Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 226 Who Can Give a Cloner a Soul (First Update!)

Hawke raised an eyebrow as he listened to Natasha's voice on the other end of the phone.

"are you sure?"

"Ah."

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

When it comes to this.

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

"Could it be that you've really made a mistake?"

"impossible."

Hawke chuckled. "He definitely has a problem."

Again.

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

Natasha, hearing Hawke's decisive answer, didn't say anything more: "Okay, Director Hill plans to have someone conduct a DNA telomere length test on this Myrick."

If there is indeed a problem with this Merrick, then this test should be able to find it.

Because human DNA is damaged over time and accumulates more mutations, resulting in shorter telomere length.

But if Dr. Merrick is also a clone, then this test will definitely produce a result.

Hawke isn't mentally challenged; he's a sophomore at NYU School of Law, after all.

His fiancée, Gwen, is also a biology student.

and so……

After hearing that S.H.I.E.L.D. planned to perform a DNA telomere test on Myrick, Hawke thought for a moment and said, "Let's add a bone age penetration test as well."

Dr. Merrick has only been missing for a short time.

If the Merrick they captured is a clone, then he must have been created by the real Dr. Merrick through hormone therapy.

Since it is a rapid process, its bone age certainly won't lie. Just like the annual rings of a tree, true and false annual rings can be distinguished.

Natasha responded to Hawke's words with a sound of agreement, and then hung up the phone.

Hawke also hung up the phone.

He was actually 90% certain that the Dr. Merrick he had captured was a clone.

Hawke simply couldn't understand where the soul of this Merrick clone came from.

After all, the soul is something that only those who control the laws of life and death possess; it can't be said that Mephisto gave it to them.

This is impossible.

Hawke believed that Mephisto, that miser, was colluding with Hydra.

Hawke simply did not believe that Mephisto would casually give away a soul.

As for his sister's soul, he demanded it from Mephisto, which almost forced him to start a divine war before Mephisto reluctantly handed it over.

And the soul of Alexander Pierce...

To put it simply, unless you hold a knife to Mephisto's throat, this old demon will not agree to compromise. Otherwise, you can forget about taking any soul from him, even if you are his ally.

The most important thing.

Hawke had been to Hell, so if this soul was given to him by Mephisto, he would be able to sense it as well.

But he couldn't detect any hint of hell in the soul of Dr. Merrick, who was 90% a clone.

and so……

Very strange.

As Hawke thought about the pure scent he had gleaned from Dr. Merrick's soul, which seemed to have become somewhat familiar, he put his phone back in his pocket and headed towards the main building of the manor.

soon.

When he re-entered the main building and his gaze fell upon Gwen's cousin Caroline, who was sitting cross-legged on the sofa near the fireplace chatting, the confusion that had just arisen in his mind—that the scent of Dr. Merrick's soul seemed somewhat familiar—finally found an answer.

Gwen's cousin Caroline still carried a trace of that scent.

wrong.

And that vampire Damon.

However, this scent is different from the scent that naturally emanates from Dr. Merrick's soul. Neither Caroline nor Damon possess this scent themselves; rather, it seems to have been picked up from a soul that had come into contact with a scent.

Caroline's stain was quite strong.

Damon, on the other hand, was only slightly affected.

This is why Hawke didn't realize it when he first saw Damon, but suddenly realized it when he saw Caroline again.

and so……

Who could it be that both Caroline and Damon know?

Hawke silently recalled the main characters from "The Vampire Diaries" as he walked towards the living room at Gwen's beckoning.

He took the phone out and returned it to Gwen.

Gwen reached out and took it, then looked at Hawke.

"Just come back on Christmas Eve."

"fine."

"They called to tell me the results of yesterday's incident, but the final result hasn't come out yet."

Hawke chuckled as he spoke, then sat down on the opposite sofa and steered the conversation toward Caroline's university, which she would be graduating from next year: "Caroline, have you chosen your university yet?"

