Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 2020complete | Page 299

The Two Worlds
Victoria Shanghai Academy, Cheng, Clarissa - 10
There are a few things you should know in order to understand why a little girl named Jefflyn
could join ‘two completely different worlds together’. However, to seriously understand this, you would
have to go through some time travelling. Let’s keep it simple. Now, picture this:
Two girls walked side by side. One was named Sockie, one was named Jefflyn. They were best
friends, and both their mums were environmentally friendly but cautious people.
“Can I go to Auriferous Land to mine some gold?”
“No, Jefflyn, you’ll get lost.”
“Urgh! Why don’t you ever let me do anything fun?” Jefflyn stormed off until she crashed into her
friend Sockie.
“Hi Jefflyn - Wait. Where are we?” Sockie asked.
Jefflyn immediately turned around. As she realized where she was, fear flooded her eyes. This was
the forest. Her mother had kept her from coming here, reminding Jefflyn every day, “Now, now, little one,
you and your curious little mind can wander anywhere you want, but never to the forest. People have been
hiding in there, making so-called 5G technology. That technology is mythical. Look at us! We have all we
need. Food, water, shelter--- You’ll understand when you’re older.” Jefflyn never knew what was that
bad about 5G. What was so wrong with having just a little more than she needed?
Sockie kept on noticing small things and using it as a reason to turn back.
“Oh, did you see that there was a sign saying, ‘This is the Greater Bay Area’? We shouldn’t be
invading other’s property.”
At that very moment, they stepped into a clearing. But the clearing wasn’t clear. It was full of
people with headsets on, people talking to a holographic version of themselves, and people sitting beside a
table fiddling with machines. It was fascinating.
Although Sockie seemed really interested at first, she slowly became more and more anxious after
she tried all the mouth-watering dim sum the robots made there and all the 5G technology. On the other
hand, Jefflyn felt like she was in heaven. All the AR, and all the Esports to choose from. She thought, “Why
do you hide from the rest of the village? You all should make this place bigger. It’s amazing!” At that
moment, she saw a golden plate saying: Questions? Meet our leader, Mrs. Katie on the 907th floor. She
waited. And waited. Suddenly, a robot appeared in front of her.
The robot pressed the button and within seconds, Jefflyn was transported to a wooden door.
Jefflyn reached her hand out to knock on it, but, her hand went straight through!
“Yes. Come in. We use a really futuristic type of technology to make our building invisible from
those that are not big fans of our work,” said the voice.
“Yeah- I wonder why? All these robots, all these cool supercomputers that can fit in your pocketmy
mum has an i-phone 4- all these holograms, they seem so fun!”
“Why don’t you go and tell your village then?” said the leader with a meaningful look on her face.
Then without saying a word, Jefflyn rushed out of the room away from that Katie. She dashed in
the lift, left the building, shouted, “Sockie, let’s go!” When she finally left the forest, she was greeted by lots
of hugging and noise. All the villagers thought they were lost!
“Mom! I need to talk to you.” shouted Jefflyn.
Her mom came to her and asked, “What is it?”
“Well, I was in the forest. I’m sorry. But guess what I found?”
“WHAT?! You went into the forest? Didn’t I tell you not-”
“No, no, no. That’s not important. What is important is that-’ Jefflyn hesitated, ‘Why do you hate
them so much? All these cool 5th generation technologies- It’s absolutely amazing! Like robots that assist
you in practically everything, buildings almost 1000 floors high…” Everything Jefflyn saw came rushing out
of her mouth, word after word. Her mom stared at her, her mouth wide open. She said, “No. It is more
than we need. They are going to create pollution, and climate change is going to be even worse, and earth
will become as hot as the sun. I cannot even bear to talk to those pollution creators.”
“But-but-can’t we all just compromise? They just stay the same size and it won’t cause too much
pollution. We don’t have to hate each other, you know. I mean, maybe sometimes we can go visit them,
and they can visit us and see our religions? I bet you they don’t have religions as fascinating as ours,” pleaded
Jefflyn.
There was a lot of awkward silence as Jefflyn stared at her mum, who seemed to be in deep
thought. Finally, her mum sighed and broke the silence.