Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 525

Monkey King: Fighting Against Tablets
Victoria Shanghai Academy, Yin, Adora - 9
W
ukong woke up, startled by a man’s voice “We will make America great again!”
“Wh-Where are we? ” He jumped up, with many unanswered questions in mind, and
looked for his Master and his mates.
After a glance at a digital device on the table showing 2017, April 20, he murmured “We must have had a
long hibernation!” “Wake up!”
The friar first responded with a shy smile for oversleeping, while trying to wake the lazy pig up.
“One more minute, One more minute…” Muttered Bajie with his typical tactic of procrastination.
“Wukong, what’s happening?” Xuanzang was very surprised at the scene he saw after opening his eyes -
on what appeared to be a black outlined object on a wall where there was now a woman addressing a
congregation.
“Monster! ” Without thinking, the monkey king jumped up high with his Jing Gu stick, aiming at the
woman’s image. “Wait, Wukong,” Xuanzang stopped him as the congregation suddenly disappeared and
was replaced with a man and the word “NBC live” appeared on the right-hand corner.
Just then, Bajie accidentally touched on a silver colored, palm sized device, which suddenly lit up with a
pleasant female voice “What can I help you with?”
“Another monster! ” startled the pig.
The Friar also discovered another silver coloured device, double the size of Bajie’s .
“Stay away from them!” The monkey ordered. With his gift of thousand-miles eyesight and hearing
sense, he announced with laughter “Listen carefully. These are TVs, iPhones, and iPads. Everyone
nowadays uses them. They watch shows on the TV, play video games and surf internet!”
“Really? Is it fun? Let me have a try! ” Bajie wasted no time playing on the iPhone. “So cool!” After a
short while, he already figured out how to download games and got mouth-watering food games like the
“60 seconds burger run”. He simply couldn’t move his eyes away from the screen with saliva dripping.
“You silly pig, let me show you the cool stuff.” The monkey king took a bigger device, a Macbook, and
was instantly attracted to all sorts of fighting games. He quickly downloaded League of Legends.
The humble friar brought a spare iPad to Xuanzang . “Master, would you like to try too?”
“No thanks” Tangseng replied, “I shall do my daily devotion.”
Friar Sand then took the iPad and checked App store. But unlike the other two, he searched for useful apps
instead, and downloaded Google Map, and Weather Observatory. He took notes and researched the route
to go to the West.
Soon enough, Xuanzang announced, “Apprentices, time to move on. No more delay, Bajie.”
“Oh, please, just one more minute! And can I bring this Ipad ? ” begged Bajie, whose eyes turned to look
cute and innocent. That definitely persuaded Xuanzang,
“OK, but you must not over use it.”
The monkey king also grabbed the Mac while the Friar took the iPad. They set off.
Bajie walked really slowly with his eyes fixed on the screen, and kept sounding loud “YUM!”. Wukong
was no better. He kept pressing the keyboard playing the chaotic, fighting games.“Headshot! Come on!”