The Monkey King

Traveling through time is not an easy thing, it means letting go of everything in the past.

And when the time travel is not going smoothly, when there is only time left to think, the remaining memories will become a huge burden on the mind.

The stone monkey drifting on the sea is in such a state. He not only misses Huaguo Mountain, but also misses his father, mother, classmates, teachers, mobile phones, TV sets, the Internet... In short, he misses everything.

If he could go back, even if he were given ten Sun Wukongs, he would not be interested.

When he was in Huaguo Mountain, he was running around just to survive, and he almost didn't have time to think about these things. Now...

All the past that he had inadvertently forgotten over the past few months came back to torture him endlessly.

Staring at the always blue sky and the always blue sea all day long, missing these things over and over again is a feeling that seems to suffocate at any time.

Several times he stared at the dark blue water below for several hours and almost jumped.

"Maybe I'll put it back on when I die," he thought.

Looking back at the tent made of branches and leaves and the fruits piled inside, he thought: "But even if I don't jump, I will die at any time."

The current situation was from being born in Huaguo Mountain to drifting on the sea. When was he not struggling to death?

Going to sea is actually a crazy move. In this vast sea, a raft, no matter how big it is, is no different from a fallen leaf. Those fruits may have rotted away before the stone monkeys finished eating them.

I just hope that the fresh water contained in coconut shells can reach the other side of the sea.

"Maybe there'll be a storm tonight and the raft will be screwed, and then I'll be screwed too."

"What are you talking about? Monkey." Canary glared at him fiercely.

Things tend to work out well but not bad. A storm really came that night, and a big wave hit and the entire raft fell apart. Three months of hard work by the entire monkey group was in vain.

After struggling all night in the sea, the monkey woke up the next day with only a big tree trunk left.

There was no water, no food, and only the canary was left for company.

"Look! I told you not to say such unlucky words! What should I do now?" Canary flapped its wings and kept chattering.

"I find……"

"What did you find?"

The monkey looked at the scorching sun and said slowly: "I find that when it comes time to die, I can't bear to die."

"You are sick!" Canary was about to cry.

Monkey had already thought about this situation when he went to sea. In fact, the only thing he relied on when he went to sea this time was the unique sense of direction of birds, which is equivalent to having a natural compass.

According to the planned direction, they were going to take advantage of the monsoon to move southwest to Nanzhanbuzhou, and then cross Nanzhanbuzhou to Xiniuhezhou.

In the current situation, even a "compass" may not be of much help.

Flying hurriedly into the sky, the canary flew back and forth in a panic. After half a day, she flew back.

"See the island?"

"No." Canary shook her head in frustration.

"There is no water and no food. The most important thing in this situation is to save energy." The stone monkey fell directly on the semi-floating tree trunk, leaving only one tail dangling around.

"If you fly farther, maybe..."

"Go find the island. As long as you find the island, we will be saved." Stone Monkey said with half-squinted eyes.

"What if I find the island and can't find you?"

Canary is right, the currents are ever-changing.

It is not difficult to find an island with a canary's sense of direction, but once it is out of the sight of the stone monkey, it is a huge problem whether he can meet the stone monkey again after finding the island.

Stone Monkey did not answer this question.

The bird and the monkey each stayed at one end of the tree trunk and remained silent for a long time without saying a word.

It wasn't until the midday sun was scorching the stone monkey's back that the stone monkey said, "Let's go. Without me, you will definitely be saved."

"What about you?" Canary asked.

"Me? I am Sun Wukong, the monkey born from my heaven and earth. I will definitely not die in such a helter-skelter manner."

Canary didn't understand, so she just shook her head: "I won't leave. Even if you can be saved if I leave, you won't be able to go anywhere. Didn't you agree to cultivate immortality and seek Taoism?"

"Why are you talking about this now? Just go, I won't blame you."

Despair is sometimes a kind of relief. Facing the vast and boundless sea, he can do nothing, but this makes him feel peaceful.

Maybe he was already dead when he traveled through time, and not every stone monkey can become Sun Wukong. Perhaps, the chance of taking a path like Sun Wukong is extremely small.

Thinking about it, this failed attempt was nothing. It was just that he had to drag an innocent canary to die with him, which made him feel a little sorry.

