Alabasta Kingdom, Atla Mountain.
This was a great mountain located in the kingdom's northwestern region, near Rainy Oasis, the city where Crocodile, one of the Shichibukai, resided.
Recently, the once sparsely populated Atla Mountain had suddenly received many visitors. Roughly seven or eight thousand people had arrived in succession, and that number was still steadily increasing...
Because Umbrella Corporation had signed an agreement with King Cobra, any business Umbrella Corporation established within the Alabasta Kingdom had to provide a certain number of jobs for Alabasta's civilians to help improve their livelihoods.
Therefore, Umbrella Corporation, which planned to establish an industrial park at Atla Mountain, simply threw money around and offered salaries far above the industry standard to recruit workers on a massive scale. Construction teams and laborers of every kind had been hired to build the factory facilities.
After all, Umbrella Corporation intended to spare no expense and pour money into the project, extracting all the large Uranium Ore deposits beneath Atla Mountain within ten years at the fastest possible speed!
At that moment, simple tents and temporary wooden cabins had been set up at the foot of Atla Mountain. Countless workers sweated profusely as they used their tools, working overtime to construct the factories.
Although the work here was extremely demanding, no one complained.
After all, Umbrella Corporation offered twice the normal market wage, three times the wage for night shifts, and all kinds of enviable benefits. Everyone worked hard, afraid that slacking off would cost them this well-paid job.
At the center of the Atla Mountain construction site stood a one-story wooden villa. At its entrance, numerous women dressed themselves beautifully before entering the house one after another, only to emerge again very shortly afterward.
The reason so many women were gathered outside the villa was because a