EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 225 223. Lilith's Seal Unsealed
Hey.

A buzzing sound came from nowhere.

Asuka in the cockpit suddenly felt like she had some tinnitus.

Is it because I didn't sleep well last night? It's all Misato's fault. She cried for so long. She's just a crybaby. She thought to herself, but Unit 2 didn't stop pulling the trigger. The bullet left the barrel of the rifle, and the roar was enough to shatter the glass a few kilometers away. Once it was fired, it shot out of the earth like an arrow. And in this brief moment, the buzzing sound in my ears became stronger and stronger.

buzzing-

"Well……"

Asuka couldn't help but groan.

Her head was like being hit by a heavy hammer, and she was struck by severe pain. Asuka broke out in cold sweat, and she felt a rusty taste in her throat, and took a big gulp of the LCL liquid in the cockpit. The buzzing sound was like something trying to get into her brain, and she felt like she was undergoing a craniotomy, and the doctor was hitting her skull with a hammer.

Is this the apostle's counterattack?
Asuka naturally knew where the attack came from. She gritted her teeth and let the pain rage, and continued to aim the rifle scope at the apostle. Wait, you'll have bullets to eat. But the next moment, the apostle increased the intensity of his mental attack.

pain.

My head hurts.

The rifle suddenly lost its accuracy.

Asuka tried to stay awake. She fired two more shots in pain, and then without even looking at the result of the shooting, she covered her head and tried to block the ringing in her ears. Now, it was as if someone was beating her brain with a fist, and the boxing referee was standing by and shouting a countdown, while her brain was almost dying and unable to resist.

"Asuka?"

"Hmm..."

Misato Katsuragi frowned deeply.

It was obvious that Unit 2 had not suffered any substantial attack.

From the perspective of Unit 00, the fiery red machine seemed to be fighting against some invisible enemy, waving madly in place. The whole machine was shaking violently, similar to the subconscious spasms of a human body after experiencing great pain. Just by looking at the machine making various twisted movements, you can understand what kind of pain Asuka is going through at this moment.

"The Apostle emits heat waves similar to AT force fields, polluting the pilot's mind."

"How's Asuka?" she asked.

"It's very dangerous! I'm suffering from deep mental pollution."

"…and the thermal energy waves are detecting the pilot's mental wavelengths."

Direct attack on the mind?
Katsuragi Misato's pupils shrank. She roughly understood the attack method of the Fifteenth Angel, and the most important thing was to detect the pilot's mental wavelength...

Is this reading the driver's memory?
how come?
Could it be that the apostle is trying to understand the inner world of humans? But now the pilot is in danger, and there is no time to hesitate. Katsuragi Misato immediately made a decision.
"Eject Asuka's cockpit and recover Unit 2."

"Yes!"

"——Miri, wait."

At this moment, Asuka's weak voice suddenly came from the communication channel.

"Asuka, how are you?"

"Don't underestimate me." Asuka, whose head was still aching, spoke in a broken voice, gritting her teeth, "I can still hold on, so let me attract the apostle's attack and keep it down."

The fiery red machine was still going crazy, but as Asuka's words came, the huge and ferocious machine gradually became quiet. The giant stood there, but the occasional spasms proved that her persistence was not that simple. Hearing her words, Katsuragi Misato didn't feel much relief, but the order to eject the cockpit was withdrawn.

"Asuka..."

Shinji Ikari, who was watching, was worried.

A mental attack?
Can he have any means to deal with it? Perhaps only the advanced Word Spirit Ghost Victory can try to resist it. However, at this moment, Asuka is suffering from great pain, but he can only watch from the side and cannot fight side by side.

"Let me go on stage too." Ikari Shinji looked at the two commanders.

Able to lift the freeze ban on Unit-01.

There are only these two people.

"No." Hearing his words, Vice Commander Fuyutsuki shook his head, "The Angel can corrode the pilot's spirit. Now we have to make sure Unit-01 is not corroded."

"Unit-01..."

Forced to act in front of the crowd, Shinji Ikari wanted to go to the watermelon field immediately.

Asuka over there was regaining control of Unit 2.

This is an extremely difficult thing to do.

The mental attack of the fifteenth angel continued. Asuka felt as if her head was plowed over and over again by the mental shock. She groaned again and felt something flowing out of her nasal cavity. It should be nosebleed. The girl's beautiful facial features were now distorted by pain, and all the pores on her body were tightening.

If the apostle descended to the ground now and launched a random attack, I'm afraid Unit 2 would not have any power to resist.

Has it landed? Should we prepare for close combat? Buzz buzz buzz buzz——

Asuka's cries of pain gradually stopped.

