Inventory of the heavens: start to shock from shining Tiga

Chapter 19 The Corroded No. [-] Unit, Shinji Who Can't Be Handled
In a suspected ward room, a short-haired girl just finished her physical examination, and the doctor-like woman who was in charge of examining her was on the phone: "Is that so, I decided to let Asuka drive... Well, I took the last flight to Matsushiro. I'll leave the rest to you."

"That, Dr. Akagi..." the short-haired girl said softly.

The woman known as Dr. Akagi turned her head.

"Can you tell the pilot of the No. [-] plane something for me?" The expression of the short-haired girl was still impassive: "Please."

Dr. Akagi turned on the recording function: "Here, Li, you can talk."

The screen changed, and the long-haired girl named Asuka was listening to the message.

Listening to the long silence on the phone, Asuka sighed.

Just when Asuka was about to turn off the phone impatiently, Li's voice came: "Thank you."

Asuka was taken aback for a moment, this puppet actually said thank you.

Slightly smiled: "Hmph, is she an idiot! I just want to drive EVA!"

It's not for the two of them to have a smooth dinner together!
However, Asuka did not say this sentence.

"No. [-] machine... If I like it, paint it red for me." Looking at the dim sky outside the window, Asuka said to Katsuragi Misato who was in charge of picking her up.

In school, Shinji Ikari found out that one of his friends, Touji, hadn't come to school. After being informed by another friend, Aida, he realized that Touji's younger sister had been discharged from the hospital.

"Shinji, this is really good news!" Aida pushed his glasses.

Ikari Shinji deeply agrees that it is something to be happy for him that the child he successfully protected was discharged from the hospital safely.

"Today, Limbo invited you to dinner, right~" Teasing, Aida approached the shy Ikari Shinji, taking advantage of his unawares and sneaking up on Shinji.

"I really envy you!" The sour tone almost overflowed the screen.

At the test base, preparations for the EVA No. [-] machine are proceeding in an orderly manner.

Thousands of work inspections were completed, and the ground personnel began to evacuate.

In a locker room, Asuka is putting on her combat uniform.

"No need to thank you." Just now, Asuka called Katsuragi Misato and wanted to chat, but Katsuragi Misato said thank you first.

"Helping foolish people is the duty of elites. Besides, I'm not used to eating with others. I feel that it's very tiring to accompany others to make a happy face. I don't like to look at other people's happiness. And I can drive EVA again. , This is also quite good. I like to be alone, and I don’t have any close friends, and no one can take me seriously from the beginning. Anyway, as long as I have excellent grades, it’s okay for me to be alone in NERV.”

Seeing this, everyone understood that what this girl said was ironic.

She really wants to have dinner with the boy she likes, but under the important task, she can only choose to fulfill those two "stupid".

"But recently I suddenly feel that it's good to be with other people, although that doesn't suit me."

Katsuragi Misato smiled wryly: "Don't say that."

Katsuragi Misato became more and more helpless in this world that required these children to bear such a heavy responsibility.

"Asuka is very kind."

Stretching: "Misato, you are the first person to hear me say this, and you suddenly feel a lot more relaxed. I didn't know it before, and it's quite easy to talk to people."

Looking at the No. [-] aircraft in the distance, Misato said: "There are still many beautiful things in this world that you don't know, so look forward to it!"

In the cockpit, Asuka was sitting in the driver's seat. The test, which she thought was going well, suddenly changed.

The space in front of Asuka's eyes suddenly became dark, and the center of the darkness was a red sphere.

In just a few seconds, Asuka was surrounded by blood red and appeared in a red void.

Weird laughter came, and it seemed that there was a force pushing Asuka into the abyss.

In the outside world, Unit [-], which was silent while waiting for the action order, suddenly lit up its eyes.

"The insertion depth exceeds 100! The concentration of mental pollution has also reached the dangerous range!" In the command room where Katsuragi Misato was located, the red warning light lit up.

"Pilot exceeds safe depth!"

Dr. Akagi said anxiously: "Stop quickly, the driver will lose consciousness!"

"The experiment is terminated, cut off the link!" Misato Katsuragi said, worried that the subordinates who lived with her would appear.

