Super Detective in the Fictional World

“Luke, you lazy ass, are you not done changing? If you take any longer, I’ll just let you go to the prom naked,” shouted Robert Greyson as he raised his head in the direction of the room upstairs from the driver’s seat.
The door for the driver’s seat was wide open, and he shouted so loudly that the windows seemed to vibrate.

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After a short while, a voice almost as loud as his shout rang out from the room upstairs.
“What the heck?”

Filled with anger, Robert jumped out of the driver’s seat of his F150 and ran into the building.

Next, a series of “thuds” rang out as he ran up the stairs.
Finally, there was a loud “bang” as he opened the door.

“Ah, Luke, what happened to you, brat?” Robert’s shout rang out once more, followed by the voice of a woman.

A minute later, Robert could be seen running out of the building with a young man on his back.
Following him was a flustered middle-aged woman with a five-year-old boy in tow.

“Catherine, drive your car and come with Joseph.
Be careful on the road and don’t rush.” Robert turned around and said a few hasty words before placing the young man on his back in the backseat.
After helping the young man lie down, he rushed to the driver’s seat.

He started the car, and the Ford’s engine roared furiously as the car sped off toward the highway and rushed away.

…

One day later, Luke regained consciousness.

He stared blankly at the ceiling above him and only recalled what happened after a short while.
The moment he recalled what happened, his heart surged with excitement.

However, he still quickly suppressed the excitement and calmed down.
He scanned his surroundings and found that he was in a hospital ward.

Apart from him, Claire was also in the ward.
She was currently sleeping soundly on a sofa not far away from him.

The moment he laid his eyes on Claire, he heaved a sigh of relief.

Since his younger sister was here, Robert must have been the one to send him to the hospital.

He continued listening to the sounds around him and found that the place was nearly empty as there were no sounds of human activity at all.
From that, he judged that it was probably late at night now.
The hospital was enveloped in silence.

Only then did Luke shut his eyes and shout inwardly, with all his emotions poured into it, “Come out, system.”

Next… he received no response.

What damned system was this?

Luke stopped himself from cursing and once again called out with all his emotions, “Come out, system my daddy!”

Next… still no response.

Luke: “…System my son?

“System my grandson?

“System, you having s*x somewhere?”

Fine, still no response.

Luke started cursing inwardly.
“System, at the very least, you should show me an interface or something, right? Or a character page or something? What is the meaning of this? Why are you pretending to be dead?”

Right after he said those words in his mind, a string of data appeared in his mind.

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This was completely different from the interface or character page that he had been expecting.
The data had all appeared directly in his brain.
He didn’t need to read some character page.

User: Luke (alias Luke Coulson)

Strength: 12 (physical strength)

Dexterity: 11 (agility, nimbleness)

Mental strength: 12 (mental fortitude)

Level: 0

Experience: 0

Credit: 0

And… nothing else.

Luke was driven mad with anger when he realized that there was nothing else.
He felt like grabbing hold of the system to give it a beating.
Unfortunately, he didn’t know where the system was located.

As for Luke’s origins, the story started 13 years ago.

On a random day 13 years ago, Luke suddenly woke up and found that he had turned into a Caucasian boy, a five-year-old brat named Luke Coulson.

He wasn’t lost or confused for long before he found out from the system that he hadn’t transmigrated, with his soul taking over a new body.
Rather, he was Luke himself.

But for some reason, there was a certain requirement his brain had to meet before the system could be activated.
Thus, the system had only activated automatically when he was five years old.
On top of that, his memories from his past life returned to him as well.

He thus went on with his daily life in ignorance, and only after he was five years old did he realize that he hadn’t lived his previous life in this same world.

He had been a Chinese in his past life, and had lived an ordinary yet peaceful life until he was 30 years old.
Every single day, he would go to his workplace, a certain company, without fail.
He had been an administrative worker there, a job which paid enough to put food on his table.
He lived by the same schedule and earned enough of a salary to pay his bills.
His life had revolved around making a living and waiting for his eventual death.
His was a completely ordinary life.

Then, on a certain night, he fell asleep watching some American TV show at home.
The episode that had been playing at the time of his death had been about a certain case in a certain village in the United States.

When he saw the beautiful scenery and the vast land on TV, he thought to himself how wonderful it would be if he could live there.

And that was the last memory he had of that world.

It was clear that after he fell asleep that night, he arrived in the United States of this world for some unknown reason, and it was a world different from his past life.
He had also transformed into a baby.

He still had the memories of Luke from before he turned five as well.
The memories were the same as those of other normal children.
What he should remember he still remembered, while the memories from when he was younger, such as during his infancy, had all been forgotten.

But he was well aware that this United States wasn’t the same United States from his previous life.

That was because his memory of his previous life stopped at the year 2018, but here, he had been born in 1985.

Even bigger proof that this was a different world was the fact that the current president of the United States was a woman of Latino descent, the 57-year-old Michelle Borg.

Although Luke never did pay much attention to the presidents of the United States in his past life, he still knew that in his previous life, there had never been a female president or a president of Latino descent, and certainly never a female president of Latino descent.

Thus, it was clear that he hadn’t transmigrated to over 20 years ago.
Rather, he had arrived in a parallel world.

Luke had extremely complicated feelings about all of this.

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He had once hoped that this was the same world from his previous life.
If so, he would be able to once again see his parents and his siblings.
However, he had no idea if his parents and siblings would accept that they now had a Caucasian son and brother.

But the harsh reality was that he could no longer return to them.

In his past life, however, he had been a jaded and unambitious youth.
Thus, he soon forgot those complicated emotions, which were completely pointless.

Firstly, he couldn’t think of a way to return anyway.
Secondly, his siblings would take care of his parents.
He only hoped that his disappearance wouldn’t sadden them too much, although that was a bit too hopeful.

After living in this world for more than 10 years, Luke finally shed the longing for his previous world, and became an American born and bred here through and through.

Truthfully, he also had a lot of complaints about his living environment.

Why was it that when other people transmigrated, they would either end up the son of some financial group owner, or in a metropolis like New York, yet when he transmigrated, he wound up in some rural countryside out in the middle of nowhere?

Since his awakening at five, he had been living in the state of Texas, or to be precise, in Knox City, or to be even more precise, in a tiny town outside Knox City.

There were only about 2,000 residents in this tiny town, which was equivalent to the population of a village in China in his previous life.

Different to China in his previous life, this place was incredibly vast and widespread, and after leaving town, one could drive for a long time without seeing a single soul.

The only reason he had lived in such a rural area for 13 years, and had even survived until his graduation from senior high school, was because… he was a man with a system.

Since he was five, he knew he had a system.

But this system had never given him any sort of response.
Like a stone, it stayed there and didn’t move, but for some reason, he was able to sense that this system did indeed exist.

But he couldn’t accurately pinpoint where.

He had never mentioned this to anyone else as that would only cause Robert and Catherine to think that he was mental.

In any case, the system had transmit