A postmodern-style cafe on the streets of downtown San Francisco.
A man in a black hooded sweatshirt sat in the corner of the cafe, his left hand in his pocket, his right hand wearing a black glove, tapping lightly on the keyboard of the laptop in front of him.
The handsome face hidden in the shadow of the hood was full of strangeness and excitement.
It was Lin Zhongtian who entered the third metal door.
"I didn't expect it. I didn't expect it..."
“This is actually the world of Godzilla!”
Lin Zhongtian smiled and followed his gaze to the laptop screen, where a video shot from an overhead angle was playing. In the video, a giant beast, whose body blocked out the sky and was almost as tall as a tall building, was fighting another giant beast in the city.
The former is none other than Godzilla, the protagonist of the 2014 version of "Godzilla".
The latter is the villain in the play, Godzilla's archenemy - MUTO.
MUTO is an original monster in the Godzilla film series. It has a triangular head and jaw, red eyes, two pairs of huge forelimbs in front of its body, and relatively short arms growing on its chest and abdomen. Its appearance is close to that of an insect, and its actual habits are also somewhat similar to those of insects.
It feeds on radioactive energy, so it will lay eggs inside Godzilla. The young will use the atomic reactor in Godzilla's body as nutrients to grow and develop, and will kill the host after hatching. The ancient Godzilla in the opening of the 2014 version of Godzilla was killed by the parasitism of the MUTO eggs.
Therefore, it is generally believed that MUTOs were Godzilla's archenemy in ancient times.
In the first Godzilla movie, two MUTOs, a male and a female, built a nest and laid eggs near Chinatown in San Francisco, and confronted Godzilla who came across the Golden Gate Bridge. After a fierce battle, Godzilla successfully killed the two MUTOs with the help of humans, leaving the city in ruins and diving into the sea alone and disappearing.
It had been five years since the "San Francisco Incident".
San Francisco, which was once in ruins, has regained its vitality thanks to human efforts.
High-rise buildings are rising from the ground, the economy is recovering steadily, and everything seems to be moving in a better direction.
But no matter what, it has only been five years since the San Francisco incident, and the impact it left behind is still continuing to ferment.
Lin Zhongtian traveled across the space coordinates and landed in the new slums of San Francisco. Most of the people there were poor people affected by the monster war five years ago.
Some of them lost their homes, some lost their jobs, and some even lost their families and parts of their limbs.
The former is easy to deal with. As long as San Francisco is rebuilt and the city is in ruins, they will be able to find jobs and start over sooner or later.
But those who have lost their ability to work because of this incident can only rely on government relief to make ends meet, and some people may not even be able to keep this little government relief.
Lin Zhongtian happened to see this scene when he traveled through time.
Four able-bodied black youths were robbing two elderly people of their relief money.
Without any hesitation, Lin Zhongtian immediately stepped forward to stop them, but who would have thought that these four black men not only did not stop, but even dared to attack his fists with their faces.
In desperation, Lin Zhongtian could only choose to defend himself, fight back, and give them a baby-like sleep.
After smiling and sending off the two old men who kept thanking him, Lin Zhongtian read the memories of the four black men, and then learned about the monster war that took place in San Francisco five years ago.
But at that time, the four black men were hiding in the basement and did not witness the battle between the monsters with their own eyes.
So Lin Zhongtian left the new slum and followed the memories of the four black people to the city of San Francisco. He found an old man in the city who specialized in buying stolen goods for zero dollars. After a cordial conversation, he got some US dollars and a video of the monster battle five years ago from him.
After seeing Brother and Muto in the video, Lin Zhongtian finally confirmed the identity of this world.
"This is a world of monsters!"
Lin Zhongtian closed his notebook and tapped the table thoughtfully, thinking that it should be difficult for time travelers to appear in this world.
Even if there really are time travelers, they would probably find a remote place to live in seclusion and would never dare to come out and participate in the plot easily.
After all, in this world, the power of individual humans is too small...
"It's not easy to find one, fellow." Lin Zhongtian sighed, then thought about it and shook his head, "Forget it, let's just go with the flow. Whether you can meet me depends on your own luck..."
