Chapter 86

"What did you just say?"

"Uh, I don't know?"

"No, you just said the doctor succeeded with what experiment?"

"A tail-less mouse, didn't I tell you last time?"

Hawk frowned, looked at Gwen, whose expression seemed somewhat shocked, and asked curiously: "What's wrong?"

Gwen didn't speak.

Her willow-leaf eyebrows were furrowed.

Experiment success.

Tail-less mouse.

Don't know why, but in Gwen's mind, that mouse that escaped from prison two months ago after the laboratory accident and licked the blood Hawk had dripped suddenly appeared.

If her memory was correct.

That mouse's tail seemed to be broken.

"Hiss!"

Gwen subconsciously gasped, then glanced at Hawk, then took out her phone from her pocket, found one of the numbers, and dialed it.

Hawk, sitting opposite, saw Gwen's action and also raised his eyebrows.

Soon.

Gwen's call was connected.

"Hello, Elsa."

"Gwen? Are you here to ask what happened? Sorry, the company made us sign a confidentiality agreement."

"It's not that, Elsa, I want to ask, did the doctor's experiment succeed on a tail-less mouse?"

"Uh... yeah."

Elsa, the female researcher who was currently at the Osborn Biocorp building and had just finished signing the confidentiality agreement with the company, nodded: "But it can't be said to be a success, because it only happened that one time, and after that, we tried to replicate it, but all failed."

Hearing this, Gwen hurriedly asked.

"Did that mouse that escaped from prison succeed at the time?"

"Yeah, that's the one."

Sure enough!

Gwen thought to herself, and after calmly saying a few more words to Elsa on the other end of the phone, she hung up.

Hawk looked at Gwen after she hung up and asked curiously: "Is there anything different about that mouse that escaped?"

Gwen put away her phone and glanced at Hawk.

She thought for a moment.

"Do you remember that laboratory accident?"

"Yeah, I remember."

"Your hand was injured and bleeding at the time, right."

"No."

Hawk shook his head decisively.

Gwen didn't speak, just looked at Hawk quietly.

Hawk met Gwen's gaze, thought for a moment: "Alright, let's just say I was injured at the time, continue."

Gwen stared at Hawk.

"The few drops of blood you left on the ground were licked up by that tail-less mouse."

"..."

Hawk frowned slightly as he looked at Gwen.

Gwen was also looking at Hawk.

Their eyes met.

Hawk withdrew his gaze and gasped: "You suspect that successful tail-less mouse is the one you saw?"

Gwen shrugged: "This is the only variable; otherwise, why did the doctor have so many animal experiments, but only that mouse succeeded?"

Although she didn't understand what the relationship was.

But...

In Gwen's mind, that waterfall deep in the Maryland forest that looked like an angry dragon raising its head and reversing the river of heaven rang out again.

And Hawk, who was standing under the waterfall reversing the river of heaven and was also the cause of all this.

Hawk didn't speak, just silently put the large cup of cola he was holding on the side, then also crossed his hands on the table, leaning his body slightly forward to look at Gwen.

He thought of what Peter said on the apartment rooftop last night.

Dr. Lizard had his scent on him.

Hawk thought last night that the scent was because Gwen had seen Dr. Connors the day before yesterday and it remained after contact.

But now it seems that's not the case.

Laboratory accident, he left a few drops of blood.

The tail-less mouse that escaped sucked up the few drops of blood he left, and then became the only surviving mouse in an experiment where all other mice ended in death.

Dr. Connors then extracted a new serum from this surviving mouse and synthesized the regeneration agent.