Chapter 858: Chapter 97: Six-Eared Macaque
"The things I saw... have also disappeared." Xue Yue followed up.
"Strange... it is indeed a bit strange." Sun Hang said, looking at another version of himself not far away.
The direction of the events was indeed somewhat beyond Sun Hang’s expectations. However, only the expectations were exceeded, not his control.
"A bit strange, but—" Sun Hang also laughed, "very interesting."
Seeing Sun Hang smile, the other Sun Hang, an incarnation of "desire," became cautious instead. He stared at Sun Hang and asked, "Why are you smiling? You shouldn’t be smiling right now."
"Why are you minding my business so much? I’ll smile if I want to, what’s it to you?" Sun Hang gave a middle finger to the other version of himself.
"Who are you talking to, Sun Hang?" Candle Dragon asked from the side.
"I know you too well, just as well as I know myself... or should I say, we are essentially the same person." The other Sun Hang said in a low voice, "I understand very well what your smile means..."
"Oh, do tell." Sun Hang asked with great interest, "I wouldn’t even dare to say I understand myself, yet you dare say that much?"
"Either you’re bluffing... or you have an ace in the hole that can destroy me." The other Sun Hang said.
"As expected of me, you guessed it right." Sun Hang nodded, "So guess again, which situation do you think it is now?"
"I don’t need to guess, I just need to eliminate you." The other Sun Hang also laughed. Behind him spread tens of thousands of Taixu Fungus enveloped in crimson spores. Dozens of liquid metal flying blades of various shapes hovered by his side, and between these liquid metal flying blades, faint arcs of blue and white electricity could be seen jumping around.
The desire not only copied the individual that is Sun Hang but also without fail copied Sun Hang’s meme ability.
"This is a very fair showdown. To your friends, I do not exist in this world, and I will have no other helpers. No outsiders will interfere in our battle... We have identical bodies and identical abilities, even our thinking and combat experience are indistinguishable." The other Sun Hang said.
"Oh... after saying so much, it turns out you want to get rid of me, huh?" Sun Hang muttered.
"Only one of us can exist, and if I win, I will replace you to become the only Sun Hang in this world." That Sun Hang said with a cold smile. The electric arc output between the liquid metal flying blades suddenly increased, the crackling sound was incessant, and a faint smell wafted through the air.
This was the smell of ozone produced when oxygen in the air is ionized under a high-voltage electric field. Sun Hang often smelled this scent when using the Kui Niu’s thunder ability.
"I suddenly feel like I should change my name." Sun Hang said seriously.
"Change it to what?" The other Sun Hang immediately asked.
"I shouldn’t be called Sun Hang, I should be called Sun Wukong." Sun Hang pointed at the other version of himself and continued, "And you, you can be called the Six-Eared Macaque. How about it, isn’t it fitting?"
"You should have heard of a theory..." the other Sun Hang said, "that actually, in the story of the true and false Monkey King, the one that was beaten to death was the real Sun Wukong, whereas the one who accompanied Tang Seng to the West to get the scriptures and ultimately became the Victorious Fighting Buddha was actually the Six-Eared Macaque who fooled everyone..."
"Do you think Sun Wukong’s abilities count as cheating?" Sun Hang took a step forward.
"No." the other Sun Hang said decisively, "Sun Wukong is powerful, but in the world view of Journey to the West, there are many more beings stronger than him..."
"But I can cheat, and you don’t have this cheat." Sun Hang clapped his hands, "Now those three monkeys that have been spying can act."
"What do you mean—ah... ah..."
The avatar of desire, the other Sun Hang, hadn’t finished speaking when his body suddenly swelled up. Within seconds, he transformed from a normally shaped human male into a spherical object over five meters in diameter, with his body’s flesh stretched almost to the point of transparency, faintly revealing twisted bones and mangled organs inside the sphere.
"What... what is this?!"
The other Sun Hang had already lost the ability to speak, his voice echoed directly in Sun Hang’s mental world.
"Just before getting out of the tunnel, I used a ’wish come true’ ability on myself. The effect of the ability was to temporarily forget the existence of the ’three monkeys’. I couldn’t isolate the three monkeys’ perception of this world, but turning a deaf ear and deceiving myself was quite simple." Sun Hang laughed, "So, the version of Sun Hang you copied is actually incomplete... you missed out on the most perverse, most unreasonable cheat."
"Three monkeys? What are three monkeys?!" The other Sun Hang—or rather the consciousness now to be referred to as ’desire’—screamed frantically in Sun Hang’s mind, "This is impossible... there can’t be an anomaly capable of restraining me! I am the aggregation of all intelligent beings’ desires in this world, my ability is..."
Before it finished its sentence, its consciousness was completely erased from this world with a soft "pop" sound.
Just like a soap bubble being pierced.
"What a pity." Watching the version of himself that had turned into pus and blood gradually seep into the ground, Sun Hang sighed quietly.
With the help of the three monkeys’ ability, he could easily dispatch the "desire" that he had outmaneuvered, but it was precisely due to the intervention of the three monkeys that he had no opportunity to devour the meme of "desire".
