After destruction, the hardest part was always rebuilding.
To activate the Cosmic Cube's power, Selvig had drained the clean energy supply that Stark Tower had only just finished constructing.
The Chitauri invasion had also destroyed more than half the city's power grid, leaving Manhattan's electrical system almost completely paralyzed.
If not for a few signal stations with independent power generation that could keep operating, the victims might not even have been able to make phone calls.
Most terrifying of all was the famous Wall Street, the financial center of the world, which had now been reduced to ruins.
Compared to the other losses, Wall Street's destruction dealt America the greatest blow.
This unremarkable street had gathered nearly the entire world's financial lifeblood. In this completely unprepared attack, America lost vast amounts of critical financial data.
The world's largest stock market had collapsed, and a stock market crash everyone could foresee was about to arrive.
A financial crisis far more severe than Black Tuesday was about to sweep across the entire world.
However, Dane had foreseen this long ago and made preparations in advance.
The intact Clinton district would naturally take on Manhattan's responsibilities and assume Wall Street's former functions.
Under normal circumstances, Wall Street was of course irreplaceable, but who could have expected it to run into an uncontrollable disaster like an alien invasion?
In the insurance industry, such a situation could even be exempt from compensation.
Financial databases could slowly be restored through backups, and financial talent could be recruited directly. Under the current circumstances, surely no one would refuse Umbrella's terms.
For Manhattan now, construction was clearly the priority, not finance.
As long as they seized the timing, Clinton would become the second Wall Street.
And Umbrella would directly inherit Wall Street's legacy and seize the world's economic