He's the only one who remembers you."
"Yes, I know that, but he also acted as if he had completely forgotten me." Loki finally showed a trace of pain on his face, and he said: "He didn't come to see me."
"This is not a very long time for the Asgardians to endure." Schiller thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps it is equivalent to ten years?"
"But he didn't come to see me." Loki raised his voice and said, "We have been by each other's side since the moment we can remember, and this time he didn't even come to see me once in 1,200 years. He is simply crazy!"
"You are the one who is crazy." Schiller looked into Loki's eyes and said, "You always believed that he would come. Holding on to hope will only make you suffer."
"Of course he will." Loki said with his eyes wide open, "There's no way he'll give up on me like this, it doesn't make sense!"
"He may just want to teach you a lesson, or he may be completely disappointed in you. It is even more likely that he is busy with his mission to become the God King and has completely forgotten about you."
"This is impossible!" Loki's voice almost attracted the attention of the people around him. He quickly realized this and lowered his voice and said, "This is completely nonsense. I have caused much more trouble in the past."
"But when you no longer regard him as the main target of seduction, you should expect that the chain will loosen or even break one day. If you want him to care about you, you must let him care about you all the time. If you let go, you have to accept that he may disappear without a trace."
Loki swallowed, suddenly stared at Schiller's face and said, "Who are you?"
Schiller gave a big smile and said, "Someone who is very similar to you, but does better than you."
"The root cause of your failure is that you invested too much emotion, which made you lose yourself and no longer have the confidence that you are the absolute subject. Once you start to worry about gains and losses, you will never give up until you find an answer."
"It's like you have a fish, and every time you feed it, it will kiss your finger obediently. You think you have tamed it, but you always have doubts, so one day you bring the fish tank to the seaside."
"You dump the fish into the sea, you hold the food in your hand, thinking that only in this case will it come back, you have truly tamed it, but it doesn't come back, it disappears."
"Maybe it will come back once or twice, but one day it will disappear. The moment you doubt whether you have tamed it, the end is doomed."
Loki looked at Schiller in silence. He saw a strange soul in that familiar face, which looked a thousand times more evil than him.
“What tames a fish is never the food in your hand or your hand, nor your diligence and dedication, but the fish tank that traps it, the situation in which it has no choice.”
"If you were three brothers instead of two, and if your brother had a brother who was more like him or more like Odin, do you think he would still choose you?"
"That's enough." Loki stared at him and said, "It's impossible. I am his only brother."
"Don't be so excited." Schiller said lightly, "At least you are not stupid enough. Thor in the main timeline knows nothing. You can just pretend that your failed attempt never happened and continue to be friendly with him and pretend that everything is fine."
Schiller leaned forward, smiling, looking at Loki with eyes full of smiles, and said word by word: "You won't bring the fish tank to the beach for the second time, right?"
Loki clenched his fists, his fingertips almost piercing his palms, then he opened his trembling hands and pressed his fingertips tightly on the table.
"You are enduring." Schiller still smiled and said, "Try to suppress the devil in your heart who wants to do this, but I said, the moment you doubt, the ending is doomed."
"No, this can't be done." Loki's expression completely shattered. He leaned closer and said, "Really, Thor would not do this to me."
"It doesn't matter whether you know whether he will succeed or not. What matters is that you want to try. One success will not satisfy you, because you are always thinking about the previous failures. You always want to make the conditions more stringent to ensure that your success is really a success, but that will only make the fish swim back to the sea faster."
Loki took a deep breath, turned his head and looked up. He suddenly realized something, turned his head and stared at Schiller fiercely and said, "This is all your conspiracy. You asked me to try it."
"I just indulged you." Schiller said with a smile, "I didn't warn you of the possible bad consequences, but it can definitely not be called instigation."
"What do you want to do?"
"I didn't intend to do anything at first." Schiller thought for a moment, as if searching his memory, and then said, "Oh, do you still remember that one time you all stayed away from me..."
Schiller did not seem to be recalling his own experiences, but was simply telling the story of another person in the first person. He said: "Someone fired me, someone no longer allowed me to treat him, and someone even refused to see me. Do you remember that time?"
Loki looked at him, not understanding why he suddenly brought this up.
"I learned from a source that you were the one who suggested this," Schiller said. "You said to one of them that maybe this would be helpful for me, and then everything that happened afterwards happened."
Loki heard Schiller mutter, "Strange is just a cover. Greed was originally going to take revenge on this... God, this list of enemies is really long. Should I say that his revenge is too inefficient?"
