EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 206 204. Beating Xiaoli, Unit-: I'll just take a bite

Shinji Ikari: No, you don't.

Unit-01: I want to eat.

Shinji Ikari: We won’t eat this. It looks disgusting.

Unit-01: I want to eat!!
Shinji Ikari seemed to be able to feel its emotions.

Unit-01 was extremely eager for the Angel's core, just like a traveler who had been thirsty in the desert for three days, with his skin dry and dehydrated to the point where he couldn't even saliva, and suddenly encountered a precious source of water. Shinji Ikari sighed in his heart, he didn't know whether it would be good or bad after Unit-01 ate the red core.

If an entire branch were to disappear due to an experimental accident like the one that happened with Unit 04, that would be his fault.

far away.

On the battlefield.

The Angel and Unit 2 are still in a stalemate.

But it had already begun to dig downwards. After just a dozen seconds, a huge hole appeared on the ground, and a vast underground city could be seen below, which could easily accommodate dozens of Angels. Then the Fourteenth Angel ignored Unit 2, and seemed to be so contemptuous that it didn't care about this half-dead machine at all. Its tall body gradually sank and went along the hole towards the underground city.

"The eighteen layers of armor on the surface were directly shattered by the apostles."

"We have entered the underground city!"

"The direction we are heading is... the Central Dogma District!!"

Someone was reporting in the command room.

"hateful!"

Asuka clenched her fists tightly in the cockpit.

Her body still has certain combat capabilities.

But after Unit 02 lost its left hand, it also had injuries on its right arm, which was equivalent to half of the entire body being useless. Due to the high synchronization rate, the pain in its body was quite intense.

It has even slightly affected the body's walking ability.

of course.

If it was before, when her synchronization rate was not so high, the pain would definitely not be as severe as it is now. But in that case, Unit 2 might have been killed by the apostle in a single encounter, and it would not have been possible for it to survive until now.

"Asuka, let me do it."

"…it is good."

I heard Shinji Ikari preparing to save the situation.

Asuka inexplicably felt her nervous heart calm down.

Her frown quickly relaxed. She trusted this boy so much that even the phantom pain from losing her left hand seemed to be alleviated. The fiery red machine retreated and opened its AT force field... Why did it feel like its force field was much weaker? Asuka didn't think about this problem. She used her remaining right arm to take the assault rifle thrown by Unit-01 and turned to the rear support position.

But when Asuka passed by Unit-01, a question suddenly arose in her mind.

Unit-01.

The eyes were originally golden...?

——Unit-01 enters the battlefield!

Purple, green, and gold light appeared on the machine. Unconsciously, the golden light that originally occupied only a small part of Unit-01's eyes had spread to the entire eye area, emitting a faint glow. However, on the tense battlefield, even if someone noticed it, they could only temporarily suppress the idea of ​​asking.

Defeat the apostle first.

Shinji Ikari looked at the hole created by the Angel.

We’ll talk about eating the core later.

He could naturally distinguish the primary and secondary issues. The apostles had already entered the underground city and were heading towards the Central Dogma District at super speed. There was no time to waste. Unit-01 took the lead and jumped down from the hole in the ground. The gravity of the falling body brought a whistling sound of breaking through the air. This was the first time he entered the underground city by controlling Unit-01 instead of taking the cable car.

Dim.

broad.

This was his impression of the underground city when he first arrived.

I thought the perspective of Unit-01 would be different, but after the unit entered the underground city, when Shinji Ikari looked out from the perspective of the unit, he was a little surprised... because the perspective of the unit was not much different from the previous human perspective, he could not tell how big this underground city was, it was so vast that it seemed boundless, but the originally dim environment seemed as bright as day to Unit-01.

The fourteenth apostle was leading the way violently.

Its two arms waved.

The special steel plate and concrete were like paper in front of it. It stopped moving only after seeing Unit-01 approaching, as if wondering why it had a new opponent.

Different from the surface.

The roads here haven't been specially treated.

Shinji Ikari's mind moved, and the huge feet of Unit-01 stepped out of deep pits. The body trampled on the ground wantonly and rushed towards the Fourteenth Angel.

Tapping.

In the blink of an eye, the two sides were within a few dozen meters of each other.

The apostle's striped arm immediately lashed out like a whip and hit Unit-01 in the face.

whoosh-

The sonic boom roared!
...It’s a welcome gift right away.

However, Unit-01 made a simple maneuver, leaving two deep pits that perfectly matched the shape of its feet, and dodged the attack. The stones cut by the blades of the Angel's arms were deeply embedded in the concrete wall, causing dense cracks like spider webs. Ikari Shinji's eyelids jumped. If it was hit, Unit-01 would have to be sent back to the hangar for repairs on the spot... It would take at least ten days or half a month to repair it.

This was just a casual attack by the apostle.

When it was his turn to face it, he immediately felt the pressure from the apostles.

Shinji Ikari's spirit tensed up.

He watched the apostle's next move intently.

This is not on the same level as the strength of the third apostle. The apostles are evolving rapidly, and this is not false. The third apostle? He is just a baby who has just learned to walk. He can act tyrannically while the fourteenth apostle has not yet appeared.

"Cover me as needed, Ayanami, Asuka."

"it is good."

The two girls responded on the communication channel, and Unit-01 continued to move forward.

