The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye) novel Chapter 257

"Who's on the line?"

Nathanial clutched the phone tightly in his hands, but the other party did not speak.

The brief silence only caused Nathaniel to feel even stressed.

"Hello, Mango, is that you? Hello?"

Nathaniel’s tone was urgent as he spoke, but a cold machine-generated voice came from the other side of the receiver.

"Come alone to dock number three."

After that, the other party hung up the phone.

There was no way that anyone could recognize the voice of the caller as the voice was synthesized by a computer program. Furthermore, the call was too short for Nathaniel to track its location.

Nathaniel’s gaze was eerily cold.

He grabbed his coat and was about to leave when he ran into Madam Ye, who had just come to see him.

"Where are you going?"

"I just received a phone call that asked me to go to the dock number three. Whether it’s a trap or not, I have to go to look for clues about Mango."

Nathaniel knew that Madam Ye was worried about him, but this was not a time for inaction. As he observed the old lady's pallid countenance, Nathaniel felt very guilty.

"Mom, after I’ve settled this matter, I promise to always be by your side.”

"Don't worry about me, nothing can happen to me as I'm old enough. Honestly, you're the ones making me worried instead. Have you got any new information about Mango?”

To answer Madam Ye's question, Nathaniel said in a low voice, "We can be sure that Mango is still alive and she very likely takes the cargo ship back to Ocean City. However, since she didn't contact us earlier, she could've run into some trouble. Now, I don't think it’s a coincidence that someone called and asked me to go to dock number three”

Madam Ye's expression was serious as she listened to Nathaniel's explanation.

"Have you found Nanny Zhang?”

Nathaniel was stunned for a moment when he heard his mother bring up Nanny Zhang, but he shook his head in response to her question.

"I'm sorry Mom, but I haven't had time to look for Nanny Zhang. You know that I've been busy with finding Mango ever since I came back, so...”

"Nathaniel, Nanny Zhang can't be underestimated. You and I both know that the Hans family is very powerful, but she still managed to escape from them. So obviously, there must be someone very powerful helping her. Now that Mango is nowhere to be found and you've gotten a call from a stranger, I think it’s best that you be careful."

Nathaniel frowned. "Do you think Nanny Zhang will hurt me?"

In fact, Nathaniel didn't know the answer to that question.

Although Nanny Zhang was his biological mother, this woman was cruel and merciless. Furthermore, she had secretly hated the Ye family for so many years, so would she really give up her carefully crafted plans just for Nathaniel?

Madam Ye gave a wry smile as she too did not know how to answer this question.

As the saying went, even the devil loved his children. However, who knew what Nanny Zhang was really thinking?

"Well, there's no harm in being vigilant."

"I know, Mom. You take care of yourself, okay? I've asked Terrance to send some men over here for your protection."

Madam Ye sighed as she heard Nathaniel's words and she said, "There are plenty of capable people in the Ye Family, yet we seem to always need the Hans family's help. This is just..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Nathaniel understood what she meant.

"Mom, I swear that I'll properly reorganize the Ye Family after I find Mango. Right now, I can’t seem to tell the difference between those who are loyal to us and Nanny Zhang, and this worries me a lot.”

"It would be great if Mango were here because now she's in charge of the Dark Night Empire."

Madam Ye sighed again before she got up to go back to her room. Before she left, Nathaniel asked hurriedly.

"Mom, how do we get in touch with the Dark Night Empire? Perhaps we can use their power to find Mango."

"There's no way of doing so because the Empire only listens to one leader, and right now Mango is that leader. Except for her, no one can contact them.”

Madam Ye felt very helpless in this situation as well.

Nathaniel felt rather sullen when he heard Madam Ye's reply.

As he watched Madam Ye return to her room, Nathaniel immersed himself in deep thought before he got up and left the house.

Soon after, he arrived at the number three dock alone.

Unsurprisingly, there were very few people here.

Nathaniel remembered that he came to this dock sometime ago to look for Zion, but his son was nowhere to be found and Nathaniel's hopes were nearly shattered completely.

As Nathaniel stood on dock number three, he listened to the sea breeze whistling in his ear, and it felt like he was back at the seaside in the United States where he lost Mango.

"Mango, where are you?" He thought to himself.

Nathaniel's distress weighed heavily on his heart, but he couldn't find any relief from it.

Suddenly, a small stone collided with his waist. Nathaniel whipped his head around, but he did not see anyone. Instead, a rough computer-generated voice sounded.

"Walk forward fifty meters and enter the warehouse."

"Who the hell are you?"

Nathaniel frowned when he heard the voice.

"What's wrong? Are you afraid? Or you don't really intend on finding Mango at all?

The other party seemed to understand Nathaniel very well and it was obvious that he said that to provoke Nathaniel.

At that, Nathaniel’s gaze suddenly darkened.

Very few people knew about Mango' s disappearance, so who else could it be other than one of their own men?

Abyss was currently being investigated by the authorities and it was impossible for him to fly here so quickly from the United States. Hence, who else knew about Mango's disappearance?

Could it be that this was the person who kidnapped Mango?

Nathaniel’s eyes turned eerily cold.

"I'm warning you, don’t you dare to touch her. If anything happens to her, I'll make sure that all of you will pay the price!"