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Liang Xidao: "If you are a novice, the case may be a family conflict, a wealthy family's infighting. I also have corresponding information here. The earl does not like the eldest son. There is a huge difference in the three views of the two."

Romeo said: "Excluding the conspiracy, this case seems to be a very standard murder case. This type of case is not too difficult. Most of the perpetrators are novices, and their mental capacity is very poor."

Liang Xi said: "It's better like this, I will treat it as a tourist in Brighton."

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Detective Brighton shouldn't have called for help too early, and he had to live for a few days anyway to save himself some face.But the owner of the castle is too powerful, and he is obviously the king of Brighton. They have called and met with the mayor of Brighton many times in a row, demanding to unseal the scene of the crime.Liang Xi and Romeo thought that the earl was in a hurry and wanted to destroy the evidence, which showed that the evidence was still near the crime scene and the suspect could be identified.But I didn't expect the Brighton police to seal the castle.And not only the castle was closed, but also part of the roads of the manor.

Detective Theory [-]: The murderer escaped through the slope after killing the man.Theory [-]: After the murder, the murderer sneaked into the castle to hide.The reason for these two theories is that neither the crossbow nor the suspect could be found.Surveillance did not capture any suspects, and the security guards on the road and outside the castle did not see any suspicious persons.Because of the identity of the victim, the Brighton Police Department did not dare to slack off, sealed off half of the manor and began to search and search carefully.When Liang Xi and the others arrived at the scene of the crime around [-]:[-] p.m., the forensic personnel were still there, indicating that the work of collecting evidence had not been completed.

Liang Xi asked their team leader about the situation and found that they didn't know what they should be looking for.Because of the request of the police detective in charge, I found out anything that felt wrong, and used more than 500 evidence bags alone.However, it cannot be said that these things are worthless. For example, there is a cigarette butt in the grass, because it fell into the water, so it is impossible to judge the time when the cigarette butt fell with the naked eye.The shrubs were broken, and it is not sure whether the suspects swept them off when they passed by.There was a crumpled napkin on the side of the road, the inside was black, and it was uncertain whether it was the maintenance oil needed for the crossbow.In addition, there are footprints in outdoor grass, where fingerprints can be taken.

This situation occurs because the police detective in charge of the case has no direction and no ideas, and he has no way to convey his thoughts to the forensic personnel, so he can only let the forensic personnel expand the search area.The shooting distance of the crossbow is more than [-] meters, and for every additional meter, the forensic personnel have to invest more resources.

The detective in charge at the scene is very young, under 30 years old, and knows Romeo.He was not the detective in charge, he was the detective who was left at the scene by the detective in charge and didn't know what to do.The police detective's name is Aiwen. Seeing Romeo is like seeing a savior, except for enthusiasm.Romeo explained to Liang Xi the reason for Aiwen's enthusiasm when Aiwen was away. It turned out that Aiwen did not know from which channel that Romeo's team was short of people, so he sent two self-recommendation emails to Romeo.

Strictly speaking, Aiwen is Romeo's student. Romeo became famous when he was young. He was once invited by the Police University to serve as a special teacher for a month, and he also met Aiwen during that time.

This kind of relationship has an advantage. Ai Wen did not reserve all the information and details of the case he knew to the two of them.

At that time, there were two people practicing Tai Chi, the earl and the earl's eldest son, perhaps this was their only common hobby.According to Aiwen's understanding, the earl started to imitate his son's boxing after watching his son boxing several times. The two didn't talk much, and they played well.The eldest son's family of five sat eating breakfast more than ten meters away, including the eldest son's three-year-old grandson.Whether the Earl came to learn Taijiquan, or to find an excuse to play with his great-grandson, Ivan was not quite sure.

This is not an accident, but a normal castle life.Although the second son of the earl also lives in the castle, he pursues DINK doctrine, and the husband and wife do not join in the fun every day.The remaining sons and daughters live and work in big cities

The earl's castle has a different design, with the main entrance facing the cliff.In the earl's words, the battery outside the main gate can control the plain and road below.Originally, there was a wall around the back door, but it was completely demolished 20 years ago. I have been considering whether to change the back door to the front door, but because I want to keep the unique style, I haven't really started construction.

