The workers were standing in the Emperor's hall, waiting for their trial.
“
The one who destroyed my royal construction shall stand up. Or else, you all will be killed.”
“
Um...forgive me for speaking to you in such impoliteness but I would like to clarify that the devastation
was done by a girl from the future,” said a worker.
“
Nonsense! Get this man killed, now!”
After the worker was escorted to a chamber, the meeting was followed by total silence. All the workers
seemed to be waiting for something.
“
If all of you aren’t speaking, you’ll all get killed like the last...”
Out of nowhere, the emperor’s guard who was standing next to him in a helmet chopped the emperor’s head
with a samurai sword. He took off his helmet as the emperor’s head fell onto the bloody floor. And yes you’re
right, he was me in my perfect disguise.
Then, with me in charge, all the workers flowed out of the hall and started throwing things around the street.
“
The emperor’s down! The emperor’s down!” We all sang.
I was told to be the next emperor but I gave this opportunity to one of the workers.
Job done.
Back in 2013, Chinese History textbooks will be writing: the building of the Great Wall actually didn’t even
start as the plan was stopped by an unknown historian from the future who predicted what would happen later.
She brought about a revolution and killed the emperor. Only few died in this uprising...
I felt for my pen in my pocket. I twisted it to 2013 and flash, I jumped into the falling dimension.
I could not believe my eyes when I was shot out of the black-hole. Everything seemed so different: my
home had become a barren land. Everywhere, there were broken pieces.
Where are all the people? Where is Abigail and her lab? Where is everything? Then I noticed what a huge
mistake I had made. I noticed an old lady sitting under a sterile tree. As she was the only living thing here and
my only hope, so I decided to ask what had happened in all these years.
She told me, since there was no Great Wall around the edges of China built, China was constantly attacked
and all lives were cleared off the land. People all wanted to own this land so they were still fighting over which
country this land belongs to. After all that war and invasion, all the valuable things in this area were taken away
and used and at last a barren land was left.
After talking about history, the old lady stood up and said, “It’s time for me to go now.” Then she walked
around the tree, took out a pen and jumped into a hole that appeared in front of her in thin air. Slowly, she
disappeared. But I can still hear her distant voice:
“
There was a time I could have been an emperor. But I gave it away to a worker. How stupid,” she
mumbled.
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