Alvin still had no idea what was happening in the sewers...
At the busiest spot in Harlem, Alvin stood in the middle of an intersection.
Several teams of police officers were going in and out of the apartments, handing out makeshift hazmat suits. In half an hour, the residents of those apartments would leave their homes and come to this evacuation point.
The Virus Detectors Norman Osborn had rushed into production were already in place. The residents would be screened and sorted.
The healthy would be sent out of Harlem immediately, while those who were infected could only be entrusted to the volunteer doctors led by Dr. Yinsen...
The unfortunate infected absolutely could not leave this area. That was the warning Norman Osborn had issued.
The highly contagious Virus could infect not only people but animals, and it could survive in the natural environment for a long time.
In other words, even if Alvin could use a Space Gate to move the infected, he would only make other places dangerous too.
The infected would not be moved until the Military had finished building a Biohazard Quarantine Zone.
Only then would Alvin and the others really get to cut loose and go after those Wizards.
Otherwise, if they disturbed those damn Flies and let them escape the sewers, the consequences would be hard to predict.
After all, Manhattan was only so big. They could afford the cost of sealing off Harlem, but no one could bear the cost of sealing off all of Manhattan Island!
The Department of Homeland Security's Chemical Defense Units hadn't dared to come inside, but they had used some inhumane methods to create a "death line" around the perimeter.
Harlem was now completely sealed off. Until Norman Osborn's insecticide and Disinfectant were ready, nothing connected to the