After I was reborn, I became a great writer

Chapter 341 Two conclusions, only choose one!

When Chen Tianhong said that Jin Zhongrui's prediction was correct, everyone including Jin Zhongrui himself felt unbelievable and shocked, but logically you have to make sense, how could all the passengers be murderers?
That old Russian lady is nearly 80 years old, can she still carry a knife?

That Mrs. Hubbard, who provided several important clues, is calling for a thief?
That female missionary with religious beliefs, how could the teachings allow her to kill people?
And the Italian is clearly an innocent traveler.
And after listening to Chen Tianhong's second sentence, they were even more confused, what the hell, what is it?It’s early in the morning, it’s already noon, what’s your pastime at noon?

Do you know that because of your "broken" detective story, we didn't sleep well last night, didn't eat breakfast today, and even quarreled for nearly an hour.

Chen Tianhong shrugged his shoulders when he saw this, and everyone's reaction was understandable. When he read this novel, he also almost doubted his life. You must know that he watched the movie first, and the original novel was even more outrageous and shocking.

He said: "Borrowing a sentence that the famous detective Poirot once said, if you have more contact with similar cases, you will find that they all have one thing in common: everyone involved in the case has something to hide!"

Everyone listened with question marks in their heads, did Poirot in the book say this?
Oh, I see, you made the famous detective Poirot. This sentence is equivalent to what you said, shit, pretending to be X, and adding a famous saying, but it is a bit interesting.

Chen Tianhong didn't know that his sentence was misunderstood. The sentence he just said came from a classic quote in another detective novel about Poirot by my grandmother.

"Actually, "Murder on the Orient Express" not only says that everyone under investigation has something to hide, it says that everything that happened on the train was a premeditated and purposeful dramatic murder, and all the evidence and all the testimonies are It was designed in advance, what each of them said is not the truth, it can be understood that Chengdu is perjury!"

"All testimonies are false, premeditated, purposeful dramatic murder"

Everyone muttered to themselves and repeated, and being reminded by Chen Tianhong, the context of the case suddenly became clear, some of them could not understand clearly, and the cloudy testimony also had a reasonable explanation, but they still had doubts, and they needed more details. logical argument.

And there is still the biggest question, since everyone is a murderer, why do you say "no"?

What is the answer to all this?
Chen Tianhong maintained a mysterious smile, and when he was about to explain in detail, the sound of "gurgling" sounded, and his stomach protested.

"Let's eat first, let's talk while eating."

"no!"

Everyone resolutely refused.

Chen Tianhong: ".",
He secretly regretted it, it didn't feel good to go to eat honestly just now, he insisted on running over, now that the calf was over, it would take less than half an hour to explain it, and it would definitely take longer to deal with the questions during the period.

Fortunately, Jin Zhongrui knew how to take care of people, he said.

"Tianhong, did you finish the last part too? Then you can send it to us and we can read it ourselves. You go to eat first."

"It's finished! I copied it into the USB flash drive, and all the chapters are there, including Chapter 1, which I wrote by hand on the train. I need you to print it out. Didn't the exchange meeting say that paper should be used? !"

Chen Tianhong was very good at borrowing donkeys down slopes. He was afraid that something would happen again, so he immediately took out the USB flash drive and handed it to Jin Zhongrui. He also arranged for printing by the way, and then slipped out of the room directly.

"This kid must be starving! Leave him alone, Xiao Shu, bring your computer."

Jin Zhongrui cursed with a smile, turned his head and arranged for the second tool man, Shu Xingkun.

Shu Xingkun also really wanted to eat, but right now, solving the mystery of "Murder on the Orient Express" is the most important thing.

So he quickly moved to his computer, inserted the USB flash drive, found the electronic manuscript and opened it, and everyone immediately gathered around, wanting to read it together.

Poirot and his old friend, the director, met again in the box. The director and the doctor argued with each other. They were dazzled by a lot of evidence and testimonies that they didn't know who was true and who was false. The final conclusion was different from Jin Zhongrui's original not big.

According to the business secretary's statement that his boss was involved with the mafia, the director believed that the murderer was a foreigner and a killer sent by the mafia.

The doctor believes that the murderer is among the passengers. Both of them have one thing in common, and there are two murderers.

But Poirot asked the two men, can the hypothesis of two murderers really be established?
The director and the doctor said, is there any other explanation?
Poirot said that everyone should calm down for a quarter of an hour and think quietly.

At the end of a quarter of an hour, the director and the doctor did not think of any other conclusions, but Poirot raised his brows, as if he already had the answer.

The original words in the book are [but, after all, why not?If that's the case -- well, if that's the case, everything can be explained. 】

Next, Poirot demonstrated the "explanation" derived from his own logical reasoning, combined with the recorded testimony and clues, told the director and the doctor his own analysis, and called the key "suspects" among the passengers one by one, and conducted another investigation. News.

