Hawk's Blood Analysis Report

"What did you just say?"

"Uh, I don't know?"

"No, what did you say the doctor's experiment succeeded with?"

"A white mouse with a severed tail. Did I not tell you last time?"

Hawk frowned, looking at Gwen, whose expression seemed a bit shocked, and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Gwen didn't speak.

Her eyebrows were furrowed.

Experiment succeeded.

Severed-tail white mouse.

For some reason, Gwen's mind suddenly flashed back to two months ago, to the white mouse that had escaped during the lab accident and licked Hawk's blood that had dripped onto the floor.

If her memory served her correctly.

That white mouse's tail was indeed severed.

"Hiss!"

Gwen instinctively sucked in a breath of cold air, then glanced at Hawk. She then took out her phone from her pocket, found a number, and dialed it.

Hawk, sitting opposite her, raised his eyebrows at Gwen's actions.

Soon.

Gwen's call was answered.

"Hello, Elsa."

"Gwen? Are you calling to ask what happened? Sorry, the company made us sign a non-disclosure agreement."

"No, Elsa, I wanted to ask if the doctor's experiment succeeded with a white mouse that had a severed tail?"

"Uh... yes."

Elsa, a female researcher at Osborn Bio-Industry who had just signed a non-disclosure agreement with the company, nodded. "But you can't really say it succeeded, because it only happened once. We tried to replicate it afterwards, but failed."

Gwen, upon hearing this, quickly pressed further.

"Was it that white mouse that escaped that succeeded?"

"Yes, that's the one."

As expected!

Gwen thought to herself, then calmly said a few more words to Elsa on the phone before hanging up.

Hawk looked at Gwen after she hung up and asked curiously, "What was so special about that escaped white mouse?"

Gwen put her phone away and looked at Hawk.

She thought for a moment.

"Do you remember that lab accident?"

"Yes, I remember."

"You were injured then, and you were bleeding, right."

"No."

Hawk shook his head decisively.

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

Meeting Gwen's gaze, Hawk thought for a moment. "Okay, let's just say I was injured then. Continue."

Gwen kept looking at Hawk.

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

"..."

Hawk frowned, looking at Gwen.

Gwen was also looking at Hawk.

Their eyes met.

Hawk looked away, sucked in a breath of cold air. "You suspect that the severed-tail white mouse that succeeded is the same one you saw?"

Gwen shrugged. "It's the only variable. Otherwise, why would the doctor's numerous animal experiments only succeed with that one mouse?"

Although she didn't understand what the connection was.

But...

Gwen's mind once again recalled the waterfall deep in the Maryland forest, which was like a dragon raising its head, reversing the flow of the Milky Way.

And Hawk, who was standing beneath that reversed waterfall, the one who caused all of this.

Hawk remained silent. He quietly placed the large cup of cola he was holding to the side, then crossed his arms on the table, leaning forward slightly as he looked at Gwen.

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

Dr. Lizard had his scent on him.

Hawk had assumed last night that the scent was left behind because Gwen had met Dr. Connors the day before and they had come into contact.

But it seemed that wasn't the case now.

During an accident in the lab, he had shed a few drops of blood.

A white mouse that had escaped from its cage and had its tail cut off had absorbed those few drops of blood he left behind. Then, among all the other white mice that met a fatal end in the experiment, it became the sole survivor.

Dr. Connors had extracted a new serum from this surviving white mouse and synthesized a regeneration potion.

After that...

Dr. Connors turned into Dr. Lizard?

Hawk frowned, looking at Gwen, who was quietly watching him, opened his mouth, then shook his head, feeling a bit ridiculous.

"My blood shouldn't be that exaggerated."

"There's a way to find out."

"What?"

"The Stark Building at school has a blood analyzer. The fastest results come out in half an hour."

"..."

Stark Building referred to the school's Building Three, a laboratory building donated by Howard Stark. Most of the equipment inside was also donated by Stark Industries.

Of course, this included the fully automatic rapid blood testing analyzer with the Stark logo, which looked like it was worth at least a hundred thousand dollars from the outside, but was actually worth over a million US dollars.

Hawk put his finger in his mouth and sucked on it. When he took it out again, the wound he had just pricked had already healed.

Gwen had already started the machine.

The machine had also begun to operate.

While waiting for the results, Gwen turned her head and looked at Hawk curiously, "Did you mutate like Dr. Bruce Banner?"

She had actually wanted to ask for a long time.

But she never had the chance.

Hawk looked at Gwen's curious gaze and let out a choked laugh, shaking his head, "I can assure you, I'm one hundred percent human, pure."

He had just awakened his Cosmo...

That's all!

He would never admit to any mutation.

Only the poor relied on mutation.

Even though he was also poor, he relied on himself. To put it again, his current strength was entirely due to his self-reliance and day-in, day-out effort.

Thousands of days of effort, the sweat shed from ten thousand punches daily, finally watered the flowers he deserved.

Hawk thought to himself, paused, looked at Gwen, and after thinking for a moment, added.

"Anyway, I'm definitely not a mutant like Spider-Man. Also, don't lump me in with Bruce Banner; he's not worthy."

"..."

Gwen's heart stirred, and she caught the key point in Hawk's words, her eyes lighting up, "Spider-Man, you mean Spider-Man? Is he also a mutant?"

Hawk blinked his eyes and, under Gwen's gaze, made a zipping motion across his lips.

"I'm not revealing his identity, Gwen."

"Fine if you won't say. I can find out myself."

Gwen rolled her eyes.

Just then.

Beep beep beep!

While they were talking in the lab, the fully automatic rapid blood testing analyzer, which had been working for half an hour, finally emitted a completion alert.

Gwen quickly walked over and retrieved the analysis report that the machine had printed out.

Hawk also leaned in.

At first glance.

Red blood cell count, white blood cells, platelet count... the numbers were off the charts.

Hawk blinked.

These results...

It was within his expectations. Saints cultivated their own bodies.

After glancing at the test report, Gwen took a deep breath and looked at Hawk, "Hawk, do you know what the outside world would think if they saw your blood analysis?"

Hawk smiled.

He glanced at Gwen.

"Gwen."

"Others wouldn't be able to collect my blood so easily."

"..."