Chapter 19: All the Hard Work, It's for Your Own Good!

In the cave.

Sun Wukong lay on his back.

It was already night, the moonlight cold and clear, yet it couldn't extinguish the restlessness in his heart.

Dammit!

Is this thing really that powerful?

"Great King!"

"Great King..."

Suddenly, the voices of two female monkeys came from outside the cave, followed by footsteps; in the hazy moonlight, two figures carefully approached.

It was all coy looks and bulging eyes again.

Please just go away. Sun Wukong asked with droopy eyelids, somewhat languidly, "What's up? Do you need something?"

Sigh~

Almost social death.

But what are these two monkeys doing coming over here?

Is there something important?

Hiss... they're still giving those coy looks.

Shit!

In the middle of the night, one guy and two girls...

No way!

Staring blankly at the two flirtatious female monkeys, Sun Wukong suddenly felt scared and shrank back into the cave.

"Don't come over here!"

"I'm scared!"

If you were beauties, then being coy would be charming and seductive.

But if you've got a face that looks like a pained mask covered in fur, that's not charming, that's scary.

Scary enough to be life-threatening.

Actually, it all boils down to a soul issue. You're human to begin with, and suddenly you're expected to find a monkey's seductive glances appealing; not throwing up is already a sign of great restraint.

Fuzzy and furry, even turning off the lights wouldn't solve the problem.

Better off buying a slab of streaky pork.

So please, just go. Sun Wukong was indeed in discomfort, but he hadn't yet reached the depths of moral decay, so he refused them flatly, not even entertaining the thought for a moment.

"We..."

The two female monkeys blinked their dry eyes, but the expression on Sun Wukong's face was getting uglier by the second, causing them to become flustered – they had not expected that their feminine wiles would be ineffective on him.

"That's not right, why isn't the Great King reacting? How could this be?"

The two female monkeys had question marks rising above their heads.

However, the white ape had said before that if the first plan didn't work, they should switch to another, even if it's a bit forceful; it was all for the continuation of the monkey tribe, which made their actions noble.

Uh-huh!

This isn't lecherous intent.

It's sacrifice, all for the sake of our monkey tribe!

With this in mind, the two female monkeys finally convinced themselves, so they decided to initiate their second plan.

They approached Sun Wukong, intending to persuade him directly.

"Hey, hey, hey... what are you doing?"

Sun Wukong was startled, guarding himself, and then suddenly remembered that he seemed to be in the later stages of becoming an Earth Immortal, which calmed him down, "I'm warning you, if you come any closer, I'll stop being polite."

That's just outrageous, furry faces of agony, scary or not!

Upon hearing this, the two female monkeys looked at each other, resigned to their fate, and then leapt straight into the cave.

That look, that expression, truly ferocious.

"Damn it!"

"Great King, just give in.........."

Bang bang bang...

"Ah..."

...

"It's done!"

Not far away, the white ape suddenly clapped his hands and excitedly jumped up.

"By the sounds of it, it should have started. Heh Heh, getting one out of two is fine, but getting both would be even better. That way, our monkey tribe will have an even stronger bloodline."

"No! I still need to warn the others not to disturb the King's good mood."

"Otherwise, it won't be good for the next generation's appearance."

The white ape hurried with excited steps, then rushed off to the cave where the monkeys spent the night, holding forth at length, truly breaking his heart over the monkey tribe's grand plans for development.

Therefore, that night, the monkey troop was unusually well-behaved; not one came to bother Sun Wukong.

Even though everyone was thinking about learning martial arts, for the sake of the tribe's grand plan, they held back.

Until the next morning.

As the red sun began to rise and mountain mist swirled, the first rays of morning sunlight fell upon the cave that had been busy all night.

Then two monkey heads peeked out stealthily, like groundhogs emerging from their burrow, looked around, and then snuck out on tiptoe, guiltily running back to the monkey troop.

Because no monkey noticed.

But they underestimated the monkeys' earnestness.

How could they not be serious about something as important as the tribe's grand plan, or overlook it?

So, no sooner had they returned to the cave than they were met with the gossip-hungry gaze of the white ape and the monkey troop.

The two female monkeys were startled, especially afraid to meet the white ape's eyes.

"You two......"

The white ape waved his hands to disperse the troop, then pulled the two female monkeys aside and asked, "How did it go, did you manage to do it?"

Unaware that a monkey shadow was approaching from outside the cave.

Recalling the instructions from the two female monkeys from the previous night, Sun Wukong's face turned dark as he quietly approached.

Since he was deliberately concealing his presence, the white ape didn't notice anything and continued to grill the two female monkeys.

The monkey troop, however, did notice Sun Wukong. Seeing his dark expression, clearly the night hadn't been pleasant, so no monkey dared to provoke him.

They could only watch as he slowly approached behind the white ape, arms crossed, quietly observing.

That expression, that look, was almost too restrained.

The monkey troop was eerily silent, sensing that the white ape was in for some trouble soon, and they inexplicably looked forward to it.

This was definitely going to be drama worth watching - not an opportunity that came by often, and one to be fully grasped.

So the monkey troop exchanged glances, then tacitly spread out, sitting, standing, lying down, or squatting, some even taking out sunflower seeds, perfectly epitomizing the term "onlookers."

And at this moment, the white ape still hadn't realized what was happening, so preoccupied he was, completely neglecting his surroundings.

Also, in his subconscious, he assumed that Sun Wukong, after toiling all night, would definitely still be resting and recovering, and absolutely wouldn't come over.

So he ignored everything, just wanting to know the entire course of events from the previous night.

The white ape admitted that he was curious too, but felt it wasn't due to a gossip-mongering spirit; it was for the sake of the tribe's grand plan.

"Mmm... Everything is for the monkey tribe!"

But the two female monkeys were hemming and hawing, not speaking up, which made the white ape somewhat anxious, "What are you shy for, this is about the tribe's grand plans, something that cannot be taken lightly. So you must tell me everything in detail, let me analyze it. If there are omissions, you can still fill them in, can't you?"

He tried to persuade them with utmost sincerity, but couldn't hide the flicker of curiosity in his eyes.

The two female monkeys became so embarrassed under his scrutiny that they looked around, then suddenly their eyes lit up as if they had been relieved of a heavy burden and said, "Actually, we didn't do anything with the King, no... that's not right, it's that we were in the cave practicing, no, I mean yes, ugh... I can't make it clear, King, it's better if you explain."

Feeling they were only making things worse, the two female monkeys decided to throw the question over to Sun Wukong, inadvertently exposing him.

Meanwhile, the monkeys around had already craned their necks in anticipation, some excited, but most looking forward to the subsequent development.

Last night.

One male, two females.

Suddenly, images formed!

The monkey troop's eyes shone brighter, especially when they saw the white ape stiffly turn his head, looking at Sun Wukong with an expression full of disbelief, shock, embarrassment, and a forced smile; they all instinctively held their breath, eyes wide with anticipation.

"Here it comes, here comes the main event!"

"This is gonna be good!"

"How will Elder White Ape explain this?"

"I'm so looking forward to this!"

For a moment, the cave was strangely silent, one could hear a pin drop.