The Monkey King

The hunter stood up and lightly touched the blade with his hand.

When he turned around, the monkey understood.

The moment of death finally arrived, and he began to struggle with all his strength.

"Run... run... Queer, run!"

The equally nervous Que'er's voice came from behind: "It's still a little bit worse, it's still a little bit worse."

"Bah!" The rope broke!

"Run—!" The bird suddenly flapped its wings and flew up.

After throwing off the rope, the monkey endured the severe pain in his abdomen and ran wildly into the woods.

The hunter looked at all this in surprise. He casually picked up the bow and arrow he had thrown aside, pulled the bow, and aimed at the monkey's back. However, he paused and turned to aim at the panicked bird!

"call out--"

There was a piercing sound in the air, and the sharp arrow missed Que'er, but passed through her chest!

Suddenly, blood started to flow!

Que'er seemed to be drained of all her strength in an instant and fell down, but was caught firmly by the monkey.

He held the bird to his chest and ran as fast as he could, using the cover of trees to dodge.

The hunter nocked his bow behind him and shot three more arrows, but none of them hit. The hunter immediately changed his dagger and followed quickly.

"Que'er, Que'er! It's okay! We can definitely run away! You have to hold on!"

Straight through the woods, until he could no longer hear the footsteps behind him, the monkey stopped and looked down at the bird tremblingly.

The warm blood has penetrated into the hair on his chest, and Que'er is already dying!

The monkey's eyes widened in horror, and the monkey's heart hurt like a needle.

He panicked and tried to cover the wound with his hands to stop the blood from flowing, but the blood still seeped out from between his fingers and dripped on the ground.

"Quer! Don't die!"

"Monkey..." Que'er stretched his neck slightly, his pained expression evident.

She opened her mouth wide, as if she were saying something, but her voice was pitifully small.

The monkey quickly lay down and put his ear to her mouth.

"Monkey...if you succeed in cultivation...remember to take me back to Huaguoshan...I don't want...to be...too far away from you..."

The sound disappeared...

In the cold night, silence...

The monkey trembled and stood up tremblingly, but then fell to the ground and slowly moved back a few steps.

Looking at Queer, who was no longer moving at all, tears fell from the corners of his eyes.

"Que'er! Que'er! Don't die!" He cried heartbreakingly.

However, this little canary stopped talking and said her nagging words.

The warmth passed little by little on her smaller body.

The monkey covered his head with both hands and pulled his hair: "It's impossible...it won't happen..."

At this moment, a hand grabbed him from behind!

Turning around suddenly, he saw those man-eating eyes again!

I don't know where he got the strength at that time. He flicked it like a desperate move and directly grabbed the hunter on the cheek! The sharp nails scratched, and blood immediately splashed out!

"boil--"

With a painful cry, the hunter let go.

The monkey ran away in panic again. By the time the hunter regained his composure, he had already fled and hid behind a rock not far away.

The monkey doesn't want to die, but he can't leave either - the bird is still here!

However, the next scene completely broke him down.

The hunter covered his wound and looked around, and when he was about to leave, he found Que'er's body on the ground.

So, right in front of the monkey, he squatted down, picked up the bird, and pulled hard——

Orange feathers fell to the ground, mixed with blood, and the hungry hunter fed the flesh and blood into his mouth bit by bit!

In an instant, the monkey's heart was crushed into powder.

Tears burst out of his eyes like a dam, mixed with the blood oozing from the open wound in his abdomen, and sprinkled to the ground together!

…

He fell to his knees, blood oozing from the wound on his abdomen. The pain was severe, but it was less than one ten thousandth of the heartache.

Tears fell from his cheeks like a dam, wetting the down on his body.

The monkey covered his mouth, his widened eyes were completely covered with tears, and everything in front of him was blurred.

In the pale moonlight, the hunter's body shook slightly, and the torn pieces of meat and bones were put into his mouth bit by bit after being stripped from the feathers, and chewed.

The monkey couldn't do anything. He couldn't even protect himself. He could only squat behind the stone and watch helplessly.

Watching what the hunter did to Que'er, watching him leave, looking at the blood and broken bones in that place.

"Que...er..." With just two words, he lost his voice.

He just knelt down like that, covering the wound on his abdomen, letting his tears flow, for a long, long time, unable to say another word.

The sun rose and set until three days later, the monkey stood up again.

No one knows how he survived and started to bury Que'er's bones. He did not continue walking to the west, but headed towards the hunter's camp.

Half a month later, on a dark and windy night, he touched the hunter's bedside and smashed his head to pieces with the hunter's own axe.

The hunter in his sleep didn't even have time to cry.

When it was chopped down, the brains splattered on the monkey's face.

The first time he killed someone, he killed someone who was just like himself. He didn't have the slightest fear, he was just crazy, like a wild beast.

At that moment, maybe he no longer regarded himself as a human being. He felt that he and the bird were the same kind, and the person in front of him was just a beast that wanted to eat them!

There is no hunter like a tiger, the monkey just kills.

There is no point in doing anything else.

He returned to Que'er's grave with the hunter's dagger and carved a tombstone with a piece of wood.

Looking at the crooked simplified Chinese characters - "Tomb of the Monkey King, Lady Sun Wukong", the monkey's eyes burst into tears again.

Wiping away his tears, the monkey choked and said: "I will continue to walk west, and I will come back. Que'er, wait for me. Remember the Taishang Laojun I told you? He not only has the ability to make people become immortals Pill, and the Resurrection Pill. No matter how many years, no matter how long it takes, I will definitely come back, and you must wait for me. Wait for me to marry you."

Ten years, a whole ten years, at first it was because of unwillingness, then it turned into a retreat, and then it turned into a complete obsession.

Ten years later, when the monkey arrived at Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, even he himself did not know how he had walked all the way.

"In the beginning, I and Que'er spent every day thinking about the beauty after studying at Fangcun Mountain in Lingtai. It was a kind of self-encouragement. Even if we were surrounded by a group of wolves on a dead tree for three days and three nights in the desert, we I never gave up.”

"This confidence lasted until I was caught by a hunter. He tied me while he sharpened his knife nearby. I tried to talk to him to let him know that I was not an ordinary monkey, even if I was sold It would have been better to give it to anyone than to eat me. But it was no use, he was too hungry, and there was a famine there. Not even talking monkeys, not to mention talking gods, could stop him from sharpening his knife."

"Later I escaped, and Que'er rescued me. But she... I lost my only partner. Facing her bloody wounds that night, I found that I was just a useless monkey, unable to do anything but Crying and watching life pass by her."

"That hunter, he actually..."

"After that, I stopped crying all the time. I think maybe it was because all the tears dried up that night."

"She told me to remember to go back and pick her up after I finished her cultivation. She didn't want to be too far away from me. Then I buried her on a hillside and made a wooden monument for her - 'The Tomb of the Monkey King, Lady Monkey King'." , I’m afraid I won’t be able to find it when I go back…”

"I will definitely go back, definitely!"

"..."

"Later on, I don't know what supported me to finish this road. I just felt that my feet kept moving forward stubbornly, and all thoughts of giving up were completely cleared from my mind."

"I've encountered monsters, gods, everything, beasts, hunters, it's just commonplace. Nothing can stop me from moving forward."

"At that time, I thought, I've even walked this road, what else in this world can be hard for me?"

Ten years later, the person who climbed Lingtai Fangcun Mountain was no longer the original traveler, but a humble monkey, a complete beast, a soul from the abyss.