The conductor did not have a separate room of his own. He sat in his seat all night and was aware of what was going on in the carriage.
Poirot asked Michel some questions.
For example, the last time he saw Ratchett was told one by one, as well as the subsequent itinerary, including which passenger rang the bell at what time.
There was one thing that made Carl feel very special.
According to Michelle's description, she also saw a lady walking around in the carriage.
But he only saw his back, far away from his seat, wearing a scarlet kimono pajamas embroidered with dragon patterns.
The scarlet pajamas were already very conspicuous, but in a mystery novel, they seemed to come with a conspicuous bag, deeply attracting Carl's attention.
Through the words, he seemed to have glimpsed the scenes in the train.
After questioning the conductor, Poirot successively called for Ratchett's secretary and servant.
Secretary McQueen had already asked once before, but this time he went into more detail.
After learning Ratchett's true identity, McQueen made no secret of his disgust.
At the same time, we also learned that McQueen's father was once the district attorney responsible for Armstrong's kidnapping.
Karl raised his eyebrows. If nothing else, Armstrong's kidnapping should be the focus of this case.
It’s just that Karl put himself into the author’s perspective, and couldn’t think of any ingenious tricks for a while, so he continued reading.
McQueen also mentioned that he seemed to have seen a woman wearing red pajamas pass by his door.
The third witness was Ratchett's servant Masterman, who knew nothing about Ratchett's true identity and confessed his whereabouts that night.
Except for meeting Ratchett at nine o'clock and seeing him reading a letter irritably, he went back to his room and read a novel until four o'clock because of his toothache.
And before leaving at the end, he mentioned an emotional old lady and said that she knew everything about the murderer.
So, the next witness, Poirot, called Mrs. Hubbard.
According to Mrs. Hubbard's account, the night before, when she woke up from sleep, she found that there was an extra man in her room, but she could not see his face clearly.
Frightened, Mrs. Hubbard rang the bell and called for the conductor, but when the conductor opened the door, she found no trace of anyone else.
Mrs. Hubbard even provided evidence, a button, but after Poirot and others identified it, they found that the button should be a button on the conductor's uniform.
Although he found it a bit inexplicable, Karl still recorded it as an important clue.
Karl read the testimonies of each passenger one by one.
After reading them all, there were only the last three chapters left, and Karl didn't click on them yet.
Instead, I am trying to sort out what I have read so far and try to see if I can restore the truth of the incident.
In addition to providing his whereabouts, Poirot would usually ask male passengers whether they smoked cigarettes or pipes.
Because at the eucalyptus discovery site, a piece of pipe tobacco that did not belong to Ratchett was found.
Therefore, the passenger holding a pipe must be suspected of being a murderer to some extent.
Among the passengers who admitted that he regularly smoked a pipe was Colonel Arbuthnot.
But judging from the way Ratchett died, being able to stab the deceased twelve times didn't seem like something Colonel Arbuthnot could do.
For female passengers, Poirot usually asked about the color of their pajamas, but he did not find any of them wearing scarlet pajamas.
In addition, the corresponding owner of the handkerchief found at the eucalyptus discovery site has not been found.
As for the buttons found in Mrs. Hubbard's room, after asking Michelle about it, she insisted that she had not lost the buttons.
However, the last German maid interviewed did provide a clue. She saw a conductor who was not Michelle in the carriage the night before.
The other person is short in stature and has a weak voice, like a woman.
In addition, most of the passengers in the carriage knew about Armstrong's kidnapping and were even closely related to it.
Karl integrated these testimonies and clues one by one in his mind.
We even started brainstorming ideas, and then...the silence was deafening.
He found that he found nothing. It seemed that every passenger had explained his whereabouts and provided important clues.
But based on these contents, Karl felt that he could not piece together the puzzle of the truth.
It even feels like there is no progress, I don’t know where to start putting the pieces together, and I have no idea about the real culprit.
"It must be because there are still three chapters that have not been read." Karl put down his notebook and picked up the e-reader again.
