Chapter 484: Codename Jade (Part 1)

In the core center of the green light headquarters with flashing lights, Hal sat quietly in front of the screen, looking at the information.

Just now, his ring reminded him that he could download the information he needed to his ring and call the green light energy at any time to transmit them to his brain.

But Hal did not press the confirmation button.

From birth to adulthood, Hal felt that he was a good person. Although he was not the kind of saint who always considered others and ignored his own feelings, he would sometimes act on impulse and act on his own, quarrel with his parents, and quarrel with his friends, but the belief of helping the weak and saving people from fire and water has always been engraved in his bones.

From childhood to adulthood, many people have received his help. He once saved a child who fell into the water, stopped a robber on the street, and helped beggars wandering on the street when he was not rich. He was not a saint who saved the world, but just an ordinary good man with conscience.

Therefore, when facing many important choices, he would also feel hesitant and confused.

In his opinion, the Earth is his homeland, where he has everything he loves, and he should make every effort to protect the Earth.

During the time when he just became a Green Lantern, he was excited about his superpowers and sent a lot of information to the Green Lantern network. When he came to his senses, he also found the abnormality and began to feel a little guilty.

So when Schiller approached him and hoped that he could cooperate with the plan and get some energy from the Green Lantern, he agreed.

As a Green Lantern, he knew better than Schiller that Green Lantern energy was not a non-renewable energy source. Even if Schiller drained half of the energy of the Green Lantern headquarters, as long as the time was long enough, the energy would slowly increase.

And now, standing in front of the confidential information of the core center, Hal realized that Schiller wanted far more than just energy.

He wanted the entire Green Lantern Corps.

It was not until now that Hal sorted out the context of everything.

At the beginning, Schiller asked Hal to ask for help from the Green Lantern Corps and bring back a team as much as possible, just to let these Green Lanterns see the danger of Gotham and be trapped here.

When they are stuck in the quagmire and their energy is about to run out, they will definitely choose to ask for help.

In this way, most of the combat power in the headquarters will be mobilized to Gotham. After they arrive, Schiller will use some other methods to shoot them all down, and then put all the Green Lanterns, including the head of the Green Lantern Corps, in danger of being wiped out.

At this time, Hal stood up, turned the tide, saved the building from collapse, and saved everyone from the water and fire.

This is equivalent to Schiller pulling in countless powerful supporting roles, but in the end it was only to set off the protagonist Hal and give him a great credit.

This credit will not only allow him to directly skip the novice stage of Green Lantern and become a formal Lantern, but also allow him to rise rapidly in the Green Lantern Corps, directly skipping the long process of accumulating combat exploits, going out for further study, etc., and step into the core in one step.

Thinking of this, Hal sighed in his heart, and he thought of what Alfred said in the mayor's manor.

"When we need a spy to be in a high position, we usually do three things."

"First, destroy the stability of the area and make most of the senior officials busy calming the chaos."

"Second, let other agents create some troubles that only the spy has the spare energy to deal with, providing him with an opportunity to get promoted."

"Third, take advantage of the chaos to kill one or several important people in the senior positions, so that the position will be vacant and make room for him."

"Finally, we no longer need to use tough means to make them accept the spy's promotion, but let it go naturally."

"If this time is unsuccessful, then we will wait patiently for the next opportunity. In a large organization with complex personnel relations, there will always be such an opportunity for us to put the right person in the right position."

Hal suddenly found that what he felt was absurd was that Alfred had told him the answer long before all these events began.

Everything Schiller did had a traceable path, or in other words, in their field, these were theorems like mathematical formulas, which had been practiced, improved, summarized, and condensed into essence by countless people.

Hal didn't know whether the Green Lanterns would also use this method, but there was no doubt that Schiller's plan had succeeded.

The only variable was his choice.

Hal sat at the table, looking at the cold light of the screen reflected on the smooth desktop, with data flowing and light spots flashing on it, like a lake reflecting the starlight.

He knew that the reason why Schiller didn't tell him all this in advance was to give him the opportunity to choose.

Hal didn't understand why Schiller did this, why he tied the results of such a large investment of manpower and material resources to his thoughts.

Can he really make such an important decision? Can he really be expected to choose the future of the earth?

Batman has the same question.

In the manor, he still sat on the sofa with his back straight, not wanting to let his back touch the back of the sofa. He asked:

"In fact, you can do all this by yourself. You also have the Green Lantern Ring, you are also a member of the Lantern Corps, your acting skills and abilities are better than that person named Hal, and more importantly, you will definitely choose Earth."

