The two men in the secret base, listening in on the intercepted call together, exchanged a glance. Henry asked, "Your whereabouts were discovered? You didn't lead anyone here, did you?"
"What do you take me for, some rookie? I wouldn't make such a low-level mistake. I just wasn't as careful elsewhere. Still, I'm a little surprised S.H.I.E.L.D. found out I'd shown up so quickly."
After thinking it over, Henry came up with a possibility. "Maybe Vampires and Werewolves have been too rampant lately, so surveillance has been stepped up and they spotted you sooner. Their response and handling speed are still as slow as ever, though."
Thinking of the vampire attack on the streets that afternoon, Spider-Man had still been the first to arrive. Even the three little girls had shown up. Then came the NYPD officers, and S.H.I.E.L.D. had been last.
If Spider-Man had not stepped in, and Henry had not happened to be there to take out a vampire or two, who knew how much higher the casualties would have been. Those Vampires had gone out into the streets killing and biting. Even if they did not kill someone, they would turn them into Vampires.
The First Embrace Serum had not yet been approved for official production. The ordinary people bitten by Vampires should be all right, shouldn't they...? As he listened to Phil Coulson exchange information with the S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel, Henry pondered his own concerns. Alexei was similarly holding a beer, looking utterly bored.
With this kind of real-time eavesdropping, there was no knowing when vital intelligence might suddenly surface. He could only wait patiently and waste time. Henry had even considered handing this internal S.H.I.E.L.D. call over to C-Sis for autonomous recording and extraction of key details.
Henry truly could not understand what people who believed