Mining Robbery in Gobi Desert
Sacred Heart Canossian College, Melody Mak, Fiction: Group 3
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old mining has been a mystery in Gobi desert. Gobi desert has been the largest desert
region in the Asia. There were poisonous insects, for instance, spiders. However, spiders
are not the scariest one, but the trees. People living near the region of Gobi desert have
always wanted to go to this place for a long time. It was saying there were “troops” on
the boundary of the desert. The rumors kept the people away. Indeed, yes, there were beautiful
trees but most of them were poisonous. The local people soon noticed that the gold mining was a
ban from the government and it has seen as open secret for all the habitants.
Lots of people come every year from around the world but it seems no one had ever attempted
to enter the desert. The poisonous trees forced the people out of the Gobi desert basin. All of the
people were afraid of the trees. Therefore, at this moment, you may wonder why didn’t they cut
off the trees? The problem was that once you stepped anywhere near the trees within around 200
meters away, the people’s skin would get itchy. They soon got suffocated if they stayed for over 15
minutes, they would soon die. It was the tactic of the government and they made use of the slaves
to plant the most poisonous trees. The seeds of the trees came from India. This was the most
poisonous type of seed. And the cunning government bought a lot from their secret markets. The
trees were planted on the boundary.
One of the bravest villagers have attempted to go inside the place, he was also the strongest
man. He thought of a going through the Gobi desert with his own plan. He wore a thick mask and
protective clothes. Although the thick mask did not block away all the poisonous particles but it
surely help him to this poisonous particles for a longer time. He ran into the forest; however, he
carelessly neglect the time that he needed to spend for the mining. By the time that he got the
gold, he has been stagy there for half an hour. And lastly, he died in the desert.
A man called Christopher came to the village near the Gobi desert. He had got a companion,
Tom. He was also a brave man and was not being scared by the poisonous tress. They had a plan.
They planned to invent a plane. They could first set up the plane in an open area near the desert
area. They had to do it quick so that it would not be discovered by the others. Luckily, no one
noticed that they were making this plane. As they were young men, the villagers welcome these
two new comers and they always brought joy to them by singing and dancing in gatherings.
Gobi desert was undergoing a harsh weather condition. When they were setting the plane,
they could hardly stop the sand from getting into their motor. They had to find ways to stop the
myriad of sand from getting into it. After a while, they could not tolerate this so Tom drove his
car to the nearby town and found some water-proof materials to cover the whole plane. It took
almost a month to make this simple plane work. They had to test the plane at night so that they
are not noticed by others.
After they finished their planning, the plane could fly up to 200 meters and they find
themselves normal and they won’t get itchy up in the sky. However, they got a problem. The
problem was how they could land the plane on the sand. They came up with a plan which was
use parachute to jump off the plane. The plan was, Tom would control the plane and Christopher
would jump from the plane using the parachute.
They planned to set a spring- bed under the plane so that they could do the parachuting on
