Chapter 195



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Ningpo was a coastal city located 700 kilometers away from City N. As the common social practice there was simple, the quality of exported seafood had always been very good and the supply was not adequate to the demand. Another rare thing was that the fishermen there were not greedy and did not want to do too big a business. Each year, they only sold to outsiders a few fish they caught during the season.

For this reason, the village still had a traditional look after many years. The mountains and seas there had not been developed, and magnificent natural scenery could be seen along the road.

Hayden yawned because he had been driving for a long time.

He had eaten lunch at a rest area three hours ago before reaching the highway. But if he had known he had to drive so long to get to Ningpo, he would have bought something to eat inside the car.

His stomach began to growl.

“Ugh, please stop growling.” Hayden muttered helplessly, “When I get to the place, I must let the eccentric designer treat me to a seafood feast.”

Alayna told Hayden that the man was her superior and their relationship was very close, but she still wanted Hayden to come to her house. She said she had to meet with the head of the company to determine if the company had any value.

Hayden wanted to hire a talented employee and so he went to recruit him.

His phone rang. After glancing at the caller’s number, he pressed the car audio button connected to his phone.

“Where are you now, Miss Hayden?”. Alayna’s mocking voice echoed from the car, mixed with the sound of electric drills boring into the walls.

Hayden quickly reached out to turn down the volume of the call, “My God, is she at the construction site? Can you find a quiet place to talk?”

“This place is quiet enough. It’s already dark and the shift will be over soon. Don’t be upset with your company.”

“I’m not upset with my company. But I almost went deaf from the loud sound from you.”

“All right, all right. I’ll come out to talk to you.” The voice on the other end gradually became clearer, “We need to keep an eye on this work crew. I came in late in the morning and they were chatting in a corner without doing their work.”

“Good job, my great designer.”

Hayden held the steering wheel. He had turned on the car’s headlights to illuminate the darkness of the road ahead.

“How far have you gotten, how’s the traffic?”

“I just got on the highway half an hour ago. I was having a hard time driving on the highway now in pitch dark. Now I’m driving as slow as a turtle…”

He shouted loudly. Her screams, mixed with the sound of the emergency brakes, seemed extremely loud.

On the other end, Alayna frowned sharply and ripped the headphones out of her ears, “Hayden…. Hayden, are you there, what’s wrong?”.

Beep…

The phone abruptly returned to the main interface. The call had been disconnected.

Alayna tried to call her back, but was told her phone was not in service.

Her face paled immediately.

If she wasn’t mistaken, she thought Hayden had been in a car accident, judging by his screams and the sound of the brakes just now.

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“There can’t be any more trouble with this shipment.”

Joseph was standing in the back of the truck, looking at the shipping list with a serious expression.

“If such a problem occurs again, we will immediately re-select the supplier. Besides, I may as well tell you directly, we bought another batch of the same merchandise at the same time from another supplier and it has already been shipped to City N. If there is anything wrong, I will not buy anything from you again and we may find ourselves in court.”

The head of the seafood company wiped his sweat in fright: “This time there will be no problem. Last time, the driver didn’t open the freezer, he was afraid to take responsibility and didn’t dare to tell us, which delayed the matter. Mr. Beckham, don’t worry. That kind of mistake won’t happen again.”

“Okay, never mind.”

Joseph closed the shopping list and handed it to his assistant, Magnus. “You stay here and watch the final delivery of this batch of merchandise. I’ll head back to N City.”

“Aren’t you staying the night before you leave? It’s not safe to drive at night in such darkness.”

“No need.” Joseph fixed his sleeves expressionlessly and left.

He knew Harrison was doing this just to punish him, since the problem at the place wasn’t very serious, there was no need for him to come and solve it personally. He thought that he didn’t even have to leave Magnus at the place, so he didn’t bother to stay there for a while longer.

When he had just reached the Esplanade road, his phone rang, interrupting the atmospheric melody of the car symphony.

He frowned and pressed the button to answer the call.

“Joseph, where are you?”

Joseph looked at the sign in front of him.

“I’m almost to the highway. I think I can get to N City early tomorrow morning.”

“Quick make a U-turn.” Kevin’s voice was a bit urgent, “Hayden’s been in an accident.”

His abrupt braking made a piercing roar sound on the road. There were two long tire marks on the asphalt road, and some white smoke billowed from the car.

Joseph said coldly inside the car, “What do you mean, he’s been in an accident and you’re asking me to turn around?”

“The story is too complicated and I can’t explain it to you now. In short, the call between Hayden and Alayna has been disconnected an hour ago, but Alayna believes he was in a car accident. I sent you her last location before she got disconnected, quickly go find her. She shouldn’t be too far from where you are since she was also going to Ningpo.”

Joseph’s hand holding the steering wheel was shaking with anxiety, but his tone of voice was very calm, “Okay.”

Beep The text message alert beeped in the car.

Not long after, the Land Rover’s engine roared to a stop in the middle of the road. Joseph quickly made a U-turn and sped away toward the mountain road.

A full moon hung high in the sky. In a week’s time it would be the Mid-Autumn Festival.

At a roadside stand near a street of bars in N-Town, Kevin put the phone down and looked at the woman in front of him, “I called Joseph and he’s gone to pick up Hayden. Do you have anything else to say?”

Alayna was a little nervous. She stared at Kevin for a while and smiled, “Nothing else, thank you very much. Let me know if you have any news. I’ll be on my way.”

She had lost contact with Hayden an hour ago and couldn’t find Joseph’s number on her phone. Panicked, she called Kevin and it was too late when she wanted to cancel the call.

Kevin answered her call almost instantly.

She could hear the excitement in Kevin’s tone as if he had been waiting for her call for a long time.

At that moment, Alayna felt like a bitch.

But since Kevin had answered the call, she could only force herself to ask for his help, as Kevin was the only one on her contact list who might have the means to find Hayden.

After leaving the roadside stand, he walked down the street for a while. The streetlights illuminated his figure. She sighed, one hand clutching her purse. She felt like punching herself.

“This woman is so hot.”

Some drunks were drinking in the street. They hissed at her and said a bunch of nasty words when they saw her.

“She has huge tits and a nice ass, it would be great to have sex with her.”

Alayna, who was already in a bad mood, immediately glared back at them when she heard their words.

“Did you fuck your mother when you were little? Don’t you know who you are when you get drunk? Look in the mirror and see what wimps you are.”

After hearing his words, the drunks looked at each other. They instantly became furious. They pounded the table angrily and got up.

“Who are you scolding?”.

“I’m cursing your mother’s cunt, son.”

Just as Alayna was scolding them with vulgarities, she felt her temples suddenly throbbing. In the moment before her eyes began to go into a trance, she saw a white light.

Before she fainted, her mind was full of ‘Oh shit, why am I fainting now.’

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