Chapter 481: The Green Lantern Corps Suffers a Great Misfortune (Part 2)

Hal, who had just used Green Lantern energy to teleport to Oa, was looking at the scenery around the teleportation platform. This was a fully transparent cabin, cylindrical in shape, and through the surrounding glass, one could see an eye-opening alien city.

The most obvious was a green spiral-shaped building closest to this place, which was huge in volume and whose height could not be seen at a glance. Around the spiral building were many irregular high-rise buildings, connected by transparent glass cabin passages, and many Green Lanterns emitting green light were shuttling and flying between them.

Just as Hal was looking at all this in a daze, a team of Green Lanterns walked quickly from the only door of the teleportation cabin, and the leader among them saluted Hal.

Hal also saluted him as introduced in the Green Lantern ring. The young Green Lantern said with a serious expression: "Hal Jordan, it's a pleasure to meet you. Welcome to our big family."

"Thank you."

"Please come with me. Our commander wants to see you," the young Green Lantern said, but the several Green Lanterns behind him slowly moved behind Hal.

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Hal had also been trained at an air force base and possessed basic military literacy. He frowned, discovering that the other party was not coming with good intentions.

But he did not show panic, because before he came here, Shiler had rehearsed the possible situations for him, and the reaction of these other Green Lanterns did not exceed Shiler's expectations.

In fact, Hal also thought of it: when Green Lanterns accept the ring and register to become a member of the Green Lantern Corps, their names are sent to the Green Lantern Corps headquarters. Therefore, as long as the commander wants to check, he can find out what a Green Lantern's name is and which sector he comes from. All Green Lanterns are registered by name at the corps headquarters.

So Hal knew that having suddenly consumed so much energy, the commander of the Green Lantern Corps would definitely check who extracted this energy, and in the end, it would definitely be traced to Shiler, and he would also learn the name of the planet Earth.

And what kind of treatment he, a Green Lantern also from Earth, would receive upon appearing at the headquarters could be imagined.

But Hal had already prepared sufficient reasons. Therefore, he followed the young Green Lantern forward, walked through a corridor bridge that was also transparent, and then flew together into that giant building.

Walking indoors again, taking the elevator to the top floor, and finally in a hall full of green light, Hal met the commander of the Green Lantern Corps.

That was a tall, middle-aged man with a beard on his sideburns. Hal saluted him, and the commander nodded and asked him seriously: "You are Hal Jordan."

Hal nodded and gave a brief self-introduction. Because of his past military career, his temperament appeared very outstanding, even more so than other Green Lanterns who had already undergone Oa training.

"I am the commander of the Green Lantern Corps. You can call me Thaal. I heard from the recruit instructor that you delayed your reporting time. Why?"

"Because previously, the headquarters conveyed an emergency order to me, telling me that the leader of the Sinestro Corps, Sinestro, had descended on Earth. I was ordered to investigate this matter, so the superior who issued this order helped me report the delayed reporting."

"Then after the mission was completed, why didn't you still come to report?"

"After the main mission was completed, I was ordered to stay in the city where Sinestro had appeared to investigate the dangers and hidden hazards he might have left behind."

Hal's answer was watertight and identical to what the commander had seen in the documents. Therefore, the commander asked again: "Do you know the newly promoted Green Lantern Shiler Rodriguez in your sector?"

"I know." Hal replied expressionlessly. He said: "I am just coming from him, and I have brought a message he wants to convey to the headquarters."

The commander and the adjutant both frowned. The commander asked: "A message? What message?"

"He said he needs support."

"Needs support???" The adjutant beside the commander finally couldn't help it and said: "He drained almost half of the headquarters' energy in just two days, and he still needs support???"

But Hal said righteously: "I think this is necessary, because during the time I stayed in that city, I discovered that it might be the most dangerous place in the entire universe..."

His serious tone made the several young Green Lanterns beside him look at each other, and they all seemed to want to laugh.

Even though Commander Thaal had good self-cultivation, he was a bit angry at this time. He said: "Hal, white-circle Green Lantern novices all like to exaggerate the danger of certain missions, but that is actually not because this mission is really dangerous, but because of their cowardice..."

"As far as I know, Sector 2814, where Earth is located, is a rather remote sector, very far from the central sector, and the number of registered civilizations is also very small. I don't think there is anything there that can be called dangerous."

"Then why did Sinestro choose to descend there?" Hal raised a question that no one present could answer.

Ever since Sinestro betrayed the Green Lantern Corps, the prestige of the Green Lantern Corps had suffered a not-insignificant blow, and most Green Lanterns regarded this traitor as a thorn in their side.

Therefore, after Sinestro showed traces on Earth, they didn't even consider that Earth's only Green Lantern, Hal, was just a novice who hadn't undergone training, and let him go to carry out the mission of investigating the Yellow Lanterns.

