Peter and his companions took the underground shuttle and arrived at the Nord Building underground, as mentioned by Spider-Man 2099.
In a dark basement, Spider-Man 2099 pointed upwards and said, "The female Loki you're looking for should be here, but we can't leave the underground right now, because we don't have identification..."
"Now, the security bots flying in the streets are owned by companies, and they will indiscriminately eliminate any individuals without identification, except in areas occupied by freedom-fighters, we can't show our faces anywhere."
After saying that, he turned his gaze to Loki, seemingly curious to see how he would fool the Identity Recognition System. Loki, however, appeared confident, his eyes shining faintly in the dark room.
He looked up, peering through the thick walls, his gaze meandering through the upper echelons of society. Soon, his eyes settled on and locked onto a target.
He extended a hand, and the glowing wisps from his hand drifted out, slowly forming the silhouette of a person.
Spider-Man 2099 narrowed his eyes, and when the figure took form, he exclaimed in surprise: "Isn't this Fatty Billkin? He's a notorious rogue around here, how did you bring him..."
"It's not him, it's his clone." After Loki withdrew his hand, the figure in front of him looked as if alive. Or rather it was alive, and upon spotting Spider-Man 2099, it nearly leaped with surprise.
Fatty Billkin yelled, "My God, Spider-Man, how did you get in here? Security! Security!!"
Spider-Man 2099 took a defensive stance, but Loki walked straight up to Billkin, placing his hand on his forehead. Billkin became dazed, and after a moment, his eyes regained their vitality.
Looking at Spider-Man 2099, he said, "Alright, you want to get in, right? I can help you get the elevator access, but, I can only go up to the 10th floor."
"No problem, Miracle Lady wouldn't be above the 10th floor." As Spider-Man 2099 spoke, he turned to look at Loki, seemingly mystified.
"The clone is identical to the original. What the original has, the clone also has. At the same time, the clone shares the consciousness of the original but can be controlled by me. It's the perfect locksmith..."
After finishing up, Loki followed Billkin to the door, but Spider-Man 2099 stopped him, looking into Loki's eyes, "Are you planning to take your daughter with you?"
"She's not the average human, you don't need to worry about her getting hurt." Loki explained, but Spider-Man 2099 made no move to step aside.
"If we encounter other people in the corridor, to avoid revealing our identities, we will have to use violence. Even if your daughter is from the God Clan and won't get hurt so easily, are you sure you want her to witness such a scene? It's not good for a child..."
"I'm fine!" Helen yelled, "I can go with you guys; I can help you fight; I'm pretty good..."
Spider-Man 2099 furrowed his brow deeply, he turned a wary gaze towards Loki, "Are you certain this is your daughter? You haven't been getting her involved in such matters all this time, have you?"
He took two steps forward until he stood face-to-face with Loki, "Any responsible parent would never willingly involve their child, especially one so young, in violent disputes. A father's duty is to protect his child, you need to find her a safe place..."
"What can I do if she wants to come with me?" Loki shrugged and added, "Besides, I think she's quite happy, she shows no signs of fear."
"You are completely irresponsible..." Spider-Man 2099 looked him over before uttering this, "Even a ferocious beast spares its young. Even if you are an evil god, you shouldn't be so irresponsible to your biological daughter."
Loki set Helen down, holding her hand he said to Spider-Man 2099, "The gods of Asgard are not as weak as you think. This is not dangerous for Helen at all. Besides, she is a princess of Asgard and needs to experience a significant amount of adversity."
"Her father is not you, you don't have to interfere with our business..."
Spider-Man 2099 kept his expression in check before stepping back and saying, "Perhaps, you're smart enough, that your reasoning has you convinced that this is the right thing to do."
"But one day, you will regret it, as love will rob you of all your reasoning."
Loki stared at him, refusing to be moved.
After a moment, Spider-Man 2099 reluctantly made way, and Loki, holding Helen's hand, left the basement.
With the help of Fatty Billkin, the group arrived on the 9th floor smoothly. Fortunately, they managed to avoid the passersby and found Marvel Lady, as mentioned by Spider-Man 2099, in a room at the end of the 9th-floor corridor.
Standing in front of the large window of the Nord Building was a slender figure. Upon hearing a noise at the door, she turned around, then froze on the spot.
She didn't resemble Loki, and her hair was blonde. Her age seemed older than the Goddess of Glory Loki had turned into; if anything had to be said, her demeanor was more reminiscent of Helen's.
The two Spider-Mans did not follow Loki into the room. Loki, carrying Helen, entered the spacious office hall. The woman at the window was about to speak when Loki interrupted her, "Hello, Miss Sylvie, I am Loki."