"Why are you so sure?" Schiller asked back.

"Because if it weren't so, you wouldn't plan all this."

Batman's answer was the perfect and correct answer. Schiller spent so much effort and went through such a big circle to promote Hal to the position because he hoped that someone could control the Green Lantern Corps and let the Green Lantern Corps stand on the side of the Earth.

But Batman's question was also reasonable. Schiller could do all this by himself. He could plan such a big event by himself, let himself be the protagonist, and make a shining appearance when all the Green Lanterns were beaten to a pulp, becoming a hero who saved them from dire straits, and then accept the pursuit of everyone and step into the power core of the Green Lantern Corps.

Batman has no doubt that Schiller will do better, although Schiller often says that he is just an ordinary person. When facing Hal, he will also say that Hal is the person with the strongest willpower in the world, and he is far inferior to Hal.

But the way he does things is destined. He does not need such strong force. On the contrary, those intrigues and schemes are more important.

Batman thinks that if Schiller successfully enters the leadership core of the Green Lantern Corps, then soon, Oa Star will become a sub-planet of the Earth.

"Batman, I think I told you before that you are too focused on efficiency and goal-oriented, so that sometimes you ignore the side benefits."

Schiller put down his glass and explained, "Indeed, if I do it myself, it will be much more efficient. I don't even need to direct this play. I just need to follow the normal process, report to Oa Star, train, and then soon, I can climb to the top of the Green Lantern Corps."

"But if that's the case, I'm still me. For me, this is just a task. It has no training effect and is very boring. I'm already on the side of the earth, and this incident will not change me."

"But Hal is different. Although he is still very young, he has unlimited potential. More importantly, he has not been brainwashed by the so-called belief of peace and justice of the Green Lantern, and there is still room for transformation."

"Since we can take this opportunity Yes, and train a die-hard person who stands on the side of the earth, so why not? "

Constantine on the other side of the sofa asked again: "The question is, how can you be so sure that Hal will choose the earth? Even if he is an earthling, the ability of the green lantern is so strong without paying a price. What if he is tempted?"

"If I am not mistaken, he should be in the headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps now, and he may have found some confidential information. But he believed the Green Lantern Corps' rhetoric so much before, how could he suddenly change his position? "

Schiller smiled, took the bottle and poured himself a glass of wine. Watching the golden wine slowly flow into the glass, he said calmly: "Don't tell me that you think you are perfect when you are born."

"Of course I..." Constantine was about to admit it, but he saw Batman squinting at him, and the words were swallowed back when they came to his lips.

To cover up the embarrassment, Constantine coughed twice and said, "Okay, even if we are not born perfect, what do you want to say?"

"I want to say that we can give him some time. When he realizes the essence of the problem, he will stand with his compatriots more firmly than anyone else."

"The essence of the problem..." Batman dragged the tail tone slightly, which was not common. Obviously, he thought of something. He said, "I remember that you told a story last time. Not long after the birth of the universe, a group of races called the Guardians of the Universe appeared..."

"Yes, I remember, I should have told you that they are an intelligent race, although they are not so intelligent in many cases."

Batman seemed to understand something. He said, "Any kind of Intelligent creatures cannot be absolutely selfless. "

"To some extent, the smarter you are, the more selfish you are. This statement is correct, because smart people can analyze the pros and cons of something more clearly, and then get the greatest results at the lowest cost. "

"However, upholding justice, maintaining peace, and helping the weak are things that require a lot of investment but have almost no results. "

"Many people call heroes who are willing to do these things "fools" because their behavior does look stupid. "

"Spending your own money, energy, and time on those weak people who should have nothing to do with them does not meet the requirements of venture capital theory at all. "

"Because it is not an investment in itself." Batman continued: "If you want to get something in return, don't be a hero. "

This made Constantine look sideways. He paused, shrugged, and said as if talking to himself: "Okay, you are all heroes, only I am a bad guy... I am a bad guy, I just want to give back."

"Of course..." Schiller changed the subject: "Although this spirit is admirable, a completely bitter journey is not worth promoting. Rewards can inspire heroes to exert more powerful forces, so my job is to talk about something practical behind this great spirit..."

"That's off topic." Schiller took a sip of wine, and then said: "I don't need to do anything to guide Hal to reject the other party, because what that group of people represents has never been justice, and it is not fair at all."

"There is no real justice in the universe, only power, and since everyone is powerful, I hope we are stronger."

In the headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps, Hal finally did not press the confirmation button. He just stood up and stared at everything on Oa in front of the window, then turned around and left the core center.

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