Two to three months had passed in the blink of an eye.
In the depths of the ancient city, the ancient city walls were still broken but one could still see the glory and glory of the past.
On the hundred-meter-tall city wall, there was a clear ditch under the huge gap. The water was so clear that one could see the green aquatic plants and round pebbles.
Under the sunlight, the sparkling waves made people feel inexplicably comfortable.
Along the ditch, behind the densely packed ancient buildings, there was a huge karst cave.
It was one of the most mysterious places on Earth, Skull Island.
As for the huge karst cave and the city outside?
These were the traces left behind by the humans who used to live on Skull Island.
However, after a terrifying disaster, the majestic city walls were breached and countless natives were killed. In the end, only a barren ruin was left.
However, that did not mean that there was no life in the city.
In the huge karst cave, there was a giant beast that was over a hundred meters in size. However, it was not appropriate to describe it as a giant beast.
That was because there was a thick layer of grayish-white cement on its surface.
It gave one the feeling that it was a creature that had been sleeping here for many years. Due to the erosion of time, it eventually turned into a huge fossil together with its skin.
However, the fossil was very precise, so it looked more like a stone sculpture.
"Thump, thump." The heartbeat sounded like an ancient war drum.
Amidst the desolation, there was the heaviness of the earth. One could not help but feel refreshed as if they had seen the barbaric and cruel era.
However, it was a pity that there was only one heartbeat. Following that, blood flowed in the body like a surging river.
In the end, as the sound of the war drum faded away, the river dried up and everything returned to the deathly silence. As for the next heartbeat?
That would only be heard a day later.
It was Nagini's fifth deep sleep. This meant that after waking up, his strength would officially enter the fourth stage. He would become an Overlord on the same level as King Kong and the skeleton crawlers.
The speed was not slow. The snake monster took more than ten years to advance from the first stage to the fourth stage.
Although the dragon was much faster than the snake monster, it was the result of Nagini's years of hard work.
Godzilla, on the other hand, was only one year old this year. Based on his lifespan of ten thousand years?
Most of the other Godzillas were still babies.
The reason why he grew so fast was partly because Nagini had cheated. A normal Godzilla would not grow at such a terrifying speed.
On the other hand, Nagini's mentality had changed.
What is freedom?
Freedom was relative, just like there was no absolute fairness in the world, only relative fairness.
Everything in the world, as long as it existed, must have one or more opposites. Otherwise, the balance of everything would be broken, and the rules of the universe would inevitably be destroyed.
If he wanted to be truly invincible, he had to break through the restrictions of these rules.
And the person who made the rules, or rather, that existence, was the universe itself.
This meant that the so-called universe was actually a sixth stage life form that Nagini had been studying all this time, but it was only a concept.
Because there was still a long way to go before reaching the sixth stage, Nagini could not and did not have the power to explore the mysteries of the sixth stage. However, through his research on the sixth stage, Nagini also found some interesting things.
Was the Mystic Woman really that important?
Was Sam really indispensable in Nagini's heart?
No, in fact, most of the time, what Nagini needed was not Sam, but a symbol, a symbol that could pull his nature.
The core of a comedy was a tragedy. This sentence was very interesting and was very similar to Nagini's.
On the surface, his personality was very bad. It could even be described as a person who killed people like flies. He was extremely self-centered, never cared about what others thought, and was naturally cold.
But in reality?
He was a person who valued relationships the most. Because of his personality, or the influence of his monster genes, no matter how hard Nagini struggled, he could not resist his instincts. He gradually forgot the people he once cared about, and in the end, they became strangers.
In fact, it was not only Nagini. Everything in the world, including humans, was the same.
Liking the new and hating the old was a scary word. What was really scary was not betrayal, but forgetting. What was forgetting?
The feeling of forgetting was like cleaning the house and accidentally finding the toys from the past in the treasure chest under the bed.
You might excitedly play with them, but it would not be like when you were young, jumping around on the bed happily.
Why?
It was not because you had a phone, a computer, and too many other things that brought you happiness.
It was because the toys could no longer bring you happiness, so you would forget them.
And this kind of forgetting was not just limited to toys. It could be friends who had not seen each other for many years. You would be very happy to see them, but after that, you would rarely call them.
Another example was a girlfriend who had been with you for a few years. Did you love her?
No. Were the feelings you felt now really as strong as when you first met two years ago?
This was forgetting. No matter how hard you struggled, you could not change the forgetting. This had nothing to do with your personality, experience, or education since you were young. It was just a biological instinct.
Compared to humans, Nagini was easier to forget.
This was a very painful feeling. Nagini hated contact with people. It was not because he did not like contact, but because he knew that even if he did, he would forget that feeling soon.
For example, Toledo, Mia, and the others in the past.
Could you imagine that when the person you loved so much and was willing to give up everything for him or her, when you saw the other person again, the memories of the past would appear one after another, but there would be no ripples of pain in your heart?
No, there would not even be pain.
There was no love, no hate, nothing. It was even worse than a blade of grass on the ground.
Therefore, even though Najini was a stubborn person, his emotions were much stronger than the average person. This was because he knew the pain of loss.
It was also because of this that many times, he would deliberately refuse contact.
However, the problem was that no one could maintain a cold heart because that represented endless loneliness. Therefore, he was also a "selfish" bastard.
Like a moth to a candle, he liked the moth to dance around him, enjoying the joy of having someone to accompany him. Although he knew that in the end, the moth would be swallowed by the flame and nothing would be left, he still enjoyed it.
Sam's death, on the other hand, was an accident.
Because normally, Nagini would eventually forget Sam, but Sam's death successfully activated the emotion called darkness in Nagini's heart.
Compared to love, hatred could make Nagini feel his existence more.
Every revenge, every killing, would bring Nagini a different kind of satisfaction.
However, this also meant that two years later, Nagini did not really lose his humanity. His humanity still existed, but it was blackened, so it seemed to have merged with the beast.
This state was very dangerous. Unlike the previous situation where he was like a moth drawn to a flame, the burning of hatred wasn't the moth, but rather the candle itself. Through the venting of hatred, the more satisfaction Najini received, the faster the candle burned.
And the moment the candle went out?
It was not like he had guessed before, where the beast would devour humanity, but he would disappear. Although he was still Nagini, the soul that controlled this body was no longer Nagini.
Perhaps, he would become a symbol that represented a special meaning, or even a rule?
In fact, if it was not for the moment when he killed the captain, Nagini felt the change in his heart. He felt that the hatred in his heart for Sam's death was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Perhaps it would not be long before Nagini disappeared.
So, many people thought that Nagini saved the mutated humans?
But in fact, all of this was just Nagini saving himself.
He knew very well that Mystique could not become Sam, but he wanted her to think that he was Sam. Not only did she have to believe it, but Nagini also had to make himself believe it.
He did not want to die. Although he knew that it was selfish of him to do so, he really did not want to become a cold, emotionless, robot-like monster.
And this was also the reason why Godzilla only entered the fourth stage after two to three months.