I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

After discovering that the sky was an anti-gravity ocean, the small drones continued their search for the "sun." To be honest, they found it hard to believe that there was a sun in this place. Soon, the small drones gradually approached the sun. Unfortunately, due to the high temperature, their drones were unable to get close to the peculiar "sun," which made them feel a little regretful.

However, at that moment, the signal from the small drone suddenly disappeared, which stunned the scientists present.

Volume 3 [Yohaka: King of Monsters]: Chapter 1687 [Drone-2]

After the drone lost signal, everyone looked bewildered, clearly not knowing why it had suddenly lost signal. The scientist who witnessed this also looked puzzled at the static screen of his computer and asked:

"Huh? That's strange, why did the drone suddenly lose signal? Was it being interfered with by something?"

The technician operating the drone was also puzzled when the drone suddenly lost signal.

"That shouldn't be the case. If it didn't seem like there was signal interference just now, it was more like it suddenly disappeared. What could have happened?"

No one knew anything about the drone's sudden loss of signal. If it were affected by signal interference, there would be warning signs, but the drone did not. Most importantly, if it was affected by interference, shouldn't the drone have moved away from the interference area when it fell?

Unless the area affected by the interference is very large.

Of course, they had considered the possibility that the drone might have been attacked by some kind of creature, but they didn't have any relevant evidence at the moment. After all, the drone wouldn't break just from being touched. But what they didn't expect was that their drone really did break with just one touch.

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At the helipad where Hallownest is located, Ehaka in his third form is scratching himself with his hind legs crossed. As he scratches, he digs out a lot of metal debris from the gaps between his shells. Ehaka looks at the drone wreckage with an "OowoO?" expression, clearly puzzled as to why such a thing is there. Although he sensed the drone when he landed, it showed no signs of life, so he crashed into it, which led to his encounter with the Monarch organization.

The junior priest, picking up the metal fragments from his feet, confidently examined them and said:

"Hmm... they're outsiders. Looks like those guys have found this place."

Hearing the young priest's words, the battle priest of the Alita tribe, who was standing nearby wearing a bone hood, also asked the young priest after witnessing this scene:

"High Priest, shall we now go hunting those outsiders?"

Upon hearing the words of the battle priest, the junior priest shook his head and said:

"No, we have the advantage on the island. It would be foolish to abandon our advantage and go looking for outsiders. Besides, we also know their intelligence. Searching blindly now would be a waste of time."

Upon hearing the young priest's words, the battle priest also spoke with great admiration:

"Oh! I see! As expected of the High Priest, so thoughtful!"

Seeing the battle priest's expression, the little priest also seemed at a loss for words. However, the little priest hadn't expected that humans would actually find this place. As for whether those outsiders were friends or enemies, the little priest didn't care. After all, if they dared to invade their territory, the little priest would expel them without hesitation.

Meanwhile, at the underground base of the Monarch organization, after the drone lost signal for unknown reasons, the Monarch organization was preparing to dispatch another drone to check the situation and also to see what was on the island.

Because the island is quite far away, the Monarch Project members prepared a faster drone. The Monarch Project's technicians believed that such a fast drone could avoid destroying animals, since a fast-flying drone would be very difficult to catch.

Following the operation of the second small drone, the Monarch Project members gathered around their computers to investigate the situation, as they were curious about what could be found on the island.

As the drone moved rapidly, the Monarch members also saw the scene on the distant island. Through the camera, they could see a forest composed of huge trees, which were much taller than skyscrapers, resembling towering towers. This aroused great curiosity among the Monarch members. If the scientist's words were correct, this island might be the "Guiding Island" discovered by Magellan's fleet.

But the question is, why is Guiding Island here?

Everyone looked puzzled, as they couldn't figure out why the Guiding Island would be in this deep underwater cavern. However, they did understand why Magellan's surviving crew hadn't discovered the Guiding Island's location: it had truly "disappeared."

