The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye)
Chapter 1277

Maverick was still smiling with tears pooling in the corner of his eyes. It mixed with his blood as it dropped to the ground. He couldn't tell the blood apart from the tears. In the end, he fainted because he lost too much blood. Just before he passed out, he took out his mobile phone and sent a message. Then he deleted it promptly. Meanwhile, Mango and Nathaniel searched the entire mountain behind Zelle Village, but they couldn't find Barack and the others. They fell into a trap instead.

It was a trap used to catch beasts. Thankfully, there wasn't any sharp snares inside, or Mango and Nathaniel would have been injured.

Nathaniel fell into the trap first in order to protect Mango. She quickly stood up to check if he was alright.

"I'm fine. Don't worry, it's just a fall."

Nathaniel had to speak to ease her worries.

However, Mango said in a low voice, "How can I not be worried? We'd fallen from such a height. If someone had not discovered us, we would probably starve to death here. Furthermore, you suffered a heavy fall just now in order to protect me. I need to check if you hurt yourself."

She ignored Nathaniel's objection and gave him a thorough check-up. When she found that it was just a scratch, she let out a sigh of relief.

"We went separate ways to search for uncle just now. We should have brought more people with us."

Mango was a little frustrated and regretful.

On the other hand, Nathaniel shook his head and said, "It's easy to expose our whereabouts if we bring more people. Yesterday, Maverick had disrupted Augustus's plan. That old fart must be on guard constantly, and he will even seize every opportunity to kill us. Now, it may be a good thing that we have fallen into this trap."

"A good thing? Oh, you're so optimistic."

When Mango saw that Nathaniel was so calm, she calmed down as well.

She looked at her surroundings. They should be deep in the mountain now. The leaves were lush and even the grass beside the trap was as tall as an adult. It was obvious that this place was seldom visited by humans.

Mango helped Nathaniel to sit upright.

This place was spacious. It was probably created to capture large-sized beasts. She did not know if

their men would be able to find them.

"Let me send them a message."

Mango took out her phone but she was stopped by Nathaniel.

"If we send out messages at this time, I'm afraid that our signal will be located by the enemy. By then, Augustus's men will come while our men are not yet here. Then we will be in real trouble." Mango didn't survive in the wild like Nathaniel did before, so she naturally listened to him.

Now as she looked at the dark circles under his eyes, she said while feeling sorry for him, "Why don't you lean on me and sleep for a while? You've almost gone one whole night without rest, and your body can't stand it. In here, very few people will be able to find us, and the bushes above are not destroyed as well. Relatively speaking, it's quite safe."

"Why don't you sleep for a while? I can still handle it."

Nathaniel looked at Mango as he was distressed that she had to suffer with him.

However, Mango smiled and said, "Are you still trying to be a gentleman? I'm fine, so why don't we both rest for a while? We'll find a way to leave when we wake up. By then, our body will be well rested so we'l be strong, won't we?"

"Okay."

Nathaniel pulled Mango into an embrace.

The duo snuggled up to each other. Soon, he could hear Mango snore.

Nathaniel breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she had fallen asleep. Then he looked at the trap above and felt that they were not in danger. His eyelids felt heavy, and then he fell into a deep slumber. Mango opened her eyes after he fell asleep.

Her eyes were bright. There was no trace of sleepiness in them.

They were outdoors now. Even if she was tired, she wouldn't dare to close her eyes, for fear that something would endanger them suddenly. If she didn't sleep, Nathaniel would definitely not rest as well. In the past few days, Nathaniel had been busy and anxious, so he had needed to rest long time ago.

Mango snuck out from the crook of his arm gently. Then she took off her coat and draped it over his body. She took out her pistol and stood guard beside him.

Nathaniel slept for five hours straight.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that Mango was still on guard. As her eyes were filled with dark circles, he instantly knew that she didn't rest at all.

"You..."

"I'm fine. I'm not sleepy at all."

Mango put on a faint smile. Her gentle smile was shining with warmness, which filled his heart with wonder.

"Okay, I've had a good sleep. You should take a nap, or you'll have no strength to go out."

"Alright."

Mango did not hesitate at all this time. She directly leaned to the side and closed her eyes as she fell asleep.

Nathaniel could not help but feel a pain in his heart when he saw his wife become thinner during their travel. Once they left this place, he would definitely get someone to make her some good food so that she would get enough nutrients.

After Mango fell asleep, Nathaniel discovered that she had set up some obstacles in their surroundings. She even set up some obstacles above them as well. If someone were to come down, they would immediately sense the movement.

Nathaniel always knew that Mango was smart, but he didn't expect her to use the method of designing cars here. He couldn't help but smile as a soft look grew in his eyes.

While Mango was still asleep, he started to think things over.

Was the news that Barack was here real or not?

