Spirits and Monsters in the Life of Journey to the West

To survive, master and disciples are forced to face the modern world's “demons and monsters.” Wukong relies on his strength to work as a delivery driver, but because he doesn't understand navigation, he delivers food to the wrong address and gets into a confrontation with a customer who leaves a malicious bad review. He suffers exploitation by the platform and workplace bullying, and sees a coworker work until the early hours to take more orders. Caught in the rat race, they fight over orders, and he can't understand why “working harder gets you nowhere.” Bajie is infatuated with the “goddesses” in short videos. Not only does he fall for a romance scam, he later discovers someone has used AI face-swapping to fake videos of him, falsely claiming he owes money to swindle his fans. He learns the hard way about the consequences of “technological fakery.” Sha Seng works as a laborer at a construction site. When he helps a coworker demand unpaid wages, the contractor threatens him. Meanwhile, another coworker argues with his wife because they can't afford a home in a good school district. He also hears that the site is forcing workers to “volunteer for overtime” to meet deadlines, which is really just another form of workplace competition. Several people collapse from exhaustion, but no one does anything about it. Tang Seng hopes to spread kindness by “preaching,” but people on a livestreaming platform curse him as a “fake holy man.” He also happens to see one of his fans fail to get justice after fighting workplace sexual harassment, and witnesses the fan's company encourage employees to “voluntarily accept pay cuts” as part of its “staff optimization” scheme, punishing anyone who refuses by making their lives difficult.------