Shortlisted
New Tales of the Gobi Desert
Peak School, Anson Li, Fiction: Group 1
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n Year 9999, many places on Earth were heavily polluted; especially in City Choka, there
were too many factories and traffic; many people there had serious health problems because
of that. As the problem was becoming very serious, the President of City Choka assigned
Professor Tom Jerry to explore a solution.
After many discussions, they decided to find another place with a good and fresh environment
to move their people there and then they could clean up City Choka. The Gobi Desert in the
Northern part of Asia was their choice because it had clear, blue sky and very fresh air; very
suitable for living. So, Prof. Tom led a team to go to the Gobi Desert to build up a city for their
people to move there. At the same time, some aliens from Planet Laka were also looking for a
place for their citizens to move to because their planet was going to explode soon.
The King of Planet Laka assigned Professor Buluke and his team to make a trip to Earth to
explore. When their spaceship landed on Earth, he saw a group of humans working there. When
Prof. Buluke walked closer, he saw his old friend Prof. Tom, they had met each other in a cross-
planets conference many years before. They hugged each other and found that they both had a
similar reason to come here. After discussion, they decided to build a city for both humans and
aliens to live. The aliens had some magic technology to do heavy construction super-fast with
zero pollution, so, they were responsible for building roads, highways, tunnels, bridges, railways,
man-made harbors and rivers as the desert was dry, hot and lack of water. The human team was
responsible for beautiful buildings, houses, malls, shops and decorations of the city. At last, they
also built a statue with Prof. Tom and Prof. Buluke shaking hands to represent the success of this
project and they named the city as Ali-Hu-Peace City.
At this happy moment, when they city was ready for the human and alien citizens to move in,
a big group of people suddenly arrived. Their leader was Baddy, he was a very greedy person who
owned a gold-mining company. They came here because their advanced gold-exploring equipment
showed there was a lot of gold under the Gobi Desert. Baddy wanted to use a bomb to destroy the
city and get the gold under it. When the two professors knew his plan, they tried to discuss with
Baddy but Baddy refused any discussion as he wanted the gold immediately.
In order to stop him, the two professors could only call for help! Prof. Tom blew his newly
invented ‘animal-whistle’ to call all the camels and donkeys on the Gobi Desert to surround all
the bad guys. Prof. Buluke and the aliens used their super-glue freezing guns to freeze them and
called their biggest spaceship to come to send all of them to a jail. They also dug a little hole to
explore the gold that Baddy mentioned. Surprisingly, it turned out was an underground forest, not
gold! They dug out the forest and put it in the city for their animals to live.
Finally, both the citizens of City Choka and Planet Laka moved into this new City of Ali-Hu-
Peace and lived there happily together.
