Godzilla Earth: Origin - Book 1: Chapter 31: Nagoya-Osaka Operation - Light from Beyond (Four)

After narrowly dodging the railgun’s attack by leaping, Godzilla slightly altered its direction and entered the mountainous region in the far eastern inland.

It’s not feasible to keep relying on jumping to avoid the electromagnetic railgun indefinitely, right?

Even if it were possible to evade every shot like this, it would be too troublesome.

Perhaps it could try running to evade? But for a behemoth weighing 1.8 million tons, running hundreds of kilometers from Shizuoka to Nagoya…

That would require a significant amount of energy, not to mention the unnecessary hardship.

The route from Shizuoka’s coastal plain to downtown Nagoya is not a straight line; it’s a detour.

So, instead of expending a considerable amount of energy taking the long way around, it’s better to walk in a straight line or take a sea route, bypassing the areas where the railgun cannot reach.

However, if it chooses the sea route, dealing with the cities in the far eastern inland would be troublesome. It would have to repeatedly go ashore and dive into the water. Therefore, Godzilla made a decision.

It would traverse the mountainous region.

For the far east, plains are scarce.

The majority of the area consists of mountains, and within these mountains, there are countless hills exceeding 200-300 meters in height.

Once it enters these mountainous areas, the electromagnetic railguns manufactured by humans become utterly useless because they are obstructed by the hills between them and Godzilla.

As long as there is a mountain peak of five to six hundred meters along the trajectory of the railgun aimed at Godzilla, it becomes impossible for the railgun to hit it.

Even if these railguns are positioned on mountaintops that are already a kilometer high, it wouldn’t matter because the Earth is curved.

Being able to attack Godzilla, located on the plains, from hundreds of kilometers away is already the limit for high mountains. How could it reach a few hundred meters higher?

I’m sorry, but it’s not possible.

The electromagnetic railguns in the Tsu district of Nagoya City, capable of cross-sea attacks on the current Godzilla, have already demonstrated remarkable capabilities.

However, if it enters the mountainous region… the three other railguns that haven’t been fired yet serve as examples.

They were unable to fire because there were mountains separating them from Godzilla.

Godzilla, who had absorbed the memories of the deceased natural world, was well aware of this fact. So it slightly adjusted its direction and entered the mountainous region.

The sprawling ridges became Godzilla’s cover, rendering the anti-Godzilla cannons ineffective in targeting it. They could only wait as Godzilla gradually approached.

It strode between the valleys, occasionally climbing up a ridge, and at times, its own weight caused the ridge to collapse, sliding down the mountains like a human on a slide.

It glided hundreds or even thousands of kilometers from the mountaintops, landing in the foothills, leaving trails with its dorsal fins.

Finding a lake among the mountains, it submerged into its depths and indulged in rolling around undisturbed by humans.

“Roar…!”

This was the first time since awakening that it had been so close to nature. In this natural environment, its mind seemed to become clearer and more serene.

Emerging from the lake onto the shore, Godzilla walked before these natural creations, which were even older and taller than itself, feeling their presence.

It gazed at the mountains beneath its feet and surrounding it, flashing images in its mind from 450 million years ago, when these mountains had not yet formed and the entire Far East was still underwater.

These were the memories of nature.

In these memories, it saw the strange and diverse life that flourished in the first bustling oceans after the Cambrian explosion.

It witnessed how the uplift of the continents raised the Far East archipelago from the depths of the sea.

Then, it also saw a star brighter than any celestial body in the night sky.

It nearly turned the night into day, radiating heat more intense than moonlight yet gentler than the scorching sun.

It spread its light upon this world, and every life touched by its radiance underwent profound genetic changes.

Godzilla knew what that star was.

It knew what it was and the name of this era.

The Late Ordovician mass extinction.

The Late Ordovician mass extinction… the first major extinction event in history after the proliferation of multicellular organisms.

It wiped out the majority of life at the time, second only to the Permian-Triassic mass extinction and… the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.

Humanity had various speculations about the causes of these extinctions: underwater volcanoes, ice growth, asteroid impacts, and gamma-ray bursts.

From this scene, it seemed that the speculation about gamma-ray bursts was the closest to the truth.

This theory once stated that there was a star not far from Earth approaching the end of its life, eventually vanishing in a spectacular explosion.

Incidentally, the gamma-ray burst it triggered destroyed the Earth’s ecosystem at both poles facing it.

This was once a hypothesis, but now, from the memories of nature, it seems that this hypothesis can be confirmed…

Wait, something is off.

In Godzilla’s recollection, when it “looked” at that bright star, yes, there is something wrong. The size of that star doesn’t match the size of a typical star!

It isn’t some terminal star; it’s just an ordinary planet within the solar system. It is…

Venus?

“King Ghidorah…”

It seems like a voice is saying something.

“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!”

Suddenly, continuous explosions resound.

Godzilla realizes that its memories have ended.

Consciousness returns to the real world, and upon awakening, Godzilla finds that humans have resumed bombarding its body.

Incendiary bombs, high-explosive bombs, and the newly developed MOP4 bunker-buster missiles.

All sorts of weapons are being unleashed upon Godzilla, and surprisingly, compared to the naval bombardment, the attacks from the ground forces have some effect.

The reason lies in the gigantic tunneling bombs employed by the army.

These behemoths, weighing over 30 tons with a payload of more than 5 tons, can indeed achieve a penetration depth of one to two meters when they explode in close proximity to Godzilla’s molten aluminum skin.

They inflict some damage on Godzilla, although it’s relatively minor.

A blue light emanates from its mouth as Godzilla first uses its breath to eliminate the swarming pests around it, then aims its breath at the human ground forces.

All unmanned vehicles, it seems, either pre-emplaced or on standby.

Human radar reveals that not a single person is inside the unmanned vehicles relentlessly bombarding from a distance.

These unmanned vehicles are distributed behind different mountain ridges, apparently intending to leverage the natural power of the mountains to withstand Godzilla’s breath.

Similar to how it used the mountains to shield itself from the threat of the railguns, but these rocket vehicles and artillery launchers are positioned behind thinner ridges.

With a little effort, Godzilla’s breath can burn through the ridges they are hiding behind.

Do they want to lure me into using my breath here?

A glow appears in Godzilla’s mouth.

The humans’ intentions are clear, and Godzilla has decided to fulfill them.

Try not to cause harm to the natural scenery of nature.

With that in mind, Godzilla exhales, and the intensely heated breath erupts from its mouth, directly hitting a mountain ridge several hundred meters thick.

Like a sunburst within the mountains, as if the entire peak has been thrown into a crimson hell, the temperature of the ridge rises instantaneously, and the rays hotter than the surface of the sun continuously melt its interior.

In just a few seconds, the intensely heated ridge bursts open under the pressure of high-temperature steam from thousands of degrees, and the entire mountain peak explodes into the sky, with countless rocks and charred wood flying in all directions, igniting the dense forest.

The entire mountaintop is blasted into a molten state, the ridge is severed and melted, revealing the sublime rocks and the forest burning on the backside.