under hope

National University, the most outstanding institution of higher learning in the empire, has the largest campus and the most special education method in the world.

She came here to study at the age of sixteen and has spent twelve springs, summers, autumns and winters here.

Originally, she was not old enough to study in university, but unfortunately, her achievements in science and technology were too dazzling.

The National University admitted her under special circumstances, and she miraculously received a doctorate on her eighteenth birthday.

The emotion system that the Touriku Academy of Sciences is proud of was proposed and developed by her.

After receiving the title of doctor, she did not stop exploring the unknown. She began to set her sights on ancient gods.

The weather is sunny and cloudless, and my father, who sends himself a letter every Monday, has not yet sent a letter today.

So, she decided to read the information she found carefully in the dormitory today.

"Well...according to ancient Western Continent documents"

"In 100 BC, black and white faceless angels descended from the sky."

"He punished women who betrayed their marriages and adulterers?"

Her eyes suddenly opened wide, and she carefully read every word in the information in her hand to confirm whether she had found the right one.

"It does not make sense? This...did people in ancient times pray to God for this kind of thing?" she said to herself in a tone of disbelief.

"Um? You are still investigating the so-called 'god'’？"

The girl in the same dormitory with her turned to look at her, then shrugged and said helplessly:

"Let me tell you, God is just an exaggeration of the unknown by people in ancient times, or it is a kind of psychological sustenance."

She put on her eyes, turned around and asked with a serious expression:

"I remember that there was very little information about belief in gods in the ancient Republic. Do you still have religion there now? The girl shook her head and said:

"Our country is now full of atheists"

"In ancient times, there have always been autocratic dynasties, and everyone believed in the emperor."

She nodded thoughtfully, then turned to check other information in her hand.

"By the way, Ella, isn’t there the Holy Emperor Sect in your ancient Western Continent?"

Seeing her frown, the girl decided to take a look with her, so she sat next to her

"Well, the Holy Emperor Religion also has angels, but there are no such black and white faceless angels."

Her thinking was very clear and she quickly associated the two together, but the conclusion was not reliable.

"Could it be an unofficial history? Or maybe it was made up by the ancient literati themselves."

The girl made several guesses

"However, this information was copied from the history books of the Theocracy."

She patted the thick stack of information and said dumbfounded.

"ah? Isn't that... written by the popes of all generations..."

The girl was also speechless for a moment.

"And here, 'The Holy Emperor created us, and wisdom descended from the sky’"

"Why not just write 'and give us wisdom’？"

She took out another page of information with many thoughts written on it, and pointed out to the girl what she thought was problematic.

"Yes, it means that wisdom comes from somewhere else"

"In other words, the people of the ancient Western Continent were devoid of wisdom when they were first created."

"Having said that, I seem to remember the same words in the ancient Eastern Continent history books."

The girl suddenly remembered something and quickly took her mobile phone from her bed.

"look."

The girl handed the clicked page to her.

"This is…，‘The omnipresent dragon created us, and then wisdom descended from the sky’"

"They all come from heaven, so what is there in heaven?"

She raised her head and looked at the ceiling of the dormitory, her eyes seemed to penetrate through the roof.

"Um, the sky is the universe? And above us are people coming from the teachers’ dormitory."

The girl patted her back and said in a half-joking tone.

"What is hidden in the universe? We haven't even fully explored the solar system."

She didn't take the girl's joke, but continued to ask questions

"Okay Ella, let's go eat, you didn't eat much in the morning."

The girl didn't know how to answer her, so she had to try to pull her up.

"Yes, I'm a little hungry too."

She came back to her senses, rubbed her empty belly, and followed the girl's movements and stood up from the chair.

"Hehe, I heard that the canteen has added a new Donglu dish today. Let’s try it."

The girl excitedly pulled her and ran out of the dormitory.

She was pulled by the girl all the way to the newly opened window in the cafeteria. After buying two Donglu dishes, she sat down in a corner.

"Hmm~, not bad, it tastes like that!"

The girl took the first spoonful and soon showed a satisfied expression on her face.

Looking at the cabbage cut into short strips in front of her, she also took a spoonful and put it into her mouth with hesitation.

"Hmm... so... so sour..."

The sour and spicy taste spread in her mouth, and she already wanted to spit it out

"No, no, no waste!"

Seeing that she wanted to vomit, the girl quickly covered her mouth with her hands.

"Hmm..."

She reluctantly chewed a few times, as if she was gradually getting used to the taste, but it was still difficult to swallow.

But the girl had no intention of letting go. She could only close her eyes and slowly swallow the food. It was sour. The spicy object slipped into her body through her esophagus. She opened her eyes and stared fiercely at the girl with a playful smile in front of her.

"Yeah, that's right, you'll get used to it soon."

The girl waited until she swallowed it completely before letting go of her hand proudly.

"Hum, since you are about to leave, I won’t pursue it with you, Xiao-fei-chan!"

She bit the girl's name very hard and hit the table hard every time she said a word.

"Hey, I'm still a little used to not being held accountable."

The girl tilted her head, half-closed her eyes, and hit her head playfully with her hand.

"Strange guy."

She rolled her eyes at the girl angrily and continued to eat.

More students walked in one after another in the cafeteria, and the screen hanging in the middle began to play the news.

"Today, the protective barrier in the capital of the Theocracy suddenly broke, and the Western Continent Holy Church lost contact.……"

Listening to the content of the news, the girl raised her head with shock on her face

"Isn’t it the Theocracy?…"

""Wow!"

She stood up immediately and carefully stared at the live broadcast of the drone on the TV.

