"Big brother, will we meet again in the future?"

[Looking at the desire and expectation in the girl's eyes, you don't know how to respond to her, nor do you know how to come back here again, but you still nodded slowly, in order to give the girl hope for the future. ]

When the girl saw Xia Yuan nod, she smiled with joy.

"Well, big brother...goodbye. Clara will definitely wait until the day we meet again."

Clara waved her hand and said her final goodbye to Xia Yuan.

After a moment, Xia Yuan's body became completely illusory and turned into wisps of flames that dissipated in the air.

The girl held one of the flames in her palm, clasped her hands together and made a prayer gesture.

"I hope big brother has a safe journey..."

Time goes back to the steam train, when Xia Yuan fell into coma due to being forced to drink a large amount of red wine by Wuliangta Jizi.

Sakura, who was leaning back in her seat, suddenly opened her eyes.

The next second she immediately held the dagger at her waist to her chest. Her head was still aching slightly. She vaguely remembered that she was knocked unconscious by a strange floral scent from a very elegant woman whom she had never met.

The scenery outside the car window has become dim, and it is obvious that it is already night. During the time when he was unconscious, did the other party do anything?

Sakura examined her body in detail.

After confirming that there was nothing unusual, she recalled the commission she had received from the merchant named Gray Snake.

"Rin, wait for me... I will definitely find a way to save you."

Sakura put on the mask again and sat at the table. Although she didn't know what the woman wanted, it was undoubtedly a perfect time to assassinate her in the middle of the night.

The carriage was very quiet. At this time of day, most of the passengers had fallen asleep, and Sakura's long experience in assassinations would not allow her to wake anyone up.

She pressed herself against the wall of the carriage.

Under the cover of darkness, he checked the conditions of each room, looking for the target person - Xia Yuan.

squeak-

At this moment, the door of the room next to Ying was slowly pushed open with a creaking sound. The sound broke the original silence, and Xia Yuan staggered along the aisle.

Seeing the target person appear, Ying pressed her body against the wall and held her breath, but Xia Yuan, who was staggering in the aisle, came straight to Ying.

"Huh? We've been discovered. How is it possible..."

Chapter 243 Sakura's Inner Conflict

Sakura thought that her hiding skills had reached the pinnacle, but she didn't expect that the famous detective published in the newspaper would be able to see through her disguise so quickly.

It has been exposed...

Sakura was considering whether or not to take the initiative now.

Just when Ying was about to draw out the scabbard wrapped in gray cloth and emitting a chill from her waist, Xia Yuan had already taken a step forward and grabbed the pair of exposed fox ears on top of Ying's head.

The touch from the fox's ears continued to attack Sakura's body and passed into her consciousness. Only then did Sakura remember that she was not wearing a hood.

Although fox ears are Sakura's only weakness, after undergoing training that is beyond the endurance of ordinary people...even if she is held by others, Sakura will not completely lose her combat power. It's just that the strange touch coming from the pair of fox ears on her head will make it impossible for Sakura to concentrate in battle.

"A fully armed guard, isn't he ashamed to bully a petite girl?"

Xia Yuan asked sternly.

The strength in my hands couldn't help but increase a little bit.

"Well....."

Ying was a little confused by Xia Yuan's words. Was this famous detective sleepwalking and talking nonsense?

Sakura suppressed the strange feeling coming from above her head and decided to hold back and observe the other party for the time being before figuring out the other party's condition.

As Xia Yuan was groping the pair of fox ears on top of Sakura's head and talking nonsense... Sakura's face gradually turned red, but Sakura had good self-control, and soon... the blush disappeared from her cheeks.

There is no doubt that the sleeping detective who was talking to himself and speaking nonsense was obviously sleepwalking.

It's time to finish him off...

But Xia Yuan's subsequent behavior and actions made Ying look helpless and surprised.

The other person held her in his arms like a princess and quickly ran towards the aisle of another corridor of the train.

Sakura has never been held in this way since she was a child, but the noise made by the other party might wake up many passengers on the train, so the assassination plan might have to be postponed.

She now even suspected that the famous detective was deliberately playing a trick on her.

But the other party's solemn expression and worried tone obviously did not sound fake. Perhaps in his dream, there really was a monster chasing him.

Xia Yuan brought Ying in his arms to his own room.

"Clara, don't be afraid. It's safe here for now. Let me help you fix your injured ankle first."

The sleeping detective continued to talk nonsense as usual.

Then...Xia Yuan placed Ying in front of the bed.

"Wait, correct the ankle?!"

Before Ying could react, Xia Yuan had already taken off the boots on her feet. With a click... Ying's ankle was dislocated.

Sakura looked at the sleepwalking detective in front of her with a complicated expression.

Then, there was another click.

Sakura corrected the dislocated ankle to its normal position.

Listening to Xia Yuan talking nonsense to himself, Ying did not use the scabbard in her hand. Even though the other party was being chased by a monster, he was willing to save a little girl whom he had just met once.

This reminds Sakura of her sister...

If I encountered the same situation as the detective's dream, and if that little girl was Rin...the famous detective published in the newspaper is very similar to me.

She really couldn't do it...

But what should she do about her sister's illness? Ying was in a state of confusion.

But then, Xia Yuan suddenly stood up, picked up the sword at Ying's waist, kicked the door open, and ran straight to the aisle of the next carriage of the train.

"Border-breaking creature, die!"

