Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 -1 2019 | Page 153

New Tales of the Ming Treasure Voyages
Heep Yunn Primary School, Lee, Mika - 11
It was 2018 and I, Zheng Wo, had to travel as a captain on the ship called Brave Explorers I. I had four
gigantic ships beside me and there were all together one thousand people with me.
The journey was initially smooth until the sky suddenly turned dark. There was a thunderstorm! The waves
were like angry bears fighting and the ships kept on shaking. Wind was blowing like a fierce lion and forced
us to a wrong direction. We tried to use the global position system to seek for the correct direction but the
signal was weak. We were frustrated and tired to find a solution. We had no way but sailed in the current
unknown direction.
After a few days, the sea was calm down and we reached a strange island. There were strange little green
elves and gnomes walking around. We tried to communicate with them but their language was queer. We
used Google Translate and told them we were thirsty and needed some bottles or cans for water. In a flash,
their faces turned red and started shouting at us (using Google Translate), ‘How dare you are! Do you know
that the rule here is to be environmental friendly or you will be in jail! But you are just visitors….’
I quickly apologized and asked for some advices. They disclosed that there was a legend about an eco-book
with magical power that could gave us some guidance to know more about the environment. They had a
mysterious map for the book. However, the elves and gnomes did not understand the map. In the past,
some fearless villagers came out to find the book but they never came back. We felt curious of the book
and decided to help them to find it out. They gave us the map so we set off and sailed to our next
destination.
After some time, we landed on a bigger island. There was a castle and we went to see the King. We
greeted him politely but instead of a welcoming reply, he shouted, “Get off of my palace at once. Don’t
make rug filthy, you dirty pigs!”
My general Ng Bak Sheng was extremely furious. I soothed his nerves awhile. But he didn’t listen to me
and pointed his gun to him. To our surprise, the king wasn’t angry with us but looked at the gun in
curiosity.
Though I told him it was a weapon to attack people, he asked for some guns to protect his citizens. We
gave him 10 guns with 5 bullets each and he exchanged them with some gold and jewelry. We formed the
ally nations and we sailed away to continue our journey.
On the ship, I scolded the general as he misbehaved and disobeyed my orders. I said, “It is fortunate that he
doesn’t know about guns or we’ll have to start a fight! We will lose a lot of men!”
We sailed and sailed. We fought with nasty and terrible pirates and became friends with people on strange
islands and got wonderful presents.
We sailed and sailed and went to our last destination, an island with lots of talking animals. They were cute
so we decided to pet them. One of them said, “I’m the leader of the robots and we are very tired. We are
almost out of batteries….” Then, it fainted.
I immediately know what to do. I took out one of the precious batteries from the electricity king, whom
we met on one island, and tried it on the leader. It fit! The leader got up and sang happily. He gave us an
exquisite box in exchange. It was the eco-book inside the box! We were delighted and realized how the
neutral sea animal and the earth were harmful by the human. The eco-book also gave us a direction to go
back to China. We sailed for months and went back to our home country, China.
We shared our adventures with the president of our country. From the eco-book we learned how to be
environmental friendly. Otherwise, the world will be destroyed one day in future. We also pursuaded the
president the importance of environmental protection. We dispersed the seeds of Chinese culture and the
president’s prestige to different places on Earth.