Now, seeing Gunpei Ikari devoured by the Skullcrawler, Mark couldn’t help but feel sorrow.
But Mark knew this was not the time for grief; he was not out of danger yet.
The urgent task now was to flee quickly and shake off the pursuit of this Skullcrawler.
Fortunately, Mark’s luck was good.
With Gunpei Ikari’s sacrifice acting as a distraction, Mark finally escaped the Skullcrawler’s pursuit.
Moreover, after escaping the Skullcrawler, Mark accidentally stumbled upon the Iwi Tribe settlement deep within Skull Island.
Upon discovering Mark, a fellow human, the Iwi People rescued him and brought him back to their settlement, showing no hostility or rejection despite him being an outsider.
Entering the Iwi Tribe settlement, Mark finally breathed a complete sigh of relief.
Subsequently, Mark stayed temporarily with the Iwi Tribe, gradually learning about the tribe and the situation on the island.
The Iwi Tribe were the indigenous people of the island, living here for generations, subsisting on planting, farming, and hunting, living a relatively primitive life.
The Iwi People could not speak, but they could perform simple communication through sign language.
At the same time, to live on the island and defend against those terrifying giant beasts, the Iwi Tribe had built high walls; the tribespeople lived inside the walls daily, with several outposts established outside to monitor the external situation.
Furthermore, through living and observing within the Iwi Tribe, Mark discovered something else.
The Iwi Tribe believed in a deity.
But the deity the Iwi Tribe worshipped was a giant beast named Kong.
And Mark realized he had seen this deity beast worshipped by the Iwi Tribe before—it was the giant gorilla, one of the three terrifying beasts he and Gunpei Ikari had first seen.
“So it’s the deity worshipped by the Iwi Tribe.
No wonder it didn’t attack Gunpei Ikari and me back then.
From this perspective, Kong shouldn’t have any hostility toward us humans.” Mark suddenly understood why Kong hadn’t attacked him and Gunpei Ikari at the time.
Since Kong could be worshipped as a deity by the Iwi Tribe, it was clear he bore no hostility toward humans.
However, what puzzled Mark was that if Kong was worshipped as a deity by the Iwi Tribe, why weren’t the other two giant beasts he and Gunpei Ikari saw—who seemed to be on very good terms with Kong—included in the Iwi Tribe’s faith?
After all, judging by their size at the time, the other two beasts were not smaller than Kong and were perhaps even larger.
If Kong was worshipped as a deity by the Iwi Tribe, then the other two beasts who seemed to have a good relationship with Kong should normally have been worshipped as part of the Iwi Tribe’s faith as well.
But from the murals Mark observed, the only deity worshipped by the Iwi Tribe was Kong; there were no signs of the other two beasts he and Gunpei Ikari had seen.
Mark couldn’t quite figure it out.
But unable to find an answer, Mark didn’t delve too deeply into it.
Later, Mark discovered that the Iwi Tribe was also deeply afraid of a creature called the Skull Devil—the very same kind of Skullcrawler that had chased him and eaten Gunpei Ikari.
Furthermore, through the Iwi Tribe’s murals, Mark made another discovery.
According to the Iwi murals, Kong was likely the only existence capable of opposing the Skullcrawlers.
But Mark immediately thought of those two terrifying giant beasts that were with Kong; those two beasts looked even larger than Kong.
Could it be they were unable to fight the Skullcrawlers?
Especially the one that looked like a terrifying Oriental Dragon.
Of the three giant beasts at that time, the one that gave Mark the greatest sense of pressure was that terrifying beast shaped like an Oriental Dragon.
Meanwhile…
While Mark was at the Iwi Tribe settlement beginning to slowly understand the situation on Skull Island…
On the other side, Gale had also brought Kong to Flood Dragon Island.
When crossing the sea from Skull Island to Flood Dragon Island, the Giant Turtle had to carry Kong because this fellow was still a landlubber; Gale could only helplessly have the Giant Turtle ferry Kong across the sea.
Then, after arriving on Flood Dragon Island, Gale started telling Kong to learn how to swim immediately.
Gale remembered that in his previous life, during the first great battle between Kong and Godzilla, it was because they were at sea—if Godzilla hadn’t lacked the intent to kill Kong, Kong would have definitely been GG.
It might not seem tempting right nobut who knows what the future holds?
“And If you’re enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!”