The thirteen-year-old girl complained every day that there was a rotten smell in the house. In the end, she got into a fight with her mother because she couldn't stand the smell and wanted to run away from the house where the body was hidden.
A neighbor who heard the noise thought that her mother was abusing her and called the police.
Luke and Selina happened to be downstairs. They didn't even need to be notified by the patrol officers before they went upstairs with them.
After knocking on the door and finding out what was going on, Luke examined the house thoughtfully and said to the girl with a smile, "Let's make a bet. You don't think there's a body in your house."
The girl shook her head crazily. "That's impossible. I smelled it. Someone must've hidden a body in my house. It's definitely the smell of a corpse."
Luke smiled. "Do we have a bet?"
The girl hesitated for a moment, before she nodded. "Okay."
Luke picked up a metal ball on the table. It was smooth and round, like the steel balls in bicycle rollers. It was only about one centimeter in diameter, and it was a little heavy.
In the next moment, he waved his hand, and the metal ball shot into a corner.
Squeak! After a scream, everybody looked at the hole, only to see a big gray rat.
It was struggling as if it wanted to return to the hole, but it had been heavily injured by the metal ball and could only struggle.
Everybody: … What's the meaning of this? Is this an acrobatic show?
Luke looked at the girl's mother and asked, "Can we open up the rat hole a little? You're not going to ask us for compensation, are you? "
The mother hesitated for a moment, but still nodded. "Sure, but … can you not make it too big?"
Luke nodded. "Just a little."
Then, he asked for the police officer's baton and pried open the rat hole a little.
He only managed to pry open ten centimeters of the rat's rotting body, and a strong stench assaulted their nostrils.
The police officer: … No wonder you used my baton.
The girl cried, "Ah! That's it! That's the stench! It's a dead rat! "
Luke patted the girl's head with a smile. "Why do you think it's a human body?"
The girl looked at her mother carefully, and didn't dare say anything when she saw the anger in her mother's eyes.
Luke turned to his mother and said, "Ma 'am, please don't blame your daughter. Perhaps her sense of smell was a little sensitive, but having a dead mouse in this room was definitely not good for your health. She found something unusual. Actually, you could have trusted her a little more. She could have checked the house a little, and this kind of thing wouldn't have happened. What do you think? "
His mother was embarrassed.
She had always thought that her daughter was being unreasonable, but now the truth was right in front of her.
Although his daughter made some mistakes, she wasn't lying.
The mother apologized to the little girl. "I'm sorry, Alicia. I've wronged you. Don't be mad at me, okay? "
The little girl, Alicia, shook her head and hugged her mother. "I'm sorry, Mom. I shouldn't have peeked at a horror movie. The bad guys hid the corpses in the walls and were only discovered because of the stench, so I … "
Her mother hugged her. "No, it's because I go out to work every day and come home late. That's why you're watching TV out of boredom. It's all my fault."
Luke smiled and put his contact number on the table. "It seems that the misunderstanding has been resolved. This is my contact information with my partner. If you have any questions, you can call it. But Alicia, I want to make another bet with you. If you don't call this number in ten days, you win. Is that okay? "He then turned around and left.
In her mother's arms, Alicia was crying, but there was a smile on her face. She waved goodbye to him and said, "Okay!"
System: You have defeated Alicia and received a list of her abilities.
You have earned Alicia's gratitude and can learn all her abilities.
Alicia's ability: Sharp Nose (X-gene. Prerequisite: 20 Strength. 1,000 credit points.)
That day, Luke had been smiling the whole time, which made Selina's hair stand on end. Why is he so happy after helping a little girl? Did Luke awaken some kind of amazing hobby?
Luke was truly happy.
Since he had run into such a rare event, he had basically picked up a superpower for free.
Also, the prerequisite and credit points weren't a problem for him at all.
Without any hesitation, he learned the ability.
After learning Sharp Nose, Luke once again grasped one of the system's rules.
The so-called prerequisite of 20 Strength was probably the basic requirement that his body already possessed a certain ability.
Even though he hadn't learned the ability, Luke had smelled something rotten in the room earlier.
That meant that after he met the prerequisite, his body already possessed extraordinary abilities, such as a sense of smell and self-healing.
Learning the ability, on the other hand, allowed him to quickly grasp a more effective way to use his sense of smell.
He already had a very keen sense of smell, but he could only smell and distinguish between fragrance and odor.
After learning Sharp Nose, his intuition told him where the scents in the air were coming from.
For example, he could smell the familiar scent of shower gel and shampoo wherever Selina passed.
His intuition told him that a woman had just passed by.
It was a strange feeling.
This way of observing the world was similar to how bats perceived the outside world with ultrasound.
Alicia didn't smell a rat, probably because she was too young and had been hypnotized by the horror movie. More likely, it was because she didn't know that she had Sharp Nose.
Luke was happy for the whole afternoon, but he was a little frustrated the next day.
Today was the day that a certain son of destiny, a super playboy, would come to Houston for a meeting.
Early in the morning, Luke and Selina were sent to the meeting hall to monitor the situation, maintain order, and take care of any unexpected problems.
Only then did Luke realize the side effect of Sharp Nose.
It was … too sensitive.
More than two hundred people had entered the hall, and more were still coming in.
Regardless of whether they were men or women, most of them were wearing perfume. There were a lot of them with a heavy body odor. There were even a few who smelled like a fox. There were also many who had bad breath. Foot odor was a common occurrence.
Luke almost threw up.
In the end, he had no choice but to put on a mask and hang on.
Even with his temper, he couldn't help but curse Brock in his heart.
They were from the Major Crimes Division, not SWAT. They weren't good at protecting important people. Most police officers didn't have such training.
Brock was basically throwing them where there was a lot of trouble and there was a lot of room for mistakes.
Luke couldn't leave yet. It wasn't like he could say that he was going to faint from the stench.
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