Although Skull Island is nominally an island, its area is much larger than that of ordinary islands.

According to Merlin's estimate, it takes at least 7-10 days to walk around the island at a normal speed. Moreover, the island has various terrain, including forests, hills, swamps, mountains, etc.

Such a diverse terrain and the closed ecosystem have led to the birth of many creatures that cannot exist outside the Skull Island.

kong is just one of the miracles of the birth of Skull Island.

A white tiger is walking lazily by the river. It looks similar to an ordinary tiger, but it is 3 laps larger than an ordinary tiger, with a height of 4-5 meters, and a length with a tail of at least 12 meters. It is estimated that the weight of this giant should be close to 5 tons.

But it walked almost silently, like a silent hunter, whose yellow beast eyes looked around, as if it was patrolling its own territory.

"Click"

Accompanied by an inaudible slight sound, the plum forest hiding in the tree got a photo of a white tiger drinking water.

He recorded the data of the terrifying hunter in his notebook, which was also part of the assessment of Skull Island. At Merlin, there was also a note from Dr. Serizawa, which he took over when he left one day ago.

In this note on Skull Island, Dr. Serizawa recorded in detail the habits of many creatures on this island.

For example, the surprisingly large white tiger in front of me is called the "Holy Tiger" in the doctor's notes.

It is said that in the legend of the indigenous people of Skull Island, this kind of tiger is the "elves in the wind". It comes and goes silently and is as fast as lightning, like a killing elves wrapped in the wind.

There are not many such holy tigers, which is normal.

The tigers are all lonely creatures. With the area of ​​Skull Island, there are no more than 30 holy tigers at most. They have their own hunting grounds and occupy the third column in the food chain of Skull Island.

Kong is undoubtedly the creature at the top of the food chain, and then there are numerous skeleton lizards hidden underground, followed by alienated beasts such as the Holy Tiger and the Mother Spider.

The island's food chain is weird and complete.

It is precisely this that the island can reproduce for more than 100,000 years without the external ecology.

Merlin wrote his conclusions in his notes, then glanced at the holy tiger lying on the reef beside the river, basking in the sun. He turned around, carried his bag, and turned into smoke and left the place.

Merlin didn't have much time to explore freely, so he could only search the entire island quickly, record the approximate terrain and biological division rules as the first valuable research data for Skull Island within S.H.E.L.D.

Meilin went up the steep peaks. He showed his figure at the top of the peak, and then looked at the terrain of Skull Island. The four different terrain areas in the southernmost part have been almost explored, and it is time to go back.

Just as Meilin was planning the exploration route, a vibration from the canyon not far away made Meilin turn around.

In the super vision given by spiritual vision, Merlin easily discovered a behemoth moving in the lake water of the canyon.

That is the mysterious kong!

Meilin immediately became interested.

For more than a day, he had been trying to search for kong's traces, but the orangutan was obviously very good at hiding himself. Its nest must be in a secret place among the mountains. Even for an outstanding explorer like Merlin, it would take some time to find it.

The plum forest turned into smoke and spread towards the canyon. He carefully hid himself between the valleys to avoid being discovered by kong with extremely keen perception.

He looked down in the air. The gorilla was standing in the lake, constantly holding up the lake with his hands, as if cleaning his body.

"Well, I'm still a clean orangutan."

Merlin commented.

He was like an invisible voyeur, hiding in the air and watching the king of Skull Island bathing.

But to be honest, it's boring to see a gorilla taking a bath

Merlin re-estimated Kong's height and wingspan. He took photos of the juvenile Titan from various directions. In the past ten minutes, Kong flexibly caught several strange big fish from the lake water, and threw the fish on the shore with a wave of his hand.

This should also be predation.

"Just as Serizawa recorded, he prefers to eat fish, and maybe some foods like wild fruits."

