The Death Knell

Su Ming looked down and saw nothing but clouds and mist below the hole where the World Tree grew.

Not only the fog formed by freezing, but also some smoke caused by yesterday's burning, like a well filled with snow-white cotton.

The wind brought by riding on the horse stirred the cotton wool and made them tremble slightly.

A wide and steep staircase made of ice leads around the World Tree itself into the clouds, spiraling downwards.

Neither the Hydra nor the Frost Giants can fly, but Zemo actually figured out a way to make stairs out of ice, and if time goes by some of the stairs will melt away, completely annihilating the traces.

At this time, the stairs had begun to drip water and glowed like a rainbow in the sun. A lot of time had passed.

Su Ming knew some information about what was at the roots of the World Tree.

The three Fates were there, spinning beside the Fountain of Wisdom.

Although they actually belong to the Olympian pantheon, they like the tranquility around the World Tree and its close connection with the world.

The golden thread of fate flows out of nothingness, passes through their hands, is straightened out, and then flows into the fountain of wisdom.

Time brings people the accumulation of wisdom, and it also takes people away from the world.

This is the essence of destiny, coming from the world and returning to the world, a cycle.

The Fountain of Mimir, the legendary spring, also known as the Fountain of Wisdom, looks like a pond that is not very clean.

Sometimes there is garbage floating on it, and sometimes it is covered with lotus flowers or duckweeds.

Anyone can gain endless wisdom with just one sip.

However, a price must be paid, and neither strength nor wisdom can be obtained for free.

Even Odin sacrificed an eye for this, and the weight of knowledge made it impossible for him to smile again.

In addition, there is a medium-sized hole under the World Tree, which is the highest-level cell in Asgard. It can not only trap beings with Heavenly Father-level strength, but also has its own life-support system.

The so-called life support system is a huge venomous snake that will constantly eat the roots of the World Tree and then spit a special venom onto the prisoners' faces. This is the only food and drink for the prisoners here.

Generally speaking, being locked up here is worse than death. Although this venom is not fatal, on the contrary, it is very nutritious, but no matter who drinks the venom, they will be burned inside and out, and they will be in pain.

In the entire history of comics, only Loki has enjoyed this treatment, and ordinary sinners are imprisoned underground in the Golden Palace.

Apart from this, there is nothing else of value in the roots of the World Tree.

The flowers and plants there were beautiful, and the little animals were also very rare, but Su Ming felt that Zemo was not the type to like these things.

Maybe you can pick up some fallen branches from the World Tree there and make some magic equipment, but the value is not very high.

If Zemo mobilized his troops and led a group of people to the roots of the World Tree just to catch butterflies, then Su Ming would be completely convinced by him, and Su Ming would not care about anything he did in the future.

If you can lead Hydra and Frost Giants to catch butterflies today, and tomorrow you can lead an army of Chitauri to catch crickets, what do you need to worry about?

If it were really at that level, there wouldn't be any big trouble.

"Guard the surrounding area, I'll go down and take a look."

The fake Odin confessed to the surrounding soldiers to alert them to possible accidents, and then he flew directly downwards on his horse.

The feeling of walking through the clouds and mist was very strange. No one could tell how tall the tree was. There was almost nothing else visible along the way, only a vast expanse of white.

The numbers on the eyepiece kept floating, and all the values ​​and indicators were jumping rapidly. Only the altitude column showed an error.

Deep into the clouds, I don't know how long it took, but suddenly the green ground appeared in front of me. Pegasus immediately braked to avoid a crash.

At this time, the ground conditions had completely changed. Not to mention that the grass around the tree roots was trampled in a mess by various footprints. Even the three goddesses of fate thought they had been raped, leaning against the big tree with their hair disheveled.

Su Ming patted the Pegasus' neck and motioned it to go aside and eat grass by itself, while he strode towards the three witnesses.

The golden thread on the ground had been crumpled into a ball, and it was broken into several pieces in the middle. The three goddesses all stared blankly at the thick clouds in the sky.

"Ahem! Are you still alive?"

Su Ming inserted the spear into the soil. Some of the black soil was dug up, and the grass bent slightly.

The youngest girl among the three goddesses raised her head and glanced at him.

"Outsider, you are too late, and the straight line of destiny has been cut off."

He still looks like Odin, but it's interesting that Fate can recognize him at a glance.

But the thread of fate can be broken. Anyway, Su Ming is not from this world at all, and fate cannot arrange it for him.

However, looking at the gray faces of these three people, as if something big had happened, out of humanitarianism, we still had to ask.

"what happened?"

"Frost giants and human armies attacked us."

