Chapter 192. Journey Together (Part2)

In the back seat, Bucciarati fiddled with Thor's arm. First, he pulled up two fingers and then changed it into Spider-Man's signature 'two middle fingers pulled in' gesture. He spoke to the two people in front of the driver's seat, "Either keep driving or... I can keep taking off parts of your body."

Looking closely at the arm in Bucciarati's hands, Thor was silent for a moment. He then spoke to Jane, "Jane, I think we should keep going. Just do as he says."

"But..." She swept a glance over at Thor and Bucciarati with a slightly hesitant expression on her face.

"We have no choice."

If Thor still had his divine powers at the moment, he wouldn't be worried about the situation at hand. Unfortunately, he was just an ordinary man who had lost his divine power, and Jane was beside him.

"All right."

Hearing Thor's answer, Jane had to nod and agree. She turned to look at the arm in Bucciarati's hands, and a look of fear flashed in her eyes. She restarted the car and drove to the location of the crater. However, compared with the previous situation, the atmosphere inside the car had obviously changed.

"Even if I don't know how you took my arm, can you please stop playing around and making weird gestures with it? " Although mindful of Bucciarati's ability to remove his arm, Thor couldn't help but open his mouth when he saw that the other party was playing around with his arm.

"You mean like this?"

Controlling the arm in his hands, and folding up the remaining fingers to reveal only one middle finger, Bucciarati replied with a straight face.

Bucciarati's gesture was extremely annoying; however, he forgot the fact that Thor wasn't an earthling.

"Jane, what does that mean?"

Looking at the back seat, Thor saw Bucciarati raise the middle finger of his arm and ask Jane with a puzzled face.

Silently watching the conversation between Thor and Bucciarati, in order to avoid more conflicts, the corners of Jane's lips twitched. A very forced smile appeared on her face, and she explained...

"That's a greeting, to start a friendship."

"Is that so? "

Although he didn't understand why Bucciarati would give his greeting now since it was a kind gesture, Thor accepted it with a nod. He looked at Bucciarati in the back seat, "To you as well, my friend."

Ryan: "...?!"

...

Crater, the temporary research base.

Agent Coulson stood with a silent expression at the location of the crater where Mjolnir had disappeared.

"Hmm, did you find anything?"

Appearing at Agent Coulson's side, Hawkeye asked.

Shaking his head, Agent Coulson withdrew his gaze with a helpless expression, "No, we have searched every database. And, since one of them was wearing a mask, and the other is an unknown, we can't verify anything." The hammer had been missing for 3 days now.

The whole base was under strict security from S.H.I.E.L.D., but something went wrong. As the project leader, Agent Coulson, although the situation at that time was obviously beyond his control, still felt remorseful.

"Maybe we're looking at the wrong people..."

Loki's ability was too conspicuous, and when he appeared at the base, he wasn't using any disguises, which made S.H.I.E.L.D., including Agent Coulson, ignore the identity of the other intruder.

"Maybe, we should focus on the other guy." Pondering over it, Hawkeye offered his opinion.

"Maybe he's the actual owner of the hammer?" Frowning, Agent Phil offered his own speculation.

"Unlikely." Shaking his head, Hawkeye replied, "I think, from his conversation with that ice guy, he clearly came with an agenda. From what the researchers said, the guy pretending to be a researcher at that time mentioned Phantom Thief or something..."

"Phantom Thief?"

Hearing about the clues Hawkeye mentioned, Agent Coulson's expression slightly changed.

"Are you sure he said Phantom Thief? "

"I have questioned all the researchers who were in the crater at the time, and more than half of them said it." At that time, the centre of the base was in chaos, especially when tremendous lightning erupted from the hammer. It didn't cause much damage or harm to the researchers who were around at that time, but it affected their physical condition more or less. They needed a few days to recover.

That was why Hawkeye waited to get the information about the Phantom Thief that Ryan had deliberately left behind.

"If that information is correct, this might lead us somewhere..."

After getting the information from Hawkeye, Agent Coulson muttered a reply with a flicker in his eyes.

...

Asgard, Royal Palace of Valaskjalf, where Odin was sleeping.

"He's put it off for so long now. That I fear ...."

Frigga, the Queen of Asgard, looked at the sleeping Odin. Her expression looking worried.

"How long will it last?"

On the other side, Loki looked at the sleeping Odin and asked softly.

Shaking her head, Frigga stroked Odin's face and spoke back, "I don't know. This time It's different. We were unprepared."

Loki: "So why did he lie?"

Frigga: "He kept the truth from you so that you would never feel different. You are our son, Loki. And we, your family. You mustn't lose hope that your father will return to us. And your brother."

Hearing this from Frigga, a change of expression was noticeable on Loki's face, "What hope is there for Thor?"

Frigga: "There's always purpose to everything your father does."

Hearing Frigga's reply, Loki silently withdrew his outstretched position, the expression on his face remaining silent.

However, the pupils in the depths of the eyes involuntarily contracted for a moment.

He had always suspected that Odin had not shared his actual reason for Thor's expulsion, and now Frigga's words only confirmed it for him.