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Chapter 160 Towards the Center of the Earth
Is it useful because of its large size?
It’s actually quite useful.

In the past, there was an argument that ants were the strongest creatures in the world because they could lift objects more than 50 times their own weight.

But as the times change, people gradually understand that power is not converted in this way.

When insects are magnified, their body structure may even make them unable to stand up due to the weight. When animals are magnified, the cross-section of their bones simply cannot bear the geometric increase in weight, and even the hardest thigh bone will fracture due to its own weight.

Therefore, those huge monsters that are tens of meters tall and can move and run flexibly have bones that are much harder than any steel or metal that humans can create.

As for the skin being tough enough to withstand bullets, it is natural. Otherwise, the giant would be scratched by various rocks while crawling, and its skin would be torn apart after walking for a while.

Therefore, the larger the body size, the stronger the individual strength. This is an indisputable law of nature.

The prerequisite is that humans are not counted.

Du Mu listened to the sounds of bombing coming from afar and King Kong's roar.

Well, the size difference is too big, even humans can’t defeat monsters of higher levels.

Thinking of this, Du Mu waved his hand.

The magic power condensed into a thread and moved straight forward vertically.

With a whoosh, the magic power threads he condensed disappeared in the sharp whistling of the air.

The magic power only appeared for a moment and then disappeared. Du Mu kept most of the magic power in the mutant world, so he is now very frugal with his magic power. Now that it has played a role, he can take it back.

However, the air cut by the magic power let out a sharp and panicked hissing. Even if the magic power disappeared, the wind blades wrapped by the silk threads still had residual force and extended hundreds of meters to the rear.

The Leaf-Wing Birds along the way were dismembered one after another, and blood and limbs fell to the ground. The remaining Leaf-Wing Birds roared in fear and flapped their wings in panic to leave the place.

The skeleton giant lizard that jumped into the air became stiff all over, and after its jumping momentum disappeared, it fell to the ground with a bang.

It was not until it fell to the ground that its body suddenly split apart layer by layer, revealing two clear cross-sections that would delight biologists.

Du Mu looked at the dead skeleton lizard and nodded slightly.

It's okay. Although its bones are very tough, even tougher than ordinary steel, Du Mu's spellcasting ability is no longer what it used to be.

When Du Mu wiped out the members of the Assassin's League in Gotham City, he relied on the delicate material properties of the magic thread itself.

But now, Du Mu can already add powerful offensive spells like "God's Shadowless Edge" to the mana thread.

The attack capability of the mana thread has also changed from simply calculating physical pressure to being able to directly bring negative attributes of "cutting" and "splitting" to the enemy, entering a more idealistic metaphysical realm.

This is a big step forward in improving offensive capabilities.

As long as Du Mu wanted, he could consume more mana to strengthen his attack, so that the cutting ability of the mana thread no longer had a rigid upper limit, but depended entirely on how much mana he consumed to launch the attack.

Du Mu is still considering adding spells such as 'high temperature' and 'high frequency vibration'. The former is not necessary to use on the skeleton lizard, and the latter is still under exploration.

At this time, he easily killed the skeleton lizard, but in the distance, King Kong was still fighting with those human helicopters.

Du Mu allowed King Kong to drive out the foreign enemies, and did not care if King Kong killed a few American soldiers who had just returned from the Vietnam battlefield, and did not go to interfere.

After all, as the guardian of Skull Island, it is no problem for King Kong to drive away the enemies who come to his territory to drop bombs.

Du Mu sensed the location of the chaotic electromagnetic waves and some special energy, and slowly approached the depths of the King Kong clan's burial ground.

Then, I saw a huge dark cave.

This should be the place where skeleton lizards keep popping up, and it is likely to connect the surface and the center of the earth.

But Du Mu attached his mental power to his magic power and slowly extended it to scan the cave, and he realized that the real passage to the center of the earth was not where it seemed on the surface.

This is at most the main entrance to the skeleton monitor lizards' nest, and the vortex channel where the real energy from the earth's core flows out should be in the deepest part of the skeleton monitor lizards' nest.

Feeling the skeleton monitor lizards that were either eating or biting each other, the first thing Du Mu noticed was their food.

It is a giant creature that does not exist on Skull Island.

