Chapter 495: Who’s Meng Lianling?
As Ye Wei’s face changed, Mo Ye responded as quickly and pulled her hand away. Mo Jue quickly ran over to carry Mo Ye. Before Ye Wei could say anything, she quickly ran outside and speedily rode down the mountain in her chopper.
Ye Wei not saying a single word left Mo Jue flustered as he thought she had managed to remember something. Mo Jue called Ye Wei twice, and her not responding left Mo Jue pale-faced. As he was carrying Big Boss Mo, he could not give chase and ordered his men to instead give chase.
“We have to go too,” Mo Ye flatly replied. Mo Jue was worried about Mo Ye’s form and immediately replied, “Don’t go, brother. We’ll take care of it.”
“I’m fine!” Mo Ye interrupted Mo Jue and walked out. “We can’t give her the slip.”
If that happened, who else would be her match!
Mo Jue frowned, and was worried that Ye Wei would leave him. He eventually said nothing else and drove down the hill. Ding Ke and Claire also got into the car, whilst the injured men had to remain on the mountain for now.
As Eleven had not been exposed to the sun for long, she was dizzy for over ten minutes as she was suddenly exposed to the dazzling sun. As her eyes were dazzled by the sun, she did not realize the tears that flowed down her eyes.
As nothing tear-jerking happened to her in the past few years, she had never cried for a very long time. Perhaps her body was retaining too much water, and it was a good opportunity for her body to expel said water with little harm. Little did she expect her tears to flow even more freely until she reached the foot of the mountain.
As Eleven randomly grabbed paper and wiped her tears away, the paper – which had tears, blood, and grime – was extremely dirty. She only managed to clean herself up after using many pieces of paper.
She opened the window and allowed the sun to blaze into the car and warm her body up.
As Ding Ke was sympathetic towards Eleven, he did not shoot her in a critical part of her but in her shoulder. Even though the bullet did not hit bone, Eleven’s back wound was not particularly deep but blood freely flowed out and stained her back red.
As Eleven had lost too much blood, she felt her body become extremely cold. Since Eleven happened to drive Mo Ye’s vehicle and she grabbed the black jacket, not knowing it was Mo Ye’s, that was in the black seat and wore it to cover her hideous-looking back. While she looked extremely kiddish in the grossly oversized jacket, the jacket at least kept her warm and she did not feel cold after that. The trace of mint on the jacket stimulated her senses and made her feel much more comfortable.
Although Eleven knew that she was less of a human amidst her filth, she also felt that she was as hideous-looking when she clearly saw herself under the sun.
While she really wanted to bring Ye Wei along, the current circumstances did not allow her wishes to become reality.
She faced no opposition along the route down the mountain.
When Mo Jue called for the yacht to reach the coastline, all he had to do was to say a codeword and Eleven’s downhill journey would not have been as smooth as killers would be hiding along the coastline awaiting Eleven’s arrival. He had shown her mercy.
But he did not mention any codes but have a few of them head up the mountain and calmly have somebody prepare a yacht without startling even more killers. Many in the Mafia did not know what happened.
There was still a prevailing calm on the island as everybody got down to their own business, which explained why Eleven was able to go down the mountain uneventfully and reach the coastline.
Hundreds of The Mafia’s best were on the island and guarded it steadily lest it was discovered and conquered.
Those that were at the mountaintop mansion were less than a tenth of those on the island. The vast majority were scattered around the island and lived like usual people. Outsiders would never know whether the boss of a marine product shop was a member of the Mafia.
Mo Jue wanted to quickly address the problem, and most importantly allow Eleven to leave. His stand was different from Mo Ye’s, and Mo Jue was wondering whether he ought to quickly take Eleven out or allow her to quickly leave.
Killing her was an impulsive thought, and allowing her to leave was the best possible option. Mo Jue was unwilling to see, and hoped that Eleven and Ye Wei would not meet again so that Ye Wei’s memories would not be stirred.
Meng Lianling’s life, in comparison to Ye Wei leaving him, was utterly insignificant.
He hence did not have anyone slow Eleven down and allowed her to smoothly reach the coastline.
As the avenue led straight to the coastline, Eleven could see the yacht berthed on the beach from a long distance away. As it was still extremely early in the day, there were few people on the beach and many were out fishing or barter trading with the surrounding islands. As the south of the island was a recreational zone, there would be more people from the afternoons to evenings. Save a few teenage girls who were having their morning routines and having gigglish exchanges, there were extremely few people on the beach at this time.
As Eleven had observed the island when she had passed by, confirming her location after getting out was no biggie.
Once the car just stopped on the beach, she heard a clear voice call out, “Ye, what brings you out here this early?”
Eleven’s heart sank.
Was she in Mo Ye’s car? She frowned at her exceptionally bad luck. Amongst the twenty-over vehicles and choppers at the top of the mountain, she just had to take Mo Ye’s car out of sheer bad luck?
Who was that woman?
