Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 4 - 7 2018 | Page 12

The group was attacked by the guards. They started to fight. One after another fell in a hail of bullets. At that
moment, the monkey failed to see the loss of life. In his mind there was nothing but the cash reward.
“You know what the scariest thing in the world is, Monkey? It’s greediness of people! It can destroy
everything. Actually you didn’t experience this disaster alone, your group of four experienced this disaster
together. The leader was actually your teacher Xuanzang and your colleagues were also your partners of the
journey to the west. You guys didn’t even realized it. See, even the kindest person like your teacher will be
swallowed by greediness like a sheep being swallowed by a snake. You guys have already experienced it!
People were all kind and pure at first .They changed and forgot how they were so there is no eternity in the
human world. But as gods, we can see all the changes in the world. We are eternal. Remember what I have
said today,” said Guan Yin sincerely.
The group of four had experienced such dangerous, challenging and inspiring disasters. They had
encountered both normal people and goblins, both kindness and greediness. They became the most well-
known and most worshipped gods in the God’s palace and even in the mortal world.