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戰戰兢兢 The Second Fiend Comes Home
那二魔戰戰兢兢回洞。未到時，已有小妖報知老魔、三魔，說二魔被行者揪著鼻子拉去。老魔悚懼，與三魔帥眾方出，見二魔獨回，又皆接入，問及放回之故。那二魔战战兢兢回洞。未到时，已有小妖报知老魔、三魔，说二魔被行者揪着鼻子拉去。老魔悚惧，与三魔帅众方出，见二魔独回，又皆接入，问及放回之故。
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那二魔戰戰兢兢回洞。
那二魔战战兢兢回洞。
As for the second fiend, he went back to the cave shaking in every limb.
戰戰兢兢 — trembling and treading carefully, both doubled.
未到時，已有小妖報知老魔、三魔，說二魔被行者揪著鼻子拉去。
未到时，已有小妖报知老魔、三魔，说二魔被行者揪着鼻子拉去。
Before he arrived, small demons had already carried word to the eldest and the third that the second had been dragged off by Sun Wukong with a hand on his nose.
著 reads zhe, the grip kept up. 報知 — to carry word so that someone knows it.
老魔悚懼，與三魔帥眾方出，見二魔獨回，又皆接入，問及放回之故。
老魔悚惧，与三魔帅众方出，见二魔独回，又皆接入，问及放回之故。
The old fiend was terrified. He and the third led their people out, and seeing the second come back alone they took him in among them and asked how he came to be released.
悚懼 — struck with fear. 放回 is to be let go and sent back.
The demons' intelligence works faster than their brother can walk. He is still on the road when the news reaches the cave, which tells you they had scouts watching the fight and that everyone in the mountain now knows how it ended.
The eldest is terrified rather than angry, and the distinction matters. He has already been on the wrong end of Wukong twice in this chapter and has arrived at a settled position: this monkey cannot be beaten. Everything he says from here on follows from that.
The question they ask is the interesting one. Not what happened, but how he came to be let go. Nobody is surprised he was captured. What needs explaining is that he is alive.