Chapter 117 - 83: Surprise Attack

However...

"We can get one."

Xu De suddenly spoke up.

This time, Wang Chao and Lin Yue were stunned. They subconsciously asked, "What?"

"I said, we can get one."

Xu De began to explain, hesitating slightly as his brow furrowed.

"Actually... I learned a certain skill in college."

"It’s called reading ’Bone Appearance’."

What is Bone Appearance?

Bone Appearance is the physical manifestation of a person’s genetic code.

But don’t forget.

A person’s genes aren’t created out of thin air or in isolation. They are a fusion inherited from both parents!

So, in theory, it’s possible to analyze a child’s face to indirectly deduce what their parents look like.

This happens in real life, too. Typically, after a child is born, the parents will look at their features and point out which ones resemble their own.

Of course...

"It just can’t be too precise."

Xu De added conservatively.

But Wang Chao’s face lit up with joy.

"Ha, as long as it’s usable, it’s better than nothing!"

With that, he pulled a pencil and a sheet of A4 paper from his briefcase, looking at Xu De expectantly.

"Director Xu, can you draw it?"

Xu De hesitated for a moment, then took the pencil. "I’ll try."

As he spoke, the sound of SCRITCH-SCRATCHING filled the air around them.

Before long, a portrait appeared before them.

Lin Yue craned her neck to look, staring at it with a frown for a long time. In the end, it was so hard on the eyes that she covered her face, unable to look directly at it.

On the paper, the person looked like a drawing by a six-year-old. If it had been done with crayons, it might have barely earned a certificate of merit in kindergarten.

’An eyesore...’

’It’s a total eyesore!’

Even Wang Chao was at a loss for words, staring speechlessly at the "masterpiece."

Lin Yue said diplomatically,

"Lawyer Xu, I never expected you..."

"Not only are your legal cases one-of-a-kind, but your painting is also so exceptional... I think I can faintly see the artistic soul of Van Gogh in there!"

Xu De: "..."

Xu De also fell into a contemplative silence as he stared at his own "masterpiece."

To be fair, he genuinely had a clear image of the person’s face in his mind.

But it was obvious.

His hands had ideas of their own and had refused to cooperate with his brain.

"Let me."

"The old man at the Daoist Temple always said I had a talent for drawing ever since I was a kid. Let me give it a try!"

Wang Chao volunteered eagerly, picking up the pencil, ready to get to work.

"Director Xu, you describe it, and I’ll execute it!"

Xu De nodded, not arguing. He began describing, "It’s a man. Square face, a somewhat flat nose bridge, a drinker’s nose, the distance between his eyebrows is about..."

A moment later, Wang Chao put down the pencil. "Done!"

They all crowded around to look.

This time, Lin Yue couldn’t hold back at all, sighing as she pressed a hand to her forehead.

"Where did this Picasso come from?"

The drawing on the paper... if those messy, abstract lines could even be called a drawing, then its artistic merit was about three or four stories high.

No less than a Picasso!

"Forget it. If this doesn’t work... let’s just go to the police station."

"We won’t pull files, just get information on all the children who went missing twelve years ago. Then we’ll have to try our luck with each one."

Xu De shook his head.

That was clearly a brute-force method. It would require an immense amount of time and patience, which they didn’t have much of. Choosing that path would be a total shot in the dark.

But right now, they had no better options.

However...

"How about..."

Lin Yue hesitated, then said tentatively, "How about I give it a try?"

"My father hired a private art tutor for me for a while, but I haven’t picked up a pencil in a year..."

’Give it a try?’

"Then let’s give it a try."

Xu De nodded and once again described the faces of the two people from his mind.

Before long...

Two sketched portraits, adjusted multiple times, appeared before them.

On the paper were a middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman, both around forty. From their wrinkles to the shrewd glint in their eyes, everything was rendered with striking realism.

The style was sharp and the image clean. The subjects’ features were angular and strikingly defined.

"I never would have guessed, True Monarch! You have this kind of skill!?"

Xu De’s face showed a hint of surprise as he looked at the two portraits.

These sketches... were an eighty percent match to the faces that had appeared in his mind!

And this wasn’t from her copying a reference; it was drawn purely from his verbal descriptions and her imagination.

"Hmph, hmph."

Lin Yue let out a smug little snort, crossing her arms and clearly enjoying the praise.

"It’s just that the style of your drawing..."

Xu De studied the two portraits carefully, then remarked with a sigh,

"...reminds me of a very famous painter."

Lin Yue raised an eyebrow, tilting her head up slightly.

"Who might that be?"

"A painter with an extremely strong personality and a sharp, angular style," Xu De said.

Lin Yue thought for a moment, then guessed tentatively, "Michelangelo?"

"Nope." Xu De shook his head.

Lin Yue grew even more curious. She put her hands on her hips and tilted her head. "Rembrandt? Van Gogh?"

"No, he wasn’t really a painter. It’s just that his drawings were very angular, and his personality was also very strong."

"Then who was it?"

Xu De said, "Adolf Hitler."

Lin Yue: ?