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Chapter 2871

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When Arrogance came back to his senses, Greed had basically solved the problem, but he still saw the message Hal sent over.

Arrogance shook his head and said, "The spokesperson for willpower in the universe is a stubborn person in another way, rarely seen someone who can be more stubborn than Batman."

"How is Hal doing?"

"He is not a qualified king." Arrogance said, "He is not suitable to stand in the front and wave his arms, which is very similar to Batman. But unlike Batman, he possesses the potential to manipulate power."

Greed thought for a moment and then said, "It doesn't sound much like Hal Jordan. You also said he is a stubborn person. It is very difficult for such a person to understand what is smooth and flexible, and he is a kind stubborn person, so it is even harder to do the work of enduring humiliation."

Arrogance's fingertips tapped the table lightly and said, "This depends on whether he has explored true kindness, rather than being confused by the hypocritical appearance. I think he has done it. Although Oliver didn't persist to the end, he set an example for many people."

"I just think this is very interesting." Greed drank coffee and said, "Green Arrow Oliver is essentially sentimental, possesses romantic feelings, and is full of pessimistic colors. Such a person will not be a qualified revolutionary. It is already surprising enough that he has reached this step today."

"And what he won't think of is." Arrogance continued, "The cause he completed is not just in Mexico. The people who are truly inspired by him are very close and very far. Bruce, Clark, Hal, Arthur, and even Lex."

"They are completely different people from Oliver, and even they are very different from each other, but they all coincidentally brought the cause that Oliver hadn't finished to various fields and places to complete, and spread the ideas he hadn't been able to spread to places infinitely far from that land."

Arrogance said with some emotion, "Hal is a very upright person. What he lacks is just the truth. Once he realizes what is truly right, his powerful willpower, or stubborn spirit, will make him almost able to endure everything."

"This is exactly what I said. He possesses the potential to manipulate power. A qualified political machine needs to discard all personal views. How much merit is put in, how much reward is spit out; how much mistake is put in, how much punishment is obtained."

"It sounds a bit inhumane, but for the universe, this way of ruling is far better than the set built by the Guardians of the Universe, which looks fair and democratic, but is actually full of selfishness."

"When an organization needs to rely on slogans like world peace to unite and control members, it proves that they can't achieve rewards and punishments in most cases, and can't even reach basic fairness."

"Because only when institutional fairness can't solve the complaints of most people, do they need a greater goal to call on people to endure the current injustice, just like religion always talks about death and the afterlife."

"The system built by the Guardians of the Universe is just like this. Their stupidity and shortsightedness make them actually not build any real leadership system. They just shouted a slogan, let everyone repeat it, and hoped that the same fools would rely on their own kindness to be safe and obedient, and honestly be a tool."

"But everyone knows that no organization is equivalent to no organization. The organization method of the Green Lantern Corps or any lantern ring corps is primitive enough to be shocking. Most of the Green Lantern energy is wasted."

"Since that is the case, Hal will want to collect and utilize them, and building a better Green Lantern organization is also understandable. I think he has such ability and can do better than anyone else."

Greed nodded and said, "Think carefully, you have a lot of hidden dangers here. Darkseid is a purer tyrant than Thanos. I can't even find a troublemaking organization that can correspond to the Guardians of the Universe."

"Your universe managers sink too low." Arrogance pointed out, "Although they are always used as stepping stones, they are indeed much more organized than my side."

Mentioning this, Arrogance was a bit helpless. He said, "My universe is equivalent to a company that only has managers. The status of the archangels is too high. Except for the main universe, they won't care about how the single universe is at all."

"In a sense, it is relatively loose." Greed said, "Eternity has caused me a lot of trouble. If he hadn't stared so closely, I wouldn't have had to toss them every three days."

"Actually, it's not." Arrogance expressed denial. He said, "I feel that compared to not wanting to manage, they are more like they don't have the ability to manage. There are too many strange things in this universe, typical shit mountain code, errors left over from ancient times. Except for God, no one can change it. They might also not want to waste effort."

Greed seemed to have suddenly thought of something happy. He laughed twice and then said, "Although the event of Barbatos' invasion is gone, do you think that creation goddess will just sit and wait for death?"

Arrogance started to want to let go again. Greed didn't disturb him, silently drinking his coffee. After a while, Arrogance came back to his senses and asked, "Where do you think her breakthrough point is?"

"There aren't many weak points in the universe you are in, but she wants to find spokespersons from other universes. You should have no way, so I think we should go the opposite way and find a way to lure her over."