For the content of the second interrogation, Jin Zhongrui and the others looked very carefully, because they had the "answer" given by Chen Tianhong, and looked at the case from the perspective of God's vision, and finally grasped the key point, which was the "Armstrong kidnapping case."

Before getting to the point, they couldn't help giving Poirot a thumbs up for his clear logic.

Poirot first started his investigation by ascertaining the facts that had happened. The Orient train fell into a snowdrift in the middle of the night, and it was impossible for anyone (including the murderer) to get out of the train and escape after stopping.

This means that even if an outsider committed the crime, the murderer could not get out of the car. In order to deceive others, he could only blame others and divert Poirot's attention. He left it on purpose.

The second explanation is what the passengers did. The question is how many people participated?
The scary thing is that in the first interrogation, each of them had a perfect alibi, and all of them were proved by two or more other passengers.

Then there are only two possibilities, the murderer is really an outsider, or all the passengers are perjury.

Then use reverse thinking to work backwards. If there is no heavy snow to stop the train and the Oriental train arrives on time, the final outcome is that the conductor finds the businessman dead, and the police board the train to investigate. The people in the car will never be implicated by a foreign killer.

Thinking of this, Poirot already noticed something was wrong. It was obvious that someone was deliberately leading everyone to believe that the murderer was an outsider.

However, after encountering a heavy snow accident, including discovering that he was on the Oriental train, the black hands behind the scenes began to disrupt the situation again, leaving many clues (such as evidence left at the scene, various testimonies of everyone, etc.), each of which points to a different The suspect is confusing.

Therefore, Poirot rationally made a prediction that broke the rules, that is, is it possible that everyone is a murderer?
If you think about it this way, some unreasonable clues suddenly become reasonable.

Of course, this prediction is too bold, and there must be one thing that can stand, and that is the motive of all of them to kill.

Therefore, the only evidence left at the scene that is valued by Poirot (unburned shreds of paper) has become an important factor in solving the mystery, which may be the biggest flaw left by the murderer.

In fact, when Jin Zhongrui and the others saw the section of the note, they also thought it was an important clue, especially after revealing the identity of the businessman, they were very concerned.

However, in the setting of the follow-up plot, they were confused by the tedious clues, the complex dialogues of many characters, and the various foreshadowings of the small scene stories.

Everyone's thinking is different, you think about this point, I think about what point, and then touch it, good guy, the public says that the public is right and the woman is saying that the woman is reasonable, this is the reason for the quarrel.

The reason why Jin Zhongrui called out that they were all murderers was because he was annoyed by everyone's various opinions, so he made the most unthinkable prediction. In fact, he had no evidence to prove it.

The following plot is Poirot's proof and his personal show.

Poirot found holes in the testimonies of every passenger, proving that everyone was lying and everyone's alibi was flimsy.

For example, the servant of the businessman said that the boss took sleeping pills on his own initiative. In fact, the businessman was very vigilant and even put a pistol under his pillow when he slept. It was obvious that the servant was lying.

For example, the secretary said that the threatening letter was burned by the businessman, but he used strange words during the interrogation, and the two matches left at the scene were of different styles, one of which was not the businessman's own, which proved that the letter was burned by the murderer. lie.

And so on, etc., and through their exposed feet (for example, the servant of the old Russian lady accidentally admitted that he had been a cook, and the countess's passport happened to be stained with oil stains), this proves that they have other things. known identity.

Then Poirot finally proved the unusual relationship between the thirteen suspects (twelve passengers and one conductor) and the Armstrong family based on his superb reasoning ability and the clues he had grasped, thus confirming that each of them was related to the Armstrong family. There is a motive to kill.

They are Armstrong's tutor, nurse, cook, godmother, housekeeper, driver, maid, comrade-in-arms, friend, his wife's mother, sister, and the lover and brother of the maid who died unjustly.

Once these are confirmed, then everything becomes clear.

"Amazing, with clear thinking and rigorous logic. The image of Detective Poirot created by Hongwen is simply amazing."

"Hehe, it should be said that Hongwen's thinking logic is simple. The story is full of links. The tricks between the detective and the murderer are false and real, true and false, but after everything is solved, it makes sense."

"That's right, shame on you! In fact, Hongwen has put all the evidence and clues in front of our eyes, but unfortunately we are confused by the intricate clues. It turns out that every clue and detail mentioned above is part of the truth. But we just can't get together."

"There is still information asymmetry. Although we guessed that the "Armstrong case" was an important clue, we subconsciously analyzed it with the "pilot" kidnapping case in reality, but we couldn't match it. We could only passively accept the various clues that Hongwen threw out. Clues, you can’t think like Poirot to get an answer, this is a hidden plot in disguise!”

