greek gods in new york

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15 minute later.

Rocky took me to the DairyQueen in the next block, and each of them was holding a cup of ice cream and sitting at the horizontal table in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows.

After the sun outside the window gradually set into the tall buildings in the distance, the sky was dyed a dim yellow.It happened to be the time to get off work, and there were people coming and going on the street.

New York is always so crowded, everyone is in a hurry, and there is a lot of people around.Even the DQ store has a long queue.

The lively scene quickly dilutes the fear just now.

Shocked, I poured out a big spoonful of Oreo Blizzard: "God, divine power can repel 'that thing'?"

There were so many people in the shop, and there was music, I talked shoulder to shoulder with Rocky, and no one else could hear me.

Loki held his own blizzard, triumphantly: "Want to learn? I'll teach you."

Me: "...I don't have supernatural power."

Loki: "I don't have supernatural power either, so it's all borrowed, and I'll just lend it to you."

After speaking, he beckoned to me: "Come on, try, stretch out your hand."

I offer him a hand.

Since Loki found out that I don't like to hook my shoulders casually, unless the situation is as urgent as just now, he will not make physical contact with me easily.

It's the same this time.

Seeing that I had no resistance, Loki gently held my wrist.

The moment the skins came into contact, that inexplicable force emerged again.

It is difficult to describe in words what kind of power "divine power" is - it will not be as windless and automatic as magic in film and television dramas, and there will be no weird special effects.

There is no wind, no fog, and no colorful light pollution.

But I can feel that the power that Rocky used to throw the female student away last time was transmitted from his fingertips to my wrist.

Then Rocky held my hand and sent it to an Oreo Blizzard paper cup.

He let go of his hand: "Try it."

me?"

Loki: "Let it fly."

I stared inexplicably at the ice cream cup in front of me.

Fly, how to fly, you can move your fingers——Wow! !

Halfway through my thoughts, the paper cup moved out of thin air, and without any contact, it was slightly lifted two or three centimeters.

Not for a moment, but I saw it with my own eyes!

The paper cup moved.

Under the action of divine power, it moved by itself!

"This, this, this," I widened my eyes, "I did it?"

"Isn't that nice."

Rocky was very satisfied: "Not everyone can come up and respond immediately, you are quite talented."

I turned my head abruptly.

"Then, then I can use divine power," I said nervously, "doesn't it prove that..."

"Oh."

Loki understood me immediately.

He propped his chin with one hand, stirred his own ice cream with the other, and replied lazily: "Even if you lend a dog his divine power, the dog can use it."

I:"……"

As for being so ugly!

The hope that had just been kindled in my heart disappeared in an instant.

"You care about what Apollo said?" Loki asked.

"Ok?"

"It's the rhetoric of being a god or a man."

"..."

Among other things, Loki is really observant.

The reason why I am so excited is indeed related to what Apollo said.

Becoming a god is too far away from me, I'm just afraid...

"Not at all." I looked at the passers-by outside the window, and breathed a long sigh of relief, "It's just that I was thinking, if I were an ordinary person, whether I was born or not, whether I could go to Harvard, or whether I could find the answer to the Lazarus Project , wouldn't it make sense?"

I don't believe that if I were an ordinary person, what else could I do to "fight against foreign gods".

Otherwise, Zeus can just pull someone from the street, why bother looking for me.

"How can it be meaningless."

Rocky held a different view: "If you get the admission letter from Harvard University, even if you don't become a bigwig in the industry, you don't have to worry about work and food and clothing. Isn't it good?"

That's not what I'm talking about!

The words Fernando uttered with a smile still haunt me.

"My dad...Fernando..."

I reluctantly explained: "If you don't do anything, sooner or later, the old god will disappear, right?"

Rocky smiled.

His laughter puzzled me, but there was no irony in Loki's smile.

"Nicole."

The Nordic God of Lies still has that affectionate, unrestrained appearance.

"Humans are mortal, so what if gods are mortal? Do you really believe Zeus's rhetoric—to restore the glory of the old gods? If you think about it carefully, don't you think there are many loopholes? If all the old gods regain their power, In New York, there are three gods of heaven, two gods of thunder and lightning, five or six gods of beauty, cupids, and even the god of fertility, so it's not a mess!"

It is true.

Moreover, the times have changed, and even if some gods recover their divine power, it may not be of practical use.

For example, my dad.

He is the god of war, but in Greek mythology, Ares is basically a villain BOSS.The so-called "God of War" also represents unjust and brutal wars.

