useful, like his worksite. After seeing a few bushes, camels and ibexes, Steve caught a glimpse
of something like a hole in the distance. As he went closer, he started to have an idea of what
it was. Finally he said, “Is that… aha! It’s my old worksite! Yippee!” Steve changed his worksite
many times because he never found much. Steve circled the old worksite again and again, until he
finally remembered the place of his tent and said, “Oh yes! I remember now!” He looked at the sun,
checked the time and turned towards northwest. But he slipped and fell down into the worksite,
and he was knocked out the second time that day…
By the time Steve woke up, it was already night-time, with the moon high in the sky.
He murmured, “Why do I have to be knocked out so many times today?”
He slowly sat up, his head still feeling dizzy and wobbly from the fall. When he opened his
eyes, he saw something green sticking out of the dry desert sand!
Steve wondered, “Could that be…”
He dug at the sand around the green, to reveal a green crown!
He remembered what Professor Viper said and shouted with delight, “I can sell this to the
museum and earn so much money!”
Suddenly, a shadow loomed over Steve, making him turn around. Then, Steve realized it was
Professor Viper grinning down at him! Steve grabbed the crown, turned and scrambled up the
wall of the worksite and started running.
The mad professor started chasing him, yelling “Stop!”
Steve fished the handgun he picked up earlier out of his pocket and shot it at Professor Viper’s
thigh. But amazingly, the mad professor kept his speed, chasing after Steve! The two ran for miles
and miles, until Steve was cornered at the edge of a cliff.
Steve said, “Don’t come! Or else I’ll drop the crown down the ravine!”
Still, the mad professor lunged at him and snatched the crown!
Steve shouted, “No!”
Steve watched in horror as Professor Viper slipped over the edge and fell down the ravine with
the Jade Crown forever…
