Shadow of the Beautiful World

The newly formed S.H.I.E.L.D. inherited the mission and responsibilities of its predecessor, the Strategic Science Corps.

It is not just a pure intelligence organization. Just like Fury recovered the dangerous green bell from Chicago in 1989, Merlin's organization also has the responsibility to contain, monitor and preserve dangerous items.

In this organization, there are many symbols that represent different meanings.

084 is one of them.

In the Strategic Science Corps system, 084 represents supernatural things that are dangerous and cannot be used or studied. Each item 084 will be kept in the best possible way.

The 084 item is also rare.

The original item No. 084 was a mysterious item that Ms. Carter personally confiscated from the government at the end of World War II. It is said that once that item comes into contact with any life, terrible things will happen.

In the decades from World War II to the present, the Strategic Science Corps has also collected many 084 items, such as the Green Bell in Chicago, which is item 89084-1, representing the first 084 item collected in 1989.

As for Merlin

His former codename in the Strategic Science Corps was 89084-2.

Of course, he himself didn't know about it until he joined S.H.I.E.L.D.

A day later, Merlin returned to the Emperor Organization's villa on the edge of Skull Island.

He came back secretly, deliberately bypassing the observers Mark and Emma of the Emperor Organization, and appeared in Dr. Serizawa's office with an abrupt gesture.

I've discovered something.

Merlin said, startling Dr. Serizawa who was sitting on a chair and writing rapidly. The Japanese biologist subconsciously held his heart and looked at Merlin with a terrified look.

Would you please knock on the door next time?

It took more than ten seconds for Dr. Serizawa to calm down and said to Merlin angrily:

I have a bad heart.

After speaking, he reached out and took the photo that Merlin handed over. The photos taken in the dark are not good, and Merlin is not a professional photographer, so the photos are blurry.

But when Dr. Serizawa saw the fluorescent skeletons in the photo, his eyes suddenly narrowed.

Where did you take this?

He asked with a serious face, and Merlin pointed to his feet, and he said:

About 200 meters deep from the ground, just under the lairs of those skeleton monitor lizards, there is a huge tunnel leading deeper underground. I didn't go down to investigate, but I think this should be what you have been looking for. Through The passage to the underground world, it's on Skull Island.

The lair of the skeleton monitor lizard?

Dr. Serizawa took off his glasses and stared at the photo in his hand. After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief, pointed to the fluorescence emitted by the bones in the photo, and said to Merlin:

See those dots of light?

Um.

Merlin nodded. He was also wondering why these bones shone brightly in the dark.

This is the trace left by long-term growth in a nuclear radiation environment. These bones are weakly radioactive, there is no doubt about it.

radioactivity?

Merlin's face changed slightly, this is not a good word.

don’t worry.

Dr. Serizawa probably saw Merlin's concern, he explained:

Without long-term contact, such radioactive bones will not have a bad impact on humans. In fact, the photos you brought back just support the emperor's organization's speculation about the living environment of ancient Titans.

Tell me, we still have some time.

Merlin looked at the watch on his wrist, and he said to Serizawa:

Tomorrow morning, I will leave Skull Island with Dauris. I don't want to disturb other people.

Um.

Serizawa Shiro nodded:

I didn't tell Vivian and the others your identities.

In other words, you have already made a decision?

Merlin looked at Serizawa, who nodded, shook his head again, and said seriously:

I want to meet with your boss first. If what you told me is indeed the future plan of your organization, then I think that maybe the Emperor Organization can try to cooperate with you.

Then, after 7 days, Fury will be waiting for you at the cafe at Bangkok Airport in Thailand.

Merlin pulled out the chair and sat opposite Dr. Serizawa.

He handed a specific address to the biology doctor in front of him, who put the note in his pocket.

Looking at the dark photo in front of him, he organized his words, then pointed to the fluorescent light in the photo, and explained to Merlin:

Just one day ago, the carbon-14 test of the volcanic rocks we took from Raton was completed. The rocks on Raton appeared much older than our prediction of hundreds of thousands of years. After Vivian After repeated discussions with Emma, ​​we believe that the rock should come from the Permian period.

To be precise, nearly 260 million years ago.

Are you kidding me?

Merlin's eyes widened, and he said:

You mean, Raton has been sealed in the volcano for nearly 260 million years? Such a large creature, spent 200 million years sleeping without eating or drinking? Doesn't it need supplementary nutrients?

If you've detected it at the right time, it should have died a long time ago.

Of course Raton needs to eat!

Dr. Serizawa shook his head, he emphasized his tone, and said in an excited tone that a researcher should have:

But the eating of the Titans is a different concept from what we imagined. Raton has been 'eating' during the 200 million years of dormancy, and this is what it eats!

While talking, his finger clicked on Merlin's photo.

The energy radiated from radioactive elements is the 'food' for Raton and other sleeping Titans!

I was still skeptical, but the photo you brought has proved everything! Including Godzilla, those Titans, they all rely on nuclear energy, or in other words, rely on atomic energy to survive!

That's the only possible explanation for the Titan's birth.

Dr. Serizawa emphasized his tone, and he said to Merlin:

You also know how huge Godzilla is. If it really relied on flesh and blood to meet the heat needs of such a huge body, then the creatures in the entire ocean are estimated to have become extinct tens of millions of years ago.

Dr. Serizawa moved her ten fingers:

I even have an even more astonishing guess, Raton, when the flame titan was self-sealed, its body might not have been so huge. At that time, it was probably an ordinary Permian giant creature, but at 200 million In the middle of the year, it continuously absorbs the atomic energy of radiation from the earth's inner world, causing its body to mutate and become extremely huge.