However, even with the charging plug ejected, Unit Three still had power of its own, struggling within the facility.

"No, there is a high-energy reaction in the body!" The operator reported.

"Could it be... an apostle?!" This unreasonable scene made Katsuragi Misato shout with almost certainty.

The mouth that was closed mechanically was forcibly opened, and the No. [-] machine was not a purely mechanical body as the heavens thought, but a living creature!

A burst of bright blue light quickly illuminated everything around, and an unusually huge explosion happened!

The power of a small nuclear explosion destroyed the temporary experimental site that had been built at a huge cost.

Some people in the world couldn't help thinking, spending a huge amount of money to build a temporary experimental site, and then the giant biological weapon wearing armor was suspected to be controlled by something, and then the entire base was razed to the ground. Is this a bit too coincidental?
Ikari Shinji received the call, and the luxury car that was about to stop in front of him suddenly drifted, turned around and drove away quickly.

Ikari Shinji's father can be seen in the car, and Ikari Commander is also on the phone with an ugly expression on his face.

"There was an explosion in Matsushiro..."

Ling Boli was at the door of her living place, listening blankly to the bad news delivered by the visitor, and the carefully stewed ingredients were already boiling.

"How is the disaster situation?" In a huge command room, holographic projections of alarms are everywhere, and confirmations and orders for the rescue of survivors on the scene are constantly issued.

"An unidentified moving object was found in the southwest of the accident scene!" An observer reported: "It is displayed in orange! It is impossible to confirm whether it is an apostle..."

Commander Ikari, who arrived in a hurry, ordered: "Activate the first level of combat preparation."

Commander Ikari's deputy looked at Commander Ikari: "Ikari..."

"All personnel, activate the first-level combat preparation!" Commander Ikari's order was very firm.

Even if he knew that the enemy who was about to attack was his subordinate.

"Let the No. [-] unit that is still being repaired stand by, and the No. [-] unit will immediately replace it with a puppet system to attack!"

Under the setting sun, military equipment is moving, and they must reach the target location as soon as possible to block it.

This scene under the sunset is full of tribute.

Among the mountains, a giant purple-green biological weapon crouched quietly here.

In the cockpit, Ikari Shinji asked the staff, "So... how are Asuka and Miss Misato doing?"

The staff reassured: "We are doing our best to rescue them now, don't worry!"

However, Ikari Shinji noticed something was wrong: "But, there are no other EVAs, and Miss Misato is not here... I can't do anything by myself..."

Ikari Shinji lacks self-confidence very much.

A window popped up beside him: "There is no problem with the combat system, and now Commander Ikari is directing it!"

"Father?" Shinji Ikari was surprised that his father would directly participate in the command.

Soon, the image of the enemy is transmitted and transferred to the main screen.

On the screen, it was the No. [-] unit that was thought to have been destroyed in that nuclear explosion-like accident.

However, the state of the No. [-] machine is indeed like a zombie, very infiltrating.

After confirming that the enemy was the No. [-] machine that had been corrupted by the apostle, he directly issued an order to eject the insertion plug towards the machine.

However, the insertion plug was covered by a layer of blue substance at some point, and it was firmly stuck there and could not be pulled out.

In response to these new intelligence, the analysis results came out quickly: "It's blue!"

Commander Ikari's tone was without a trace of personal emotion: "From now on, the EVA No. [-] unit will be discarded, and it will be identified as the Ninth Apostle."

In the cab, Ikari Shinji received an instruction to approach the target.

However, when he looked up, what he saw in the sunset was not an enemy like the weird monster in the special photo, but an EVA body that remained unmoved under the attack of ground tanks and armored vehicles.

"Could it be an apostle? Is this an apostle?" Ikari Shinji asked in disbelief.

Commander Ikari replied, "That's right, that's the target."

"Target... isn't this... EVA..." Knowing that Asuka participated in the latest No. [-] driving test, Ikari Shinji had a terrible guess in his heart.

"The target is approaching, you have to knock it down!" Commander Ikari ordered.

"It's the target... Asuka is still inside..." Ikari Shinji looked at the EVA body that was getting closer and closer, and murmured: "Asuka..."

(End of this chapter)