The slide showed a tall, thin man with dark, bronzed skin, wearing an oversized t-shirt. He appeared to be in his early forties and, looking at his features, one could tell he was a shrewd man. This was the notorious Guitou Rong of Kowloon.
The photo appeared to be a candid shot. He was standing with his arms crossed, gazing into the distance, but one eye seemed to sense the lens, glancing at the camera with a sinister glint and a touch of amusement at the corner of his mouth. He was likely of mixed heritage, bearing a resemblance to the legendary pirate king Guitou Chang, though he was younger. Chen Rou had an intuition that he was either Guitou Chang’s nephew or his son.
He had a distinct feature: the skin on his exposed neck and wrists was remarkably loose and layered, looking like chicken skin or perhaps a redundant fold of flesh. Just looking at him made one feel uneasy. Chen Rou had encountered someone like this once while on a mission in the Indian Ocean—an international drug lord whom Interpol had tried to capture many times. Every time they laid a trap, he managed to slip away. He was eventually caught by the special police of Zhonghua, and Chen Rou had been a member of that task force. During his interrogation, the police discovered that he possessed an anthropologically abnormal skeletal and ligament structure, known internationally as the Indian Bone-shrinking Technique. In the Hong Kong underworld, it was referred to as Snake-style Wing Chun.
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