Volume 1 The Lonely Ship of Doom Chapter 7 The Fragments of Memory: The Heavens and the Earth Fall Apart
With that, the doctor turned his head and stared at the display with a serious expression. Threading the cuffs of his whitened overalls, Trist noticed Dr. Sinclair's hands clenched nervously, and a faint sweat stain was visible on the table. After all, with the aging and scrapping of several manipulators at Tianzhu Station and Gaoli Station in recent years, the manipulators that can replace manual labor and use space operations on the Ark have become more and more rare. If this one can be salvaged this time, the pressure on the doctor will be much less.
Looking at the OK gesture made by the operator on the screen to the camera, Sinclair breathed a long sigh of relief, "Raven and Charles are the best we have here, check... Raven, Raven will be your senior sister in the future, and after you officially come to report, you will first follow Raven to familiarize yourself with the work here." At the mention of Charles, a touch of sadness came into Sinclair's eyes, and then quickly disappeared.
Charles had been an assistant to Dr. Sinclair, who at one point wanted to raise this very gifted young man as his heir. Until three months ago, a distraught Charles was paralyzed by a coding error, which caused the No. 107 manipulator to collide with the transport compartment. Judge Diana, who has always been lenient (to engineers), for Sinclair's sake, pardoned Charles. However, Charles, who could not forgive himself, ventured out of the cabin to try to repair the manipulator in order to make up for his mistake. However, the position of the No. 107 manipulator is quite special, it is too far away from all the airlock exits, and Charles, who is halfway through the journey, is left in outer space forever due to the discoupling of the padlock.
Not long after, a child named Trist came up with a new idea in class. He proposed waste utilization, adjusting the track of the old Tianzhu station, covering the faulty manipulator with the abandoned cabin of the Tianzhu station, and the technician approached the manipulator along the adjusted Tianzhu station, turning the space operation into an indoor operation.
The bold idea of the mountain is not me, but I am the mountain, which caught Sinclair's attention, and he adopted the idea and designed the maintenance plan that is currently being carried out. In addition, this smart, 12-year-old student passed the professional skills assessment with perfect marks. After several in-person tests and approvals in the name of attending classes, he readily approved Trist's application to join the engineering department.
"I'm sorry," Trist stood on tiptoe and patted Sinclair on the shoulder, racking his brains for a moment without thinking of any words of comfort, he could only dryly say the classic line of "Sons of the Earth", "May we meet again."
"You don't know how to comfort people", Sinclair looked down and rubbed the boy's hair, the slight embarrassment on his face made the admittedly precocious boy look like an age-appropriate teenager at this moment. The doctor then turned around and instructed the rest of his assistants to re-establish communication with the robotic arm, control the compartment to separate, and pick up the operators who had gone out.
After finishing the complicated finishing work, Sinclair took a sip of the cold water in the cup, and said to the preparatory assistant who he had invited to come over to observe and study, "Thank you for your thoughts, Trist, you have done us a great favor!" ”
For a long time, Trist still hadn't left, he stood in place, his expression tangled.
"Well, that, Sinclair......" Cheeky, Trist said calmly, "Sinclair, I mean...... I have a twin brother, you know, after all, there aren't many twins in the Ark, ah not ......", the doctor looked confused, and Trist realized that he was off topic.
Taking a deep breath and enduring the shame of walking through the back door for the first time in two lives, Trist spoke very quickly, "I want my twin brother, Murphy, Murphy-Johnson, to join the engineering department, he ......"
"How did he do in the assessment? Hardware programming? Software compilation? Mechanical operation? Sinclair touched his chin.
"It's not ideal, but he's just 12, and he can take another two free years of courses according to the rules, and he has a certain talent for electronic component processing," Trist continued to be cheeky and shy away.
'Three professional courses D+, E-, F, basic courses, electronic microcomputer barely B+' Trist added silently in his heart.
Sinclair, who is a pure technician, was a little embarrassed, looking at the future assistant with a rare red face, he still gave Trist a chance, "Your brother may not perform well in the assessment at the age of 12, and when he is 14 years old, you can let him come here to take another assessment."
"Thank you, Doctor", Trist bowed solemnly for the extra opportunity to overage and decided to go back and increase his supervision of Murphy.
