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Chapter 1084 Father and Son (Thirteen)
🕑 Added 2024-03-19 11:03:59 +0000 UTCIn DC World With Marvel Chat Group : Table of Content/Chapter List
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Mobius didn't understand Lady Loki's phrasing, he just looked at her a little worriedly, and asked: "Do you think our director will come back?"
After he finished speaking, he pursed his lips, lowered his head, and said with deep concern: "Before he left, he specifically instructed us to take good care of that little girl, and asked us to get the answers he wanted after he came back, but we already let her go. If the director comes back and finds out that she is gone, we will be dead!"
After he finished speaking, he covered his mouth with his hand again, gritted his teeth and said: "No, perhaps, death is already the best result. In a place where the flow of time can be controlled, all your pain can be extended to Eternity..."
Looking at the somewhat frightened look on Mobius' face, Lady Loki sighed and comforted him in a calm and powerful tone:
"Didn't you say that he hasn't returned yet?"
"Indeed, in the past, he was always punctual, and a person with the ability to travel through time limits cannot be unpunctual." Mobius spread out his hands and said: "Even if he is trapped, he can go back to the past by tracing back time, thereby escaping."
"But this time, he is really late, which means that there is something that he doesn't want to come back to, or it is possible that he can't come back, but the latter possibility is too small."
However, Lady Loki shook her head and expressed a different view from him. He said: "You said that he can travel through the Timeline, even if something delays his return, he can completely trace back time to avoid trouble, and thus arrive on time. For someone with the ability to travel through time and Space, being late can only be forced."
"Although I can't tell you the truth, or rather, I don't understand the whole truth, but something has indeed happened to our Space. Let alone you or your director, even those great existences that we cannot understand, want to be like before. It is difficult to travel freely."
Mobius suddenly opened his eyes wide, stared at Lady Loki, and asked with hope: "So, the director is definitely not coming back?"
"It can only be said that there is a high probability that this is the case." Lady Loki nodded, but then said: "However, no one can guarantee anything to you. If your director is as powerful as you said, then perhaps, he will be able to return someday."
Mobius' face was not very good from beginning to end. Obviously, during this period of time, all the people involved in this case have faced great pressure, and Lady Loki also saw this, she believes that this may be a breakthrough in the conversation.
"I have answered your question, so should you also answer my question?" Lady Loki said.
"You ask..." Mobius seemed absent-minded.
"Regarding another female Lady Loki, the little girl you let go...what is so special about her? What does your director want to know from her?"
Mobius' expression froze for a moment, he raised his eyes and glanced at Lady Loki's expression, but he didn't see any other emotions in her expression, only a faint doubt.
Thinking that he had already told her so much, there was no point in continuing to hide it, so Mobius said: "Actually, he asked us to torture the little girl, but he didn't tell us what he wanted to ask."
Upon seeing Lady Loki's perplexed expression, Mobius sighed and said, "This is precisely why we don't want to do this. It seems that he just wants to torment the girl and doesn't really want any important information from her. It's completely meaningless."
"But..." Mobius hesitated for a moment and said, "Before the director left, Lavona was highly regarded by him, being a higher-ranking official. She heard some rumors, but they were just hearsay and may not be true..."
"You can tell us, just in case there are any clues that you haven't noticed," Lady Loki encouraged Mobius to speak up. He lightly tapped the table with his fingertips and said, "You have to know that this matter needs to be dealt with. Either the director will come back to deal with you, or you'll have to deal with the director..."
"The director may be strong, but perhaps he's not completely without weaknesses. He values this little girl so much that the key might lie with her."
Mobius covered his face with both hands and said, "We are already enemies with the director, and if he finds out what we've done, he won't let us off the hook. Well..."
According to Lavona, at one point when the director was away on a business trip, he received a prophecy that there is a special female presence in our Space who has broken through a "wall."
