Chapter 217 - 213: Arrested

As Ryder got his car out of the parking, he saw tens of cop cars outside, lining up and blocking the road. There were also a few black SUVs there.

He also noticed the guns that were being pointed at him. 

Ryder had already changed the clothes when he was in the building, and he had taken off the Mask as he got out of the car. 

Ray and the other Feds were also standing before the cars, looking towards the Whirlwind of Ryder.

Ryder stepped out of the car with an innocent look on his face.

"May I help you guys?" Ryder asked the men after stepping out. He had a confused look on his face, which was trying to make it seem like he had no idea what was happening.

"Wait, I think I recognize you. You're the person that I met on the flight who was asking me strange questions," Ryder let out as he pretended to recognize Ray. He had met Ray many times, and only one of those times was in his real face. He had met him on the plane on their flight back.

"Yeah, we met before. Quite a few times, I believe," Ray let out with a knowing smile on his face.

"Why are you guys blocking the road for me?" Ryder inquired. 

"Because we need you to come with us. I believe that only you can help us. We also need to ask you some questions related to a case?" Ray asked Ryder.

"What case? I don't think I can help you with anything. Can you leave the car to the side? I have more matters to attend to," Ryder replied as he shook his head.

"Someone we were looking for has been kidnapped. We had a tracking on that guy's phone. The last location it showed was the building you just came out of. We know that it's a building you owned, but you just coming out of that building just when we were about to enter is really suspicious. We need you to come with us. Please cooperate with us and place your hands on the bonnet of your car," Ray told Ryder.

The other cops were still pointing their guns at Ryder.

" That sounds awfully lot like you guys are going to arrest me. This is so stupid. Is this what you guys use the tax money for? To harass innocent people right before their buildings?" Ryder let out in annoyance as he walked to the bonnet of the car.

"It's not an arrest. We just need to cuff you and take you to the station to ask some questions. There won't be any charges," Ray comforted Ryder.

Jacob walked closer to Ryder and cuffed his hands. Ryder didn't resist since that would just make things worse.

They took Ryder to the black SUV and made him sit on the backseat of the car.

"Some of you stay behind and keep an eye on him. I'm going inside to see if anyone else is inside," Ray told Jacob and the other agents before he started walking towards the buildings with the rest.

Ray and the others searched the whole building of Ryder, but he didn't find anyone inside. There was no sign of Pasher or his phone. 

While Ray was coming down, he saw the back window of the building broken on the ground floor.

"Someone used this to come inside. It might be Ryder who came through this window after kidnapping Pasher, but the main question remains. Where is the body? The phone's signal also disappeared," Ray muttered as he frowned while looking at the broken window.

After searching the whole place, he came out.

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Ryder was sitting on the backseat of the car, cursing his stupidity. He took the unconscious Pasher, but didn't throw away his phone. He had no idea that his phone was being tracked.

Fortunately, Ryder had left his own phone in his car when he had gone to kidnap Pasher, so it was impossible for anyone to link him to the kidnapping. As for Pasher's location from his phone, that thing was useless without anybody. As long as Ryder didn't say anything to get him in trouble, he was safe.

Also, he was somewhat happy. All his missions were now completed except the one about finding the Ancient Cultivation Family.

Now, he didn't have any killing mission, and he could live the life of a model citizen as long as someone didn't try to die from his hands by creating schemes around him.

'The Birthday celebration of that girl is near. As long as I get any clue about the cultivation family and find them, all my missions will be done. Also, I need to grind with Shu for that quest. That's in a few days too. I just hope they don't keep me in arrest for too long,'

'I should be able to call Shu to see if he can get me out faster, but I doubt he would be able to. We are talking about the feds, not the normal cops. Still, informing him is better,' Ryder thought as he looked at his pockets where his phone was, but he couldn't pick the phone since his hands were cuffed behind his back.

"Can I call my friends and family to let them know that I'm arrested?" Ryder asked Jacob, who was sitting beside him.

Jacob shook his hand as he refused.

"You can do nothing before we get to the station,' he replied.

"You know that it's my right to call," Ryder let out with a wry smile on his face.

" We'll give you your right when we get to the station," Jacob replied as he shook his head.

Ray came back to the car and entered it as he sat on the other side of Ryder.

"Did you find the body of anything?" Jacob asked Ray.

"There's no body inside. Also, the signals from the phone have stopped. It's as if the phone suddenly went off the grid," Ray informed Jacob.

"Probably it's turned off," Jacob replied.

"The others will be behind taking the fingerprints and trying to find the body, but I doubt we will find anything significant. Anyway, let's go back. The others can deal with the search. We already got what we wanted in a way," Ray let out as he glanced at Ryder.

"You got the wrong person. I don't even know what you all are talking about and what happened, but I have nothing to do with anything. I was in the building that I legally own, checking the work that it's going through for my office. It's not a crime as far as I know," Ryder told Ray in annoyance.

" We will give our side and hear your side after we go back, but let me just tell you, I know that you're not the enemy and that you're trying to help us, so we won't do anything to harm you. All we want is some cooperation between us so that we can work toward the same goal more effectively. We will talk more later," Ray replied to Ryder as he closed his eyes.

The car started driving away from Ryder's building.

Throughout the hour-long drive, no one said anything.

The car stopped before a beautiful building that was fully covered in glass.

Ray and Jacob stepped out of the car with Ryder. There was another car behind their car, which had more agents.

"Isn't this a commercial building? I thought you would take me to a prison or something," Ryder let out with a frown. " It's probably an unofficial arrest, isn't it?" 

"Not at all. We have full permission to arrest anyone it takes to solve the case. As for bringing you to a commercial building, it's not commercial anymore. We have booked the top floor of the building for our official work. This is the temporary headquarter for us," Ray told Ryder as he brought him inside the building.

They took him to the lift, which took them to the top floor.

On the top floor, they placed him in one of the rooms and locked the door from the outside as they left, but not before taking his phone with them. They did tell Ryder that they will be back soon. They also removed his handcuffs.

The room had a table at the center and a few chairs around it. It seemed like an interrogation room. It wasn't fully closed, though. There was a window in the back as well. 

Ryder looked towards the window while he sat on the chair as he frowned.

'It's so easy to escape from here for me, but that would just be painting a big target on my back,' Ryder thought as he shook his head.

He looked around the room and noticed that there was a small camera too, which was almost invisible as it was embedded in the wall.

He sat on the chair like an innocent boy as he started singing an old song.

Only ten minutes had passed when Ray and Jacob entered the room.

They sat before Ryder as they looked at him.