The staff at the TV station had probably all met with misfortune, leaving no one to cut the signal for quite some time. Who knew how many people had sat dumbfounded before their televisions and watched the zombies devour people from beginning to end.
By the time the FBI reacted and cut off the bloody broadcast, Old Mike stared at the no-signal screen, its colored blocks like a jigsaw puzzle, covered his face, and murmured as if in a dream:
"God, what did we do wrong to suffer such Retribution?!"
"Perhaps nuclear weapons opened Pandora's Box." Thomas remained calm. He brushed his hair back with one hand and lifted his wineglass. "Although scientists say the monsters have always slumbered deep underground, the first one to enter the public eye was Godzilla, awakened by the Hiroshima nuclear blast."
Well, the history of the MonsterVerse differed somewhat from that of other Earths. If the total damage from that major event had been listed out, the Atomic Bomb had dealt only one percent of the damage to the Japanese. The other ninety-nine percent had come from the Godzilla awakened by Fallout throwing a waking tantrum.
That was also why Japan in this world had submitted to the United States so completely. By now, it was practically a colony, and its government was merely a puppet.
"Godzilla..." Old Mike's Japanese-accented English lacked the right feel, but he clearly knew the name. It belonged to the first monster to appear, one believed to be the King of the Monsters. "Is that really so? We humans are not the Overlords here? The true masters of Earth are those monsters?"
Ever since its awakening, Godzilla had remained active almost every year. Its annual appearances had been observed by people, and it seemed to show up wherever radioactive