After questioning all the witnesses, Poirot made a short summary of the testimony.
First of all, the time of the eucalyptus hair growth may be consistent with the speculated results, but it may also be forged.
Another important point is that, based on the testimony combined, there may indeed be another conductor in the carriage last night.
At the same time, there was a woman wearing a scarlet nightgown.
But the other set of train clothes and the scarlet nightgown were not found, and Mr. Booker immediately prepared to search the passengers' luggage.
At this time, the Oriental train, which had been idle for a long time, started again.
At this time, the murder weapon appeared in Mrs. Hubbard's toiletry bag, a bloody knife.
But on it, there were only fingerprints left when Hubbard opened the toiletry bag, and other than that there were no other fingerprints on it.
Next, in the last chapter of the testimony, the passengers' luggage was also searched, but no scarlet pajamas were found.
But when Poirot returned to his room, he found scarlet pajamas in his suitcase.
The testimony ends with this shocking scene.
"Aba Aba..." This is Deng Ge's feeling after reading it.
Without any clue, I gave up the challenge directly.
After all, he had received the reward through Jiang Yuan's channels, and Deng Ge just wanted to finish reading the rest of it as soon as possible.
On the other side of the ocean, although Karl had more ideas than Deng Ge, he was not much better.
He subconsciously clicked to turn the page, but was told that it was the last page, which shocked Carl.
"Is this gone?" Karl subconsciously glanced at the notebook where he had written many pages of notes.
Before the challenge started, Karl was still full of confidence, thinking that after reading the public content, he would be able to restore part of the truth.
Even if the truth cannot be restored, it should be more than enough to guess the final truth.
But now after actually reading it, Karl found that he couldn't even pinpoint the murderer, let alone the truth.
After going through the clues again in disbelief, Karl shook his head.
"It must be too late. It's normal for my brain not to work well."
"I'd better go to bed early and continue the analysis when I wake up tomorrow." Karl encouraged himself, packed up his desk and went to bed first.
Because of the time difference, there are still only a few people like Carl who study at night by lamplight.
On the contrary, after it went online at noon in China, many readers like Deng Ge have already completed the follow-up reading.
The popularity was very high for a while. Not only did it appear on the hot search list, but there were also many related discussion posts in the reasoning forum.
[Have you finished reading the latest testimonial chapter of "Orient Express"? How do you feel? 】
Under such a question, there are many comments updated almost every minute.
[Before reading: There is only one truth!
After reading: There is indeed only one truth, but I can’t guess it.】
[It looks very good, but my brain is limited and I can’t guess it. 】
[I think the murderer may be... for the following reasons: 1.......]
[The person upstairs must have guessed wrong, how could it be...it must be...]
[I feel that there is a big gap between my brain and Poirot’s brain.]
【Can anyone really complete this challenge? 】
[Anyway, I haven't seen a reliable reasoning yet. Let's wait for Karl tomorrow. This kind of boss has also participated in the challenge, maybe he can guess something. 】
【Indeed, Carl is pretty good.】
On the other side of the blue star, Karl, whose name was mentioned repeatedly, was sound asleep.
If I knew that I was given such high expectations, I don’t know how I would feel.
Yang Chao is also paying close attention to the shared reading challenge of "Murder on the Orient Express" in real time. The testimonial chapter is online, and the popularity of the event is very different from Yang Chao's imagination.
At the same time, as one of the few people who knows the final truth, Yang Chao is also paying attention to whether any readers can give the correct answer at this point in time.
However, based on the review feedback received so far, there is not a single correct answer.
But it's normal to think about it. Yang Chao recalled his experience of reading this book at that time, and he couldn't guess who the real murderer was at this time.
But if we can really restore the truth in this part, we probably won’t be shocked by the ending.
The ending of "Orient Express" also shocked Yang Chao, so this reading challenge was launched.
And Yang Chao had already expected that no readers would be able to guess the truth based on these contents, so he had already prepared the follow-up of the event.