What made the corps headquarters feel surprised was that Hal's mission was completed quite well, and precisely because of this, his question stumped everyone present.

"You mean, Earth has its special aspects?"

"That's right. The motive for Sinestro's descent described in my mission report is 'unknown'. That's because I didn't find solid evidence."

"But in fact, according to my investigation these days, I suspect that it might be because the lantern beast of the Sinestro Corps felt a rich power of fear in a certain city on Earth, and therefore, it attracted Sinestro there."

The commander and the adjutant looked at each other. The commander's expression softened a bit. He coughed and said: "But even so, it shouldn't take half of the headquarters' energy in two days, right?"

Hal hesitated, as if he had something to say, but in the end, he didn't say it. The adjutant said: "You can speak freely, no need to worry."

"That, actually I want to ask, during the process of him drawing so much energy, didn't you discover it? If you discovered it, why didn't you stop him?"

Before the commander could speak, the adjutant said helplessly:

"Only when the energy of the ring is completely exhausted will it return to the headquarters' energy source for recharging. But rarely will a Green Lantern use up all the energy before recharging. The headquarters' energy has never been consumed this fast before. We lack a corresponding alarm mechanism."

The commander interrupted him and said: "We will improve this in the future. However, we must first figure out what is going on with that Green Lantern named Rodriguez?"

"In fact, he originally wanted to come and report with me, but the situation where he is is not optimistic. He can't get away now and can only let me come to request support."

"What kind of place is he trapped in that he could use up a thousand times the ring's energy in two days???" The adjutant was simply completely puzzled.

"This is exactly the purpose of my coming here." Hal's expression became more and more serious. He said: "I know you might be suspecting whether there is any conspiracy in this, thinking that we are stealing Green Lantern energy through some cheating means."

"However, the human pursuit of justice will never change because of such speculation. In order to prove that we have indeed used this power for the right path, I hope to be able to bring back a squad to support my friend Rodriguez, and at the same time prove to you that we have absolutely not abused Green Lantern energy."

Hal's frank and honest attitude instead made the several people hesitate. They had imagined many of Hal's attitudes, but they didn't expect that he was really here to seek support, and also hoped to let other Green Lanterns go to Earth to assist.

"How many people do you hope to bring back?"

Hal pretended to think for a while before giving the answer preset by Shiler. He said: "I hope for 5 or more, but the more the better."

The adjutant opened his eyes wide and said: "So many, is it really necessary?"

"My companion Shiler used up a thousand times the ring's energy in two days. This is the most powerful evidence. He couldn't possibly make the power disappear out of thin air, right?"

Hal spread his hands and explained very sincerely: "Even if I am a novice Green Lantern, I know that the safety locks on the ring are very perfect. This energy must have been consumed. And in a place that can consume so much energy, a Green Lantern squad of less than a squad might be in danger."

The adjutant nodded upon hearing this. What Hal said indeed made a lot of sense. He had more confidence in the safety locks on the Green Lantern ring. This Green Lantern named Shiler must be in an extremely dangerous situation to repeatedly consume the energy in the ring.

At this time, the commander waved his hand and said: "We don't have many people left at the headquarters, most of them are novices who have just completed training. How about this, Carol..."

The commander turned to look at his adjutant and said: "You take the five people from the second squad and go to Earth with Hal to see. If it is really that dangerous, send me a signal at any time, and I will send others to support you."

Carol didn't say anything, just saluted, then walked towards Hal and said: "Let's go. Green Lanterns do not fear any danger. Peace and justice are our lifelong pursuits."

Hal saluted him, and both of them saw a firm look in the other's eyes.

Just as the Green Lanterns were gathering people, checking their rings, and preparing to go to Earth, this unknown place, the chaos in Arkham Asylum reached a higher level.

Somewhat strangely, the sound of gunfire in the hospital gradually weakened, and the gang firefight had basically ended.

However, Cat Getan locals all understand a rule: the most dangerous time on Cat Getan's streets is not when the hail of bullets is in progress, but when the firefight is coming to an end, everyone is counting their losses, and the bosses of all sides are sitting down to negotiate.

On the corridor of the third floor of the psychiatric hospital, steady footsteps suddenly sounded. In front of the door of an office, a hand wearing a white glove knocked on the door a few times.

After the door opened, the gang leaders in the room saw Alberto standing outside the door in a suit, staring expressionlessly at the situation in the room.

A leader closest to the door moved a chair over, but Alberto had no intention of sitting down at all. He walked to the center of the room, looked at the gang leaders who were still arguing until they were spitting just now, and said:

"Do you know that this hospital, which you just devastated with automatic machine guns and rocket launchers, is the place where I will be interning for the next two years?" ===== CHAPTER 482 =====