You said what can he do with his divine power after he regains his divine power?Never start a world war.

I still hope that my dad can recover his sanity rather than recovering his divine power.

If possible, I also hope that Fernando will not age like ordinary people.

but--

I come back to reality from my own thoughts.

Loki kept looking at me, his head propped up and tilted, his long black hair half covering his sculpturally handsome face.There was a faint smile in the dark blue eyes, which seemed to be teasing or encouraging, as if in this world, in this New York with people coming and going, I was the only one worthy of his full attention.

...Damn it, with Aragorn's face, it's really a foul!

"What about you?" I asked.

"what?"

"You don't care about the power of the gods, nor the glory of the old gods," I said, "Then Loki, what do you want after all your busy schedule?"

Loki blinked his blue eyes.

"I injected the power of the video game god into the cotton doll, and you can use it now," he said. "The next time you encounter 'the thing,' try to block it like an ice cream cup."

OK, change the subject.

The god of deception has a million ways to evade a response, but Loki doesn't even bother me.

"The divine power is lent to us by the video game god, so every time he uses it, he will be aware of it. Using his divine power to deal with 'that thing' is also convenient for the video game god to collect data.

"So don't be afraid, Nicole. Even if 'that thing' appears, it won't continue to expose itself in this way. If it happens a few more times, it is estimated that New God can make a model of his underwear.

"He is also afraid, otherwise he wouldn't have kept a low profile for so many years, and still engaged in infiltration. It's an outdated trick. You keep the cotton doll, just in case."

Collecting data, I sigh in my heart, is quite high-tech.

"How about it, does it sound very fashionable? The existence of the new gods is different from that of the old gods. They are so high-tech."

"That has nothing to do with you."

I couldn't help complaining: Looking at this appearance, those who didn't know thought Loki was boasting.

"My friend can make a big difference, and it's normal for me to be happy—ah."

Halfway through the conversation, Loki's cell phone rang.

He took it out and glanced at it quickly, and then his proud eyes suddenly lit up.

"Come, come, come."

Loki was elated: "Didn't it be agreed a long time ago that I would let you meet the god of video games? He is here!"

The god of video games is coming? !

I straightened my back suddenly.

I have heard that Loki has a new god on the left and a new god on the right. I have been curious about them for a long time!

Especially the video game god.

First of all, my good friend Meryl is a game geek, and I just accompanied her to watch the live broadcast of the E3 game exhibition for three days.

Secondly, I heard Loki usually brag that he has a good relationship with this new god.

I'm also curious to see what the new God will be like!

The god of video games, should be very fashionable, right?

"where?"

"Ah, it's just outside."

Loki pointed out the window: "Did you see it? He said he couldn't come in, and he still had a schedule, but he just happened to pass by."

I looked around blankly.

The ice cream store was full of people, and there were five or six passers-by who stopped and waited.

I didn't see any cool people with cyberpunk style or Japanese samurai style.

"Where? Where?"

I was at a loss.

"That's the one!"

Loki also waved his hand: "Did you see it?"

I looked in the direction of his waving, and on the opposite side of the intersection, there was also someone waving at Loki.

It's...a middle-aged man.

Neither is it like a game otaku, nor is it as fashionable as a game character.He looked like an average Asian middle-aged man, wearing sunglasses and a neat leather jacket.

Me: "Ah... no way."

Loki: "Waving your hands, did you see that?"

He is really a middle-aged man!

Not the same as I thought?

The "God of Video Games" on the opposite side waved his hand, then smiled, turned and left.

He looked no different from the citizens coming and going on the streets of New York. After passing through the intersection, he disappeared into the crowd.

"Just, that's it?"

I felt very complicated: "Shouldn't the god of video games be a young man?"

Rocky raised his eyebrows: "Video games are not a recent product."

It must be counted from the birth, and it is indeed barely half a century.

but……

"He's so ordinary."

I picked up the spoon again, either surprised or disappointed.

"I thought I'd see some cool young lady."

Just, aren't the characters in the game all exaggerated and cool?

I took another scoop of ice cream and brought it to my mouth: "I didn't expect the god of video games to look like an ordinary Japanese...just a little familiar."

He glanced at it from a distance, but couldn't tell where he had seen it before.

"look familiar?"

Loki froze for a moment, then slapped his forehead: "Oh!"

He added as if he just remembered.

"The god of video games also has a human identity," Loki said, "The human name is Hideo Kojima."

I squirted out the ice cream.