Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 4-7 2019 | Page 179

playing dead and, at the same time, he peeked to see whether the gang of robbers had already approached the wooden boxes and taken all the treasures in side away. He then saw a robber walking towards one of the wooden boxes, and his eyes were gleaming with avarice. “How greedy this man is…” thought Chen. When the robber took out a piece of iron from one of the wooden boxes, Chen grabbed a knife dropped by the robber around him and threw the knife towards the back of the robber. The robber fell into the wooden box immediately. Blood kept running out from the back of his body. The rest of the gang was horrified and quickly rushed back to where they hid themselves. Only twenty members survived from the robbery and massacre. The twenty members survived joined the other crew, and they took the wooden boxes along. The whole team headed towards the palace. They finally got to see the King of Madjapahit. The crew paid tribute to the King with the treasures inside wooden boxes. When the King was ready to open the last box, Chen suddenly remembered he had not taken the corpse of the robber out. However, the King of Madjapahit already unlocked the cover and lifted the cover up…