"No. 24 continued, "Another matter concerns the investigation into the lifespan and physical constitution of the Qingshi Town residents."
"The constitution of the locals, whether in terms of strength, speed, or disease resistance, is significantly better than that of Earth's inhabitants, despite their severe lack of protein intake... We must admit that the principle of 'use it or lose it' from nature still holds."
"However, due to various disasters, the average lifespan of Qingshi Town residents is only 28 years, with most deaths being unnatural. But there are some centenarians who are well-preserved, much like the constitution of a seventy or eighty-year-old from Earth."
An average age of 28, yet some live to a hundred—the starkness of these numbers.
"It's reliable professionals like you who manage to find so many areas worthy of research in such a short time... If it were up to us few roughnecks to take the field, who knows how long it would take?"
