Bob looked at the boy in front of him, who had dark blond hair. Under the broad forehead, the most noticeable thing is the pair of pale gray eyes that are the same as himself, the slightly higher eyebrow bones make it easy for those eyes to hide the emotions in the heart, the slightly thicker lips dilute the coolness brought by the hooked nose, and the rounded chin is inherited from the teenage mother, Bob's humorous and lively wife.

The young man who ended his tirade looked up at his father and said, "Cast for Ahab, who is just and reliable!" ”

Seeing that his wife also agreed, Daddy Bob nodded and accepted the advice of his son, who had always had his own ideas, after all, Bob himself had always had no opinions.

After helping his mother clean up the table, Trist put down his coat to be washed and walked out of the room wearing only his linen shirt. Due to the Ark's thermostatic facilities, the people in the Ark don't worry about catching a cold. With limited resources, space plant products in agricultural areas have become the mainstream of clothing materials, and chemical fiber cloth is concentrated in spacesuits for warehouse operations.

The canvas boots stepped on the steel grid-like floor, covering the figures of the buildings below, and the whitish trousers gently brushed over, inadvertently expanding the range of raw edges. Trist pressed the handrail and stood in the circular hallway, looking up at the cylindrical dwelling stations that were stacked in circles and eventually converged into a cylindrical cylinder. The residential area is dismantled and reorganized from the original 12 space warfare residential stations, with a total of 60 floors, of which 1 to 52 floors are inhabited, 53 to 60 floors are used as utility rooms due to serious damage to the original station, and 53 floors are abandoned houses, which are a paradise for over-energetic bear children to explore.

People live by grade. From top to bottom, floors 1 to 5 are the residences of several chief engineers and medical officers, while the trestle, through the explosion-proof code door, the transmission track cabin, and finally connect to the teaching area, the medical area, the 6th to 15th floors are inhabited by most of the engineers, and the rest of the floors are from top to bottom, and so on.

Trist's family is in District 49, his parents are ordinary technicians, one is in the processing workshop, and the other is in charge of several sewing equipment in the living quarters.

Looking up, the well-defined residential areas are stacked together, orderly and unbreakable, and a bit of solemnity and majesty belonging to human civilization are born out of thin air, which seems to have come from ancient times in order to make Trist's heart inexplicably depressed.

The exception is that the judges and all the parliamentarians, heads of departments live in the 52nd district.

At first, then a thread, slowly converging into a beam, and eventually, a large expanse of bright sunlight shines through the tempered glass at the bottom, starting from the 60th floor of the containment area, slowly ascending, and finally overflowing the entire residential station.

The orbit of the ark has reached perihelion again.

After being filtered by tempered glass, the colorful light shone into Trist's light gray eyes, leaving a trace of warmth in Trist's heart out of thin air.

His eyes followed the sunlight coming from under his feet, and inexplicably, the corners of Trist's mouth raised, putting aside the original plot, he had some expectations for the future of human civilization carried by the ark.

Within a few steps, Trist met his uneasy twin brother. In the face of Trist's greeting, Murphy, who looked a little lost, suddenly passed by. Due to the one-child rule, Trist and Murphy, as one of the few twins, are the enviable existence in the Ark. However, Trist has always been misfits, more interested in learning than playing with his peers, and he is the only child on the Ark to take all of his courses, the last of whom is now Chief Mechanical Engineer Aha Theronis.

As for his twin brother Murphy, it is the other extreme, alas, not to mention it. The reason why he is so naughty and mischievous, and who raises hatred among his peers but is rarely bullied, is that his twin brother is addicted to combat training, in other words, he is more capable of fighting. But the little clever ghost Murphy is very measured, after all, every time Trist helps him beat him back, he will clean up Murphy again in his mother's teasing gaze when he comes home.

Especially in recent years, Trist's constraints on Murphy have increased a lot. After Murphy was forced to make a choice by Trist and chose to major in electronics, Trist would supervise Murphy's schoolwork every day. Of the more than 1,000 teenagers in the Ark, there are more than a dozen named Murphy, and Trist is not sure if his brother is the important supporting character of the same name. But he didn't want to gamble, after twelve years of getting along, he felt that he had the obligation to let his brother Tie Hanhan be self-reliant, at least not to be taken into custody for crimes.

"Life on the ark was miserable, and supplies were so scarce that the leadership set a strict rule: whoever committed a crime, no matter how big or small, would be sentenced to death." The definition of "capital punishment" is...... Throw criminals directly from the airlock into space. The confession of the heroine in the original play, as adulthood approached, once again haunted Trist's heart.

Noticing that Murphy had no obvious injuries, just that his clothes were a little disheveled, and the patch on his neckline seemed to have been ripped open, Trist was ready to ask again in the evening, he had more important things to do now.

Walking to the end of the stairway and stepping on the gangway, Trist swiped his card to open the tempered glass door in front of him and entered the teleportation pod. After a jolt, Trist pulled open the portal and swiped the card again on the steel wall in front of him, slightly surprised to hear the alarm of insufficient permissions. Helplessly, Trist turned his head and explained to the walkie-talkie on the right, "I'm looking for Dr. Sinclair from the general control room." The red glow of the monitor above flashed a few times, and the metal wall in front of it receded to the sides, revealing the gangway passage.

"Hey, Trist", Sinclair grabbed Trist's hand, "Your idea last time was great, look", Sinclair pointed to a piece in the middle of more than a hundred screens in front of him, only to see that with the operation of the thrusters, the abandoned capsule dismantled from Tianzhu Station was like a cover on a discarded robotic arm of the space station.

Sinclair paused and said to the 12-year-old boy in front of him, "Your permission application can be approved by the judge after the final review, after all, you successfully completed all the skills assessment a month ago." A smile welled up the doctor's cheeks, "It also means that, soon, you will be part of our department." You're welcome to join us in advance, kid! ”

The vast majority of skills training will end before the age of 14, and the Ark allows children after the age of 12 to pass the assessment to enter the department they want to enter, as assistants and other positions. Unless you are particularly outstanding and have been unanimously recognized by the entire department, you cannot become a regular before the age of 20. As for the children who have not passed any departmental examination by the age of 18 (80 per cent), they are arranged by the council, and most of them will fill the vacancies of technician positions, and a small number of them will work as security guards, or be hired as assistants to the engineer's relatives and friends. Because the content of the general assessment is too difficult and the pass rate is too low, many children after the age of 12 will spend the last six years of their lives, and then some children who go too far to commit crimes, because they are under the age of 18, will be imprisoned in cells nicknamed "space boxes" until adulthood. At that point, the Ark authorities will evaluate them again to determine whether they are alive or dead (usually dead).