Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 2020complete | Page 22

Future Adventures of the Greater Bay Area
Kingston International School, Fung, Derek - 7
It is the year 2123. I am Derek Fung, a seven-year-old boy living in the Greater Bay Area. I want to be a
scientist when I grow up. In the Greater Bay Area, everyone's dreams come true.
I have already designed and built my own environmentally friendly treehouse and robot horse. I
was just finishing a third saddle for the robot horse when I decided to ride it around the Greater Bay Area.
I packed some food for my cat and dog in one saddlebag and a tent in the other. I put three saddles
onto the robot horse, magnetically attached the saddlebags and then placed my pets on the saddles at the
back. I jumped on the front saddle and buckled everyone up. I took out a map of the Greater Bay Area
and marked my first destination... Macau.
The robot horse suddenly galloped towards the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. We went
along the bridge and saw modern vehicles, including a motorcycle with one wheel and an electric
hoverboard in the shape of a lily pad.
Once we arrived in Macau, we bought delicious Portuguese egg tarts and visited the Casino
Museum. We learned about poker and blackjack, and how gambling addiction is a serious problem. Then
we rode the roller coasters zooming around the Eiffel Tower replica. We put up our tent next to the tower
and recharged the robot horse. We finally went into the tent to sleep.
The next morning, I took out the map again and marked the next destination... Zhuhai. We
packed our things and continued on the bridge. When we arrived, we went straight to Chimelong Ocean
Kingdom. We fed penguins, rode dolphins, trained beluga whales and went in a submarine. I asked the
staff to let us sleep next to the aquarium and they agreed! We sat next to the tent, watching the whale
sharks and great whites swimming around. The staff brought food and we ate until we were full. Finally,
we fell asleep.
When we woke up, I marked the last destination... Shenzhen. We packed our things and
continued our journey. In Shenzhen, we saw a building called "The Robot Factory".
"Giddy-up!" I shouted.
The horse suddenly leaped in through a window.
Inside the factory, I saw a "Firefighter Elephant" robot that can spray water from its trunk to put
out fires and a "Doctor Lemur" robot that can perform surgery with its six fingers. Then I saw factory
workers putting metal into a machine labelled "Teacher Owl". A cloud of smoke appeared and an owl
robot swooped out of the machine and into a tube, where artificial skin and feathers attached to it. A spring
pushed it out of the tube and it landed flat on the floor.
At midnight, we took the Vibrant Express back to Hong Kong. By the time I finished my carton
of chocolate milk, the train had arrived. I got back to my treehouse and said, "We're home at last!"