Chapter 3 1.1 The First World

"Freeze! Dropped your weapon and put your hands above your head right now!"

Ryan instantly dropped his knees on the ground and raised his hands as instructed. He stared at the bloody knife that had dropped beside him. His eyes widen in shock.

What the heck is this situation? Did he kill someone? This is the first time he being transmigrated and he already branded as a murderer?

"Seize him!" The same voice instructed. Hasty footsteps approached him and he is forced to lay above the dirty ground with both of his hands twisted behind his back. Two police officers wearing casual clothes apprehended him.

Ryan is still in a dumbfounded state. He surveyed his surroundings and his sight fall into a bloody figure of a young woman not too far away from him. The woman's eyes looked lifeless. Her clothes are tainted with blood and if he is not mistaken, that woman died because of several stab wounds on her body.

"Fuck...!" Ryan cursed under his breath. He finally realized his own situation. This is the worst.

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Interrogation Room 1

In his original world, he is the one who does the interrogation of the suspects. But, right now, he is wearing handcuffs and being stared at dangerously by the two officers in front of him. He had fallen too low! How could he, an honorable police officer being detained in the interrogation room as a murder suspect?!

No, this is a nightmare. He, no...this body of a person his soul currently transmigrated into, is actually not a killer, right? Oh, please! If he knows something like this will happen to him, he will not agree to that suspicious White Ball's suggestion. He rather perished into nothingness.

Boohoo, I hate you, White Ball. You throw me into this kind of situation, without any memories of the original! How can he confirm whether he is innocent or not?!

(Pardon my tardiness, host. I will now be downloading the original's memories into your mind. Beware of slight pain.)

Zap!

"Urgh...shi..." Ryan bit his lips hard enough to draw blood when an intense pain assaulted his mind. He clutched his head. Slight pain? Are you kidding me, White Ball?! You almost split my head apart! Do you have some grudges against me?

"Hey, you. Focus your attention on us, Mr. Zhang Wei." The officer with a fierce face said. His name is Alex Wang. Beside him is his superior, Derrick Lee.

Derrick Lee's calculating eyes had been observed Zhang Wei's expression since the beginning. Of course, with the perfect mask activated, Ryan only showed a confused expression with a hint of despair in his eyes. Even his slight cursing just now could be heard as an incoherent mumbling of a confused person.

Ryan snapped back from his painful headache. He gives his focus to the fierce police officer, anticipating his next words.

"Zhang Wei, 27 years old, a doctor and you owned your own clinic in the City A, right?"

"Y...yes..."Ryan replied.

"Why did you appeared at the crime scene? Did you and the victim know each other?"

"She...she is, ah, that's not right. She was my girlfriend. We set an appointment to meet each other tonight at the playground because she needs to return something to me. We are supposed to meet each other at 9:30 pm. But, due to an unforeseen situation, I arrived thirty minutes later. I already informed her that I will be very late and tried to reschedule our meeting, but, she insisted to meet even after I said I will arrive around 10 o'clock."

"What kind of thing is so important to return, for her to wait thirty minutes, patiently?" Derrick Lee suddenly asked.

Ryan's(Zhang Wei) face had visible red shades on both of his cheeks.

"That..."

Seeing Ryan's reaction, Derrick Lee just nodded his head in understanding.

"What? What kind of thing?" Alex Wang glanced at his superior.

"Nothing. Just proceed, Old Wang." Derrick Lee dismissed his question.

Alex Wang felt unsatisfied, but, he couldn't disobey his superior.

"After you arrived at the playground, did you see something out of ordinary?"

"I initially thought she had gone home because I didn't saw her anywhere. As I searching for her, I stumbled upon her body and fall. Because of the shock of discovering a bloodied body, I tried to get away and my hand suddenly touched something cold. That's when I grabbed the bloody knife. And, the rest is as you know. I heard a siren, and the police came. I was arrested on the spot." Ryan scratched his head. His anxiousness is depicted on his face. "I don't kill her, sirs! Please, believe me! Although we have broken up, we didn't do it out of hatred, but, due to mutual interest. And, she is desperate to meet tonight because her new girlfriend will come visiting her tomorrow and she needs to stash away her forbidden...collection..."

Derrick Lee wanted to laugh. If not because the situation is serious, and someone did die, he might laugh heartily.

"We did suspect you at first, but, you had an alibi. Your car was caught on the CCTV at the playground around 10 pm. Your ex-girlfriend appeared around 9 pm, an hour before, and she did appear at the playground an hour early. And, if the knife indeed had your fingerprint, the evidence is too circumstantial. Your hands, there's no wound. If you stabbed someone several times like that, you are bounded to injure your hands. Well, maybe you're wearing gloves, but, we didn't found anything suspicious on you nor your car either. You also didn't have time to hide the evidence since you were caught on the spot."

"Then, I can be released soon?" Ryan asked, expectantly.

"Could be," Derrick Lee saw Ryan's eyes twinkling in excitement, but, his next words made the light dimmed out."Could be not."

Ryan put his face on the cold table. His body exuded a gloomy aura. What a bummer. And, why did he think that he forget something important? Nah, if he cannot remember, then, it is not important enough.

The system had been watching its host from the sideline.

Did the host forget about me? And his mission entirely? That is not possible, right? He didn't ask for the plots nor he cared for his tasks? Did someone want to exchange his host with this system?

Please?