Trist thought about this question carefully, after all, he knew his own affairs, and Murphy was not a peaceful person. He considered asking Pike in the agricultural area to help take care of him, but the agricultural area was more difficult and his standard of living was only slightly better than that of his parents' technicians. And the distribution of materials among the engineers is the best in the Ark, and the twin brothers are one, and Trist doesn't want his younger brother to be too poor. In addition, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, compared to the small society of the Ark, the interpersonal relationship in the technical circle is relatively simple (when Murphy has a small accident, Triste, as a senior engineer, can cover it), just watching it under his nose, Trist can also feel a lot more relieved. 、
After saying goodbye to Sinclair, Trist boarded the gangway with a heavy heart, preparing to return.
"Hey, smart imp", recognizing the voice, Trist suppressed the sideways movement and returned the instinctive reflex of a right hook, allowing a slender hand to pinch his ear.
"Sister Raven", Trist turned around with a smile and looked at the 16-year-old girl in front of him, "I want to say, Raven, you were so handsome just now!" Blinking hard, Trist tried his best to make the envy and admiration on his face natural.
"Begging for a beating", the girl quickly let go, laboriously dismantled the heavy white overalls, and slapped the claws that Trist stretched out to help, "After tomorrow, let Murphy come to my laboratory to help."
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Noticing the little kid in front of her, who has always loved to pretend to be cool, the panic and excitement on her face couldn't be suppressed, and the girl with a slight sense of accomplishment bent her eyebrows and eyes, and pointed to the headset in the glass helmet, "Next time you do this kind of thing, please turn off the communication."
"Don't make an example" Sinclair, who closed his eyes in the distance, glared at the pair of disciples and reprimanded him seriously. Immediately, the doctor rotated the chair more than half a circle, leaving only the back, but his shoulders swayed from time to time, and he could see that his breath was almost gone.
Raven doesn't have many friends who are independent and don't trust others, and the little clever ghost she met when she was substitute is one of her friends, and Triste's learning ability has been recognized by her. And Trist is not bad, often helping her and her childhood sweetheart Fen pass small gifts. The unruly and fearless Cool Boy Fen is like a folk hero among the teenagers of The Ark - he always disobeys the rules, but always escapes punishment. Yes, the unreassuring personality and the background of an ordinary technician made Raven's mother resolutely reject Fin. Raven, who doesn't want to embarrass his mother, can only start an underground love affair with Fen. The affair was not made public until three months ago, when Charles, another of Sinclair's assistants, confessed to Raven.
Facts have proved that if it weren't for the fact that 100% of Lang's love and concubine intentions have been confirmed, confession of this kind of thing can only usher in one ending.
Charles plucked up his courage and was solemnly given a good guy card by Raven, and recognized him as a brother, hoping that this would not affect their (Raven admitted) brother and sister relationship. Oh, what a tragic story, a frustrated Charles gets himself drunk, and the next day Raven and Sinclair go to a meeting and need Charles to run the robot independently......
Raven, who experienced the pain of losing his friends, didn't want to embarrass his few friends, and after listening to the whole process during the space operation, he took the initiative to help Trist.
"Trist, next month's Unity Day masquerade, you must participate, which girl do you like, sister will help you introduce", sitting on the sixty-pound spacesuit that he had just taken off, Raven looked at the back of the teenager at the end of the gangway who stumbled and fled, and couldn't help laughing......
Two years.
Unsurprisingly, Diana was defeated, and Ahab became the new judge.
After more than two years of tutoring by Trist and Raven (mixed doubles - Murphy hugged his head and cried), Murphy passed the examination with a bumpy passing grade and became a glorious assistant engineer, which was not satisfactory. Luckily, when he appeared in front of Shirley, he was no longer beaten up by Pike.
Trist breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he had fulfilled most of his responsibilities in this life, and he decided to participate in this year's Unity Day masquerade to see fate. If he can, he will also completely get out of the shadow of his previous life, integrate into this life, find a girl to accompany him for a lifetime, and after the plot begins, return to the earth, find a safe corner again, have children, and have a quiet life.
"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 the ball was shattered by a piercing alarm, and the entire ark trembled violently with the effects of the solar flare.
In an instant, the sky fell apart.