Chapter 2462

Naturally, there would definitely have been differing circumstances, since the priestess's group looked no different from normal.

And there was what she said about survival bias, and it was a million to one odds that something like this would happen. Otherwise, everyone in contact with the meteorite would mutate!

Frank then suggested, "Should I get someone to research it?"

"Absolutely not! It belongs to us—no one gets to be near it!"

While the geezers were absolutely vehement against the idea, the priestess snapped, "Yours? Is your name written on it? It's true that our predecessors passed on a tradition to us, but none of us even understand if it would hurt people."

The geezers were simply bemused.

"How could you say that?"

"If it does, why didn't our ancestors notice it over the last thousand years?"

The priestess smiled in wry amusement—being uneducated was a terrible thing. "They wouldn't have felt it because of the low average life expectancy. Just read the stats—even now