"Dealing with such an existence is still your specialty." Arrogance rubbed the handle of the coffee cup and said, "Bruce is Barbatos's agent. Although it's not impossible to hold multiple positions, I don't think that goddess is that stupid."

"Then find another one." Greed said unhurriedly, "Lex should be able to gain his trust, but his strength is insufficient. If he is detained, it will be troublesome."

"Let the Joker take the position of Pope and have two moves with Batman, it wouldn't be a wonderful script, but it seems you have other arrangements for Jack. He should be too busy."

"The sudden desire of righteous superheroes to destroy the universe is a bit too fake, so people like Superman are also excluded."

"But a ruthless powerful minister who has carefully stolen the authority of the emotional spectrum, perhaps..."

Before Greed finished speaking, Arrogance understood his meaning. He thought and said, "Hal is smarter than we thought. He has his own demands. The risk of luring an external powerful god over is still a bit too high. Perhaps he won't be happy."

"Then you find a way to make him happy." Greed smiled and said, "I know you are always soft-hearted and don't want to deceive your friends, but perhaps many times they are also looking forward to you making choices for them."

"Only you would think so." Arrogance said, "In your eyes, everyone is looking forward to you making choices for them, and even making money for them, and then generously handing over the money earned for you to control."

"So I just want a name." Greed smiled and said, "Anyway, from layout to harvesting, I do it all. They are just named. What's wrong with that?"

Arrogance still appeared a bit hesitant. Obviously, he didn't want to do this, but the space he could still hesitate in wasn't very large anymore.

"I will talk to Hal."

"No, you have to go talk to Oliver."

Arrogance frowned, appearing very resistant. Greed had to say, "I can go talk to him, you just don't be afraid of something happening."

"I'd better do it." Arrogance squeezed these words out through gritted teeth, and then said, "He won't be able to pay off your bill even if he sells Mexico."

"He can't sell it now, after all, he has already withdrawn." Greed calculated very clearly and said, "He doesn't have many things. I'll give him a friend price. It's also fine to help me go to the three major empires to engage in peasant uprisings."

"No way." Arrogance refused very simply.

While Greed was talking, he was still flipping through emails. While looking, he sighed and said, "You have a lot of things here. Most of them are looking for you... ah, this one is looking for me. Sure enough, it's Asgard."

As soon as Greed mentioned Asgard, Arrogance remembered that there was still the problem of Mount Olympus that hadn't been solved. Thinking of Wonder Woman and her whole family, Arrogance had an urge to sleep for a long time.

The problems of this bunch of gods were even harder to solve than cosmic problems, because the Earth was also their old home. They just refused to leave, and you had no way, and you couldn't even stand on the moral high ground to blame them.

And what was even more headache-inducing was that Odin wasn't a good father, but at least he was a good emperor. Zeus didn't look much like a person.

It just so happened that this was Wonder Woman's old home, and it couldn't be solved once and for all. Arrogance thought, if it really doesn't work, just stuff over a hundred Lokis, each exerting the average level of angering his brother and father, and see if they can anger Zeus and his wife to death first.

Greed stood up and said, "Loki is looking for me for an online meeting. I guess it's also exploring the matter of Ragnarok. Do you want to come?"

Usually Arrogance would definitely refuse. The two of them basically didn't interfere with each other, but thinking that they might be able to use Asgard to solve the problem of Mount Olympus later, he nodded.

Greed turned on the camera, but Arrogance didn't enter the frame, because now there was no one who knew that Schiller had physically split. This was a big surprise they prepared, and it couldn't be spoiled in advance.

Loki in the screen appeared a bit haggard. The crocodile Loki he was holding in his arms also had a bit of lifeless eyes.

"No, it won't work, Schiller. This is simply a dead end. You don't know how many times we've quarreled these days..."

In another room, the teenager wearing a mask was flipping through dungeon options. He seemed to be determined to pick a suitable dungeon, but the vast majority of choices were excluded by him.

When Manipulation walked in, he immediately saw what he was doing. While closing the door, he said, "You want to find a dungeon that is violent enough? How about the zombie universe?"

Moonlight shook his head, obviously not interested in zombies or anything. Manipulation thought for a moment and said, "You don't like those without consciousness? Let me think... how about this one?"

Moonlight saw the cover of the dungeon that appeared on the screen in front of him. There were no fancy patterns, only a bloody big mouth and four particularly sharp fangs.

"Night falls, the food chased by the panicked people is no longer love, but... blood."

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