As she looked in the rear view mirror, she saw Meng Lianling in a white tracksuit jogging over with a smile. Eleven’s pupils suddenly grew wide…
As Eleven got out of the car, Meng Lianling thought it was Mo Ye who got out of the car and jogged over. Meng Lianling suddenly stopped. Although the person was wearing Mo Ye’s windbreaker, the person was extremely petite and had long, messy hair…
This silhouette…
Eleven closed the car door and slowly turned around to face Meng Lianling. The two women whom fate had toyed with for five years encountered each other once again.
“Who are you?! Why could you…” Meng Lianling gasped.
Why are you wearing Mo Ye’s clothes and driving his car?
Meng Lianling looked at the ugly and scorned woman in shock. The woman was barefooted, and there was some blood on the bridge of her feet whilst she buttoned up her long windbreaker. Meng Lianling did not see the trails of blood on Eleven, but the injuries on the back of her hand, her reddened eyes, horrifying face and messy hair spoke volumes of how helter skelter she was.
In comparison to Meng Lianling’s youth and vitality, children would be shocked into tears at how Eleven looked.
As she stood in the direction of the sea breeze, her long hair emanated an acrid smell that Meng Lianling could clearly smell. Meng Lianling swept the smell away.
A bitter chill raced past as Eleven coldly smiled. “Meng Lianying, you sure have a terribly bad memory. Did you even forget who I was?”
Meng Lianling gasped and her eyes were wide open. Her lively eyes were filled with horror as her trepidation and fear at covering up the past before Big Boss Mo were utterly on display before Eleven’s eyes.
Who was she?
How did she know her name?
Nobody had called her by that name for almost five years, so who exactly was she? Meng Lianling’s panicked eyes sized Eleven up as she could not help but wonder who exactly this woman was.
She was in even more panic. Had she been elsewhere, she would have been able to calmly handle the crisis at hand. As Mo Ye was on the very same island as she was, she could not allow him to know the truth.
“Who the hell are you?!” Meng Lianling shrieked as she sounded a little out of control. While she could hide the truth from Mo Ye for five years as her intelligence was beyond measure. It was as though she had seen the world.
But even so, her wit could not suppress the panic in her heart.
“Who am I? Good question!” Eleven coldly walked forward as Meng Lianling backed away. Meng Lianling saw a once-familiar scent in Eleven’s cold eyes.
“Eleven?” Meng Lianling exclaimed in shock as she clenched her fists. “Eleven… How could you? How could you…”
How did you end up like this? Meng Lianling was utterly perplexed.
Eleven laughed even more coldly as she enunciated the next few words. “All thanks to you!”
Meng Lianling did not understand what was going on, but she calmed down and gently squinted. “You know everything, huh? Who told you?”
Could it have been Mo Ye? That was impossible! Why did Mo Ye hide Eleven’s presence of the island from her? She had said that she hated Eleven and wished her dead. Why did Mo Ye hide Eleven’s presence from her? Why?
Meng Lianying’s heart wrenched. Could he really…
Viciousness flashed through her liveliness, and Eleven mocked, “Do you have to tell me? I am properly surprised why he mistook you for me. Did you lie to him?”
“So what if I did?” Meng Lianying had nothing to hide as she faced Eleven down. “If I lied to him, I’ll have to blame you. If it weren’t you, I wouldn’t have to resort to that.”
Eleven could not help but applaud Meng Lianying’s viciousness. She couldn’t care less about it. “This is the most hilarious anecdote I have encountered in my entire life. Mo Ye is the most pathetic man whom I’ve known in my whole life. To think that idiot would treat the woman who wanted him dead as his precious. Haha… Meng Lianying, I sincerely wish that you were smart enough to cover your tracks a little deeper. If he digs out what happened back then, you will die a terrible death.”
Meng Lianying’s face changed as the sea breeze whipped up her long hair. Her viciousness became even more evident amidst her fluttering hair. “Nobody knows what happened apart from you. Once you’re dead, this becomes a secret for good.”
“Can you kill me?” Eleven coldly laughed. “Mo Ye and Mo Jue in concert could not even defeat me. You? What makes you think that you, who was defeated five years ago, can still kill me?”
“Eleven, no. I won.” Meng Lianying smiled and seemed pleased instead of raging. “I won you. Mo Ye’s heart is mine. I took him away from you, and you killed my sister. Fair deal.”
“Do I look like I care?” Eleven coldly looked on. “You may treat him as your precious, but others may not.”
Like a victor, Meng Lianying smiled proudly as she jabbed Eleven’s past hurts. “You can’t care less about him? Haha! Eleven, are you assuming that I am stupid? When you left years back, you waited for him at the bridge for two days but did not see him. You then returned to the hut, but it was a shame that Mo Ye had long left. You then returned to the bridge and waited for him for another five days, which means you waited for him in vain for seven days before rushing back because something cropped up in Eastern Europe. Ye Wei and yourself were embroiled in an arms-smuggling fiasco in the Middle East for over half a year, and it wasn’t almost after two years that you had the time to return to search for Mo Ye. You hung around Russia for two years for him, and Ye Wei and yourself then wreaked havoc with Su Man in Arabia in the past year. You have never given up on him, no?”
Eleven watched on quietly and sternly for a moment. Meng Lianying raised her eyebrows proudly. “Well, did I hit the nail on the head? You fell in love with Mo Ye for those few days, but it was a pity… that he did not know it was you who saved him back then but thinks that I had saved him back then.”
