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An Unexpected Discovery
The summer vacation finally started. I was on a ship to Alaska. But that night the ship hit an iceberg. The ship was sinking and everyone was hurrying to the emergency exit. The exit was locked. There was no way out, but a broken window caught my attention. I could have jumped out of the window. However I thought the window was not big enough for me to pass through. But I still dove out of the window so as to escape. A big piece of glass was stuck to my arm.
I had been floating on the sea for days. Suddenly, my head touched some soft things. It was sand. I was happy at that time, but when I turned around and saw a deserted island, my happiness turned into sadness. I thought there was no deserted island in the world. People just made it up. But it became real. While I was still in distress, a thought cheered me up. There would be no money, everything was mine in this island, and I could do everything I wanted. I carefully extracted the glass out of my arm. Then I picked up a coconut and started drinking.
I have been living in the island for 3 months. I used the glass as a knife. I even made a spear to hunt animals for food. I had plenty of food in my little tree house that I built for myself. I was well nourished. I even hunted big animals like bears, moose, and deer for their skin and used them as clothing. My shoes were made out of grass. My tree house was on a tall tree near the beach. Since sometimes I had a hard time climbing up to the tree house, I made a ladder out of big pieces of wood and tied them together with vines. Every day I worked on my raft for many hours. The raft was very sturdy so it could sail for many days. When I was collecting food, I found a few artifacts that were very weird. They were: a lens that was in a golden box, a large piece of crystal that might cost over a million pounds, and a wooden thing that looked like a key but you couldn’t break it. One day, when I was crossing a waterfall as usual to collect food, I fell down to the waterfall because I was carrying a big basket of food. I was bleeding. I had to get back up to the top. I was walking near the waterfall to see if there was any way up the slope. Suddenly, I tripped and crashed through the wall of water. There was a tomb behind the fall. The tomb was beautifully decorated and there was a rock in the middle of the tomb. That was strange. Someone might have put it there. I stood to my feet and started walking toward the rock. Not surprisingly I tripped again. The rock moved, and a key hole appeared. It ought to be the key looking thing I found. But there was no way up. I was badly injured, so I fell to the wall. When I woke up, I was on the waterfall, something might have lifted me up. A few weeks later, my wound healed. I brought all the strange stuff I found, and went back to the tomb again. I put the key into the hole and turned it. Suddenly, the tomb was brightly lit by the fire on the wall. A door opened from the wall straight ahead. I tried to pull the key out but in vain. I kept on walking toward the door. A ray of sunshine shot down on the floor, in the middle was a hole. I carefully put the lens and crystal in the hole. “Boom”! The tomb’s floor started dropping down. A few seconds later, piles and piles of gold, silver, gems, diamonds and the most valuable stones emerged to my eyes. This island was buried with treasure. I spent many days removing all the treasure to a safe place.
Few days later, the raft was finished. I rowed it to England. I took a few gems and diamonds with me in case I needed money. After I opened a bank account and bought a big boat, I sailed back to the island and moved all the treasure to the ship.
When I went backed to England, I changed all the treasure into money and live very happily ever after with my spouse.

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