Chapter 1053: Startling the Mortal World (Thirty)

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Seeing Schiller also present, Thor appeared somewhat surprised. Suddenly, as if realizing something, he held back his words and glanced at Eddie's expression, understanding the situation instantly.

After all, before he came here, he had received a warning from Loki, roughly saying, "Even if the sky falls, don't go looking for Schiller."

But this encounter wasn't initiated by him. It was just a coincidence. Thor thought, with Eddie here, nothing major should happen.

Thor walked to the side of the dining table, pulled out a chair, and sat down. Before Eddie could ask, he complained, "I had to come to Earth to lay low. Frigga is driving me crazy. She only asks me two things every day: When are you getting married? When are you having children?"

Eddie chuckled and said, "Who would have thought, the mighty Asgard God-King, being pressured into marriage..."

Thor shook his head and said, "It's partly my fault. Normally, when a God-King is crowned, there should be a Queen. But at that time, my relationship with Sif was a bit strained, and Loki was causing trouble on the side. Also, All-Father and Queen had disagreements over the candidates."

Eddie widened his eyes, scrutinizing Thor, and said, "You're not seriously considering marrying your own sister? And she used to be your younger brother!"

Thor waved his hand and said, "Asgard is different from you humans. We don't have the taboo against marrying close relatives. Gods don't suffer any consequences from marrying close relatives. My father and mother also had a close relationship."

"But I really don't have any brotherly feelings for Loki. However, as you know, royal marriages are often not up to us." Thor sighed. Eddie took a seat opposite him. Unexpectedly, Schiller also came over and sat next to him.

Eddie poured a glass of water for Thor and said, "You've matured a lot. If we had met earlier, you would have been loudly proclaiming that love should be free..."

"Love should indeed be free, but I also have responsibilities." Thor took a sip of water. "Every member of the royal family is like this. We enjoy the support and worship of the Asgardian people, so naturally, we must shoulder greater responsibilities than them and make sacrifices, including marriage."

"However, even though I think this way, I won't force others to think the same. So, when Loki didn't make his stance clear at that time, I just assumed he disagreed. Later, All-Father stopped caring about us."

Thor rested one hand on the table. His burly Nordic physique exuded a domineering aura, even when drinking water. He wiped his mouth and said, "The relationship between Sif and me is a bit strange..."

"When I first returned to Asgard, I had killed many malicious warmongers. Sif and I had a big fight, and she went out alone for training. We were separated for a while."

There was a hint of reminiscence in Thor's eye contact as he continued, "Since we've known each other since childhood, we've never been apart for such a long time. When she returned, both of us noticed some differences..."

"In addition, Frigga tried to matchmake us, and things naturally fell into place. It's just that I ascended to the throne first, so the wedding didn't happen simultaneously. Now, we can't find a suitable opportunity to hold it."

"Since it's already settled, why are you afraid of being pressured into marriage?" Eddie asked curiously. "It's just a matter of whether or not to hold a banquet. Your mother shouldn't be that anxious, right?"

"But I can't stand her nagging every day!" Thor said with a hint of helplessness, covering his forehead. He frowned and said, "Implicitly or explicitly, she always compares me to Loki, saying he was more mature from a young age, had good relationships with goddesses, and that I should have learned from him. She said I should have been more considerate and not have quarreled with Sif in the first place. If the coronation and wedding had been held together, there wouldn't have been so much trouble."

"She says it's unfair to Sif. A queen should naturally be crowned alongside her husband at the most glorious and grand ceremony, but Sif no longer has that opportunity..."

Thor sighed and said, "Frigga has her reasons, and I can't argue with her. But I can't bear her incessant nagging, so I had to come out and hide for a while."

Thor tapped his finger on the table and said:

"Another reason is that Loki is the God of Mischief. He has caused quite a bit of trouble recently, and many interstellar empires have contacted me about it. I don't feel like scolding them one by one, so I just said I'm not here. If they have the ability, they can come to Asgard and arrest him. I actually hope they do!"

Thor's expression turned murderous. Obviously, the words used to describe Loki in those messages made him very unhappy.

Eddie burst into laughter and said, "You and your father are like a scam team. The son goes out fishing, and the father waits at home to kill them one by one. A complete dragon-slaying operation..."

Unexpectedly, as soon as Eddie finished speaking, Thor looked at him somewhat surprised and said, "You've changed a lot too. Before, you always spoke so elegantly. There were some words I couldn't understand, but now it's much better..."

Eddie was stunned for a moment, then gave a wry smile and said, "In this life, you can only speak like this. If you speak like you did at the newspaper office with colleagues, you'll get beaten up."

The two chatted for a while, and Schiller, who was sitting beside them, took out a piece of candy paper and started playing with it. Thor didn't understand what he was doing, so he leaned over and watched him play with the paper folding toy with interest, saying:

"The goddesses of Asgard like to fold paper butterflies. After folding them, they attach flying magic to them, letting the butterflies fly around the fountain. Whoever's butterfly can fly around the big fountain for a week without getting wet is the most skilled..."

"Since Loki became a goddess, this award has never fallen into anyone else's hands. Her magic is indeed powerful, but I think she might have used illusions to fool others. She's been like this since childhood."