“You’re disgusting!” Eleven flatly replied. As Eleven was not Ye Wei and did not have the gift of the gab, she would never be able to talk somebody down the same way Ye Wei could. Eleven, being a person of few words, was extremely rarely provoked to anger. When she was with Ye Wei, Ye Wei took care of any over the top characters they encountered. She would resort to her fists more than rebut said person.
Save disgust, she could not describe how she felt about Meng Lianying in other ways.
While she was no saint, she was at least upright and willing to bear responsibility for her actions, let alone deceive others. She had encountered highs and lows, and met various people in her whole life.
While she had never stumbled, her carelessness was exploited by somebody as despicable as Meng Lianying.
“Cut the crap. You’ve no right… to call me disgusting. If you did not kill my sister, I would never have done this too,” Meng Lianying looked at Eleven viciously and mocked. “You caused all these! Had you not mentioned my sister’s name, I would not have been able to deceive Mo Ye this easily. Eleven, you caused all these.”
“Meng Lianling, you are nowhere near Meng Lianling. Heck, you are unfit to be her sister,” Eleven flatly replied. “Your sister, while she is no upright figure, is at least many times stronger than you! She knew that she had to apologize to me before she died.”
“Shut up!” Meng Lianying roared. “You killed her! Why does she have to apologize to you?”
“Meng Lianling, I really wanted to kill you, but…” Eleven paused and smiled cryptically. “I suddenly do not want to kill you. Killing you would have been too easy a way out for you. Since you want to know the truth, I’ll tell you… I was utterly exhausted after fighting Golden Eagle, and was simply unable to fight to the point any 3rd-rate killer would be able to subdue me. Meng Lianling wanted a duel on the spot, and the rules then stipulated that the next duel shall be fought three days after the duel. While I agreed and was about to rise up to her challenging the top killer, Meng Lianling however requested that the duel be fought on the same day. As I was simply unable to fight then, Wei Wei knew that she would not give in and deliberately provoked her. Meng Lianling agreed to the fight a few hours later so that I had time to recover my energy. As I had utterly expended myself in the previous battle, I could not fight a quick battle that would gradually turn against my favor. You are well aware of the rules when it comes to fighting for the position of top killer – no help shall be rendered even if you are on the verge of dying. Even though Ye Wei saw me taking blows to the point of almost dying, she did not render any help. While Meng Lianling could have won, she fought unfairly. During the competition segment for concealable weapons, she laced her concealable weapon with poison. If one wants to play the game, they must abide by the rules of the game and trust the fairness of the competition. When the concealable weapon impaled me in my arm, I would have been dead if I were just another person. Ye Wei felt that Meng Lianling had breached the rules, so she changed Meng Lianling’s concealable weapon into mine so that I could use it against her. Before Meng Lianling died, she told me that she had resorted to cheating out of an urge to win, but did not expect the toxins not to have an effect on me. She apologized to me for this, and she died in peace. Meng Lianying, your sister died in her own hands, instead of my hands.
“What nonsense!” Meng Lianying shrieked. “Now that she’s dead, there is no proof to what you said!”
“Very well then, let’s take it that I can’t back my words up. Even if I end up dying in a life-death duel, Wei Wei would not exact revenge on my behalf and would fight against somebody else in her own strength until said person is dead. As for yourself? If you are really out for revenge, issue a mortal kombat challenge to me and I’ll take it up as you would have wished. Why haven’t you?” Eleven sharply replied.
“I…”
“I’ll answer the question on your behalf – you don’t have the balls to!” Eleven coldly replied with a mocking smile. “When you looked for me in the name of revenge back then but lost, you were so utterly terrified. If it weren’t Meng Lianling dying, and the fact you were her sister, I would have killed you back then and never attempted cheap shots behind your back.”
As Eleven was spot on, Meng Lianying quietly watched on.
Although Eleven was not as smart as Ye Wei, her train of thought was clear enough that she understood all that happened back then. “I finally understood why nothing happened to Wei Wei back then, but things simply happened just as Mo Ye was about to regain his eyesight. It was ALL your deeds.”
“I do not know what you are saying,” Meng Lianling denied. “I know you, but I have never seen her and do not know her.”
“Hmmph! While you did not exactly see how Ye Wei looked like, you knew she was present,” Eleven said. “You were liaising the activity of the terrorists in the Eastern Europe Forbidden Area. The Russians sent three operatives to take charge of the operation, and one of them was you. While I did not know who Mo Ye was working for back then, he was careless and lost his sight – but you deliberately caused it. The three of you back then were maneuvering to allow the Eastern Europe terrorists to achieve victory, and Mo Ye going out to sabotage your plans created complications. You hence spiked his drink with two different herbs that counteract each other. Once he went blind, you were responsible for going after him, no?”
“What utter rubbish! You simply have no proof!” Meng Lianling’s face turned pale. She had killed everybody else who knew the truth back then, and only Ye Wei and Eleven remained.
While Ye Wei lost contact with Eleven as she was led away by the Eastern Europe drug lords, Eleven was the only person privy to what happened back then.