There were twenty Titan beasts. After subtracting Godzilla and Kong, who had already joined his forces, and Leviathan, who had already kicked the bucket, seventeen remained.
Hao Shuai planned to visit them one by one, following the order in which Monarch had discovered them, and have a friendly discussion with each about joining his Peace Organization.
So Hao Shuai had Godzilla and the others wait at their base in Hollow Earth, ready to move out at a moment's notice, while he returned to Monarch headquarters to retrieve the files on the Titan beasts.
As soon as Hao Shuai returned to Monarch, he found that everyone was still talking about the mysterious Superman's earlier battle against Godzilla.
Hao Shuai paid it no mind. He went straight to Dr. Serizawa, got all the files on the Titan beasts, and began studying them carefully.
After reviewing the files and comparing them with the information from the movies, Hao Shuai realized that Monarch had discovered only twelve Titan beasts so far. Eight others—including Sekhmet in Cairo, Egypt; Baphomet in Morocco; and Mokele-Mbembe in Sudan, Africa—had yet to be found.
Of course, there might have been more than twenty Titan beasts in the surface world. They had simply hidden themselves too well and hadn't responded to Ghidorah's call, so Monarch had never tracked them down.
Hao Shuai wasn't concerned about the ones that hadn't been found. For now, he would focus on the nine discovered beasts.
Before setting off, however, Hao Shuai sought out Dr. Serizawa and gave him the locations of the eight undiscovered beasts, including Ghidorah, telling him to organize a team and confirm their positions as soon as possible.
After all, Monarch were the experts at finding monsters. Hao Shuai couldn't be bothered to search for them one by one.
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