After enduring the most painful moment, she actually felt a little accustomed to it. The sleepiness from not sleeping well last night flew away, and Unit 2's fingers moved little by little, like a patient with ALS in the hospital, trying to pick up the rifle again.

"Where is the apostle's location? Has he landed?" Misato Katsuragi asked anxiously.

"...still in satellite orbit."

Asuka was still holding on, attracting the attention of the fifteenth angel. The female major took a deep breath in the command room, but still couldn't stop the suffocating feeling in her heart. The angel hasn't landed yet? Isn't it looking for the first angel Adam? This is not in line with the usual style of the angel. If it has been in the satellite orbit and used mental attacks to invade the headquarters...

And most importantly——

"There is an AT field, so it can't cause any damage!"

The latest satellite images show.

The moment the rifle bullet hit the fifteenth apostle, a ripple-like barrier appeared around the glowing bird-like apostle to block the damage.

This was something that had been expected.

But does it really have no intention of landing on the ground?

Misato Katsuragi's heart gradually sank. Even if she unfrozen Unit-01 now, it would be useless. The most critical issue was to lure the Angel from the satellite orbit to the ground, and then it would be the best time to unfreeze it. Or, there was some powerful attack that could ignore the AT force field, cross the distance from the earth's surface to the satellite orbit, and destroy the Angel in one fell swoop.

The latter option is basically impossible.

She also heard what Shinji Ikari and the two commanders said just now. Although she could understand Shinji Ikari's desire to unfreeze the machine, the current Unit-01 would not be of much use even if it was put into action, and it was not certain that it could lure the Angel down from the satellite orbit. While Misato Katsuragi was thinking about the next battle plan, Gendo Ikari, the commander on the high platform, suddenly took over the command.

"Temporarily recover Unit 00, return to the underground city, and head to the Central Dogma District. Li, take out that gun."

Ikari Gendou said calmly.

——The Spear of Longinus.

The spear that pierced Lilith in the underground city was sealing her.

That gun?

Misato Katsuragi remembered this weapon.

Needless to say, the power of this spear can seal Lilith, and if it pierces the apostle, it will definitely cause terrible damage. But what's the use of taking it out? She couldn't help but wonder, the Fifteenth Apostle is far away in the satellite orbit, and this kind of close-range weapon can't attack it, right? Of course, even if Katsuragi Misato was confused, she couldn't stop Commander Ikari's order.

"……gun?"

Shinji Ikari felt the same doubts as Misato Katsuragi.

But he had other ideas. After all, it was stabbed into the body of the white apostle in the underground city, and perhaps it was tainted with some aura. Could it be that this spear was some kind of deadly bait, and once the apostle saw it, he would be like a shark that had been hungry for three days, biting the hook and coming down from the satellite orbit? In that case, it would be easy to deal with, and the three EVA machines could rush up and beat it up directly.

At this time, Rei Ayanami had already obeyed the order.

Soon, only Asuka's Unit 2 was left on the battlefield. In order to avoid the Angel's mental attack from diverting its target, the fiery red unit still proudly stood at the forefront. Its hands had barely grasped the rifle, and it even tried to launch another attack, although it was still trembling from time to time. A few minutes later, Unit 0 stepped into the orange-red pool in the central dogma area.

The white giant named Lilith was still quietly nailed to the huge cross.

"So familiar..."

Ayanami Rei thought inexplicably.

The yellow-white Unit-0 waded through the pool, gradually approaching the white giant. She did not hesitate, nor did she stop to carefully observe the giant's intentions. Ayanami Rei controlled Unit-0, grasped the Spear of Longinus with both hands, and slowly pulled it out.

As the gun was pulled out.

The missing lower half of the white giant is recovering rapidly.

The blood flowing from the severed waist and abdomen stopped quickly, and the wound began to multiply at a terrifying speed, first the waist, then the buttocks, thighs, calves... The lower body of the giant grew out quickly, also in white color, in less than ten seconds. However, even so, the white giant still stuck to the cross as if dead, with his hands nailed to the cross by two huge nails, unable to break free.

Seven eyes.

Still out of focus.

Unit 00 had already turned and was walking out, but suddenly stopped. Rei Ayanami turned her head to look at the giant. Then she tightly grasped the spear. The yellow-white machine, covered in LCL liquid, walked out of the Central Dogma Zone in silence.

"——Unit 0 is ready to launch, target the Apostle."

The commander's order was issued.

Shinji Ikari was stunned.

What does this mean? Originally, I thought this spear was used as bait for fishing, stained with the aura of the White Apostle, and was taken out to make the Apostle bite the hook. But now some people say that this spear should be used to cross the distance from the surface of the earth to the satellite orbit, thrown to the Apostle, and the fish should be killed directly with the bait?
Is this reasonable?

(End of this chapter)