With this thought in mind, Lin Zhongtian temporarily put aside the task of finding his fellow villager and began to recall the plot with great interest.
According to the information he has obtained so far, Godzilla vs. MUTO took place five years ago. If he remembers correctly, the timeline of the second Godzilla movie is five years after the first one!
"Let me think, where did the opening scene of Godzilla: King of the Monsters take place..."
“Oh, it seems to be Yunnan!”
Lin Zhongtian's eyes lit up, he immediately stood up, and gently stroked his left hand in front of his body.
In an instant, a gray light flashed from the black jade ring on the index finger of his left hand.
The laptop computer that was originally placed on the table disappeared in an instant.
This ring is one of the space objects made by Lin Zhongtian. It has a huge space inside and is filled with gray fog. With this thing, he no longer has to worry about the problem of insufficient endurance of his clone.
Lin Zhongtian put on his hood, put his hands in his pockets, left the cafe, and disappeared into the crowd on the street.
Five minutes later, a high-rise building with an octopus logo appeared in the city.
Lin Zhongtian, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, stood on the edge of the roof, looking up at the sky in front of him and stretching out his left hand.
In an instant, gray light flowed on the black jade ring, and pieces of bright silver armor appeared beside Lin Zhongtian, floating and rotating in the air according to his will, aiming at Lin Zhongtian's body through the air.
The next second, bright silver armor parts suddenly flew over and turned into streams of light that stuck to Lin Zhongtian's body.
In just a few seconds, a silver-armored general wearing silver armor and a black cloak with silver stripes on his back appeared on the top of the building.
This is the armor cast by Lin Zhongtian based on the silver armor of Erlang Shen Yang Jian in the TV series "The Lotus Lantern".
Both the armor parts and the cloak behind him are made of high-strength compressed matter and a dense gray mist network. The principle is the same as that of the golden-armored general in the John Wick world.
In other words, this is a set of armor that allows Lin Zhongtian to fly in his physical body!
After getting dressed, Lin Zhongtian leaped forward and turned into a streak of silver light before disappearing into the sky.
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When talking about the Godzilla series of movies, we have to mention an organization - Monarch.
The organization was founded in the 1940s and is specifically responsible for investigating unconfirmed unknown creatures on Earth. It can be said to be the most mysterious human organization in the Godzilla monster world.
Today, the Imperial Organization has spread all over the world. They have found ancient creatures sleeping in various parts of the world and established base outposts around these ancient creatures to guard and study them.
The place where Lin Zhongtian was going this time was the Imperial Organization’s No. 61 base located in Yunnan, China.
In the original plot, Dr. Emma Russell, a member of the Monarch organization, and her team followed the sound signal of a mysterious creature to the tropical rainforest in Yunnan, where they discovered a giant stone temple with a huge cocoon in which was sleeping another famous monster in the Godzilla world - Mothra.
Mothra is the queen of monsters who symbolizes "motherhood" and is also a benign representative of the natural order.
In most of the Godzilla series, Mothra appears as a guardian god and never actively harms humans.
But in the plot of the movie "Godzilla 2: King of the Monsters", the security of the base suddenly went out of control just after Mothra hatched from the cocoon. The sudden situation made the base security personnel a little panicked, and they subconsciously shot and attacked Mothra, which caused the Mothra larva to run wild.
At the same time, a group of people took the opportunity to raid the base and kidnapped Dr. Emma and her daughter, as well as a device called Orca.
When Lin Zhongtian arrived at Base No. 61, the base had already been destroyed and black smoke was everywhere.
Helicopters flew back and forth in the sky, carrying abandoned buildings, trying to rescue the data and survivors in the base.
Many tents were temporarily built outside the base, and people were coming in and out like ants, carrying the injured who were groaning and wailing on stretchers.
Seeing this scene, Lin Zhongtian sighed softly.
Although human civilization is powerful, the power of an individual is still too small. Facing behemoths like Godzilla and Mothra, life is as fragile as a candle in the wind.
After expressing his emotion, Lin Zhongtian turned his gaze and looked towards a waterfall not far away.
There, the Mothra larva that escaped from Base 61 was spinning a cocoon, preparing to emerge.