Chapter 488: Talents Emerge from Arkham! (Part 3)

The car stopped on the road in front of Cat Getan University. The tires rubbed against the ground, making a harsh "squeak" sound. Victor pushed open the car door quickly, drilled out of the car, and saw the brightly lit dormitory building of Cat Getan University. He breathed a sigh of relief.

"I told you long ago, Cat Getan City is so big, even if a few dozen people fall, they won't happen to hit Cat Getan University." Harvey patted Victor on the shoulder.

Victor took a deep breath and didn't relax. Instead, he continued to walk quickly towards the inside of the university and said: "No, it can't be determined yet, the laboratory is relatively far from the dormitory building..."

Harvey shook his head helplessly, but still followed him. The two walked quickly through the buildings in the university, passed through the teaching building, the government affairs building, and the dormitory building, and finally arrived at the laboratory building located on the east side.

From the surface, the laboratory building was pitch black, because it was already early morning, and there were no students or teachers in Cat Getan University who would stay up late to do experiments, so the laboratory building was always very quiet at night.

However, this stimulated Victor a bit, making him associate with many bad things. Perhaps he had also performed this situation countless times in his brain. The madness brought by that paranoia almost drowned him.

"Calm down, Victor... Victor! Come back!" Harvey shouted from behind, and Victor had already rushed into the laboratory building.

Heavy footsteps sounded in the stairwell. Victor rushed to the floor where the laboratory was in one breath. Just when he stopped at the stairwell, he saw faint light coming from a door in the corridor.

Like a moth fascinated by light, Victor walked straight towards that door. When he pushed open the door, he saw that under the cold light projected by the freezing chamber, several children were standing outside the cabin door, looking up at his wife.

Hearing the movement, those children turned their heads. Seeing Victor, they surrounded him chattering. Victor was a bit at a loss. He recognized that this seemed to be the newsboys who had been delivering letters to Cat Getan University.

"Professor Victor! You finally came, if you didn't come again, we would have fallen asleep!"

"That's right, that's right, we arrived ten minutes ago, we thought you wouldn't come, originally we planned to leave."

"What's going on? Why are you here? Where did you get the laboratory key?"

That group of little newsboys started to explain chattering again. Victor was a bit headache from their noise. He pressed the head of one of the little boys and said: "Don't be noisy, you say first."

That little boy raised his head proudly, cleared his throat and said: "Originally, we all lived in the guard room of Cat Getan University, the one at the East Gate, you should know it, that place is specially for newsboys."

"About ten minutes ago, we received a call from Cobblepot boss. He asked us to take the key hidden above the door frame, and then come to the laboratory to wait for you."

"That door frame was so high, we stacked together before we barely took the key down. He said, if anyone invades the laboratory, take the freezing gun beside and freeze them."

"You haven't finished speaking!" a little girl raised her tone and added: "Cobblepot boss said, if the lights here are all black and the switch doesn't respond, go next door and turn on that generator."

"Yes, that's right, he said to press what button!"

"We waited here for a long time, neither did anyone invade, nor did the power cut off, we waited until we were almost asleep..."

This group of children were very young, probably only seven or eight years old, all a group of little beans, chattering when they spoke, like sparrows falling in the snow.

Victor looked down at them. Hearing Victor not speaking, they all quieted down. Everyone raised their heads, looking at Victor.

Victor squatted down slowly, hugged the little boy who was leading in his arms, touched his head and said: "Thank you."

When Harvey walked in, what he saw was such a scene. After the two sent this group of children back to sleep, they returned to Victor's laboratory.

They stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at Cat Getan City with fire everywhere. The light changing in the window made their shadows appear and disappear. Harvey heard Victor say:

"Many people say that this place is unsavable. They say the darkness here is hopeless, endless..."

"People all say that what constitutes this darkness is Cat Getan people, so chaos and madness are the evil consequences they deserve. Do you think they are really unsavable?"

Harvey turned his head, looked at the buildings in this city, and said: "I have always upheld a belief, there is no place in this world that is unsavable. So, I came here."

