Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 271

New Journey To The West
Harrow Beijing , Wang , Tony - 10

Once upon a time , there was a little robot whose name was Tony . He lived in China . He was about 4 feet high . He lived as a normal human in his hometown , until one day , a special thing happened and he went on a journey that he could not possibly imagine …… One day in 2018 , he was on the way from school to home as uaually . Suddenly , the sky went very gray , and it started raining . As Tony hurried to home , a thunder went straight down to the ground , and with a huge noise of explosion , it formed an enormous hole in the ground . Tony fell down to the ground , he felt the ground sinking down . A minute later , the ground stopped sinking , and Tony found himself in a little underground room . There was nothing in the room , except a big metal box with a red button on it . Tony was very curious about it , so he pressed the button down . Suddenly , the box opened , and Tony saw a big white machine made of glass . There was a door on it , and Tony pushed the door and stepped in , then immediately the door closed by itself . Tony heard a man ’ s voice saying :” You have already entered the time machine . It will be working in 20 seconds .” At once , Tony realized that this was not an ordinary machine . It was a TIME MACHINE ! Tony felt very nervous , but he could not do anything . As the machine counted ” 5,4,3,2,1 …” Tony felt a big bright thing appeared in his sight , and then he could not see anything . As he saw some light again , he felt himself in a place that he had never been to before . The place was very dark , and was full of trees . At once , Tony realized that he was in a forest . Tony kept walking , and suddenly he discovered a little house made of Gold . In that house , there was a light , but not bright . As he opened the light , there was something that made him very scared and astonished . It was an ELEVATOR . The reason why Tony was surprised was that it seemed to be only one floor in the house . As Tony walked towards the elevator , the door opened and Tony saw something that he had never saw in an elevator before . There were some seats in the elevator which you can never see in an ordinary elevator . The walls and the seats in the elevator were all decorated with gold and diamonds . He walked into the elevator . To his surprise , there was no button at all in the elevator , and as the door closed , he heard a voice saying :” please fasten your seatbelt and be ready for the journey .” Tony immediately recognized that the sound was as same as which he heard in the time machine . Tony fastened his seatbelt , and at once the elevator began to work , and it went straight up to another place . It went so fast that Tony felt quite dizzy , but he still sat there and watched from the little screen in the elevator what was happening outside then . He could saw that the elevator had passed a long tunnel , some mountains . For a minute , he could saw the entire United States . About 30 minutes later , Tony suddenly saw the screen turning black and he could feel that the elevator had stopped . As the door opened , Tony was scared by the thing he saw : There was garbage like cans and plastic bags everywhere , and there were also some DEAD BODIES on the street with black blood . Tony was astonished by the horrible thing happening , so he went to ask a seller in a little shop who had almost nothing but only a few kinds of food to sell . He told the shopkeeper what happened to him and asked him what happened there . The shopkeeper said :” It is 2100 now , and the pollution in the world is very horrible , and the coals and resources are running out . The scientists are making a kind of enormous spaceship that can fly to Mars or to the moon for the humans on the Earth to survive . But now the problem is , the spaceship is not big enough to accommodate more than 7 billions people fly away from the Earth . In fact , it can only accommodate 4 billions people to escape from this horrible planet , so the other 3 billions people will have to stay at the Earth and be killed by the huge insects caused by pollution . So now , people are killing each other for food and resources , and they think less people in the world may give them more chance to get onto the spaceship .” Tony was very sad to hear about the bad news , and he wanted to change it . As a robot , Tony did not need a shelter and food . He was trying to make different kinds of resources for the 3 billion people to live in the Earth safely . He was trying to make a kind of “ Human-Made Coal ” for the humans to live . He made a little Lab in a big house that belonged to some rich people who had been killed . Their houses were abandoned , and now Tony used it as a Lab .