According to most witnesses, they first heard the sound of the eldest son falling, and then heard a small sound of ahh.Everyone gathered around one after another, and the earl squatted down to check on his son.The only person who saw the process of being hit by the arrow was a maid. When she brought the food to the dining table, she saw that she didn't know how to describe it, and then the eldest son fell to the ground.She was sure that the eldest son was facing the winding mountain road at the back door, standing less than three meters from the edge of the backyard, with a slope below.

From the maid's testimony and the location of the arrow hit by the eldest son, the police detective preliminarily judged that it was a crossbow arrow shot from down the slope.But because the eldest son is alive, he cannot know the angle of the shot, nor the distance of the shot.One of the murder weapons, the crossbow arrow, pierced through the body of the eldest son, hit the wall of the main building and fell to the ground.

Liang Xi and Romeo looked at the photos on the phone together, which contained the results of the analysis of important physical evidence.Liang Xi glanced at Romeo, and Romeo asked, "You think so too?"

Liang Xi nodded.

Alvin asked, "What do you mean?"

Romeo said: "Don't you know much about crossbows? The total length of this crossbow is 15 centimeters. It is either a hand crossbow or a small compound crossbow. If the accuracy is to be guaranteed, the range will not exceed 30 meters. I guess not It will be more than 20 meters."

Romeo walked to the edge of the backyard and looked at the gentle slope: "It is clear at a glance within 20 meters. It is impossible to hide people, and it is impossible to hide the bow." Behind the 20-meter gentle slope is the road, and the road is followed by a gentle slope, which leads to the foot of the mountain.

Liang Xi said, "I'll go down and have a look."

The ramp is not too steep, Liang Xi walked carefully to the road, took out his mobile phone and contacted Romeo: "About 22 meters, the error is one meter."

Romeo stood where the eldest son had fallen, and asked, "How is it?" three meters from the gentle slope.

"Invisible."

Romeo walked one meter away, Liang Xi said, "I saw the head."

Romeo walked another meter away, and there was still one meter away from the edge. Liang Xi took the video on his mobile phone, zoomed in, and said, "Well, yes. This position can hit the chest, and the fault tolerance rate is low. Tell me, is this possible? The reason for the shot in the heart? The heart is on the edge of the horizon, so the crossbow is a little higher."

Romeo said: "If this is the case, why not shoot the neck? The impact of the crossbow can break the cervical spine and cut off the main artery."

Liang Xi said: "Judging from the shape of the arrowhead, this crossbow arrow stabs, not cuts." The wider the arrow's front, the stronger the lethality, but the weaker the range and penetration.The crossbow arrows in murder cases tend to be needle-shaped. If they miss the vital points, the fatality rate will not be very high under modern medical conditions.Because of the shape of the crossbow bolt, it has extremely strong penetrating power and can penetrate the human body.

Liang Xi hung up the phone and walked up, Romeo shouted: "Be careful, don't roll down. Aiwen, go help."

"Damn you." Liang Xi was angry, he was only in his 20s, and he exercised for more than half an hour every day, how could he be so unbearable?As soon as he finished speaking, the soles of his shoes slipped, and Liang Xi fell face-to-face on the grass. Fortunately, Liang Xi really practiced, so he supported his facial features with his hands first.

Romeo sighed: "You have been exercising, but your shoes haven't." Liang Xi was very careful when going down, and stepped down sideways.When you come up, you step on it.When the left foot is lifted, the friction force of the sole of the right foot is not enough, the foot slides backwards, and the person falls towards the grass.

Liang Xiqi was counted by Romeo.What's even more annoying is that this guy knew he was going to fall, so he didn't even notify him.

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Back in the backyard, Liang Xi made his own judgment: "The crossbow arrows didn't come from the slope or the road in the backyard."

Romeo also thought so, and asked a question: "Let's exclude the maid's testimony for now. After all, many people can't remember the sudden scene at that moment, and they will use their own brains to spell out the picture. Why did the crossbow that penetrated the eldest son fall on the wall? where?"

The castle is in the middle, and the cliff to the backyard wraps the castle like a ring road.Liang Xi looked left and right for a while, trying to make the crossbow appear beside the wall, but he couldn't do it from the extreme left and right sides.

