H06 The Order of the Monkey King

Book cover

## About

### Cover Characters

Alex, Lulu, Marie, Rita and Rica, Smith, NikoMing, Goken , Ming Kong, Richard, 'The Octopus'

### Chapters

* The Azure princess
* Onward to everest!
* Shadows in the snow
* Secret in the Himalayas
* Door to the Past
* Monkey madness
* Cat flight
* Mountain of Miracles

**The Order of the Monkey King**, Book 6 of The Golden Age of the Adventures series, was published in January 2016. It is the English language edition of the original Chinese comic, **一亿吨的巨兽**, which was published in December 2014.

## Synopsis

AIMING FOR THE TOP! EXPLORING MYSTERIES IN THE MOUNTAINS!

A group of adventures disappears right after reporting that they found gold in the Himalayas. The World Adventure Union sends a rescue mission, which includes the No. 4 adventurer, Azure Princess, who unexpectedly provides a clue to Lulu’s mysterious background. However, the rescue mission is attacked by snow apes. Will they meet the same fate as the vanished adventurers?

## Cast

* Alex
* Lulu
* Jackal
* "Azure Princess" Marie
* Smith
* Other adventurers in the Himalayan expedition team

## Plot

***Spoiler warning!** Plot and/or ending details follow.*

### Chapter 1: The Azure Princess

At the Himalayan mountain range, an expedition group see gold shining from a mountain. They transmit this info to the World Adventure Union. A tall silhouette picks up one person from the group. In the distance, Jackal is listening because Jones assigned him to investigate.

Three days later, at the Indian mountain range near the Chinese border, Alex gives Lulu a puzzle for eating all the food they had while there's only a chicken left. an adult and two children want to cross the river. The adult is 60 kg and the one child is 30 kg. The boat to cross the river can only hold 60 kg. How can the three of them cross the river?

Lulu's answer is the the children ride the boat and the adult swims, which is wrong. The answer is the children will cross first. Then one child goes back and the adult rides across. The child on the other side goes back to take the other child across. Now Alex can eat the chicken, but Lulu Eats it. On the radio the WAU announces a joint expedition, which is when a lot of adventurers go on an expedition together.

At the WAU China headquarters, Alex sees Smith, who has a beard now. He congratulates Alex for the colossus matter last month. Lulu asks him why both of them aren't in the rankings for finding priceless relics. Smith explains an adventurer must report the treasure to the Union. The Union will assign the ranking based on the treasure's value.

There's a commotion at the entrance. It is Team Cygnus. The twin maids, Rita and Rica, throw out flyers. The flyers show Lulu but older, the same appearance she transformed into previously. Lulu tells Alex she is the person in the flyers and the Team Cygnus leader, Marie Wright, is her sister?!

### Chapter 2: Onward to Everest!

Lulu also tells Alex her real name is Luna Wright, and both she and Marie are the last remaining descendants of the Wright brothers. Each descendant is expected to take over the family business when they turn fifteen. Lulu felt pressured, so she ran away. The business is fine with Marie taking over. Smith calls all the adventurers to gather in the central assembly hall.

There, Smith explains fog engulfed the Himalayas , so the Union sent an expedition team. Their last message talked about the shining gold. This could somehow relate to the fog. The primary objective is to rescue the expedition team and the secondary is finding the fog's source and investigate the gold. Due to the terrain, there will be two groups: the sky team led by Marie and the ground team led by "Mountain King" Niko.

The next day, the expedition begins. The sky team increase altitude to 10 000 meters. Alex meets some adventurers: an unranked shaolin monk Ming Kong and "Scorpion" Richard. Ming Kong has a little radio of Buddhist chants to calm himself. Richard protests underaged kids like them shouldn't be joining this. He tries to take the African adventurer's mask off, but Alex stops his hand with his rope. Alex will only release if he shows respect to his teammates.

### Chapter 3: Shadows in the Snow

The ground team has arrived at the foot of Mt. Everest. Goken, the masked adventurer, thanks Alex for earlier. Niko and Richard argue over the expedition. Richard decides goes solo and walks into the fog. Lulu detects something in the distance. Richard is thrown out of the fog, injured. The fog reveals giant white monkeys.