It seems that the lifestyle of the Skeleton Monitor Lizard is mainly to build nests at the entrances of vortex passages and hide in the "underground of the surface."

This way, they can guard against attacks from foreign enemies. Secondly, when they need to find food, they can go directly to the center of the earth through the vortex tunnel and hunt giant creatures of large bodies in a low-gravity environment to ensure sufficient food.

Otherwise, the underground ecosystem of Skull Island would not be able to support so many giant creatures because there simply is not enough food.

After observing their ecological habits, Du Mu suddenly understood.

No wonder the Skeleton Lizards and the King Kong clan are enemies.

How can I allow others to sleep soundly beside my bed? People have built their homes near the portal, isn't it for safety? But there is an enemy who can kill their own race at the gate, so they must be desperate to eliminate the enemy.

In fact, the Skeleton Monitors almost succeeded.

Although they are not yet a match for King Kong, there is only one King Kong left...

King Kong is not a Titan. At most, it is a giant creature, but it does not have the long lifespan of a Titan.

It will only take four or five hundred years for King Kong to grow old, but the Skeleton Lizards will continue to reproduce. One day, they will be able to surround and kill the exhausted King Kong and completely occupy Skull Island.

The King Kong clan, probably because of the Skeleton Monitor Lizard, was unable to return to the center of the earth, which resulted in not having enough people to reproduce, causing the King Kong that came to the surface to be on the verge of extinction.

Du Mu nodded slightly, already having a plan in mind.

The King Kong clan was indeed very miserable, with only King Kong left. This also caused the temperament that the giant humanoid creature in the King Kong series of movies could never get rid of: loneliness.

But it doesn’t matter if there are difficulties. Only when there are difficulties will we have the motivation to solve them and improve our strength.

If he wants to improve his strength, Du Mu is King Kong's best choice, and he will naturally gain a disciple he likes.

This can't be called a calculation. After all, King Kong's situation was not created by Du Mu. He just planned to tell King Kong in advance where to find his people.

Before Du Mu traveled through time, although the movie "King Kong vs. Godzilla 2" had not yet been released, he had seen the trailer and was sure that there were definitely King Kong's fellow tribesmen in the center of the earth, as well as enemies that he needed to face.

In this case, the handsome guy, who is only 30 meters tall and not yet meters tall as in the movies, naturally needs Du Mu's guidance and help.

Du Mu no longer wanted to wait for the next time traveler. His plans in multiple worlds urgently required him to improve his physical strength so as to accommodate more energy and mental power.

My current physical fitness is really holding me back.

Therefore, King Kong became the first among all the time travelers whom Du Mu took the initiative to spend time and effort to accept as his disciple even when the other party had no intention.

There is no way, King Kong’s talent meets all of Du Mu’s current needs.

Du Mu was vaguely looking forward to it... If King Kong could be like Banner, even if he was not born with magic power, he could rely on his strong physical fitness to absorb magic power. Then how much strength feedback could his 30-meter-tall body bring to him?
Although in the original movie, King Kong's strength has never broken away from the shackles of hand-to-hand combat, but Du Mu's experience tells him that once he teaches, King Kong will gain unimaginable power.

It will also bring about explosive growth in your own strength!
Just as Du Mu was thinking, the skeleton lizards gradually stopped their movements, hissed to each other a few times, and slowly crawled towards the exit of the cave.

It’s not that they discovered Du Mu, but the vibration of the explosives thrown by the Americans on Skull Island finally reached here.

The skeleton monitors are very cunning and smart. They almost immediately realized that Skull Island had been invaded by alien species!

Alien species will inevitably attract King Kong to expel them. No matter how strong these alien species are, they can at least distract King Kong's attention.

If both sides could be defeated, that would be the best... Perhaps today would be the day they could make their nest completely safe.

Du Mu looked at the skeleton monitors crawling towards the exit of the nest one after another, thought for a while, and waved his hand gently.

Suddenly, the fastest crawling skeleton monitor lizard flew backwards with a roar and hit the skeleton monitor lizard behind it.

Du Mu didn’t want to help King Kong fulfill his duties as a guardian...but if they were scattered too far apart, the pressure on King Kong would be too little.

Of course, this also prevented these monsters from causing trouble to the Iwi tribe.

