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 per his instructions.

Amidst this chaos, something caught his attention. There was a bloodied knife dropped beside him. His eyes widen in shock.

What was that thing? A fucking knife?

What the heck is this situation?

Ryan blinked his eyes again, redeeming the absurd sight he saw just now. Did he kill someone? The first time he was being transmigrated, he had, unfortunately, had been branded as a murderer by the police?

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

Ryan was still in a dumbfounded state. He surveyed his surroundings, and his sight fell into a bloody figure of a young woman not too far away from him.

The woman's eyes look lifeless and bulged out with her vein is almost popped out.

How scared did she feel when death approached her and cruelly robbed her breath of life? Who was ruthless enough stealing this woman's life?

The woman's clothes are tainted with the blasphemy of red color, and she was lying in a pooling of her blood. Based on the bloodied knife, which was probably the murder weapon, the woman's death might be related to the severe blood loss due to multiple stab wounds.

"Fuck...!" Ryan cursed under his breath. He finally realized his terrible situation. For him, this situation is the worst.

***

Interrogation Room 1

In his original world, he was the one who did the interrogation of the suspects.

In here, instead of questioning the suspect like he always did in his old world, Ryan was the one who was wearing handcuffs.

Right now?

The two police officers adjacent to him keep staring at his face. Ryan ashamedly drooped his head. He had fallen too low! How could he, an honorable police officer, get detained in the interrogation room as a possible murder suspect?!

No, this is a nightmare. This body of a person his soul currently transmigrated into is 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 loves to perish into nothingness or reincarnate into heaven or possibly hell.

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 had been observing Zhang Wei's expression since the beginning. Of course, with the perfect mask activated, Ryan only showed a confused visage 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 focused his attention on the fierce police officer, anticipating his following words.

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

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

"Why did you appear 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 had already informed her that I would be very late. I tried to reschedule our meeting, yet, she insisted even after I said I might 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. "At night, eagerly at that?"

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

"That..."

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

"I see..."

Ryan is stupified. Huh? Does this man know?

"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. However, he couldn't disobey his superior.

"After you arrived at the playground, did you see something unordinary?"

"I initially thought she had gone home because I didn't see her anywhere. As I searched for her, I stumbled upon her body and fell. Due to the shock of discovering a bloodied body, I spooked off. And, I tried to get away from it. 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. Arrested on the spot." Ryan scratched his head.

Anxiousness is written all over his face.

"I don't kill her. Sirs! Please, believe me! We have broken up, that's true. However, we didn't do it out of hatred. It's due to our 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 relented. You had an alibi. The CCTV caught the silhouette of your car entering the playground around 10 pm. Your ex-girlfriend appeared around 9 pm, an hour before. She went out of commission after that. And, if the knife indeed had your fingerprint, the evidence is too circumstantial."

Derrick Lee pointed at his handcuffed hands.

"Your hands, there's no wound. If you stabbed someone several times like that, your hands surely get injured. Well, maybe you're wearing gloves. However, we didn't find anything suspicious about you or your car either. You also didn't have time to hide the evidence since you got arrested on the spot."

"Then, I can be released soon?" Ryan asked expectantly. His eyes are shining.

"Could be," Derrick Lee saw Ryan's eyes twinkling in excitement. His following words made the light dim out. Like a bulb is switching off. Ryan's glum face amused him. "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 forgot about something important?

Nah. If Ryan 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 did he care for his tasks? Did someone want to exchange his host with this system?

Please?

(A/N: Please leave me feedback, review, or suggestion. I'm trying to fix any mistake as possible. Thank you.)