A fan shape, the eldest son is in the middle of the fan shape, and the crossbow arrow lands on the handle of the fan.If the crossbow is not shot from the front of the fan, either it cannot penetrate the eldest son, or it cannot fall on the handle of the fan.Even though eyewitnesses may be wrong, the position of the eldest son is probably correct, and there is blood on the ground and marks caused by his fall.

On a whim, Ai Wen asked, "Teacher, do you think the murderer put the crossbow arrows on the streetlights of the road below?"

Romeo walked to the edge and looked down at the street lights. The street lights were not high enough, and the street lights were bare. Not to mention Tibetans, even a crossbow could not hide.Besides, even if it is a remote-controlled crossbow, you have to climb up the lamp post to place the crossbow first, and this process must be photographed by surveillance.

Liang Xi said: "It can only be this direction, but it's not this direction."

Romeo said, "What did you think of?"

Liang Xidao: "UAVs, drones, remote-controlled shooting of small compound bows are in line with the situation on the scene. It can explain the reason why the police's carpet search has never found the crossbow, nor can they find any traces of the murderer."

Romeo was noncommittal, and watched quietly for a while: "The light in the morning is very good, and the noise of the drone within a distance of 20 meters is relatively loud. Remote shooting requires the drone to hover for at least 5 seconds. Ordinary people hear the buzzing sound, they will Can’t you look for the sound? In such an open place, you can see the drone within 20 meters at a glance. In addition, no witness said that he heard a strange sound, and no one saw the drone.”

The UAV needs to be equipped with small compound bows, cameras and other items, which means that the UAV needs a certain lift force, which means that the UAV needs to reach a certain output power.Output power is directly proportional to noise.Liang Xi agreed with Romeo's analysis, if it was a drone, someone must have heard or seen it.The visibility in the early morning is very high, the environment is quiet, and the position of the sun will not interfere with everyone's sight.

If the drone is excluded, it means that it is impossible for the crossbow to shoot from the fan to the eldest son.But if it had not been shot at the eldest son from the fan, the crossbow would not have fallen against the wall.

Liang Xi looked at Romeo: "Then there is only one answer left."

"What answer?" Romeo was startled: I haven't thought of it yet, wait a minute, don't slap me in the face.

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Liang Xi said: "The only answer: the crossbow bolt was not at the wall, someone moved the crossbow bolt to the wall. That is to say, if we find the correct landing point of the crossbow bolt, we can find the shooter through the description of the eyewitnesses at that time."

Romeo: "Acquaintances commit the crime." The person who moves the crossbow in the chaos can't be too close to the eldest son, and can't be too strange to everyone.

Liang Xi nodded: "The people who were in the castle at that time were either the eldest son's family members, or the castle's employees and servants."

Romeo asked: "Why is it a crossbow?" This sentence is a question in tone, which means that Romeo has an answer, and the question is to guide Liang Xi to consider the details.

Liang Xi was stunned: "Fuck! Could it be that you are buying a murderer? This time I will not buy a professional killer, this time I will buy an internal killer. The crossbow is easy to use, easy to train, and will not attract attention after disassembly."

Even, 1:1.Romeo asked again: "How should we find the landing point of the crossbow now?" The tone of this sentence is doubtful.

Liang Xidao: "We have to think about it. If I were a killer, I would like the crossbow to fly away. I would like to fly wherever I like. Anyway, no one knows the trajectory of the crossbow after it lands. This may be the reason for choosing the needle-type crossbow. , what is needed is its penetration. But if the crossbow arrow is to hit the eldest son and then fly away, the murderer should stand at the position of the fan handle, which is where the crossbow arrow landed. This position is too conspicuous."

Romeo said: "The murderer should have chosen the left and right sides of the fan. In this way, there are many shooting points available, but shooting from the left and right, the crossbow arrows cannot fly away from the castle. The murderer knows that the police can guess the murderer based on the location of the crossbow arrows and the position of the eldest son. So the murderer took advantage of the chaos to pick up the crossbow bolts and threw them against the wall."

Liang Xi nodded: "This is my opinion."

Romeo said: "Ivan."

"I'm here."

