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火來了 The Fire Is Coming
行者急回，已將兩股毫毛燒淨。徑跑至唐僧面前叫：「快回去，快回去。火來了，火來了。」行者急回，已将两股毫毛烧净。径跑至唐僧面前叫：「快回去，快回去。火来了，火来了。」
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行者急回，已將兩股毫毛燒淨。
行者急回，已将两股毫毛烧净。
Pilgrim scrambled back at once — and the hair on both his legs was already burnt away.
兩股毫毛, the fine hair of both thighs. The old man had said a bronze skull and an iron body would melt to liquid; the Great Sage loses his leg hair, which is at once a vindication of how tough he is and the first injury anything in this chapter has managed to do him.
徑跑至唐僧面前叫：「快回去，快回去。火來了，火來了。」
径跑至唐僧面前叫：「快回去，快回去。火来了，火来了。」
He ran straight to where the Tang Monk stood and shouted, 'Back, get back! The fire is coming, the fire is coming!'
火來了，火來了, doubled — the fourth doubling in a short stretch, after 來了, 正是 and 有扇. The chapter uses the device for eagerness, for pain and here for alarm.
The injury is precisely calibrated. The old man warned that a bronze skull and an iron body would melt to liquid; the Great Sage comes back with the hair burnt off both legs. It is at once a vindication of how tough he is and the first physical harm anything in this chapter has managed to do him — and it is done by the treasure he is holding.
快回去，快回去。火來了，火來了 — back, get back, the fire is coming. Four doublings in a short stretch now, after 來了, 正是, 有扇 and 渴了. The chapter uses the cadence for eagerness, for pain, for confirmation and here for alarm, and it is the most consistent verbal habit in the whole of the chapter.
It is also the Great Sage running away. He has been thrown eighty-four thousand lǐ and come back the same morning; he has sat inside a demon's stomach making jokes. Here he sprints to his master shouting a warning, and the chapter closes its main action with the fan in his hand and the fire larger than when he arrived.