I don't know how long it took.

When the monkey opened its eyes, it was surrounded by an endless void.

There is no light, no darkness.

There is no heaven, there is no earth.

There is no front and back, left and right.

No wind, no sound.

I don't even know the warmth and cold, and I don't feel the pain.

But it is different from the original soul world, which is a chaotic world, and there is a feeling of the beginning of the avenue.

Here, on the other hand, is nothingness.

Nothing exists.

It's as if even oneself is illusory.

It's not as if his body is really fading and blurring little by little.

There was no road under his feet, but the monkey kept walking.

There is no purpose, no end, like a puppet, tireless, never stopping.

Until the muscles and skins are exhausted, until they can no longer walk, until they completely turn into nothingness.

......

I don't know how many years ago.

On a hill in Huaguo Mountain.

A stone suddenly "woke up".

He saw the blue sky, saw the green earth and mountains, he heard the communication of beasts, heard the sound of thunder and thunder, he felt the wind, he felt the rain...... As soon as he woke up, he felt the world.

But the world didn't know about him.

He is a stone.

He could see and hear, but he couldn't open his mouth, he couldn't speak, no one noticed him.

He was alone.

"This damn stinking stone, I can't bend over. Suddenly, a nice voice sounded in my ears.

"Ah, I'm sorry. The stone found that it was a small grass beneath him complaining, and he was a little at a loss, like a child who had done something wrong, but he could not move.

"Who?!Who's talking?!" Xiaocao startled, but she couldn't jump, and could only sway the branches and leaves.

"It's me. "Stone Road.

"Who are you?!" Xiaocao warily "looked around".

"Who are you, who are you playing tricks?" the stone could hear, and Xiaocao was a little scared.

"It's me, I'm here. ”

But no matter how the stone responded, Xiaocao was still looking around.

Stone was lost, and a mood called loneliness struck him again.

He's just a rock, and no one notices him, even if it's close.

When the stone is ready to give up.

Xiaocao suddenly "raised her head" suspiciously: "Is that you?"

Stone was ecstatic: "Yes, yes, it's me." ”

......

In nothingness.

The monkey walked unconsciously, for a long time, and its body was so thin that it was almost transparent.

It seems that in the next second, it will disappear.

“...... Is it me?"

The confused monkey was stunned for a moment.

"Who am I?" the monkey's eyes looked puzzled.

When the monkey began to think, his body stopped blurring and began to solidify, albeit imperceptibly.

Suddenly, he looked at the endless void in front of him: "Who am I? Where is this? What am I doing here?"

"This is the 'Void Realm'. ”

A voice sounded in the monkey's heart.

"What is 'Nothingness'?" the monkey asked.

"'Beginning with chaos and ending at nothingness', this is the end of the world, the destination of all things. The voice in his mind seemed familiar, but the monkey couldn't remember it, and his mind seemed to be stirred into a mess.

"And who are you?" asked the monkey.

"I'm you. The voice replied.

"Who am I?" said the monkey confusedly.

"Hey, I'm not going to tell you. ”

The voice suddenly let out an oozing sneer, and continued, "Instinctively, your body has been walking, trying to get out of the void. Because he knows that if he can't get out of the void, he will eventually turn into nothingness. But he didn't know that he would never be able to get out of the 'Void'. ”

"Then how do you get out of here?" panicked the monkey.

"The opposite of nothingness is reality. ”

The voice said, "Remember who you are, find the real you, and get out of here." ”

The voice was full of provocation and rebelliousness: "Lao Tzu can only tell you so much. If you can't find the real you and get lost in nothingness, Lao Tzu will take over this body. Your birth was an accident, and you will go back wherever you came from. ”

"Since I am you, you are also me. Then you should also taste the taste of Lao Tzu's endless years lost in the 'Void Realm'. ”

"Okay, Lao Tzu has done his best, you can do it yourself. ”

With that, the voice was silenced.

"Hey, hey, uh-huh......" no matter how the monkey called, the voice never came again.

His body began to fade again, and a strange contemplation haunted the monkey's heart.

"Who am I?"

"Who am I?"

“......”

The monkey scratched his head anxiously, but his head was a mess and he couldn't think of anything.

The monkey pondered desperately the flash of light that had awakened him earlier.

He gritted his teeth and scratched his ears and cheeks, but he still couldn't stop his body from fading. As his body faded, his thoughts became heavier and more blurred. And the more blurred the consciousness, the faster the body fades.

And so a vicious circle.

"What is it? Remember! Remember......" The monkey roared with a hideous face, but in this "nothingness", even the sound was nothing.

Pondered.

He caught a touch of green.

Green?

What is it?

The monkey began to rack his brains again.

I don't know how many roots I caught, and as soon as the hair fell off, it disappeared in an instant, and it returned to nothingness.

Eventually, the greenery began to take shape.

A vague grass, sketched in the monkey's mind.

"A tree?"

The monkey frowned.

“...... Grass?"

"Grass?"

"Grass!"

......

One day after a long time.

"Haha, Xiaocao, I can finally move. ”

The stone shattered, and a little monkey with golden hair jumped out. He pointed to the green grass under his feet and said viciously: "Xiaocao, you don't want to stand up to me anymore." ”

"Stinky monkey, don't call me grass, I'm not grass. Xiaocao retorted.

"Oh, grass, tell me, what are you?" the little monkey disagreed.

"I, I don't know ......" Xiaocao said deflated, "and no one told me." ”

"That's right, you don't know what you're called anyway. The little monkey wanted to comfort him, but his face suddenly changed: "No, Xiaocao, what did you just call me?"

"Stinky monkey ......," Xiaocao resisted.

......

"Stinky monkeys?"

It was as if a pair of big hands had lifted the fog in his mind, and the monkey's head gradually became clearer.

"I'm a monkey?"

Beginning at Hanao Mountain, more memories emerge from the depths of my mind.

"I'm the Monkey King. ”

The appellation comes from memories that are already far away.

"I'm 'Monkey King'. ”

He should have the name, but it felt strange to him.

The monkey's body is no longer virtual, but it is not solidified either.

It shows that the self he found is still not real enough.

"I'm Six-Ear. ”

Yes, but maybe not.

"I am a saint. ”

He was born a saint and had the body of a saint, but he did not have the position of a saint.

"I am ......"

The monkey thought desperately, but his body still did not continue to solidify.

I always feel like something is missing.

The monkey scratched his ears and cheeks, and he filtered through all his more than 100 years in his mind, and there was really nothing missing.

I don't know how long it has been.

The monkey thought like a madman in the dark.

Suddenly, the monkey suddenly brightened.

"I'm a monkey. ”

He couldn't help but dance: "I'm just a monkey on Huaguo Mountain who lives with the grass." ”

That's the original self, the truest self.

The monkey's heart suddenly became steady.