Chapter 451: Who can give a clone a soul (Part 1!)

Hawk listened to Natasha's voice on the other end of the phone and raised an eyebrow.

"Are you sure?"

"Hmm."

Natasha, who had already returned to the S. H. I. E. L. D. Triskelion headquarters, said: "The scars on his body are all the same as the scars in the paper files we stored when we first arrested him."

When she said this.

Natasha looked through the glass in front of her at Dr. Merrick, who was still inside preparing for tests, and thought for a moment.

"Could it be that you really got it wrong?"

"Impossible."

Hawk laughed: "He definitely has a problem."

Still the same point.

Although he didn't know why this Merrick they found had a soul, his sixth sense told him that this Merrick was also a clone.

Natasha listened to Hawk's decisive answer and didn't say anything more: "Fine, Director Hill plans to find someone to perform a DNA telomere length test on this Merrick."

If this Merrick really had a problem, then this test would definitely be able to find it.

Because a natural human's DNA accumulates more mutations over time, which also leads to shorter telomere lengths.

But if this Dr. Merrick was also a clone, then this test would definitely give a result.

Hawk wasn't an idiot; he was at least a sophomore at New York University School of Law.

His fiancée Gwen was also a biology student.

So...

Hawk listened to S. H. I. E. L. D.'s plan to perform a DNA telomere test on Merrick and thought for a moment: "Add a bone age penetration test."

How long had Dr. Merrick been missing?

If the Merrick they caught was a clone, then he must have been accelerated by hormones from the real Dr. Merrick.

Since it was accelerated, his bone age definitely wouldn't lie, just like the rings of a tree; real rings and fake rings could be distinguished.

Natasha listened to Hawk's words, gave a response, and then hung up the phone.

Hawk also hung up the phone.

He was actually 90% certain that the Dr. Merrick they had brought back was a clone.

It was just that Hawk couldn't understand where the soul of this Merrick clone came from.

After all, a soul was something only possessed by dimensions that controlled the laws of life and death. It couldn't be said that Mephisto gave it, could it?

That was impossible.

Hawk believed the rumor that Mephisto was in cahoots with Hydra, as Mephisto was a miser.

But Hawk didn't believe for a second that Mephisto would casually give away a soul.

When he asked Mephisto for his sister's soul, he had to force him to the brink of a divine war before Mephisto reluctantly handed it over.

And Alexander Pierce's soul...

Let's put it this way: unless you held a knife to Mephisto's throat, this old demon would never agree to compromise. Otherwise, you couldn't hope to take any soul from his hands, even if you were his ally.

The most important point.

Hawk had been to Hell, so if this soul had been given by Mephisto, he would have been able to sense it.

But he hadn't smelled any scent of Hell from the soul of this Dr. Merrick, who was 90% suspected of being a clone.

So...

It was very strange.

Hawk thought about the faint, pure scent he had smelled on Dr. Merrick's soul at the time, feeling it becoming somewhat familiar. He put his phone back in his pocket and walked toward the main building of the estate.

Soon.

When he walked back into the main building and his gaze fell on Gwen's cousin Caroline, who was sitting cross-legged on the sofa near the fireplace chatting, the confusion he had just felt about the familiar scent on Dr. Merrick's soul finally had an answer.

Gwen's cousin Caroline still carried a hint of this scent.

No.

There was also that vampire, Damon.

But this scent was different from the one naturally carried on Dr. Merrick's soul. Whether it was Caroline or Damon, the scent on their souls wasn't something they possessed themselves, but rather it looked exactly like they had come into contact with a soul that possessed the scent and had become contaminated by it.

Caroline was more heavily contaminated.

And Damon was more lightly contaminated.

This was why Hawk hadn't realized it when he saw Damon, but suddenly realized it when he saw Caroline again.

So...

Who could be the person that both Caroline and Damon knew?

Hawk thought calmly about the main cast of "The Vampire Diaries" while walking toward the living room at Gwen's beckoning.

He took out his phone and returned it to Gwen.

Gwen reached out to take it and looked at Hawk.

"Just be back by Christmas Eve."

"It's fine."

"It was just about yesterday's matter; they called to tell me the results, but the final result hasn't come out yet."

Hawk said with a smile, then sat on the opposite sofa and steered the topic to the university Caroline would be graduating to next year: "Caroline, have you chosen your university yet?"

Gwen heard this, laughed, glanced at Caroline beside her, and said to Hawk: "I was just asking."

"The result?"

"She said she hasn't decided yet."

Gwen shook her head and then said to Caroline beside her: "After this year, you only have one semester left. High school isn't the end of our lives, and university is even less of an end; it's a starting point. A good university determines your future starting point."

Caroline said with a smile: "Gwen, your tone sounds just like my mother's."

She didn't look at Hawk.

She didn't know why, but she felt a bit afraid of Hawk, even though less than two hours had passed from the beginning until now.

But she felt she was just very afraid of Hawk.

Gwen listened to Caroline's teasing and shook her head. Just as she was about to speak, someone else walked in from outside.

To be precise, two people.

A middle-aged female sheriff wearing a police uniform who looked somewhat similar to Helen.

The other was a young woman who looked to be about the same age as Caroline.

The female sheriff was named Liz Forbes.

She was Gwen's aunt and Caroline's mother.

As for that young woman.

Elena Gilbert!

As the two walked in, Gwen and Caroline, who were chatting in the living room, turned to look.

The next second.

Gwen got up from the sofa, walked over happily, and hugged her aunt Liz Forbes: "Aunt!"

Caroline had also walked to the side of her friend Elena, who had come here, thinking something had happened: "Elena, what's wrong?"

Elena breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Caroline was still alive.

Because just a moment ago, Damon had run back covered in blood, giving Stefan and her, who were on a date, a scare.

Damon told them that a stranger had come to Caroline's grandfather's house, and he was the one who had injured him.

After hearing this, Stefan and Elena thought the werewolves had returned, and they were ready to come and rescue Caroline on the spot.

Just as they were coming over, they met Sheriff Forbes, who was Caroline's mother, Liz.

Elena reacted quickly, saying they were here to find Caroline.

And so.

The two walked in together.

As for Stefan, he stayed outside to provide support; if there really were werewolves inside, Stefan entering would be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth.

The result...

It didn't seem like anything was wrong here.

Just that there were strangers who weren't recognized at all.

Is it him?

Elena's gaze fell on Hawk, who had followed from the sofa and was shaking hands with Liz under Gwen's introduction.

She knew Gwen, knowing she was Caroline's cousin from New York City.

But this person named Hawk...

Elena looked at her friend Caroline to the side.

"He is..."

"Hawk, my cousin's fiancé."

"Fiancé?"

Elena heard this, glanced at Hawk and Gwen nearby, and lowered her voice: "Isn't your cousin only twenty years old this year?"

Caroline nodded: "Yes, my cousin said they met when they were sixteen."

Elena suddenly understood.

"Childhood sweethearts."

"... I suppose so."

Caroline thought for a moment and agreed, even though she always felt that the story her cousin had just described to her about how she and Hawk met, got to know each other, and fell in love had some artistic embellishments.

But she had no evidence.

Caroline thought, then looked at Elena, who had run over so suddenly to find her: "By the way, Elena, you came here to..."

Elena also snapped back to reality.

"Let's go outside and talk."

"Okay." ===== CHAPTER 453 =====