In the office of Legion Commander Tyrone, after Hal finished delivering the papers, he turned around and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Tyrone.

Tyrone said as he looked at the papers, "Seriously, you can forgive Owen, it's really beyond my expectations, it seems that you are a big hearted person. ”

Hal paused, then said, "It's not that I forgive him, it's just that I know that the headquarters needs manpower now, and he often handles paperwork, and without him, the two of us wouldn't be able to handle so many things." ”

Tyrone sighed and said with some emotion: "Since Senisto's betrayal, they have been keeping a strict watch over the headquarters, I heard that ......"

Tyrone lowered his voice, and then said, "They intend to form a special gendarmerie team, and the members of the gendarmerie are not Green Lantern Men who are recognized by the Green Lantern Ring, but Green Lantern weapons that they have made. ”

"You can see what happened to Owen before, that is, the experiments they have done, they have been trying all kinds of methods to extract the green light energy, and the green light ring is just one of them."

"Will they succeed?" Hal asked.

"I don't know, but if they succeed, we're not in a good place." Tyrone looked a little worried, and Hal could understand him, and anyone knew how terrible the gendarmerie was to watch.

Moreover, the Green Lantern is bound by certain rules in the Green Lantern Ring and cannot use lethal force, but if the gendarmerie are created, it is unknown whether they will have such restraint, but if not, I am afraid that a horrific purge will come.

"I'm sorry, Hal, for getting you involved in this kind of thing." Tyrone lowered his eyes and pretended to be reading the report, but in reality, his thoughts had flown far away.

"The earth is the same as my hometown, it is too difficult for a remote place like ours to enter the universe, and it is not easy for a leader to appear, but he is not born in the right era."

Hal walked back, stood across from Tyrone, and said, "Really? I don't think so. ”

"You still don't understand the seriousness of the matter, Hal, actually, they pushed me up because I don't have a civilization behind me to rely on, if they push out a legion leader from an advanced civilization, then if they want to replace him in the end, they will be met with resistance from the civilization behind him."

"But I ...... I'm just a townsman from a small place, and after so many years in the headquarters, I only got the position of assistant to the deputy commander, but after the betrayal of Senisto, the original deputy commander and the two lieutenants failed to become the new commander. ”

"When this position came to me, I knew what they were going to do, but nevertheless, I had to go down this path, even if it was a dead end."

Hal was silent, he looked at Tyrone's face, Tyrone's appearance was very similar to that of a human, so he could better understand the emotions conveyed by Tyrone's expression.

But Hal didn't say anything, he wanted to turn around and leave the room, and just as he pushed the door open, Tyrone let out a puzzled voice, "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 on the aftermath of the earth?" ”

"Oh, is it? But this part is not something I did. Hal gave a look of embarrassment, and Tyrone looked up at him and said, "Say whatever you want, don't bother with it." ”

Hal sighed and said, "Originally, I was doing this part of the work, but Owen said that I was from the earth, and if I handled it myself, I would definitely cheat for personal gain, and then I snatched this job." ”

Tyrone frowned, seemingly a little dissatisfied with Owen's approach, but he couldn't find anything wrong with it, because the Green Lantern Corps did have such a rule, and those involving their hometown sector needed to avoid suspicion.

Tyrone knocked on the table and said, "You go and get Owen, I don't understand the report he handed over." ”

After a while, Hal called Owen over, Owen looked impatient, and looked at Hal with a black face like the bottom of a pot, Tyrone didn't care, he asked, "What is the reason for your report to increase the budget for the use of energy for Gotham's aftermath work?" Is the existing budget not enough? ”

"Don't mention it!"

Owen snorted and said, "Before, that Schiller Rodriguez who drained half of his energy was a good thing he did. ”

"Why do you think he lasted so long in Gotham? On his own? How can it be! Think everyone is the so-called greatest Green Lantern? ”

Owen's tone was full of sarcasm, but Tyrone patiently asked, "Then what is he?" What does it have to do with budget? ”

"He made a big blank check and hired a lot of mercenaries, including Konstantin, who was famous in the spirit world."

"The spirit world? I don't know much about this, what's wrong with him? ”

"You don't need to understand, you just need to know that he is a dog skin plaster, the ultimate rotten person, if we don't pay the bill, he will definitely make trouble at the headquarters, and this person is very evil, and the people who oppose him and his teammates will die ugly."

Owen took a deep breath and said helplessly: "If you don't send him away, we will be disgusted to death." ”

"But that can't be helped, if it were you and held on to Gotham for so long, would you be able to rely on external forces?" Hal retorted loudly.

That's not a reason for him to promise a big honorarium! Do you know how tight our energy is right now? More than 100 sectors of the lamp stove charging time have been delayed! Owen also shouted.

