Traveling back to ancient times to determine the zodiac

"Emperor Nian, we have such a powerful Monkey King guarding us, we can sleep soundly without any worries!" Pighead shook his head and ears, and was about to go to sleep.

"The cunning human has been defeated again. He must be helpless and can only roll back obediently. Haha... Emperor Nian, we don't have to hide and worry anymore." The rooster was also very excited.

“Well, Monkey King, after the cunning humans are forced to retreat, I will appoint you as a high-level guard.” Emperor Nian was overjoyed.

After the animals celebrated, they fell asleep one by one. For several days, there was no movement below, and the animals were sleeping soundly, but they were woken up unexpectedly today. Emperor Nian stretched his body and said angrily: "Why don't humans retreat? Why are they shouting and yelling?"

"Emperor Nian, don't bother with him. In my opinion, the humans must have gone crazy again because they can't attack." The pig rolled his eyes and continued to sleep with his head covered.

"Humans are not only cunning, but also very stubborn. They may think of some new way to attack us." After all, the Dog-Headed Military Advisor was smarter and guessed the reason.

"Humans are still determined to attack. Let's go and take a look." After Emperor Nian said this, he led the beast kings to the cave entrance to wait and see.

You won't know until you see it. You'll be shocked when you see it. A blood-red giant vine has grown to the entrance of the cave at some point, and humans are climbing up along the vine.

"Oh no, Emperor Nian, how come this giant vine has grown to the entrance of this cave in just three or four days?" The Monkey King was very surprised.

"This dead vine has so many places to grow, why does it have to grow right at the entrance of our cave?" the pighead cursed.

"Emperor Nian, humans are attacking, quickly find a way to deal with them!" The rooster was so scared that his feathers stood on end, and he shouted to warn.

"Brother Rooster, you are such a coward. Even though humans are stubborn, how can they attack us with me, the Monkey King, here?" The Monkey King defeated humans twice and did not take them seriously at all.

"Monkey King, I know you are powerful. You should lead the other monkeys to stop the humans from coming up. It would be best if you knock them all down to death. That way, the whole world will be peaceful." Emperor Nian ordered.

"Yes, Emperor Nian." The Monkey King accepted the order and immediately called the monkey spirits out of the cave on the cliff and started throwing stones at the people on the cliff.

"Stubborn humans, you keep attacking us again and again. You won't stop until you are dead!" the Monkey King roared at the humans.

"You damn monkeys, we will not stop attacking you until you surrender. If you know what's good for you, quickly hand over the Nian beast and surrender. Otherwise, we will attack the Cliff Cave and smash you to pieces." Dong shouted sternly.

"Hmph! Stubborn humans, let's see who will be crushed to pieces now?" the monkey king said angrily. He picked up another stone and threw it at the humans below, while ordering: "Brothers, throw hard and smash them all to death."

The monkey king and the monkey spirits continued to throw stones as usual. For a moment, stones of all sizes fell on humans like rain.

"Bang!" A stone fell on Dong's head, but fortunately he was protected by the hard coconut shell and was not injured. But then another stone was thrown down and hit his arm, and he was injured immediately.

"Brother Dong, that damn monkey has started throwing stones again. Do you want to retreat and hide first?" Xi suggested when he saw Dong was injured.

"Brothers, don't be afraid. These stones can't kill people. Let's continue the attack, capture the Monkey King, destroy the Nian beast, and avenge the cave master!" Dong endured the severe pain and climbed up desperately.

"Let's charge to avenge the cave master!" Xiaoxing shouted.

Everyone's blood was boiling and they shouted along, risking being hit, and rushed up bravely and fearlessly.

One zhang, two zhang... ten zhang... Seeing people climbing up the cliff, the Monkey King panicked and yelled at the humans: "Why don't you fools retreat? Aren't you afraid of death?"

"You stupid monkey, you're right. In order to avenge the cave master, we will risk everything. We will attack even if it means death." Dong replied sternly.

