Chapter 1: Haunting

On a stormy night, a muddy sedan car was parked under a residential building. The door opened, and a panicked man ran out of the car. He didn't even have an umbrella, and he didn't care that he was already drenched in the pouring rain.

The man rushed into the building desperately, looking hurried, as if he was afraid of something.

"Damn......" he gritted his teeth, the hand holding the key trembled, and the interlocking core was not aligned several times. Finally opened the door, and if the man was granted amnesty, he immediately locked the door when he returned to the house.

He subconsciously looked at the table in the living room. It was empty, there was nothing. "Great, I don't think I'll be back this time." He breathed a sigh of relief, and then remembered to find a towel to dry his hair.

The man's name is Han Jianping, and he is a single young man who lives alone. After drying his hair, Han Jianping looked at himself in the mirror with a blue face, and comforted himself with palpitations: "It's okay, I've already thrown that thing away......

In order to relieve the tension in his heart and the discomfort of being drenched in the heavy rain just now, he took a hot shower and changed into clean clothes, Han Jianping planned to go back to the bedroom to rest for a while.

However, the moment he pushed open the bathroom door, Han Jianping's eyes widened suddenly, and the whole person froze in place, his brain went blank.

It's back! That thing, it's back!

On the table in the living room, which was originally empty, there was a delivery box. The box is a corrugated paper shell, which looks very ordinary at first glance, no different from the outer packaging of ordinary express delivery, but in Han Jianping's eyes, it is more terrifying than anything.

"Nope! How did it come back! I obviously drove to the mountains, dug a pit and buried it......" Han Jianping stepped forward and found that the appearance of this express was still clean and tidy, just like when Zheng Juan entrusted it to him.

And, no matter how far he tried these days, how far he threw the box, the next day, it would appear in his house out of thin air like a ghost, and he couldn't get rid of it at all.

"Die!" This time, a furious Han Jianping opened the window and threw the cardboard box from upstairs. Then, he fled into the bedroom as quickly as he could, locked the door, and wrapped himself in the quilt shivering.

It's all to blame on that woman, why did she find herself in the first place, why did she give this box to herself! Han Jianping pulled his hair like crazy and let out a painful roar.

Before that, Han Jianping was just an ordinary office worker. Living at two o'clock and one line every day, although it is dull, it is not boring. Like most young people, in his free time, he would go out for drinks with other friends.

By chance, he met a drinking girl named Zheng Juan at a bar. This girl's age and appearance are very much in line with Han Jianping's appetite, and what attracts him the most is that unlike others, Zheng Juan always looks preoccupied, and she also has a cold attitude when communicating with people, and she looks very mysterious.

He fell in love with this girl at first sight, and soon, Han Jianping asked for her contact information through stalking, and always asked the other party to come out to meet. It's just that Zheng Juan rejected it every time.

"Where there is no grass at the end of the world, why hang yourself on this tree? I don't think that woman is normal. I heard other wine girls say, this person doesn't know what, I've been a little nervous lately, I advise you to give up. Jiang Kun, a sworn friend who often clubs together, couldn't help but persuade.

"Those women may be jealous and deliberately slander others. Anyway, I'm going to have to chase her down. Han Jianping didn't take his friend's words to heart.

Although his friends persuaded him several times, Han Jianping never gave up, and his pursuit of Zheng Juan became more and more fierce.

Although Zheng Juan hasn't taken care of himself for half a month, he still doesn't give up.

On this day, he invited Zheng Juan to eat again, thinking that the other party would still ignore it as before, but he didn't expect that after about a minute or two, Zheng Juan actually replied: Okay. I'll go to your house tonight and give me the address.

"Great! Hard work pays off! Han Jianping was overjoyed and immediately replied to the other party's own address.

"Is it so exciting for girls to be open nowadays and come directly to the door?" He thought about it beautifully, and immediately went to the supermarket downstairs to buy a lot of ingredients, preparing to decorate the home warmly and grandly. At checkout, he thought carefully and grabbed a box of combat suits at the counter, ready to take on the night's storm.

After going home and decorating the house, Han Jianping waited anxiously until the evening, but Zheng Juan did not arrive. During this period, he made several phone calls to the other party, but it showed that there was no answer.

It was about ten o'clock in the evening, and Han Jianping, who was discouraged, realized that the other party was probably playing a prank on him. However, at this moment, the doorbell of his house was ringed.

This time, he was overjoyed, and he never expected that Zheng Juan would really come to him!

After opening the door, it was indeed her who appeared at the door, but it is worth noting that Zheng Juan's face looked very haggard, her face was white and blue, her eye circles were deep, her cheeks were thin, and even her hair was messy, and the whole person looked listless, which was very different from when Han Jianping first met her.

"What's wrong with you?" Startled by the other party's appearance, Han Jianping immediately welcomed her into the door. Who knows, Zheng Juan shook her head, pulled his arm, and stuffed a well-packaged courier in his arms into his hand.

"What is this?" Han Jianping didn't understand what she was doing for a while. The box in my arms looks very ordinary, sealed with transparent glue on both sides, and there is a white label on the top, which looks like it should be a courier. It's just that Zheng Juan's expression was very flustered when she handed him something, as if she was in a hurry to get rid of some hot potato.

"You put this box away, it's better to hide it, don't open it! Don't tell anyone else, remember? Zheng Juan's voice sounded obscure and hoarse, revealing fear. Her arms were clasped tightly around her, her eyes wandering, and she looked very frightened.

"Okay......" Although he didn't know how the other party became like this, Han Jianping still wanted to invite her into the house: "I see that you are not in a good state now, are you sick?" Why don't you go inside and have a cup of hot water? As he spoke, he took Zheng Juan's hand.

"No, I have something to do." Zheng Juan didn't know where the strength came from, so she broke free of Han Jianping's hand at once, and without waiting for the other party to speak, she quickly fled from here, leaving only Han Jianping standing in place confused.

"What's wrong with her, is it true that this woman really has a problem with her brain?" He was looking at the box in his hand, and was about to close the door, when he suddenly noticed two wet footprints at the door of the house.

This should have been left by Zheng Juan, but it was strange that it didn't rain that day, and for some reason, her shoes were wet like this. When Han Jianping pulled her hand just now, Zheng Juan's palms were covered with cold sweat, now that she thinks about it, sweating shouldn't be so exaggerated, could it be that the other party stepped on a puddle on the way here?

"It's a real disappointment, I'm looking forward to the day." After entering the house, Han Jianping didn't care about the box that Zheng Juan handed over to him, but put it on the table casually. When he woke up the next day and touched his mobile phone, he found that his friend Jiang Kun had made more than a dozen missed calls.

"Hey, what the hell is wrong with you kid? So many calls to me in one morning? Han Jianping yawned and asked sleepily.

"Don't you know? Zheng Juan has an accident! The voice on the other end of the phone made him sober up all of a sudden, Han Jianping opened his eyes with a spirit, and quickly sat up and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Don't you know? Zheng Juan disappeared for more than a week, and her roommate was anxious, so she went to report the case to find someone. As a result, this morning, the police found her body by the river near her residence, and it is said that the person has been dead for more than ten days! Jiang Kun's voice made Han Jianping feel like falling into an ice cave.