Almost everyone in this peaceful race meets Du Mu's standard of an innocent person, so naturally he doesn't want any casualties among them.

After the first skeleton monitor lizard was beaten back, the remaining skeleton monitor lizards immediately circled around the exit of the nest vigilantly.

At this moment, one of them suddenly jumped out, as if trying to rely on speed to rush out of the nest.

Du Mu waved his hand, and the huge magic power condensed into a palm again, and he directly slapped the opponent back.

"Roar!!"

The skeleton monitor was dazed by the invisible slap and, unable to comprehend what was happening, let out a threatening roar.

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After smashing all the "insects" with black shells, King Kong looked at the little people appearing around him in some surprise.

Then, King Kong understood.

It seemed that these little people were being hunted by black beetles, and he successfully rescued a group of people.

This discovery finally made King Kong's anger caused by the nightmare subside a little.

After all, these little guys are the only species on Skull Island that can communicate with him. Saving them would be a comfort to the lonely King Kong.

As for the weirdness in their clothes and expressions… they were too small for King Kong to tell them apart.

At this moment, King Kong's expression changed and he looked in a certain direction.

King Kong is very familiar with the roar of the Skeleton Lizard.

King Kong immediately went to the location where the skeleton lizard was roaring. With a body of several dozen meters tall, he leaped and flew between the mountains without any sign of slowness or clumsiness.

The Iwi people in the distance also heard the roar of the skeleton giant lizard and the King Kong advancing with the earth-shaking movement.

They all lowered their heads and began to pray for King Kong who was about to go to the battlefield.

In fact, the King Kong clan certainly could not be the patron saint of the Iwi clan. It was just that the ecology of Skull Island did not allow the existence of a second top predator, and King Kong was blocked by the skeleton lizards and could not return to the center of the earth, so they started fighting each other.

But compared to the Skeleton Monitor Lizard that eats everything, King Kong, which only eats large animals, naturally seems a bit like a guardian of humans.

In fact, the Iwi people, who possess a certain degree of telepathic ability, certainly know all of this.

Therefore, what they actually believe in is not the entire King Kong clan - but simply the last King Kong.

Only in his heart...he truly had the thought of protecting humans and not wanting these tiny primates to become extinct.

Without King Kong himself realizing it, the power of the Iwi people's faith was slowly affecting King Kong's body.

Du Mu turned around and sensed the effect of the power of faith on King Kong before King Kong appeared in front of him.

It is not a simple and crude way to enhance strength... but to allow King Kong's physique to grow optimally within the scope allowed by his genes.

No wonder, no wonder in the original movie, this King Kong can grow to more than 100 meters.

You know, King Kong's dead parents, according to the corpses, were only about 50 meters tall. Obviously, they gradually shrunk and degenerated after living on the surface for a long time.

Only in the inner world, with its low gravity environment, sufficient food and energy radiation from the center of the earth, can the King Kong clan maintain a height of over 100 meters.

As for this last King Kong who has lived on the surface for a long time, the energy contained in his normal food is far less than that in the center of the earth, not to mention the energy and low gravity environment in the center of the earth.

In such a scarce and harsh environment, King Kong was able to grow up alone to become the strongest individual of their clan. It seems that it was not just because of his extraordinary talent and ancestral bloodline.

The long-term and stable faith of the Iwi people has obviously played a huge role.

Du Mu suddenly became thoughtful, and his understanding of faith became much deeper.

Faith itself is a kind of power of "belief".

Just like the occasional urban legend in the news: a seriously ill patient gave up treatment, quit his job, traveled around, was happy every day, had no problems for two years, and when he returned to the hospital for a checkup, he found that his illness was cured.

Or maybe the legendary placebo effect can really have a 20% cure rate for patients.

Du Mu even thinks that 20% may be too low, because some experimenters may guess that they were injected with a placebo and thus not be comforted.

In the absence of any other energy to call upon, relying solely on 'faith' can produce such an effect.

Du Mu suddenly felt that his previous method of directly transforming those high-quality beliefs into spiritual power might be a waste.

Apart from anything else, Du Mu has mastered magical powers for a long time, and if he wants to cast a spell, he also needs to brew various emotions.

And the power of faith, which represents "belief", may be the best medium and material for casting spells?
Du Mu thought about it and stopped trying to stop the skeleton lizard. Instead, he walked aside and tried out his idea.