"I won't leave." Canary raised her eyes.

"You will only drag me down if you stay! Leave quickly! If you don't leave, you will die!"

"I won't leave. I want you to take care of me! I want you to take care of me! I can do whatever I want! I won't leave!" Canary's tears flowed.

Stone Monkey's eyes gradually turned red.

He cried a lot when he came to this world. Is Sun Wukong also prone to crying like this?

But heroes shouldn't have tears.

"From this point of view, I am not a hero."

The first day passed in the blink of an eye.

When the sun rises the next day, the seawater hitting the body has evaporated, leaving grains of salt hanging on the hair. This made Stone Monkey feel uncomfortable all over.

Worse still is hunger and thirst.

All kinds of feelings made him extremely irritable, but he didn't even have the strength to lose his temper.

But there is still no shadow of the island. If you want to find the island naturally by following the sea current, this kind of luck is enough to buy a lottery ticket.

Looking at the other end of the tree trunk, the canary, with its legs curled up and rubbing against the bark of the tree, has begun to become weak.

Death is already very close to them.

"go?"

"I won't leave." Canary said stubbornly.

Stone Monkey didn't ask any more questions, he just stared at the sky quietly.

When the sun rose again on the sea on the third day, the stone monkey and the canary were close together.

This made Shihou have to be careful not to crush her, but he liked the feeling of cuddling with each other.

"go?"

"I'm not leaving." It was still the same answer, but the difference was that Canary didn't even open her eyes.

"Why do you have to seek immortality? I have never seen a monkey like you." Canary asked.

"That's because I'm not a monkey."

"Not a monkey?"

"Actually, I am also a monkey, but... in short, I am not an ordinary monkey. In fact, I should have gone to sea three hundred years later, that would be appropriate. Maybe I am too impatient."

"Why?"

"have no idea."

…

"Sparrow, what do you wish for?"

"I'm a canary! Canary... forget it, I don't have the energy to argue with you. My wish... I want to fly higher and further, like an eagle. That way I can go to more places... …If I were an eagle, I would have found the island by now.”

"There will come a day when, as long as you go to Xianyue Sanxing Cave and become an immortal, you will have everything." Monkey said.

"Can I fix it too?"

"certainly."

"What can you do after you complete cultivation?"

…

"Monkey, why are you cultivating immortality?"

"In order to... I don't know, well, let me think about it. I don't want to be an ordinary monkey. I want to learn the seventy-two transformations and then find a place to be the king of the mountain. Well, it's best to get a few more concubines. The days You are free and easy, and you no longer have to be afraid of small characters like the Golden Leopard. When the time comes, I will build you a palace like a human palace in Huaguo Mountain. There is nothing in the sky or on the earth that you want that I cannot do."

"How many concubines do you want to have? Even if you don't cultivate, I know that there are several female monkeys who are drooling just looking at you."

"Go! Who wants a female monkey? The only person who can be worthy of me is a fairy...well, a beautiful vixen will do too."

"Can't it be a canary spirit?"

Stone Monkey suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at the angry Canary.

Well, this bull devil can hook up with a vixen, and a snake spirit can hook up with a scorpion spirit. Thinking about the monkey spirit and the canary spirit... there seems to be no problem.

But isn’t this because he hasn’t become a spirit yet? Is love really beyond species? Why do you feel so twisted?

"Okay, okay, when the time comes when I become the king of the mountain, I will send someone to kidnap you back to be the wife of the village."

"Yeah!" Canary nodded happily, lowered her head and jumped into the stone monkey's creaking nest and rubbed it: "You must remember to send someone to tie it up."

"But let's make an agreement first. You have to look more beautiful when you turn into a human form, or I will regret it at any time."

"If you're not pretty, I'll send someone to kidnap you back and make you the Prime Minister of the village."

"...Is this okay?"

Time continued to pass, and this endless conversation continued, but the sound became weaker and weaker.

The sun rises and sets over the sea, clouds dance in the sky, hunger, thirst, exposure to the scorching sun, and cold sea breeze carry moisture.

Until the early morning of the seventh day, Canary and Stone Monkey had fallen into a semi-coma state.

In the haze, Stone Monkey seemed to see a golden carp floating on the sea.