Nick listened, feeling a little disappointed, but still asked anxiously: "Can it be mass-produced?"
The emergence of vaccines, even if they are imperfect, can alleviate a considerable part of the current pressure. Based on this, it is worth it for him to withstand the pressure from politicians who only care about themselves and not hand over Colin's video... Well, although there is also the factor of fear that Colin will launch a large-scale retaliation.
"Of course." Colin nodded and said, "But the research on the vaccine basically stops here, if there is no more data."
"What do you mean?" Nick frowned when he heard this.
"Isn't what I said clear enough?" Colin looked at Nick in surprise. He didn't care whether Nick was playing dumb or not. "My personal ability is limited. I have already exceeded my level by being able to develop a suppressive vaccine in such a short time. If I want to develop a vaccine that can completely solve the virus before it breaks out, I must have the original data of the virus."
"Let me do the math. The vaccine I made can extend the outbreak period by seven to ten days. If we calculate based on the shortest seven days, plus it will take me at least five days to get the data for research, if you want to minimize the losses, you must give me the detailed data on the virus within two days."
"Otherwise..." Colin looked at the heavy-faced people in the room and smiled. "The transmission ability of this virus is the most powerful I have ever seen. There are 100,000 infected people now, and there will be more than 100,000 in a week. Once the vaccine is not put into production in time, the virus will break out on a large scale. The consequences, hehe..."
The words were not yet finished, but the meaning was fully expressed.
Looking at the dead faces in the room, Colin raised his eyebrows, walked towards the door, and waved without looking back:
"That's all I'm here for today. The safety of tens of millions of people in Manhattan is now in your hands, heroes!"
There was a hint of sarcasm in his voice, and just as his hand was on the door handle of the conference room door, a voice behind him made him pause.
"What are you going to do?" Nick asked aloud.
"Investigate." Colin turned the handle and walked out of the meeting room without looking back. "For the sake of world peace, I am willing to contribute. Of course, if you get the news first, I will naturally rush back to do what I should do."
The voice became increasingly low, and the conference room fell into silence as Colin's disappearing figure appeared.
After a while, Tony's face moved, and he coughed twice, breaking the stiff atmosphere and said, "I said that your little tricks can't fool that guy."
He started to attack Nick. After several attempts at concealment, to be honest, he was not sure if SHIELD was still hiding something from him in this matter.
"We are not wrong." Nick stared at Tony with his one eye for a while and said seriously: "Telling him the truth will only make the already bad situation worse."
Tony disagreed: "This is just your personal opinion."
In his opinion, cooperating honestly with Colin would be better for the current situation.
"But we can't take this risk now! This concerns the lives of 20 million people in Manhattan!" Nick raised his voice.
"Risk? Don't forget that your only hope now is the person you don't trust." Tony stepped forward unwillingly.
"These are two different things! Colin Black made this vaccine in order to use our intelligence channels to investigate the truth of this matter. Once we tell him all the intelligence, what can guarantee that he will still take care of this incident? Rely on his conscience?!"
Nick roared. After staying up late for many days, his one eye, which was full of bloodshot, looked very scary.
Didn't he think about what Tony said? Of course he did!
However, he didn't dare to do so.
Colin now has an absolute advantage, and a vaccine has grasped their lifeblood.
And what about S.H.I.E.L.D.
Apart from threatening with the video and relying on intelligence, these two cards can have an impact on Colin, there is nothing else!
In this situation, how could he dare to give up a card in his hand easily
trust
This kind of thing disappeared completely in his first month as an agent.
If he hadn't considered that sending someone to capture Joseph now would most likely lead to Colin turning the table against them, he would definitely not be stingy about sending a team of agents to capture Joseph again!
Tony stared at him for a while, wiped his face and said, "I don't know if you really think so, or if you have reached some kind of deal with the Black Watch in secret as he said before."
"Are you doubting me?" Nick was stunned, and then he suddenly cursed: "Shit! Only a son of a bitch..."
"Enough! Now is not the time for us to suspect each other!" Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, the captain, who couldn't bear it anymore, stood up to stop them.
As an old antique who had slept in the iceberg for seventy years, he was not prepared to express any opinion when faced with viruses, mages and other things that he was not familiar with.
But seeing the two people arguing, he had to speak up.
Leaving aside other aspects, his years of battlefield experience have made him very clear that stability within the team is the basic condition for winning the battle at all times.
Tony and Nick looked at each other and stopped arguing out of courtesy.
They themselves are also very clear that now is not the time to create internal divisions, but knowing this is one thing, and once emotions arise, they cannot be controlled just by knowing this.
The captain was relieved to see the two men calm down. He pointed at the vaccine on the table and said seriously, "To be honest, I don't know much about the virus, but according to what the wizard said just now, the only way to solve this problem is to steal the virus information. Now, make a battle plan."
"What he said may not be true." Natasha couldn't help but say.
In her opinion, Colin asked for detailed information about the virus more to pass this condition so that they could no longer hide which force was responsible for this incident.
"Do we have a choice?" Steve glanced at Natasha and asked calmly.
As soon as the words fell, the whole room fell silent.
Indeed, even if there is doubt, what can it do? For the lives of all the infected people in Manhattan, even if we know it is fake, we must do it.
…
Outside the S.H.I.E.L.D. branch.
The streets that were once busy with traffic have become quite quiet as the city was closed.
Colin took out his cell phone and looked at the email, then went to the address the email was sent from.
The email was from Fujiko Mine and stated where they were currently living.
"Downtown? It's not far from my home."
(End of this chapter)