EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 161 159. Help me, Mom

There was a vast white world all around.

There was no response from radar or sonar.

You can't feel the existence of any material here, and you can't tell up from down, left from right, and gravity seems to be completely ineffective.

The communication channel inside the machine could no longer receive any information, and Unit 2 had also completely lost power. Asuka looked at the stopwatch displayed on the back of her combat suit.

That’s when life support mode was put into effect.

8 hours.

She has been trapped here for 8 hours.

If it weren't for the life support mode of the combat suit, she would have died long ago. The radar and sonar are still usable, but Unit 2 has no power at all. What kind of nonsense is this setting, Asuka thought to herself, but she guessed that it might be that the power supply inside the body is not enough to start such a large robot, or it might be a separate power supply.

She recalled the last scene she saw before Unit 2 was swallowed up into this world.

At that time, Unit-01 should have come to help, right?
"Shinji, did he come in with me?"

At the beginning, Asuka was full of expectations. The two machines fought side by side in the shadow world, and no apostle would be a match for them. But after 8 hours, she gave up the idea. In this white world, even if Superman who can fly and use Cyclops came, it would be useless because he couldn't fly out and Cyclops couldn't shoot through here. Asuka even suspected that she was hallucinating at the time - it would be better if it was an illusion.

"What an idiot."

she said softly.

In fact, there is no need to come to help. Now Shinji can't get out either. He and the top student can just continue to enjoy their own world. She wanted to say this, but she didn't.

Inside the cockpit.

Only a faint light was still on.

Asuka had heard of a desperate way to die. There is a terrible cave in the world called the Nut Putty Cave. The gap there is extremely narrow. Once you crawl in, you can't get out. Someone was once trapped in the cave for 27 hours. 137 rescuers and volunteers rushed to rescue him, but his head was stuck in the dark gap, and he finally died of suffocation and cardiac arrest.

Life support can only last for 16 hours.

After that, I will face the same death. Suffocation is the most painful way to die, just like my mother, with a purple color, and even the corpse will become ugly after death. I don't want that.

"Very hungry."

she thinks,

"I want ice cream."

She hugged her legs and curled up in the driver's seat.

She was a girl who never showed weakness, but even the sharpest hedgehog would feel scared when she was alone. So scared, being alone. No matter who she called on the communication channel, no one responded. At this time, even if that annoying top student replied to her, it would be like a heavenly sound.

So scared.

If only someone could talk.

Anyone can do it, just say a word.

But there was no sound. She had been waiting for a long, long time. It was as if everyone had forgotten her, forgotten that there was a pilot of Unit 2, and forgotten her in this small corner. Asuka's nose suddenly felt a little sour. She sniffed, her consciousness gradually blurred, and she sank.

Nothing can be done here.

The only way to conserve energy is to sleep.

Asuka fell asleep uneasily, but had a nightmare.

She dreamed that she was trapped in the shadow world of the apostles while piloting Unit 2. Unit 2 finally started to move, and she walked and walked in this white world until the end of time, until all the irises on the hills and fields withered, and finally she walked into a white ward. Her perspective became lower and lower, and her stature became smaller and smaller, and the fiery red combat uniform she was wearing turned into a little girl's dress.

At this moment, three matches suddenly appeared in his hand.

Asuka knew this was the story of the little match girl. What should she do next? Should she go sell matches? But this place is not covered in ice and snow.

So she lit three matches at once and saw her mother waving at her.

"Asuka." Mom said with a smile.

Mother……

Asuka looked at the figure on the ceiling.

She looked up, and in her glassy eyes, her mother was round, smiling, and beautiful. She blinked slowly, and her mother was still there, bent, twisted, and ugly, like a broken doll.

"……Mother."

The little girl said.

She wanted to say, I passed the EVA selection, I am the one you are responsible for, Mom; she wanted to say, I am very good at training, everyone says I am a very outstanding person; she wanted to say, hum, I can live well without Mom's care, she said, she said... she said:
"I hate my mother the most."

She wanted to say many things, but she didn't have time to say them that day. She was like a butterfly lowering its head to smell the fragrance of the flowers, with countless joy in her eyes.

