MonsterVerse

The two walked down the hillside as quickly as possible, keeping a distance and following the characters at a leisurely pace.

"Jason, are you planning to keep your face covered forever?" Ying Yingying asked.

"What's wrong? Is something the problem?"

"Of course that's not appropriate. Your look makes you look like a boss making his entrance. When the characters in the story see you, they'll either shoot you or run away while shooting." Ying Yingying clapped her hands and urged Russell to take off his hood.

"Hmph, don't worry about it, I have my own way!"

After a long silence, Ying Yingying spoke again, "To be honest, the plot is a bit bad this time. The appearance of that group of people ahead indicates that this Skull Island is very dangerous."

"What are you saying? Is there Skull Island that isn't dangerous?" Russell asked curiously.

"Of course, you remember the Velociraptors from before, right? There was a monster movie from a few years ago about Skull Island, and Velociraptors appeared in it. The Kong in the movie was no more than eight meters tall, and the Tyrannosaurus Rex was also the same size as the real one."

Russell nodded and concluded, "To masturbate on the Empire State Building for the woman you love, that's a real man!"

Ying Yingying rolled her eyes and continued, "But things are different now. Kong's height has increased to over 30 meters, and its mortal enemy has changed from Tyrannosaurus Rex to Skull Crawler, which is also quite large."

"Are you worried that the main god will control the plot and cause a swarm of Skull Crawler to emerge from underground?" Russell frowned. This was indeed a hidden danger. One or two Skull Crawler were not a threat, but if the plot went out of control and hundreds of them suddenly appeared... just thinking about it made his scalp tingle.

"That's not what I'm worried about. You're Reincarnator, yet you didn't realize what a 30-meter Kong means. It seems your preparations haven't been thorough enough." Ying Yingying sighed and continued, "According to the setting of Skull Island, 30 meters is not Kong's limit. It's still in its growth stage. If we expand the story's background, it can lead to the MonsterVerse universes."

"MonsterVerse!?" Russell had been studying the Marvel Universe recently and was unfamiliar with the so-called MonsterVerse.

"You know Godzilla, right?"

"I know that. Could it be part of the MonsterVerse?"

"That's right! It's not just Godzilla, but also Rodan, Mothra, Ghidorah, and other monsters. Any one of them is a hundred-meter-tall behemoth weighing over ten thousand tons." Ying Yingying analyzed, "They exist in the world of Skull Island. If the main god releases these behemoths, it will be a huge problem."

Russell remained silent, pondering. It was indeed a bit troublesome; his situation was different from the Reincarnator. The Reincarnator's battlefield was set on Skull Island, from which they could not leave, but he had no such restriction, and it was not impossible for him to violate the World Quest of killing Ghidorah.

Russell glanced at Ying Yingying and said, "I didn't realize you were so good at this!"

"Only those Reincarnator have deeply analyzed the plot and studied the background of the world can be called qualified Reincarnator. Those who are careless... are all dead." Ying Yingying's implication was that Russell was an unqualified Reincarnator.

Russell didn't care at all about failing the test, since he wasn't a real Reincarnator anyway. But Ying Yingying's condescending attitude made him want to say something sarcastic, "Don't be so sure of yourself. Have you researched the background of the world of [Deep Freeze Sea Monster that we encountered before?"

"I wouldn't call it research, but I know a little bit about it!"

Ying Yingying raised her hand, making a feather fan with it, and fanned herself. "The name of the Sea Monster... if I remember correctly, it should be Ottowa. It is a branch of the ancient Ottolia species. Its size changes according to its living environment. Below 4,000 feet in the deep sea, its body length is only as long as a pencil, and its torso is roughly the size of a ping-pong ball. Below 20,000 feet, its size is enough to swallow an adult shark whole. The one we encountered was at least below 40,000 feet."

Russell: "..."

It's so unpleasant to be shown off by someone!

Ying Yingying glanced at Russell smugly and continued her explanation, "That's the movie's world-building. In our real world, Ottowa's design was inspired by the Otto Worm, which originated in the Cambrian period 500 million years ago. The Otto Worm's distinctive feature is its hidden mouthparts at the front of its body, known as 'flipped mouthparts.' As for its appearance..."

At this point, Ying Yingying paused, then said with a hint of disdain, "Just like you stinky men, also Dick Worm or Penis Worm, figure it out yourself!"

Russell: "..."

Hearing Ying Yingying's explanation, he realized that his previous deduction was completely correct. The Sea Monster was indeed the magical girl's mortal enemy, no, her best friend!

"So, what else do you want to test me on? Tell me all of it and I'll make you completely convinced." Ying Yingying put her hands on her hips, secretly pleased that she had won back a point against Russell.

Russell did have a question, "According to you, Sea Monster are marine creatures."

"That's right!"

"I have a magic spell that allows me to communicate with all sea creatures, but it doesn't work on this one. Why is that?"

"This..." Ying Yingying frowned and pondered without doubt, "There are two possibilities. Either Ottowa is controlled by the main god, making your magic ineffective in order to increase the difficulty of the plot, but this possibility is very small. It is no match for you at all, and I am also right next to you. Increasing the difficulty would not be so perfunctory."

"What about the second one?"

Ying Yingying's expression turned grave. "It's being controlled by something and refuses to talk to you!"

Russell immediately grasped the idea, connecting it to the Sea Monster guarding Skull Island, and asked, "Is it possible that Skull Island is involved in other plot developments?"

"Given the way the Supreme God is, it's highly likely." Ying Yingying sighed, "This is getting more and more troublesome. This isn't the Skull Island I wanted!"

"Judging from your tone, Skull Island is still a choice?" Russell asked subconsciously.

"Of course, I came to Skull Island for this Team Battle. My goal is to collect Tyrannosaurus Rex teeth for... cough cough, I'm here to find something on someone's behalf." Ying Yingying coughed lightly and changed her words to get away with it.

Russell nodded to himself, wanting to extract more information, but seeing that Ying Yingying was wary, he stopped talking.

Ahead, the research team was attacked again, having mistakenly entered a snake pit and been besieged by three giant pythons.

Each of the three giant pythons was over 10 meters long, giving off a sense of a monstrous apocalypse. Fortunately, the Husky gave them a warning in advance, which saved them from being ambushed.

The soldiers, armed with semi-automatic weapons, grenades, grenade launchers, and heavy machine guns, easily dealt with the three giant pythons.

They had been on the island for two days and were already used to all sorts of giant beasts, like the giant python they had just encountered, which they had killed before.

The grasslands are dangerous, but the research team prefers to stay on the grasslands rather than enter the giant tree forest, because the living environment there is even harsher, with not only giant beasts but also various enlarged versions of poisonous insects.

Giant centipedes, mosquitoes, spiders, scorpions, and some arthropods whose names they couldn't identify appeared in swarms at night, causing them to lose a lot of manpower.

On one occasion, they encountered a swarm of fiery red ants the size of a fist. Had they not discovered them early, even with full armor, they would have been wiped out.

"Roar roar roar————"

The gunshots attracted roaming predators, and in the distance, two enormous beasts slowly revealed themselves.

Tyrannosaurus Rex!

These two Tyrannosaurus Rex were nearly 15 meters long, with their heads more than 6 meters above the ground, making them truly enormous creatures.