She saw the familiar streets and the eye-catching cathedral, as well as the swarming, black sand beasts.

"Ella you…"

"Dad..."

She stamped her feet and ran out of the canteen without looking back, leaving behind a worried girl.

"Dean! I want to take leave!"

She ran to the teaching building in a hurry and kicked out the dean's office.

The dean, who was drinking tea and watching the news, was not surprised, and just said calmly:

"It's safest for you to stay here, Ella, and your father would want it too."

"No!"

"Back then, my mother also wanted us to be safe, but we lost her forever!"

She waved her arms excitedly and placed the leave application note on the dean's desk.

"Please let me go back!"

She said seriously

"No, I want to keep you safe."

The dean did not give in and his tone was very firm.

"All right."

Seeing that the dean's place was not going to work, she put away the leave note and stepped back.

"Don't be too willful, Ella, I beg you."

The dean said with a complicated expression.

"I will not leave my hometown alone."

She turned around and left after leaving such a sentence.

She returned to the dormitory and hurriedly took away the robot that she had not yet put on the skin. On the way, she met the girl.

The girl did not say too many words, but said goodbye to her briefly. :

"Ella! Goodbye and take care!"

She didn't stop in the middle, but turned back to take one last look at the girl.

She used the computer carried by her robot to hack into the school gate and escaped despite the obstruction of the security guards.

On the way to the train station, she made a reservation to go to The Theocracy ticket

"Hello, vote!"

For some reason, the automatic ticket vending machine didn't work today, so she had to bring the robot to the ticket gate.

"Sorry, miss, I can't go to the Theocracy now."

The staff at the ticket office said with an apologetic look.

"When I ordered it, it was still displayed on your page!"

She took out her mobile phone and showed the ticket purchase voucher to the staff.

"I'm very sorry, madam, it's an urgent notice, we can refund your money."

The staff looked very embarrassed and kept apologizing to her.

"I don't want money! Then go to the border towns of the empire instead."

She slapped the counter and spoke very quickly.

"Ok miss."

The staff manipulated the computer a few times, and then said:

"Miss, the car number is G105, departure time…"

"Thanks!"

Before the staff member finished speaking, she quickly ran to the platform.

On the high-speed train, she completed the final maintenance work on the robot and continued to send several messages to her father.

The reply did not come for a long time, and she was very panicked. Her mother had left her, and she didn’t want her father to do the same!

Two hours later, the high-speed train arrived at the border of the Empire. She walked through the crowd and ran into the Theocracy before the border was strengthened.

"Damn sand beast."

On the way to the capital, she relied on the robot to fight her way out of the herd of sand beasts.

"It's great that I planned my attack patterns in advance."

While running after the robot, she looked at the chopped-to-death sand beasts around her with a disgusted expression.

"ah——"

Suddenly, she fell to the ground and a sand beast bit her leg.

"Damn it, help..."

She wanted to shout for help to the robot, but the sand beast blocked her mouth with the body of her companion.

The sand beast quickly suppressed her completely, and she could no longer feel the presence of her left foot.

"Sorry father."

She bit the hairy corpse in her mouth unwillingly, and shed tears of regret in her eyes.

"Protect, protect."

When she closed her eyes in despair, a clear string of electronic sounds came from the darkness.

The robot discovered that she had not followed, and turned back to kill the sand beast on her body. Both arms almost turned into windmill

"Master, found!"

The robot carried her on its shoulders and rotated its bladed arm all the way, so that the sand beast did not dare to come forward.

After being carried for an unknown period of time, she saw a familiar house.

"Stop!"

She shouted loudly.

The robot stopped and held her in his arms so that she could see the surrounding scenery clearly.

In front of her was a two-story hut with her favorite white epiphyllum mark printed on it.

"Let's go here!"

She pointed to the hut in front of her

"clear."

The robot hugged her and opened the dusty iron door with the master key on its feet.

This is a workshop and her former paradise, where memories of her childhood are buried.

"Find the target!"

The robot detected the sand beast jumping outside the door.

"Turn on the light, close the door!"

She gave the order.

The robot placed her on the sofa, first closed the iron door heavily, and then turned on the lights.

She saw a wheelchair, and memories came to her mind.

"Mom, I want to make a multifunctional wheelchair for my grandparents to make their travel easier!"

"Ella’s soul is so beautiful. In the future……"

"In the future..., what will mom say next?"

She slowly moved to the wheelchair, turned around and sat on it.

The soft feeling and various buttons on the armrests were done by her mother.

"After all, I experienced it first."

She smiled bitterly.

There was no sound of the sand beast outside the house, and the robot stood silently waiting.

She maneuvered the wheelchair to come to the robot, and gently stroked the marks on the skeleton that were bitten by the sand beast.

"It would be great if I were as powerful as you, why not..."

She thought so, and suddenly she had a plan in mind, and decided to make the outer shell of the robot first.

There was almost everything in the workshop, which allowed her to quickly make the outer shell of the robot. The shell and some modifications.

She even made a set of clothes for the robot to wear.

"Hello, I am a robot created by Ella."

The mature female voice is conveyed through the robot's dull expression.

"From now on, you are called Miss Ella and I am called Ms. Ella."

She was passing instructions to the robot.

"Got it, Ms. Ella."

The robot lifted up its skirt and curtsied to her.

"Well...now it's time to explore the city."

She moved to the workbench in a wheelchair and quickly made a few more robot spiders.

"Open the door, Miss Ella." she said to the robot

"Got it, Ms. Ella."

The robot opened the door and let those little spiders run out

"I wonder what they will find."

Ella looked out the window at the silent street and fell into memories again.