Logan Howlett sighed helplessly, shaking his head at Karl with a slightly ashamed expression.
“But with my current physical condition, I’m afraid I can’t capture the specific situation of those two guys in more detail.”
Although Logan Howlett had tried his best to search for clues.
However, due to long-term suffering from injuries, his sense of smell has inevitably experienced extremely serious degradation.
Being able to analyze these situations from the complex smells is already the limit of what he can do now!
As for the rest… it’s really beyond his ability!
As for whether this powerful young man in front of him would think he was a useless “waste,” these were not issues that Logan Howlett needed to worry about.
After all, he hasn't been in this state just for a day or two!
However.
Faced with such an unsatisfactory answer, Karl was neither angry nor in a hurry to speak.
The enigmatic smile still hung on the corner of his mouth, as if he was waiting for something.
Just as Logan Howlett felt his whole body tingling from being stared at, and his heart became more and more uneasy, he heard Bishop Warren McCoy ask with some doubt:
“Wait a minute, you just said… how many guards died?!”
“15.”
“Sir, are you sure?”
“This, of course!”
“……”
Bishop Warren McCoy's face gradually became a little unsightly. He slowly turned his head to look at Karl, and said with a complicated expression:
“Mr. Mara, I believe you must still remember that on the list of fallen personnel transmitted to you, there were a total of 16 guards, right?!”
Karl nodded noncommittally, very clear about what the other party meant by asking this.
There were a total of 16 guards in the guard team, but now only 15 members have died…
Then needless to say, the person who is still alive is either an accomplice of the intruders, or was directly taken away by the other party as a “hostage.”
But Bishop Warren McCoy should probably hope that the result is the latter, right?
Because that “survivor” is very likely to be Sister Grady!
Imagine if an angel agent from the Vatican suddenly became an accomplice of the intruders…
If such explosive news were to leak out, it would undoubtedly be a devastating blow to the reputation, prestige, and worldwide influence of the entire Vatican!!
So Bishop Warren McCoy had to pay attention to it. The expression on his face gradually became extremely serious, and he tentatively said in a slightly flattering tone:
“Well… Mr. Mara, if possible, could you please have your employees conduct a more detailed verification…”
“This matter is of great importance, I must know the most accurate answer so that I can notify the Vatican to make corresponding remedial work in advance!”
After a slight pause, Bishop Warren McCoy seemed to have made a difficult decision in his heart, and continued to say through gritted teeth:
“For this, the Vatican is willing to pay any price… At the same time, from now on, the Vatican will also become Mr. Mara and Sokovia’s most loyal ally!!”
Bishop Warren McCoy would naturally not be stupid enough to think that Karl was unaware of the “tricks” that existed here!
And from the moment Logan Howlett announced the results of the first investigation, the initiative of this incident had actually fallen into Karl's hands.
In this way, in order to ensure that the transaction can proceed smoothly, and that the secrets involved here will not be leaked out.
Then Bishop Warren McCoy and the Vatican must re-invest… and it must be a heavy bet!!
This kind of operation is almost a tacitly understood unspoken rule in the business world.
So even if Karl didn't say it, Bishop Warren McCoy had to take the initiative to bring it up… this is a matter of attitude, after all, he is asking for help!
What’s more, Bishop Warren McCoy also urgently wants to know whether the survivor is Sister Grady.
And ordinary DNA testing methods obviously cannot give him an accurate answer in the short term.
This is not to say that there is any difficulty in detecting and comparing the DNA samples of those dead guards!
The opposite is true. The Vatican's internal database stores the DNA biological information of every guard.
So as long as enough biological samples can be extracted, the survivor can be identified in minutes!
However, this approach has a very important prerequisite, that is, the target biological sample extracted must be single and free of impurities…
Because once the specimen is mixed and contaminated, the final test results may have large errors, or even fail to be tested directly!
In actual testing, even if the blood of two people is mixed together, the corresponding DNA test cannot be done.
So, the real problem lies in how to screen single and impurity-free DNA samples, this seemingly simple initial step!!
The current crime scene is simply as chaotic as if it had been plowed back and forth by a meat grinder several times.
It is as difficult as ascending to the sky to accurately extract the DNA samples of the 15 guards who died from the minced meat all over the place where “you have me and I have you”!
This is the fundamental reason why the Vatican has used almost all its technological means before, but still failed to find any clues.
This is also the fundamental reason why Bishop Warren McCoy is now betting all his “treasures” on Karl.
“Okay!”
A look of satisfaction appeared on Karl's face. He likes dealing with people who are “very understanding” and “very sensible” like this, and he doesn't need to say so much nonsense at all.
Immediately, he turned his gaze to Logan Howlett, who looked tangled on the opposite side.
“Well, Mr. Mara, maybe I didn’t make it clear just now…”
Logan Howlett naturally heard the conversation between the two. In order not to delay Karl's transaction and cause unnecessary misunderstandings and friction, he quickly reminded him before the other party could speak:
“With my current physical condition, I can’t maximize my sense of smell at all. Being able to smell these situations now is already my limit, so…”
However, before he could finish speaking, Karl waved his hand and interrupted him indifferently: “I know your current situation, but it doesn’t matter, I have a way to help you restore your peak state.”
“Ah? Help me… restore my peak state?”
Logan Howlett looked at the other party with a bewildered expression, but saw Karl had already taken a test tube filled with bright green liquid from the hands of the Thunder Warrior behind him.
“This recovery potion can help you restore your sense of smell to its best state during its peak period…”
Karl raised his hand and threw the reagent, which was also personally made by Nurgle, to Logan Howlett, and reminded him with a smile that was not a smile:
“However, its duration is only one week, and afterwards your sense of smell… and even your physical condition, may experience serious degradation.”