However, at that moment, a figure resembling a legendary wyvern flew out from not far from the drone's camera. The operator was startled by this and quickly steered the drone upwards. As the drone flew upwards, everyone could observe through the drone's cameras in multiple directions what had suddenly rushed out.

"This is... a wyvern?!"

Seeing the flapping-winged creature in the video recorded by the drone's camera was quite surprising. After all, what appeared in front of them was a huge creature that was about 20 meters long. It was very similar to the description of the legendary wyvern. However, the fact that this wyvern was chasing the drone they were controlling made the operator a little nervous.

Fortunately, the drone was faster than the wyvern and quickly left it behind, which relieved the operator. However, just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the drone's visibility suddenly began to shake violently. The operator was stunned when he saw this. When he came to his senses, he quickly tried to control the drone to stabilize its flight path, but unfortunately, the drone crashed into the vast forest and lost signal.

Seeing this, the Monarch Project organization was at a loss for words, but at least they knew that there were terrifying creatures on this island.

Volume 3 [Yohaka: King of Monsters]: Chapter 1688 [Title unknown]

After the second drone was forced to retire, the Monarch organization, located in the underground base, did not send a third drone to investigate the situation on the island. After all, drones are not cheap, and it is basically impossible to use them as expendable items unless there is important intelligence.

Although the second drone was forced to retire, it still managed to capture video footage. The Monarch Project members are now examining the video from the second drone. Because it used multiple cameras, it was able to capture video from many different angles, resulting in significantly more video footage than the previous drone. Therefore, this video is very important, and everyone wants to see if anything has been missed, as the destruction of this drone seems highly suspicious.

After all, the operator hadn't seen any attack suddenly targeting the drone he was controlling. Soon, after the technicians checked, everyone discovered that when the drone was passing through a forest, a figure darted out from the dense forest and crashed directly into the drone.

The technicians who witnessed this scene also looked puzzled.

"What it is?"

Regarding the technician's question, the operator standing nearby shook his head and said:

"I don't know. This time, we didn't use a high-speed camera, so we couldn't clearly capture what that figure was. The only way to figure out what happened is to find the wreckage of the drone."

Upon hearing the operator's words, the technician looked at the operator with an incredulous expression and said:

"Are you serious? Searching for drones in a forest with giant flying dragons?"

In response to the technician's question, the operator looked at the technician, who seemed incredulous, and said:

"It's not like I'm the one looking for them, so what's it to me?"

Upon hearing the operator's response, the technicians were at a loss for words. However, since it wasn't him who was looking for these things, they were too lazy to say anything.

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In the ancient forest, several Alita hunters looked at the crashed drone with puzzled expressions. One of the Alita hunters, wearing a Meru cat headgear, stared at the metal device in front of him and said with a puzzled look:

"Huh? Why does this big bird look so strange?"

"Hmm, it looks like it's not edible."

A hunting priest from the Alita tribe, wearing a dragon-shaped helmet, said:

"Hmm, it seems to be something from out of town, but you can't eat this kind of thing."

Upon hearing the words of the hunting priest leading the group, the Alita hunters present also looked as if they had just realized something and said:

"Oh, I see. No wonder you're a hunting priest! You know so much!"

Looking at the adoring expressions on his students' faces, the hunting priest was at a loss for words. But no matter what, the hunt for food had to continue. Just then, a male Rathalos suddenly leaped out from the treetops. Clearly, this Rathalos had been chasing after the drone. However, it saw a creature wearing a balaclava and covered in animal skins, scales, and armor.

The male fire dragon was so frightened by the sight of the large group of monsters exuding a dangerous aura that it almost fell from the sky to the ground. Clearly, for this male fire dragon, a creature that simultaneously exuded the auras of various monsters was a great threat to it.

Before the Rathalos could escape, a Flying Blade Insect Glaive flew towards its wing, tearing open its wing membrane in an instant. The Rathalos fell to the ground. At the same time, the other hunters aimed their huge hunting bows at the fallen Rathalos and fired.

