A chance to completely get rid of the suspicion

Alex looks at the time. Zhen is probably about to wake up and he knows that he has to leave very soon.

After closing the door and waiting for the elevator, Alex glances at the pipe room at the door of Zhen's house. There is one at the door of every house, and the property management usually does not allow it to be opened.

Alex picks up the key and looks at it carefully. Sure enough, he finds a key similar to the keyhole. This key would only be in the hands of the property management. Why does Zhen have it?

"So weird."

Alex gets a little excited and opens the door. The space inside is actually not big, just enough for one person to move around, which is full of pipes. He reaches out and touches the wall and finds the switch. After turning it on, he observes carefully but finds no diary.

However, he doesn't give up and goes in. When he turns around, he finds the diary he has been thinking about, just above the door.

Alex gets relieved from the bottom of his heart. No wonder he couldn't find it at home, it turns out to be here.

Fortunately, Zhen misunderstood, otherwise he really couldn't find it.

Alex takes the diary and checks it carefully. It is indeed the one he had before and the old marks could not be imitated easily. He puts the diary into the inner pocket of clothes and goes to the basement where Zhen is still lying on the ground. He puts the key in Zhen's hand and turns to leave.

Now Alex is able to rest assured. The diary has been taken back and Zhen can no longer pose a threat to him. Even if Zhen talks to the police, it will be useless.

Besides, Zhen himself is also carrying a murder case. He certainly dare not go to the police station.

Zhen wakes up in a daze a few minutes later. The back of his head is throbbing and hurting. He rubs the back of his head and carefully recalls what has just happened. His eyes widens instantly and he goes straight to the elevator.

Then Zhen opens the door of the pipeline room and reaches out to touch it. His heart gets half cold. He goes in without giving up and confirms finally the fact that the diary was taken away.

Zhen knows that this must have been done by Alex and he figures out everything. Alex did it on purpose, took out a fake diary to make him think that the diary was taken away before, and then took this awesome opportunity to determine the location of the diary.

Zhen slaps himself hard, and his eyes become fierce,

"Alex! Do you think this is the end? Well, this will never be over."

…

Inside the police station.

A man with a dignified square face sits at the head of the meeting room with a serious expression. The meeting room is extremely silent and this man is exactly the director Lu.

He says calmly and seriously, "Tell me."

Although his tone is calm, everyone present knows that he must be very angry now.

Chen clears his throat and answers,

"Director Lu, the deceased was a homeless man with no identity information. The cause of death was a blunt instrument hitting the mouth and brain, causing intracranial hemorrhage. After death, he was..."

"Stop!" Lu interrupted, and then said, "I have read the death report and this is not what I want to hear. I want to know why the task force is involved?"

"This case is related to the 609 case. A name was engraved on the back of the deceased, which is the name of one of the victims of the 609 case."

"Okay, I see." Lu nods, thinks for a while and says, "This case is taken very seriously and public opinion is also very strong. If the case cannot be solved as soon as possible, the people will no longer trust our police, and the consequences will be very serious."

Chen nods solemnly and he hears the meaning of Director Lu's words. This is asking them to give a specific deadline for solving the case, but he doesn't dare to give it because he is not sure when the case would be solved exactly.

Seeing that no one in the conference room speaks, Lu says,

"72 hours, this is the longest deadline I can fight for you guys. If the case is not solved after 72 hours, the task force will be disbanded on the spot, and those who should take the responsibility will be punished."

After that, Lu stands up and leaves.

After he leaves, the conference room is still silent since everyone knows that 72 hours is too short.

After a long time, Chen says, "Okay, let's work. Move move."

Hearing Chen say this, everyone is holding back a force in their hearts, because they know that if the case was not solved within 72 hours, the first person to be punished certainly would be Chen, because he is the person in charge of the entire case.

…

The next day, Alex meets Zhen at work, but Alex does not show off or ridicule him at all. It is meaningless, after all, he has already taken the diary back. What Zhen will do is his own business.

As for the fact that he might be caught someday and bite him back, it is impossible. All colleagues at work know that there is a conflict between the two. At most, it would arouse the suspicion of the police and could not pose a substantial threat to him.

