Chapter 8: Arrested
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[Today's Intelligence (B-Rank): The Host's heroic act of saving a life yesterday afternoon happened to be recorded by Zhong Zicheng, a senior at Fengcheng University who was out capturing scenery near the wetland park. Zhong Zicheng's residential address is: Room 1205, Building 4, Tianjing Community.]
What? How could such a small matter be B-rank intelligence?
Even a 'buy one get one free' offer on Black Bull energy drinks from a supermarket shelf would be better than this.
Forget it, don't think about it.
Chen Su fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.
Since getting the system, his amount of exercise had increased significantly compared to before.
The quality of his sleep had also improved quite a bit.
Yesterday's paparazzi operation and today's good deed...
Both had cost him quite a bit of energy.
Early the next morning.
Chen Su, still in a dream, was woken up again by a knock at the door.
"Who is it!"
Opening the door with bleary eyes, he saw two Officers standing at the entrance.
"Officers, is something the matter?"
The lead Officer looked at Chen Su sternly and said,
"Chen Su, you are suspected of intentional homicide. You are now under arrest according to the law."
Having said that, he brandished the arrest warrant in his hand.
"What? I committed intentional homicide? Officers, you must have made a mistake."
"If you have anything to say, say it at the station."
Without even waiting for Chen Su to brush his teeth or wash up,
They directly put handcuffs on him.
He was cuffed and taken away... to the interrogation room.
"Chen Su, yesterday afternoon, you intentionally pushed Old Man Wang into the lake while he was fishing, didn't you?"
Chen Su's anger flared up the moment he heard this.
"You've got to be kidding me. Yesterday afternoon, I was the one who saved that Old Man Wang. How did it turn into me pushing him in?"
"You only need to answer yes or no. Don't say anything extra."
"No."
"Was it you who made the emergency call to treat Old Man Wang yesterday?"
"Yes."
"Did you know Old Man Wang before this?"
"No."
...Chen Su was questioned in the interrogation room for a full three hours.
"Officer, I want to make a phone call to my family. Otherwise, they'll worry if I disappear without reason."
"Until your charges are finalized, stay in the station with peace of mind."
Chen Su's brow furrowed deeply.
This was going to be difficult.
He stared blankly at the ceiling, wondering who would frame him so deliberately.
After thinking it over, there was only Liu Tianchuan.
How did he know that I went into the water to save someone? Could he have a system too?
Impossible.
But if it wasn't Liu Tianchuan, then who else could it be?
...At this time, Ye Sheng and the other two didn't know yet that Chen Su had been arrested.
They were chatting away in their WeChat group.
He Youwen: "Let me tell you, Liu Tianchuan's wife was truly heroic the day before yesterday (thumbs up)."
Feng Wenjun: "Was it really that exciting?"
He Youwen: "Don't you agree?" @Chen Su
Ye Sheng: "Yesterday, I even mobilized my brothers to dump several buckets of shit on Liu Tianchuan. It was such a satisfying splash."
He Youwen: "Dumping shit?"
Feng Wenjun: "??"
The two of them had been busy yesterday—one with the night shift and the other with customers at the restaurant—so naturally, they hadn't seen the news on the Maple City Headlines.
Furthermore, the headline about Liu Tianchuan's infidelity had been taken down in less than half a day.
The two were even more confused.
Ye Sheng: "Come out and explain." @Chen Su
The group chatted for a while longer, but there was still no message from Chen Su.
Ye Sheng: "Suer, he couldn't still be asleep, could he? Look what time it is."
Ye Sheng immediately gave Chen Su a call.
The call went unanswered for a long time.
He dialed twice more, but it still didn't connect.
Ye Sheng: "He didn't lose his phone, did he?"
He Youwen: "Something might have happened. My apprentice, A Liao, just came back from delivering materials to the South City Police Station. He said he heard they were interrogating a suspect named Chen Su."
Ye Sheng: "That can't be right. I just called him last night. How did he become a suspect now?"
He Youwen: "I'll go ask what's going on."
He Youwen immediately drove to the South City Police Station... Most of the people there were Officers from the same intake as him, and they were all quite familiar with each other.
"Hui'er, I heard your station is interrogating a suspect named Chen Su. What's the situation?"
"Oh, you mean that murderer? We arrested him this morning. We just finished the first round of interrogation a moment ago. This guy is really tough; we couldn't crack him all morning."
He Youwen took out his phone, opened the group photo from their dorm, and pointed at Chen Su's figure, asking,
"Is it this person?"
"Oh, right, right, right, that's him."
He Youwen's heart sank. Chen Su wouldn't have actually done something stupid, would he?
"Tell me what he's accused of."
The Officer named Sun Shaohui immediately recounted his subjective version of events: how Chen Su supposedly pushed Old Man Wang into the lake while he wasn't looking, and then pretentiously jumped in to save him.
As soon as He Youwen heard this, he knew there was definitely something fishy going on.
"Do you know where this Old Man Wang is now?"
"Maple City First Hospital, Inpatient Department, fifth floor, Room 507."
"Got it. I'll have to trouble you to look after this Chen Su and make sure your subordinates don't do anything reckless."
"Don't worry, law enforcement is civilized these days. How could things be that messy?"
He Youwen nodded, finally feeling a bit relieved.
He then drove to the First Hospital.
Inside the hospital ward.
"Old Man Wang, you're saying it was this Chen Su who intentionally pushed you into the water?"
He Youwen stared intently at Old Man Wang on the hospital bed.
"Isn't it obvious, Officer? Young people these days have such wicked hearts. That Chen Su pushed my dad into the lake, pretended to save him, and even threatened my dad in the water, saying if he didn't give him 200,000, he'd let him drown."
Old Man Wang's son, Wang Dingshan, sat to the side, shaking his leg as he spoke.
He Youwen glanced at him.
This shiftless appearance was no different from a street thug.
"Old Man Wang, is that how it was?"
"Yes, yes. I didn't agree while in the water, so he slapped me hard several times. Look, the right side of my face is still swollen from that brat's beating."
As Old Man Wang spoke from the bed, he even turned his head,
Afraid that He Youwen wouldn't see his red and swollen face.
"Then how do you want to resolve this?"
"There must be compensation! 300,000... no, 500,000! Otherwise, we definitely won't sign the settlement agreement and we'll let him go to jail." Old Man Wang's wife, Cui Jinhua, gnashed her teeth from the side.
"Right, 500,000. Not a penny less."
Hearing this, He Youwen gave a cold laugh.
"Can you be responsible for the words you've said?"
"Why wouldn't we be? My good friend was at the scene at the time; he can testify." Old Man Wang spoke with righteous indignation.
"Alright, I've understood the general situation. I will certainly give you a satisfactory explanation."
After saying that, He Youwen left the ward.
Not long after he left,
The sound of Old Man Wang grimacing in pain came from the ward.
"I told you to be gentler! Why did you use so much force?"
"Dad, wasn't it to make it look more realistic?"
"Ouch."
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