In the office of Legion Commander Tai Lung, after Hal finished delivering the documents, he turned around and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Tai Lung.
Tyrone said while reading the document: "To be honest, your ability to forgive Owen is beyond my expectation. It seems that you are a broad-minded person."
Hal paused, and then said: "It's not that I forgive him, but I know that now the headquarters needs manpower, and he often handles paperwork. Without him, the two of us wouldn't be able to handle so many things."
Talon sighed and said with some emotion: "Since Sinestro's betrayal, they have begun to strictly monitor the headquarters. I heard..."
Tyrone lowered his voice, and then said: "They intend to form a special military police force. The members of the military police force are not the Green Lanterns recognized by the Green Lantern Ring, but the Green Lantern weapons they created."
"You have also seen what happened to Owen before. That is the experiment they have done. They have been trying various methods to extract the energy of the green light, and the green light ring is just one of them."
"Will they succeed?" Hal asked.
"I don't know, but if they succeed, our situation will not be good." Tyrone looked a little worried, and Hal could understand him. Everyone knew how terrifying the military police force responsible for surveillance was.
Moreover, Green Lantern is bound by certain codes in the Green Lantern ring and cannot use lethal force. However, if the military police are created, it is unknown whether they will have such restrictions, but if not, I am afraid a terrifying purge will occur. will come.
"I'm sorry, Hal, for getting you involved in this kind of thing." Tyrone lowered his eyes and pretended to read the report, but in fact, his thoughts had already flown far away.
"The earth is just like my hometown. It's really difficult for a remote place like ours to enter the universe. It's not easy for a leader to emerge, but he doesn't live up to the times."
Hal came back, stood across from Tyrone, and said, "Really? I don't think so."
"You still don't understand the seriousness of the matter, Hal. In fact, they pushed me up because there is no civilization behind me to rely on. If they push out a legion commander from an advanced civilization, then if they want to If he changes it, he will encounter resistance from the civilization behind him."
"But I... I'm just an old country bumpkin from a small place. After working in the headquarters for so many years, I only got the position of assistant to the deputy commander. But after Sinestro's betrayal, the original deputy commander and Neither adjutant became the new legion commander.”
"When this position came to me, I knew what they were going to do, but nevertheless, I still had to go down this road, even if it may end in death."
Hal was silent. He looked at Talon's face. Talon's appearance was very similar to that of humans, so he could better understand the emotions conveyed by Talon's expression.
But Hal didn't say anything. He wanted to turn around and leave the room. Just when he pushed the door open, Tyrone made a confused sound: "Huh?"
"Wait! Hal, come back!" Tyrone called Hal back again. He frowned, looked at the report and said, "Why can't I understand the financial report about the aftermath of the Earth's aftermath?"
"Oh, really? But I didn't do this part." Hal showed a somewhat embarrassed expression. Tyrone looked up at him and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it. No need to hesitate."
Hal sighed and said: "Originally, I was doing this part of the work, but Owen said that I was from Earth, and if I handled it by myself, I would definitely engage in malpractice for personal gain, and then took the job away."
Tyrone frowned, seeming a little dissatisfied with Owen's actions, but he couldn't fault it, because the Green Lantern Corps did have such a rule, and those involving his hometown sector needed to avoid suspicion.
Tyrone knocked on the table and said, "Go and find Owen. I can't quite understand the report he submitted."
After a while, Hal called Owen over. Owen looked impatient and looked as dark as the bottom of a pot when facing Hal. Tyrone didn't pay attention. He asked: "What was mentioned in your report is to improve What's going on with the energy budget for Gotham's aftermath? Is the existing budget not enough?"
"Don't mention it!"
Irving snorted and said, "The good thing Schiller Rodriguez did before was that he drained half of his energy."
"Why do you think he can persist in Gotham for so long? On his own? How is that possible! Do you think everyone is the so-called greatest Green Lantern?"
Owen's tone was full of ridicule, but Tyrone still asked patiently: "Then why does he do it? What does it have to do with the budget?"
"He made a big promise and hired a lot of mercenaries, including Constantine, who is famous in the spiritual world."
"Spiritual world? I don't know much about this aspect. What happened to him?"
"You don't need to understand, you just need to know that he is a piece of shit, the ultimate bad guy. If we don't pay the bill, he will definitely bring trouble to the headquarters. Moreover, this person is very evil. Anyone who opposes him and his teammates will die. It’s ugly.”
Owen took a deep breath and said helplessly: "If we don't send him away, we will be disgusted to death."
"But there's nothing we can do about it. If it were you who had stayed in Gotham for so long, could you have done it without relying on external forces?" Hal retorted loudly.
"That's not the reason why he promised a large reward! Do you know how tight our energy is now? The charging time of the lamp furnaces in more than 100 sectors has been delayed!" Owen also shouted.
