Chapter 6: The Case of the Man Lost at Sea

The next day, the life of the domineering CEO remained simple and down-to-earth.

On the way to work, Chi Yu received 2 energy units, redeemable for 0.2 minutes of humanoid time.

Shen Yanzhi was busy with work in the morning. In the afternoon, he went on a business trip to the neighboring city to meet with a partner. He was even invited to a teahouse for tea. Chi Yu stayed tucked safely in his pocket the whole time. When they returned to the capital city, Chi Yu checked the account and was delighted to find 23 energy units earned, adding to the original 2 in stock, totaling 25 energy units—equivalent to 2.5 minutes of humanoid time.

Chi Yu, like a cautious little hoarder, carefully collected this precious life time bit by bit, gazing at it again and again.

Besides this surprise, Chi Yu also discovered Shen Yanzhi’s phone lock screen password!

During the day, perhaps due to the angle, Shen Yanzhi’s facial recognition failed, and he casually entered a six-digit passcode.

As soon as he did, the passcode instantly implanted itself in Chi Yu’s mind.

Silently, Chi Yu memorized it.

When Shen Yanzhi put his phone back into his pocket, Chi Yu tried to wake the screen herself and input the passcode—and to her amazement, the phone unlocked successfully!

This meant she wouldn’t need to wait for Shen Yanzhi anymore; she could unlock the phone on her own!

However, since they were in public, and the phone could be taken out and played with at any moment, Chi Yu only tried once before locking it again.

Late into the night, when Shen Yanzhi was sound asleep in bed, Chi Yu quietly sprang into action.

The bedroom was silent and pitch dark.

Suddenly, the phone on the bedside table lit up on its own.

After a string of passcodes was entered automatically, the screen silently unlocked.

Chi Yu felt a pang of guilt. She knew moving Shen Yanzhi’s phone without permission was wrong, but she had no other choice.

She opened the Penguin browser.

Swiftly, she typed “July 3 Water Qing woman falls into sea” and searched. Shen Yanzhi’s phone automatically connected to Wi-Fi, and the fast network soon yielded various search results.

The first result was an article published two days ago by a media outlet. Chi Yu’s heart skipped a beat as she clicked on it.

Red Star News: On July 3rd, according to the capital city time, police received a report from the public about a missing person who had fallen into the sea... It is known that Xiao Mei (alias) and Xiao Fu (alias) both grew up in an orphanage. Xiao Fu, who fell into the sea, just graduated from university that day. The two had gone out to sea to relax, but unexpectedly, Xiao Fu slipped and fell into the water and is now missing... The police have intervened and continue to investigate.

The reporter even posted several photos of the ship on the sea.

Chi Yu immediately recognized the ferry—it was the very one she and Chen JiaZhi had taken on the day of the incident!

In the article, Xiao Mei was Chen JiaZhi, and Xiao Fu, the one who fell into the sea, was herself!

Reading that the location where she fell was a surveillance blind spot did not surprise Chi Yu at all.

Since Chen JiaZhi had been well-prepared, she must have scouted the area in advance.

Seeing that she was officially declared missing and that search teams had spent more than ten hours without recovering her body, Chi Yu had already anticipated this outcome.

The body she had inhabited last night was her original self, which explained why the search team couldn’t find her corpse.

Chi Yu both wished the police would soon uncover Chen JiaZhi as the culprit who caused her to fall into the sea, and yet hoped she wasn’t truly dead.

Thinking about how Chen JiaZhi lived happily under the sun after harming her, while she was forced to hide like a rat in the gutter, trapped inside a stranger’s phone, Chi Yu felt a wave of melancholy.

She meticulously erased all the browsing history she had just created and quietly exited the browser.