Chapter 316: Chapter 316

"The house is ready, but there’s no one to clean it. Wristwatch sprite, find a reliable home service company for us," Du You didn’t want to clean a huge house by himself.

The wristwatch sprite was quite efficient. It gathered a tremendous amount of information even before Du You has arrived at his newly bought house. He thought he could easily order some help online.

However, when he looked at the data, Du You expressed surprise. "What does this mean? I was looking for housekeeping services, but there are countless rentals for servants, even sales. Is this slave trade?"

Du You was astounded that human trafficking could exist so openly in this world.

After investigating, Du You found out that it was indeed legitimate. The slaves, contrary to what he initially thought, were not standard human beings.

The majority of the slaves came from two sources. One source was from other worlds — planets controlled by various organizations which brought over beings from other worlds at a low price. Like the elf servant Du You had met initially, these beings were brought over to Earth.

These creatures from other worlds would lose their reproduction abilities once they arrived on Earth, so there was no need to worry about them populating and becoming a dominating race. They could be bought without any concerns.

The contracts forbade these different worldly beings from posing any threat to their masters.

The second source was biochemical humans. Cloning was illegal back on old Earth.

In this world, however, a highly sophisticated form of genetically engineered human had been developed. Using human genome engineering and advanced technology, biochemical humans were created.

These biochemical humans were born slaves, to serve humans. Even regular households had biochemical humans as servants. However, due to the smallness of Du You’s city of birth, he had limited exposure.

It was also possible that he lost much of this knowledge with the blending of memories, to the point that he completely forgot about the prevalence of biochemical humans until now.

Du You learned from an article that biochemical humans had previously rebelled.

The first generation of biochemical humans were very loyal but comparatively less smart. They could carry out orders to the letter but were not very flexible. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡•𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚⚫𝙣𝙚𝙩

Overall, they were still quite useful. Research later showed that because the first generation of biochemical humans was an artificial creation, they lacked a soul, thus could not be seen as human.

But the descendants of biochemical humans possessed incomplete souls, which made them more difficult to control. By the third generation, biochemical humans were no longer biochemically human because they were scarcely different from regular humans.

Inevitably, the third-generation biochemical humans, resisting enslavement, rebelled. But the uprising was suppressed and the human federations globally recognized the third-generation biochemical humans as humans.

Earth’s population was able to keep up with its populace expansion, mainly because of these biochemical humans.

Subsequent laws stipulated that third-generation biochemical humans were to be regular citizens, bearing the same legal rights as naturally born humans.

This status did not last long, as an increasing number of biochemical human descendants posed a threat to surpass naturally born humans in number. The creation of biochemical humans was temporarily suspended.

This suspension had little effect, however, because biochemical humans were simply too useful to be abandoned. After much controversy and compromise, the five major alliances decreed that all newly created biochemical humans must be sterile, thus stopping any natural population growth. Now, fewer biochemical human descendants were squeezing out the naturally born humans.

However, a group of biochemical human descendants didn’t accept this new law and built their own cities on the periphery of the alliance cities. Like Blood Lotus, they created their own illegal organizations.

Because of the survival of biochemical human technology, these illegal organizations could never be permanently eliminated. Even if there were only a few survivors left, they could repopulate their species in as little as ten years.

Besides these two types of human sources, there were also normal humans. They were mostly people captured by illegal organizations who were turned into slaves to be sold.

Killing is not always the best solution. The more advanced society becomes, the less severe the punishments are. That’s why those who should have been cleansed were reduced to slavery.

Perhaps owing to the different systems in other worlds, Earth was now a mix of numerous structures. A deep dive into this presented a hodgepodge, which was very strange.

However, Du You also found out that not all sources for human populations were external: some were internal. But that information was much more obscure, and there aren’t too many precise explanations. These humans were the source of slaves for the Professionals’ households.

Using free citizens wasn’t entirely dependable; for the affluent professionals, spending a little more money for genuinely loyal servants was a small price to pay.

This was why, during the query for household services, many organizations appeared like human traffickers. They weren’t illegal organizations; they were all legitimate, sizable corporations.

Du You felt a tremendous headache. He had taken the world rules for granted. As a professional in the modern world – akin to a noble – his power and status were much higher than he thought.

Just then, his self-driving car came to a stop. Du You stepped out and saw his newly bought house.

At a glance, the villa spread at least 1,000 square meters. Not big but not small either. It was more or less average in the Ninety-Nine Ring Zone. Most of the cleaning in the house was done by cleaning robots.

Various types of robots either hovered in the air or dove underwater, making the cleanup task fairly effortless.

"Looks like we only need a few to direct these robot servants. Let’s buy a few servants of our own." As a beneficiary, Du You adjusted fairly quickly. As for overturning the system, he wasn’t a saint; and why overturn something that benefited him?