Twelve hours after the testimonials went online, the official blogs of domestic and foreign publishers updated an announcement at the same time.
If no reader can guess the truth after forty-eight hours, the official will reveal part of Poirot's reasoning process again.
Such an announcement is actually quite provocative to many readers.
It also allows more readers to participate more carefully in reading reasoning that restores the truth.
At the same time, more readers and mystery fans went to the accounts of well-known authors such as Carl who participated in the reading challenge and started @.
The hope of deciphering the truth is pinned on these well-known authors.
As soon as Karl woke up, he found that there were a lot of messages on his account saying "Hurry up and figure out the truth."
Through readers’ @, Karl also saw the news about the official publisher’s account.
There was a moment of silence.
What I was thinking about was why I didn’t know the content of the follow-up part, but I still had to make the entire announcement with a 48-hour countdown.
Wouldn't it be embarrassing if forty-eight hours had passed and I still hadn't guessed the truth?
Thinking like this, Carl felt a sense of urgency in his heart and involuntarily speeded up his originally leisurely cooking speed.
After finishing his meal quickly, Karl sat back at the desk again, full of confidence.
In Karl's opinion, he failed to guess the truth last night because he was in a bad state.
Today, when he carefully read the published parts of "Orient Express" from beginning to end, he didn't believe that he still couldn't guess the reason.
Thinking like this, Karl started again
Time passes quickly, day and night switch at two ends of the world.
The sky outside Karl's window turned dark unconsciously.
Karl looked at the sky and then at his notebook. Like the dense handwriting on the notebook, it was a bit numb.
Who is the murderer? Karl can't figure it out.
However, unable to understand this problem, Karl began to think about what kind of reasons he should make up to show that he did not pay attention to this challenge because he really had something to do.
Karl fell into another deep thought for a moment.
In China, during the two days when "Murder on the Orient Express" caused waves at home and abroad, Jiang Yuan was busy rehearsing songs with Lu Qingge.
We also preliminarily decided on the performance costumes and cultivated a sense of atmosphere for the performance.
Although the two have collaborated on love songs before, the song they collaborated on this time is quite different in temperament from those previous songs.
So the two of them spent some time getting a feel for it.
But after only two days of rehearsal, Lu Qingge was about to participate in the Spring Festival Gala, which made Lu Qingge feel a little unsure.
I sent a lot of messages to Jiang Yuan the night before the rehearsal.
So much so that Jiang Yuan spent the whole night replying to Lu Qingge's messages while doing other things.
Jiang Yuan didn't feel too nervous about participating in the Spring Festival Gala rehearsal.
She was a little excited at first, but after receiving the news, Jiang Yuan quickly calmed down.
After all, it was essentially a performance. Jiang Yuan just wanted to adjust his condition and complete the performance.
Fortunately, song performances are not like other types of programs.
The singers are ready, and the design of the entire stage is not as labor-intensive as other shows.
So with so little time left, there is still room for rescue.
Compared to the rehearsal, Jiang Yuan is more concerned about the grand occasion of "Orient Express".
The effect of the activity was unexpectedly good, and it spread widely with the promotion.
And so far, even the great authors have not guessed the truth.
While the difficulty of the challenge has soared, it has also attracted more readers to participate.
This has kept the popularity of the activity rising.
Jiang Yuan is already looking forward to the benefits that will be brought to him after the full version of "Murder on the Orient Express" is officially released.
Jiang Yuan said good night to Lu Qingge while thinking about it.
In my sleep, scenes of me drawing cards and bursting with energy kept appearing, but it was a good night's sleep.
The next morning, after waking up, Jiang Yuan and Lu Qingge went to the rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala.
This was Jiang Yuan's first time to participate in such a large-scale event, and many reporters stopped near the rehearsal site.
After all, it’s already the fourth gala, and the lineup for the Spring Festival Gala has basically been revealed.
When Jiang Yuan and the two appeared at the scene, many reporters immediately gathered around.