Unless he could find one among them who was either a mandrake-man housing a soul or one of the few reanimates who seemed almost fully human, he'd get little information.
He had little chance of finding someone to give him information.
mnli hypothesis: He had little chance of finding someone to give him information. premise: Unless he could find one among them who was either a mandrake-man housing a soul or one of the few reanimates who seemed almost fully human, he'd get little information.