Is Alice dead?

Alex listens to the report on TV, and he thinks that he has never heard of these missing cases. However, in such a big city like Beijing City, the disappearance of one or two people really wouldn't cause any big splash, so it is normal that he hasn't heard of it.

In his opinion, people in big cities like Beijing would "disappear" every day. Thus, he doesn't take it to heart at all and continues to think about Alice's matter.

After thinking all night, Alex still is unable to think of any good solution. After all, Alice is not Zhen. Zhen indeed killed people, but Alice didn't. Moreover, Alice's only target is Alex. Before she really does anything to him, even if she is caught by the police again, it would be the same as this time, and it would not cause any serious consequences to her.

The next period of time is very calm, and the days return to peace, as if everything that happened before is just an illusion.

That day, Chen and Yang come to the store again urgently, and Alex is instantly alert to their sudden visit.

He knows that something must have happened, otherwise they wouldn't come to him like this . The three of them has only met twice in more than last three years, and one of them was because of Alice. Now that they suddenly visit him, Alex couldn't help but be extremely alert.

Alex looks at Chen ad Yang and waits for him to speak quietly. Chen sits in his seat and asks immediately,

"Alex, have you seen Alice in the past few days?"

Alex frowns but answers in confusion,

"Alice? I haven't seen her since you took her away that day. What's wrong? What happened?"

"She's dead." Yang says angrily on the side.

Alex raises his eyelids and gets very shocked. Dead? Alice is dead? How could it be? Who killed her exactly?

"This..." Alex really doesn't know what to say and keeps silent for a while.

Chen asks then, "Where were you the night before yesterday?"

"At home."

"Can anyone prove it?"

"Yes, since those things happened, I moved to another place to live. There are surveillance cameras there and you guys can certainly check."

Chen nods and asks a few more questions. Alex answers truthfully, and then they leave.

After they leave, Alex frown. Alice was Dead? Seriously? Next moment, he suspects that the original owner probably killed her. He wants to go home and see if it is the original owner who did it.

Yang receives a phone call in the car, and then says to Chen,

"Leader Chen, it has been confirmed that Alex was indeed at home that night. The surveillance showed that he arrived home at around 7 o'clock in the evening and left the house at around 10 o'clock the next day."

Chen nod seriously and says,

"Well, when you were talking about Alice's death in the store just now, I deliberately observed his expression. Based on my many years of experience, he is supposed to really not know about this thing."

"In this case, Alex can be ruled out as a suspect, I think."

Chen shakes his head and denies, "We still have to be cautious. All suspects cannot be easily ruled out now."

…

Alex truly wants to go home right now, but he knows that he couldn't rush. Alice and he are inextricably linked, and he is not sure whether the police would send someone to keep an eye on him or not.

If he goes home now, this unusual behavior would definitely alert the police.

Alex thinks about Alice carefully while waiting for time. At about four o'clock, Alex finally leaves the store, which is actually two hours earlier than his normal closing time.

But Alex does it on purpose. If he really closes the store as usual, it would also arouse the suspicion of the police. It would be unreasonable for him not to show some abnormality after such a big thing happened.

He doesn't know if it would be useful, but it would always be good to be careful.

Not far from his shop, someone takes out a phone and calls Chen quickly,

"Leader Chen, Alex has left. Do you want us to follow him then?"

"Sure, be careful please and don't expose yourself."

Alex drives back home and greets his mother first. His mother is a little puzzled as to why he comes back so early today. Alex explains that he has no work to do this afternoon and then goes directly to the backyard cellar.

Chen's visit proved that Alice's death was not an accident, but a criminal case.

This meant that it was murder, and Alice's identity was very sensitive to him. The first person he thought of was the original owner.

Also, because of Alice, she was a criminal police officer before, not a special police force like a drug enforcement police, and her police experience was too short, so vendettas would basically not happen to her.

As for being killed by someone else, Alex directly ruled it out. He didn't believe it would be such a coincidence that the person who died was her?

Arriving at the cellar, Alex goes down without hesitation and turns on the light. At a glance, the cellar was the same as before, without any changes. He checks it again carefully and leaves the cellar easily after confirming that there is no change.

So it was not done by the original owner? Then who was it? Who would like to kill Alice?

If it was just a simple death, to be honest, Alex would not care so much, but this person happened to be Alice, which made him care a lot.

He stands in the backyard calmly and recalls carefully. From Chen's attitude, it can be seen that he is just a suspect.

Next moment, Alex raises his eyebrows. If Alex was not killed by the original owner, then the murderer should be near him, because it is easy to understand from Alice's perspective.

Who is Alice's target? It's only Alex!

If she really wants to take revenge on him, she would definitely monitor him after she came out from the police station, or at least figure out his life trajectory, so that she could pose a threat to him.

Alex indeed feels that his guess is right, and he continues to think along this line of thought. From the visit of Chen and Yang, Alex could infer that the police is supposed to have no clues now, so they would find him to do investigation. If there were clues, the police would not come to question him.

Thinking of this, Alex suddenly remembers the news report he has seen before on TV. He takes out his mobile phone immediately and begins to search for case information. The victims were all single women, which makes Alex more certain that the case was not done by the original owner, because the original owner was not "picky" at all.

He looks at the police's investigation report. Several victims were far away from their community and their locations were not fixed.

Alex closes his eyes and tries to put himself in the perspective of this person. Judging from the fact that the police has not yet solved the case, this person was very smart. He should have deliberately chosen these locations when selecting victims.

This kind of perverted serial killer will never stop after killing people, and will only become more and more addicted.

Because of the police, this person knew that he had to be very careful and tried his best to curb his urge to kill. He must have felt very uncomfortable, just like you are very hungry but can't eat for some reason. This feeling must be extremely uncomfortable.

At this time, he found Alice suddenly, who was monitoring Alex in order to take a revenge. He indeed didn't know that Alice was monitoring Alex. He could only see that Alice often appeared in the same place and stayed there for a long time.

This abnormal behavior really caught his attention. After observing for a few days, he determined that Alice was indeed a person, so in his eyes, Alice was the next perfect hunting target.

This person was in a very impulsive state at that time. He hadn't killed anyone for a long time and he almost got crazy because of "this hunger". How could he hold back? That would be absolutely impossible!!!

So he took action as soon as possible. If Alex's guess is correct, it means that this person is really closed to him.

Thinking of this, Alex suddenly laughs since he truly feels very interesting and ridiculous. What a coincidence!!! There is a perverted serial killer living around Alex. And this perverted murderer killed Alice who was targeting Alex. It is like showing the president where the white house is, and Alex feels like he is that president in this case.

"So interesting..."