Yan Muheng waited for Liu Qiaopu to continue, and he was full of doubts about the sentence 'The people in the house are not everyone'.

If Yanagihashi Pu said, 'Not all the people in the house are together. Or, 'Not everyone in the room.'" That's much easier to understand, because the meaning of these two sentences is very clear, that is, there are still fish in the house that have slipped through the net, and they are people that the criminal police can think of.

But now, what does the phrase 'not everyone' mean? In the end, everyone is there, but some people don't count; Or does it mean that someone is not in the house?

Yan Muheng didn't dare to ask, afraid that he would say something that he shouldn't say, so that Liu Qiaopu would grab the handle, in this extraordinary period, whether it is a murderer or not, everyone needs to be cautious in their words and deeds, right?

Liu Qiaopu was not in a hurry, he was determined to remember the appearance of the footprints, and then straightened his back before explaining to Yan Muheng: "Someone sneaked out in the middle of the night in the house, although we are not sure who that person is?" It is not known how he slipped out, but in this way, the people in the house may also have sinned. ”

"Oh, that's why you say it's not everyone, you mean everyone is there, but someone is sneaking up, right? But how did you find out? Yan Muheng asked.

"I can't tell you how we found that now, but I mean, the people in the house are also suspicious, and, most likely, the person who got the footprints is not the murderer at all."

"Why?"

"In the middle of the night, someone sneaked in someone else's shoes at the entrance and killed the cook. You think, the people in the room were all wearing slippers, and these two footprints were obviously left by the man's leather shoes. When the murderer is in action, he can go to the door and put on someone else's shoes first, and then sneak into the basement of the ruins to kill people. ”

As for the route he chose, it was supposed to be through the secret passages and rocky caves in the house. First, the house was full of wooden floors, and if you wiped the soles of your shoes, you wouldn't be able to leave footprints. Second, if he walked around the ruins from the outside, not only would it take a long time to clean up the footprints, but after entering the basement, the snowflakes on his clothes would melt and drip to the ground to form water stains. ”

"You may still not understand when I say this, but if you look closely at the footprints in front of you, what are the characteristics?" Liu Qiaopu said, pointing to the footprints under the corpse.

Yan Muheng looked at it carefully for more than ten seconds before he raised his head and said, "The whole soles of the murderer's feet are damp, and there is still a little green scrap sticking to the ground, and there are ...... There were no dripping water stains around the footprints. ”

"Yes, the observation is very in place," Liu Qiaopu praised Yan Muheng lukewarmly, and then said: "If the murderer walks from the periphery, the water stains cannot all be on the soles of his feet, after the snowflakes on his body melt, they will more or less drip around the footprints, and the snow layer outside is so thick, how can the soles of the murderer's feet still stick to green plant scraps?" ”

"It's easy to explain by walking from the inside, as long as you make sure that when you're in the house, you don't leave footprints on the soles of your shoes. Once you enter a cave in the rock, the soles of your shoes will quickly become muddy and wet, and some lichen chips will stick to you. But you can't get wet unless you lean against a wall like a sail or crouch on the ground. ”

So there are no dripping water stains around the footprints, just like what you see. Also, the murder weapon was obviously pierced from behind, why did the murderer's footprints appear in front of the chef? First of all, according to the location of the footprints, the murderer was very close to Mr. Cook at that time, and at this distance, it was not impossible for him to go around his hand and stab the chef in the back. ”

"Secondly, the murderer must have been talking to the chef at the time to get his attention in order to succeed. So the guess that can be drawn so far is that as soon as the chef entered the basement, he saw a person he was familiar with, unsuspecting, stabbed to death in the back by someone close to him. ”

"There is also a slight inference to be drawn from this, that this man must have been waiting here for a long time, that he must be a man who has plenty of time to get out of the house, and that he must not be spotted until he returns. This brings us to the possible accomplices. ”

"Let's leave aside who the accomplice is, the murderer must have thought that Mr. Cook's body would be left here for at least half a day, and by the time we got up and arrived here again, the chef's body would have begun to decompose and swell slightly."

"It's cold in the basement, but it's much warmer than outside, and with the stuffiness and humidity, the corpses are more likely to decay, which makes the cook and the butler even more confused."