Ark.

Jasper stood at the door of the agricultural station with the package on his back, waiting for his little friend Monty.

Never seeing the familiar Uncle Bob family next door again, coupled with Trist's "death" and the imprisonment of his little friend Murphy, once made Jasper sad for a long time. Soon, however, he recovers and moves to a new family at the agricultural station, where Jasper meets Monty, an introverted child who usually helps his parents in the medicinal plant cultivation area of the agricultural station. Monty is an Asian with Asian black delicate hair, black eyes, and different from European and American races, Asian's unique fine facial features, and at the same time, he also has the industriousness and simplicity of Asians and their passion for land and planting.

On the surface, Monty is a taciturn kid like Triste, with more principles of his own, but privately Jasper doesn't think he's as reliable as Trist, who also doesn't talk much. However, after getting acquainted with each other, Jasper found that this guy was the same chatter as Murphy in front of his acquaintances! At the same time, Monty, like Murphy, has a strong curiosity, likes to wander between the various cultivation areas of the agricultural station when he has nothing to do, and is considered an erudite botanist among his peers. To put it simply, this little friend, who has the temperament of both Murphy and Trist, quickly became friends with Jasper.

"Hey! Jasper, what's in your hand? Hurriedly putting down the work in his hand, Monty left the space plant cultivation area that his mother was in charge of, and casually wiped his hands on the trumpet overalls and walked to the door. But before he could reach the door, he was noticed by the package on the back of his friend Jasper.

Monty has always been a curious, trying-minded child.

"Hey! Monty! Jasper gasped and said hello, "Last week, Judge Ahab didn't rule...... Hohoo...... Citizens of the Ark are allowed to visit their relatives in the 'black cell' once a month..... Ho, it seems, Jasper was in a hurry.

"Huh?" Monty didn't understand what Jasper meant, as far as he knew, Jasper was an only child like most children, and there shouldn't be any relatives in the "black jail", and Jasper didn't answer what he was carrying and what he was looking for, which made Monty even more confused.

The attentive Monty helped the panting Jasper to sit down, and he patted Jasper on the back, "Jasper...... I guess you need to take a break with a drink of saliva first? ”

"Before you moved here, there was Uncle Bob's family, and there was Murphy...... And that very powerful Trist...... As I told you before, he's just as good as Cool Boy Fen! Jasper wiped the fine beads of sweat from his forehead and continued, "I told you before...... Uncle Bob, Auntie, Trist...... They're all gone", referring to the neighbor who had been with him for fifteen years, Jasper was a little depressed, "My good friend Murphy...... Murphy was put in a 'black cell' by them...... He has no other relatives, I ...... Last week, didn't Judge Ahab require the citizens of the Ark to visit their relatives in the 'black cell' every month....."

"So you'd like to visit Murphy?" Monty patted Jasper on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.

Unexpectedly, Jasper looked up at Monty, "I want to take you with me to visit Murphy...... I want to tell him that he still has our friends...... I want to tell him that I have a new friend, and I want to introduce you, my new friend, to him...... I think you'll get along...... I...... Whining...... I want to tell him, don't give up hope, when the eighteen-year-old retrial, Trist is gone, don't show his temper, so he should ...... No, he'll survive! Talking about the unknown fate, he already had some crying in his last words.

Disasters and injuries can always make people grow up quickly, and after this period of time, Jasper is no longer the heartless bastard who follows Murphy and Shirley all day long, and at the age of fifteen, he has gradually begun to learn to think independently and face up to problems.

"I'll go with you!" Monty sat next to Jasper on the steel floor and agreed to Jasper's request, "We're friends!" ”

As he spoke, Jasper pulled out a tin can from his backpack, and the familiar style made Monty's eyes light up, "What is this?" ”

"I've just turned 16 and I'm ...... old enough to drink," Jasper said, making 15-year-old Monty's eyes darken, "I think...... I'd like to bring it with Murphy to share ......."

Monty is smart enough to understand the subtext that Jasper doesn't want to say, and if Murphy is still sentenced to death at the age of 18, then Jasper doesn't want Murphy to leave with regrets...... What's more, Jasper has heard about Murphy, the bear kid burned the home of the guard who arrested Bob's father, the key is that the guard is the current deputy chief of guard, and Murphy's 18-year-old final verdict may not be optimistic.

Holding back his patience, 15-year-old Monty looked at the tin can in Jasper's hand, and driven by curiosity, he said in a ghostly manner, "Well, before that, I ...... Hey...... Can I taste it? I'll just give it a small bite......"

Jasper: "......", this large bottle is the quota of concentrated wine he received for a year, enough to mix thirty times the amount of water and starch, plus he has never tried this magic drink for adults in his life at the age of 16, he carefully poured out a small glass, and looked at it tacitly with his little friend Monty......

Four hours later.

At dawn on Earth, Murphy in the 'Black Cell' finished his lesson and was about to be escorted back to the house, only to find that in the opposite hallway, his good friend Jasper and an Asian teenager he didn't know were escorted by guards to the empty cell next door......

Jasper wanted to visit Murphy, but he didn't expect to see Murphy in this way, and he became Murphy's neighbor directly with Monty.

The young man didn't mix much water, and tried a small sip of liquor puree, when most of the people in the agricultural station got off work, and then the drunken two little drunkards began to operate in the agricultural station......

When the shift changers arrived, the two little drunkards were sleeping in the messy training area...... Soon after, the statistics came out, the outermost medicinal plant breeding station of the agricultural station was mistakenly irrigated with mismatched nutrient solution and excess water (as well as alcohol of unknown origin), two bear children were burned to death, drowning 30% of the medicinal space plants in the entire station area, and the medical director Abby, who had arrived in the area, had a green face......

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Trist walked leisurely on the empty training ground. Elder Luther heeded Trist's advice and sent his little warriors and spare patrols to the Red Maple Plains to help the similarly injured people clear the rubble and bury the dead. There are many people and strength, and the clean-up work will also come to an end, so there is no trace of the little soldiers trained before on the training ground.

There was a sudden noise in the woods, which caught Trist's attention. "Pound", Trist's body did not move, his right hand reached out, accurately caught the pine cone thrown between the branches and leaves above, and threw it back in the direction where the pine cone was thrown without looking, judging from the sound, it should have been hit. With a loud sound of leaves, "squeak...... Squeak ......", a chubby raccoon poked its head out, grinned at Trist, and then quickly disappeared into the dense forest. It seems that this is the one who was chased away by Trist before, the raccoon, and it is indeed a creature with a grudge. It's just that Trist didn't have long to be proud, as the leaves in the forest trembled, a group of white crows "quacked" and flew by, Trist felt something, and his eyes twitched to look at the extra suspicious gray object on his shoulder...... The flock of birds had already flown away, and Trist thought about it, then picked up another pebble and threw it in the direction where the fat raccoon had left. "Squeak...... Squeak ......", the treetops shuddered, and it looked like the fat raccoon had been hit again......