He already had a lot of low-quality power of faith stored. Du Mu sat cross-legged on a rock, closed his eyes, and began to try to control the power of faith.

Fortunately, these beliefs are very obedient. After all, the object of their prayers is Du Mu, and they are very submissive to all of Du Mu's actions.

So Du Mu tried for the first time to let the power of "faith" replace his own thoughts and emotions to "believe" in something.

Du Mu stretched out his hand and raised his index finger. A magical thread extended from his fingertips, connecting the beginning and the end.

The next moment, the mana suddenly became a little blurry, and emitted a humming sound like a machine running. Du Mu opened his eyes, looked at the blurry mana at his fingertips, and smiled.

There were no other hard objects around at this time, so Du Mu used his magic power again to condense a magic shield.

The blurry mana coils flew lightly towards the ruby-like hard shield...

There was almost no delay, and the mana coil passed through smoothly as if it was on a different layer from the ruby ​​shield.

Du Mu was stunned. He himself didn't even feel any damage to his magic shield.

It was not until he tried again and observed carefully... that he discovered that because the mana coil cut his shield too easily and the damage was too thin, the mana shield automatically recovered from the damage without Du Mu's control.

The sharpness of this effect far exceeds that caused by the red pulse that controlled the shock wave.

The most important thing is... Du Mu hardly consumed any mana and attention.

With just a little bit of faith, Du Mu created the high-frequency vibration spell that was still in the conceived stage, turning his magic thread into a high-frequency sawtooth blade from a science fiction work.

Unexpectedly, before he accepted King Kong as his disciple, his strength was improved again.

This improvement in strength does not rely on accumulating energy, but on improving skills through research, which makes Du Mu very happy.

The Iwi people, a group that Du Mu had never paid attention to in the movie, could actually provide him with so many references and inspirations. This was an unexpected surprise that Du Mu never expected.

Du Mu's strength increased again, but the situation on King Kong's side was not very good.

Probably because Du Mu intercepted the skeleton monitor lizards and did not release them until King Kong arrived, King Kong was facing multiple skeleton monitor lizards at the same time.

Originally, the Skeleton Lizards would disperse to forage for food if they did not know King Kong's location, giving King Kong a chance to defeat the enemy one-on-one. Now that they were besieged, King Kong's movements suddenly became difficult.

At this time, King Kong was grabbing the tail of a skeleton lizard and using it as a meteor hammer, smashing other skeleton lizards madly.

Those skeleton lizards were also very agile. They dodged easily and roared threateningly with their mouths.

King Kong did not cause more casualties, he just smashed the head of the skeleton lizard in his hand into pieces.

At the same time, because he was attacked from both sides, there were many bloody scratches and bite marks on his body.

It was only then that Du Mu discovered that those skeleton lizards were actually smaller than King Kong.

Only the last skeleton lizard that crawled out of its underground lair reached a size similar to King Kong.

This is probably the king of the skeleton lizards.

The appearance of the Skeleton Lizard King attracted King Kong's attention, making him stare at his biggest enemy vigilantly.

The other skeleton lizards slowly began to crawl towards the back of King Kong.

King Kong frowned and slowly retreated until he leaned his back against the stone wall of a high mountain, trying his best to ensure that there were no enemies in his blind spots.

But this also limits King Kong's mobility, so the skeleton lizards watched King Kong's movements and just kept narrowing the encirclement and pressing forward step by step.

King Kong snorted in annoyance and frowned as he looked at the huge Skeleton Lizard King.

My strength is similar to that of my opponent. If it’s a one-on-one fight, I will definitely win.

As for those ordinary skeleton lizards, kill as many as you can.

But when both occur at the same time, the situation enters the realm of crisis.

This is why, even though there is only one King Kong left, the two sides are still pulling each other and find it difficult to completely eliminate each other.

At this moment, a giant skeleton lizard suddenly pounced towards King Kong from the side and rear.

Fighting an enemy of gigantic size was dangerous, but at least it was impossible to be attacked by surprise.

The hurricane created by the opponent and the grass and trees destroyed by the friction of his body against the ground were like a charge launched by thousands of troops.

King Kong immediately threw the dead skeleton lizard in his hand away, and at the same time raised his hands, grabbed the top of the mountain, and raised his feet to avoid the attack of another skeleton lizard.