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Tai Lung quickly broke up the fight and said, "Okay, that makes sense, but Gotham demands compensation, so..."
"This group of damn surface creatures got the method of cosmic communication from nowhere. They said that if we don't compensate them, they will shout about it..."
Owen rubbed his eyebrows with his fingers and said, "Originally, our reputation has been severely hit. If there is any more trouble due to this incident, the prestige of the Green Lantern Corps will be severely shaken."
"Of course, those terms they proposed are just a big deal. I won't pay the price." Irving crossed his arms and said: "At most, I will give them one percent. Anyway, they are just a group of ignorant surface creatures. Give them some." A small amount of money can be spent.”
"Each item is just a small amount, but it adds up to a lot." Tai Lung said worriedly, but in the end, he signed and agreed.
After Irving left, Hal did not leave. He sat opposite Tyrone and asked him: "If the situation really develops to the worst, what are you going to do?"
Tyrone shook his head and said, "If I had a way to deal with it, they wouldn't choose me."
Hal took a deep breath, and Talon saw that he had something to say. Talon said thoughtfully: "Do you think it's hard to say what you want to say next?"
"No, I just want to know, are there any surveillance facilities they left here?"
Talon raised his eyes and stared into Hal's eyes, but Hal looked at him with a determined expression, showing no guilt at all. Finally, Talon said: "Don't worry, the former captain Sinestro was a suspicious person. They were pointing at him in the first place, so there must be no monitoring facilities in this office."
"Don't you want to save yourself?" Hal asked him: "Are you going to wait for them to create a military police force, ride on your head, and maybe even kill you?"
Tyrone was silent and said: "It's not that I don't want to, but that I can't do it. Hal, not everyone has the same talent as you. Just after getting the green light ring, you can be recognized by the ion shark."
"But I have an idea, do you want to hear it?"
Tyrone put down the report in his hand and looked at Hal. There was a trace of hesitation between his eyebrows because he had a premonition that what Hal said might be a bit shocking.
But then he heard Hal say: "Not just for yourself, but for your civilization, your hometown, and places like your hometown and mine..."
"Just tell me, no matter what you say, you will never leave this room."
Hal pointed to the report with his finger, and then said: "You saw what is written on that report. Of all the energy consumption reported here, Owen and I each get one-fifth."
Tyrone slowly opened his eyes, and an angry expression appeared on his face, but he quickly froze and said, "You..."
"It's what you think, but we are only defending ourselves. We must accumulate strength for the possible purges that may come next, otherwise we will only be killed."
"Tailon, they betrayed us first."
As he finished speaking, Hal saw that Tyrone's Adam's apple was trembling up and down. He continued: "Now, this plan only has the last link left. With Owen and I, we can only make small efforts."
"And those energies..." Hal stretched out his arm and pointed to the next door and said: "They are placed there. After those damn military police kill us all, they will take them away. You plan to wait here. ?"
Tai Lung's lips trembled a little, and he said: "But I am the legion commander, I can't..."
Hal put his hand on the table and said: "I don't believe you don't know that the Green Lantern Corps controlled by them actually does not represent anyone's justice at all. We are just the guns they use to rule the universe, and The green light energy is the bullet.”
Tyrone was silent. He took a deep breath and felt that his whole chest was shaking. Hal's words were like the devil's whisper. He had to admit that he was shaken in the face of this temptation because he knew very well that the green light energy was in the end. How powerful.
"But we can't abuse this energy. You should know that if you can't pass the ring's certification, you can't use this energy. Even if you can extract it, ordinary people can't use it."
"What if I have a way?"
Tai Lung felt his heart begin to beat fast. He said with a dry mouth: "You mean, you have a way to make the green light energy be used by surface creatures? Become... an energy source?"
"A universal energy source," Hal added.
Tyrone's hands started to tremble a little, and he said, "Are you sure?"
Hal nodded, and Tyrone became silent. He was silent for a long time, about ten minutes, without saying a word. He seemed to be lost in memories. From his eyes, Hal could see that he Thinking of my hometown.
Hal was not surprised. Even if he did not have a high degree of education, he knew that if human civilization could use green light energy as an energy source, even if it was not permanent, it would only be able to obtain some for experiments and manufacturing certain energy-limited equipment. , it is a qualitative leap for civilization.
After a long wait, he finally heard Tyrone say:
"...What are you going to do?"
"Do you remember that Schiller Rodriguez who was stationed in Gotham?"
"Uh... I remember, but didn't you say that he was injured in the melee and is staying in his hometown to recuperate?"
"Yes, but he has recovered. I recommended him to become the internal affairs deputy to the commander of the Green Lantern Corps, specializing in finance."
Tai Lung said hesitantly: "You mean, he can..."
Hal nodded vigorously and said:
"He's really good at it."
