Leng Guang and Chu Kuang are not from Yan after all.
The two did not strictly set too many requirements and standards for the literary duel. They simply used the dialogue in the tribe and the witness of netizens to simply assume that their next work would be a literary duel.
This gave both of them enough time to prepare their own works.
After deciding to write "Murder on the Orient Express", Lin Yuan basically spent the rest of his life working on this.
Let me briefly introduce the beginning.
In the snow and ice, a train was running, and our protagonist Poirot happened to be on this train.
Well, he's really Poirot rather than Conan.
Anyway, the murder happened.
The deceased was a passenger who was stabbed to death in his compartment.
At the same time, the train was forced to stop due to heavy snow.
There is no village in front and no shop behind here.
The police officers, doctors and others on the train can only conduct a crime reasoning around the famous detective Poirot in the carriage!
Only by finding the murderer and solving the case can the safety of the remaining passengers be guaranteed.
This is what is called the locked room murder model in traditional detective novels!
Because the road was blocked by heavy snow, being trapped on a train in the snow and ice is the classic locked room murder environment.
It is a very classic and timeless model.
There have been countless locked room murder cases in Conan alone.
Poirot then begins to investigate, talking to the passengers individually, and gradually learns the identities of the deceased.
The deceased didn't seem to be a good person.
He was worried all the time while sitting on the train that he would be shot to death by a gunman from nowhere, which shows how annoying this guy is.
Perhaps it was because he had too many enemies that the deceased communicated with Poirot before his death, hoping that the famous detective could protect him.
Poirot refused.
He is a detective, not someone else's protector.
Of course, the more important reason was that Poirot didn't like this man with a somewhat cold look in his eyes.
But Poirot did not expect that the man was really dead.
Then Poirot will have to find out the truth as a detective.
After learning the identity of the deceased, Poirot also discovered a shocking fact:
There were more than a dozen passengers on this train, all of whom were related to a kidnapping case committed by the deceased!
So their testimonies are all false!
Because they all participated in the murder!
The whole case is that they are cooperating to cover up each other's crimes!
Then more truths came to light:
The deceased was a kidnapper who brutally killed a little girl and continued to get away with it by paying bribes.
The little girl's mother was pregnant at the time and soon gave birth to a stillborn baby and died of illness.
The little girl's father also died of depression.
The little girl's nanny committed suicide because she was suspected of serious suspicion and could not bear the interrogation.
So the truth behind the final murder is shocking:
Except for Poirot, the chairman of the train company and the coroner, all the people in the carriage including the conductor, a total of twelve people are the murderer!
They all knew the tragic family and had received great favors from that family, so after seeing the victim escape the heavy punishment of the law, they decided to lynch him and kill him.
After learning the whole story, Detective Poirot proposed two possibilities to solve the case.
Readers who have really read the Poirot series know that Poirot likes to express several possible ideas when revealing the truth at the end, but except for the last one, the previous ideas are often wrong.
The same is true this time.
The first idea Poirot proposed was (not his exact words):
"The murderer got into the car on the way and ran away after killing the person. He might be a member of the mafia or something like that, and he had a business conflict with the deceased. This explanation is based on the testimony of these twelve people."
The testimonies of these twelve people can provide each other with alibis.
Almost no one guessed that all twelve people were the murderer!
However, this statement was obviously full of loopholes, and the doctor on the train strongly objected.
The specific loopholes are explained by Poirot in the book.
Poirot then proposed a second possibility, an incredible one:
The twelve passengers were all murderers. They killed the victim with a knife each, and then provided each other with alibis, creating this seemingly unsolvable case.
Although it was unbelievable, the murderers admitted it.
Twelve people painfully recalled the tragedy that happened that year.
There are also text descriptions in the novel.
Probably because after the tragic death of their benefactor's family, their relatives and friends were living in great pain, and the law could not help them, so they chose to fight violence with violence.
Here we are.
Poirot asked the person in charge on the train, which answer would he accept
The person in charge chose the first, incorrect answer.
The doctor then agreed and said that he would provide some medical assistance.
Because only the first explanation can help the twelve murderers escape guilt without being suspected.
But the details don't match.
So the doctor hinted that he would provide some medical help.
From beginning to end, Poirot never said which possibility was correct.
He just said, I offer two possibilities, you can choose.
That is to say, you can choose whether to help these twelve people conceal the truth or expose their crimes.
The train manager and the doctor unanimously chose to conceal the truth.
Poirot actually thought so, otherwise, with his character, he would not have said such a thing as asking others to choose.
He decided to withdraw from the murder case as a detective.
Kind of like an open ending.
The ending does not clearly state the fate of the twelve murderers.
However, there are related Easter eggs in A-Po’s other novel, "Death Date".
It is clearly mentioned that Poirot did not expose these twelve people.
The specific plot is that a suspect's wife (who is also a suspect herself) said to Poirot:
"I know you let the murderer go in the Orient Express case and let them punish the heinous man. Can't you do the same this time?"
Poirot asked, "How did you know about the Orient Express? Not this time. These two cases are different."
That's roughly what I mean.
On the Orient Express, Poirot did let the murderers go.
As for the cooperative killing mode pioneered by Murder on the Orient Express, although its influence is not as strong as that of the narrative mystery -
The narrative style of writing has supported the Japanese mystery for many years.
But it also created a very classic case.
After this novel came out, many mystery novels began to adopt the cooperative murder model, which was inspired by here.
Grandma is the pioneer of many models.
If people have read similar books before, reading grandma's book may not be that shocking, but if it is the first time they come into contact with it, the shock is actually huge!
Especially the narrative mystery and Blizzard Villa modes!
Now that Xugui has been released, Lin Yuan has not yet released Blizzard Villa, his ultimate move.
In short, at this time, Lin Yuan had completed the adjustment and adaptation of the character background of "Murder on the Orient Express".
Next comes the formal writing.