Merlin took this information in detail. After a few minutes, Merlin frowned and looked at the other end of the lake. He could feel that underwater, a large creature was approaching Kong, as if he was treating it as his prey.

This immediately made Merlin interested.

On Skull Island, kong has almost no natural enemies. What exactly is this creature hidden in the water? It has such a big appetite?

He looked back at Kong. The orangutan who was addicted to cleaning the fur seemed not to realize the danger. It even put its fingers into the water and played with water for fun.

But this is just a manifestation.

Merlin could see that Kong's legs were straightened in the water and his ears were moving, which meant that the cunning orangutan was ready to hunt.

It pretended to be without any gap, luring creatures at the bottom of the water to get close to it!

"Crash"

Two blood-red tentacles covered with suction cups were flexibly wrapped around Kong's legs from the bottom of the water, like poisonous snakes foraging. The huge force coming from underwater caused Kong to stagger.

Two tentacles stabbed out of the water like swords, wrapped tightly around Kong's arms, and pulled it crazy to the bottom of the water.

Until then, Merlin finally saw clearly the ambush.

It was a strange bright red octopus, very much like a king squid, but its size was even larger than the largest aquatic creature in human cognition.

Including the tentacles, it is almost no smaller than kong.

Just in terms of body shape, these two are creatures of the same level, but kong is still in the growth stage. After maturity is completed, this octopus under the water will definitely not be a match for kong.

Even now, facing the juvenile stage, the octopus at the bottom of the water is very difficult to beat.

Kong, who was prepared for a long time, was like a tug of war with the octopus at the bottom of the water. It grabbed the tentacles wrapped around its arms with both hands, and its huge body leaned forward. As the roars echoed through the canyon, the octopus that wanted to pull Kong into the water was almost pulled out of the water by Kong with brute force.

This scene is very similar to the scene where the gods fight against the sea monster Kraken in Nordic mythology, and it is so thrilling.

The agile orangutan, stretched out his hand and turned around in the water. It touched a sharp stone from the water, roared and smashed it down at the octopus under the water.

It's like orangutans breaking nuts with stones.

One, two

The blood splashed in the lake and the water made Meilin feel cold when he saw it.

He knew that this reckless octopus was dead.

Kong quickly tore the octopus' body apart. It untied the weak tentacles from its arms and savagely tore off a piece, just like a Korean eating squid. It put the bright red tentacles into its mouth and chewed them a few times. A hint of enjoyment appeared on the anthropomorphic face.

It seems like the foodie is enjoying the delicious food.

Kong dragged his trophy and threw the huge, already lost life octopus on the beach. The orangutan walked into the woods by the lake, picked a tough tree, uprooted it, and then stroked his fingers to break all the branches of the trees.

It skewed the octopus one by one on the trunk, and then skewed the fish it had caught before at the other end of the trunk, then carried the tough trunk and walked through the lake, and soon disappeared among the mountains.

Merlin showed off on the beach. He held a test tube and collected some of the blood and scattered flesh and blood tissue on the beach.

He quickly dispersed his body and followed Kong far away in a smokey posture, trying to find Kong's nest.

But as the follower kong crossed the mountains, Merlin was soon attracted by something else.

He gave up tracking kong and landed towards a valley north of the island.

The valley was secret and was blocked by some strange mist. Meilin stood at the entrance of the valley and felt that the temperature in the valley was very high, and the smoke in front of him seemed to be poisonous.

He stretched out his fingers and pointed a point on the pendant hanging around his neck, and Carol's mask quickly covered Merlin's mouth and nose.

He transformed into smoke and merged into the foggy valley before him little by little. After a few minutes, Merlin discovered something surprising.

Two skeletons.

The huge kong-like bones are scattered in this valley. The bones are probably intact, but there are obvious signs of biting on these invisible bones.

Merlin found some disgusting food residues between the bones.

This proves that there are other creatures in this valley.