The last sentence was said by Ye Feng, and the meaning in his words was "blaming" Chen Tianhong on the surface, but he was actually praising him.

If the detective novel allows readers to easily analyze the results, it will be a failure. The deeper it is hidden, the more shocking it will be when it is finally exposed.

Now is the best proof. Several of the first-class detective writers in China have discussed for a long time without analyzing the answer. It was only after Hongwen gave the final answer and followed the reasoning of the protagonist Poirot that they suddenly understood!
This feeling cannot be expressed in words, it can only be amazed, amazed, and amazed again.

The most frustrated one was Lu Huaiyi, he was still thinking about resisting Chen Tianhong yesterday, who knew that his backhand would be a king bomb!
This is so unreasonable!
The day before yesterday, "The Vanishing Weapon" and "Murder on the Orient Express" were written by two people, the gap is too big, one is underground, the other is in the sky.

Now that this person can only hold his nose and admit, Hongwen, what a fucking genius!

Just as Lu Huaiyi was about to grit his teeth and praise, he suddenly remembered that they hadn't finished watching it yet!There is still an end to the story, and the "no" that Hongwen said has not yet come out.

So under his reminder, Ye Feng and the others temporarily put away the words of praise, and turned to the last chapter, [Two conclusions! 】

That night, Poirot invited all the passengers to the dining room. These "murderers" sat around the table, and everyone's face had a mixture of anticipation and fear.

Poirot also got up with a complicated expression. He broke his previous habit of reasoning about cases and came up with two conclusions.

To put it simply, the first conclusion: everyone guessed right, the murderer is an outsider, he is a killer sent by the Mafia, pretending to be a train conductor to get on the train, kill the businessman and hide in Mrs. Hubbard's box Dispose of the weapon and clothes, and get off the train in time.

(Note: This case happened when the train arrived and stopped, which means that the killing time was earlier.)
Of course, there are many doubts about this conclusion, and it is not so convincing, but it can be said so-so,
After hearing this conclusion, all the characters in the book breathed a sigh of relief, but soon everyone raised their hearts again.

Poirot continued, this opening is the classic quote, that is, when the murder cannot be attributed to one person in the car, it means that everyone is suspected.

It is undeniable that the businessman has escaped the judgment of the law, he is guilty, and there is a system in the United States where the jury of the court is composed of 12 people.

It happened that there were 12 passengers in the car, and they were all victims of the Armstrong case, so did they themselves form a jury and sentence the businessman to death?

The murderer first used sleeping pills to put the businessman to sleep, and then created a timeline for the incident. After that, the twelve people took turns to enter the room, and each stabbed the businessman with a knife. These are the twelve wounds of different strengths. The source of the murder is also the reason why there is only one murder weapon.

However, there is another point worth thinking about. If this inference is correct, of course everyone believes that it is correct, but there are 13 suspects, and one of them is not the murderer, but he planned the whole case.

In a sense, he was the real culprit, because the twelve people who entered the house, it was impossible to determine whose knife finally killed the businessman.

Of course, all participants are murderers and are guilty, but there is a choice (implying that someone can take the initiative to bear the greatest responsibility).

This is Poirot's second conclusion.

Perhaps everyone understood Poirot's meaning, and the mastermind behind the scenes stepped forward on his own initiative. No one thought that Mrs. Harbart, the most nervous, planned everything. Her real identity was Harmstrong's mother-in-law.

Everything she planned was exactly the same as what Poirot deduced. Mrs. Harbart expressed her willingness to take responsibility, and begged Poirot, the director, and the others to give others a free life.

When they saw this, Jin Zhongrui and the others sighed, and even began to sympathize with the murderer in the book.

The murderer's motive for committing the crime is clear, which is to avenge the Armstrong family and kill a heinous person.

And to borrow a sentence from the director, these thirteen people belong to different classes, different countries, and have different ages and identities.

They have nothing to do with each other, but they are all close to Armstrong.

So they were all murderers, and they were all victims, and good victims at that.

However, the story is not over yet. When everyone's time is turned to the last paragraph, the climax finally arrives.

Poirot looked to the old friend director and asked his opinion.

The director cleared his throat and said, "Your first inference is correct, it must be correct."

And he suggested that when the police arrive, only the first conclusion is provided.

The doctor agreed, and said that as far as the medical evidence was concerned, there might even be a curious modification or two.

Finally Poirot said: "Since the conclusions are already before you, I can honorably resign."

How to describe this ending?
I think the brilliance of human nature is fully displayed at this time!The highest tribute should be paid to Poirot, to the director, to the doctor, and to all the victims in the book!
ps: Finally finished!The logic should be logical, if you don't like it, don't spray it!I'm dizzy from checking the information, so don't worry!

(End of this chapter)