These skeleton monitor lizards have no legs. Apart from their two front limbs, they have a snake-like winding body that extends from the chest to the tip of the tail.

Such a body can at most rely on the front limbs to sprint, but it will definitely not be able to jump too high. When facing a high King Kong, it can only find a way to climb up.

King Kong stood on the top of the mountain, using his advantage to attack from a high position and only face a maximum of two skeleton lizards at the same time.

All of a sudden, he found another chance, used both hands to pry open the giant lizard's mouth that was biting at him, and roared as he "hooked" up to the top of the mountain.

No matter how big the skeleton giant lizard's mouth was, it couldn't swallow a mountain. With a click, it was choked to death by King Kong in such a violent way.

At the same time, King Kong took the time to stretch out his foot and kicked away the other skeleton lizard that had put its big mouth close to him.

The Skeleton Lizard King finally couldn't hold back any longer, and sprinted towards King Kong. Using its two extremely powerful forelimbs, it immediately broke through the limitations of ordinary Skeleton Lizards, leaped high, and pounced on King Kong on the top of the mountain.

Just as King Kong was concentrating on defending against the opponent's bite and was ready to fall backwards from the top of the mountain, he saw the Skeleton Lizard King suddenly stiffen all over.

Then, just like a bullet in a movie, it split into two pieces, one on the left and one on the right, passing over King Kong and rushing into the water behind.

That was the direction King Kong was meant to fall.

King Kong looked at the body of the Skeleton Giant Lizard King in the water in surprise, and saw the perfectly cut surface...

Waves surged in the water, and tentacles stretched out, sweeping the body of the Skeleton Lizard King into the lake.

The other skeleton lizards looked at each other and shrank back, not daring to move forward.

Upon seeing this, King Kong immediately stepped on the corpse of the skeleton monitor lizard on the top of the mountain and roared and growled threateningly at the other skeleton monitor lizards!
These skeleton monitors immediately whimpered like frightened puppies, and crawled back to their nests, some even fighting each other in a scramble to be the first.

When King Kong saw that they were scared by him and ran away, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat directly on the top of the mountain.

He looked at the still churning lake in confusion, wondering what had just happened.

It was not until he set his eyes on the burial place of his parents that he was suddenly stunned.

In the other direction of the Skeleton Monitor Lizard's nest, there is the corpse of a Skeleton Monitor Lizard.

And the appearance of the corpse... was almost exactly the same as the way the Skeleton Lizard King died just now!
King Kong suddenly became nervous again.

He climbed down from the top of the mountain and carefully came to the burial place of his parents.

King Kong looked at his parents sadly, then carefully moved towards the corpses of the two skeleton lizards.

When he got closer, he found that the way this skeleton monitor lizard died was indeed by being neatly split in half from the middle.

King Kong found it difficult to understand. He couldn't imagine what kind of thing or creature could cause such damage.

Strangeness and mystery bring fear.

King Kong looked around nervously, sniffing constantly, trying to find the terrifying and powerful man who had not yet appeared.

Just then, King Kong suddenly heard a voice.

"King Kong, you want to find your compatriots, right?"

"I know where your people are."

King Kong almost jumped up from his spot, took several steps back, his eyes constantly wandering, looking for the enemy's hiding place.

He was frightened by the sound that suddenly came into his ears, but when his mind completely digested the meaning of the sentence and understood the other party's language, King Kong was stunned.

He slowly turned around and looked at the bodies of his parents.

Then the voice continued: "Yes, you are not the last individual of your clan."

"In the inner world blocked by the Skeleton Lizards, there are still your compatriots living."

King Kong's chest suddenly heaved up and down. He looked around at the empty space and let out an impatient roar.

"Be serious and patient. I am not hiding. I am right in front of you."

King Kong was stunned. He slowly raised his head and finally saw a tiny figure at the same height as his line of sight.

However, the moment he saw the other person, King Kong's eyes almost popped out.

"Gaangao!!"

For the first time, King Kong roared out of fear. He retreated several steps and almost hid in the nest of the skeleton giant lizard, which he had previously thought was the most dangerous.

The reason King Kong was so frightened was not because he discovered that humans could fly.

