The twists and turns behind the incident did not affect Lupin and his gang who were fleeing for their lives.
In the sewers of Midtown Manhattan, a group of three people were running in the dark passage with flashlights.
Unlike the ordinary people's impression of narrow, cramped, sewage and foul smells, as a big city, although the passages are complicated and easy to get lost, they are still spacious enough for several people to walk side by side and are clean to a certain extent.
Of course, as a sewer, a certain degree of dirt and odor is inevitable. Normally, except for the staff specifically responsible for it, very few people come here.
The same goes for Lupin. Even though he had memorized the entire sewer structure diagram long ago, if the search overhead hadn't been too excessive, with nearly a thousand police agents under the command of Steve, a tactical master, surrounding and conducting a carpet search, he wouldn't have run here in the middle of the night to suffer the cold and smell this faint stench.
Aqiu!
Jiyuan sneezed violently due to the smell of the sewer. He shone the flashlight around and said to Lupin, "It's almost done, Lupin."
When he first entered the sewer, there were quite a few people chasing him in, but as Lupin kept running around everywhere, he hadn't heard any movement from the pursuers for a while, so it was basically certain that they had shaken off the pursuers.
"Well, we can walk two more blocks and then go up there and save half the trip home."
Lupin answered without turning his head, and Jigen listened without asking any more questions.
Perhaps ordinary people cannot accurately locate their current position in a complex passage, but for Lupin, he himself is a living high-precision 3D map. As a partner for many years, he has long been accustomed to the abnormalities that Lupin often exhibits.
Swish… Swish…
After walking for a while, a faint sound was heard in the sewer and came towards them. Goemon, who heard it first, immediately made a warning gesture to the two people around him.
"Those guys are catching up with us again?"
The flashlight was turned off, and Jigen, knowing that Goemon's ears were better, lowered his voice and made a mosquito-like sound.
Having finally gotten rid of those troublesome guys, he didn't want to continue the chase.
"It's not clear yet, but it doesn't sound like a sound that a human would make." Goemon identified it carefully and answered with a frown.
Almost at the same time, Lupin moved his ears and also heard the subtle sound coming towards him.
After a quick identification, they immediately turned on the flashlight and shone it in the direction of the sound, but the scene they saw made the three of them stunned.
"mouse?"
The sound came from a group of black rats, but unlike ordinary rats, the bodies of the rats running towards them were at least twice as big as ordinary rats, and their red eyes revealed their brutal and cruel looks without any concealment, staring at the three of them.
"Something's not good." Ciyuan muttered and pulled out a pistol from his waist.
Goemon stepped forward and drew his Zantetsu sword, "Leave it to me!"
The sound of gunfire might very well attract those guys that he had just gotten rid of with great difficulty, but he had no such worries with his sword.
"Be careful, Goemon, these rats are not normal, don't get hurt." Lupin reminded from behind.
No matter how much normal mice mutate, they will not become like this. Considering what is happening in the city above our heads, it is easy to infer that these mice have also become infected with the virus.
Although they had the antidote given to them by Colin, to be honest, he didn't want to put his hope on it.
Goemon did not respond when he heard the voice, but the aura he exuded became increasingly sharp.
As the rat tide approached and the first rat leaped towards him, a flash of knife light flashed.
The unparalleled swordsmanship blossomed into the most exquisite bloody art at this moment. The splattered blood and broken rat corpses were scattered all over the sewer, but not even a trace of blood splashed on Goemon's body.
When everything was over, Lupin and Jigen held flashlights, covered their mouths and noses with their sleeves, and ran to the scattered rat corpses to check.
"I thought this virus could only infect humans." Ziyuan told an unfunny joke.
Lupin didn't reply, but took up the camera with a serious expression and took a picture of the mouse's corpse.
"Hey, Lupin, do you think humans will be killed by their own actions?"
Zigen didn't care about not getting a response and continued talking.
Rats are infected, but what about other animals? The blockade of Manhattan seems tight, but given the infectivity of the virus and the corrosiveness of those infected, can it really be contained
He now has doubts as to whether the future of this world will become as tragic as in zombie movies.
Lupin put away his camera phone, stood up and said, "Maybe, but humans will definitely not be wiped out because of this virus."
"And didn't the wizard say he was sure he could kill the virus? It's a good opportunity to ask him when we report the results of our first phase of investigation."
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Jingle Bell…
A message alert sounded, and inside the SHIELD virus experiment base, Colin, who was immersed in virus research, frowned and took out his cell phone to take a look.
"Got a clue? You're pretty fast!"
Colin murmured after glancing at the message.
In order to prevent information leakage, the message sent did not mention too much about related matters, but the fact that Lupin could contact him at this time itself shows the importance of the news.
He walked out of the laboratory door, ignored the agents who "deliberately" bumped into him on the road and wanted to ask him questions, came to the outside of the SHIELD surveillance, took out another mobile phone from his backpack, and called Lupin.
"You guys are really fast. Tell me, what good news have you brought me?"
Being able to get the clues in just a few hours made him extremely satisfied with his original choice.
"We just confirmed some things, but unfortunately, because of the explosion, we didn't get any evidence."
As he spoke, Lupin gave a brief account of everything that had happened inside the Kintek Group's base.
Colin listened and his eyes gradually narrowed.
He didn't expect that during the time he ran back to do research, such a big drama would happen in the outside world.
Moreover, the creator of the virus, or Blackwatch, was actually related to Hydra, which was indeed beyond his expectations.
"Has SHIELD obtained information about the Blacklight virus?" Colin asked after thinking for a while.
Calvin.
(End of this chapter)