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Tyrone hurriedly persuaded him, he said: "Okay, this is reasonable, but Gotham asks for compensation, this is ......"

"These damn surface creatures, I don't know where they got the way to communicate in space, they say that if we don't compensate them, they will shout about it......"

Owen rubbed his eyebrows with his fingers and said: "Originally, our prestige has been hit by a sharp blow, and if there is any more turmoil because of this incident, the prestige of the Green Lantern Corps will be shaken very much." ”

"Of course, they put forward those terms completely out of the mouth, and I won't pay for it." Owen crossed his arms and said, "Give them one percent at most, anyway, it's just a bunch of unseen surface creatures, and you can get away with a little money." ”

"Each item is a small amount of money, but it adds up to a lot." Tyrone said worriedly, but in the end, he signed and agreed.

After Owen left, Hal didn't leave, he sat down across from Tyrone and asked him, "What are you going to do if the situation does get the worst?" ”

Tyrone shook his head and said, "If I could have a way to deal with it, they wouldn't have chosen me." ”

Hal took a deep breath, and Tyrone saw that he had something to say, and Tyrone said thoughtfully, "Do you think the next words are not easy to speak?" ”

"No, I'm just wondering, is there any surveillance facility they left behind?"

Tyrone raised his eyes and stared at Hal's eyes, but Hal looked at him with a resolute look, without a weak expression at all, and finally, Tyrone said: "Don't worry, the former head of the regiment, Xenisto, was a suspicious person, and they had to point at him at the beginning, 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 build the gendarmerie and ride on your head, and maybe even kill you?" ”

Tyrone was silent, and he said, "It's not that I don't want to, but I can't do it, Hal, not everyone has the same talent as you, just got the Green Light Ring, and you can be recognized by the ion shark." ”

"But I have a solution, do you want to hear it?"

Tyrone put down the report in his hand and looked at Hal, a hint of hesitation between his eyebrows, because he had a hunch that what Hal said might be a little surprising.

But then he heard Hal say, "Not only for yourself, but also for your civilization, for your homeland, and for places like you and mine......"

"Say, no matter what you say, you won't leave this room."

Hal pointed his finger at the report, and said, "You saw what it said in that report, and of all the energy expenditure reported here, Owen and I each took a fifth. ”

Tyrone's eyes slowly widened, and a look of anger crept up on his face, but he quickly froze, and he said, "You ......"

"That's what you think, but we're just defending ourselves, and we have to build up our strength for the purges that may come next, or we'll be killed."

"Tyrone, they betrayed us first."

As the words fell, Hal saw that Tyrone's Adam's apple was trembling up and down, and he continued: "And now, this plan is only the last link, and with me and Owen, we can only make a small fuss." ”

"And those energies ......" Hal stretched out his arm and pointed to the next door, "they are just left there, and the damned gendarmes will take them after they kill us all, are you going to wait here?" ”

Tyrone's lips trembled a little, and he said, "But I'm the Legion Commander, I can't ......"

Hal put his hand on the table, and said: "I don't believe you don't know, the Green Lantern Corps controlled by them actually doesn't represent anyone's justice at all, we are just the guns they use to rule the universe, and the green light energy is bullets." ”

Tyrone was silent, he took a deep breath, he felt his whole chest tremble, Hal's words were like a whisper of the devil, he had to admit that he wavered in the face of this temptation, because he knew very well how powerful the green light energy really was.

"But we can't abuse this energy, you should know that if you can't pass the certification of the ring, you can't use this energy, and even if you can extract it, ordinary people can't use it."

"What if I have a way?"

Tyrone felt his heart start pounding, and he said with a dry mouth, "You mean, you have a way to make the green light energy available to surface creatures?" Become...... A source of energy? ”

"A universal energy source." Hal added.

Tyrone's hands began to tremble a little, and he said, "Are you sure?" ”

Hal nodded, Tyrone began to be silent, he was silent for a long time, about ten minutes, without saying a word, he seemed to be caught in a memory, from his eyes, Hal could see that he thought of his hometown.

Hal was not surprised, even if he did not have a high degree of education, he also knew that if human civilization could use the green light energy as an energy source, even if it was not permanent, just to obtain some, for experimenting and manufacturing certain energy-limited equipment, it would be 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...... Remember, but didn't you say that he was injured in the scuffle and is recuperating in his hometown? ”

"Yes, but he's recovered, and I recommend him to be the Green Lantern Legion's Captain's Adjutant of Internal Affairs, in charge of finances."

Tyrone hesitated a little and said, "You mean, he can ......"

Hal nodded vigorously and said:

"He really can."