“So, whether to use it or not, you choose yourself!”
Although Karl appreciates Logan Howlett's affectionate and righteous character.
But the initial motivation for wanting to recruit the other party was simply to use his sense of smell to complete this task.
However, if Logan Howlett can withstand the test and is also willing to offer his loyalty to him.
Then Karl naturally wouldn't mind whether this dying old wolf was already too old!
After all, he has many ways to restore the other party's combat effectiveness to the level of “when he was young.”
Gudong——
Who would have thought that Logan Howlett just glanced at the green potion in his hand, which was constantly bubbling with viscous bubbles, and directly pulled out the bottle stopper without even thinking about it and drank it down.
Boom——
In an instant, Logan Howlett felt that some kind of power that had been dormant in his body for a long time had actually burst out with unimaginable vigorous vitality!
Smell——
Logan Howlett closed his eyes and took a deep breath into the air.
The complex and chaotic odor pheromones filling the air instantly poured into his nasal cavity.
The freshness of the soil under his feet, the fragrance of the black tea opposite him, the sweat and body odor on the security personnel of the Vatican in the distance, and even the highly decayed animal carcass a few kilometers away…
The unique chemical molecules that make up each smell, after special processing by the Bug-level olfactory factor, instantly form vivid dynamic 3D dynamic images in Logan Howlett's brain.
He doesn't even need to open his eyes now. Relying only on the changes and guidance of the surrounding smells, he can accurately lock all the target sources that have ever “passed through” this area within a radius of five to ten kilometers.
In addition to the successfully “repaired” sense of smell.
Logan Howlett was also surprised to find that his self-healing ability, perception ability, and other related bodily functions had all been greatly repaired.
In simple terms, except for the fact that his appearance has not returned to his youth, his body has almost regained its peak state.
The pains that had been bothering him were all dispelled after drinking the potion!
Feeling the long-lost power filling his body again, Logan Howlett suddenly had a feeling of being reborn.
Although he already had the will to “die”!
But if he can live well, who would be willing to die?
However, what made Logan Howlett feel a little confused was that Karl clearly said just now that this potion could only help him restore his sense of smell to its best level, right?
But now his whole body has been repaired, what is going on?
Is it an accident?
Or…
Logan Howlett opened his eyes and looked at Karl with a complicated expression, but found that the other party was looking at him with a smile that was not a smile.
“He said that on purpose?!”
Logan Howlett immediately reacted, presumably Karl's remarks just now were a test for him… or a obedience test?
Although he couldn't figure out why the other party wanted to test him like this for the time being?
But one thing he can be sure of is that if he chose to refuse at that time, the result might be very bad…
Because just when the thought of “refusal” came to his mind, the beast instinct instantly began to warn him crazily!
That's why he just drank it down directly without thinking about it.
Unconsciously, Logan Howlett recalled the legendary stories about Karl that he had heard from Frank during their chat along the way.
Perhaps because the two had similar styles, or because Logan Howlett had already agreed to serve the Warp Space Group for three years.
In short, after Frank regarded him as half of his “own people,” he happily told him many interesting things about how he met Karl and how the other party saved his family.
Logan Howlett could feel that Frank had extreme faith in this so-called Boss… no, it could even be said that he had reached a fanatical worship like a believer!!
To the point that Logan Howlett subconsciously thought that the other party might have been “brainwashed” by Karl.
After all, Professor X had also done this to him… right?
So he secretly used his mobile phone to check it on the Internet, but the result was a bit funny.
Because the videos about Karl circulating on the Internet were actually much more exaggerated than what Frank said!
Especially the recent battle against the alien invasion in Greenwich, even magic portals appeared?
And those Thunder Warriors who can transform into werewolves at will also brought a lot of shock to Logan Howlett.
Not to mention the final confrontation between Karl and the God King Odin, as well as the various famous scenes of warning .!
Leaving aside the God King Odin, when Logan Howlett saw Nick Fury, the old yin, suffer, he felt extremely comfortable.
In the early years, during the days when the X-Men had not officially withdrawn from the stage of history.
Nick Fury had come to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters more than once, proposing to Professor X to recruit the X-Men.
But without exception, they were all rejected.
So later, this one-eyed black ghost, whose heart was darker than his face, began to secretly trip up the X-Men, making Logan and others deeply constrained by all parties in subsequent actions.
And it intensified the distrust of the human high-level officials towards the X-Men and mutant groups.
If Professor X hadn't always had concerns and strongly stopped everyone from having a head-on conflict with ., I'm afraid Logan and the others would have cleaned up Nick Fury long ago.
Therefore, after seeing Karl not giving . and Nick Fury any face, Logan Howlett's evaluation of this mysterious young ruler naturally increased by a few points.
And after meeting him formally today, he once again refreshed his views—mysterious, powerful, fearless!!
This is what he felt in Karl.
Somehow, the word “safe haven” suddenly popped into Logan Howlett's mind.
Previously, in his dispute with Professor X, he had said that there was no longer a place in this world that could accommodate them, the abandoned.
But now, looking at the mysterious and powerful young man in front of him, his idea couldn't help but waver!
Perhaps... the [Hyperspace Conglomerate] is a haven that can accommodate people like them and provide them with shelter?!
The thought made Logan Howlett feel a surge of excitement, even a hint of glee!
Because as long as he could complete this mission, maybe he wouldn't have to live that miserable life of hiding and starving with Professor X for the rest of his life!
Therefore, even for the sake of his remaining years, he had to give it his all this time.
"Mr. Mara, I want to go back to the crime scene and take another look!"
"...Go ahead."
