Roshi really did agree to let Charles draw a few more tubes of blood, but Charles probably wouldn't be able to learn anything from it. Roshi knew perfectly well that he had no genes at all. All his abilities came from the AllSpark's analysis and imitation of mutant powers, so he wasn't a mutant.
He agreed to Charles's experiments because he'd discovered that doing so increased his Historical Intervention Points by 0.1 percent.
The story of these so-called Historical Intervention Points began when Luo Xia received another message from the Sorcerer Supreme, The Ancient One.
After her subordinates had kept working at it, The Ancient One had finally calculated Luo Xia's point in time. She planned to use the Eye of Agamotto's power to bring him back.
But perhaps there'd been an error in the calculations, because Luo Xia had only been moved twenty years into the future.
Still, failure was the mother of success. The Ancient One seemed to have arrived at an unconventional formula, which produced a figure called Historical Intervention Points.
It was a specific number maintained in a special state within Luo Xia's consciousness. The Ancient One had expended a great deal of the Eye of Agamotto's power to imprint the number into his mind.
As long as Luo Xia kept interfering with history, the figure would continue to rise. Once it reached one hundred percent, The Ancient One could try transporting him again—and might even be able to send him back to the future.
Luo Xia discovered that after he agreed to Charles's physical examination, his Historical Intervention Points had risen by 0.05 percent. By the time all seven tubes of blood had been drawn, the figure had reached 0.1 percent.
Luo Xia thought that if drawing blood alone could raise his points, he could