Where is the diary exactly right now?

Alex opens the notebook and shows it to Zhen, jokingly saying,

"Zhen, is this what you are talking about?"

Zhen's expression changes immediately, and he looks through the contents of the notebook carefully. He finds that this is indeed the one he was reading before, and asks Alex in disbelief,

"Impossible, it is certainly impossible, how did you find it? When did you take it back? Why didn't I notice it at all?"

Alex smiles and points to his head, the meaning is self-evident.

To be honest, Alex's reaction surprises Alex.

He originally meant to tell Zhen that this so-called "murder diary" was not important to him at all, and he could write a lot more if he wanted to.

Unexpectedly, Zhen misunderstands and thinks that he has stolen the diary successfully . It seems that Zhen is really blinded by anger.

Alex just admits it, which makes Zhen more panicked.

And this might be an opportunity for Alex. He might be able to find the diary then.

If Zhen didn't figure it out, he would definitely go back to see if the diary he stole is still there or not. Alex then might be able to find his own diary if he follows.

Ignoring Zhen who is still in shock, Alex returns to the car and thinks carefully. After Zhen stole the diary, he certainly saw the contents inside. In his eyes, this diary must be very important and might be related to Alex's life and death.

If such an important thing is not carried with Zhen anytime or anywhere, it must be placed in a place where Zhen is able to feel at ease and safe, and this place is most likely his own home.

Thinking of this, Alex starts the car and rushes to Zhen's house. Zhen doesn't have a car, so he could only go home by bus. However, in such an urgent situation today, he might take a taxi, so he is better drive faster.

On the way, Alex thinks about what he should do when he gets there. Even if he arrives earlier than Zhen, he couldn't get into Zhen's house, and he doesn't know how to unlock it, so he could only wait for Zhen to come back.

But Zhen would definitely not let him enter his house, which is a problem. He has to enter Zhen's house without anyone noticing. Alex thinks about it for a long time but couldn't find a good way at the end.

But giving up is absolutely impossible, so Alex will see when Zhen gets there.

Not long after, Alex comes downstairs of Zhen's house. He comes to the door of Zhen's house and looks around, but doesn't find what he was looking for, at least there is no spare key hidden under the doormat or on the top of the door.

Alex stands at the door and looks at the elevator number. After a while, the elevator number lit up, and the floor display is exactly the floor he is on. According to a simple calculation based on the time, the person who gets on the elevator is probably Zhen.

This also means that Zhen did leave the diary at home. If he didn't leave it at home, he wouldn't go home at this time.

Alex walked to another elevator and presses the button to the negative first floor. When he enters the elevator, he takes out his mobile phone and turns on the stopwatch to start timing. For this kind of high-rise residential building, the electricity meter room is usually set up in the basement.

When he comes to the basement, he looks at the time, 37 seconds, he remembers it, and then finds the electricity meter room and finds the electricity meter of Zhen's house. He first walks around the electricity meter room and finds a wooden stick for unknown purpose. He puts the stick behind the door, then pulls the switch directly and walks toward the elevator.

About one minute later, he sees that the elevator number lights up again, and he knows that Zhen must have come down to check.

Alex hides behind the door of the electricity meter room, picks up the wooden stick, and waits patiently. After a while, Alex sees Zhen walking in with the electricity card.

Alex doesn't hesitate at all, hit Zhen on the back of the head with that wood stick, and then finds the house key on him, ignoring Zhen who is lying on the ground.

On the way, Alex figures it out that he was just thinking too much before, and he could use a simpler method to get the diary back.

Alex knew that Zhen has taken the diary, and Zhen knows that Alex knew that he had taken the diary. Alex wants to get the diary back, and Zhen also knows that Alex wants to get the diary back.

The two people knows each other's purpose very well, which is equivalent to an open card. Since it is an open card, there is an open way to play it.

This is the reason why Alex uses force. As for why he didn't do it before, it was because he didn't know where the diary was hidden by Zhen at that time, and there was no point in him using force.

Now the situation is different. Although Alex still doesn't know where the diary is exactly, he believes that he can find it very soon.

Opening the door of Zhen's house, Alex walks in. Because it is evening and the power is turned off, the house is a little dim.

Alex stands at the door and tries to put himself in Zhen's perspective. Zhen suspected that the diary was taken away by Alex, so the first thing Zhen did when he returned home was to make sure whether the diary was still in its original place or not.

Zhen would not have any extra movements at this time, and he must have gone straight to the place where the diary was. Before he could be happy after finding the diary, the lights suddenly went out.

Alex glances at the time. From the time Alex started timing to the time Zhen was knocked unconscious by him, it is less than three minutes. It took more than one minute to go up and down the elevator twice, which means that Zhen only had more than a minute left to move around at home.

In such a short time, Zhen couldn't find another place where he could feel at ease, so Zhen was supposed to still put the diary in its original place.

Moreover, in this minute or so, Zhen first found the diary quickly, and then found that the power was out. At this time, he should have been a little dazed. Judging from the situation at that time, Zhen just suspected that Alex had taken the diary. In this case, his first reaction was to hide the diary in another place.

Zhen looked around and didn't find any good place, but the power outage had to be solved. In the end, he chose to put the diary back to its original place and would change the location after he came back.

So in this minute or so, Zhen's thinking or hesitation time accounted for a large proportion, so that Alex could make sure that the diary would not be too far from the door, and the place where it was hidden would not be too deep.

If it was hidden too deep, this time would not be enough.

Alex simply observes the room. Normal people would usually choose to hide things under the mattress, under a piece of clothing in the closet, or in the pocket of a piece of clothing, that kind of place that can cover things.

Alex first lifts the mattress, then opens the closet and checks carefully, but finds nothing. Then he begins to check everywhere in the room, but still does not find the diary.

Alex gets a little confused. The whole room is not big at all, and with such a short time, where could Zhen hide the diary exactly?

Alex looks at the time. He has already searched everywhere he could at home. Basically, he has searched everywhere. How could it be gone?

Judging from Zhen's behavior, the diary was indeed at home. Otherwise, why would he come back so anxiously?

He carefully observes the house again. Now the only place to hide something is under the floor tiles. He begins to knock on the floor tiles one by one with his mobile phone.

Soon, all the floor tiles are knocked by him, but still nothing is found.

"Fuck you..."

Was he fooled?

Alex has to think so, because he is now very sure that there is indeed no diary in the whole house.

Alex could see that Zhen's shocked expression at that time was not fake, which meant that he really thought Alex had taken the diary.

Did Zhen figure it out on the way back? Then he used his trick to play a trick on Alex to satisfy his own abnormal psychology?

"No!"

This is a contradiction. Since Zhen was able to think of this, then when he found the power outage, he must have known that it was Alex's trick. How could Zhen come to the basement without any precautions?

"Where is it exactly right now?"

The diary must be nearby, but not in his house!