As the main attacker, Shinji Ikari charged straight ahead with his entire machine, like a pig charging forward without even a fake move, which fully demonstrated that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. He only dodged slightly when the Angel attacked, and the slightest mistake would result in his machine being penetrated. However, Shinji Ikari always maintained a zero error rate, but a lot of sweat appeared on his forehead. He was not as relaxed and at ease as he looked.

soon.

Unit-01 was almost face to face with the Angel.

Shinji Ikari could even see every detail on the apostle's body. There was not even a trace of a scratch on its smooth skin. It clearly did not look like metal but biological skin tissue, yet it had amazing defensive power.

I have the experience of watching the battle of Unit 2 before.

He already had some understanding of this apostle's methods.

But the key to the problem is whether the red core of the apostle can be broken. Asuka once used the particle knife to cut its core, but it did not cause any damage. If the power of Unit 2 cannot break it, Unit 01 may also be in danger, after all, the performance of the units is similar.

Ikari Shinji thought so.

Unit-01's movements never stopped for a moment.

The particle knife had been pulled out, flashing with a cold light, but there was no perfect opportunity to stab it out.

Shinji Ikari controlled Unit-01 to dodge the Angel's blades continuously, just like an agile antelope avoiding a cheetah's predation on a cliff... At a certain moment, Shinji Ikari finally seized the gap when the Angel's striped arms were stretched out, and the legs of the purple-green machine suddenly kicked to accelerate, and it approached like teleportation.

He did not give the apostles any breathing space.

——The particle knife stabbed forward!

The power of Unit-01 burst out at this moment, and the outer armor was buzzing! The momentum of this slash was amazing. If it was purely for destruction, it could even directly split ten armed buildings! !
Nourishes—

A harsh metal collision sounded.

Unit-01 failed to hit the target, so it retreated immediately. Shinji Ikari looked over and saw an obvious scar on the core of the Angel, like a crack on a smooth mirror.

But...it still wasn't broken.

After a few seconds.

The area began to wriggle and recover, and even the scars disappeared.

The core was extremely hard, and coupled with the Angel's strong recovery ability, how could this battle be fought? Ikari Shinji suspected that even if he chopped the core with every blow, it would take him half a day to recover faster than it did. At this time, the Angel's arm swept over with powerful kinetic energy, without any sign of fatigue.

If it was hit, it is estimated that Unit-01 would lose a part of its body.

"Its arms are really annoying."

he said in his heart.

We have to find a way to solve this problem.

Shinji Ikari watched the Angel's arms swinging like noodles. Is this some kind of rubber ability that can be deformed freely? But you are not Luffy wearing a straw hat, but an Angel. It would be great if you could just disable its arms. Unit-01 is not stingy in exchanging injuries for injuries.

He narrowed his eyes, and the left hand of the machine slightly tested the strength of the blade-like arm during the intersection, and a bloody wound was cut on Unit-01.

Blood dripped down, revealing blood-red muscle tissue under the purple-green armor.

…good……

The machine's palm strength should be able to withstand it for a short period of time.

Shinji Ikari made up his mind.

At this time, the apostle's arm attacked again, bringing with it a whistling sound of breaking through the air. He avoided the brunt of the sharp edge. Even the strong Unit-01 could not withstand this sharp edge. Until the moment the apostle retracted his arm, while its kinetic energy was consumed to the limit, Unit-01's left hand directly grabbed the slippery arm with bare hands.

His grab completely caught the apostle off guard.

The blade-like arm was grabbed by Unit-01 before it could be retracted.

sizzle.

There came a sound like a burning fire from the palm of his hand, and the blood of Unit-01 kept gushing out, dyeing the ground under his feet red. Shinji Ikari took a deep breath, clenched his teeth, and felt his body shaking uncontrollably because of the pain, but Shinji Ikari had no intention of letting go.

This pain is nothing compared to a broken hand.

After he grabbed the apostle's arm, he could no longer swing it around, just like he had grabbed a snake by its vital point.

A few seconds later, the apostle's other arm swung over.

Whoosh~
Shinji Ikari followed suit.

Now Unit-01 grabbed both paper arms in its left hand, as if it were grabbing two madly struggling earthworms. Of course, this wouldn't last long. In half a minute at most, the two arms of the Angel would be free, and Unit-01 would even lose the palm of its left hand.

At this time, the purple-green armored body's right hand temporarily dropped the useless particle knife, clenched it into a fist, and smashed it hard into the apostle's chest like a hammer.

Fight!

This is a competition of pure strength!

The apostle fearlessly used his chest as a shield to face the attack. With its own weight alone, the punch of Unit-01 should have been ineffective. But surprisingly, as soon as the attack came into contact, the apostle felt a terrifying force coming, and it fell to the ground without even a sign of resistance.

"Did you suppress it directly?"

Asuka's eyes widened slightly.

She had naturally felt the power of the Angel. If Unit-02 competed with this Angel, she would definitely lose. Logically, Unit-01 should be about the same. But Shinji Ikari was controlling Unit-01, pinning the Angel to the ground with just one hand, and restraining the Angel's two arms with the other hand.

core.

Close at hand.

The particle knife is not very effective, so how can we destroy it?

“One bite, just one bite.”

Shinji Ikari felt that Unit-01 was stirring, and its spirit had been active since it had just "awakened". The Unit-01 was also exerting its power to suppress the Angel.

Just bite down.

It seemed to be saying.

But even so, it did not make decisions for the driver, but waited for orders from Shinji Ikari.

(End of this chapter)