Following Yang Lin's footsteps, everyone soon arrived at the area where the monkey garden was located.
Compared to the usual liveliness, the monkey garden was unusually quiet at this moment.
Not only were there no little monkeys to be seen, but even the lights were off.
Seeing this scene, the audience immediately became confused.
"Is it another shadow puppet show?"
"Where are the monkeys? What about the 'Havoc in Heaven' that was promised?"
"What trick is Director Yang playing now?"
"What's the stage this time?"
...
Just as the hearts of the crowd of tourists were filled with confusion, the sound of drums, like thunder, suddenly emanated from the sky above the monkey garden.
The next second, a beam of light suddenly shone down onto the sky of the monkey garden.
To the astonishment of countless spectators, a cloud, made of something unknown, appeared there.
After a flash of lightning, several heavenly soldiers and generals in armor appeared on the cloud.
Leading them was a divine being with a three-pointed, double-edged halberd and three eyes.
Seeing this, everyone felt a sense of being amazed.
"Wow, Director Yang has really splurged this time, even bringing in a cherry picker."
"Don't worry, everyone, these heavenly soldiers and generals are fake. They're played by zoo staff, and they can't fly. They're all standing on a lifting platform."
"Thank you, 'Confused One', if you hadn't said it, I would still be in the dark."
"I think this opening is great, but who's going to cause trouble in 'Havoc in Heaven'?"
"Right, where's the Great Sage? Where is he?"
.....
And just as the audience finished speaking, a familiar and passionate voice rang out across the park.
Under everyone's gaze, a beam of multicolored light was cast upon the highest rockery in the monkey garden.
The next second, a banner with the words "Great Sage Equal to Heaven" appeared before everyone.
The appearance of this banner was like a signal.
The previously dim monkey garden was immediately illuminated by successive lights.
Every time a light turned on, a small monkey dressed in armor and holding a luminous baton would appear there.
In a short while, every corner of the monkey mountain was filled with little monkeys.
Their uniform attire and identical luminous batons made them seem as if they had been transformed.
As the little monkeys appeared, the music in the venue changed again, and the frequency of drumbeats and lightning in the sky increased.
Instantly, the feeling of an impending battle arose.
At this moment, the audience felt their blood boiling.
Before they could recover from the shocking scene, the more than a hundred little monkeys on the monkey mountain began to collectively wave their batons.
The batons, over a meter long and glowing with red and yellow light, seemed to have taken root in the hands of these little monkeys.
Sometimes they spun, sometimes they swung, their movements so synchronized that even professional martial artists would be ashamed.
As the music grew more rapid, the movements of the little monkeys became faster and faster.
Just as the music reached its climax, the three-eyed divine being on the cloud suddenly let out a roar.
"I am the nephew of the Jade Emperor, the True Lord Erlang, who manifests his divine might. I am here by imperial decree to capture you, demon monkey! Reveal yourself!"
As soon as the words fell, a terrifying roar echoed from the monkey mountain.
The next second, it was as if a great earthquake had occurred within the monkey garden.
To the horror of countless spectators, a massive dark silhouette instantly leaped from the ground to the summit of the twenty-meter-high monkey mountain.
Roar!
After another earth-shattering roar, a bright beam of light shot directly towards the summit of the monkey mountain.
Immediately, a bipedal giant beast, with muscles as hard as steel and a body the size of a small mountain, appeared there.
Looking at the beast's ferocious face and exposed fangs, even the audience, who were somewhat prepared, gasped.
Before the audience could even raise their phones to take pictures, the giant beast slammed its fist, the size of a sand pot, against its chest.
Then, in front of everyone, it ripped the cement flagpole, bearing the "Great Sage Equal to Heaven" banner, directly from the monkey mountain.
The flagpole, as thick as an adult's thigh, was like an ordinary stick in the hands of this giant beast.
This made the human actors on the cherry picker opposite them feel their scalps tingle and their eyelids twitch.
Accompanied by bursts of intense drumming and gongs, the giant beast began to wield the cement flagpole it held.
The little monkeys on the monkey mountain, seeing this, also joined in.
In an instant, the scene became incredibly lively.
It was only then that the audience outside the monkey garden reacted. While raising their phones to take pictures and record videos, they also couldn't help but exclaim.
"Holy crap, this is epic! I declare this the best of the show."
"I knew Xihong Zoo would never disappoint us."
"I never imagined that a group of real monkeys would be performing martial arts."
"Is the one at the top King Kong? Is he playing the Great Sage?"
"Do you even need to ask? It's definitely the Great Sage."
"Why did the Great Sage turn into a giant ape? That doesn't make sense!"
"I think it makes perfect sense. In the original story, Sun Wukong was in such a violent form, and only later did he gradually become more human-like."
"Exactly, the Great Sage is a demon king, and this shows the aura of a demon king."
"If the Great Sage were in this state when he went to get the scriptures with Tang Monk, which demon would dare to block their path?"
"The Buddha would just deliver the scriptures to their door."
"If I'm not mistaken, the thing in his hand is a utility pole."
"If that were really connected to electricity, it would truly become the Ruyi Jingu Bang."
"Now you know why Erlang Shen is called the True Lord Erlang, who manifests his divine might. It's a close victory, truly a close victory."
"These little monkeys are also amazing, all of them are so good at wielding their batons."
"I feel like Director Yang could consider remaking 'Journey to the West'. The demons are all ready-made, saving on special effects costs."
"That makes sense. If Director Yang remakes it, no one would say he's disrespecting the original work, right?"
.....
And just as the entire audience was amazed by the performance in the monkey garden, the millions of viewers in the live stream were also speechless with excitement.
Even though they were not there in person, the sense of shock was no less.
Soon, these viewers in the live stream uploaded the entire process of the broadcast to their respective social media and major video websites.
At this time, the New Year's Eve galas of various satellite TV stations were also in full swing.
The trending content on video websites was mostly dominated by the performances of star celebrities at the galas.
Such as "So-and-so Heavenly King's Vocal Performance," "So-and-so Diva's Return," "So-and-so A-list Star's Debut Appearance."
However, when the content from Xihong Zoo's New Year's Eve gala was uploaded by netizens, the situation immediately reversed 180 degrees.