Thor became more interested as he spoke and looked at Schiller, saying, "Can you teach me how you fold them? I'll teach Sif when I go back, so she can show her face at the goddesses' gathering."

"Sif follows the path of the Valkyrie and doesn't quite fit in with the traditional goddesses of Asgard. But in the future, as she becomes the queen, she'll inevitably have to deal with the goddesses. If I can help her in this regard, it would also compensate for my delay in the wedding..."

After saying that, he leaned closer to Schiller and stared at his stiff movements, not feeling bored but saying:

"It's really interesting. When you fold these two sides in, the other two sides open up, and when you separate one side, the other side closes... Hurry, hurry, teach me how to do it! Eddie! Eddie! Help us get a piece of paper!"

Eddie was about to say that Schiller wasn't in the best mental state at the moment when he found Schiller also looking at him. He shook his head helplessly and went inside to find two pieces of white paper, cut them into squares, and handed them over.

Schiller didn't speak but folded the paper once again with his swift and decisive movements.

Thor, towering at two meters tall with a back broader than a door panel, pinched the thin white paper with fingers thicker than carrots. It was as if he was holding not just the delicate paper but also his sensitive heart beneath his rugged exterior.

With quick movements, Schiller folded the paper and then unfolded it again. Thor clumsily attempted to follow suit, but because he had never done it before, he seemed a bit awkward.

Leaning his arms on the back of the chair, Eddie watched them play, thinking to himself, "You wanted to join in just now, didn't you?"

"I didn't! I'm not that childish!" Venom immediately denied, but then he snorted and said, "If I did want to join in, it would definitely be because I was annoyed by this big guy's stupidity!"

"You're not any better than him." Eddie scoffed, "Every time you eat chocolate balls, you swallow the wrapper along with them. Don't think I don't know. You just can't peel off the candy wrapper..."

"Shut up! You damned coward! Apologize! Apologize now!"

In the end, Eddie also sat opposite Thor, and the two of them practiced folding the white paper facing each other, while Schiller sat directly in front of them, seeming to demonstrate, yet also repeating meaningless mechanical movements?

The folding techniques of east, west, south, and north weren't complicated, but if it was your first time, you needed to practice a few times, or else the folded object wouldn't be flexible enough and would get stuck when opening and closing.

Eddie folded for two minutes, of which 1 minute and 40 seconds were spent arguing with Venom and struggling for control of the body.

In the end, Venom gained the upper hand, and the huge black monster appeared on the opposite side of the table, its enormous black claws pinching the tiny piece of white paper, just like it was holding his tender and innocent heart.

The three of them played with the paper for tens of minutes until it was late at night. Under the light, Eddie turned his head to look at Schiller's expression and found no anxiety or irritability there, only focus and seriousness.

Actually, the most enjoyable thing about paper folding, playing for hours on end was meaningless. The joy of origami lies in the folding process, and once folded, the simple open-and-close toys weren't that fun in this age of advanced technology. They couldn't compete with mobile phone screens.

However, constantly folding and unfolding the paper in different directions gave Eddie a sense of tranquility. He said to Venom in his mind, "Do you still remember why we came here?"

"You said you wanted to find a completely new news topic." Venom snorted. His sensitive side surfaced again, and he said, "But news is like this toy. When two characteristics with explosive potential combine, it becomes a new piece of news. Combine it with other characteristics, and it becomes another piece of news... Is this news?"

Sitting on the chair in the dining room, Eddie heard his inner monologue: "...No, of course not. This is not what news should pursue. It's neither new nor true."

"What kind of truth do you want to pursue?" Venom's voice sounded vague. "The truth of events? The root of cases?"

"No..." Eddie heard his inner self reply, "There are already too many excellent journalists who have gone down this path, and I want to take a different path from them..."

With this internal dialogue, it was already late at night. The night descended, and the moonlight spread everywhere.

The man with golden hair, after a journey across worlds, felt tired from exhaustion and leaned back in the chair, falling asleep.

The slender doctor with black hair also slowly slumped onto the table, sinking into a dream.

The origami toy folded from golden-red candy wrappers was left in the center of the table.

At this moment, the last shuttle passed by outside the window, and the cold light of the lamp shone through the window, casting onto the candy wrapper as if it were a dense and viscous rain curtain, enveloping a shaky umbrella.

A boring toy born in an old age, and the most functional transportation facility of the new era collided, sparking amazing inspiration in Eddie's mind.

So, he spoke, his deep voice echoing in the room.

"Times change, and technology advances, but people remain the same."

"In this era of wonders, formed by science and technology and exploration, people who are at a loss all want to know where the road ahead leads. Ordinary people, excellent doctors, and great kings all want to know."

"And I, a media person lucky enough to have experienced an era of change, the truth I want to record is not about what the end of the road is, but the joy, pain, thirst for knowledge, and unfulfilled desires that people truly experience in the process of seeking this question..."

Eddie unfolded the paper in his hand with creases, dipped his fingertips in the water in the cup, and wrote down a few words on the paper:

"The latest and most authentic news I want to record is all about... Startling the Mortal World."

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