Forbidden Land – CH 071

That night, Zhang Chao kept replaying the hypnosis scene in his mind whenever he closed his eyes. He tried countless times, but each time he couldn’t remember what happened afterward and had to give up.

The night passed without incident. The next morning, Du Xuemin hypnotized him again, but just like the day before, Zhang Chao would wake up startled whenever the scene was mentioned, unable to recall anything afterward. He rested for a while in the afternoon and then hypnotized him again, with the exact same result.

Finally, Du Xuemin could only tell him, “It seems this part of your memory will be difficult to recover in the short term. If you recover well, we can hypnotize you again to help you get better.”

Zhang Chao could only nod and follow Chen Rong back to his ward. Just then, Chen Rong’s phone rang. She answered, and the voice on the other end said, “Chen Rong? This is the courier. You have a package; come to the lobby to pick it up.”

Chen Rong replied, “Just leave it with the security guard for him to sign for. I’ll pick it up after I get off work.”

The voice on the other end said, “This is a package requiring an in-person signature. The customer requested that the recipient sign for it in person.”

“Oh, then wait a bit,” Chen Rong responded, hanging up the phone, a little curious. Usually, whether it was documents or other things, packages were left with the security guard; she had never encountered a package requiring an in-person signature.

What could it be?

Just as Chen Rong was about to take Zhang Chao back to his ward, Zhang Chao said, “I don’t want to be alone anymore; I want to go for a walk.”

Chen Rong said, “How can that be?”

Zhang Chao said, “Why not? This isn’t prison; I’m not going to run away. I’ll be out tomorrow anyway; where can I go? Can I come sit in your office?”

Chen Rong frowned and sighed, “I can’t do anything with you. Come with me!”

Zhang Chao followed Chen Rong to the lobby entrance. Chen Rong took a large package from the deliveryman; it was a heavy box, over 20 centimeters long, 10 centimeters wide, and 10 centimeters high.

Zhang Chao asked, “What did you buy on Taobao? Shoes?”

Chen Rong replied, “I haven’t bought anything recently, so I don’t know what it is. Let me open it and see.”

The package was very sturdy; even Chen Rong, a girl, couldn’t open it. Zhang Chao quickly tore off the outer cardboard box, gritting his teeth. Inside was a wooden box.

Zhang Chao picked up the box, and he and Chen Rong looked at it together. They both exclaimed in unison, “An urn?!”

After looking it over from all angles, it was unmistakably an urn.

Zhang Chao said urgently, “Which bastard is playing this kind of joke on you? Go and stop that deliveryman!”

Chen Rong nodded, quickly took out her phone to call the security guard, and asked him to stop the deliveryman. The two of them, carrying the urn, hurried towards the gate.

Before they reached the gate, seeing the deliveryman was still there, Zhang Chao rushed up, blocked his way, and angrily shouted, “What are you delivering?!”

The deliveryman was taken aback, looked at what he was holding, and asked suspiciously, “An urn?”

Chen Rong said, “Who told you to deliver this?!”

The deliveryman said, “This…this was delivered by a customer. We are just employees, responsible for delivering it.”

Chen Rong asked, “Who is the customer?”

The deliveryman said, “It’s on the slip you just saw. You checked it yourselves.”

Zhang Chao angrily said, “Your delivery company delivers things like this? Someone’s playing a prank, trying to scare someone, and you deliver that too? Do you deliver feces?”

The deliveryman also appeared to be a little annoyed. “The customer delivered it to us. The company just checks if it’s a dangerous item. We deliverymen don’t care about that. It isn’t normal for someone to order an urn online. If you want to find someone, just contact customer service. Telling me won’t help!”

Chen Rong waved her hand and said, “Forget it, it has nothing to do with him anyway.”

Zhang Chao snorted and told the man to leave. The two of them took out the shipping label attached to the package. They hadn’t looked closely before tearing it in half, and now, putting it back together, they saw that the sender’s address was Shanghai, and the sender’s name was listed as “Feng Shui Master.” The phone number section had ten “1”s, clearly intentionally designed to conceal the sender’s identity.

Chen Rong said, “Open it and see if there’s anything else inside.”

Zhang Chao nodded, removed the lid, and inside was a small piece of paper, cut into the shape of a person, with three words written on it. “Li Jiaming.”

Zhang Chao looked at it suspiciously and asked, “Li Jiaming, what does that mean?”

Chen Rong’s face suddenly turned pale.

Zhang Chao asked anxiously, “What’s wrong?”

Chen Rong forced a smile. “Nothing.”

Saying this, she picked up the urn, walked to the trash can, and threw it in.

Zhang Chao said, “You threw away the evidence?”

Chen Rong said, “What’s the point of keeping something so unlucky? For your future use?”

Zhang Chao quickly spat a few times and said, “Who’s Li Jiaming? I think you know him.”

Chen Rong frowned and said, “A mental patient from the past. I heard he died over a year ago.”

“Ah!” Zhang Chao opened his mouth and said, “Then, who sent you this?”

Chen Rong frowned and cursed, “I don’t know which lunatic did this!”

Zhang Chao said, “Did you offend someone?”

Chen Rong said, “Perhaps, but let’s not talk about that. Anyway, only a scoundrel would do such a thing; they wouldn’t dare to do it openly.”

Zhang Chao also chimed in with indignation. “If I find this beast, I’ll definitely beat him to death for you!”

Upon hearing this, Chen Rong suddenly laughed. “So, when you go back to school tomorrow, you aren’t going to beat up Lin Yi’ang, are you? He did it to cooperate with me back then… hehe.”

Zhang Chao sighed and said, “Forget it, I was really angry back then. Now, as long as I can get out, anything is fine.”