Had they followed Meng Luoluo's idea—approaching the Monkey Wine without alerting the Monkey King—they would likely have already clashed with these four black apes.
With those four black apes in play, coupled with the Monkey King who still had plenty of strength left to spare, a prolonged entanglement would have been virtually guaranteed. Once the Monkey King came to their reinforcement, handling the situation would have been far from simple.
Even if they actually managed to steal the Monkey Wine, making a clean getaway would have been extremely difficult.
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