Romeo took out his notebook to draw graphics, first drew a fan, and circled the areas on the left and right sides of the fan: "I need human hands to search these two areas inch by inch, in order to find the real landing point of the crossbow bolt. If the crossbow bolt hits any object, It will leave a little bit of an unusual mark."

Speaking of this, Romeo looked up at the sky: "Oops, it's going to rain." Rain may not destroy the traces, but rain may not destroy the traces.

Liang Xi looked up at the rain cloud for a few seconds, licked his finger and then raised it to measure the wind speed: "20 minutes, hurry up, gather everyone."

Aiwen took the walkie-talkie and switched to the wireless communication channel of the on-site personnel: "Please all the forensic personnel to the scene of the crime, we only have 20 minutes. Immediately, please come here immediately."

The forensic team leader is very experienced. You can see why Aiwen is in such a hurry by looking at the sky. He greeted two teams. One group went to the trunk of the car to get a raincloth to form a canopy, and also carried a shovel to drain the rainwater. The other group went to the crime scene to obey the dispatch .

Time is running out, and everyone has raised their spirits. After finding the goal, everything becomes simple.It is important to ask the right questions, but it is also important to say the right answers.If there is no answer, there is no direction, and no matter how hard you work, you will not find a sense of value.

"Here." An aunt greeted, Liang Xi and others went over, and the person who delivered the raincloth followed.

This refers to the left side of the fan shape, which is about 12 meters away from the position where the eldest son fell to the ground.Here is a flower garden, surrounded by a small white fence with five square meters of land, and each unit is planted with different flowers of the season.The bottom of the white fence is dry loose soil, not level.At the bottom of a fence, there is an artificial trace of rubbing back and forth with a foot.Judging from the scene, someone stepped on the soil and rubbed it back and forth with the soles of their shoes.

No one found anything suspicious in the evidence collection before, but after explaining that the target he was looking for was the first place where the murder weapon fell, and the area was circled, it became very suspicious here.Gardeners will prune the flowers, and others will approach the fence and trample on the dirt to enjoy the flowers.But no one is going to be rubbing the dirt at the bottom of the fence with the soles of their feet unless they're stepping on dog shit.

The aunt took a wet cotton swab and stirred it in the soil for a while.The person next to him used his coat to create a dark environment.The aunt then dripped a solution on the cotton, and saw that the originally white cotton turned blue. The aunt said with a little excitement: "Suspected of human blood." The luminol test can distinguish human, chicken, and dog blood .

The forensic team leader ordered: "Set up a canopy, take pictures, take samples, and get the infrared imaging device." The infrared imaging technology, like Luminol, is a sharp tool for finding blood, and the working principles of the two are different.Compared with luminol, infrared imaging technology is more cumbersome.

Liang Xi stood at the fence, and Ai Wen stood at the position where the eldest son fell down. Liang Xi called Romeo to move to a position about 20 meters away from Ai Wen.There was a big tree planted in the area where Romeo ended up, and there was a small ditch two meters away from the big tree for drainage and flood discharge. Hardwood shrubs 70 cm high were planted on both sides of the small ditch.A shrub that is difficult for humans to walk through.A 1.5-meter-long stone bridge is set up beside the big tree. People can walk through the small ditch through the stone bridge and walk to the gun emplacement on the cliff of the castle.

Judging from the rising position of the sun, combined with the time at that time, this area was relatively dark when the crime occurred.It is a relatively suitable sniper point.The forensic personnel quickly found the place where the suspected murderer was squatting. The grass in this position has obviously been pressed for a long time recently. Compared with the surrounding grass, it has not fully recovered by itself.

While speaking, the raindrops dripped, and the rain intensified accordingly.While the forensic team leader greeted the canopy, he took off his coat to cover the area. A forensic officer pulled his coat and unfolded it, bending over and using his body to protect the scene as much as possible.

Faced with such a touching work scene, Aiwen was stunned for a while, but the heartless Liang Xi and Romeo were discussing another issue: "We are in trouble."

Liang Xi looked at the scene picture on his mobile phone and asked, "Manslaughter?"

It is basically certain that the crossbow arrow was shot at the eldest son from here, but the problem is that the earl is still between the murderer and the eldest son.Judging from the position where the earl and the eldest son were practicing Tai Chi at that time, this is definitely not a suitable position to shoot the eldest son, but it is a suitable position to shoot the earl.

