"Speak! Speak! Speak!"
Qin Xiao imitated Hulk's behavior from the movies and slammed Loki back and forth like a ragdoll.
He smashed him more than a dozen times left and right.
Amid the roaring wind, a weak voice finally came out.
"I'll talk! I'll talk!"
"Qin! He's talking! He's going to talk! Did you hear that?"
Thor shouted immediately.
He wasn't really worried that Loki would be beaten to death. Whether in Asgard or among the Frost Giants, their bodies were far beyond normal humans. As long as it wasn't a fatal injury, they could recover quickly.
What he was worried about was that if this continued, Loki might suffer severe psychological trauma—and honestly, Thor himself already felt like he was getting traumatized just watching.
Bang!
Qin Xiao gave one final heavy smash to end it.
At this point, Loki's condition could be perfectly described with two phrases:
Eyes lifeless, breath faint.
This wasn't physical pain anymore—it was psychological devastation.
He had arrived on Earth full of confidence, dreaming of conquering the world with the Chitauri army. But before the army even arrived, he had already been beaten like a useless puppet.
"Stop hitting me! I'll talk! I'll tell you everything! blub!"
Loki groaned out the words, then spat out a blood-stained bubble.
This troublemaking prince was completely broken now. What conquest of Earth? What throne of Asgard? None of it mattered anymore.
Earth was terrifying.
Qin Xiao was terrifying.
In Loki's imagination, he was supposed to be elegantly captured, then use the Mind Scepter to break Banner's mental defenses, causing chaos among the so-called superheroes. After that, he would gracefully leave and lead the Chitauri army to victory.
But Qin Xiao had perfectly taught him what "a lesson from society" meant.
"Speak. Where is the Cosmic Cube?"
Qin Xiao sat casually beside Loki's head and asked calmly.
"I… don't know!"
"What?"
Bang!
…
Back on the Helicarrier, inside the bridge conference room, the same oval table was present.
Qin Xiao, Tony, and others sat together with Nick Fury and Maria Hill from S.H.I.E.L.D.
Next to the table lay Loki, half-dead, with Thor's hammer pressing against his chest.
After Loki said he didn't know where the Tesseract was, he was beaten again by Qin Xiao.
But this time—it seemed he might actually be telling the truth.
With S.H.I.E.L.D.'s interrogation methods combined with Qin Xiao's fists, Loki had revealed even his childhood pranks in detail.
According to experienced agents' judgment, he genuinely did not know where the Cosmic Cube was.
Here, the plot diverged from the original timeline.
When Loki came to Earth earlier using the Destroyer Armor, he had witnessed the power of Gu Yi and Qin Xiao.
Although Thanos had assured him that Gu Yi would not intervene easily, Loki no longer held the arrogance he had in the original timeline, where he viewed Earth as insignificant.
As a result, his plan also changed.
After deciding to personally draw attention, he instructed Hawkeye to immediately meet with Dr. Selvig after acquiring the device, and build a machine capable of activating the Tesseract.
Then they would open a portal somewhere else and release the Chitauri army. Once Earth's defenses were weakened, Hawkeye would rescue him in the chaos.
Qin Xiao let out a long breath.
After all that trouble, things circled back to the original point—they still had to wait for Dr. Banner's device to detect gamma radiation signals.
And Hawkeye wasn't like Loki. Even though he was controlled, he still had his own consciousness. He wasn't as arrogant or impulsive.
A trained agent was far more practical. He might even summon the Chitauri somewhere hidden and launch a surprise invasion.
That would make things even more dangerous.
Unlike in the movie, where the portal only stayed open for about two hours, allowing the Avengers to contain the invasion and destroy the mothership, a delayed deployment could spiral out of control.
Loki had also confirmed that the Chitauri rely on the Scepter for command authorization, and Hawkeye—being controlled—was part of that system.
"It's fine. Banner's program is still running. Every lab in the world is scanning gamma radiation. As soon as they activate the Tesseract, we'll detect it."
Qin Xiao clapped his hands to break the silence.
"Now all we can do is wait—and think about what to do with this guy."
He pointed at Loki.
"We should build a special underwater prison and lock him at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean!"
Colson said fiercely.
For some reason, just seeing Loki made him irritated—and his chest hurt slightly.
"I warn you, he is from Asgard. He must return with me for trial. He is an Asgardian prince—my brother!"
Thor immediately objected.
"He has directly or indirectly caused over eighty deaths in just a few days on Earth."
Nick Fury said calmly.
"Uh… actually Loki is adopted by my father."
Thor muttered awkwardly.
Loki, lying on the ground, rolled his eyes.
The discussion about Loki's fate ended quickly.
Everyone's attention was elsewhere—they didn't know where Hawkeye had taken the Cube.
…
They waited the entire afternoon with no results.
Loki was eventually placed inside the giant circular prison seen in the movie.
As night slowly fell, even Loki began to feel uneasy about what Hawkeye was doing.
Until dawn the next day.
The Helicarrier alarm blared loudly.
Everyone rushed to the bridge.
Dr. Banner was the first to arrive, staring at the screen.
A red exclamation mark was flashing, and beneath it was a world map that kept zooming in.
"Finally. Where is it?"
Captain America asked first.
"Almost locked in… narrowing down… it's in Africa. This place is called… Wa… Wakanda!"
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