A month ago.

Ryan stepped on the sliding wheels and marched through the line to work. People were moving in third gear, one after the other, keeping a distance of half a meter. The bracelet vibrate, and Ryan looked down, no, it was sent by the editor-in-chief. Ryan looked up, kicked his feet, and slid out of the queue to the right.

Ryan drove onto the fast lane next to the team and pressed the bracelet to speed the sliding wheel to the fullest. The air was blowing whirring, and the soles of the feet felt the sliding wheels "rattle" and vibrate rapidly, and the ground that was normally as level as a mirror seemed not so flat. A long, neat procession snaked past him, eyes glancing at him, and Ryan swam away like a fish out of a school of fish.

The roof of the isolation chamber in front of him looked bright, it should be the direction of the sun, Ryan straightened up, squinted his eyes, and raised his face towards the light, imagining himself being illuminated by the eight o'clock sun.

Of course, this enjoyment only applies to the unmonitored section of the road — which Vincent told him that was broken and never restored — and after two intersections, Ryan slid back into the main road and cut into the line. Startled by the person who cut in line, he pulled his almost crumpled uniform and glanced at Ryan angrily, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry", Ryan smiled mischievously.

When Ryan rushed into the editor-in-chief's room on a sliding wheel, the editor-in-chief was drinking coffee.

The editor-in-chief's hand holding the cup did not move, and the paper on the table fell to the ground.

"I'm sorry, editor-in-chief." Ryan picked up the papers. The editor-in-chief's name is Martin, but Ryan calls him Lao Ding in private. Ryan couldn't help but take two sips of coffee as he bent over, a drink that only senior staff members can enjoy, as if just a smell can refresh you.

"It's late again, isn't it?"

"No, no."

The editor-in-chief snorted a smile from his nose, as if he didn't bother to expose his lies, "Ryan, today is the last day of the month, and your manuscript is still one article away." ”

"Lao Ding, no, editor-in-chief, there's another article here." Ryan said, pressing the bracelet and sending the manuscript to the editor-in-chief's terminal.

The editor-in-chief looked up at the screen in front of him, "The report of the food factory? Wasn't this something that was killed before? ”

"That, I've changed it."

The editor-in-chief watched intently, and Ryan waited with his head down. The editor-in-chief frowned slightly, and suddenly pointed to the last paragraph and said, "Hey, why are these snake things still here?" ”

Ryan sighed inwardly and said, "The appeals I ended up with are just to improve the food for young people." ”

"Don't go online at every turn."

"There is no online line, the current ration meals, not only are they single in type, lackluster in taste, and not enough in nutrition, but the food of the preferred people is very luxurious, which is not very reasonable, since the Ark has the ability to supply some good food, it should be supplied to a wider range of people. INTERVIEWER In recent years, the number of people who pass the preferred person test has been decreasing, don't you think it has anything to do with that? ”

The editor-in-chief said: "Ryan, news reports are not making up stories, so why do you say that it has anything to do with this?" ”

Ryan said: "Forever protein blocks, artificial starch paste and vitamin powder, eat such synthetic foods every day, unchanged, what's the point of life?" Editor-in-chief, it's not just a matter of eating, it also affects many aspects, such as emotions, such as health, young people are the hope of the ark, and they should be made happier. Editor-in-chief, I have checked the information on the test of the preferred person, and the biggest problem is not in the genetic test, but in the psychological test, there are more and more young people who do not want to start a family, do not want to have children, even if they pass the genetic test, they cannot pass or even refuse to participate in the psychological test! ”

"That's it!" The editor-in-chief waved his hand, not wanting him to continue.

"Editor-in-chief, we need to get the attention of the authorities...... And, editor-in-chief, don't you think that a survey on the decline in the pass rate of preferred humans is also a good topic? Ryan's eyes lit up.

"Alright." The editor-in-chief closed the screen, not wanting to discuss it any further. He raised his head and said, "Ryan, do you want me to emphasize it to you again, I'll decide the matter of choosing the topic." ”

Ryan returned to his desk. He put his legs on the table, resting his head and leaning back with his hands. Unexpectedly, this one was taken out on the last day, and it didn't escape Lao Ding's eyes......

It has been three years since I entered the Ark Daily, and the blood of that year has almost been exhausted. I thought I could do a big job, but I ran into such an old man. Although, in addition to being too cautious, Lao Ding is also a very cute old man.

But when you think about it, what's the difference, the manuscript is written more and less, good and bad, there is no difference, life is always like this, in the foreseeable time, there will be no change.

Thinking about it this way, he seems to have suddenly understood Lao Ding, why bother to cause those troubles, for Lao Ding, retiring early and going to the elderly area as soon as possible is the right way.

"What, I touched the editor-in-chief's scales again?" A woman's voice sounded behind her, it was Mei Li.

Although he didn't quite understand the obscure Old Eastern vocabulary, Ryan understood what she meant. Ryan ignored her, and said in his heart that whoever is like you knows how to please Lao Ding.

Ryan hears Mei Lee shuttling around the office, as she does her daily routine: dispensing drug supervision.

Suddenly he was slapped on the body, "Get up, take medicine." ”

Ryan didn't move, his eyes didn't open, he just stretched out one hand.

After holding it for a long time, but there was nothing to put in his hand, Ryan opened his eyes, only to see Mei Li standing in front of him with a smile, "I don't have your medicine today." ”

"What do you mean?" Ryan lowered his legs from the table and looked left and right, only to see that his colleagues had all obtained a sky-blue transparent capsule, and the tray containing the medicine in Mei Li's hand was empty. There is no such thing as medicine, and there can be no difference.

"Didn't the editor-in-chief tell you?" Mei Li continued to smile.

Ryan seemed to have guessed something, but he couldn't believe it, and he suddenly remembered that when he left the editor-in-chief's office angrily, the editor-in-chief seemed to have something to say.

It turned out that the editor-in-chief had called me there early in the morning to ...... His heart pounded.

When Ryan took the hard envelope with the golden ark logo from the editor-in-chief's hand, he couldn't contain the excitement in his heart, turned around and ran downstairs.

Everything was different on the streets, the curved streets, the neat houses, the people in uniform, he stepped on the sliding wheels and rushed left and right, his hands held high, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

At that moment, as if apocalypse, the roof of the ark opened. The huge circular roof that hung over the ark was divided into nine pieces from the center of the circle, and the nine huge triangular blades slowly lifted from the center and opened out like petals in all directions, revealing a clear eye above.

It was the sky that had not been seen in months.

People stopped, and the bright blue made it impossible to look at it directly. The sun poured down like a veil of light cast by the gods. The pillar of light illuminated the floating dust in the sky, like a stream of holy light, and someone covered his chest and chanted words in his mouth.

But people just stood in the shadows, and no one walked into the light-lit area.

At that moment, Ryan somehow "brushed" and slipped into the sun. Ryan opened his arms to meet the pouring sun, he didn't dare to open his eyes, but through his eyelids he felt a thousand points of light flickering in his vision, the light was shining and pink, as if the energy was surging around him. At the same time, he felt a warmth that covered his whole body.

There was a stinging pain in his eyes, but the novelty that had never been seen before prompted him to persevere. He didn't see it, but he saw it again.

The people looked at the young man curiously, and he just slid away, sliding into the bright light, his form leaving a long cross-shaped shadow on the ground.

Just when people thought he might be suffering from some kind of mental illness and wanted to pull him back, they saw the envelope he was holding.

Oh, this young man, he didn't take any medicine.

From that day on, Ryan did not take any more tranquilizers, sex hormone suppressants.