Tai Chi movements are slow, and there are traces to follow. Why did the crossbow arrow not hit the earl, but hit the eldest son?

Romeo looked at the phone, and the raindrops kept hitting the screen. While wiping it, he said: "There is no record of the earl's behavior at that time in the transcript."

Liang Xidao: "Ask the eldest son's wife. Their family sits and eats by the flower garden. As a daughter-in-law, she should be worried about the conflicts between her husband and father-in-law, so she will pay more attention to them. The first possibility is that they sleep normally. In Tai Chi, the murderer was either poor in accuracy or poor in mental quality. The second possibility is that the Earl suddenly stopped practicing. Or the Earl was tired from practicing and walked forward to the edge to see the scenery. The third possibility is, The eldest son paused to correct the Count's movements."

The rain was too loud, and Ivan only heard half of it when he came over, and asked, "What should we do now?"

Romeo said in Ivan's ear: "Some people always underestimate blood. Inform your boss and keep all the people in the manor indoors."

Ai Wen asked: "Don't you just take off your shoes?"

"If the murderer persists, we need to show a court order. He has enough time to destroy the evidence. Don't let him think about the soles of his shoes." Romeo turned his head: "Liang Xi, think of a reason."

Liang Xi asked, "Where are they now?"

"In the hotel." Ai Wen replied: "The hotel under the Earl's name, the castle must not be unsealed today, and more than 20 people must always have a residence. In addition, the Brighton Police Department has limited manpower, and the transcript may not be finished yet."

Liang Xi said: "You send someone to the hospital to invite the eldest son's wife to the hotel, notify everyone that the eldest son's wife has something to announce, and ask everyone to gather in one place. Then you collect the shoes with the court order."

Are the shoes useful?If it were the leather shoes with smooth soles worn by Liang Xi today, it is very likely that no blood could be found.If it's a textured shoe, there's a good chance you can find blood.A little bit of blood gets mixed in the soil, and when it touches the shoe, it transfers to the shoe.A murder scene has been washed many times and trampled by countless people. Two months later, blood can still be found through the luminol plus infrared imaging device.One chemistry, one optics, there is always one suitable for you.

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The eldest son's wife came from a famous family. Even though she was worried about her husband's life, she still followed the detective's arrangement and asked the housekeeper to inform everyone to stay in the hotel. She would announce something important later, so she successfully delayed the time and let the police get warrant.In the big conference room of the hotel, she asked everyone to hand in their shoes, and then asked everyone to rest in their rooms, and expressed her deep apology for disturbing everyone and causing inconvenience to everyone.After the end, she rushed to the hospital again. Just after receiving a call from the hospital, the eldest son had come out of the operating room and was transferred to the intensive care unit, temporarily out of danger.

At this time, the gardener George who lived in room 503 felt faintly uneasy. Although he didn't know what the problem was, he was still uneasy. In desperation, he could only go back to the room.

Just as I sat down to calm my mind, the hotel internal phone rang: "Hello."

Electronic voice: "You are finished."

"who are you?"

"It doesn't matter who I am. If you follow my arrangement, not only will your charges be mitigated, but you will also get a sum of money."

George asked, "Why should I trust you?"

Electronic voice: "You have no other choice."

George was taken away by police detectives 10 minutes later. Although there is no DNA report yet, it has been proved that there are blood stains on the soles of George's shoes.There are bloodstains that can be quibbled, assuming the DNA report proves that the bloodstains belong to the eldest son, then all previous sophistry will become evidence in court.

Liang Xi stayed in the observation room, and Romeo and the local police detectives were in charge of interrogating George. Romeo opened the file in front of him, and slowly read George's resume in front of George: "You have worked in the Earl's house for more than 15 years." There are blood stains on the soles of individual shoes.However, according to transcript inquiries, it is tentatively determined that the two men's shoes were stained with blood when they assisted in lifting the eldest son.George is a gardener. He is 20 meters away and has to deal with crossbow arrows. His mental quality is not strong enough, so he has no time to fish in troubled waters.

"Yes."

Romeo saw that George's right thumb kept rubbing his index finger, knowing that he was very nervous, and said: "We know you did it, you must not be able to handle it, why don't you save everyone's time."

