"Clear...whatever you want to do."
Nick asked after a moment's hesitation.
Natasha replied: "Kill all the creatures in Manhattan except humans."
As soon as the words fell, the conference room suddenly became quiet, and everyone in the room frowned subconsciously.
In the United States, most families have the habit of keeping pets, and many of them treat them as family members.
There is no doubt that the action plan proposed by Natasha can slow the spread of the virus to a certain extent, but the resulting pressure from public opinion and the public is definitely beyond imagination.
Although the situation is now extremely urgent, most people in the conference room do not think it needs to be so extreme.
"I reject this proposal." Tony raised his hand, looked at Natasha, shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't deny the benefits of the plan proposed by Agent Romanov, but now because of the city lockdown and the recent monsters and explosions, the residents' sense of unease has reached a limit."
"If we forcibly capture and kill their pets at this time, the situation that could have been maintained might collapse in an instant, just like this."
As he spoke, Tony made an explosion gesture.
Natasha frowned as she looked at them and said, "I still think that we should forcefully eliminate all animals during this period. If all else fails, we should kill all stray animals. Compared to domestic animals, they are currently more threatening."
As she spoke, she clicked on the computer and displayed the reasons for making this proposal on the projector.
Before making this proposal, she knew that it was unlikely to be implemented.
The reason why she still put forward this almost impossible to implement proposal is that compared with the easily identifiable human infected people, the threat posed by animal infected people is too great.
First of all, humans infected with the Black Light Virus will have obvious abnormal reactions. Although animals will also have abnormalities, most people will not notice it at the first time. By the time most people can discover it, it is already too late. Moreover, resources are extremely scarce now, and it is impossible to use drugs on an animal. Even if it is used, whether it is effective is another matter.
Secondly, cats, dogs, and even smaller creatures such as mice can easily pass through some places that humans cannot pass. Moreover, due to their size and speed, it is more than ten times more difficult for ordinary armies to deal with these animal infected than to deal with human infected.
And if you are not careful, you will be injured by these monsters who are only interested in devouring fresh flesh and blood, and become a new infected person. This is something she experienced personally in the battle, when she was almost scratched by an infected stray cat.
Furthermore, compared with the efficiency of virus transmission by infected humans, small animals that have been enhanced by the virus are thousands of times more efficient than humans in this regard. A dog's sense of smell can detect uninfected people in advance at a distance thousands of times higher. A cat's sensitivity can scratch a whole room of people in a very short time. Even rats hiding in the sewers may dig a hole in your sleep and bite you at any time.
The most terrifying of these are birds, as they are able to carry the virus away from the infected area and infect other normal places.
Although Blackwatch currently uses air defense networks and radars to conduct round-the-clock patrols, the Blacklight virus is good at evolving. Just because it cannot break out now does not mean it will not be able to break out in the future.
It would be fine if everything went as planned, but once the suppression of the virus turns into a protracted war, no, as long as the time is extended by another half a month, all of the above will become a reality, and the entire Manhattan will most likely become a city of corpses.
By then, the difficulty of dealing with those deeply infected animals will increase a thousand times.
Naturally, she was not the first one to propose these possibilities. Experts who studied the blacklight virus had already proposed them, but they were submitted together with dozens of other possibilities. Although she attached some importance to them, she could not say that she took them too seriously.
And now, when Natasha, an elite agent who had fought against infected animals, brought it up again in the conference room, the effect was naturally far different.
The eyes of the entire conference room were focused on the projector, and everyone had a serious expression on their face.
Tony was no longer as frivolous as before, and his furrowed brows revealed his inner struggle.
Nick pondered for a while, made a decision and said, "It's not possible to directly clear the animals from the entire city. It is likely to provoke violent resistance from the people as Stark said. And stray animals... We don't have enough manpower to complete this plan. When the army arrives, I will contact them as the main force. Only they are capable of carrying out such a large-scale operation. Stark, we may need your technical support."
Nick turned his head and looked in Tony's direction. Tony, who was looking at the projection in thought, came back to his senses at this time and agreed: "No problem, Stark Group can provide one thousand life detectors for search purposes."
Nick listened and nodded, but he didn't look away. He continued to stare at Tony and asked, "How are you doing?"
Tony took the initiative to deal with the monster matter.
Up to now, they knew nothing except where the monsters came from, that the monsters were dead, and that the target of the monsters was Alex Mercer, who was the start of the virus incident, had been confirmed dead before but then mysteriously came back to life and had contact with Natasha.
"I found some clues."
Tony said as he tapped the watch on his wrist, and suddenly, a projection of a dead monster appeared in the air.
"The deaths of these monsters were caused by Colin Black."
Looking at everyone's focused gaze, Tony explained.
As he considered himself to be his biggest enemy, he had watched all the battle videos related to Colin Blake no less than ten times. Although the power was very different from the initial one, the result was absolutely correct.
"What about Alex? Was he killed by him too?" Nick's heart skipped a beat when he heard Tony's words.
"Judging from the traces at the scene, it's highly likely that there wasn't any." Tony shook his head.
Nick listened and his heart sank deeply.
Alex knew the reason why the virus was leaked, and once he told Colin, the consequences would be...
He took a deep breath and temporarily suppressed his worries.
Since things have already happened, it is useless to continue thinking about them. Instead of worrying about them, it is better to deal with the things at hand first and then consider them.
"Where do those monsters come from?" Nick continued to ask.
"I went to that research institute. Those monsters should have been created by her."
Tony frowned as he remembered the bloody laboratory he had entered, but he still clicked his watch and changed the projection to a woman.
"I remember this woman was on the list of experimenters you gave me." Nick said thoughtfully.
Tony listened and nodded, his face sullen, his back leaning back.
"Yes, Elizabeth Green, the earliest victim on the list. But now, she is no longer just a victim. The entire experimental base was destroyed because of her. Those monsters that can run on walls and ignore bullets are just her subordinates."
"According to the soldiers who survived at the time, Elizabeth Green jumped down from a height of more than ten floors without any damage. She also blew up an entire blockade at an extremely fast speed and left quickly. She is even more terrifying than those monsters."
"Honestly, compared to those animals, her existence is what worries me more. After all, we can't expect a person to be well-intentioned towards society after being studied for decades."
Tony spoke with a worried look on his face. Nick listened with his heart beating twice. He asked with a hint of hope, "Where is she?"
"I don't know. I was investigating while I was comforting the people, but..."
Tony shook his head. Nick looked at him, his face twitched, and he said fiercely: "Must..."
Jingle Bell…
The phone rang at this moment. Nick answered it with a frown. His anger quickly subsided as the person on the other end of the phone spoke. He felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave.
(End of this chapter)