the voice, or whoever the voice belonged to, that the wall was theirs. They also did not know the
answer of the second question. So, they let the voice continue. “This wall belongs to the legendary Jack
Reacher, or Jack Positive, who owned the ring that grew up to be the wall. He was, and is the founder
of this great wall, although it was Qin Shi Huang who ordered the people to build the wall.” Hearing
this, some men scoffed. “Jack Positive? You don’t mean the Jack Positive? We don’t even know he
exists! He’s only a character in fairy tales now; no matter how great his powers were in the past! Are
you seriously saying that a fairy tale character’s ring can build this huge wall? And, according to you, it
was Qin Shi Huang who built the wall, so our emperor, the rightful successor of Qin (the soldier was
from the Han Empire) should have the Great Wall!” Jack, who heard this, was very offended, and felt a
surge of anger. However, he reminded himself of God’s words, and controlled himself. So, he instead
said this. “You are partly right. Jack Positive is now just a character in fairy tales, though very powerful
he was in the past. The Han Empire is indeed the successor of Qin’s Empire. (The barbarians protested
silently against this.) However, the Great Wall does not belong to your emperor.” The Han soldiers
were very confused at this. “What do you mean?” they asked. Jack responded, “The wall does not
belong to Qin Shi Huang because if Jack Positive did not have the ring, what he would have made the
wall of? His tree of bricks is what truly built the Great Wall, not Qin and his men. It was Qin’s own
choice, build or not build? He decided to build which makes him only the builder of the Great Wall, not
the true originator.” The Han soldiers madly wanted to say something logical back, that would make
even the person in the light speechless. Unfortunately, they couldn’t because the mystery man (the man
of the light)’s words were too logical and organized.
But then, a young Jurchen soldier came up with a good question. “Sir, you are very right!” the
young man said in a very sly and malicious tone. Jack did not like this. “You are indeed very right, for
the true founder of the Wall is the legendary Jack Positive. But I would like to ask you one question.
(
Jack strongly had the urge to say, ‘You can’t ask!’) We all know the Jack Reacher, or Positive,
unfortunately died a long time ago. Since there are no descendants of the Reacher family, who shall
have the wall now?” Jack thought about this. He knew it was a very clever question, although he
already had the answer. So, he smiled pleasantly at the young barbarian soldier, and said “I was about
to tell you that, young man. You see, you all have the right to have the Great Wall. So, since we can’t
have parts of the wall, or break the wall and divide the stones into four, the Han Empire shall have the
Wall. But, (He added quickly to stop protests) the Huns, Kitans, Jurchens are all allowed to live inside
the Hand empire, and live safely within the protection of the Great Wall. So even if the Han Empire is
the one who will have the Wall, you shall all share the benefits of the wall. That is what you want, is it
not?” The people were inclined to nod. “Well then!” Jack smiled but the people couldn’t really see the
smile. “The problem’s solved!” Then, the light burst in a brilliant jet of light, then distinguished.
After the incident of the voice of light, people were amazed. They did do what Jack told them too,
but they were very curious who it was, and how it had been done. Numerous stories of this were told,
until one day, a young man made the smartest guess ever: ‘I believe the speaker of the light was the
great Jack Positive himself!’
Epilogue: After Jack’s ‘arrival’ at the Great Wall, the barbarians of the north moved south and
lived harmoniously with the Chinese inside the protection of the Great Wall. However, after about 400
years, the mighty Han Empire fell, the barbarians moved back north, and dispute of the Great Wall
started all over again. Jack, again, watched this in heaven and asked God the same thing he did
centuries ago. This time, however, God did not allow it, no matter how many times Jack begged the
Great One. And, as the war grew worse, just like the last time, God was infuriated. ‘They’re fighting
over a wall, disputing among themselves. I shall not allow it!’ And with that, God caused natural
disasters which swiped the armies out. People screamed and shrieked, and begged God for forgiveness,
but the Great One’s mind was firm, oh firm it was! Just like how he had destroyed Jerusalem, and his
mind forced him to ignore those mourning voices… and they did purge, as God’s will.
But there was one more thing, though. The tree was gone as well. The Great Wall was still in its
place, but the tree was missing. The tree of Jack Positive, which inspired Qin Shi Huang to build the
Great Wall, the Great Wall which have caused people to battle and kill each other, the tree that had
caused God to purge thousands of people… As Jack Positive looked down from heaven, he was sad
that his tree was gone, just as the ring did. But, he was very happy on the other hand. And from then on,
he always said, “My tree might have been lost, but thousands of lives shall be saved!”
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