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This week is another interlude between main chapters — but don’t skip it. The medical and research team presents its findings to the village, and what they’ve discovered reshapes everything.
Adults have stopped aging. Telomeres are stable. Children still grow normally, but no resident appears older than roughly seventy. Every single person in the village carries microscopic foreign structures in their bodies — structures consistent with nanotechnology. The air itself contains CBD, released in targeted doses during moments of high stress, explaining the eerie calm that has settled over a community of kidnapped strangers. Violence is nearly nonexistent. Breakdowns barely happen. And none of it is natural.
Meanwhile, the community builds what normalcy it can — radio stations, musical events, routines that feel almost like living.
But the question hanging over all of it: why are their captors keeping them healthy, calm, and young? What are they being prepared for?
My ongoing sci-fi serial where new chapters drop every Friday. If the story resonates with you, share it — and help this universe grow.
If you’re new here, welcome. A Hundred Ascending is my science fiction space opera, releasing weekly as a free serial on Royal Road. One hundred strangers, abducted in beams of light. Trapped somewhere impossible. Guided by a rebellious AI with secrets of her own. A countdown ticking toward zero.
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