That afternoon, seventeen residents who followed the website discovered an astonishing announcement.
Father Bruno, once resolutely xenophobic, had posted a recruitment notice for the Void Investigation Agency, stating they had found an abandoned habitable area in a small town at the border of the Void in District Seventeen, desolate and uninhabited. The Void Investigation Agency hoped to recruit some volunteers to settle there.
They had been glued to their computers to learn about the firsthand details of the Cloud Biological Pharmaceutical convoy hijacking, but instead stumbled upon an even bigger piece of news.
Only three settlers were sought for the first group, yet in less than half an hour after the recruitment notice was released, the backend received a couple of hundred applications.
"Don't go, they want to snatch your kidneys!"
While someone was spreading panic, they quietly submitted several applications to reduce their potential competition.
