Most of the volunteers at the secret laboratory at Yokosuka Port were death-row inmates who, under the CIA's "sincere persuasion," had awakened their free will and volunteered to lay down their lives for their country.
These volunteers had traveled thousands of miles across the ocean, throwing themselves into the cause of the United States, one after another, without regard for their own safety. What kind of spirit was this?
Although the United States' volunteers had spent the first half of their lives committing countless heinous crimes, they had finally seen the light at the end, achieving a noble elevation of their character through self-sacrifice. It was enough to move anyone to tears.
With volunteers like these, General William was very confident that, once the White House saw a glimmer of success in the Wolverine Project, it would surely green-light his requests all the way. He could have as many as he wanted.
But if they were replaced with children between ten and fifteen, the problem became somewhat tricky.
After all, this was no longer a century ago, when Native American children could be openly taken from their parents and stuffed into monastery schools under the fine-sounding pretext of civilizing them.
"Among the illegal immigrants detained at the U.S.-Mexico Border, there are still more than seventy thousand children..."
A thought flashed through General William's mind that even he found frightening.
No, no.
If he did that, even General William himself would have to shoulder some political risk.
It might become ammunition for his political enemies to attack him with.
Besides, General William was a devout believer, and the immigrants of Mexican descent detained at the border were mostly Catholics too. He did not want to burden himself with that psychological pressure.
"Officer Mori, I'll leave the task of finding volunteers of