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悲泣之聲 A Sound Of Weeping
卻說孫大聖與眾神綑至夜半，忽聞有悲泣之聲。却说孙大圣与众神捆至夜半，忽闻有悲泣之声。
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卻說孫大聖與眾神綑至夜半，忽聞有悲泣之聲。
却说孙大圣与众神捆至夜半，忽闻有悲泣之声。
Now Sun the Great Sage and the gods lay bound until the middle of the night, when suddenly there came a sound of weeping.
卻說 picks the thread back up after the demons' feast closed it — now as to, the storyteller changing camera. The chapter's clock has run through a whole day and back into the dark: bound at daybreak, thrown down, and lying there until midnight.
Nineteen characters to restart the chapter, and they are almost entirely clock. The Great Sage and thirty-three officers of Heaven have been on the floor of a back room since the demons went off to their banquet, and nothing at all has happened to them since.
What breaks it is a noise, and the passage stops before saying whose. The novel has used this shape twice already in this chapter — a voice from inside a gate, a voice from a lotus seat — and both times the speaker turned out to be something other than it sounded.