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At this time, about two weeks had passed since Miss Eden's jewelry was stolen.

No matter how clearly you remember what happened two weeks ago, it is impossible to recall it in such detail.

Obviously, the girl in front of me was lying.

"Pardo, please start from the next few days after the jewelry was stolen, starting from 13: the next afternoon. Where did you go, what did you do, and who did you meet?"

"Uh... um, well, where am I?"

Padofils seemed to be stuck. She grasped a strand of brown hair in front of her forehead with her hand, and her blue pupils kept moving back and forth, as if she was trying hard to remember.

"I...I remember now, Mr. Detective. Of course I have been selling newspapers as usual."

Xia Yuan looked at the gear watch on his wrist and counted silently in his heart.

Ten seconds...

A full ten seconds had passed since Padovich gave her answer this time.

"Hey, that's really strange... Padu, didn't you remember it clearly just now? Why did it take you ten seconds to answer the question I just asked? Or are you hiding something from me, Padu?"

Xia Yuan paused for a moment.

"For example....Pado, what exactly is in your backpack? Why have you been hiding it from the beginning and not daring to put it on the table? Or are there the jewels that Miss Eden lost?"

A very fierce aura emanated from Xia Yuan and rushed towards the girl in front of him.

"No, absolutely not, Mr. Detective... There was absolutely nothing in the backpack, and I definitely didn't meet anyone I shouldn't have met that day."

Feeling the oppressive feeling emanating from the other party, Padufils quickly replied.

But Pado's explanation seemed weak, as if he was trying to cover up his mistake.

The girl confessed without being asked.

"Hmm? Who did you meet, Padu?"

Realizing that she had accidentally let the cat out of the bag, Padua Felice quickly covered her mouth.

"Well... Mr. Detective, we are innocent, and...

"Girls can't have some privacy of their own! Detective, you can't stay in Tianming for too long and become as bad as those guys. It's not the character of a good gentleman to torture a lady to extract a confession!"

A somewhat unclear sound came from the girl's mouth.

Xia Yuan was slightly stunned, then took off the gentleman's hat on his head.

“I was presumptuous.

"Ms. Pardo, could you please tell me who you met that day?"

"Then...the person I met is behind you!"

Padua Felice pretended to be very surprised and pointed at the carriage behind Xia Yuan and Fu Hua.

Xia Yuan and Fu Hua looked behind them at the same time.

While the two turned around...

The nimble girl was already running towards another carriage opposite Xia Yuan, carrying the pile of newspapers and a backpack.

Fu Hua reacted and was about to catch her back, but the girl's agility acquired through working in the city prevented Fu Hua from reaching her goal.

Seeing that she had escaped, Padova made a slightly naughty face at the two people behind her, but a cloaked traveler on the right side of Padova suddenly stood up, and the two collided head-on.

"Sorry, sorry!"

Padovich didn't have time to explain much.

She wanted to shake off the two people chasing her and then find a safe carriage to hide as soon as possible.

"Yuan...do you need me to catch up?"

Looking at the gradually receding figure of Padofils, Fu Hua asked Xia Yuan who was sitting in the seat.

"No need...let her go."

Xia Yuan waved his hand.

“It wasn’t Padre Felice who stole the jewels.

"But according to our previous investigation, although Padova made a living by selling newspapers on the surface, she would privately purchase newspapers from all over the black market, and then use the connections she established in the tavern to traffic and sell them."

Xia Yuan explained to his partner.

However, Xia Yuan's eyes were now fixed on the passenger who had just collided head-on with Pado.

The other person seems somewhat familiar.

When I noticed the burgundy hair hidden under the hood...

Xia Yuan has already noticed the other party's identity, but why would Miss Eden, the victim of the lost jewelry case and also his friend, appear on this train in disguise?

At this moment, Fu Hua's voice reached Xia Yuan's ears.

"Yuan... Well, it seems that Padufils is involved. Should we ask Theresa to focus on investigating Raiden Mei?"

After Fu Hua finished organizing the transcript, she said to Xia Yuan who was sitting there.

Chapter 229 A passing acquaintance

"Hua, please contact Theresa first, but don't reveal anything about Raiden Mei for now..."

Xia Yuan sat in his seat in silence for a moment.

"We currently have no direct evidence that the jewelry theft was committed by Mei Raiden. For now, we should not alert the enemy. Let's first investigate who met with Padufils that day. I'm going to meet someone I know first."

"acquaintance?"

Fu Hua didn't ask any more questions.

After all, it is normal for your partner, as a private detective, to have a lot of acquaintances and old friends.

Fu Hua silently closed her notes and walked towards the driver's cabin as Xia Yuan instructed.

The style of this steam train is quite retro, and only there is a special communication method to contact the internal affairs of the Tianming Police Station.

"Then I'll go and come back."

Xia Yuan nodded.

"By the way, Hua...if possible, let Theresa arrange some people to board this steam train at the next rest stop. This journey may not be so smooth. The case of the stolen jewelry is not simple. It may involve the conflict between Anti-Entropy Heavy Industries and the Destiny Organization."

