The savior of American comics? I am the evil god of the subspace!

"Huh?!"

Sure enough, the previously nonchalant crowd all turned their heads, suddenly intrigued.

Houston Brooks seized the opportunity, pointing to two locations specially marked in red on the holographic image, and said:

"Look at these massive tunnels hidden beneath the ground, stretching for kilometers, even tens of kilometers. Their destination is likely the true home of all the Titan beasts, the origin point located in the Hollow Earth!"

"And this data is derived from the seismic wave feedback generated by bomb explosions when I landed on Skull Island in 1973."

Then he pointed to another image that looked somewhat similar.

"And this one was detected by the staff at Outpost 236 on Skull Island in recent months using more sophisticated instruments..."

"By comparison, it's not hard to see that beneath these underground tunnels, there's an extra unknown energy vortex."

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be an energy entrance to the Hollow Earth that is still in a closed state."

"The reason I said earlier that the mission to explore the Hollow Earth was considered impossible was because Kong previously wouldn't allow anyone to damage the island, so the plan was shelved indefinitely."

"But now that Kong has been taken away, we can restart this mission..."

"And the location has already been chosen: the Skullcrawler's lair. Kong has already cleared out the ferocious monsters lurking there for us."

"According to Colonel Joanna Edwards' report, the Skullcrawler's lair is at least 6 kilometers below the surface, and the interior is extremely open, making it very suitable for large excavating machines to enter and operate..."

The entrance to the Hollow Earth actually exists?

Almost everyone present was deeply shocked by this news.

Upon closer inspection, it made perfect sense.

Otherwise, they really couldn't explain why the Titan beasts, including Godzilla, could sometimes appear in vastly different areas in such a short amount of time.

Did they teleport?

That was obviously impossible!

So the most reasonable explanation was that, in addition to the entrance on Skull Island, there should be many unknown secret passages around the world.

Thus...

In the following public voting session, unsurprisingly, almost everyone expressed support for the Hollow Earth exploration mission.

As a result, the official start date for drilling and excavation was set for five days later!

But what they didn't know at the moment was that this excavation would not only fail to successfully explore the Hollow Earth, but would also awaken a sleeping Abyss King!!!

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5 days later.

In the sea area less than 50 kilometers from the Panama Canal.

The Hercules was slowly sailing forward at a snail's pace of less than 15 knots per hour.

There was no other way.

Who asked the Skull Island tough guy to get seasick?

On the deck of the Hercules.

Kong lay face-up on the deck, looking at Karl floating in the air with a look of utter despair.

And conveyed various thoughts to him through consciousness, such as "Am I going to die?" and "When will we reach land?"

"Don't worry, you're just getting seasick for the first time. You'll be better next time..."

What else could Karl do but try to soothe his emotions?

In fact, he wanted to reach Sokovia sooner than Kong did.

Because if they encountered Godzilla on the sea, the situation would become very awkward.

First of all, Kong was not good at naval warfare, and if a real fight broke out, he probably wouldn't even have a chance to resist.

Secondly, Karl was not yet sure whether the combination of the Orca device and the Mind Link would work on Godzilla.

After all, Godzilla was a special existence of a higher level than Kong.

So, now was not the best time to meet.

"Boss!"

A crew member jogged up to Karl and reported:

"The captain asked me to inform you that the Hercules is expected to arrive at the Panama Canal coast in an hour and a half.

But because there are quite a few ships queuing for passage today, we may have to stay here for the night and only be able to pass through normally tomorrow morning."

"I see."

Karl nodded slightly, not showing any objection to this.

Because he knew very well that such delays in passage were common occurrences in the Panama Canal.

There were two main reasons for this.

First, because the Panama Canal is the most important waterway connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, without exception.

So there are countless ships that want to pass through this "world bridge," which is known as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, every day.

Second, the lock technology used in the Panama Canal to this day is very backward, and it takes a lot of time to adjust the water level before each opening and closing of the water gates.

On the entire 81.3-kilometer waterway, a total of 6 locks have been built, which also makes the average time for each ship to pass through the canal as high as about 10 hours.

In peak season, plus the time spent waiting in line, it often takes 20 to 30 hours to pass through smoothly.

In addition to this.

Even if the ships meet the size and weight limits required for passage, the number of ships allowed to pass through each day is only 22!!

This is the fundamental reason why Karl chose the Hercules, which has the characteristics of a Panamax bulk carrier, and did not choose a larger aircraft carrier.

Uh... well, actually it's because the Aspace Group doesn't have an aircraft carrier yet!

"Boss, Mr. Zemo wants to talk to you." At this moment, another crew member ran over with a satellite phone.

Taking the phone, Karl asked with some doubts, "What's wrong?"

"Boss, just now, the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, less than 300 kilometers from San Francisco, was destroyed by an insect-type behemoth..."

Zemo didn't waste any words and directly transmitted the relevant pictures and reports. After reading them, Karl muttered to himself in slight surprise:

"What's going on? Shouldn't this female MUTO be appearing in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository in Nevada?"

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Damn world fusion, if things keep going this way, my little bit of prescient "advantage" will be completely wiped out, ah?!