Fiction: Group 3
Mad Hood
Kwun Tong Maryknoll College, Yuen, Fung Man Michael - 16, Fiction: Group 3
once heard a story on the Pearl River Delta a long, long time ago, one that has intrigued me to this
day. When I heard about the story, I knew it as “The Edgar Madness”, now it is commonly known as
“Mad Hood”. The first sentence of the story was “Based on a true story”. I immediately thought that it
was going to be a horror/mystery story and I was spot on. After hearing about the story, I thought that it
was impossible that the story was true.
The story begins with a man called Rany Wayhood. He was half-American and half-Chinese who was sick
of his job and wanted to have a vacation. He took his paid vacation of 7 days and thought of a place to go.
“Why should I go somewhere exotic when I have somewhere I can relax right in my backyard?” He asked
his wife if she wanted to go with him on the vacation but she could not go because of work. Wayhood took
a train to Guangzhou, checked in at a motel and slept for the rest day.
The next day, Wayhood decided to have some fun and partied hard with strangers in a club at night. He
blacked out and he woke up the next morning. He did not know where he was except for the fact that he
was next to a river. The club that he partied in was nowhere in sight. Wayhood walked down river and did
not find any sign of civilization. He had walked for so long that he started to regret taking a vacation. Then,
he found a hole in the ground. The hole looked man-made so he thought he would finally find his way
back home. He looked down the hole and was surprised to see a cow in it. As he loved animals very much,
he could not believe that someone could do such a thing so he helped the cow get out of the hole.
The cow followed Wayhood and somehow it gave him strength to carry on walking. Wayhood named the
cow Edgar as he started to grow fond of him. Wayhood did not eat for the past 7 hours straight so he
decided to take shelter by the river. He left Edgar by the river to gather some resources, believing that he
would not leave him. After Wayhood left, Edgar tried and dig a hole. Edgar loved to stay inside holes, he
thought that it could give him protection and used it as a place to recharge his batteries.
While gathering resources to start a fire, Wayhood noticed some lights flickering in the distance. He
immediately ran back to Edgar. Upon arriving at the lights, Wayhood started to wonder why Edgar started
to follow him.
“Does he worship me? Does he think that I am his master?” He wondered.
Wayhood then did something unbelievable; he cut off his left hand to see what would happen. Edgar then
mooed and his hands magically regenerated. Thinking that he was immortal, Wayhood became very cocky.
He carried on to the flickering lights. It turned out that the lights were from the club that Wayhood was
partying in the previous night. The club was full of foreigners traveling in China. He did not notice that the
first time he was here as he was too distracted partying. The party goers greeted Wayhood loudly as if he
was a regular. He left Edgar outside for fear that he would be provoked by the loud environment.
Wayhood regained all of his strength somehow and he looked as good as ever even though he had just
walked for 7 hours straight. There was a dance competition that night and the champion would be awarded
with US$20,000 sponsored by Xiaomi. Wayhood did not notice until then that his wallet and phone were
stolen before he woke up. He wanted to participate in the competition but he did not have any dance
moves up his sleeves.
“Why the hell not? I might as well try.” Talking to himself.
Surprisingly, when it was Wayhood’s turn, he burnt up the dance floor. His moves were so fancy and sleek
that no one objected to him winning. Even Wayhood was surprised himself. Edgar barged into the club just
as Wayhood was about to receive the US$20,000 award. He had totally forgotten about him. Suddenly, he
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