"Environment creates people, people create environment. I don't know where the darkness here originally came from, but I know that when the dark long night descends, no light is left, but humans still made fire, illuminating their own civilization."

"Did you hear what that group of people was shouting?" Victor looked at the scene outside the window and said: "They said they wanted to clear evil, maintain peace, they said, they wanted to save this place..."

Harvey shook his head and said: "If Cat Getan could be saved so easily, I wouldn't have been dormant until now, achieving nothing."

"Justice? What right do they have to define Cat Getan's justice? If they have never lived in this city, have never understood the people and things on this land, cannot empathize with the people here, then their so-called justice will become like this..."

Saying that, both of them looked into the city. There, the chaos had been continuing.

They both understood that this was not the pain in the process of so-called change. This group of justice messengers who descended from the sky, besides disturbing the good dreams of Cat Getan people for a night, could do nothing.

At the central turntable of Cat Getan, it was very lively at this time. Thaal held the Green Lantern ring in his hand high and shouted loudly: "Green Lanterns shine forever, ten thousand generations of light, joint shield!"

All the Green Lanterns driven to the central turntable stood together. They activated the remaining Green Lantern energy at the same time, forming a shield. Hal, standing beside Thaal, shouted loudly: "Where is Carol? Why didn't he come?!"

"Before, he was attacked by a magician!" Thaal replied: "That magician seemed to have found him through some curse mark. The energy in his ring was exhausted, and he has fallen into a coma!"

Hal stretched out his hand, trying to concentrate his attention. Rich green light bloomed from his hand. Even Thaal couldn't help but look sideways.

But at this time, their situation was very bad. The Bat-planes overhead kept projecting bombs, the gangsters' firepower output was non-stop, Clark was watching covetously on the side, and the Green Lanterns didn't even have a gap to escape.

"Concentrate power! Shoot that plane down!" Thaal began to command. The Green Lanterns concentrated their attention and continuously fired green light waves, but the Bat-plane dodged flexibly.

Just at this moment, Clark heard the voice of Batman coming from the Bat-plane flying past him: "Attack!"

"No, I can't do it in the city center! That will destroy everything here." Clark said somewhat hesitantly.

"Do it, I can rebuild."

"No, that will affect very many buildings!"

"I have money!"

Clark was speechless, but looking at the Green Lanterns who were gradually organizing an attack, he also knew it was time to do it.

Clark opened his arms, and the blizzard rotated around him, carrying a biting cold current. He dived down like a hunting falcon with snow as feathers. Just when he approached, Thaal shouted: "Concentrate defense! Stop him!"

Green energy gathered in the direction Clark dived, forming a more solid shield. But the moment it touched Clark, the shield shattered.

"Boom!"

Clark was like a human missile, and the aura around him blew all the Green Lanterns away.

Facing the powerful power that was almost impossible to resist, many Green Lanterns didn't even have the strength to stand up. Green Lanterns who fight relying on willpower, once they start to feel fear, they have almost lost all combat effectiveness.

Even Commander Thaal didn't have the courage to face Clark directly. He lay on the ground and slowly closed his eyes.

But just at this moment, richer green light lit up beside him.

Hal floated into mid-air, face to face with Clark. Thaal saw that the ring on his hand had started to flicker, indicating that there was not much energy left. He wanted to open his mouth to remind him, but heard Hal say:

"You can't hurt them, back off!"

Clark's biological force field became stronger and stronger. Hal's figure was swaying in the storm. All the Green Lanterns on the ground were incomparably nervous, and the feeling of despair spread.

But suddenly, rich green light pierced through the wind and snow like a sharp sword. A green shark with a somewhat illusory figure swam over from the clouds.

Thaal opened his eyes wide and said: "Green Lantern lantern beast Ion Shark?! How is this possible??!... Ion Hero! Hal is the new Ion Hero!"

That green shark swam slowly into Hal's body, and a green sun rose from the wind and snow.

Clark was not to be outdone, and his whole body also emitted strong sunlight. Just when the two huge light balls were about to collide, a small black fighter jet passed through the light.

