Godzilla Earth: Origin (Patreon)

Volume 2 Chapter 44: Titan Remains from 4.6 Billion Years Ago (Part 3)

The continuous breath burned through the crust, melting large chunks of rock below, creating a path wide enough for Godzilla to descend and ascend.

As the breath exploded, the nuclear light darkened the surroundings. The fireball continued to expand, enveloping Godzilla itself.

Hiss—

Amidst the light of the exploding earth, Godzilla descended.

As the fireball rose, the pit below remained molten. Godzilla's hands delved deep into the hole cleared of surface soil, then slammed downwards.

It plunged several tens of meters underground.

Using its full strength, it pushed the rocks of the crust, flipping over layers hundreds of meters thick, creating "mountains" like it did on the coastline.

After lifting a huge rock, Godzilla pressed its arms against the bottom of the rock as hard as it could to prevent it from collapsing.

Then it slowly lowered the rock to the lowest point its arms could reach and exerted all its strength to throw it upwards!

The colossal rock, weighing over a billion tons, flew outward from Godzilla at a speed of hundreds of meters per second!

It crashed into the rising fireball, creating a large hole in the fireball before flying several kilometers away and landing on the ground outside the crater like a meteor.

With one excavation, it directly dug out hundreds of meters of rock layers.

As Godzilla dug deeper, it used its hands to excavate several huge boulders and threw them out using the same method.

But as it continued digging, it gradually ran out of strength.

Throwing boulders weighing billions of tons to a height of two or three kilometers was already Godzilla's limit. Any higher, and it was beyond its current strength.

Next, to dig deeper, it could only rely on its breath to penetrate the layers of the earth.

But before digging, let's block the eyes of the humans.

Boom! Boom!

Suddenly, in the once dry Australian desert, a little moisture appeared. In the south of Godzilla's ecosystem, with the command of the strong wind, a large mass of rain clouds rolled towards the north.

Before long, this place would be completely enveloped in thick clouds, completely cutting off the human's line of sight.

After manipulating the natural adjustment of the rain clouds, Godzilla began its digging.

The monster remains below were now only over 4,000 meters away and could be excavated completely today.

Switching its power, Godzilla used a small breath to melt the soil, creating a passage to transport the rocks above.

Godzilla began its excavation, using its breath to cut the rock mass, then exerting force to break the rock layers into several large chunks, which it then placed on the edge of the pit.

Just like an ordinary human digging rocks.

At this moment, the satellites in the sky, after the mushroom clouds caused by Godzilla's breath gradually dissipated, re-focused on this area. The various levels of officials who had already hidden in shelters watched Godzilla's inexplicable actions.

They had no idea what it was doing.

This... Did Godzilla also like civil engineering? Liked digging holes?

This is impossible, damn it!

From the photos we're seeing now, Godzilla seems to be excavating something, and those bones it's digging out and placing aside seem to be its target.

Godzilla seems to be collecting them, but why?

We don't know yet, but they're about to find out. Satellites are monitoring Godzilla's every move, as long as—

Boom!

The rain clouds appeared.

Okay, pretend we didn't say that.

The sky darkened with clouds, and light rain drizzled down. Meanwhile, Godzilla continued to use low-power breath to cut through rocks, while using its newly evolved ability to repeatedly ascertain the appearance of the thing underground.

It's really strange...

As Godzilla continued to excavate, its internal doubts grew deeper, because as it dug deeper, the appearance of the rocks beneath its feet began to change.

They were no longer just ordinary rock layers; instead, a huge confusion appeared, with white patches intersecting the blue-black base color. This made it look like countless white minerals embedded in a black giant rock.

It gave Godzilla a strange sense of beauty.

This is...

This is not ordinary granite. Godzilla recognizes this type of rock, whether from its innate memories or its past experiences. It's gabbro.

And it's not just any gabbro.

It exhibits a layered appearance and is extremely large in volume, composed of labradorite crystals piled together from basaltic magma, with exceptionally high purity. This is far beyond the basaltic gabbros found at the bottom of the ocean.

To form such gabbros requires a massive magma chamber, but where is it, and where are the remnants of the magma chamber?

Godzilla hasn't found them yet, but during its investigation, it discovered something else. The structure of these gabbros spreads much farther and wider than Godzilla anticipated.

Gabbros of this scale cannot be formed by just one or two ordinary magma chambers. Furthermore, there's a sense of compression on these rocks, as if they've been struck by countless giant hammers falling from the sky.

As evidence, there are many gabbros in the surrounding rock layers that have been crushed into fragments.

These rocks... were not born in magma chambers.

Godzilla is certain of this, as such compression traces wouldn't appear in magma chambers. They only occur in places with dense meteorite impacts, like...

The Moon.

Yes, these gabbros here. They are similar to the gabbros found on the Moon...

They share the same structure, the same traces.

And the Moon has these traces because it has been bombarded by meteorite showers day and night. But why do these gabbros here have the same traces? Earth has never experienced such frequent and dense meteorite bombardment since the appearance of the Moon. So where did the rock layers here receive such impacts?

...

Traces of meteorite impacts... structures similar to Moon gabbros... a posture resembling condensation in magma.

Ah, I see.

That explains it.

Indeed, after the appearance of the Moon, Earth hasn't experienced such frequent and dense meteorite bombardment.

But what about before the appearance of the Moon?

During the time when the surface was still a sea of magma, in the early days of the solar system.

These rocks are probably from that era. Only then can their strangeness be explained.

So, am I standing on the rock layers of Earth just after its formation, before the appearance of the Moon, 4.6 billion years ago?

And since the rock layers enclosing them are from 4.6 billion years ago...

Then when did they exist?

Godzilla blasted open the final barrier between it and the remains.

The remnants from 4.6 billion years ago were now officially revealed before Godzilla.