The woman, Sylvie, narrowed her eyes at the window and looked at Loki before asking, "Time Management Bureau?"
Loki nodded, "As I suspected, you've had a long adventure in the timeline and are no longer the little girl you once were."
"What are you here for?" Sylvie swept her hair behind her ear, her gaze on Loki was somewhat wary as she asked.
"I need your help. The Time Management Bureau is in some trouble, those who once let you go, because of your departure, may be troubled by the mysterious director..."
Sylvie furrowed her brow deeply, but then, she showed a somewhat annoyed expression, and opened her mouth to say, "What does that have to do with me?"
"Aren't you going to save them?" Loki asked: "After all, they did save you."
"Saved me?" A hint of mockery appeared in Sylvie's tone: "How did they save me? They gave me a time controller and told me to roll as far as I could. Is that what you call saving me?"
"The Director of the Time Management Bureau planned to interrogate you, and if they didn't send you away, can you guess what state you'd be in now?" Loki said, quirking an eyebrow.
Sylvie turned away her eyes and looked at the view outside the glass window, she said, "I guess, you should be one of the Lokis who were captured. Every Loki is good at meddling with timelines, the most notorious habitual offenders…"
"You must have resisted as well, like a madman, crying and making a fuss, trying to escape, but only to be played by them, as pathetic as a complete failure." A chill could be heard in Sylvie's voice.
"But you are a failure." Sylvie raised her voice: "Why don't you think, where could you go if the Time Management Bureau hadn't caught you?"
She suddenly turned her head and glared into Loki's eyes: "Stay in Asgard? The place that doesn't welcome you and will never be your home?"
"And now you come to me, to ask me to help you, to go back to those idiots?"
Loki stared into Sylvie's eyes: "It seems, the story is more complicated than I thought. Have you never gone back to your home in all these years?"
"My home? I have no home." Sylvie also looked into Loki's eyes and said, "I have no parents, no siblings…"
She lowered her head slightly and began to pace in front of Loki: "I am different from you bunch of losers. I won't cry or scream, wanting to go back to that revolting place to flatter those idiots!"
"What are you thinking?" Sylvie looked into Loki's eyes again: "There are many things you don't know."
"Ha, the day before the people of the Time Management Bureau found me, I found out that everything where I lived somehow didn't belong to me."
"I won't inherit anything here. From the beginning to the end, I've always been just an outsider, without a throne, without a status, and will never get respect like everyone else …"
There was a cold glow in Sylvie's eyes, she slowly said: "I was also once Loki, and each Loki has experienced his darkest day. Just think about it, how did you get through that day…"
"Were you really as magnanimous as you appeared? Was it really as if nothing had happened? Have you never thought of escaping and abandoning?"
Accompanied by Sylvie's deep voice, vague images appeared in Loki's eyes. There was a sunset in Asgard, where he and a young Thor sprinted into the palace bedroom together.
They played all day, so tired they could sleep where they fell, when their powerful father and loving mother found them. But unlike before, they didn't bring news of Asgard's victory.
Or to put it another way, it was good news for Thor. For Loki, however, it was the one day he could never forget, his darkest day.
Because Odin told him that Thor would inherit the throne, not Loki, and it would never be Loki.
From then on, he had nothing.
The grand scenery he used to see, the battle cries he heard, the wind he touched, and every leaf that floated in front of his eyes, would no longer belong to him, never again.
From then on, the other three formed a happy family, and behind that family, there was always a lonely ghost, wandering outside the family's happiness and the bustling people, never to be reincarnated.
Loki remembered that many years had passed since anyone mentioned this to him again. Perhaps, except for him, no one remembers it.
To others, it was not a matter at all, just a light sentence. But Loki knew that the day he was abandoned was a scar he could never forget and could never heal.
Helen, holding Loki's hand, suddenly looked up. She felt a tremor in Loki's fingertips, so she gently called out, "Dad!"
However, Sylvie, standing in front of Loki, narrowed her pupils. She immediately looked at Helen with her burning eyes. After seeing her face, which was very similar to Loki's, she gazed at Helen and asked, "Are you his daughter?"
Helen raised her face to look at Sylvie and firmly nodded her head.
Sylvie showed a mocking smile and said to her, "Then watch and see what kind of failure your father is, like a stray dog thrown out..."
The next second, a scream echoed in the spacious office, slowly pulling Loki's thoughts back.
He turned his head and saw Helen biting Sylvie's arm.
And in the next two minutes, she bit her over six hundred times.