Years later, Skull Island is now known to the world and a research facility has been built there. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions still occasionally beset the island. Kong has grown to gargantuan proportions, over 160 feet tall. Other beasts have grown as well; Contact with the energy core started a gigantism epidemic. The hostile conditions became too much for the human natives, so they abandoned Skull Island. Their fate is unknown. Alone and surrounded by enemies in an unsustainable environment, Kong is bitter and depressed, constantly wandering the island. Once a protector of humans, he now mostly ignores them. In an uncharted area near the center of the island, scientists who've been following clues dropped in the previous film have finally discovered what they have long suspected existed: the remnants of an ancient alien city! Lots of lovecraftian implications. They try to decipher glyphs, many of which seem to represent the the Kumonga. Ignoring the warning si...