Emergency Disaster Command Center, Manhattan, New York.
The phone kept ringing in the spacious room, and hundreds of agents were moving around the room working, presenting a busy but orderly scene.
Nick Fury stood aside and listened to the report from his lieutenant Hill.
"… The person who spread the video is named Gavin Lister. According to the investigation, there is no other force behind him. He found that the video was just a coincidence."
"The video and related comments that were spread online have been blocked by us and Black Watch, and the government has been used to refute the rumors, but it still caused a certain degree of panic throughout the city, and a large number of people fled."
"In this regard, Black Watch still maintains a tough attitude. All personnel who want to leave the city must undergo a series of strict tests before being allowed to leave the city. The air, sea, and all other entrances and exits are guarded by Black Watch troops."
"According to your request, our people have asked Black Watch for details about the outbreak, but Black Watch's commander, General Peter Randall, did not give any useful response."
"This bunch of shit!"
Nick couldn't help but curse.
If they are still not satisfied in this situation, all these people should be dragged out and shot.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the anger rising in his heart, and asked coldly: "What about the Department of Defense and the White House? Are they just going to watch Blackwatch go crazy here?"
"This is the report that General Peter submitted to Congress and the White House." Hill sighed and handed over a document.
Nick took a glance at it and looked through it. After a while, a vein on his forehead throbbed.
Black Watch is affiliated with the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense and is a special force designed to deal with biological and chemical virus warfare.
As for this virus outbreak, General Peter, the head of Blackwatch, gave the White House and the Department of Defense an answer that a force had deliberately released the virus to the United States, and described the potential harm caused by the virus in an extremely exaggerated way.
Of course, that would be fine if it just happened. As the world's top spy chief, he has become accustomed to it over the years, as he is the world's top spy chief.
However, the submitted document also states that SHIELD knows the mastermind behind this incident, although it uses uncertain terms. But with this alone, as the disaster continues to be exaggerated, SHIELD's situation will become increasingly embarrassing, and it will become increasingly difficult to exert pressure on Blackwatch through political means.
After all, because of Colin Black, their SHIELD currently has a video that is extremely similar to this virus, even though he has already determined in his heart that Colin Black's plague and the current outbreak are completely different viruses.
However, most people do not understand, or are unwilling to understand, the difference.
Even if he reported the matter of Blackwatch's virus research at this time, without sufficient evidence to prove the truth, it would be easy for it to be slandered as an act of revenge by S.H.I.E.L.D.
On the contrary, SHIELD knew in advance that a plague might break out, but did not report it. The subsequent situation will become increasingly difficult, to the point where it is even a question of whether he can still hold on to his position as the director of SHIELD!
The edge of the document was wrinkled by the force of the fist. After a moment, Nick sorted out his thoughts and ordered:
"Don't stop investigating Blackwatch and the Jintek Group. Try your best to uncover the truth that they were researching the virus in advance."
"Also, we need to speed up the research on the vaccine for the virus. From what those bastards from Blackwatch have done, we can see that they don't have a cure for the virus. We can't put our hopes on them. Invite all the relevant experts from around the world to not let the situation get out of control."
Nick paused, and after thinking for a moment with his only remaining eye, he looked at Hill and asked, "How is the captain adapting now?"
The recent things are like a mountain, and no matter how capable he is, he can't finish them all by himself.
At the moment, we can only choose the important ones to deal with, and some non-urgent matters are left to the people below to make decisions.
"He is in good condition. His body has recovered to its peak. And because the captain is studious, he has basically adapted to modern society." Hilton paused and asked, "Do you want the captain to go on a mission?"
"This is a time when heroes are needed."
After saying this without comment, Nick looked at Hill, gave her a few more instructions and sent her away. Then he took out his cell phone and gave a series of instructions to Coulson and Natasha.
Coulson is in charge of Colin Black, and he intuitively believes that Colin is the key to breaking the deadlock in this incident.
Although according to Grant's report, this behavior seemed to have angered him, but in the current situation, as long as Colin Blake did not want to be the enemy of everyone and have an irresistible blame on his head, he was not afraid that the guy would not make an effort to deal with it.
As for the call to Natasha, it was to deal with the matters of the Jintek Group and Blackwatch.
It has always been SHIELD that takes the initiative to provoke others and put the blame on others, and few people dare to put the blame on SHIELD.
As for Blackwatch who dared to do this, he naturally had to make it clear how tragic it was to provoke a group of spies.
After staring at the busy hall with his one eye for a while, Nick turned and walked out of the emergency disaster command center.
There were so many things going on and he didn't have time to stay here any longer.
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Burj Al Arab.
After the call, Wahar quickly rushed to his room.
After Colin briefly introduced the situation to the two of them, he also took a quick look at the situation in Manhattan through the Internet.
What the agent heard should not be false. Although there is no information about zombies on the Internet, it can be seen from the messages on the Internet and the blocked cities that the situation has indeed reached a certain degree of urgency.
Although he was confident, he did not think that the United States would spend such a huge price to deceive him before exposing Little Sun.
"I have to go and see it after all."
I sat on the sofa, mumbling to myself, flipping through the tablet in my hand, thinking.
Although he doesn't care about his reputation, he doesn't want to be wanted by all the sovereign countries in the world and live like a rat.
What he didn't want even more was to take the blame for others.
Even if he went like this, he always had a subtle feeling that he had lost to SHIELD, but in comparison, he felt even more uncomfortable being blamed for no reason.
He rubbed his fingers together, sent a message to Yosel and Vahar respectively, and then opened the portal to Manhattan.
Yosel has the local boss Vahar to take care of him, so he doesn't have to worry for the time being.
And even if Vahar really betrayed his trust, with the amulet he left for Yosel and a directional teleportation scroll, saving his life would not be a problem.
Now that he has nothing to worry about, he also has the time and energy to settle accounts with all those who had schemed against him!
(End of this chapter)