Recruits

Sunset Town on Sunset Island was a town personally constructed by Mammon using Crystal Mecha. It did not have many residents—only a little over three hundred.

This was mainly related to the Human Reform League's Total Population.

Among the Human Reform League's various branches, Gourmet Island had the largest population, with a total of 72,000 people. Next came the Vongola Trading Company in the West Blue, with more than 8,000 people, followed by the Sky Cloud Federation in the Cloud Realm, which had just over 6,000.

The Black Reef Archipelago in the South Blue had only around 1,300 people, while the Devil's Triangle, which served as headquarters, likewise had only a little over 1,100, mostly organization soldiers and staff.

As for special bases such as Camel Island and Level 5.5 of Impel Down, there were no Ordinary People there at all.

According to Lucifer's statistics, the Human Reform League's current Total Population was only 88,672. Of them, more than 5,000 were combat personnel, in addition to all kinds of staff.

Basically, most so-called Ordinary People were relatives of soldiers and staff.

This was especially true for the Sky Cloud Federation on the sky islands. Due to the natural environment, Ordinary People had to spend roughly three months adapting in the Cloud Realm before they could live normally on the sky islands.

Unless they were directly implanted with mecha, which could speed up their adaptation.

That was also why the first residents of the Cloud Realm had all been equipped with basic mecha: not only to strengthen their physical constitution, but also to prevent information leaks.

At present, Lucifer was dispatching members of the Ghost Shadow Corps to quietly recruit people in various war-torn regions while gathering intelligence along the way.

The Cloud Realm and Gourmet Island could accommodate roughly two million and one million people respectively.

If their land area was expanded in the future, their population limits could continue to increase.

At this time, Sunset Town had a dedicated hospital. With the Human Reform League's advanced biotechnology, its treatments for all kinds of illnesses were even more capable than those of Drum Kingdom.

Enel, who had been on the verge of death, was placed inside a healing pod. In less than two hours, his body had been fully repaired.

The next day.

Enel was awakened by the blinding sunlight. Still groggy, he opened his eyes and saw the unfamiliar surroundings, leaving him somewhat at a loss.

He suddenly tried lifting his leg and found that there was nothing wrong with it, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

The ward door was pushed open, and Shante appeared before him. "If you're awake, come with me!"

"Uh... were you the one who brought me here?" Enel immediately realized.

Shante tossed him a set of guard uniforms. "This treatment wasn't free. Your full-body treatment this time cost a total of 20,000 Gold Yuan. The bill will be deducted from your wages."

"Twenty thousand! Gulp..." Enel's mouth went dry.

"What are you standing around for? Come register."

"Understood!" Enel treasured This Time opportunity as well. He hurriedly changed into the uniform and followed Shante out of the hospital.

Once outside, Enel, following behind Shante, realized that he had arrived above that land of miracles. There were many people here, and they also had no wings.

At the same time, he spotted quite a few Birka residents in Sunset Town, mostly working jobs. Perhaps because there were so many local people without wings around, those Sky People did not dare mock Enel for lacking wings.

They arrived at the southeastern side of Sunset Town. Beyond a narrow stretch of White White Sea lay Birka, and the Sky Cloud Federation's military camp had been established here.

Besides office buildings, soldiers' dormitories, supply warehouses, and training grounds, the camp also had an air harbor. Three airships were parked there, along with several sky-island motorboats similar to Wavers.

The number of soldiers Stationed here was not particularly high—only one hundred.

The person in charge was Air Force Major Lewen, a stern and unsmiling man from the Flower Country. He was also one of the few people secretly swapped out of Impel Down.

To distinguish themselves from the World Government's Marines, the Human Reform League's regular soldiers wore tight-fitting combat uniforms without shoulder armor—similar to the battle suits in Dragon Ball—and did not divide their forces into naval, army, and air branches.

Lewen looked at Shante, then at Enel behind him. "He's Enel, the one who passed the preliminary assessment?"

"Yes, Major Lewen!" Shante replied with a solemn salute.

"Then send him to the Training Camp. Train him for three months first, then arrange the rest afterward." As Lewen spoke, he pulled up Enel's file on the Bio-Computer and assigned him to the Recruits Training Camp.

"Understood!" After speaking, Shante kicked Enel again.

Only then did Enel snap out of it. He hurriedly gave a sloppy military salute. "Understood!"

"Dismissed."

"Yes!"

Shante led Enel away. On their way to the dormitories, he explained several precautions to Enel, especially the internal regulations. They absolutely could not be violated, or the consequences would be extremely severe.

Besides Enel, the Recruits Training Camp dormitory housed Dozens of youths recruited from refugees from the seas, all between sixteen and twenty years old.

Although Enel looked rather strange, there were plenty of oddly shaped people out at sea. The others neither looked down on him nor excluded him.

In truth, those strangely shaped people mainly resulted from unstable genetic fragments left behind by the genetic experiments the Moon People had conducted on Blue Sea Star long ago.

Whether they were Moon People, Ordinary People of Blue Sea Star, or races such as the Mink Tribe, Giant race, and fish-men, there was no obvious reproductive isolation among them.

That could only point to one thing: they had a common ancestor.

For naturally diverging primates to become two races with reproductive isolation, it would take at least five hundred thousand to one million years.

Yet among the various demi-human races currently existing on Blue Sea Star, there were both extremely obvious differences in traits and no obvious reproductive isolation. This could only point to one conclusion:

These demi-human races had not emerged through natural divergence, but had been artificially modified—they were genetically modified humans.

Genetically modified organisms had many obvious characteristics, such as genetic drift. This meant that after being modified, if genetically modified organisms lived alongside natural organisms of the same kind for a long time, natural crossbreeding would occur.

Therefore, genetic drift was also known as genetic pollution.

After genetically modified organisms naturally crossbred with natural organisms of the same kind, all kinds of new offspring would appear. Some might be normal, while others might suffer genetic degradation, genetic mutations, and the like.

The Human Reform League's records of Moon People history included experiments in creating genetically modified humans.

The Moon People's genetic experiment subjects included the Mink Tribe, Longleg Tribe, Fish-Men, Giant race, Dwarf race, and others.

Besides these genetically modified demi-humans fortunate enough to survive, many failed specimens had vanished into the river of history.

After all, the Moon People's genetically modified organisms could not have been perfect from the start. There had to have been a gradual process of development.

Naturally, many failures emerged during that process. Some had gone completely extinct, while others had stubbornly lingered on for a time.

That was why Blue Sea Star now had all sorts of strangely shaped people, yet no clearly defined races.

For example, there were mini-giants who stood several meters tall at the drop of a hat, as well as people with horns, long noses, and the like.

Enel's long earlobes were an inherited manifestation of a genetic modification fragment, something very common on the seas.

But among Birka's Indigenous People, they were an obvious anomaly, because the overwhelming majority of Birka's inhabitants were relatively pure-blooded descendants of the Moon People.

One of Enel's parents was probably not a Sky Person, but a Blue Sea Person who had come from the sea.