The other party snatched his sword and shouted in the carriage.

Ying hurriedly chased after him, and Xia Yuan went straight to another compartment on the carriage, where the name [Qianjie] was hung.

Under Ying's unbelievable and complicated expression, Xia Yuan walked out of Qianjie's room holding a blood-stained sword.

Xia Yuan just...slowly passed by Ying, returned to his room, lay down on the bed and fell asleep as if nothing had happened.

"this........"

Looking at the blood-stained sword leaning against the bed, Sakura didn't know what had happened in that room, but it was obvious that the chef on the train named Qianjie was in danger.

The noise just now was so loud that it would definitely wake up the people in the car.

The most urgent task right now... is to clear herself of suspicion as much as possible. After all, Sakura cannot explain the fact that the murder weapon was her own sword.

When the other travelers were preparing to put on their clothes and walk out of the room, Ying wiped the blood off the sword, put it back into the scabbard, blended into the shadows and quickly fled from the room where Xia Yuan was.

[He witnessed everything that had just happened, which made Him feel happy for the first time in a long time. In order to gain more pleasure...Aha continued to spy on this interesting young man and get more fun from it.]

[Under the whispers of the Star God of Joy, you gradually wake up from your sleep. ]

After waking up, Xia Yuan felt relaxed after a long time.

He hadn't slept so comfortably for a long time. Could it be that red wine really helps with sleep? It seems that I have to ask Eden for more red wine in the future. I believe that the other party will definitely smile with joy.

Xia Yuan got up from the bed with full energy. He stretched lazily and vaguely remembered that in his dream he met a white-haired girl named Clara. Uh... she seemed very cute?

Apart from remembering that the other person had bare feet and that her little face was very cute... he couldn't recall anything else in his dream. In short, Clara was very cute.

"Huh? Why would I have such an idea?"

Xia Yuan touched the back of his head somewhat bewilderedly.

"what--!"

"No, it's bad, someone's dead!"

At this moment, bursts of panicked screams outside the carriage completely broke the peace of the entire carriage.

It also broke Xia Yuan's memories.

Xia Yuan didn't have time to think about it. He was about to grab the windbreaker on the hanger and run out of the room, but he found that he had put on his windbreaker without knowing when.

Xia Yuan didn't remember that he had the habit of lying in bed and sleeping without taking off his coat, but the most important thing at the moment was the panicked voice outside the room that was probably from Padofils.

Could it be that something happened to Padova? !

Burying the doubt about "wearing a windbreaker" quietly in his heart, Xia Yuan pushed open the door and ran straight to the source of the sound.

Chapter 244: The man wearing a chef's apron lying in the room

When he rushed to the room where the scream came from, the first thing that appeared in Xia Yuan's eyes was Padofils' panic-stricken expression.

I saw her body leaning against the wall at the edge of the carriage.

Padufils pointed her finger towards the room in front of her, and the petite body of the brown-haired girl was shaking violently.

After seeing Xia Yuan's arrival...

Padua Felice acted as if she had seen a savior or grabbed a life-saving straw and threw herself on Xia Yuan.

"Mr. Detective... In the room... In the room... There is a person lying in a pool of blood!"

But Xia Yuan noticed that the brown-haired girl's hands were covered with crimson liquid, and bloody handprints remained on his windbreaker.

The girl in front of me...

[Pattofilis has been in and out of this room before]

Xia Yuan temporarily draped his windbreaker over Padua's shoulders and placed the frightened brown-haired girl in a safer place without disturbing the crime scene.

The girl's emotions are unstable now, so it's not appropriate for her to ask the other party questions.

Then...

Xia Yuan took out the disposable white gloves and foot covers he carried with him from his trouser pocket and entered the open room in front of him. There was a shoe print left on the door.

This may be the footprints left by the murderer.

Maybe the murderer kicked the door in not long ago?

What kind of deep hatred did he have with the victim that would cause him to kill the other person in such a way?

Logically speaking, my room was not far from the victim's room, so why didn't I hear the noise and movement caused by breaking the door? Was I sleeping too deeply at that time?

Another question arose in Xia Yuan's mind.

Xia Yuan looked at the doorplate on the side of the door. The words "Employees Only" were engraved on the doorplate, and behind the words "Employees Only"... the name "Qianjie" was written.

The victim lying in the middle of the room was none other than the chef named Qianjie who was travelling on the steam train.

He is also the biggest suspect in the village arson case.

Xia Yuan stepped into the room and crouched beside Qianjie. There was an extremely fatal wound on his chest, which was covered with a chef's apron, and pierced through his heart.

There is no hope...

Judging by common sense, Xia Yuan believed that the other party had lost his life and there was no possibility of saving him. But did the other party wear a mask even when sleeping?

Just when Xia Yuan wanted to take off the other person's mask...

There were bursts of whispering outside the room. It was other travelers who had rushed in after hearing the news.

"Yuan...what happened?"

Fu Hua, wearing single-frame glasses, was the first to squeeze through the crowd and arrived at the outermost side of the crime scene.

"Someone was murdered in the room half an hour ago. Hua... set up a cordon. The murderer must still be on this slowly moving steam train."

Hua nodded solemnly.

Because she found that the victim lying in a pool of blood in the room was Qianjie, the biggest suspect in the village arson case, and the other party was lying in a pool of blood and was killed.

Fu Hua still has many things to ask Qianjie.

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