Lulu is tied to Alex's rope and Alex releases her and she spins with her sword sticking out, slashing many of them. One monkey is dropping on Alex, but Ming Kong smashes its mouth with his bald iron-like head. Goken swipes his long stick like an elephant trunk. The remaining monkeys are cornered. "Twilight Doctor" Ming warns animals are dangerous when cornered. The monkeys eat each other, becoming larger, singular monkey.

Not contacting in fifteen minutes, Team Cygnus and two adventurers rank 30 and above go down to investigate.

### Chapter 4: The Secret in the Himalayas

The monkey smashes the ground, and the ground team fall into the gaps with an avalanche chasing them. Everyone rides on the Octopus' rubber octopi. They enter an entrance with an image of a shape on top. There are three entrances with the image on different angles. Everyone enters the left one, which Lulu chose, but she got it wrong. Everyone destroys the right wall into the middle pathway. They enter a room with a golden pillar. Another masked adventurer, Jackal, reveals himself and says the pillar is the staff of Sun Wu Kong.

On the surface, the monkey destroys the plane Christmas Vampire was in. Marie will deal with it herself.

### Chapter 5: Door to the Past

Jackal joined the expedition to confirm if the pillar is Sun Wu Kong's staff for his master. Two adventurers have found the expedition team in a room with the monkeys sleeping in ice on the ceiling. There's a puzzle: one day, I met a strange monkey in the forest. It mischievously mimicked my every action as I did it. Finally I did something it could not do, so it left. If you know what I did, please stand on the circle and perform that same action to reveal the truth.

Lulu stands on the circle and closes her eyes. A golden face opens its mouth, releasing gas. It makes everyone sleep. Everyone dreams of Himalayan villagers asking Wu Kong for help because their village is in a state of natural disasters. Wu Kong and a monk, Sha Wu Jing, went to investigate. Indeed, the Himalayas is caught in natural disasters. Wu Kong used his staff to prevent the volcano from erupting. He blew a piece of his hair to clone himself. They will protect the staff while he continues his journey to the West.

Everyone wakes up, realising the sleeping monkeys are Wu Kong's clones. On the surface, Marie deals a spiral splice with her rope on the monkey and the Odette, Marie's airship, shoot from the starboard cannons. The monkey roars, awakening the sleeping monkeys.

### Chapter 6: Monkey Madness

The ground team exit the mountain. The monkeys who were sleeping consume the large monkey, becoming an even bigger monkey. The Odette moves away from its powerful punch, so powerful that the force hit the moon. The mountain breaks, revealing the gold staff. Alex theorises the reason why the fogs appeared was because of the staff. The lava was blocked, but the steam escaped. And the gold the expedition team saw was the staff.

The monkey takes the staff out of the ground, causing lava to erupt from the ground. Alex's solution to stop is Ming Kong.

### Chapter 7: Cat Flight

The monkey spins its staff and release strong wind. Marie tells her team to leave so that she can deal with it herself, but they deny. The Odette activates amazon mode: the fins reveal missile shooters.

Alex meant Ming Kong's Buddhist chants. Jackal will bring the radio to the Odette to let it play on its speakers, but his jetpack is severly damaged. Lulu turns into a cat and plans to use the jetpack to carry her there. Everyone was fascinated, especially Dr. Ming.

The ground team distract the monkey. Lulu uses a blinks her flashlight to transmit a message only the Wright family and Team Cygnus know. It said "Hold your position and let me board. I have a way to calm the beast." Near to the Odette, the jetpack explodes. Marie catches Lulu with her rope. Lulu tells her she is Luna Wright.

### Chapter 8: Mountain of Miracles

Lulu takes Marie's scarf and transforms back. Marie realises she is Luna when she was seven years old. She cuddles her for how cute she is. The real reason Lulu left was because Marie followed her everywhere, even the bathroom. Marie takes her into the Odette and the radio connects to the speakers.

The monkey holds the staff over the ground team. It hears the Buddhist chants. Its mindless rage calmed and starts to remember its task. Although it is a clone, it retains most of Sun Wu Kong's memories. Using body language, Alex tells the monkey to put the staff back. The monkey does so, and curls around the staff, melting. The monkey itself has become a mountain. Is this a miracle?

## Trivia

* This is the first book to have the title start with "the". The other is H36: The Sword of Gaia's Children.
* At the bottom of page 32, three adventurers resembling Rain, Sean and Stone from other X-Venture series can be seen.
* Lulu's snow attire resembles Doraemon.