According to the monster's demands, it needs human mental anguish and madness as nourishment to aid its growth.
Only by interacting with more mentally unstable individuals and absorbing that energy can it grow into its complete form.
After some contemplation, Lei Hong delegated this matter to the United States and relocated the monster from the South Pacific to New York.
Conveniently hidden and nurtured beneath the Statue of Liberty.
For over a hundred years, while the monster resided deep within the pedestal, the United States would daily send people to capture various homeless individuals and loners.
Sending them into the pedestal to be tormented by this monster.
The monster would drive these people mad using various methods, absorbing their mental energy and simultaneously treating them as food.
This heinous activity has been going on for over a hundred years, unnoticed by anyone.
