Chapter 759: A Chance Encounter

Is it an illusion?

Is it possible the person has a generic face, which is why he feels somewhat familiar?

Yu Dazhang stared tightly at the drawing board in Xia Bin's hand, his brain working at high speed as he tried to recall every person he knew.

It shouldn't be an illusion.

As the figure on the drawing board became clearer, Yu Dazhang found it looked increasingly familiar.

I have definitely seen this person... he concluded in his heart.

However, the other person was not someone he was close to, but they must have interacted before.

With Yu Dazhang's current memory, he could basically recall anyone he had come into contact with.

Since he couldn't recall it, it proved that this person's intersection with him was not deep.

Probably the kind of person he had only seen once and had a simple conversation with.

The problem is, there are too many such people.

For example, going to the supermarket to shop, having a simple exchange with the cashier at checkout, that also counts as having interacted.

And such things are everywhere in life; even with the best memory, it is impossible to remember everyone one has ever contacted.

There is one more thing Yu Dazhang can be certain of: he does not know the other person's name.

If it were someone whose name he knew, he would definitely remember.

"Who could it be?"

He couldn't help but mutter to himself.

This feeling was very uncomfortable, like accidentally seeing an actor on TV; he could determine at a glance that he had seen their drama, but just couldn't recall which role they had played.

At this moment, a hand landed on his shoulder.

"What are you muttering about?"

Captain Xu stood beside him and asked in a low voice:

"Did you think of a new clue again?"

The current Yu Dazhang, in Captain Xu's eyes, was completely someone immersed in the case details.

So much so that when Captain Xu spoke to him, he had to deliberately lower his voice, afraid of disturbing his train of thought.

"Where would so many new clues come from?"

Yu Dazhang raised his head and glanced at him:

"I just feel the person Xia Bin drew looks a bit familiar."

Hearing him say this, Captain Xu also looked at the computer screen, then frowned and said:

"Although it's drawn with nose and eyes, after all, it's still just an outline; you can already tell it looks familiar from this?"

Everyone's ability to recognize images differs.

Some people are like they have a live GPS installed in their brains; no matter where they go, they know the way, while others are naturally directionally challenged.

Because the activity levels of human nerve cells differ, this causes differences in image recognition ability.

"If you look at it with a three-dimensional perspective, you can distinguish it."

Yu Dazhang explained:

"Just like an engineer looking at blueprints; adding contour lines naturally creates a three-dimensional feeling."

Hearing this, Captain Xu blinked twice, obviously not understanding.

He really had not come into contact with similar knowledge, so naturally he didn't understand what was meant by a three-dimensional feel.

"Could it be that you misidentified him?"

Captain Xu still thought what he said was a bit unreliable; the drawing wasn't even finished, yet he could tell it looked familiar; how could that possibly be?

The figure's outline on Xia Bin's drawing board, in his eyes, was just an ordinary portrait, showing absolutely no distinguishing features.

Yu Dazhang thought for a moment, then suddenly asked a nonsensical question:

"Did you buy cigarettes recently?"

"I did," Captain Xu answered:

"I bought a carton the day before yesterday at noon."

His smoking addiction was heavy; usually, when he had nothing to do, he smoked two packs a day; if he encountered a major case, under high pressure, three packs a day was the minimum.

"Where did you buy them?" Yu Dazhang asked again.