"Many people lie, for it is human nature. For one to truly lie, he must lie and believe in that lie to make it not a lie. To tell the truth, I never lie.. honest..." -Uncle Alfonso-
The meeting with Uncle Wang was finally over, and they seemed to be very happy with what they were discussing for the past few hours. I was finally able to leave this boring place and I took a cheap thrill to kick Giorgio awake.
We took a cab to an old church. The church was empty, abandoned, old, stale... Uncle Alfonso knelt before the cross and prayed while we were looking around for anything to entertain us, but it is just an empty church with only moonlight seeping through the window louvers and stain-glass as our romantic wall lights... I was bored, and Giorgio grew impatient. "I am Giorgio Da Costa, and now I am stuck in this god forsaken land where no one could use my hand. Alfonso, why are we here and why the prayers?"
Before Giorgio could continue to whine, a local voice interrupted with a sarcastic tone, "Because you will soon see the Real Devil and not Ang Moh Gui! Hahaha!". The church soon filled with the local gangsters and that voice was all too familiar. Most people call him 'Kachuak', which meant cockroach in their local dialect, for he is able to be in anywhere at almost any time when it comes to stealing information. Also, he is someone who can take alot of punishment and not die. Perhaps this is how he got his name, a very hard to die kind of pest.. But to us, he is one of the best friend we could rely and trust.
Uncle Alfonso stood up slowly and wore the widest smile we ever seen as he turned to Kachuak. All of us in the church felt a heartwarming reunion, and we could see how happy Kachuak was by the tears he had in his eyes. Although he is not officially part of the family, but he is one of the most loyal associates we ever had, and for that, Uncle Alfonso treated him as if he was a son to him.
With arms spread wide open, he stride towards his Mentor for a hug, "Uncle All-Fun-So! Long time no see, I thought you mati!" As they exchanged hugs, Kachuak introduced his new name, "Uncle, by the way, I change to an Italian name like Giorgio. I am now called Lam-bo-genie, hahaha! oh yes, I brought the Devil-sssss you asked for"
As Kachuak snapped his fingers, some of the gang members dragged out five men who were severely bruised all over their face with their hands bound by handcuffs behind them. Two of which who looked familiar, as they seemed to have worked with us before, but the other three looked too decent to be gangsters, but too sturdy to be "innocent", and their shoulder holsters confirmed their identity.
Uncle Alfonso walked towards one of the men with the shoulder holster and drew the pistol and lifted the chin of its owner. In a low voice, Uncle Alfonso finally speak, "From my sources, we knew your sources have information of the dealings of which I was about to make afew hours ago. One thing I do not understand is that why haven't your sources have figured out that I was making a Mooncake deal for this Mid Autumn Festival?" As Alfonso flicked the chin off the pistol, he nodded at Kachuak before he continued his speech "I am sure you locals love Mooncake, so perhaps you could try some of my specialty. Really, it is just the best lotus paste in town, very tasty, and drug free..."
While Uncle Alfonso is talking, Kachuak was filling Snow-skinned mooncake into the mouth of the gun's owner. Alfonso continued "seriously, you couldn't resist to help yourself after finishing the first one right? Maybe five would be just be satisfied? and 15 would be just right.. no?"
Kachuak just kept stuffing the mooncake into the mouth of the victim despite his struggle and choking. Another gangster held his head in place while Kachuak forced those delicacies down the throat of the bounded guy. His colleague couldn't witness this any further and shouted with rage "You bastard! You will pay! We will hunt you down like how we hunt Uncle Wang! We are so close to end his business and soon we will end yours!"
Uncle Alfonso laughed the same way he laughed at the balcony, sometimes I really wonder if he is happy, or he find things are funny. "Uncle Wang, is untouchable as long as I am in here. Your sources..." he pointed at the two familiar faces "are just some of those whom I already knew who they are..." he cocked the pistol and shot at one of the gangster standing next to Kachuak. "and some, of whom you think I do not know who they are, are infact already in my blacklist."
Kachuak searched the body of the dead gangster and truly found a voice recording device. The other gangsters started to get restless and looked at each other with suspicion.
The Mooncake Victim finally stopped struggling and the Loud Mouth stopped shouting and shivering as if it was winter. Uncle Alfonso started shooting at afew other gangsters but this time they had shots on their thighs and stomach. The gang members start to tremble too, while some filled with anger. One of them shouted "Cao Ang Moh! Anyhow kill us! We own people right?!"
As the ammunition depleted, Alfonso wiped the pistol with an exquisite handkerchief and dropped the pistol on the floor and turned to the gangster "Not all of us here WAS own people, but now, everyone here is own people" Alfonso finished with a smile and turned his attention back to the Loud Mouth and squat infront of him. He whispered to his hear "So, will you be one of us, or one of them?" he pointed Loud Mouth to the Mooncake Victim. "So would you like to be co-operative and be rich? Or would you prefer your children to be orphans?" With that statement, Loud Mouth glared at Uncle Alfonso, but Uncle Alfonso gave a reassuring smile as if a waiter assuring the quality of the food served "Yes my friend, I know where you live and where you like to hide your family... So I assume you would like to co-operate, si?" Loud Mouth started crying and nodded hardly and replied with a loud but trembling voice "SI!!!" and continued crying.
Uncle Alfonso smiled and stood up "good, I will call you again when I need to, just don't change your number, it won't help. I just need to throw out some pocket change and I will get to talk to you anyway. As for your family, I will arrange the best maid for them to take care of their daily chores in Holland, and I don't think they want to move anywhere else since everything is so perfect there, am I right Andrew?"
Loud Mouth Andrew let out another cry as he nodded hardly. "Now Andrew, remember, you have to start lying from now on. Many people lie, for it is human nature. But for one to truly lie, he must lie and believe in that lie to make it not a lie. To tell the truth, I never lie.. honest..." Soon after, Uncle Alfonso nodded to Kachuak, and Kachuak gave Andrew a slash of a parang at his back, rendering him unconscious, and the other gang members were left to hack and slash at the remaining captives.
As Uncle Alfonso was about to leave the Church, he instructed Kachuak to make the scene to look as if it looked like there was a fight going on, as he tapped Kachuak on the shoulder as a sign of appreciation, he added, "Car-truck, I think I kinda like your new name, I shall make known to the rest that you will now be known as Lambro. Really, I love it." Lambro hugged Uncle Alfonso before we all depart.
Giorgio and I couldn't figure how he knew which gang member was the mole so we asked him, and all he replied to us was "Mooncake Reaction", along with his signature laugh...
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