# 1296
Chapter 1297: Have a Chance of Winning
"Who?"
Lin Qiye quickly put away the walkie-talkie and spoke in a low voice.
"The girl who was with you during the day."
"Xiaonan?"
Lin Qiye said in surprise, "Are you sure it's her? Not someone else in disguise?"
"It's her. I remember her aura."
"Alright."
Si Xiaonan's sudden visit caught Lin Qiye off guard. After all, his residence was right next to Thor's temple, and the chance of being discovered was high.
While Lin Qiye was deep in thought, a small paper ball suddenly flew in from the window and landed at his feet.
"She's left." After a moment of sensing, Number 27 said.
Lin Qiye bent down to pick up the note and unfolded it in his palm. A series of intermittent dots and lines came into view.
"Morse code..." Lin Qiye raised an eyebrow.
At the training camp, they had received training in various special skills, and Morse code was one of the important courses. After all, while those foreign gods could understand exchanges in Chinese, meaningless symbols like dots and lines were beyond their comprehension.
Decoding this cipher was no difficulty for Lin Qiye.
Soon, he translated the message on the paper: "West side of Miracle Square, at the stone monument."
Si Xiaonan also realized the danger here, so she took the initiative to ask Lin Qiye to leave the area near the temple. Looking at this, she really did have something important to say.
Lin Qiye absorbed Number 27 into his lungs, pushed the door open quickly, and walked toward the empty square under the cover of night.
The night was about to end. A thin mist hung over the deserted streets. Lin Qiye's gaze swept across the dim square and finally caught sight of the stone monument Si Xiaonan had mentioned, at the western edge.
This monument was about a hundred meters tall. Its surface was inscribed with crimson strokes of obscure Norse script. Lin Qiye glanced at it briefly. It seemed to extol some ancient hero who had slain a dragon. He wielded an ordinary sword from the mortal realm, fought the dragon with courage and wisdom, and ultimately killed the dragon. He himself died from exhaustion, becoming the most ancient hero revered by humans.
Lin Qiye had no interest in such a cliché hero story. He walked to one side of the monument and sat down slowly. The cool morning breeze brushed across the empty square, and the entire world fell into deathly silence.
"Xiaonan?" he called out softly.
"Mm." Si Xiaonan's voice drifted out from the shadows on the other side of the monument.
"What's wrong?"
"I saw the message left by Leng Xuan... your brothers are here."
Lin Qiye froze. Images of Baili Pangpang and the others flashed through his mind. "They're here? How did they find this place? Where are they?"
"I'm not sure how they made their way here, but they're currently with the Oath Society members in the 'Human Enclosure.' Loki sealed off the passage between the 'Human Enclosure' and Asgard. They can't come up, and now they're with Leng Xuan."
Hearing this, Lin Qiye felt somewhat relieved.
The situation in Asgard was too dangerous right now. If they had come up, they would have been in mortal danger. But if they stayed with the Oath Society members in the "Human Enclosure," they should be much safer.
"How are things on your end? Have you contacted Great Xia?" Si Xiaonan asked.
"...No. Something's not right." Lin Qiye's voice was grave. "I've been calling Great Xia all night with the walkie-talkie Jinian left me, but there's been no response... Something might have happened to them."
On the other side of the monument, Si Xiaonan was silent for a long time before she spoke slowly:
"I've just received news as well. Hel, the Queen of the Underworld, suddenly lost track of the twelve city-destroying mountain corpses she had nurtured in the underworld, ones that rival Chief Gods... If I had to guess, they must have headed toward Great Xia."
Lin Qiye's mind immediately flashed back to the scene in the underworld when those twelve terrifying giants had torn the blind god Hodr to pieces. His heart shuddered!
Those twelve city-destroying mountain corpses were actually Loki's weapon against Great Xia?
Twelve city-destroying mountain corpses, twelve war fortresses... Damn! He should have realized it earlier! Creatures that large, if used merely for divine battles, would be too clumsy. But if deployed to siege cities, they would be unstoppable weapons!
Lin Qiye's fists clenched involuntarily.
"Are you saying that Loki had long anticipated that the gods of Great Xia would make a move on the day he surged toward the Supreme? So he directly created twelve city-destroying mountain corpses, using offense as defense?" Lin Qiye frowned. "No wonder he made such a grand show of announcing it days in advance. He had it all calculated?"
"Those mountain corpses, though not weak, couldn't possibly tie down Great Xia by themselves... He must have other backup plans." Si Xiaonan said gravely.
Only now did Lin Qiye understand why Loki had made such a fanfare about announcing his surge toward the Supreme tomorrow. His purpose wasn't to guard against Thor and the others... From the very beginning, what he had been guarding against was Great Xia!
If he hadn't announced the timing of his surge toward the Supreme, no one could have predicted when Great Xia would strike Asgard. But by taking the initiative to release the information, he could to some extent foresee Great Xia's movements. As long as he could stall the Great Xia gods on the day of his surge toward the Supreme, he could safely ascend to the Supreme on that day.
As for whether the Great Xia gods would counterattack afterward... Since he would have already become the Supreme God and taken control of all Asgard, occupying a favorable position, he simply wasn't afraid of a surprise attack from the Great Xia Heavenly Court!
The facts proved that everything had gone exactly as Loki had anticipated.
Now that Great Xia was in trouble, it couldn't respond to Lin Qiye's calls. All the plans had been thrown into disarray.
"Without reinforcements from Great Xia, now... we're completely isolated." Lin Qiye gave a bitter smile. "How could the two of us possibly topple all of Asgard?"
The cold wind swept across the empty square. At the end of the distant horizon, a pale white glow slowly rose. The faint light stretched across Asgard's skyline, extending the monument's shadow far into the distance...
The dawn light tore through the dreary sky. Two solitary figures sat on either side of the shadows, wordless.
Si Xiaonan's hands, resting on her knees, slowly curled into fists. She took a deep breath and rose from the edge of the monument.
She turned to look at the dawn on the horizon. In her dim eyes, a resolute light emerged:
"Qiyè, don't act tomorrow. Just stay aside and watch quietly... Even if we can't topple Asgard, as long as Loki is killed, Great Xia won't lose out!"
"You're going to kill Loki yourself?" Lin Qiye quickly shook his head. "He's the God of Mischief. You've seen his methods. You haven't even ascended to godhood... This has almost no chance of success."
"...I do."
"What?"
Si Xiaonan's lips pressed together slightly. Covered in wounds all over her body, her eyes shone brighter than the rising sun of dawn:
"I do!
I have a chance!
Qiyè, do you know? The moment I betrayed the Night Watch and left Great Xia, I should have died! The only reason I'm still alive, why I've been serving Loki all these years, doing his dirty work, making so many preparations in secret... was for this day!
No one in this world knows Loki better than I do!
If we're talking about who, below the Supreme, has the best chance of killing Loki—it wouldn't be Thor, it wouldn't be the assassin god inside you, nor any other powerful Chief God...
It can only be me!
The only thing that can truly kill 'Mischief'... is 'Mischief'!"