"I do not know what you're talking about."

"After confirming that you are the murderer, we checked the records. After the eldest son was attacked, he took a helicopter to the hospital accompanied by his wife. The earl took his own car to the hospital. Seeing that the two principals have left, you volunteered to drive the car with The eldest son's children went to the hospital to visit their father." Romeo said: "At this point, we know that you threw the crossbow on the way to the hospital. We asked the eldest son's children, and they said that you stopped at a certain location and said that you needed to pee. Walked into a sparse forest and disappeared for about 3 minutes. The search team is looking for the murder weapon, if you think you can survive, we can have a cup of tea together."

Romeo observed George's expression and said, "You are highly educated, you should be very clear that your attitude will affect your sentencing."

"Well, I did it."

Romeo frowned and looked sideways at the observation room, Liang Xi was also a little surprised.After entering the interrogation room, you can find that George is really an ordinary person. He is nervous, pretending to be calm, trying to figure out how to interrogate the police, and forcing himself to calm down.There were so many things to think about that he even forgot about etiquette, hand and face movements and expressions.

But normal people should not plead guilty so quickly, people have a fluke mentality.There are several bushes from Earl's Castle to the hospital.Even if there was only one bush, George would deny it, because he must have wiped off his fingerprints.Homicide is a first-class felony. Murder must be psychologically prepared to be arrested. How could Romeo confess after a few words in a leisurely manner?You must know that George did not know that the eldest son was out of danger.

One possibility of rushing to plead guilty is that he had other thoughts.

Romeo started talking to George, who was very cooperative, explaining where he was shooting.He also told Romeo that he had spent hours practicing shooting in the undergrowth.But George tried to avoid two questions, the first question: why kill the eldest son?Second question: Where did the crossbow come from?

Romeo changed his gentle attitude, his face became serious, he began to exert emotional pressure, added more accents to his words, and kept his eyes on George.After 10 minutes George explained the situation.

After working in the earl's house for 15 years, George inevitably showed some old-fashioned work attitudes.The earl has a gentle personality and doesn't care too much about it, but the earl's eldest son has always criticized him.Until last month, because of George's negligence at work, he didn't put away the tools at lunch, causing a young maid to step on the tools and hurt her foot.The eldest son of the earl asked the driver to take the maid to the hospital. Soon after, the eldest son’s butler had a private meeting with George. The butler asked George to come up with a decent reason for resignation and submit a letter of resignation. The earl’s family would give George corresponding monetary compensation according to the working hours.

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George was resentful of this result. He knew that he had only half a year left in 15 years.According to the rules of the earl's family, as long as the employees who have worked in the earl's manor for 15 years can receive a sum of money from the manor trust fund every week after resignation.Employees under 15 years are only compensated with a one-time 12-week paycheck.

A few days later, George received a mysterious call. Someone offered him a lot of money to hire him to assassinate the earl's eldest son, and a murder plan was devised, as long as George pulled the trigger.George didn't want to pay attention to it, but the other party talked about George's ideal of buying a farm on the phone.The mysterious man finally explained that even if George was arrested, the police would not be able to freeze his overseas funds.

30 pounds, 20 down payment, 3.7 final payment.The money made George's heart skip a beat.The salaries of the Earl's Manor vary greatly. The salaries of the positions that directly serve the owner, such as housekeepers and maids, and the management of security captains, are much higher than those of ordinary servants and gardeners.But relatively speaking, gardeners are paid relatively well. Gardener George's salary exceeds the UK median because of his long working years, with an annual income of 30 pounds. Although [-] pounds is not an astronomical figure for George, it is still a huge sum of money.

When George got the first payment, he also got a small compound crossbow for assassination.After two days of private training, George received a notification from a mysterious person on the third day that the weather is suitable for hands-on practice today.So George carried out his evil plan this morning.If there is no murder plan given by the mysterious man, George will be at a loss even if he gets the crossbow.With a plan, George only needs to follow the steps step by step, and it is not that difficult for George to pull the trigger.

The plan was actually good, but there were some accidental variables.It started raining in Brighton at [-]am that day.And it didn't start to rain at Earl's Manor until around five o'clock in the afternoon.

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