"How stubborn!" The Monkey King was furious and anxious. He called out to the other monkeys again: "My people, throw the balls quickly and knock them down."

"My king, those cunning humans are wearing Yeke hats, so we can't kill them by smashing them." The macaque spirit reported.

"Monkey King, the macaque spirit is right. The cunning humans are so cunning. Throwing stones now won't stop them." said Dog Head.

"Doghead, what should we do now? Once humans attack us, we'll be finished!" Emperor Nian said anxiously, like an ant on a hot pan.

"What else can we do? Emperor Nian, let's escape quickly?" The Dog-Headed Military Advisor shook his head helplessly.

"Escape, where to escape? There is no way to escape now." Pighead said with a grunt.

"Emperor Nian, humans have already attacked halfway. If we don't run away now, it will be too late." Dog Head urged.

"There's no way out if we escape into the cave. Emperor Nian, just jump off the cliff!" said the rooster, looking down at the cliff.

"You dead chicken, do you think we all have wings like you? If you jump from such a high, won't you be smashed into a meat paste?" Emperor Nian cursed.

“Brothers, hurry up! Capture the Monkey King alive, destroy the Nian Beast, and avenge the cave master!” The shouting below was getting closer and closer. Emperor Nian became more and more panicked and kept shouting, “What should I do? What should I do?”

"Emperor Nian, the only way to escape now is through the cave, otherwise we will be dead!" Dog Head was so anxious that he jumped up and down.

"Okay, we'll listen to you, you dog. Everyone run into the cave." Emperor Nian had no choice but to bite the bullet and run into the cave.

The dog head, pig head, and rooster quickly followed. Seeing this, the Monkey King also wanted to run. While running, he shouted, "Emperor Nian, wait, don't leave me behind."

"You stupid monkey, you still want to run with me?" Emperor Nian stretched out his tail, grabbed the Monkey King, and angrily cursed: "You brought me to this cliff cave, leaving me with no way to escape. Now you hurry to the cave entrance to stop the humans from attacking, otherwise, I will swallow you whole."

"Bang" the Monkey King was thrown hard at the entrance of the cave. If he had not been blocked by the giant vine at the entrance, he would have rolled down the cliff.

Emperor Nian left the Monkey King behind and hurried into the cave. The cave was deep and dark, but fortunately the beasts had night vision and did not run around. The further they went in, the smaller the space became. The beasts made many turns and walked for dozens of feet before suddenly seeing no way forward.

"It's over, there is no way forward!" Emperor Nian stamped his feet and sighed.

"Emperor Nian, you are really dead this time!" the rooster cried in despair.

"Emperor Nian, let's go back to the cave entrance and fight the humans!" Pighead was also desperate.

"No!" The dog-headed military advisor shook his head and said, "There are so many humans, and they have swords and guns. They will definitely die if they do that."

"Dog-headed Military Advisor, what do you say we should do now?" Emperor Nian asked with a sad face.

"Emperor Nian, in my opinion, we should dig forward with all our strength. We will definitely be able to dig through this hole. Then, we can escape!" Goutou is worthy of being a military advisor. He really came up with a good plan.

"Yes, yes, let's dig quickly and dig through this hole." When the pighead heard this, he immediately used his long snout to push forward.

The cave wall was not hard, and the pig head pushed hard a few times and pushed several feet deep into the cave. The dog head behind it dug the soil it had pushed out to the back. In this way, one pushed in the front and the other dug in the back, and the animals kept working.

As for the humans, under the leadership of Dong, they ventured to climb upwards, regardless of the constantly falling rocks. After a long time of effort, they were finally about to reach the entrance of the cave on the cliff.

"My king, humans are attacking us, what should we do?" Seeing that the stones could not defeat the humans, the gibbon spirit panicked and reported to the monkey king.

"Ouch, ouch!" The monkey king was thrown to the ground by Emperor Nian. He was in pain all over and couldn't get up for a long time. He kept howling loudly. Hearing the humans attacking, he had no choice but to order the monkeys: "Brothers, everyone, come together and make sure to drive the humans back."

