After a moment of silence, Xia Yuan slowly said a word to avoid embarrassing his partner.

The two of them were like a couple in love, snuggling up to each other.

Xia Yuan also deliberately covered his facial features with a gentleman's hat to prevent the gray snake from noticing him.

However, even after passing the gray snake, his partner didn't seem to show any emotion or expression, which made Xia Yuan feel a little curious.

"Hua, when you were hugging me just now, didn't you have any physical reactions like faster heartbeat and higher body temperature?"

Xia Yuan, who was put down by Fu Hua, asked immediately.

Chapter 223 Suspect: Little Pado

Fu Hua shook her head honestly.

My partner is really...

It seems that I should let Hua read more novels about love when she has time. With Hua's personality, if he keeps solving cases with me like this, what should I do if he can't find a partner in the future?

Someone is needed to lead China.

She should wear gorgeous and beautiful long dresses like other rich girls and ladies in the city, dance gracefully under the lights and dance with the person she loves.

Whatever others have, your partner must also have.

"Wait, according to common sense."

It was impossible for his partner to not have any reaction. After all, when he saw the portrait in his personal capacity, he himself had a crush on her. Could it be that Hua liked...

But soon, Fu Hua answered Xia Yuan's doubts.

"Yuan, I once told you that I have been practicing martial arts since I was young, but I never told you what I was practicing... I practiced Taixu Sword Qi, which has five elements, one of which is the Heart. Heart means a mind without distractions."

"......"

There was a moment of silence.

Xia Yuan quietly changed the topic, which was not within his detective field.

He will not accept any commissions from Shenzhou in the future. He does not want to meet an enemy like Hua who has been practicing martial arts since childhood and can kill a cow with one punch. He also does not want to die young so soon.

Walk through this carriage with Fu Hua.

In the next open train compartment, in a rather secret corner next to the window...

Xia Yuan found the girl he wanted to see.

At the same time, the other party is also the biggest suspect in the jewelry theft case: Padua Felice.

Padua Felice was seen looking around furtively, her hands tightly holding a strange backpack that looked like a brown kitten, and she was looking around secretly.

"It's protected so tightly, what could be inside?"

It seems that the things in the backpack are particularly important to Padufils.

Seeing that no one noticed her, Padufils seemed relieved.

The brown-haired girl, like a kitten, looked at the scenery outside the window with curiosity. This was her first time to travel far away from home on a steam train, and she felt quite nervous for a moment.

Gulu gulu——

Padua Felice took out a bottle of water from her backpack. She drank it quickly and soon finished more than half of it.

It seems that he wants to relieve the tension in this way.

"Oh my...what time is it? Didn't we agree on twelve o'clock?

"Why hasn't the trading partner shown up yet? He said we were going to do the transaction face to face here. Did I go to the wrong carriage, or did he stand me up?!"

Padua Felice paced her feet back and forth under the table, looking a little uneasy.

"No... We can't wait like this any longer. Let's look in other carriages."

"Little Padu, are you waiting for me?"

Just as Padova was sitting in her seat, grabbing her brown bangs and trying to get up impatiently, a familiar yet unfamiliar voice reached the girl's ears.

Xia Yuan sat opposite Padofils as if he was a familiar figure, crossed his legs casually, then leaned forward, crossed his hands under his chin, and studied the every move of the brown-haired girl sitting in front of him.

"You, you, you...how come you are here!?"

When seeing Xia Yuan appear in front of her, Padufils felt as if she had met her natural enemy.

The body instinctively tenses up...

Padua fils tightly held the backpack in her arms with both hands, subconsciously thinking about leaving the other person. She didn't want to be targeted by this detective who caused murders wherever he went.

Just like a plague god...

Paduafilis grabbed her backpack and was about to slip away from her seat in the opposite direction of Xia Yuan.

But at some point, Fu Hua had already arrived beside Padofelice, blocked the girl's escape route with her body, and put her hand on Padofelice's shoulder.

Feeling the dull pain in her shoulder, Paduafilis obediently sat back in her original seat.

click-

Like the sound of a joint dislocating.

Padu slumped at her original seat on the table, and a ball of soul substance that looked like mochi emerged from the corner of the girl's mouth.

"......"

"Sorry, I used too much force and didn't pay attention. I'll put it back for you."

Fu Hua gave Xia Yuan an apologetic look, but Xia Yuan felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the person his partner was apologizing to. Perhaps in Hua's eyes, Padofils had already been labeled a repeat offender.

This brown-haired girl has been a frequent visitor to the Tianming Police Station since she was a child.

I don't know how many times I've been in there.

Every time I was arrested for theft...

For example, they would steal some unwanted bread or some strange things, and they would refuse to change their ways despite repeated warnings. However, because the other party was underage and there were no valuable items among the stolen items, they were quickly released.

But after a few days, he would be sent back again.

In her own words, with free food, accommodation and meals, life here in Tianming is much more comfortable than where she lives, and she has even gained a few pounds.

For this reason, Theresa had a lot of headaches about this problem child, but as a senior executive of Tianming, she casually threw the task of educating and rectifying the problem child to her good friend and subordinate: Jizi.

