Is this what it feels like to control others' lives?

Li is a little bit nervous. Chen tells him not to be nervous and says, "How long have you been working here?"

"About a year and a half."

"Pretty long!!! It doesn't look like it." Chen looks up.

Li laughs stiffly twice without saying anything.

"What do you think of this job?"

Li glances at Liu and says, "It's pretty good, easy and relaxing."

"Did you hear anything last night?"

"No." Li recalls several seconds and answers .

"Could you know when outsiders come in?"

"Of course!" Li suddenly became excited.

"Relax, there's no need to be so nervous."

Liu interrupts at this time, "Our apartment is a high-end apartment. Even takeout is not allowed in, and other doors are not open."

Chen nods and continues to ask , "In other words, the murderer is someone from the apartment?"

Liu gets speechless, how dare he could say that? How can the guard notice all the people coming and going in such a big apartment? What he just said is just to absolve himself of responsibility.

Chen already guesses what Liu is thinking and asks a few more questions . What a pity, there is no more clues offered. He asks Liu to hand over the door surveillance to him, and Liu agreed wholeheartedly.

…

It is almost noon, and Alex has already read all the chapters of that crazy diary. He holds the diary with trembling hands.

A total of forty lives lost were recorded in this small notebook.

After compiling his emotions and hiding this terrified notebook, Alex goes downstairs to have a meal outside like a normal person. He does not deliberately avoid the police during this period. He is sure that he has to behave normally now.

After he comes back from dinner, the police in the apartment have already left. The apartment square is pretty empty and loses its usual bustle. Occasionally, only a few people are walking in a hurry, as if there are unknown monsters chasing them behind.

He knows this is just because people feel the fear. Two consecutive cases happened in the apartment. No one knows whether such things would continue to happen or not, and no one knows who the murderer's next target would be?

He is also afraid, but he is different from other people's fear. His fear comes from himself. He doesn't know if he would commit murder again or not.

As he walks, he passes the open space downstairs of his house. The open space is dug into a mess. The police cordon on the edge tells everyone that a murder has occurred here.

He unconsciously recalls the contents of the diary. She was a very beautiful woman. She was still so beautiful even after she died. She was lying quietly in the gift box.

She was a perfect work.

Thinking of this, he suddenly shudders. Why dose he think so? That is a living life, how can it be a work?

…

The more he wants to forget this thought, the more he couldn't ignore it.

When death was given the attribute of art, it makes him temporarily forget the human instinct of fear of death.

He imagines a scene in which the God of Death holds up his scythe in the dark night. The scythe is so sharp!

Raising his right hand, Void shocks it.

Is this what it feels like to control other people's lives?

Suddenly, his whole body freezes. He is frightened by his own thoughts. This discovery makes him speed up his pace home unconsciously.

When he gets home, he takes a cold shower to try to calm himself down, but unfortunately ,under the stimulation of the cold water, the contents of the diary in his mind not only does not disappear, but become clearer and clearer.

Alex could understand the original owner more and more.

He opens his eyes and looks around. The unfamiliar yet familiar room seems to have changed, but he knows that the room has not actually changed.

Maybe it's only him who has really changed?

Two days have passed in the blink of an eye. Alex didn't read that crazy diary again these two days. When he found that he understood the original owner more and more, he decided not to contact those events for the time being because he really didn't want to become a pervert like the original owner.

Putting aside the matter of the diary, the original owner's life is still very wonderful, at least much better than Alex's own life as a normal working man before he traveled through time.

The original owner's job is as a taxidermist, which is a bit tiring but acceptable, and he works from 9 to 5, with two weekends off. Although the salary is not high, but including various benefits and year-end bonuses, it is nearly 150,000 yuan a year.

In addition, the original owner's family is very good and well-educated, his father is a well-known psychiatrist, and his mother is also a professor at a prestigious university. This is already the ideal dream life of 80% people.

…

Chen walks to the office, where Max is already waiting. The autopsy report and on-site investigation report are placed in front of him.

He picks up the information and looks through it.

The identity of the deceased downstairs was confirmed. Her name was Tang, female, 23 years old, local citizen. She was an Internet celebrity. The cause of her death is excessive bleeding, the same as Jasmin, except that she was brutally dismembered after her death, And the murderer curly cut her body into pieces and made it look like a work of art.

The time of death was on June 28, between 1 pm and 3 pm. It is found that the deceased had a long-term habit of taking drugs such as sleeping pills.

No more any useful information was extracted from the deceased, including the footprints at the scene. Due to construction reasons, there is no other effective information. The murderer did it deliberately, which shows that this murderer had a very strong sense of counter-reconnaissance. It seems that it is not the first time he committed the crime according to his method, but it is weird that they have not found any other similar cases. 

The social relationship of the deceased is relatively complicated. Due to her identity, good looks, and many suitors around her, these all make the subsequent visit more difficult.

After reading the information, Chen takes out a box of cigarettes and hands one to Max. The two lit cigarettes and smokes silently, without anyone speaking.

After smoking the entire cigarette, Max asks, "Do you have any clue?"

Chen frowns,

"It's really difficult to solve. The murderer is very perverted and makes the deceased look like works of art. This motive of it is very obvious, but it doesn't help us solve the case better. We don't know whether the murderer randomly selected the victim or not. If it was a randomly selection, then there is no doubt that we will be in a bigger trouble ."

"Yes, you are right, in that case, the scope of investigation would be extremely large." Max nods.

"There's nothing we can deal with it better, but we have to be more patient. "

Chen is also very tired and exhausted. In such a big city with a population of more than 18 million, it is simply impossible to find someone without obvious characteristics.

"Well, come on. Let's start with people who are relatively close to them." Chen says.

Then he picks up the information again and looks through it more carefully. There are many relationships between the characters. He checks them one by one until he sees a somewhat familiar name.

Alex.

The young good-looking man lived next door to Jasmin? Could it be a coincidence that both two girls died close to his house?

Chen decides to talk to the young man Alex again.

…

Alex has seen official Chen from far who is just standing at the door of his work unit, and it seems that Chen is waiting for him purposely.

Alex's heart sank, but his face remains calm as he steps forward and asks,

"Officer Chen, is there something wrong or anything I could give a hand?"

"Well, I would really appreciate if you would like to do it. There are some things we have to ask and assure the information again, please cooperate with police." Chen says as taking out his ID at the same time.

Alex of course does not refuse and he is unable to refuse either. After all, cooperating with the police investigation is the obligation of every citizen.

"No problem, I'll ask for a day off from the leader first." He takes out his cell phone and explains his situation.

Then the two come to the police station by car together, and Alex is taken to the interrogation room directly. After sitting down, Chen gets straight to the point.

"Do you know Tang?"

How could Alex not know her exactly? It is her who was written in that diary,

"yes ,I know her."

"Tell me about details please, when was the last time you saw her?"

"The last time...", a memory emerged in Alex's memory.