Zhen sees Alex approaching and whispers,

"You are awesome, pretty awesome. but even if you take it back, so what? The matter is not over yet, don't you know? I carved a name on that guy, which was recorded before in your diary."

Alex ignores him and walks straight to his office.

Zhen shouts from behind, "Pretend! I wonder how long you can pretend?"

Alex returns to the office without answering at all. To be honest, he is not surprised by Zhen's words, because he has long guessed that Zhen would leave something to prove the diary.

Originally, he thought Zhen would choose to imitate the crime, but he didn't expect Zhen to have his own ideas. But it didn't matter because the effect was the same.

In fact, Alex doesn't care much about what Zhen did, because that case was too famous, so a lot of case information was very transparent to the public, and just these actions will not involve him.

But what makes him care is that Zhen might continue to kill more people, and Alex does not want this stuff happens again. It is not because he cares about Zhen, but because Zhen's killing makes him feel that this stuff was because of him, and he feels very guilty.

Alex decides to stop Zhen, but he doesn't know when Zhen would commit the crime again, so he needs to guide Zhen and let Zhen do it at Alex's own time.

It is also very simple to achieve this goal actually, that is, to continue to irritate him. Anger needs to be vented, either venting on Alex or continuing to commit crimes.

And Zhen wouldn't do it to Alex. If he chose to do it to Alex, the first victim would not be someone else.

Next, wherever Zhen is, Alex would be there and keeps interrupting him. Thanks to Zhen's bad temper yesterday, his colleagues had a much worse impression of him.

So when Zhen talks to someone, Alex could make the person Zhen is talking to talk to him by saying something casually.

During this time, Alex observes Zhen intentionally or unintentionally. Seeing the uncertain expression on his face, Alex knows that his goal has been achieved. No one could accept this gap, especially Zhen.

This is easy to be understood. When you are sharing something with your friends, someone suddenly comes, and then your friend abandons you and talks to that person passionately. What would you think? Would you be disappointed? What about someone like Zhen?

At noon, Alex notices that Zhen wants to invite his colleagues out for lunch. Alex says loudly that he has ordered takeout for everyone. The colleague look at Zhen apologetically and then refuse his invitation.

Zhen's expression darkens instantly. He knows that Alex is targeting him, but he has no choice. He couldn't think of any good solution.

Alex knows that his colleagues would definitely refuse Zhen, not because of the mentality of taking advantage, but simply because they don't want to be excluded like Zhen.

Choosing Zhen alone or all other colleagues is actually a very simple choice. It's not that Alex has so much ability to make all colleagues flatter him, but Alex has already ordered foods, and it's hard for everyone to refute his face and his kindness.

Besides, with Alex's financial conditions, the takeout he ordered is better than eating out by themselves. With this consideration, basically no one will refuse.

Zhen glances at Alex gloomily, then turns and leaves without saying anything.

After Zhen leaves, his colleagues look at each other in bewilderment. Everyone knows what was going on, after all, Alex's behavior is too obvious. But again, they are just colleagues, and they don't have such a relationship or friendship that would break up with Alex for Zhen.

Now it is Zhen himself who couldn't accept it. After all, no one deliberately distances themselves from him.

This is Alex's cleverness. If he and Zhen switched positions, he would never do the same as Zhen. He would leave as well, but would save some face for his colleagues, show understanding, and then leave.

One thing Zhen misunderstood is that he thought all his colleagues stood on Alex's side, but the fact is not the case. His colleagues did not choose to stand on Alex's side, and they would not make such a choice either. Their approach is just to treat everyone equally.

The current situation is that Zhen unilaterally withdrew. In fact, if he was the same as before, he would find that his colleagues would be the same as before as well.

Alex knows that Zhen must be extremely angry now. What Alex has to do is to take this opportunity to keep an eye on Zhen and stop him from committing a crime.

Of course, Alex has another idea in his heart. To be honest, Zhen's appearance indeed gives Alex one awesome opportunity to completely get rid of the suspicion.

"Well..."