Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 12 | Page 290

The New Tale of Old Shanghai
Kowloon Tong School (Primary Section), Cheung, Hei Yat – 9
I
am an inventor.
century.
I am a person from the 24 th century.
I invented the time machine in the end of 23 rd
A week ago, I drove it to “Shanghai in 1910”. I brought my pet dragon and went along with my four friends
too. There were Jane, John and Dan. There were no bus or cars. There were a lot of carriage there. We
walked through the streets to the countryside. We saw a cave. We were curious so we went into the cave. It
was very dark. We turned on our “eyeslight”. In the 24 th century, everyone’s eyes had a lot of functions. We
had night vision and we could analyses things, magnify things and browse information.
We kept on walking deep inside the cave. There were some sound that we did not know where it come from.
It was frightening. We walk through the cave. And went to a secret interesting forest. There were lots of
strange plants that we even had not seen before in our 24 th century world. My friend and I got our sword to
protect ourselves. I could hear some lion roaring. We were scared so we hide. After a while, we started
creeping slowly. Jane is a wizard. She fired the lion with her hand power. Lions were frightened and
scattered. Then we kept on moving and walk ahead. We saw a big wall with a lot of Chinese calligraphy
words written on it. Most of us did not know what it meant, except our friend John. He was attracted by all
those words and stories behind. He kept studying over it. When we continue walking, we saw a door. We
tried to push it, touch it, pull it, hear it but it didn’t work. The door still stayed as it was. Suddenly, the door
opened. We did not know why but we walked inside. It was a palace. No one was inside. There was a chair.
The chair was of golden colour. I thought that was a Emperor’s chair. We continued walking through the
palace. We saw some skeletons. John is an archaeologist. He kept study