New Tales of the Gobi Desert
Baptist (Sha Tin Wai) Lui Ming Choi Primary School, Chu Henry Tin Heng, Non-Fiction: Group 2
D
o you know the legend of the Oyu Tolgoi golden dinosaur egg in the Gobi Desert? That egg
remained as a fossil in one of the Oyu Tolgoi mines. Because of the gold inside the mine,
the egg became gold because all of the gold in the mine went to the egg. That’s why there
are no gold found in those mines today. But, what is the story? Let me tell you now…
Dr. Michigan and his team drove their jeep among the sands near the Eastern Gobi Desert
Steppe. They were finding clues of fossils and excavating them. The road was smooth so far--
-- but it wasn’t so smooth when the vehicle got stuck in a large pool of quicksand. They tried to
accelerate and get away but they just sunk deeper and deeper into the sand. Suddenly the sinking
stopped and the archaeologists sighed. But they didn’t rise to the surface. Instead, they and the
vehicle started to FALL……
‘AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!’ The excavation team yelled as their jeep crashed into a million
pieces. ‘Luckily the torch isn’t broken,’ Dr. Michigan said as he turned on the torch. A plaque
emerged before the beam of light. It said, ‘Forward you go and then turn right, you’ll see a glass
box filled with bright.’ ‘I wonder what is going on,’ murmured Dr. Michigan as he and his team
followed the plaque’s instructions.
They arrived at the shining glass box when they saw another plaque, ‘Break the glass box and
up you climb, stay at the top or you’ll lose a limb.’ It read. The whole team climbed up the slanted
road after smashing the glass.
When they reached the top, they got a nasty sight. A group of cannibals were heating fire and
ready to put a poor explorer into the fire to sizzle. They were waiting gleefully for the fire to come
up as their eyes are all glued to the fireplace. One explorer of Dr. Michigan’s team saw another
plaque on the slanted road’s right side. They called everyone to look. It read, ‘Watch a chance and
right you crawl, and hide behind a big grey wall.’ When no cannibal of the troop was noticing,
the team crawled quietly through the floor and quickly hid behind the wall. On the other side of
the solitary explorer who was being caught, his guards were suddenly attacked by eagles, letting
the explorer escape and back on his trail. Little does Dr. Michigan’s team know that the solitary
explorer was the writer of the plaques, and the famous explorer and scientist Dr. Dickens?
The team hid behind the wall when they saw another plaque (also written by Dr. Dickens).
It read, ‘Run away for just a little bit, keep looking down and you’ll fall in a pit.’ They ran away
from their hiding place and ran and ran until they saw the hole. Their eyes casted to the ground
and jumped into the hole (actually the hole was only two meters deep).
They landed on their legs when they saw another plaque on the ground. It said, ‘Now look
forward and then you’ll cry, “Is I dreaming? It must be a lie!”’ They all looked forward and they
had the most wonderful sight ever.
A golden dinosaur egg lay on the ground, with lots of boulders on top of it, blocking the
scientists’ way. When all of the scientists tried moving the rocks, Dr. Michigan found another
plaque and read it out loud, ‘Press the egg and down the rocks crash, get the egg and get out
with a dash.’ One scientist immediately pressed the egg and the whole of the rocks fell down. Dr.
Michigan grabbed the precious egg then led his team out of the hole.
When they were out of the hole, they got a shock! Guess what? They saw Dr. Dickens! ‘Why