Could it be that Maverick had tricked him into the mountain to escape the second wave of assassins sent by Augustus?

At the thought of this possibility, Nathaniel was a little anxious, but their whereabouts would be exposed easily if he called Rita now.

If his guess was correct, it was very likely that Barack was not here at all.

At the thought of this, Nathaniel felt a little angry.

Sure enough, he shouldn't have believed Maverick.

However, when he thought of Maverick, the image of the latter saving his life flashed through his mind. His eyebrows were knitted tightly.

Maverick was really troublesome.

He couldn't turn on his mobile phone. He was afraid that the signal would be tracked by others. There was no other way for him to inform Rita and the others. He could only hope that Angela and the others would protect Rita and Wisdom properly.

Meanwhile, Rita was actually safe and sound. She was sleeping soundly after enjoying a good meal.

Mango woke up after less than an hour.

"Why didn't you sleep a little longer?"

Nathaniel felt a little sad for her when he saw her wake up after such a short time.

Mango stood up and stretched her body. She said in a low voice, "I've had enough rest. If I really want more rest, I'll wait until we go out. Nathan, we have to figure out a way to get out of here."

"I looked at it just now. If we want to get out of here, we can only climb out. However, the walls are too smooth and there is no place for footing. Even if we can somehow find a footing, we can't climb up without a rope. This is the only time I've forgotten to bring a rope with me."

"Yeah, me too."

Mango was still inexperienced when it came to survival in the jungle. She couldn't think of anything she needed to carry with her.

At that exact moment, there were footsteps outside the trap.

"Someone is there."

Nathaniel quickly hugged Mango as they leaned tightly against the wall. He was sticking to the wall like a lizard so that it would be difficult for others to locate him in the first place.

"Lilian, are you sure they have come this way?"

An unfamiliar voice of a man came from the outside. Mango and Nathaniel's hearts were hanging by a thread at the voice.

Lilian looked around and squatted down to check the grass field. Then, she replied in a cold voice.

"They should be nearby. Let our people look for them carefully. Mr. Abbott has said that we must find them and send them back to Zelle Village safely."

It was actually a girl!

Mango was taken aback slightly. Then she heard the man say, "Lilian, I don't think we should be here right now. We should go to the ancestral temple and get Mr. Abbott out of there. I'm sure you know that every time he enters the ancestral temple, he almost died there. Sometimes, I even doubt if he is really the son of Augustus."

"Shut your trap!"

Lilian's cold voice shook as she spoke.

She held her hands tightly with a trace of dilemma and pain in her eyes, but she still whispered, "Mr. Abbott has asked us to save Nathaniel and his wife. This is an order. You know the consequences of not carrying out the order in our organization." "But Mr. Abbott may be in grave danger now.

Doesn't he need our help?"

"I said, shut the hell up!"

Lilian finally couldn't control her tone anymore. She even grabbed the man by the collar and said in a trembling voice, "Do you think I'm not worried at all? Do you think I feel good in ignoring him? I'm more worried about Mr. Abbott than anyone else. I've been with him since I was 18 years old. I'm his woman. How can I not know what kind of punishment and pain he is enduring right now? But I do know what he wants. He wants to save the lives of Nathaniel and his wife. This is the only thing he cares about other than Nick after so many years. I'll complete the task he assigned to me even if it means my death. So, say no more about things unrelated to this mission. I'm afraid I can't control myself. I'm afraid I'll ignore his order and rush back to save him. So just shut up! Start looking for our target!"

She loosened the man's collar as a trace of tears appeared in her cold eyes. But she wiped it away stubbornly.

"This is a deep in the mountain, a place where people from the surrounding villages come out to hunt for food. There should be some traps for animals. Let's be careful and look for the traps here. Perhaps we'l find something. Find every trap and placed a rope in it. If they really pass through here and fall in, they can still escape using the rope."

After saying that, she ordered her men to move it.

Mango and Nathaniel stayed quiet all the time.

It wasn't until Lilian and the others had left that Mango finally heaved a sigh of relief. She asked in a low voice, "Do you think they said it on purpose for us?"

"It's possible."

Nathaniel narrowed his eyes slightly as he felt uneasy.

He had long expected that Maverick would be punished. After all, the latter had disturbed Augustus's plan. However, judging from the words of those people, it seemed that Maverick would suffer badly in the ancestral temple.

He had almost died?

Those were frightening words, which could scare the daylight out of anyone.

Nathaniel felt pretty conflicted, but he knew that he couldn't pretend that he hadn't heard it.

Mango was very smart, so she naturally knew what he was thinking.

Although Barack was important, it was really difficult to find a man in this vast mountain in such a short time. However, Maverick was different.

If they went to Lilian just now and let her take them to Maverick, it was likely that they stood a higher chance of saving him.