Merlin, this theory can perfectly explain how those ancient Titans survived the mass extinction of life in the Permian Period!

A gleam flashed in Dr. Serizawa's eyes, he took the globe on the table excitedly, pointed at the map, and explained to Merlin:

The hollow world in the mantle layer under our feet must have been formed at that time!

Research by geologists has shown that the crustal movement of the Permian period was very active 250 million years ago, and the constantly impacting plates made the rich atomic energy activities on the earth's surface at that time rapidly reduced, thus destroying the ecology and extinct the Permian period95 %s life.

But in the hollow world formed by crustal activity, there may still be an air and environment as rich in atomic energy as in the Permian

Shiro Serizawa waved the photo brought by Merlin, he said:

This is the evidence! Look at these radioactive bones! The creatures in the underground world must have grown up in an environment rich in atomic energy!

They are likely to be the descendants of the huge creatures that inhabited the Permian period. Their ancestors were sealed underground in various ways during the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the Permian period. Under, thus escaped the catastrophe in the mass extinction.

Those Titans, Godzilla, Rodon, they survived in that environment!

Under the radiation of atomic energy, they have evolved little by little over a long period of time. I guess they must have organs like atomic furnaces in their bodies, which can generate huge heat energy by themselves, which can explain why Raton was sealed 2 Billions of years and still alive.

Serizawa became more and more excited as he talked, he stood up and walked around the desk. Obviously, his mind is running fast, based on his outstanding research, and the photo sent by Merlin is the most important key to unlock the secret of the ancient Titan.

The secrets about the birth of those titans have been completely outlined in Dr. Serizawa's mind.

But Merlin still had problems. He knocked on the table and said to the excited doctor of biology in front of him:

But Raton was found at the surface. It probably didn't come from the hollow world below the mantle.

Dr. Serizawa took out the photo of Raton from the drawer. He looked at the terrified huge creature, and with a smile, he said to Merlin:

As for what Raton will appear on the surface, we might as well speculate boldly again.

Over a long period of time, the sleeping Raton was involved in the movement of the earth's crust, and was slowly pushed into the ground from the ground. Finally, by chance, we discovered it and so on! Wait! I see, Our previous guesses about Raton were wrong!

The doctor of biology put the photo of Raton on the table. He sat in the chair and thought for a few minutes before Merlin said:

It wasn't the volcano that made Rodon.

It was the heat continuously emitted from Raton's body that formed the active volcano on Mona Island!

Serizawa gritted his teeth and said:

Even if it is sleeping, it still has enough power to change the world. We underestimated Raton too much before

Okay, Doctor.

Merlin wasn't really a biologist, nor did he have much research into geology.

It took him several minutes to barely comprehend the conjectures that Dr. Serizawa said. He said to the pensive doctor in front of him:

I probably understand what you mean. Although I don't know if what you said is true or not, it sounds like it. But I have one last question.

Kong!

Merlin frowned, looked at Dr. Serizawa, and asked:

Kong's ethnic group, including its parents, have always lived on Skull Island. They are isolated from the world. Although there are tunnels leading underground on the island, I have seen with my own eyes that Kong needs food to survive. It is also one of the Titans you consider, but it does not have any atomic furnaces in its body that can generate their own heat.

Merlin's question disturbed Dr. Serizawa's thinking process, he raised his head and glanced at Merlin. Then the Japanese scholar asked a very sharp question.

Then Merlin, do you think this tunnel came about naturally?

Not like.

Merlin shook his head:

The appearance of this tunnel is too coincidental. I don't think the underground tunnel born naturally can lead directly to Skull Island.

Then if this tunnel was not born naturally, who do you think dug it?

Merlin froze.

Dr. Serizawa's question made him unable to answer.

But a guess has appeared in his mind.

You mean Kong's ancestors dug this passage? This also allowed those orangutans to migrate from the ground to the surface under the sun to survive?

Not necessarily what they dug out.

Dr. Serizawa looked at the picture of the tunnel and said:

It is very likely that the plate activity caused some changes in the underground world, forcing Kong's ancestors to leave there. It is very likely that they came to the surface through this passage, but that must have happened a long time ago. Maybe Thousands of years ago, maybe tens of thousands of years ago.

Kong still retains the huge body shape unique to Permian creatures, but because it escaped the radiation of atomic energy several generations ago, Kong did not continue to mutate like other Titans, which allowed Kong to maintain the body size of all Titans It is relatively small in size, but it is also because of this that Kong's wisdom has been greatly developed.

The leader of the imperial organization, an outstanding Ph.D. in biology, drew the final conclusion with the rigorous attitude unique to the Japanese.

He said:

Kong, like us, is a miraculous creature bred in the world of this era. And those titans come from a more distant past

He looked at Merlin with burning eyes, and said:

You know what that means, Merlin.

Facing Dr. Serizawa's inquiry, Merlin was silent for a moment, then said softly:

this means

We and Kong are natural friends.

Yes! This is it!

Serizawa Shiro put on his glasses again, and he said to Merlin:

The research focus of the Emperor Organization needs to be changed. We will continue to track the ancient Titans, but we need to be more cautious about Kong's affairs. I can allow third-party forces to intervene in the affairs of the Emperor Organization, but only Kong, no!

After you go back, please relay this to your superior. If he is really as smart as you said, then I believe he will understand.