place for further explanation?’
Einstein paced to a wall and pressed a few buttons on it. He waited for a few seconds until there was a
‘
creaking’ sound. The wall slid to the right and revealed a keyhole. ‘Can you pass me the “real” key?’ Einstein
asked me. I walked to the scientist and did as told. After putting the key into the hole, the door glowed.
Following a loud ‘creaking sound’, it opened automatically. The scientist waved his hands and signaled both of
us to enter. It all happened too quickly. As soon as I went inside, light suddenly flashed in front of my eyes and
my mind went completely blank.
When I regained my consciousness, I found myself in a totally different place. ‘Where are we?’ I asked
suspiciously. ‘We have just been transported to the underground of the Great Wall,’ Einstein told me. ‘What? I
don’t see any connection between you and the Great Wall,’ I asked. ‘I am the one who commanded to build it,’
Laden replied at the back. ‘What do you mean?’ I inquired, ‘haven’t I explained clearly enough? I am Laden,
Osama bin Laden, but I am also Emperor Qing.’
‘
What are you talking about?’ I questioned him, forgetting all my fears. ‘To be honest, Osama and I are
both aliens,’ Einstein further explained, ‘We are both brilliant scientists in our planet and desired to find out
more about the Earth. That’s why we came here. We have been living here for more than two thousand years to
observe mankind. So we integrated into their society by being “one of their elites”.’ Laden chipped in, ‘In fact,
lots of world-renown figures were played by us. Currently, I am Laden, the one who is supposed to be killed by
the Americans. Yet I am also Emperor Qing, Napoleon… to name but a few.’ ‘Apart from being Albert, I am
also Aristotle, Copernicus, Edison, etc.’ Einstein added.
That was undeniably something unprecedented to me. For the next hour, I kept asking the two things
about them. It was already very late when Einstein decided I should return to my hostel. Before leaving, he
warned me not to tell his secret to anyone. By waving his hands in front of my eyes, I lost my consciousness
once again.
By the time I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was Thomas gazing at me with his mouth opened. The
next second onwards, Thomas kept bombarding me with questions while I grinned for having a close encounter
with the geniuses behind the Great Wall.
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