"I'm not joking with you. If you don't believe me, look around. If your son wasn't in my hands, how would I know his name?"
Hearing Thor's laughter on the communicator, the bald boss assumed Thor didn't believe him and frowned.
He was most afraid of dealing with people like this, who weren't quite right in the head, requiring him to explain before they realized the truth.
"I've already told you your child's name, and you still don't realize it?"
"No, I don't distrust you."
Thor's smile faded: "But he's not my child, he's my friend. I advise you to release him politely; that way, you'll suffer less."
"Don't threaten me. I know you're Asgardian."
The bald leader, seeing Thor begin to threaten, understood that Thor's outward composure masked his inner panic.
Families of kidnapped individuals often begin with various threats to intimidate the kidnappers.
In reality, this only serves to demonstrate to the kidnappers the value of their captor.
If they were worried about retaliation, they wouldn't have kidnapped him in the first place.
"To be honest, we're only after money; we have no intention of offending you Asgardians.
As long as you fly your ship to the coordinates we've set, we'll release your child immediately after we get the ship."
Otherwise, you wouldn't want to see your child divided into several pieces and returned to you, would you?
"Fine, divide it into as many pieces as you want."
Thor shook his head. It's hard to reason with this damned devil.
Since the kidnapper wouldn't listen, he couldn't be bothered to bother.
Anyway, he knew that Goku possessed magic that could pinpoint his location. As long as he was in this Nowhere, Goku should be able to teleport to him.
Just as he was about to hang up, his gaze casually drifted towards the door, and he suddenly stopped.
Fate is truly wondrous.
At that moment, an elegant young man wearing a green cloak...
He was talking to two people, one tall and one short, both cloaked in black cloaks that completely obscured their faces.
As if sensing something, he turned his head and looked into the shop.
When his eyes met Thor's, his pupils contracted instantly.
Then, both of them exclaimed in disbelief,
"Loki!"
"Thor!"
Indeed, the elegant young man in the green cloak at the door was Loki, the God of Mischief, who had jumped off the Rainbow Bridge into the cosmic vortex nine months ago, committing suicide.
Odin and Thor both believed Loki had died in the cosmic vortex.
In reality, that was just one of his planned escape routes.
If the plan failed, he would escape Asgard through the cosmic vortex and then find another opportunity to return and reclaim the throne.
As for that opportunity, he had already considered it.
The legendary Asgard, even the three great... empires wouldn't want to offend them easily.
Therefore, if he wanted to reclaim the throne, neither the Kree Empire, the Shi'ar Empire, nor the Nova Empire could help him.
As for those raiders, they were just chickens and dogs, and even less worthy of his help.
The only one who gave him some hope was Thanos, known as the "Mad Titan," whom all three empires feared greatly.
Thanos possessed a powerful cosmic fleet and terrifying strength.
On every planet Thanos invaded, he would randomly slaughter half of its inhabitants, but so far, the three empires couldn't do anything to him.
Only someone with such power could possibly help him reclaim the throne.
So he came to the Black Market Nowhere, hoping to contact Thanos through the intelligence network there.
After several months of effort, he not only contacted Thanos...
He also learned that Thanos was collecting the Infinity Stones.
And coincidentally, he had some knowledge of the Infinity Stones.
Compared to Thor, that bookless brute, he wanted to prove himself and become the King of Asgard.
He had studied most of the items in the vault and had almost read all the books in Asgard.
He knew that Odin had tried to collect the Infinity Stones, but didn't know why he gave up in the end. However, the vault still contained an Infinity Gauntlet forged by the Dwarf King.
He also knew that Odin had hidden the Space Stone in Midgard.
He believed this information would be enough to sway Thanos and persuade him to help him reclaim the throne.
And indeed, after learning of his information about the Infinity Stones,
Thanos, though not coming in person, sent his...
Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf.
The two sides had just met and were having a pleasant conversation, preparing to go to the platform to board a spaceship to leave the Nowhere, meet Thanos, and begin formal cooperation.
However, while passing by a shop in this shopping street, they unexpectedly encountered someone they had never expected.
His brother, Thor!
How could this be? Had that idiot Thor seen through their escape plan and chased them here?
But how did he know they were here?
Was it Heimdall?
But Heimdall could only see the Nine Realms, and he couldn't see this Nowhere.
Loki's mind was filled with doubt.
"I'm telling you, don't think I won't. You stay in that shop, and I'll have someone bring you an arm right away..."
The bald leader, seeing Thor's arrogance, was furious and wanted to teach him a lesson.
But before he could finish speaking, Thor hung up the phone, infuriating him.
"Take that kid with you, we'll go and deal with him ourselves!"
Since kidnapping a child to lure the enemy didn't work, then the only option was to take matters into his own hands and kidnap the guy too.
To avoid making too much of a commotion, he planned to go personally.
"Boss, this kid's acting strange. He ate all the lunch we ordered for sixty people by himself."
When the blue-skinned subordinate appeared with the well-fed Goku, a strange look appeared on his face.
The bald boss was taken aback for a moment, but didn't seem too concerned.
"Maybe Asgardians just eat a lot.
It's not important, hurry up and get moving, don't let that guy get away."
Although the other side seemed completely indifferent to the child, he felt that using the child as a threat would still have some effect when the fight broke out.
That's why he brought the child along instead of killing him outright now.
When the bald boss, leading over fifty heavily armed men, arrived at the shopping street in a small flying vehicle with Goku, the shopping street was already a mess.
"Loki!"
After confirming that the person at the door was indeed his beloved younger brother Loki, whom he thought was dead and had been grieving for so long,
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