Loki was stunned. He looked at Schiller and said, "Don't tell me that this whole incident was just for this?"
"Wait a moment." Schiller made a gesture, and then began to recall, as if he was looking for something. Suddenly he said: "Oh, I found it... The original script seems to be like this."
"You were very successful recently. You can say that you made up for the last regret in your life, which was your status in Asgard. You became a prince second only to everyone else. You were so proud and high-spirited."
"But recently, things haven't been going as planned for you. Your desire to have offspring has not been met, and you keep hitting a wall. And you can't find the root of the problem."
"This kind of ups and downs in your mood will cause your temporarily stable spirit to show a flaw. You are in urgent need of psychological comfort. Generally speaking, the comfort in this situation can only be brought to you by Thor."
"Thor in the real world is very busy. You can't ask a father-to-be to pay all his attention to you. Or you're afraid that if you ask him, he'll reject you."
"But you know there is someone who will never reject you, and that is the young Thor. He will always stand firmly by your side and always focus the most attention on you."
"But things have changed. You two both got the ending you wanted, but that period of time is over and it will never come back...right?"
"When I decided to travel back in time to fill in a backstory for myself, I realized that I could hint to you through my actions that although the past is over, it doesn't mean you can't go back to the past. Time tributary, what a wonderful tool that allows you to make harmless attempts... But it's like a Pandora's box."
"Once you open it and the result inside is not what you want, everything is irreversible. You will inevitably take the fish tank to the seaside again and again until all the fish are released."
"Because of my suggestion?" Loki said angrily, "I swear, I didn't mean to tease you. I thought it would really work, and in fact it did!"
"Yes, so this kind of revenge is meaningless." Schiller said: "Most of the greedy revenge is meaningless. Rather than revenge, it is more like finding a reason to deepen the connection with you."
Loki seemed to understand something, and he said, "So he has a perfect solution, right? Just like he did to others before, this will not only not really hurt me, but also have benefits."
"Yes, that was the original plan. You would just be sad and depressed for a while. That was what he called revenge, but you would benefit from it in the end. Then you two would lightly forget what happened and treat it as a harmless joke."
"So how do we solve this?" Loki felt his throat getting dry. He asked, "How do we make Thor choose me unwaveringly?"
Schiller suddenly laughed, and Loki realized that he seemed to be too straightforward, but he still looked at Schiller anxiously.
"Thor has always chosen you," Schiller said. "He doesn't come to see you because he has forgotten you or wants to teach you a lesson. He does it to protect you."
"But even if he came to see me, no one could..."
"Stephen believes that Asgard is still persecuting you. He always wants to take you away. You know how extreme he is. Do you think a Supreme Sorcerer with extreme ideas will not cause trouble for Thor, the new god of thunder?"
Loki was silent, then he stared at Schiller and said, "So your asking me to seduce Strange was just a cover, you just wanted to shape his extreme emotions."
"Yes." Schiller nodded and said, "This method of playing with emotions is too low-level. I just want him to force Thor."
"Then even if he locks me up, he can still see me."
"No, he can't. Have you forgotten the Eye of Agamotto?" Schiller said with a smile, "It's like a time bomb left inside Asgard. You brought it in yourself and have been carrying it with you. Any action of Thor may cause this big bomb to explode."
Loki opened his mouth. He could imagine how things would turn out. Even if Thor only locked him up for one day, the atmosphere would definitely not be good when they met again. And if all this was seen by Stephen, with his extreme personality, who knows what would happen.
But to be honest, if Thor wanted to take that thing away, Loki would never give it to him. Even if he only locked him up for one day, Loki would definitely not give it to him out of spite.
Thor knew this, so he could neither ask nor go to see Loki under the surveillance of the Eye of Agamotto.
So the three of them together formed a dead end.
Loki took a deep breath, stared at Schiller with a gloomy look and said, "You guessed the reaction of each of us."
“So I just have to take advantage of the situation.”
"It makes me anxious and worried."
"That's how you can take the bait."
"And then treat you as a savior."
“I’ve been doing that.”
"You seem completely guiltless."
"Because it is not necessary." Schiller said: "The treatment you proposed is effective, but the disappearance or reduction of a symptom does not mean health, or that the symptom you think is pathological is actually healthy enough.
"You have already proven that you cannot accept what is at the bottom of the lake, so stop trying to disturb the peace on the surface."
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