Chapter 562 - 269: What? The Cliff Is Faster Than a Monkey?
"Huh?"
Crows are known to use shiny objects to decorate their nests, but how did it manage to get this external hard drive from the monkey? Li Younan couldn’t be bothered to think about it, because what happened next was even more surreal. The crow dropped the hard drive right in front of Li Younan.
Li Younan’s mouth twitched slightly as he picked up the hard drive. This external hard drive was slightly bigger than a regular USB drive, entirely metallic, yet not very heavy.
Li Younan said into the walkie-talkie, "I’ve found the hard drive."
The walkie-talkie was silent for a moment, then became noisy: "What? You found it!"
"That’s great! That’s great!"
"Teacher Li, you need to be careful!"
Just as everyone was celebrating, Li Younan frowned and quickly turned the walkie-talkie’s volume to the lowest setting because the crow moved again.
It seemed that after entrusting its fledgling to Li Younan, the big crow felt at ease. It cawed twice more and flew towards a monkey up above.
Seeing this, Li Younan sighed softly.
The monkey was relatively small, clearly just recently an adult, and it was pecked twice by the crow, crying out in distress.
But just as the big crow was about to launch its next attack, suddenly a figure leapt from the air and caught it fiercely.
Li Younan immediately saw clearly; it was the Monkey King.
The crow and the Monkey King fell together in mid-air for a dozen meters, the Monkey King grasping onto a pine tree growing out of the cliff face, just a dozen meters away from Li Younan.
Then, in Li Younan’s line of sight, the Monkey King fiercely bit the crow.
This scene was also reflected in the eyes of the fledgling crow, whose head poked out of Li Younan’s chest pocket. The young crow cried out mournfully twice. Watching this, Li Younan felt a pang of sadness, but he didn’t plan to intervene—after all, it was the survival of the fittest in nature, and from the monkey’s standpoint, it wasn’t wrong.
However, after biting the crow to death, the Monkey King sneered at Li Younan, then, with the crow in its mouth, pointed its butt at him.
This instantly angered Li Younan.
Without the slightest hesitation, his body moved before he even thought.
His right hand shot out like lightning, his fingers precisely hooking into a crack in the rock, his knuckles exerting force, hoisting himself up over a meter.
His left toe lightly tapped on an almost invisible rock protrusion, raising his body higher again.
His movements were free of any excess motion, like a shadow flowing across the cliff face.
As soon as the Monkey King turned its head and saw Li Younan chasing him, it instinctively sensed danger and started moving horizontally along the cliff, trying to escape through the complex terrain.
Li Younan didn’t follow the Monkey King’s route.
His eyes swiftly scanned the cliff face, instantly planning a shorter interception path.
It was a nearly vertical line, covered in slippery moss and loose stones.
He went straight for it.
His fingers gripped the slippery rock ledge, his body close to the wall to minimize leverage.
His toes found support in small moss-covered depressions, his core tightened to provide stable torque.
Loose stones fell as he borrowed force, tumbling into the deep valley, but his movements remained steady and balanced.
The Monkey King’s speed was quick, leaping and bounding in its familiar territory.
But Li Younan was faster, his movement imbued with calm, efficient precision, each exertion perfectly timed, each foothold unwavering.
The distance was closing rapidly.
The Monkey King turned its head in alarm, seeing the human figure rapidly approaching on a path it believed impossible to traverse.
It accelerated its escape towards the nest platform above.
Li Younan aimed for a protruding rock cornice above the Monkey King.
He forcefully pushed upwards and sideways, his body detaching from the cliff face, briefly stretching in mid-air, his right hand barely catching the edge of the cornice.
Relying solely on the strength of his single arm, his core instantly tensed like a bow, swinging him up lightly onto the platform.
Right in front of the Monkey King’s escape path.
The Monkey King halted abruptly, still holding the crow in its mouth, looking at Li Younan with an expression that humans could recognize as shock.
The next moment, the Monkey King realized and put down the crow, continuing to sneer at Li Younan. But before its sharp teeth even showed, Li Younan slapped its head hard.
The slap left the Monkey King utterly bewildered, stunned for quite a while.
Li Younan picked up the dead crow from the ground in irritation, huffing, "You think you’re the Great Sage Equal to Heaven? Daring to provoke me, they’re the Beautiful Monkey King, and you—ugly monkey."
This scene was captured clearly by the drone overhead.
At this moment, several police officers had gathered behind the drone operator, each staring in stunned silence, their emotions unable to settle for a long time—everyone exchanged glances, what just, just happened?
A human, on the perilous cliff, had managed to chase down a monkey?