Instead, he discovered that he seemed to have seen this human being in his dream!

Although King Kong generally does not remember the appearance of humans, except for the monster with a fiery red body, this human did leave a deep impression in King Kong's mind.

This is actually the result and manifestation of Du Mu's strong mental power. As long as he wants, he can make ordinary people completely unaware of him. He can also make ordinary people have a deep mental impression, just like the clear imprint left on the retina after looking directly at the sun with the naked eye.

As for King Kong, Du Mu naturally chose the latter. Therefore, King Kong, who had never carefully memorized the details of human characteristics, recognized Du Mu at once.

Du Mu showed a helpless expression, and continued to speak in King Kong's consciousness: "Don't panic, you were not dreaming before, but I saw that you were too scared and frightened, so I sent you back first."

King Kong exhaled with a huff. Du Mu nodded perfunctorily: "Yes, I know you are very brave. You were not afraid. You fought back and forth with Hulk."

Now Du Mu and King Kong are talking using the Iwi people’s method of spiritual communication.

Through a short period of observation, Du Mu quickly learned their special skills that had been passed down for thousands of years.

After all, for the Iwi people, faith still needs to be generated by their own pure heart, while Du Mu used other people's faith in him. The two are incomparable.

However, Du Mu was also a little surprised. King Kong should be no more than 200 years old, but the faith methods and culture used by the Iwi people could not be formed in such a short time.

Du Mu made a bold guess... these Iwi people may have changed their beliefs.

I just don’t know what kind of creature they believed in in the past. Could it be some kind of Titan?

In short, there was no relevant content in "King Kong vs. Godzilla 1". Maybe there will be details in this regard in the second part, or maybe not, after all, the Iwi people are not the protagonists of the movie.

King Kong also calmed down a little at this time.

He finally looked at Du Mu seriously, no longer worrying about trivial things, but asked seriously and earnestly whether his compatriots were really in the center of the earth and how he could go to the center of the earth.

King Kong does not have his own language, and all this information is conveyed to Du Mu through straightforward thinking, which is very similar to the way the Iwi people convey information.

After all, the Iwi people are also accustomed to communicating only with thoughts, and the information they convey is a full reproduction of the situation, rather than written language and pronunciation.

Du Mu nodded and communicated in his usual way: "Yes, deep in the nest of these skeleton giant lizards, there is a vortex tunnel leading to the center of the earth."

"When they were driven underground by you, they relied on the vortex tunnels to travel back and forth to the center of the earth to obtain food and reproduce."

King Kong immediately clenched his fists.

Because of the presence of the Skeleton Monitor Lizards, he really hadn't thought about exploring their nests.

He thought that the King Kong tribe imprisoned the Skeleton Giant Lizard underground by relying on their bravery. However, he did not expect that it was the Skeleton Giant Lizard that imprisoned the King Kong tribe above ground by blocking the passage.

King Kong suddenly wanted to rush to the lair of the Skeleton Giant Lizard, but Du Mu stopped him and said, "Wait, your compatriots are now enslaved by a Titan creature. It is at least a hundred meters tall. You are no match for it now."

This information is half true and half false, and is basically pieced together by Du Mu based on the fragmentary information he received in his previous life.

King Kong clenched his fists, let out a roar, and rushed towards the skeleton lizard's nest without hesitation.

Well, upon hearing that his compatriots were being enslaved, King Kong became even more restless.

As a giant beast, he never knew what it meant to assess the situation and wait for the right opportunity to act.

That’s right, otherwise King Kong would not be King Kong, but a ‘human’.

It would be difficult to convince a King Kong like this by simply providing intelligence and demonstrating strength.

Well, let him suffer a little more first.

So Du Mu stopped trying to stop King Kong and even followed him.

He wanted to know how rich the energy at the center of the earth was and how it could give birth to so many long-lived Titan monsters, including Godzilla.

If possible... I wonder if I can get a Titan as a mount or something?

Of course, Du Mu was just thinking about it. From the movies he had seen, Titans would only bow to Titans, but they would only bow their heads, as if there had never been an enslaved Titan.

Du Mu didn't know that in the movie "King Kong vs. Godzilla 2" that he had not seen, there happened to be an ancient Frost Titan who was enslaved by the enemy that King Kong was looking for.

(End of this chapter)