But when Fu Hua was about to leave, Xia Yuan stopped her.

"Yuan, are you saying that if we continue investigating, there is a high possibility that we will come into direct conflict with the people of Anti-Entropy?"

“Hmm… maybe Anti-Entropy isn’t the only one.

"After all, in addition to being a private detective, we are also consultants to the Tianming Police Department... In a sense, we represent Tianming."

Xia Yuan spread his hands and said helplessly.

"Then...Yuan, please be careful while I'm away."

Fu Hua seemed to realize that things were beginning to develop in a direction she could not predict. She thought this was just an ordinary burglary that should be investigated quickly.

But right now, she needed to report what happened to Theresa as soon as possible.

As Fu Hua was moving quickly through the aisle of the carriage, a familiar passenger was holding a black kite and carefully tidying up his clothes and makeup.

"Cough cough..."

As a Herrscher of Knowledge who travels all over the world, he just wanted to say hello to this old antique in this bubble.

But the other party seemed to not see me...

Just like a gust of wind passing through the treasure, the great lady of the Herrscher of Knowledge, her hand reaching out to the air and the smile on her lips seemed to freeze at the same time... She was ostentatiously ignored by the old antique.

"I've had enough!"

Snapped--

The angry Lady of Herrscher of Knowledge threw the black chicken in her hand hard into the aisle of the carriage.

"Damn it, apart from the Eigenworld, there isn't a single normal old antique. The last one had gone so far in his cultivation that he became insane... He just chopped anyone he caught, but this one... He ignored me straight away without even saying hello."

"Forget it, forget it... This world is really boring, not fun at all, let's go to the next one!"

Ms. Herrscher of Knowledge was expressing her own worries and complaints like a three-year-old child. Then she picked up her beloved little black kite and disappeared into the carriage.

"Strange, it seemed like someone was greeting me just now? Was it my illusion?"

Fu Hua was running in the aisle of the train, feeling somewhat confused.

At this time, Xia Yuan was organizing his notes at his seat.

But he didn't seem to notice the woman wearing a fox mask behind him...she was approaching his seat step by step.

Years of assassination experience meant that Sakura made no sound at all when she walked.

She was waiting for the perfect moment.

At this time, she had quietly sat in the back row behind Xia Yuan's seat, and now that the rather difficult partner accompanying him had left, the opportunity could not be missed.

"I'm sorry... Your Excellency." Sakura murmured.

At this time, Xia Yuan, who was sitting in the front row, was concentrating on organizing the notes in front of him.

[Anti-Entropy], [Destiny], [Domination Association]

[A mysterious underground organization called Snake hidden in the shadows]

These four forces are the four giants that now monopolize the world.

But what is the key connection between them and this case? Xia Yuan closed his notebook silently, because he found that the passenger with long wine-red hair seemed to have left the carriage.

"It's time to meet up with an old friend of mine."

Just as Ying's dagger used for assassination had penetrated deep into the front seat and was about to pierce Xia Yuan's body.

Xia Yuan put away his notes, slowly stood up and left his seat.

Sakura quickly pulled out the dagger and hid herself under the back seat.

Xia Yuan's sudden standing up was not accidental. Just now when the train was about to enter the tunnel, he had used the reflection of his watch out of the corner of his eye to catch a glimpse of the woman wearing a fox mask who had been sitting behind him.

"This is really too bad..."

While adjusting his clothes, Xia Yuan noticed the neat cut under his seat which was difficult to notice without careful observation.

"Being a detective is a very dangerous profession these days. I guess I need to ask Theresa to lend me Prometheus and have him guard me 24 hours a day."

But at this moment, another question arose in Xia Yuan's mind.

Although there are many people who want to kill me, I just caught a glimpse of their photos...it won't bring disaster upon myself, right?

"Why did she want to kill herself? Who was the person behind her who gave the order?"

Xia Yuan didn't stay any longer.

He put on a gentleman's hat and walked towards Miss Eden, who was disguised as a tourist, as if nothing had happened.

"Hmm? Has he been discovered by the other party... or is it just my illusion?"

Ying didn't plan to continue following the man. If she did so rashly, it would definitely alert the other party. She planned to make plans when night fell.

"Hmm? What's that smell?!"

The sudden scent of rosemary gradually made Sakura feel sleepy.

"Please get some good sleep. If you kill the detective, Rita will be very troubled."

Rita put her finger to her lips in a shushing gesture.

The pupils hidden under the fox mask trembled slightly. She didn't expect that someone would ambush her. Sleepiness was constantly attacking Ying, and the fox mask fell off, revealing her beautiful face.

"cold......"

Sakura whispered.

At the same time, when Xia Yuan arrived at the next carriage...

From a corner that he couldn't see, a wine glass half full of red wine suddenly appeared in front of Xia Yuan.

"Great Detective, it seems that your tracking skills need to be improved. I found you so quickly. As a punishment, my friend invites you to drink this glass of red wine..."