Chapter 486 Breaking the Embankment

Chapter 486 Breaking the embankment

March 3rd.

Major bookstores have finally started selling "Detective Poirot" on their shelves.

And when the novel was officially released, as Lin Yuan's manager, Jin Mu had already read most of Chu Kuang's serial in advance: "The advantage of being a manager for the boss is that you can read it earlier than ordinary readers. Read the update..."

At this time, he opened the last story of the Poirot series.

The title of this chapter is "The Curtain".

There is also a parenthesis next to it, "the last case".

Jin Mu's mood suddenly became complicated.

And when he saw the opening content of "The Curtain", his mood was even more complicated.

Poirot invites Hastings back to Styles Manor—

This is where Poirot and Hastings first met.

Different from the high-spirited and high-spirited when he first went on a business trip, Poirot was already very old at this time, and even sat in a wheelchair.

According to the timeline of the story, this is a normal thing, people will grow old.

But as a reader, Kaneki is inevitably a little sad...

With this sadness.

Kaneki continued to watch.

Times have changed.

Today, the manor where Poirot and his assistant met for the first time has been converted into a high-end hotel.

All kinds of people lived in the hotel.

This is the beginning of the most classic case of the Poirot series——

Arrange a group of people in a fixed space, and Poirot needs to find the murderer, Poirot never misses!

really.

Seeing his assistant, Hastings, Poirot produced a stack of newspaper clippings reporting five murders.

Poirot said:

"There is some kind of connection between these people in the hotel and between them and the parties to the previous murders."

Classic start!

Familiar with the kindness, the latter part should also be a very classic Poirot-style crime-solving method.

It's very Poirot!

Kaneki thought this way, and a smile of anticipation crept up the corner of his mouth.

But the next development of the story suddenly made Kaneki stunned.

A victim with a suspicious death appears.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the victim was a homicide, but Poirot insisted that the victim committed suicide!

For this reason, Poirot even had an argument with Hastings.

"Why?"

Kindness is gone.

Jin Mu suddenly panicked.

Poirot was a little weird, too weird to be like him.

Is it because Poirot is old and his thinking can't keep up?

Jinki gritted his teeth.

This story is a little heavy.

But at this moment, the following description made Kaneki's whole body icy cold, as if he had been caught off guard by a critical blow!

Poirot is dead!

Before the mystery of several cases was solved, Poirot suddenly—

died! !

heart attack! ! !

At this moment, Kaneki's hand holding the book trembled suddenly, and subconsciously exclaimed:

"impossible!"

The last case has just started not long ago, and the case has not given an answer. Poirot is actually dead?

What a bizarre development! ?

The boss actually wrote the hero to death! !

Nerves were numb and stiff, and Jinmu's breathing began to slow down. He couldn't help getting up and walking back and forth for a long time before he managed to calm down his inner emotions——

It's over!

Kaneki knows very well what the boss means to the readers when he kills Poirot, a super-popular hero!

Shock!

No matter how many readers like Poirot, this shock is terrifying. No one will be indifferent to Poirot's death!

Even he couldn't accept Poirot's death at this moment!

But Poirot was dead—

Without playing any tricks, the story simply and clearly tells all readers that Poirot has passed away.

His body is cold!

There was even a funeral!

Huge sadness swept Kaneki's heart in an instant. He is not only the manager of the boss, but also a fan of Poirot.

He could only force himself to continue watching.

He wondered if there would be a new twist on the story—

Sure enough, there are new changes.

Poirot's death, possibly homicide.

Because Hastings discovered that Poirot's medicine bottle for heart disease was missing.

The heartbroken Hastings decided to find out the truth.

The air is infinitely oppressive.

It was always Poirot who went to find the truth.

But this time, Poirot turned out to be the victim.

As Poirot's assistant, Hastings needs to find the truth by himself.

finally.

Hastings was unsuccessful.

The person who solved the case was still Poirot himself!

Poirot is indeed dead, which cannot be changed, but he left Hastings a suicide note.

This suicide note spelled out all the truth:

It turned out that Poirot had already found out the real murderer.

But this murderer is very strange, he never kills himself, but takes advantage of other people's psychological weakness to subtly instigate others to kill.

These crimes were planned by him and carried out by him.

But he has always stood outside the circle, without being suspected——

In other words, he can make himself stand outside the circle without suspicion.

The owner of the hotel deliberately pretended that the shotgun went off because this man told a story of a shotgun going off, hurting his wife who had been suppressing him all the time.

It was this man again who encouraged Mrs. Franklin to murder her husband so that she could remarry.

However, because the table was turned, Mrs. Franklin drank the poisoned coffee herself. In order to avoid the suspicion of the innocent Franklin and Hastings' daughter Judith, Poirot decided that the woman committed suicide...

Yes.

Poirot argues with Hastings only because he wants to protect his friend's daughter.

then……

This person made Hastings misunderstand that his daughter was seduced by a villain, so that Hastings wanted to kill the villain!

Fortunately, Poirot found out in time and drugged Hastings to go to bed early, so he failed to do it.

Poirot was angry.

An honest and kind friend was exploited by the murderer's psychological means, and almost became a murderer!

Poirot felt the end of it!

Unable to use legal means to punish the murderer, Poirot made a terrible decision!

He wants to kill the murderer behind all the crimes with his own hands——

Norton!

After killing the murderer, Poirot hid his heart medicine and allowed himself to suffer from the disease and die.

He is ready to accept the judgment of heaven.

Yes, after killing the murderer, Poirot chose to commit suicide, and he killed the murderer at the cost of becoming a murderer himself.

Jin Mu felt panicked in his heart.

And when he saw Poirot's last message to his assistant, his chest was even tighter:

"Hastings, I don't know if what I'm doing is right or wrong, I'm at a loss, I don't think one should take the law into one's own hands...but on the other hand , I am the law! I remember that many years ago, when I was still a policeman, I shot and killed a desperado who was sitting on the roof and shooting the people below. In an emergency, martial law should be declared. Through By taking Norton's life, I saved other lives -- innocent lives.

However, I still don't know...

Maybe it's better if I don't know, I've always been so sure--too sure... But right now, I'm so humbled that I can only say to you like a child, 'I don't know...' Good-bye, Dear friends. I have removed the amyl nitrite ampoule from my bedside. I would rather put myself in the hands of God. He may punish, he may forgive, may it come sooner! We will no longer punish criminals together. The first time we spied on criminals was here, and the last time was here... those were some good times. Yeah, that was always the best time of my life…”

Slap.

There are tears falling.

At some point, Kaneki's eye sockets burst.

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ps: Thanks to the lord of Sword Dance and Zhantian, fresh and more, regarding Poirot's death, it is actually very uncomfortable to watch for nothing, so the plot description in this chapter is a little more detailed, because it is indeed quite cruel of.