Adventurous Treasure Hunt
in Gobi Desert
Shatin Tsung Tsin Secondary School, Wong Sze Ching Rachel, Fiction: Group 4
I
n an endless Gobi desert, which is covered by many tiny and softy sands, there are a lot of
animals like black-tailed gazelles, marbled polecats, Bactrian camels, Mongolian wild ass
and sand plovers etc. Although the weather in this desert is constantly changing, all these
things make the desert full of vitality.
Across the desert, there are many camels come across with you. They like to play with people
because they like playing with others. Also, they usually go to their playgroup to have meals and
play with their friends every day. But today they all become very odd like a witch has put some
spell into their body because they have slept for a whole day just like a sleeping beauty. Maybe
because of the weather is too cold, so they don’t want to wake up and choose to sleep with their
partners to keep themselves warm.
However, when the detective party, which is formed by Andrew, Terrance and Mary, come
across with them, they suddenly woke up and do some curious things to attract their attention.
After the leader of this party, who is Andrew, see this scene he felt very shocked about their
action and asked his partners to use their experience try to solve the meaning of the camels’
action. When they are trying hard to think, Andrew suddenly go to check a camel’s body and
discover that there is a letter inside the camel’s mouth. Seeing this scene, they open the letter
immediately and find that there is a route on it and said that they must need to follow the route to
find the treasure, which is useful for them for their later work.
At this moment, the detective’s party feel very excited to this news and hope that they can
use their clever mind to achieve this big goal. Therefore, Terrance, who is good at reading maps,
sees their treasure’s route and point out that they must need at least one month to finish this
mission. After his group member listening to this news, they talk to Terrance and say ‘Let’s go to
explore our thrilling trip now before any other people find this mystery.’
First, they need to go to Nemegt Basin, which is the northwestern part of Gobi desert, to find
a man who wears white clothes and holds a magic lamp. This magic lamp is very powerful owing
to the fact that this lamp can help this people to find the ways to solve problems and it can find
the road of the hidden place of the treasure, it is very useful for them. Although this lamp is very
powerful, the man doesn’t know everything about it because he is a nonagenarian and he just
thinks that it is a toy only. After a few days, they finally can find this man and Andrew sincerely
talk to him’ Sir, would you like to give this lamp to me? I will give you$500 if you give me.’ This
man replies him very fast and says to him ‘OK, I will trade with you! I want to sell this toy long
time ago but no one wants it, so I think that you have a good taste.’
After they get this magic lamp, they open it and ask where they should go to. The magic lamp
suddenly turn it become a person, who looks like a ghost, and say ‘you guys should eat your lunch
first and then continue going here to find a dinosaur get the egg of itself. Inside the eggs, you can
find a paper and the treasure which all of you want. I will pray for you and hope all of you can
find it!’Finishing its speech, the person hides in the magic lamp again and it turns to a silence
scene again.
