A story about Gobi Desert
SKH Chu Oi Primary School, Ivan Kwong, Fiction: Group 2
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verybody, wake up now. We arrived at the Gobi Desert,” the tour guide Wilson said. I
got off the car with my friends Desmond, Billy, Brian and Ryan. We were very excited
because this was the first time we went to a desert. Wilson took us to a small house.
There were some Bactrian camels. Wilson said ‘These camels are very rare. We can only
see them in Mongolia. Even in the Gobi Desert, you only have a little chance to see them. If you
have ever seen these camels in your life that means you are very lucky.’ And then, he let us to
ride on them. I felt very glad since I had never ridden on a camel before.
We continued our journey by the camels. After 5 minutes, we saw fifteen gray wolves. They
looked very hungry. Billy and I were very afraid of them. Therefore, we got off the camel and ran
away immediately. Desmond saw me get away so he also ran away quickly. Wilson took a gun out
from his bag. We were surprised because we had never seen a real gun before. He shot a wolf but
the others weren’t afraid. He continued shooting the others. However, they still ran to my camel
and Desmond’s. Right on cue, they ate our camels brutally. We nearly wanted to cry. However,
Wilson ordered us to follow him shortly, so we ran after him.
It became colder and colder. The sky became darker and darker. We knew it was nightfall
so we took out our jackets quickly. Wilson called us to make up a fire. We used some wood we
brought and some matches. We made a fire quickly. We were very thankful but the temperatures
continued to drop. Although I wore two jackets and one of it was made of down I still felt cold. At
midnight, it was only -3 degrees Celsius.
The next day, Wilson took us to the border of China and Mongolia. We went there because we
were doing a science research about dinosaurs that lived there during the end of the Cretaceous
Period. Wilson said, ‘The Gobi desert is becoming bigger and bigger because of desertification.
There are four countries threatened. In China the desertification of Gobi even affects Beijing.’ We
were very surprised to hear this news.
We discovered that we had drunk all our water. Therefore we went looking for a pool or well.
We looked for it for a whole day but we couldn’t find it. We were very thirsty. We didn’t have
anything to eat and we were very hungry too. We almost had no power to walk. Luckily, we found
a pool the next day. There was a herd of black tailed gazelles drinking water. I used my gun to
shoot one of them and it died. We could drink water and ate that gazelle. I felt like we ‘killed two
birds with one stone’. I was brave and proud of myself at that time.
After we had finished drinking the water, the grounds shook. We were afraid. We thought
that this was an earthquake but we were wrong. Suddenly a long, big and snake-like shaped worm
jumped out from underground. We were very scared! ‘It is the Mongolia death worm. Run away!’
Wilson shouted fearfully. However, Wilson could not escape. The death worm tore Wilson apart with
its sharp teeth. It was very horrible. Ryan and I took the cameras out and took some photos of it.
Desmond and Brian took the guns out and shot the death worm quickly. However, it escaped easily.
We felt helpless and sad since Wilson died. We did not know how we could leave the desert now.
I was digging on the sand because I thought there would be some water underground. I was
very surprised when I discovered a big bone. I thought it was the bone of a Tyrannosaurus. If I
could find the whole set of bones, I could give them to a museum and show them everyone. The
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