Meanwhile, the video footage taken by the two drones was handed over to the United Nations. After all, Monarch was an organization that was only there to deal with and study the Titans, not a country or a world-class corporation.

The United Nations received intelligence about the massive void beneath Guiding Island and Crescent Island. Representatives from various countries at the UN meeting were amazed by the images displayed on the big screen. They had thought the ecosystem on Skull Island, where King Kong lived, was already impressive enough, but the Guiding Island, which appeared to be an independent ecosystem, made them feel that it was a miracle that only gods could create.

After all, the unusual gravitational field, the luminous sphere resembling a miniature sun, and the island with its complex and diverse ecosystems are all things that people yearn for. Of course, this refers to scientists, as the scientists from Project Monarch are also eager to set foot on the island and begin their research and collection of unprecedented plant and animal samples.

However, due to the previous appearance of the wyverns, the scientists of Project Monarch also knew that there were monsters born from a terrifying ecological environment similar to Skull Island, making it extremely difficult to safely go to the island to collect research samples.

"The above is the information regarding the Great Underground Cavern and the Island of Demon Gathering."

After speaking, the scientists from Project Monarch indicated that they had finished. The representatives from those countries, after a moment's thought, then said to them:

"This is a remarkable discovery, Dr. Serizawa. Your findings may offer the world many new insights, but currently, your research efficiency is a bit... slow?"

Dr. Serizawa nodded slightly in response to the American representative's words, saying:

"We haven't conducted a detailed investigation on this point yet. After all, the monsters on the island would hinder the organization's observation and research. We need to study more advanced technologies to continue our research on the island. We need more funding, talent, and manpower to speed things up."

Upon hearing Dr. Serizawa's words, the representatives from various countries indicated that there was no problem. After all, they were also very interested in the situation of the Guiding Island and the Great Underground Void, and it would be even better if they could obtain more information.

Volume 3 [Yohaka: King of Monsters]: Chapter 1689 [The New Plan]

At the underground base located near the Great Hollow, members of Project Monarch were gathered to discuss their next course of action.

After acquiring substantial funds and personnel, the Monarch Project organization discussed how to proceed with their investigation on the Guiding Island. However, sending a large number of people to the Guiding Island was far too dangerous. Although the military strength of various countries had improved considerably over the decades, it was still insufficient in the face of a large number of massive monsters and Titans.

After all, the appearance of the Kamachiras larvae in downtown Manhattan, New York, had made the US military realize that the small-caliber weapons in the hands of its soldiers were insufficient to deal with those large monsters. As a result, the US military had to increase the firepower of its soldiers, equipping them with at least under-barrel grenade launchers and armor-piercing rounds, so that they would have no ability to fight back against any large monsters that might appear.

While their firepower wasn't bad, it was a different story when facing Titans. The weapons the soldiers had were practically no match for the Titans.

Of course, Vajra is a different matter.

After all, compared to those bizarre Titans, King Kong has many similarities to modern creatures on Earth. At least they have developed weapons that can be used to deal with King Kong. However, so far they have not attacked King Kong. After all, King Kong has a history of protecting humans, which shows that Titans like King Kong are not impossible to communicate with.

Of course, people didn't take the incident of King Kong attacking a survey helicopter team seriously. After all, if it weren't for Dr. Bill Landa of the Monarch organization provoking them with a seismic bomb, the survey helicopter team might not have been attacked by King Kong at all.

After discussion, the group decided to use remote-controlled boats to place several remotely controlled robots on the Island of Gathering Demons. The robots would then investigate the situation there, as they would be much safer than humans.

However, unlike drones, remote-controlled robots are smaller and cannot be remotely controlled from a greater distance. Therefore, signal towers that can spread the signal are required.

There's no problem with that, after all, Project Monarch has many experienced technicians, so building a signal tower floating on the sea shouldn't be a problem.