"Oh, oh, oh, it hurts... Be gentle, be gentle, it's going to break, it's really going to break!"

Padovich, her shoulder back on track, woke up from her seat.

She desperately hoped that what had just happened was just a dream, but the two uninvited people around her made little Padu feel the cruelty of reality.

"Oh, this god of death, ahem... Mr. Detective, please let me go.

“I have explained everything that needs to be explained.

“Confessions and transcripts…I don’t know how many times the Tianming Police Department interrogated me.

"I really didn't steal the jewels. Why would a famous person like you bother with a little girl like me who wanders the streets all day and doesn't even have a hut?"

Padufils clasped her hands together and begged the other party to let her go.

But she never dared to look into Xia Yuan's deep blue eyes like a falcon. She was afraid that she would expose her true purpose of appearing on this train and might not be able to hide it from this famous detective.

"Oh, the God of Death, huh~~~

"It seems that I am unexpectedly popular? So I have another title?"

Xia Yuan naturally noticed that the girl's eyes were avoiding him, but he still responded to Padua Felice with a smile.

Chapter 224 I'm Actually Very Kind~

Xia Yuan was very clear in his mind.

The brown-haired girl in front of him was hiding something from him, and she didn't want him to know more.

"Hey, hey, hey, Mr. Detective, I didn't say anything bad about you. The name of the Grim Reaper was given to you privately by others. You can't blame me!"

"Oh?

"What did they say? Just speak up. You see, I'm actually a very kind person."

Xia Yuan did not ask Padua Felice about the jewelry theft case. Instead, he started a conversation with the girl in front of him about his identity as a detective.

"Huh? So kind! I think even a nuclear bomb is friendlier than you!"

Padufils muttered to herself.

But Xia Yuan had very good hearing, so he could hear the other party's whisper clearly. However, he was not angry. Instead, he looked at Padufils with a smile on his face, waiting for her next answer.

"Cough cough..."

Padua Felice organized her words.

"You asked me to say this, so you can't blame me for what I say."

"I swear on my honor."

Xia Yuan raised his right hand and assured Padufils.

"It's rumored everywhere that wherever the famous Mr. Sherlock Yuan goes, there will be murders and deaths."

Padufils seemed to feel a chill and protected her body with her hands.

"Any group of people you meet by chance, Mr. Detective, as long as there is some kind of conflict or quarrel among them, they will definitely die in a very strange murder before long, and the murderer will definitely be among them.

“All these signs are pointing to one thing.

"That is, you absolutely must not have any disputes around you, Detective. You must be calm and composed. Otherwise, even if you lose consciousness, you won't understand how you died."

Padufils lowered her voice, as if she was telling some horror story.

"Haha, Padu, it seems that none of the things you said have any scientific basis.

"It's not that mysterious. If your story gets passed on, and it gets spread from one person to ten people, and from ten to a hundred people, then if it keeps going like this, won't I become known as the cursed famous detective... and everyone will avoid me?"

Xia Yuan smiled gently.

"What? These are all based on facts!"

Padova seemed to be in high spirits.

She wanted to show her theory and strong evidence to the other party.

Fu Hua slowly took the hand that was pressing on Padua Felice. She had just seen with her own eyes that her partner only needed a few words to make the other party relax his guard and eliminate his vigilance against the two of them.

"As expected of Mr. Sherlock..."

Padua Felice placed the kitten-like backpack on the side near the corner of the car window, where Xia Yuan and Fu Hua could not see it, and took out pieces of newspapers that had been cut and preserved in archival paper.

Each piece of tabloid represents a case that Xia Yuan has handled and solved.

Padua Felice arranged them neatly in chronological order, and the girl introduced to Xia Yuan the victims of each case and the interpersonal relationships between the victims as if she knew them all.

Some of the cases were so old that even Xia Yuan himself was almost forgetting them.

Xia Yuan had not expected that the girl in front of him would know more than he did, listening to Padua Felice listing the connections between the victims of the cases one by one.

At this moment, the girl had completely lost her previous vigilance and became much more relaxed.

"Oh? I can't tell, Padu, you're still my little detective fan?"

"Hmph, stop being so conceited, Mr. Nuclear Bomb, I'm not your detective fan!

"Every time you go to the bar to drink, those drunk uncles will discuss the cases you have investigated all day long. I have heard them since I was a child... They never get tired of them. My ears are almost callused from listening to them."

Padufils rubbed her ears symbolically.

At this moment, she suddenly thought of something, and her eyes hidden under the hood became bright as if she had discovered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make herself a small wealthy woman.

"Ahem... As expected of you, you are the legendary detective.

"You discovered my identity as your number one fan so quickly. So, Mr. Sherlock, I think you will not refuse to sign an autograph for your number one fan, right?"

Padua Felice very respectfully presented the prepared ballpoint pen and a pile of neatly arranged newspaper scraps to Xia Yuan, her eyes revealing great desire and passion.

Xia Yuan just smiled without saying anything, silently picked up the pen and wrote his signature on the newspaper.

When Xia Yuan finished signing the top newspaper, he suddenly asked Paduo:

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