Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 12 | Page 562

people who wanted the formula only for themselves to make themselves rich. They wanted to kill Alexander to
stop him from passing the formula to anybody else. When he got tipped off that someone was after him, he
managed to get on the same transport as many other missionaries used by disguising himself as one of them. Then,
he came to this house to continue his research on how to make his formula better. At that moment, all the images
collapsed into the book as powder again. Bao now got the information he had come to find.
Suddenly, he heard a tremendous bang! Alexander’s house was under attack! It was the first time Bao saw
British-looking attackers with his own eyes. They were armed with knives, and all of them looked like body
builders. Bao swiftly closed the revolving doors and when the attackers walked away, he dove for the tripwire and
pulled it into shreds to trigger the alarm. Bao already felt the fists smashing into his gut, but in fact, they never
came. An attacker had tripped and everybody thought that it was he who triggered the alarm system. At that time,
Alexander burst out of the bedroom, and he was very angry, but Bao recognized him immediately. He was the
man from the pier!
He screamed, “Who’s there? How dare you break into my home?” The attackers quickly ran towards him,
but before they could reach the frightened Alexander, Bao dumped a pot of boiling water straight at their faces and
scorched them real