"If we want to survive this drought, you will have to make it rain."
In this short-and-sweet Choose Your Own Adventure book, you will be taken on a quest to discover why the rains haven't fallen on your tiny little chinese village - and to remedy...
You now have a person unconscious and wounded on the counter. At least he'll live - and so far, for all you know, that's better than whatever deal Mei Mei must be getting. There must be a hint, somewhere in the boutique, of what could possibly have happened!
You rummage around, lifting old papers, bookcases, diplays; pieces of jade figurines litter the floor, you kick a dead lantern out of the way. It rolls until it bumps into a massive book lying open on the floor. It's the biggest book you ever saw. Curious, you pick it up with both hands and dump it onto the counter, next to your unconscious host, and leaf through it.
You stop dead upon seeing this picture.
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Underneath are the words:
SUN WUKONG THE LEGEND OF THE MONKEY KING
With a bead of sweat running down your spine, you turn the page and read on.
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, was born from a stone egg, and has earned quite the reputation in China.
His quest for immortality began on the day he helped a pack of monkeys cross under a large waterfall to the cave hidden behind: Huaguoshan Dongtian. It was then that he earned his title, and then that he began to rule over his kingdom - and to sink into abysmal boredom and the great fear of one day dying.
In order to delay the inevitable, he went to Taoist master Xuputi to learn from him how to cultivate his body and mind. Under the master's teachings, Sun Wukong learned the art of transformation and can now succesfully assume 72 different shapes. He also learned combat and the delicate technique of riding clouds. Following his studies, Sun Wukong decreed that he needed a weapon to reflect his capacities, and he dove down to the bottom of the seas, to the kingdom of the Dragon King, to demand he lay down his arms, so that Sun Wukong might choose from them what he desired. The Dragon King offered Sun Wukong the pillar of Emperor Yu, which had been used to uphold the sea. Finding the object too large, the Monkey King bespelled it to grow and shrink according to his will. The staff can be long as a toothpick or great as a mountain.
On the day of his death, Sun Wukong was taken to the afterlife. There, in prey to blinding anger, he summoned the Ten Kings of Hell and ordered that the Book of the Dead be brought to him; from it he crossed out his own name and those of his closest followers. He came back to the world of the living.
His sins grew and grew until the Jade Emperor and all the Kings refused to take it anymore; Sun Wukong was condemned to death, but execution attempts were never fruitful. Eventually, Buddha himself turned his Hand and buried the Monkey King under a mountain. He was freed from it years and years later, by Buddhist monk Kuan Yin. She took him under her wing and brought him along as a traveling companion. Today, the Monkey Ki-
The page has been torn crudely, but if you really squint, you can see, at the edge of the tear, what looks like the word "control".
To try and find the missing part of the page, go to Chapter Twenty-Eight.
If you decide it's time to leave, please choose the right chapter: * If you went through the window without falling in, go to Chapter Nineteen. * If you fell through the window or brought the door down, go to Chapter Twenty.
