The Voyage of the Gobi Desert
Ying Wa College, Hei Shun Mok, Fiction: Group 3
I was in the hospital, completely disoriented.
I lay on my bed. The nurses were looking at me nervously as they talked with a doctor with
their eyebrows frowned. But I didn’t care. At least I was still alive.
Then the doctor asked me some questions, but I ignored him. How can they be so mean to a
patient who just regained consciousness after three days of coma?
The doctor didn’t seem offended. He asked again good-naturedly,
“How are you feeling? Are you ready for a mentality check?”
Then I said flatly with my hoarse voice,
“To your first question, doctor, I am most definitely not feeling well. To your second question,
I’m not crazy. I don’t need a mentality check.”
Silence. The doctor finally lost his patience. He said coldly,
“You’re not being cooperative, sir. Do you realize that we can…”
I cut across him,
“I bet you can torture me to do this stupid mentality check. But let me tell you, doctor, I’ve
discovered your country’s secret. I know the government is illegally carrying through an evil
plan. If you force me to do something I don’t want to, I will spread this news to the world and it
will be the end of your country.”
The doctor turned white,
“How do you know…”
You may wonder why I got stuck in Gobi Desert. To be honest, I am still not sure. All I can tell
you is my survival and discovery here.
A week ago, I went on an excursion to Mongolia with my schoolmates. Since I was the least
popular one, I couldn’t pair up with any one of them to share a bedroom.
At the first night, while I was settling down stuffs in my room, something peculiar happened
at the fireplace. The flames changed colours! It was red and yellow at first, then it turned to blue,
brown, green, then purple… Colours were dancing crazily in front of me. There seemed to be a
pattern, and the flames waggled vigorously as though trying to engulf me. I had a feeling that
the flames were hypnotizing me because I dropped my luggage when I stared at the fire as if I was
controlled by it. And before I knew it, I fell to my knees and passed out.
I woke up and found myself sitting on a cactus.
Pains that shot up from my bottom woke me up quickly. I tumbled from the cactus and
crashed on the ground.
THUD. I had landed on something soft and tender. My instincts told me that I was in a
dangerous situation. Cold sweat soaked my T-shirt as the bright sun shone upon me. I scanned
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