The entire Metropolis was so big, yet finding the Priest was not very difficult; a few hours later, Sun Jack arrived at the front of the new church.
Above the doorway of this basement hung a Sickle Hammer Cross, just as it had initially.
However, his feelings at that moment were completely different from before as Sun Jack walked in, his emotions complex.
The interior was not large, about a hundred square meters, especially considering the numerous number of orphans, it was nearly impossible to find a foothold.
Under the Priest's command, the orphans were turning the entire basement into a new church.
At that moment, the church was being cleaned, and the dust was particularly heavy.
Sun Jack did not speak; instead, he pulled over a long bench and sat down, watching the bustling chaos before him.
Although everything was very rudimentary, all of it was being restored to resemble the church of the past.
But Sun Jack didn't quite agree; to Metropolis, one more or less church made no difference.
The orphans, their bodies full of prosthetics, saw Sun Jack's arrival, their eyes suddenly lit up, and they were just about to run over when they saw the Priest beside them and reluctantly hesitated.
Once everything was almost set up, before Sun Jack could go looking for him, the Priest, holding a Red Cover Book, came to Sun Jack with a serious expression.
At that moment, Sun Jack was not as agitated as before; he calmly looked at the Priest. "Priest, how are you still alive? Congratulations, looks like King Kong's paper-mache eggs were in vain."
"I uploaded my consciousness data and DNA in another city to ensure that a new me could be replicated after my death, to avoid leaving the orphanage unsupervised, but there was a slight mishap this time, so it took a bit longer," the Priest explained.
Hearing this, Sun Jack secretly chuckled to himself. Guan Sanke's excuse seemed quite far-fetched; was he being taken for an amnesiac?
The Priest looked at Sun Jack with a very complex expression. "What I didn't expect was that such a big change has happened to you in this short period of time."
He then turned his head towards the orphanage children, looking at their adult prosthetic bodies.
"It's not me who changed; rather, it's this place itself that has undergone many changes. The environment is changing, so we naturally have to adapt to it. We can't expect the environment to adapt to us, can we?"
Seeing that the Priest didn't respond, Sun Jack spoke again: "Let the children come back; my company is just getting started and really needs them; I don't trust outsiders."
"No," the Priest bluntly refused. "You are letting capitalism erode them! Your way is completely wrong."
Although on the way here, Sun Jack kept telling himself not to get angry, but upon hearing this, he couldn't help it; he had no idea what he was facing.
"Priest, if I don't do this, then tell me how I'm supposed to win? How am I supposed to help Rat Alliance Battle Line take their revenge!" Sun Jack suddenly stood up, his eyes unflinchingly staring at the Priest.
"You are wrong! Our goal is not to win! Our goal is not revenge; our goal is to create God's Utopia!" The Priest slammed the Red Book directly onto Sun Jack's chest.
"Fine! You're right! I can lose! I can forsake revenge! But I can't let the people around me go through the same ordeal again, dying without any worth! I want to find a way out for the people with me!" Sun Jack looked the Priest straight in the eyes.
"Do you think I don't know what you're saying? Of course, I know, but do you realize this is just the beginning, you're dead! Si Ai is already dead! King Kong is dead, and AA is missing 37%! If we continue as you suggest, they will merely repeat what happened to Anan and Hilda!"
"My life is not just my life, I can't live just for myself!"
Having said that, Sun Jack pointed at the orphans, "You saved them! But how long can you save them? In this Metropolis, you can't even protect yourself!"
However, the Priest's gaze did not waver in the slightest. "Even if you succeeded, you would just become the new Holy Grail!"
"I said I won't!" Sun Jack stood up and yelled at the Priest, his anger directed not only at the Priest but also at Guan Sanke at that moment.
"You will, God said that capital is an inescapable viper, no one can evade its corrosion."
Upon hearing this, Sun Jack felt there was no need to continue the conversation.
"Then let's try it! You run your church, I'll run my company! Let's see who can pave a new path!"
Sun Jack stared intently at the cross on his neck, suddenly turned around, and looked at the orphans who were watching. "What about you then? Do you all agree with the Priest? Do you really want to go back to the past?"
The orphans looked at each other, their expressions troubled. Although their prosthetic bodies were armed to the teeth, their minds remained those of 12-year-olds.
Although Sun Jack had saved their lives, clearly, his few months with them couldn't compare to the Priest's nurturing kindness. In the end, aside from seven or eight orphans, everyone else remained in place.
"Fine, Tapai! Let's go!" Seeing this, Sun Jack didn't force anything and decisively left with Tapai.
Once they were out of the basement, the cold rain hit Sun Jack's face, and he bent down to light two cigarettes.
"What do we do? With just these few blockheads, many positions in our company are vacant. If we fill them with outsiders, we might not feel secure," Tapai spoke.
"Damn! What's there to be afraid of? We've gone through far tougher situations, are we afraid of this little bit?"
"What good does talking big do, you need to think of a concrete solution," Tapai said helplessly.
"Simple!" Sun Jack reached behind his neck and pulled hard, three data cables were yanked out. "Clone!"
That very afternoon, the Breeding Factory received a large order for 200 clones with the same DNA.
With the help of Sun Jack's financial abilities, by that evening, 200 Sun Jacks with the same memory arrived at the expanding Utopia Security Company,
The different Sun Jacks quickly absorbed the chipset knowledge, rapidly replacing the positions previously held by the orphans, and the previously stalled business operations of the company began to flow smoothly again.
"Thinking a cloned Priest could shake my resolve? Guan Sanke, you've thought too much," Sun Jack muttered to himself, squinting his eyes slightly. If this guy was looking for trouble, perhaps he should reciprocate the favor?
Speaking of which, Gaofeng Technology serves as Guan Sanke's tool, right? Could this be an opportunity to stealthily screw him over a bit, to keep him from causing trouble every now and then?
The more Sun Jack thought about it, the more he felt it necessary to act. He patted the noisy armor on Tapai, "Let's go! To Gaofeng Technology Headquarters!"