Chapter 514 - Untitled (1/2)

As Eleven’s body was extremely badly wounded, she was not in a suitable shape to travel afar. Su Man, Anya, and company were on the island for almost ten days until Eleven’s condition had slightly improved. Eleven, after recuperating for close to ten days, still looked pale but she had largely recovered from her wounds thanks to Su Man patching her up.

While Eleven was typically solemn and of few words, she became even more solemn than before and would speak less than a few sentences each day. When Ye Wei used to be by her side, she would speak much more in comparison to how she was now. Without Ye Wei beside her, Eleven had n.o.body to talk to her to relieve her boredom. She seemed to have lost an able a.s.sistant. Even Cheng Anya was unable to keep a conversation with Eleven going, and Eleven would spend most of her time in the courtyard of the waterside pavilion, quietly watching the water without anybody knowing what’s on her mind.

It seemed as though everything that happened in the world had nothing to do with her.

The unstable tectonic plates resulted in occasional earthquakes. The earthquake today seemed especially large, and Cheng Anya went to awaken Eleven, who would normally be sleeping in the afternoon, thinking that Eleven did not know there was an earthquake. The huge earthquake caused the surroundings to shudder relatively intensely. The cracking of wood could be somewhat heard. Cheng Anya, with her bulge slightly more obvious, was still able to sprint relatively quickly toward the waterside pavilion.

Several parts of the waterside pavilion had collapsed, and the cups and kettles on the table had already rolled onto the floor. The waterside pavilion was thankfully constructed of bamboo, so there was no casualty as the collapsed portions were not heavy.

The surroundings looked terrible.

“Eleven, why are you still sleeping? There’s an earthquake. Let’s hurry.” Cheng Anya grabbed Eleven and ran out with her. Eleven seemed to be awoken by the chaos and knew that there was an earthquake.

In comparison to Cheng Anya, who seemed much more nervous, Eleven seemed much more calmer and even took her time to wear her shoes. “Relax, there’s still time,” she calmly said.

Cheng Anya was at a loss as to whether to cry or laugh as she waited for Eleven to wear her shoes. A sudden and violent shaking caused the entire roof to collapse, and Cheng Anya subconsciously covered her stomach in shock.

As the shaking was too immense, the bridge in the waterside pavilion broke in the middle.

“Oh, no, how do we get up?”

Eleven calmly looked at the damage and the violently shaking surroundings. Cheng Anya was almost thrown into the water. Eleven thankfully wrapped her long arm around Cheng Anya’s waist and tugged with some force. What happened left Cheng Anya in a daze.

She felt a slight tug on her waist as she was lifted up several feet into the air. She was, in the blink of a moment, on the sh.o.r.e and was still shocked and at a loss from what happened.

She estimated that the sh.o.r.e she landed on was about ten-over meters away from where she had been. She had, in a swoop, ended up on the sh.o.r.e.

That was definitely too magical, no?

Cheng Anya was agape. Eleven seemed to have pulled her up. Was this the legendary ‘qinggong’ in Jin Yong’s martial arts novels?

It was little wonder she described it as timely since the entire waterside pavilion collapsed at this moment.

Eleven, without even batting an eyelid, saw Cheng Anya’s shocked look and knew what was on Cheng Anya’s mind as she calmly watched on. The benefit of the mutation was the incredible speed and strength it imparted to her, and she needed not to mention how she was no longer quite a human.

Given her physique and strength, she would have had some difficulty carrying and leaping that high with Cheng Anya in tow.

“Eleven, did you master ‘qinggong’?” Cheng Anya looked on with a look of wors.h.i.+p. She knew that Eleven and Ye Wei were aggressive, but this was the first time she saw it in person.

When they watched television in the television room when they were younger—as there was only one television in the entire village—most of the TV dramas played were martial arts dramas. Miss Cheng, watching the people in the drama fly, was awed and really hoped she could leap and fly like them someday.

“That was even faster than I had imagined.” Su Man’s voice plainly came from behind. Cheng Anya turned back in shock to discover both Su Ruhua and Su Man were present. Su Ruhua looked at Eleven as though she was looking at an alien.

This was probably the first successful cyborg.

Eleven had a cold look on her face that Cheng Anya did not quite comprehend. As Su Man slowly walked over, she then understood what was going on and could not put a finger on how she felt. When she turned to look at Eleven’s indifferent face, she only felt heartbroken.

How could such a beautiful girl never have a day of peace since young? Her toughness from a life of fighting and killing was so heartrending. How could something this incredulous happen to her?

“It’s nothing.” Eleven seemed to guess what was on Cheng Anya’s mind and came over to console her. “This is actually better. The terrorist organization just happens to need a killing machine.”

It needed a killing machine to go toe-to-toe against the Mo brothers.

If the rest of them were to become like her, she would rather be the only one who became like this as she, unlike the rest, was much less bound than them.

Cheng Anya felt even sadder.

Su Ruhua clapped her hands. “Since the house is in ruins, let’s leave.”

As earthquakes would actually happen on the island, most of the houses on the island were made from bamboo. The earthquake, while huge, had pa.s.sed and n.o.body was injured or dead. Only the houses were slightly damaged.

Since Eleven was fit to travel, Su Man already had this intention because he did not plan to remain on the island.

The butler paid a family on the island in gold to restore this mansion. Everybody soon packed up. They did not bring much with them when they left just like how they did not bring much with them when they came.

Su Ruhua and Su Man were not traveling together, so there were two boats berthed by the sh.o.r.e.