"He says it helps him get more inspiration this way."
The intern cut in at just the right time to explain.
Ever since Erik Selvig unlocked the achievement of streaking naked, he seemed to have become a bit addicted to that kind of free and uninhibited state.
Seeing Jane in front of him wearing a retro and elegant outfit with armor on it, Erik guessed that Jane had just returned from Asgard.
It made him quite envious.
"Alright! We need all your research results, including your research on gravitational anomalies. All of it!"
Jane couldn't wait to get straight to the point.
She knew very well just how terrifying and unbelievable the coming events would be.
After getting some comfort from Corin, Thor recovered a bit of his spirits and hung Mjolnir on the coat rack by the wall near the door.
Looking at Erik, whose mental state clearly seemed a little off, he asked with concern, "Are you alright, Erik?"
Corin's eyes changed when he looked at the hammer on the wall.
He had personally felt the weight of that hammer before. And now it was just hung up like that?
As simple as hanging a hat.
Was this hammer that polite now?
Or was it that the coat rack on the wall in Jane's lab was the real king all along, hiding in plain sight?
Corin couldn't figure it out no matter how much he thought about it, so he could only complain that the Marvel writers really knew how to mess around.
"Your brother didn't come with you?"
Erik's mouth moved faster than his brain. He still remembered how last time it was Thor's brother who stirred up chaos all over the city, while Thor chased after him trying to chop him down.
The half-naked old man's words stirred up Thor's sadness again. In a heavy voice he said:
"Loki… he's dead…"
"Thank God! I mean, I'm so sorry to hear that…"
Erik's honest slip of the tongue left Thor confused for a moment.
Then Selvig stepped forward and hugged Thor, patting him on the shoulder. In the spot Thor couldn't see, his face was full of delight.
That expression disappeared the moment the hug ended, replaced by sorrow, an experienced actor.
Corin beside them almost couldn't hold it in.
After all, it was Loki who single-handedly started the Battle of New York, causing devastation and countless deaths on Earth.
The Avengers team and Corin didn't think much about Loki personally. They simply saw him as someone with his own ideas and position.
But for ordinary people like Jane and Erik, especially those who knew the truth, their hatred for Loki ran deep.
Wasn't it obvious? The first time Jane saw Loki in Asgard, she immediately slapped him hard across the face.
———
A fully armed Asgardian warrior brought back news from the Dark World.
Worth mentioning was that this warrior looked exactly the same as the one Loki had mischievously transformed into before.
"We didn't find Thor… or that weapon… but we discovered a corpse…"
Odin couldn't help looking at the warrior and muttered, "Loki…"
That's right, it was Loki's corpse.
The warrior didn't speak, only looking at Odin with an unusual expression in his eyes.
———
"Malekith will release the Aether at a point where the Nine Realms intersect."
"That will multiply the destructive power. Each time it passes through a realm, the energy will grow exponentially. In the end, it will threaten the entire universe."
Jane shared the information she had obtained and her own speculation with Erik.
After Erik combined it with his own research to analyze the consequences, everyone's expressions gradually turned serious.
Meanwhile Corin grabbed a wire nearby and twisted it open, exposing the metal core at the end, then plugged the other end into the wall socket.
Zzz!
A faint electric sound buzzed. The lights in the room flickered once as Corin started charging.
Since he had nothing else to do, he figured he might as well test how effective household voltage was for charging.
Anyway, Corin had already made up his mind. No matter what grudge Malekith and Thor had, he absolutely had to get that spaceship this time.
Destroying the Chitauri mothership in a fit of anger before had already made him regret it endlessly. This time, no matter what, he couldn't repeat the same mistake.
He had to fleece Malekith for everything he could this round.
The lights flickering at just the right moment pushed the discussion atmosphere in the room toward seriousness.
At that moment Thor pointed out the key, "The Convergence is only temporary. He has to be at the right place at the right time…"
So the question became, how do they know the right place?
That was exactly what Darcy asked.
As the scientists discussed and exchanged ideas, inspiration sparked. Erik seemed to remember something and walked over to the bookshelf, pulling out a map.
"Something like this happened before, thousands of years ago. Someone personally visited the site afterward."
"All those great structures, the Maya, Egypt. they all made use of the gravitational effects of celestial convergence, and they left maps."
Whoosh!
Erik directly swept all the clutter off the table and spread the map open to study it.
"Stonehenge, Snowdon, the Great Orme… these could all serve as coordinates…"
While muttering to himself, he used a ruler and pen to draw straight lines across the world map.
In the end, the intersection point of multiple lines appeared, Greenwich.
At that moment Jane boldly predicted the scene that would occur, "The boundaries between realms will almost completely disappear. The laws of physics will collapse. Gravity will rise and fall unpredictably. Space will be compressed. Everything in reality will slowly disappear."
As Jane described what was about to happen, a heavy shadow slowly settled over everyone's hearts.
Buzz!
Mjolnir suddenly flew off the coat rack into Thor's hand.
Thor's attitude at that moment was obvious in one word, fight.
They had to stop Malekith.
Everyone saw the determination in Thor's eyes. They also knew that the only people who could understand and stop the enemy's plan were the ones standing here.
Instantly, they felt the heavy weight of responsibility.
"I'll go put my pants on first…"
Just as Selvig finished speaking—
Snap!
All the lights in the room instantly went out. The only thing left was the brief spark from the wire in Corin's hand before it vanished.
Corin's illegal wire connection successfully caused the laboratory power to trip.
And the reading on his energy display didn't change at all.
"Damn! Looks like household voltage is still too low."
Corin's experiment ended in failure, but it didn't matter. It was just a test anyway, not like it was dangerous.
But it caused quite a problem for Selvig.
Because after the lights went out, he couldn't find his pants.
"Someone help me, I can't find my pants…"
The room had been full of fighting spirit just a moment ago. Now the mood instantly collapsed.
With Corin's portal ability, traveling wasn't a problem for them.
Thanks to Corin, and using the firelight from the portal for illumination, Erik finally managed to find his pants.
Although honestly, after putting them on, that feeling of spiritual clarity just wasn't quite the same anymore.
Darcy and the intern took the equipment Erik had invented and prepared to set it up in advance around the spatial convergence point that would soon appear.
Jane and Erik passed through the elegant library, searching for another coordinate.
Shhh!
Their hurried footsteps drew dissatisfied reactions from people who were focused on reading.
———
At that moment, out on the sea not far away, the originally calm space suddenly twisted slightly.
The water surface was suddenly lifted by something massive, sending waves splashing. Just as it approached the shore, a huge spacecraft revealed its form.
The civilians of Greenwich weren't nearly as experienced as the citizens of New York.
Seeing the disturbance on the water, they instantly imagined monsters landing and ran away as fast as they could.
The spaceship plowed across the ground for dozens of meters before finally stopping.
Then a red glow shone from within, descending from top to bottom.
Malekith led the Dark Elf race and stepped onto Earth's soil in a grand and imposing manner.
Looking at the glowing lights of other realms shining in the distant sky, Malekith was filled with ambition.
He was only one step away from realizing his grand plan.
At that moment, Thor landed in front of Malekith with Mjolnir in hand, focusing his attention in readiness.
"You didn't need to run this far, warrior of Asgard! Because Death will be paying you a visit very soon."
Malekith strode toward Thor with domineering steps, arrogantly throwing out threats.
Meanwhile, Corin quietly arrived behind the spaceship.
Looking at the towering vessel that reached into the clouds, he gave a mischievous grin, the feeling of stealth thick in the air.
"Appraise!"
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