Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 3 - 2017 | Page 159

He walked to the prisoners inspecting each one to see if Liu was there. But Liu wasn’t among them and was not
among the dead either.
“Where is Liu?” he asked, barley able to suppress his anger.
“We are still searching for him,” replied the French commander.
2017 May 12 3:00pm Yu Garden, Shanghai
Bob Chen was one of the builders at Yu Garden repairing the damage from the flood. They spent the entire
morning pumping out the water still inside Yu Garden. Miraculously most of Yu Garden was not damaged severely.
Bob was double checking the east area for damage.
He passed a courtyard filled with flowers, which were probably once beautiful but had been killed by the flood. He
stepped into a house next to the courtyard. There were rumors among the builders that this was where the
legendary rebel Liu Lichuan had once lived during his takeover. He noticed a hole in th