"Solar flare warning, there is an X-class flare on the starboard side of the ark, all citizens please go to the nearest refuge area to report, this is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill!" The cacophony of sirens sounded again, and Trist felt the floor under his feet and the ceiling above him shake, and the lights in the activity room began to flicker.

The X-class solar flare caused a violent electromagnetic shock, which severely interfered with the electronics on the Ark, and the entire Ark was thrown into a jolt. Fortunately, the general control room responded properly, and there was an emergency plan before, and the crisis passed quickly. Half an hour later, the ark was basically back to normal, and the guards began to count the number of people and maintain order.

"Hey, beauty, it's okay," Trist said to his dancing partner as he took off his mask from the masquerade.

However, the girl still seemed to be frightened, and did not want to take off the mask that covered the upper half of her face, but instead she hid behind Trist. Trist, who has been single for two lifetimes, doesn't have much experience with girls, and laughs at himself for not being attractive enough, so he doesn't think much about it, and is ready to report to the guards and rush to the general control room to help Sinclair share some work.

However, out of the corner of her eye, this strange-looking girl moved nervously with Trist's movements. Trist could clearly sense her panic, and then a guard in a black trainee uniform rushed over and grabbed the girl's hand. The girl let out a long breath and quickly left the field with the young guard. When he dragged his suspected girlfriend to the door, the guard glared at Trist fiercely, and he raised his electric shock baton at Trist as if demonstrating, and then the two quickly left under the girl's urging. Despite the cacophony of voices, Trist recognized the guard's words from his mouth, "Away from ~her~~point~"

Noticing the narrow gaze of Jasper, who had taken off his mask next to him, Trist brushed his dark blonde hair to ease the embarrassment. It seems that the object he accidentally selected has long been famous, and people are very vigilant and have not taken off their masks from beginning to end.

'It must not be pretty,' and with the thought that if he couldn't eat the grapes, he shook his head, trying to sober himself up, 'though the girl danced well'. Jasper is Murphy's iron buddy, so if Jasper knows, Murphy knows, and then Trist can imagine his younger brother preaching to Shirley with a bad face.

"Well, by the way, what about Jasper, Murphy and Shirley?" Trist did not see his brother in the makeshift shelter.

"Oh, they~" Jasper said in a long voice, with a little envy, "They didn't come, they went to the agricultural area, and Murphy was going to make a wreath for Shirley with falling flowers and leaves."

Hearing that it was an agricultural area, and thinking that Pike was there, Trist was relieved.

There was a sudden commotion in the passage ahead, and it was intensifying, and Trist had to stop gossiping with Jasper. At this time, a lot of chatter came from the front.

"Oh my God, that girl!" "yes, they were able to hide her for 15 years!" "What did her parents think? ", "Shhhh ”......

Trist's heart was shocked, and he knew that the main plot had begun. Then he sighed and looked sympathetically at his brother and sister who had been slowly escorted from the aisle.

It was still the uniform of the trainee guard just now, but the epaulettes of the representative duty were torn off, and Bellamy kept struggling, his nose and face were already blue and swollen, and he no longer had the same vigor as he had just been. The young brother glared at the onlookers around him viciously, desperately trying to block all kinds of unclear eyes around him, he was dressed in black, like a lonely boat in the storm, even if he couldn't protect himself, he still tried in vain to isolate the malice of the whole world for his sister who didn't know the world.

His stubbornness angered the escorting commander, and as Commander Sith swung his baton, Bellamy clutched his stomach and curled up in pain. Supporting his body with his hands, Bellamy raised his head, but his resolute face was already full of tears, and he tightly clutched the trouser leg of his former boss, "It's all my fault, please let go of Octvia, let go of my sister, you come at me, exile (execute) me!" Tears mixed with blood from the corners of her mouth, dripping down the young guard's chin and dripping to the floor, "She's only 15 years old, she's so obedient, she's never seen a moonrise once, she's ......"

The brother's incoherent speech caused an uproar around him, but the younger sister was unaware. The girl, Octvia, was glazed over, as if she was immersed in her own world, as she had been with every guard check, hiding under the floor of her room, surrounded by darkness and fear. However, she has a sharp sense beyond her years, a wooden girl, her lips open and close, and she mutters the first word she learned after birth, "Mom".

Bellamy's lightning strikes him, and the severity of the matter is far greater than he expected.

Sensing the abnormal movement on his side, Trist grabbed Jasper, who wanted to rush forward, and dragged Jasper behind him by covering his mouth, and at the same time, the guards also stopped a few children led by Cool Boy Fen who were not afraid to go up and complain. In addition to thinking about it, most children call this indifference maturity as they grow up.

The commotion of the crowd lasted only half an hour when Judge Ahab arrived.

The guards escorted a woman with a disheveled cape to follow.

"Mrs. Black, Mrs. Black, a mechanic in the textile workshop in the logistics area, is directly led by Ms. Julie," Ahat paused, "You violated Article 2, Paragraph 1 of the Ark Population Control Act by illegally giving birth again 6 years after giving birth to Mr. Bellamy", Ahab's expression turned serious, "In accordance with Article 5, Paragraph 6 of the Ark Convention, I, the 15th judge of the Ark, Ahab Theronis, sentence you to death."

"In case of objection, you have the right to appeal to the Parliament within three hours, which will make the final decision". The judge turned his back and leaned on the escalator as a final addition.

"I have no objection". The tired mother calmly accepted her fate. She slowly squatted down, rubbed her son's cheek with her hand, pulled her daughter over as if in a dream, and kissed her daughter's forehead, her gaze was unprecedentedly gentle.

Looking at the family of three hugging each other, Ahab waved his hand and motioned for the guards to expel the unrelated people and others, leaving the last moments for them.

Octvia sat on the ground in despair, letting her mother take her into her arms, and the girl seemed to be in a nightmare from which she would never wake up. Since she was a child, her mother and brother told her that due to population control, her existence as a second child was illegal, and once it was known by others, it would bring ruin to the family. When he was seven years old, Octvia made a strange noise in the floor mezzanine because he was afraid of the dark, and although he was fooled by Bellamy, his mother, who had always been gentle afterwards, rarely got angry. Since then, the girl told herself that she must be obedient, sensible, and not to cause trouble for her mother and brother.

But this time, according to the longing for the outside world, the girl participated in the masquerade, and before she went out, she comforted herself that she and her brother would be able to rush back long before her mother found out that she was gone......

After eight years, she once again put her mother in danger, but this time her mother did not blame her, but apologized to her vigorously. At the last moment, the mother begged her daughter's forgiveness, forgave a mother's selfishness and willfulness, gave birth to her but failed to let her grow up like a normal child. Forgive her for not being able to make her daughter eat a full meal, taste the Ark birthday cake once, fail to let her daughter look at the blue earth outside the porthole, and play with her peers, but instead isolate her daughter in the dark and narrow basement again and again, enduring loneliness and fear.

However, the girl doesn't want anything to apologize, she would rather her mother scold her again, how she wishes it was a nightmare, she doesn't want to see any outside scenery, she doesn't need any peer playmates, she just wants her mother and brother, and the family is safe and sound. How she wished, when she opened her eyes again, the floor was opened, and her mother and brother stood in the light smiling and carried her out of the darkness.

As if in the void, the warm life of the past has become a dream, and the girl fainted.