Chapter 480: The Green Lantern Corps Suffers a Great Misfortune (Part 1)

The Green Lantern Corps is a mysterious organization within the universe. It is called mysterious because every one of its members possesses special abilities derived from a Green Lantern ring, but relatively speaking, it is actually a public organization; many civilizations in the universe know of their existence.

It cannot be denied that the vast majority of Green Lanterns are righteous and helpful. The Green Lantern Corps has divided the universe into many sectors, with each sector having a Green Lantern responsible for maintaining cosmic order. Most of these Green Lanterns are conscientious and diligent, and they have indeed made no small contribution to cosmic order.

If put this way, Shiler fleecing the Green Lantern Corps looks more like something a villain would do. Although Shiler does not care if anyone truly considers him a villain, he still has room to justify this behavior of his. The key to this lies in the creators of the Green Lantern Corps: the little blue men, the Guardians of the Universe.

It has been mentioned before just how unreliable the little blue men are, but in reality, the extent of their unreliability is stronger than anyone imagines. For example, the leader of the Red Lantern Corps, which represents rage, is actually a product of the little blue men's trouble-making.

The little blue men created a type of mechanical life that slaughtered the civilization of Sector 666. In the end, few people remained in the entire sector. The survivor Atrocitus, due to the rage of his civilization being destroyed, was chosen by the Red Lantern spectrum and became the leader of the Red Lantern Corps.

Viewed against the backdrop of the universe, this story is slightly dull, but if viewed at the microscopic level of life, Batman only lost his parents and failed to escape the shadow of vengeance for his entire life, while one small mistake by the little blue men led to the destruction of all civilizations in a huge region of the universe, and in the end, there was no Batman in the universe to make them pay the price.

To give another example, in the *Blackest Night* event in the comics, several colored lantern corps began a chaotic war. This was actually also caused by the little blue men. The leader of the Blue Lantern Corps had disagreements with the little blue men, and the same was true for the Violet, Indigo, and Yellow Lanterns.

The little blue men condoned the Sinestro Corps in suppressing the Green Lanterns, but conversely, they turned a blind eye to the Orange Lantern Corps leader monopolizing all orange light energy. These handling methods caused all the corps to harbor resentment, which in turn led to them coming to blows.

They made the wrong choices at every key node, which finally led to this great event. The price they had to pay for these mistakes was merely bearing a bad reputation, and many times they didn't even have that; the ones bearing the bad reputation were all the lantern corps.

For the lantern corps, what their mistakes led to was heavy losses for their own corps, a decline in their reputation in the universe, and even the shaking of the corps' foundations.

It sounds like it was very miserable, but compared to the destruction encountered by ordinary civilizations in the universe, it actually counts for nothing at all. The massacre encountered by Sector 666 alone resulted in hundreds of millions of ordinary lives lost.

And what lessons did the little blue men learn from this? Nothing at all.

They continued to create all kinds of messes and stir up relationships between the lantern corps, causing the lantern heroes to kill each other, which led to the occurrence of *Blackest Night*.

Humans always yearn for justice and beauty. Therefore, when the Green Lantern ring came to this planet under the banner of justice, many people, like Hal, did not have enough vigilance, and even longed for the Green Lanterns to truly bring peace to the universe.

But in fact, even if most Green Lanterns are righteous and friendly, due to the gap in cognitive levels and abilities, ordinary surface creatures simply cannot recognize the huge danger hidden behind them.

It is like a nest of ants facing humans. If humans are friendly, then naturally everyone is happy, but once there is any accident, neither the ants nor the ant nest can withstand the terrifying natural disaster descending from the sky.

And what is most worrying is that because of the friendliness humans previously displayed, many ants, when disaster arrives, will not only not resist but will even stretch out their necks to be slaughtered, singing hymns of friendship with humans before they die.

It is foreseeable that if Hal does not break free from the brainwashing state of blindly accepting missions and maintaining the justice of the Green Lanterns, then one day, there will no longer be Hal Jordan in this world, but only a Green Lantern whose spirit and body belong to Oa.

"Actually, I rarely mention my hometown to people. Coast City doesn't have a good reputation on the West Coast. Because of the influx of immigrants brought by the gold rush in the last century, the public security situation there was once very worrying."

"But I still love my hometown very much. I was born and raised there, and for a long time, I even felt afraid of leaving there."

Sitting on the sofa in the manor, Hal toyed with the kryptonite crystal filled with Green Lantern energy. The green light reflected in his pupils, making his eyes look like glowing emeralds.

"Perhaps you might not believe it, but when I came to Cat Getan, I felt a moment of clarity, breaking free from that great goal of justice, because I missed home."

"However..." Hal let out a long breath, relaxed his body, and leaned back against the sofa, saying: "The people and things in Cat Getan opened my eyes. I had never been to such a far place in the first half of my life. Now it seems it's time to go out and walk around."

"Where do you plan to go?" Shiler asked.

"I want to take a tour of the East Coast first. I don't have any fixed plans; I'll go wherever I end up. Maybe I'll go to the West again; I've always had a cowboy dream..."

