under hope

It is now the second year of the reconstruction work. With the help of the Eastern Academy of Sciences, the coastal cities in the southern part of the Republic have now been completely rebuilt. She was sitting in the helicopter, looking at the city as prosperous as before, and couldn't help showing a knowing smile.

"Captain, there is information from above. The boss praised us for our high efficiency!"An excited young man sat next to her holding a tablet.

"Humph, of course, it doesn’t matter whose team it is?"She smiled proudly and involuntarily crossed her legs."What's the next order?" she asked again

"Let us repair the ruins of the fortress in the west first, and leave the inland part of the south to other teams."

"That's a border fortress bordering the Theocracy.……"She curled her hair with her fingers and murmured to herself

"Then go there as soon as possible."She gave the order.

At dusk, her team arrived at the ruins in the desert. The wind was so strong that the helicopter could not land safely. The plane kept flying over the ruins, hoping that the wind and sand would suddenly become lighter so that they could Landing smoothly, but this is undoubtedly a luxury hope. Since arriving here, she has been observing all the remains of the ruins through the glass of the cabin. When a familiar object flashed in front of her eyes, she showed a smile of victory.. She decided to arrange for some team members to put on jet suits and land on the surface first.

"Lao Luo, please stabilize the plane first and wait above the ruins. Just keep the altitude at about 150 meters. It can be lowered, but not too high."

"Got it Captain. After giving instructions to the pilot, she turned around and picked up a stack of flight suits and came to the cabin:"Four of you, put on your flight suits and follow me. The others are on standby.""She threw the flight suit in front of the four team members, and at the same time she finished putting on the flight suit. She opened the hatch, and the roaring wind and sand immediately came in, but it did not shake her not-so-tall body.

"Hurry up and keep up."After briefly saying a few words to the back, she took the lead and jumped down. Soon, the four team members also jumped down after her. The sandstorm was very violent, and they were like little birds wearing flying suits walking through the wind and sand. She was weak, but under her leadership, the team members used powerful jet thrusters to break through the barrier made of wind and sand, and chose a flat area surrounded by buildings on three sides to land. At this time, the wind direction changed slightly, and the ruins of high-rise buildings Becomes a good wind deflector

"Each border fortress has a protective shield device of the Academy of Sciences, most of which are located underground and will not be damaged. After sorting out her clothes, she explained the purpose of the operation to the team members."Get your self-defense pistols ready and don't leave the team without my instructions.""The team members quickly made all preparations under her instructions.

Compared with the desert outside, the wind and sand in the ruins were much smaller. Despite this, she still led the team members to move forward as close to the wall as possible, getting closer bit by bit. Destination. She seems to be very familiar with the route. In the ruins, she can also accurately recognize the street names and pick out the route closest to the destination. The team members are not surprised by this. In their eyes, the captain She has always been like that, reliable and strong, and the captain rarely gets lost or hesitates. She did not do any prior investigation. This familiar feeling seems to be engraved in her heart. Perhaps only she knows it. Where does this familiarity come from?

She is 17 years old. In the year when she was about to graduate from elementary school, a monster falling from the sky destroyed her hometown, along with her family. She was torn off an arm and body by the monster. There were bloody claw marks all over her body, and one of her eyes had been eaten; she herself couldn’t believe that she was still alive when the rescue team found her thrown in the corner. It was the Academy of Sciences who saved her, the respectable The dean of the school built her prosthetic eyes and alloy hands, and gave her the best teachers. According to her wishes, she studied civil engineering and mechanical knowledge, and relied on her excellent grades and excellent skills to With her strength, she became the main captain of the engineering team of the mechanical department. She knew that she once had a hometown, but no matter how she recalled it, the appearance of her hometown was always vague. Perhaps it was the destruction of the monster that made her unable to remember her hometown anymore. When she came back to her senses

, she had arrived at her destination and pushed open the door with the emblem of the Academy of Sciences. The decorative style familiar to everyone immediately appeared in front of them."We split up to look for the device. After finding it, Turn it on immediately. Remember, report back to me after you turn it on!"She ordered the team members behind her.

"clear!"After a sonorous answer, the team members dispersed one after another, leaving her alone. She remembered that there was a basement like this in the elementary school, and the relationship between the Republic and the Theocracy was not very good at that time. , when the air raids came, the students would hide in the basement to attend classes. She still remembered that there was a foreign teacher named Eric in the school. He had red hair and wore ancient Western aristocratic clothing all year round. Sometimes he would also wear a single piece Glasses; the teacher is very tall, always smiles, is rarely angry, and the students like him very much; the teacher has very strange pupils, which are red, and he often emphasizes that he does not wear contact lenses. She also She liked that teacher very much, but mainly she liked the half of the cloak on the teacher's left shoulder. When she walked quickly, the cloak would briefly float in the air, like a kite. She was immersed in memories, until a red shadow flashed in front of her eyes. Just suddenly woke up

"Teacher Eric? ?"She became alert and loaded her pistol. In strange wars, there are also monsters that follow people's inner changes and generate illusions, which usually lure people into traps. She quickly hid behind a corner and waited quietly for the shadow. appearing again

"Woo————"

A long-drawn police siren suddenly sounded, followed immediately by the intercom on her chest:"Captain, the device has been found."

"Got it, let's go out and gather. It's time for Lao Luo and the others to land."She walked out of the corner, looked around again, and then left here after confirming that there was nothing strange.