Moreover, Merlin found that under these two skeletons, there were several channels filled with poisonous gases, which were black. Even with a strong light flashlight, the bottom of the crypt could not be seen.

Merlin stretched out his hand and touched the soil leading to the cave underground. The guesses that Dr. Serizawa said to him on the road suddenly appeared in his mind.

"The existence of Titans shows that the earth's hollow theory is correct. In the world, there must be a channel to the hollow world of the mantle layer. The hurricane that has been scattered all year round in Skull Island is also the island formed by strong air flow, which is likely to have a channel to the underground world."

"so"

Meilin narrowed her eyes and looked at the deep passage in front of her, and he said:

“Is this the door to a new world?”

"It's really chilling, and the places where mules are buried are more particular than here."

He shook his head, but the next moment, Merlin jumped into the tunnel.

For ordinary researchers, going deep into the tunnel that is nearly 70 degrees alone is simply seeking death. What's more, this place is located in the hinterland of Skull Island, and Kong with a strong sense of territory will not allow outsiders to go deep into this place.

But for Merlin, who possesses superpowers, he can find his way back no matter where this cave leads to.

He turned into smoke and went down the dark cave. The darkness could not block his gaze. Everything around him was secret in Merlin's eyes. After nearly 10 minutes of going down, Merlin fell into an empty underground cave.

He did not show his figure, but looked around vigilantly.

An indescribable odor filled the cave, and Merlin was no stranger to this odor.

This is the smell of those skeleton lizards, which shows that this is the place where the skeleton lizards live underground.

A burst of unheard and sharp roar came from deeper in the darkness, and Merlin followed the sound and advanced through the well-connected cave.

The temperature underground is a bit hot, just suitable for the ugly lizards to reproduce and prosper.

A few minutes later, Meilin came to the depths of the cave. He stood in a depression and looked down. In the cave below, several small skeleton lizards were biting the dead body of a dead bull demon. At the entrance of the cave, a huge skeleton lizard was lying on the ground in a strange posture to rest.

Its size is larger than the seven skeleton lizards killed by Kong and Merlin in the swamp, and its skin is not as gray-blue as other giant lizards.

The pattern on its body is darker, the claws used to support the body are larger, the bone plates used for defense on its face are thicker, and there are black bone plates and spurs on the tail behind it, which looks very oppressive.

This should be the leader of the skeleton lizard.

Merlin did not disturb this giant beast that was difficult to mess with. He recorded the living environment and characteristics of the giant beast and explored deeper into the cave.

There is a wider tunnel at the bottom of the cave. At the intersection of the cave and the tunnel, Merlin found many scattered bones. In fact, it was like a battlefield for wild animals, with torn bodies and scales everywhere.

The most important thing is that in this place filled with a strong smell of blood, not only the skeleton lizard scattered, but also many bones and torn bodies of other creatures.

Merlin squatted beside the giant skeletons. He touched the terrifying bite marks on the bones. The teeth marks on the bite marks were thicker than his fingers. In the dark, there were still fluorescence on these skeletons.

He could imagine what a fierce battle of monsters happened here.

Moreover, judging from the semi-weathered skeletons around, the war here obviously happened more than once. The skeleton lizards nesting above seemed to regularly fight with the giant beasts rushing out from deeper underground.

Merlin stood up, and he collected several pretty complete bone samples around him. He looked around and finally revealed another secret of the skeleton lizard.

These demon-like creatures are not just destroyers of the Skull Island food chain, but also an important part of it in the larger ecological system.

They survive and reproduce here. Although they will hunt on the surface, they also unexpectedly prevent underground organisms from invading the ground, just like a "biological wall" that separates the surface world from the underground world.

"Nature's magical craftsmanship."

Merlin sighed, he took out his camera and took a photo at the cave wrapped in skeletons in front of him that led to deeper underground. He recorded the pile of skeletons around him, and then recorded the location of the underground passage in his notebook.

Finally, he named the tunnel.
Chapter completed!