Gwen chuckled upon hearing this, glanced at Caroline beside her, and said to Hawke, "I was just asking that too."

"result?"

She said she hadn't decided yet.

Gwen shook her head, then said to Caroline beside her, "After this year, you only have one semester left. High school is not the end of our lives, and college is not the end either, but the beginning. A good college determines the starting point of your future."

Caroline laughed and said, "Gwen, you speak just like my mother."

She did not go to see Hawke.

For some reason, she felt a little afraid of Hawke, even though it hadn't been more than two hours since the beginning. She just felt genuinely afraid of him.

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

To be precise, it was two people.

A middle-aged female police chief wearing a police uniform who looked remarkably similar to Helen.

The other was a young woman, probably around the same age as Caroline.

The female police chief's name is Liz Fox.

It was Gwen's aunt, Caroline's mother.

As for the young woman...

Elena Gilbert!
As the two entered, Gwen and Caroline, who were talking in the living room, also turned to look over.

next second.

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

Caroline had just walked over to her friend Elena, who had also arrived, and asked, thinking something was wrong, "Elena, what's wrong?"

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

Just moments ago, Damon, covered in blood, ran back, startling Stefan and her, who were on a date.

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

When Stefan and Elena heard this, they thought the werewolves had returned and immediately wanted to come and rescue Caroline.

Just as the two arrived, they encountered Sheriff Fox, who is also Caroline's mother, Liz.

Elena reacted quickly, saying she was there to see Caroline.

This is not.

The two of them came in together.

As for Stefan, he stayed outside to provide backup. If there really were werewolves inside, Stefan would be walking into the lion's den.

result……

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong here.

It just meant there were more complete strangers.

is it him?
Elena's gaze fell on Hawke, who had followed her from the sofa and was then introduced by Gwen to shake hands with Liz.

She recognized Gwen; she knew that this was Caroline's cousin in New York City.

But this guy named Hawke...

Elena looked at her friend Caroline beside her.

"he is……"

"Hawk, my cousin's fiancé."

"fiancé?"

Upon hearing this, Elena glanced at Hawke and Gwen beside her and lowered her voice, "Isn't your cousin only twenty years old this year?"

Caroline nodded: "Yes, my cousin said they've known each other since they were sixteen."

Elena suddenly realized.

"Childhood sweethearts."

"...So be it."

Caroline thought for a moment and echoed, even though she felt that her cousin's description of how she met, got to know, and fell in love with Hawke had some artistic embellishment.

But she had no proof.

Caroline thought for a moment, then looked at Elena, who had suddenly come to find her: "By the way, Elena, what brings you here..."

Elena realized what was happening too.

"Go out and talk."

"it is good."

The two then turned and walked outside.

Hawke, who was standing next to Gwen and talking with her aunt Liz, glanced at Caroline and the girl named Elena as they turned to walk outside, but didn't pay them much attention.

However, his inner confusion has now been resolved.

The next step is to find an opportunity to verify my guess.

There's no rush.

He came here to accompany Gwen to see her relatives, not to attend to his own business.

Outside the manor.

Stefan, who had been anxiously waiting by the car after his girlfriend Elena went inside with Liz, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his girlfriend and Caroline walking out of the manor.

Only Caroline was completely confused.

"What's wrong? Jules is back again?"

"No."

Elena shook her head, then looked at Caroline and recounted how Damon had returned home seriously injured. She then said to Caroline, "Damon said that the guy who almost killed him came from Fox Manor."

Is Damon injured?
Caroline frowned. For some reason, she wasn't worried; instead, she felt a sense of schadenfreude.

After all, Damon is a rotten person.

After Caroline became a vampire, she also awakened her memories of being hypnotized by Damon and used as a tool for... well, you know.

only……

"She came from our manor? Impossible! Today, only my cousin and she, who are unmarried, were in the manor..."

Caroline paused here, blinked, and looked at Elena.

"It's him?"

"..."

(End of this chapter)