"Ah?" The gibbon spirits and macaque spirits were shocked: "The king wants us to fight against humans, can we win this battle?"

"Humans also have two hands and two legs. What are you afraid of? Go and try it!" The Monkey King encouraged them.

The monkeys were helpless and jumped up and down to pounce on the people, shouting, "Stubborn humans, we will fight you!"

"Wow! Brothers, the monkey spirits are rushing towards us, everyone take out your weapons and fight." Dong saw the monkey spirits rushing towards him with their fangs and claws bared. He grabbed the blood vine with one hand and swung the stone axe at them with the other hand.

There was a scream of "Squeak!" and a monkey spirit that pounced over had one arm chopped off by an axe. The monkey spirit fell off the cliff with a scream.

This bloody scene horrified the monkeys so much that they turned and fled, shouting, "Humans are too powerful! Run away!"

In the blink of an eye, thousands of monkey spirits fled in all directions and disappeared.

Without the interference of the monkey spirits, everyone successfully climbed up the cliff cave. Dong held a stone axe in his hand, looked into the cave vigilantly, and warned everyone: "Brothers, the Nian beast and its beast kings are in this cave, everyone pick up weapons and prepare to fight."

"I know, Brother Dong! You have to be careful!" Xiaoxing said.

Dong poked his head into the cave, which was empty and quiet, but there was no sign of an animal. "Huh..." Dong crawled into the cave in confusion, and said in amazement: "How strange, how come Nian and the beast kings are gone?"

"Brother Dong, why are the Nian Beast and the Beast King nowhere to be seen?" Xi, Xiaoxing, Chen and others came one after another and asked curiously.

"I don't know." Dong scratched his head and replied, "Could it be that they can fly?"

"They have no wings and definitely can't fly. I think they must have escaped deep into the cave." Xiaoxing said, looking into the dark cave.

“We must not let them run away, brothers, let’s keep chasing them.” Dong Jufu was about to lead everyone in to chase them.

"Brother Dong, it's dark in there, we'd better light a torch and go in." Xiaoxing said.

"Yes, without the torches to light us up, we wouldn't even know we had crashed into the bloody mouth of the Nian beast." Xi nodded in agreement.

At this moment, all the more than 100 warriors who had attacked the cliff cave had climbed into the cave. Dong then ordered people to shout down and ask them to send torches up.

After waiting for a while, more than a hundred warriors brought dozens of torches, which immediately lit up the cave brightly.

"Brothers, follow me and chase it. No matter what, we must catch up with and destroy the Nian beast." Dong looked at everyone and gave a lecture.

"Capture the Monkey King alive, destroy the Nian beast, and avenge the cave master!" everyone shouted in unison.

The loud and majestic slogans made the cave buzz and echo endlessly. Before the shouts died down, a sudden "thump" sound came from inside.

"The Nian Beast and the beast kings are indeed in there. Brothers, follow me." Dong heard the voice and immediately took the lead to move towards the sound.

After walking carefully for about 30-40 meters into the cave, they found an animal on the ground trying to crawl deeper into the cave. With the help of the firelight, they took a closer look and found that it was the Monkey King.

It turned out that the Monkey King was thrown to the ground by Emperor Nian and could not stand up for a long time. The other monkeys fled and left him alone. The Monkey King had no choice but to crawl into the cave to hide. Hearing the slogan just now, the Monkey King was terrified and struggled to stand up, but due to his injury, he was unstable and fell down.

Seeing the humans approaching step by step, the Monkey King became more and more panicked and kept crawling inside.

"Humph!" Dong looked at the dodging Monkey King and snorted coldly, "You damn monkey, weren't you just arrogant enough to smash us humans to death? Why are you just hiding in the cave now?"

"Brother Dong, the Monkey King seems to be injured and can't run anymore." Xiaoxing said.

"Damned Monkey King, you have finally met your end. Where can you run now? Prepare to die!" Seeing the injured Monkey King unable to escape, Xi raised his stone knife and chopped at the Monkey King.