The young woman among the three women answered the question, and the wreath on her head fell to the ground, and the petals scattered all over the floor.

"What have they done? Except cut the thread of fate."

"A human with a purple hood... He also... insulted me."

The eyes of the oldest old woman flashed with tears, and she collapsed at the root of the tree like a fallen flower.

She was like a puddle of mud or a pile of minced meat, with despair in her eyes.

"Ahem...what?"

Su Ming almost choked on his own saliva.

Zemo insulted her?

Among the three goddesses here, there is a little Luoli who is as beautiful as a flower, and a plump young woman. Zemo chose an old woman with a figure as dry as a skeleton and a face like the peel of an old orange?

The taste is too strong.

Take a closer look at the old woman's appearance... Su Ming couldn't help but retched.

He suddenly didn't want to hear the details, and his evaluation of Zemo rose to the level of mental illness.

But the old woman would not let him go, she added.

"Come closer and see the atrocities he did to me."

"No, I don't look."

Seeing the old woman tearing the gauze on her chest, as if she was going to show him evidence, Su Ming's head shook like a rattle.

He only has one eye left. It’s still useful if he keeps it. What if it burns out after seeing something too exciting?

But the old woman only exposed her neck and showed him the purple handprints on her neck.

"He strangled my neck and said he wanted to strangle fate by the throat, wuwuwu..."

Su Ming breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be this.

He was startled, thinking it was something like that.

These goddesses are just ignorant, so why don't they just choke? Isn't it very common to choke in battle?

But there is some information.

Judging from the purple handprints, Xiaozemo is now less than 1.7 meters tall, and his palms are almost the size of a child.

But judging from the palm prints, he can choke people with one hand and lift them up, which indicates that he may have been modified by medicine or machinery.

The footprints of the Frost Giants are dense but not messy, which shows that Zemo has strong control over them, which should be a great benefit.

Although the three goddesses of fate were severely frightened, they were not seriously injured, but the thread of fate was broken.

In order to prevent a certain incident from happening in the future, Zemo came here specifically to cut off the thread of fate, but this incident was unknown to Su Ming.

Finally, Zemo is a fan of Beethoven, but Nazi actually likes the Blue Danube more and is a fan of Strauss.

Su Ming's eyes turned to the pond nearby, where the water lilies were blooming and a golden boat was moving in the calm wind.

"Did he drink water?"

The young woman went to comfort the old woman and told her not to cry anymore, while the girl stood up holding on to the tree, patted her dress, and answered Su Ming's question.

"He drank, scooped up a handful with both hands, and poured it into his mouth."

"What's his price given?"

The girl pointed to the water and answered with a trembling voice.

"You'll know for yourself when you see it."

Su Ming looked carefully into the turbid water. In the not-deep pond, there was a complete face under the water...

After hearing that Zemo drank the water from the fountain of wisdom, Su Ming casually tied the thread of fate for them, reconnected it where it was broken, put the thread into their hands, and signaled them to continue playing.

He needed to return to the Golden Palace quickly. He might have guessed a little bit of Zemo's intentions.

This kid put his thoughts on the runes.

Now that he has obtained the Fountain of Wisdom, he has gained the ability to recognize all runes.

The process of Odin discovering the runes can be found in any collection of Norse mythology. This is simply a popular version of the guide to becoming a god.

Zemo also had a lot of subordinates and frost giant allies. Even if it was to temporarily appease them, Su Ming guessed that he would choose a benefit with wider benefits.

Gaining wisdom will not directly translate into combat effectiveness.

Zemo's understanding of Asgard may not be as good as Su Mindo's. After he learned the runes, he would definitely need to update his information.

The library, which stores a large amount of information, is located inside the Golden Palace.

Su Ming bet that Zemo would go there.

And he was also very interested in how Zemo could move around Asgard silently and at will.

After returning to the Golden Palace, the guard at the door said there was no trouble at all.

There was no unusual smell either in the corridor or in the houses passing by.

Yes, Su Ming was reminded by Brynhildr, and he used his sense of smell to find the frost giant.

Those guys live in an environment of ice and snow. Their original weapons are special iron and stone pillars. They can't even make a fire, let alone take a bath.

Hundreds of years of body odor has accumulated, and ordinary people would probably feel dizzy just by smelling it.

But Strangler never reminded him, not to mention the stench of the Frost Giants, not even the smell of Zemo or the Hydra soldiers.

This is a bit strange. Just now at the World Tree, there were hundreds of footprints on the ground with different sizes and shapes. That means Zemo has been leading a large army in action.

Su Ming turned around and went to find Heimdall in the medical room first.