Along with the siren, a light blue wall of light quickly formed from the ground to the air, and finally formed a dome, blocking the wind and sand. Outside. Without the obstruction of wind and sand, the helicopter landed smoothly on the flat area. She also led the team members to quickly arrive at the landing site of the plane.

"Repair the signal tower first, and then rebuild it ring by ring with the signal tower as the center. Lao Luo took a few people to survey the signal frequency, and the others put on exoskeletons to clean up the ruins."She roughly planned a plan and began to divide the work among the team members. After the team members dispersed, she also put on a work exoskeleton to clean up the ruins.

"I love my motherland……"In the classroom, the music teacher was teaching the students to sing. Some students secretly sang pop songs during the chorus, while others just opened their mouths and kept silent. She might be singing along, or she might be thinking about what her mother would cook that night."Teacher! There are shooting stars outside!" A student by the window stood up with his hands raised, pointing to the ball of light that was disappearing and appearing in the sky.

The singing in the classroom stopped, and almost all the students came to the window."It's the space shuttle, please sit down quickly. Let's sing again and let you move freely." The music teacher called the students back to their seats. Under the teacher's command, the singing started again, and she continued to sing along. Halfway through the chorus, the classmate by the window raised his hand again. This time, his tone was panicked:"Teacher! The shooting stars are getting brighter and brighter!" There was a sudden silence in the classroom.

"ah?"The music teacher was a little confused. She moved closer to the window and looked at the sky - the ball of light was indeed brighter than before, and the direction seemed to be this school, and it was getting closer.

One second, two seconds, three seconds………

The light ball was about to hit the window, and the music teacher realized it and shouted:"Hide under the table quickly!" But it was too late. The dazzling light immediately filled the entire classroom, and what followed was... There was the growl of an unknown creature. When she regained her vision, the classroom was in a mess. The music teacher was nailed to the blackboard. There were scattered limbs everywhere. A translucent four-legged creature was looking at it with its diamond-shaped eyes. stare at her

"Woo————"

A long siren suddenly sounded, followed closely by the school's broadcast:"Emergency! All teachers and students are asked to take refuge in the basement immediately! I repeat, all teachers and students are asked to take refuge in the basement immediately!" After hearing the broadcast, Only then did she feel the pain in her left arm. She turned her head and saw that her arm had been bitten beyond recognition, and the bright red blood had already soaked her white school uniform. She didn't dare to make a sound. The creature in front of her just stared at her and didn't take any action. The pain still made her shed tears. She covered the wound on her left arm with her right hand, sobbing silently, and kept staring at the monster in front of her. As if aware of her sight, the monster suddenly opened its mouth slowly. In the deep purple mouth, there was a tentacle-like mouthpart. Her last vision was to see the mouthpart facing her in despair. flew over

"Eh?"She closed her eyes instinctively, but the pain that followed and the warmth she felt on her cheeks made her scream hysterically. It seemed that her screams aroused interest, and the monster jumped on her, Amid bursts of roaring, she fainted

"boom!"

The clear voice brought her back to her senses. She broke out in a cold sweat. She turned around and looked around and realized that she had knocked off a light bulb while cleaning up the rubble. She let out a long sigh of relief and shook her head to keep herself calm. Sober."What’s going on today? I always think about these messy things." she said to herself

"Captain Zhou, please come with us."A crisp electronic sound stopped her. It was a mechanical soldier affiliated with the Academy of Sciences.

"What's wrong? she asked

"Please come to the office. The new person in charge has arrived."The soldier said in an emotionless electronic voice.

"Then I'll say goodbye to the team members."She gestured to the soldiers and was about to speak on the walkie-talkie.

"Please come to the office. The new person in charge has arrived."The soldier repeated.

She stopped talking, but took off her exoskeleton device and handed it to the soldier. Dozens of minutes later, she stood in front of Dean Lin's desk.

"Dean, what's so urgent?"She was a little dissatisfied with this emergency notification, but she tried her best to suppress her dissatisfaction.

"Sorry Shu Tong, there is an urgent project. You are the most capable person in the engineering team and the person I trust the most. This project can only be given to you."Dean Lin handed her the project description, and then gently wiped the half-human, half-snake stone sculpture in front of her with a handkerchief.

"Go dig at the bottom of the East China Sea? Dean! The country is in urgent need of reconstruction work now!"She threw the report on the table angrily.

Dean Lin was kind-hearted. While carefully wiping the stone carvings, he said unhurriedly:"There may be ancient ruins at the bottom of the East China Sea. If a miracle can be found, it will be great for us. It helps a lot in our reconstruction efforts"

"President of the Academy of Sciences, when did you start to believe this?"She raised her eyebrows and asked in a sinister tone.

"Science is only one of the rules of the world that humans have explored. You have also seen the creatures falling from the sky, and you have also witnessed the mermaids in the sea with me. Shu Tong, gods may exist, but we have never come into contact with them." Dean Lin said mysteriously, looking very much like a cultist from the ancient Western Continent.

"Dean, I………"She was about to say something, but her head suddenly started to hurt. She covered her head with her hand and held the table with her other hand.

"Go ahead Shu Tong, this project is yours. The person I sent to pick you up is your friend Ye Qing, so you can rest assured."

"All right……"She finally gave in, and strangely enough, the moment she agreed, her headache miraculously disappeared. The half-human, half-snake statue seemed to have been watching her since she entered the door, even though the front of the statue was facing the dean when he was wiping it.