"Ah?" Lady Loki made a confused sound. She didn't quite understand what Mobius was talking about, and Mobius himself shook his head and said, "I don't fully understand either, but later on, Lavona and I speculated that the director wanted to obtain this ability."
"What is this 'wall'?" Lady Loki asked again.
"No one knows, but when the director was drunk, he occasionally muttered a few words, probably saying that we are all fake, everything is fake. No matter how many Spaces he rules, no matter how great a leader he becomes, it's all fake. He wants to find the truth, to conquer the truth, but he doesn't know where the truth lies..."
"Perhaps he thinks that the barrier between fake and real is called the 'wall,' and he wants to find the person who can break through it, to obtain this ability from her and conquer the truth."
"He thinks that person is the little girl?" Lady Loki leaned forward slightly and asked.
Mobius nodded gently, pondering, and said, "That little girl is quite special. Oh, of course, she was special before you arrived. Among all the Spaces, she was the only female Loki."
Lady Loki recalled and found that it was indeed the case. In the scenes she saw when she arrived in Space, among the countless storylines about her, there was truly only one that could be called a female Loki.
Of course, his transformation into a female Loki was only a recent development, and he can only be considered an amateur. When this little girl was arrested, he was still a male. So, at that time, only this little girl, Lady Loki, was a female.
"Truth, falsehood, 'wall'..." Lady Loki muttered these words while squinting her eyes. She felt like she knew something, but she could never grasp the key.
"But in reality, we haven't seen that little girl use any abilities beyond Loki's," Mobius sighed softly and said, "In fact, we all believe that the so-called 'wall' and the person who can break it are just drunken fantasies of the director."
"He captured Lady Loki not for some elusive ability, but probably to satisfy his own wicked desires. That's why we joined forces to betray him."
"After all, if he can do such insane things, who knows who the next unlucky one will be?" Mobius seemed resentful as he said, "We work for the Time Variance Authority to ensure the stability of Space, and we truly believe in our mission."
"If someone were to truly endanger Space, regardless of their age or how adorable they may be, we will definitely judge them."
"But that little girl is completely innocent. She hasn't committed any crime or made any mistakes, yet she was taken away from her parents, never to be reunited with them, and even has to endure terrible nightmares. It's just... unimaginable."
Mobius scratched his head for a while, unable to find an adjective. Finally, he stammered, "If such a tragedy were to happen before my eyes, I'd rather be killed..."
"You are a kind person," Lady Loki spoke up. "All of you are."
"Thank you..." Mobius seemed disinterested. He continued, "You're the first one, Loki, to compliment me. In the past, those Asgard princes who came here wanted nothing more than to tear me apart..."
"But, it's not really kindness. It's just that I instinctively feel that this situation is too outrageous, especially considering her young age..."
Mobius sat there, looking somewhat dejected. He shook his head and said, "Your daughter is the same. It's better for you not to get involved in these disappearances. I don't want the tragedy to happen again."
"I plan to persuade Lavona to let you finish your 20-day detention quickly and leave. After all, the children are innocent. If the Director comes back, none of you will be able to leave."
"Don't be fooled by Lavona's serious demeanor. Deep down, she's soft-hearted. If B15 and I talk to her, she might consider letting you go for the sake of the children. Why bother getting involved?"
Seeing Lady Loki's unchanged expression, Mobius sighed and continued:
"Perhaps you think that we saved one little girl, but you don't know how many Lokis have been executed here."
"Not only Lady Loki, but during the Director's time, many crimes that weren't so severe, just time violations without cooperation in the investigation, would lead to execution."
"But back then, you didn't have a choice, did you?" Lady Loki looked at him and said, "All the blame for Death crimes falls on the Director's head, and your act of kindness at least saved one person."
Mobius lowered his head, sighing deeply. "Perhaps, when you came in, you already realized that we had no intention of continuing to live."
"We all know that the Director will return one day, and when that happens, something even more terrifying than Death awaits us. We were prepared, once the Director is found to have returned, to blow up everything here, including ourselves..."
"But do you truly want to die?"
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