However, the prerequisite is that if you want to build a signal tower floating on the sea, you need to build a port to construct it. The underground base is also not very convenient, and it takes a lot of time to build a suitable signal tower.

Soon, with the help of the engineering team, using modular building structures, they quickly built a simple port at the exit of the underground base. Although the structure was not as sturdy as that of reinforced concrete, it was functionally similar to a regular port, at least it could build small boats and dock them.

A few days later, the completed signal tower was erected on the floating object. To prevent the tower from being overturned by the waves, anchor-like heavy objects were placed on the four sides of the floating object. These anchor-like heavy objects could be lowered to the seabed with iron chains, which greatly ensured that the signal tower would not be overturned when it was on the sea surface. Of course, if the sea conditions were more violent, it could still be overturned.

With everything in place, Project Monarch began its operation. With the help of three remote-controlled boats, the signal tower located at the other end of the rope was successfully pulled away.

Seeing this, the members of Project Monarch clenched their fists in excitement. After the three remote-controlled boats successfully reached the designated location, and the ropes were retrieved, the four heavy objects floating on the sea were quickly placed down under remote control. With the signal tower functioning normally, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed their operation was successful and the signal tower had not encountered any major problems.

However, at that very moment, a huge creature suddenly emerged from the sea not far from them. Everyone who saw this tensed up. The navigator wanted to steer the ship away immediately, but was stopped by a biologist who said:

"Don't move. This is an unmanned, remote-controlled boat. There's no one on board. Wild animals wouldn't risk destroying the boat, which was once their prey."

Upon hearing the biologist's words, the operators paused their work. As the camera captured the creature leaping from the sea, everyone stared in astonishment at the creature with its bluish-green carapace, the thorns protruding from its shell, and its head resembling a Western dragon. Those in the underground base were equally surprised; they hadn't expected to see a sea dragon-like creature besides the wyvern-like one.

The creature that resembles a sea dragon is the sea dragon from Monster Hunter World. It shares the same name and looks almost exactly like the one described in the legend.

It looked extremely ferocious, and its sharp teeth proved that it was carnivorous, which made everyone worry that it might attack the ship.

Everyone was very nervous when they saw the sea dragon approaching. Soon, the sea dragon curiously observed the remote-controlled boats for a while, but lost interest after discovering that they were just "minerals" floating on the sea surface. When the creature that looked like the legendary sea dragon dived into the water, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Phew, thank goodness they didn't send anyone directly to the island, or we would have become that monster's luncheon meat cans."

Hearing this, the people felt a little relieved. If it had been people sailing there, they would most likely have been attacked by that monster.

The technicians standing nearby seemed to have figured something out and said to everyone:

"The noise from the propellers probably attracted the attention. If we're going to board the ship and go to the island, we'll need to make some more preparations, or it would be a shame to end up as canned food for those monsters."

Hearing the technician's words, everyone nodded in agreement, after all, that kind of death was just too ridiculous.

Volume 3 [Yohaka: King of the Monsters]: Chapter 1690 [Sample Collection]

After the remote-controlled boat successfully reached the edge of the Guiding Island, the Monarch team members in their underground base breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that they had arrived safely. Clearly, they were very lucky to have made it this far.

At least that's how it seems for now. However, after the remote-controlled boats arrived near Guiding Island, they could only stay near the beach because none of them had amphibious capabilities. But that shouldn't be a problem for the technicians.

As the storage compartments on the three remote-controlled boats opened, three cheetah-like robots climbed out of the boats. These cheetah-like robots had backpack-like devices on their backs and two mechanical arms for data collection.

Meanwhile, the Monarch organization's operators at the underground base were also controlling these three robots to carry out data collection. At the same time, through the robots' high-definition cameras, the Monarch members could clearly see the situation on the beach. On the beach, they saw a group of enormous hermit crab-like creatures foraging for food. Seeing this, the group couldn't help but marvel.