Chapter 364: New Developments

Sun Jack was deeply furrowing his brow, pondering the recent words of the other party. He hadn't anticipated that merely asking for two spacecraft carriers would entangle him in such troublesome matters.

"Wait, what did you just say? All the weapons companies are conducting DNA programming research?"

"Of course! I don't know who leaked the DNA technology! Now, all the weapons companies have switched tracks and are madly internally competing!" After saying this, Number 13 sent a video to Sun Jack's system.

As soon as Sun Jack opened it, he saw three Black men singing rap and dancing street dance. As they danced, their skin color gradually turned white, and their curly hair quickly became smooth.

"See that? This is an entertainment company, they've already started hyping up a new concept!"

"Don't speak so eerily. Such a big company, it won't collapse just because one project was stopped, right? Are you kidding me?" Though the situation was described as severe, Sun Jack was not easily frightened.

New technology takes at least a few days from research to mass production, and he hadn't forgotten the old capitalists represented by X that were in the way.

Number 13 looked at Sun Jack, irritation evident on his face. "Gaofeng Technology is different from your mercenary company! It's a publicly traded company! You think Gaofeng Technology's biggest earnings come from selling combat prostheses, war machines? Wrong! It's the stocks!"

"It's because of your prohibition of DNA project experiments! The investors have lost confidence in the future of Gaofeng Technology, and now the stock price of Gaofeng Technology has been continuously falling! Just in this short half-month, it has already dropped the equivalent of three spacecraft carriers!"

"Ah~" Tapai on the side covered his chest, making a deeply pained expression.

At this moment, Sun Jack also widened his eyes in shock. He hadn't expected that merely stopping one research project of Gaofeng Technology could trigger so many chain reactions.

This was something he hadn't considered; if the psychological expectations of the investors were added, the variables could be much greater, and it might indeed trouble the current state of Gaofeng Technology.

Seeing that Sun Jack had realized the severity of the situation, Number 13 used a robot sitting beside him to attach his own head onto it.

As he stood up, all the senior executives of Gaofeng Technology also stood up, forming a fan shape in front of Sun Jack.

"I know you are the largest shareholder of Gaofeng Technology, but that doesn't mean you can do whatever you want."

"Gaofeng Technology is a company, and everything it does must follow market regulations! The research and development of DNA programming technology must be restarted!"

The tone of Number 13 was very stern, it could even be taken as a threat.

"Oh? And if I disagree?" Sun Jack stood up defiantly, glaring at the other party, and the atmosphere in the meeting room instantly became extremely tense.

"Don't forget, I am the boss of this company. If it weren't for me stepping in before, Gaofeng Technology would have been divided up by other companies long ago!"

"I said no, and no means no! These anti-human experiments with DNA must be stopped!"

After hearing Sun Jack's words, Number 13 finally understood why Sun Jack had prohibited it.

"You layman, you have absolutely no right to manage the company!"

"I'll say it again, no means no! If you have the money, buy back my shares!" Sun Jack said coldly, then stood up and left immediately.

"What now? There goes the birthday present, how will you explain this to AA?"

Meanwhile, Sun Jack, sitting in the hover shuttle, was still deeply furrowing his brow, thinking about the reaction of the entire Gaofeng Technology executive team earlier.

He was not considering the attitudes of those people, but rather, he sensed something odd about the whole situation. "Something's not right, something's off."

"What's off?"

"The pace at which DNA programming technology is expanding is too fast, I don't think this is normal."

"Isn't new technology a good thing? Of course, everyone wants to get ahead in the race."

"That's not right, there's a lack of resistance, a lack of the old capital's resistance to the older capital. If the new technologies really spread everywhere, that would spell doom for all prosthetic companies."

"If I'm not wrong, this matter is going so smoothly only because it's part of the plot of 'Revolution Sun Jack'."

"What does that have to do with him?" Tapai connected to the Hover Shuttle, continually flying over Metropolis.

"Of course, it's related, think about it. The reason 'Revolution Sun Jack' exists is not just to make money, but also to lessen the Holy Grail People's resistance to new technologies, and to challenge the old capital backed by X."

"If you link these two together, then the reaction of instance number 13 this time looks much more logical."

As Sun Jack spoke, he stood up abruptly. "No, I have to go back and check if things are as I suspect."

As he spoke, Sun Jack's body gradually became transparent, disappearing within the Hover Shuttle.

A few minutes later, Sun Jack reappeared at the entrance of the Gaofeng Building, activated his Mimetic Camouflage, and walked in with Tapai, who was also camouflaged.

Gaofeng Technology had various detection devices in place, but as the stakeholder with the most shares in Gaofeng Technology, Sun Jack had the highest access rights. All detection devices selectively turned a blind eye, and all elevator security systems granted access unconditionally.

As Sun Jack walked in, he could distinctly feel that in every department on each floor, the atmosphere was quite off; everyone was anxious, and many people occasionally checked their stocks.

He saw a middle-aged man with a tattooed face and a pot belly, running towards an office on the left in disarray, and Sun Jack looked in that direction too.

No sooner had Sun Jack followed him into the office than he saw a woman with transparent legs and a mouth full of sharp teeth, anxiously gnawing on a gunstock.

"Boss, I heard that no. 1 just came in?" The overweight man asked anxiously, addressing the woman sitting at the back of the office.

"Yes, he's here, but from the look on my boss's face, he still disagrees with lifting the ban on the 31st research project."

"How can this be? Didn't they tell him that if the stock keeps falling like this, just one more dip to the critical point will render the stock worthless?"

"Didn't they say? The company management channel is going crazy, but he just won't agree. What can you do? Damn it, the guy comes from a mercenary background, he doesn't understand a damn thing about managing a company! Fuck!"

The chubby man's body shook upon hearing this, and cold sweat continuously broke out from his forehead, "It really can't fall anymore, I'm leveraged to the hilt! What on earth is his reason?"

"The higher-ups didn't say, but I got some intel from marketing; it seems no. 1 thinks the 31st research project is inhumane."

"Inhumane?" the chubby man repeated incredulously, "But we're paying them."

"Exactly," the bald woman said in agreement.

"He thinks the test subjects are people, but aren't the employees of Gaofeng Technology human too? If this keeps up, the entire company might as well implant a 'B' and go sell themselves on the streets!"