Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 4 - 7 2018 | Page 179

for his meat. The monsters must know something. Or their master must know something. Something about
eating his meat would give them immortality.The malicious light from the hollows on their faces was
piercing into his brain. He closed his eyes. At least he still had his eyelids as shields. He didn’t understand
what kept Wukong for so long. Maybe Wukong was hurt too. No, he couldn’t be. Xuanzang couldn’t even
bear the thought of that. He just knew that Wukong would come for him. He knew it.
An abrupt silence fell. Heads turned. The blood in Xuanzang ran cold. The master of monsters was about to
appear and finish him off. The sharp edges of the chains cut into his skin in his attempt to lean toward the
entrance. He could hear nothing except the stillness of the frozen air. The monsters were holding their
breaths too.
Some weird noise from outside the cave was growing louder. Even Xuanzang could hear it now. It might
very well be someone speaking against the wind. But as the source of the sound moved closer, the disjointed
syllables, sounded, increasingly eerie, and non-human.
“Hello, everyone. It’s Wukong here. My sincere apologies to my dearest followers. I haven’t been updating
for so long. Please forgive me. My master did NOT warn me about the lack of WIFI. Look at what he got
me into. Do I look like I have a life right now? Talking to an imaginary audience. Anyways, as you might
see, I’m now on my way to look for my master. No, to rescue my master. He just got himself into trouble
again. We were sleeping. I heard noises. I warned him. Monsters swarmed in and he was still asleep. I had to
fight on my own and there were just too many of them, you know. I only managed to kill two. And they
took my master. So here I am, on a rescue mission. Oh I forgot to mention, one of his shoes fell off. It
stinks. You guys should be glad you are behind the screens. Anyways that’s how I deduced the monsters
brought him to this cave… here. See it? See it? Okay. Now. Listen to me. This is important. Focus on the
face of the monsters. And then compare theirs to mine. They need plastic surgery. Now I’m gonna switch
to the clip camera on my collar so you guys can see how I fight the… MONSTERS”
He broke into the cave. The monsters burst towards him. They started fighting.
On one side of the cave, Xuanzang saw, through the endless moving shades of green, Wukong reaching into
his ear to retrieve his most powerful weapon, Jingubang. Yet h