Then spring goes and autumn comes,

Falling off a cliff.

……

... was broken into pieces.

……

……

She is going to die.

Another two hours passed on the stopwatch.

Was it a dream again? Had only two hours passed? Perhaps 16 hours had passed outside the dream? She was going to die, Asuka thought desperately, her mind was confused because she had been in the same environment for a long time, and she couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality. She was going to die, without any signs, meaningless, and no one knew about it.

It shouldn't be like this. It shouldn't be like this.

I have tried so hard, but I am going to die in this corner where no one knows. Is there any other way? Unit 2? Unit 2 has no power. Without power, it can't move. She is no longer the innocent little girl.

out of control?

A robot should be obedient! She doesn't want to be eaten by the monster at all. She eats ice cream every day and eats fast food with Misato. The meat must be bad. The monster Unit-2 must not like to eat her. So there is no way.

She was about to die alone in this world.

……

In a vast white world.

The purple and green armored Unit-01 was floating like a dead object, not knowing where to go. Ikari Shinji was in the same predicament. The stopwatch on the back of his hand showed that ten hours had passed, and there were only six hours left.

Just entered the shadow world.

The body's power supply cable immediately lost response.

So Unit 01 only had five minutes left to move. Shinji Ikari wanted to follow the direction of the cable to find the entrance to the shadow world, but the cable disappeared mysteriously. He checked the situation immediately when the cable alarm sounded, but did not find any trace of the cable.

It seems that in this world, except for Unit-01, everything else is redundant.

But there is no other way but to hurry up.

Shinji Ikari no longer cared about the cables and randomly chose a direction. He swam like a fish in this world for five minutes.

At the speed of Unit-01, even the Mariana Trench, the deepest place in the Pacific Ocean, should have reached the bottom.

But everything around was still white.

During the first minute, Shinji Ikari was still very anxious.

In the second minute his heart began to sink, in the third minute it reached the bottom, and in the fourth minute he wondered whether he should change the direction... maybe the direction was wrong.

Unit 2 should have come in very close to him.

Such a large machine is nowhere to be found in this world. I am afraid that everything here cannot be considered with common sense.

Five minutes passed.

Unit-01 lost power.

The original forward movement was forced to stop. It was already a desperate situation, but Shinji Ikari did not give up.

He tried to get Unit-01 moving again.

In the past, Unit-01 had once moved autonomously without a cable supply, disturbing the staff working overtime at the headquarters. Moreover, the EVA body is not composed of pure machinery, but a replica of the life form of the apostle, which means that in theory, the EVA body is also capable of moving without power.

But no.

He tried countless ways in these 10 hours to establish a neural connection with Unit- again. But the neural connection seemed to be broken, and he was completely unable to empathize with Unit-. How did the second contact come about?

Could it be that I guessed wrong?
He hesitated.

After all, he was just a beginner in biology, and couldn't even solve Rei Ayanami's problem. Was this the end of it?
There is no other way.

Waiting for rescue from outside?

He made a bold statement before coming in, but ended up being trapped here in a mess. Putting aside the embarrassment, the first thing that arrived might not be a rescue but a bomb to destroy the apostle. The people outside didn't have the ability to deal with this apostle, and with the AT force field, it was hard to say how much effect the bomb would have.

Word spirit?

What kind of words can make Unit-01 move again when it has no power and find the apostles hiding in this world?

Unit 2 is still waiting for its rescue in this world.

If he died here, the entire Third New Tokyo and even the whole world would cease to exist, including those he loved and those who loved him. He would never accept that. Now Ikari Shinji was like a gambler who had lost all his cards. The dealer had already raised the dice box for the next round. Did he have anything worth betting on the gambling table?

--some.

This was the only thing that the 27-year-old woman left for her son, and it was still protecting him more than a decade later. In the photo with Miss Mary, the woman holding the baby was so beautiful, and that was the first time he felt very close to that person.

He thought there for a long time, and finally said softly:
"Help me, Mom."

(End of this chapter)