"I thought that after you learned about these things in the universe, your goals would be a bit more ambitious."

Shiler also picked up a green crystal from the box and observed it. The faint green light on it revealed a vivid vitality, like a tender bud just sprouting in spring.

Hal's movements paused, and he looked up at Shiler. He heard the implication in his words and asked: "More ambitious? What do you mean?"

"After you became a Green Lantern, didn't you ever think about going to the headquarters to take a look?"

"I..." Hal paused, then sighed and said:

"Alright, I admit, I'm not a very adventurous person. Up to now, Cat Getan is the farthest place I've ever been. I couldn't possibly go millions of light-years away to a strange alien planet without even leaving my own hometown, right?"

"But you've even been to Cat Getan, so what are you afraid of regarding aliens?" Shiler pointed out the key point again, and Hal was speechless.

"Hal, although I said I was cleaning up your mess, you also know that was just a joke. I have my own uses for collecting this energy, and it cannot undo the consequences that might be brought about by the leakage of information."

Shiler's expression became serious, and Hal's attention was drawn to him. He heard Shiler say: "You should know how fragile human civilization is. Let alone aliens, the situation inside Earth right now is also on the verge of breaking out. Any slight influence could destroy the entire civilized society."

"At this time, no one wants an unknown force from the universe to interfere with the situation here, but no one knows if they will set their sights on this place through the information you transmitted."

Hal's expression also became serious. Shiler sighed and said: "Indeed, Earth might be a backwater. Even if you transmitted all the detailed information here to the headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps, no one would care about such a small planet. But, do you dare to bet?"

"Let alone the entire Green Lantern Corps, even if just one Green Lantern is interested in this place, it could bring about inestimable destruction, just like what you did in Cat Getan. Maybe he has no malice, but humans are really fragile."

*Eternal God Emperor*

"No, I'm sure they will be interested in Earth." Hal's expression appeared somewhat gloomy. He said: "Or rather, they will definitely be interested in Cat Getan."

"Fortunately, after I came to Cat Getan, I entered your dream. After that, I didn't continue to provide information. Otherwise, once they knew the situation here, a bunch of Green Lanterns would definitely flock here, wanting to purify this city."

Hal covered his forehead with his hand and said: "My god, I'm afraid I really have to go to Oa. If someone among them is really interested in Earth, comes here, and then discovers Cat Getan, the Green Lantern Corps will definitely attack this place."

The more he spoke, the more anxious he became, and he even stood up directly from the sofa. The green kryptonite crystal he held in his hand emitted a faint light, and the green light spread along his arm to his body.

"Wait, do you plan to go like this? Do you know where the headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps is?"

"Of course, the ring will tell me... oh, this isn't the ring." Hal looked down at his hand, where he was holding a stone, but it wasn't the ring.

Shiler picked up a handbell from the coffee table and shook it gently. Soon, Merkel came out with Dick and Aisha.

Shiler beckoned to Dick. After Dick walked over, Shiler patted him on the shoulder and said: "Just like I told you before, Dick, take that ring off. Your Uncle Hal needs to use it now."

Dick rubbed his eyes with some sleepiness and stretched out his arm. The light emitted by the ring on his finger was already very faint. After such a long time, the Green Lantern ring was almost out of power.

Aisha walked up, grabbed Dick's arm, and pulled the ring off his hand. Just before she was about to put the ring into her mouth, Shiler took the ring and returned it to Hal.

"The Green Lantern energy in this crystal can also be used to charge the ring in reverse. The principle is the same as the lantern battery. The crystal in your hand contains about 10 Green Lantern rings' worth of energy and can fully charge your ring 10 times."

Hal gasped, looked at the pile of crystals in the large box again, and said: "My god! So, every crystal here is equivalent to 10 Green Lantern rings? You didn't drain the main lantern battery, did you?"

"This is also one thing I want to ask of you. If you plan to go to the headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps later, could you please help me see how much power is left in that lantern battery located at the corps headquarters?"

"Why do you want to know this? You don't want to steal all the Green Lantern energy, do you?"

"How could that be..." Shiler denied this, and Hal breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately after, he heard Shiler say:

"I can't do that alone, so it's not 'I' who wants to steal all the energy in the main lantern battery, but 'we'."

Ten minutes later, at the Green Lantern Corps headquarters on Oa, a Green Lantern wearing an officer's uniform walked into the energy hub hall with a stack of documents.

He saluted the commander and said: "Sir, it's been found. The Green Lantern who has been calling for energy most frequently recently is named Shiler Rodriguez, from Sector 2814, Earth."

The commander frowned deeply. At this moment, another younger lantern walked in, saluted the group, and said: "A new member has come to report. It's Hal Jordan, who just joined the corps, from Sector 2814, Earth."

The commander and the adjutant looked at each other. The young Green Lantern was a bit confused and said: "If there are no problems, I'll go arrange a welcome ceremony for him and let him join the training."

"Wait!" the commander said: "We will welcome him personally." ===== CHAPTER 481 =====