In the Bat-plane, a phone was thrown out. Batman said to Clark: "Catch it, there's a call for you!"

Clark's momentum stagnated. After he caught that phone, he was a bit stunned, but soon, the harsh phone ring sounded. Clark subconsciously picked up the receiver and put it to his ear.

"Hello?... Uh, Professor, sorry! I was delayed by some things!... Is that so? You have been waiting for me for a long time? My god! I'm really sorry! I almost forgot what I came here to do!"

"Alright, alright, I'll be there immediately... Ah, don't be angry, I'll explain to you later, I'll be there immediately!"

After hanging up the phone, Clark restrained the light on his body and said to Hal: "I have an emergency today, wait for me next time!"

After speaking, he flew away. Hal put his hands on his hips in mid-air, looking at his back, but the Green Lanterns below had already cheered.

They shouted the name of the Ion Hero. Hal landed slowly in the center of the turntable. After having enough Green Lantern energy, he waved his hand and took everyone back to the headquarters.

Landing on the ground of the headquarters, Thaal breathed a sigh of relief. He walked up and said to Hal: "Excellent recruit, your performance exceeded my imagination."

He glanced at Hal's chest, where the mark of the Ion Shark was faintly visible, and said: "It seems that the Green Lantern's lantern beast Ion Shark has chosen you, you have become a unique Ion Hero."

Saying that, he took a deep breath, and then sighed again and said: "After the original Green Lantern Corps commander Sinestro betrayed the corps, I was also ordered to take over in a crisis, and my estimation of various situations was insufficient."

He looked around at the Green Lanterns and said: "Hal, if it weren't for you, we would all have been damaged there. You saved everyone and should be promoted. From today on, you are an official Green Lantern."

Everyone cheered, but Thaal pressed his hand down and said: "In addition, the original adjutant Carol is not lightly injured, I'm afraid he will have to go back to recuperate for a period of time. I hope to invite you to be my adjutant to make up for the deficiencies in my work."

Hal just wanted to be humble, but Thaal said: "Please don't refuse, I have a premonition that you have the potential to surpass your predecessors. Perhaps, you will become the greatest Green Lantern in history..."

Saying that, he stretched out his hand. Hal paused on the spot, sighed, but still walked up and shook his hand. The hands of both sides were held together, and the beliefs in both eyes became more firm.

At the same time, in Rodriguez Manor, Shiler leaned on the back of the sofa, and Batman opposite looked at him and asked:

"So, you deliberately created so many coincidences and made such a big circle, what exactly is it for?"

Shiler turned sideways, leaned on the armrest of the sofa and asked: "Do you still remember that mysterious list that made CIA agents search the entire East Coast?"

"You mean the Philby list? What does this have to do with it?"

Shiler smiled. When he looked up, Batman was sure that he saw a kind of light called wisdom in the eyes of this professor.

"Perhaps, we are about to have a 'Hal list'."

In the Green Lantern Corps headquarters, the Green Lanterns who were covered in injuries and exhausted had all dispersed. After Commander Thaal finished handing over the work to Hal, he also left.

Devour

In the core hub of the headquarters, only Hal was left. He sighed with some emotion, looked around, and here were all the equipment and screens he couldn't understand.

But just when he turned his head to look to the right, he suddenly discovered that a screen was lit up.

He walked up and found that it seemed to be the office interface that Thaal forgot to close. Just when he wanted to reach out to touch it, a line of words popped up on the screen: "Encrypted information, permission confirmation in progress... Confirmation complete."

Hal didn't do anything, just saw the ring on his hand light up. Immediately after, the entire screen was covered with dense information.

On it, there were detailed deployment maps of all sectors of the Green Lantern Corps and detailed personal information of all official Green Lanterns.

Hal's heart jumped violently.

A series of pictures swept past his eyes: the dark corridor of the Mayor's Manor, the enlightenment courses of Aisha and Dick, the mysterious and old butler...

He remembered that at that time, among the courses taught by Alfred, there was a skill called... The Self-Cultivation of a Spy. ===== CHAPTER 489 =====