EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 58 57. The Sixth Apostle Fish Angel, Attacks Dad Dad Dad
Headquarters.

In the command room.

The surveillance footage is showing the appearance of this new apostle, which is the sixth apostle discovered by humans so far. At the beginning, several helicopters launched several missiles towards its location in the sea, trying to attract attention, but failed to lure it out.

Three pilots were crowded in front of the monitor, watching the new apostle's movements in the sea.

At this moment, an unmanned submarine is diving secretly near it.

The picture shows the apostles in the sea.

--fish.

It looks like a huge and strangely shaped fish.

The world's largest shark, Megalodon, is a prehistoric marine animal. Humans can only learn about its former dominance of the ocean through fossils, with the best of them reaching a length of 25 meters. But after seeing this apostle, paleontologists who study fossils will instantly understand that no matter what kind of Megalodon it is, it is just an appetizer in its mouth.

This Apostle...

Let's call it the fish angel for now.

Even without the fins on its back, its body is larger than the three EVAs combined. Just by comparing the size of the submarines, one can imagine how small the EVA is in front of it. Such a huge body can only be accommodated in the sea. The new apostle's bloody mouth is big enough to swallow any large ship.

The unmanned submarine tentatively fired a torpedo, but it failed to even break its AT position.

Fighting such a behemoth in the water?

It's really too dangerous.

At this time.

Some people started reporting.
"An evacuation notice has been issued to the surrounding residents."

"Thanks for your hard work."

Misato Katsuragi nodded to the staff.

Then she sighed and said,

"This time the Angel is actually in the sea. There is no armed building on the seashore, and electricity is not laid there. The power supply to the EVA body is a big problem."

Shinji Ikari could somewhat understand her distress.

After all, without electricity, the EVA can only run for five minutes.

This is different from the last JA robot. After all, it is an apostle and needs to consider the possibility of long-term combat. If the combat fails due to insufficient power, it will really cause a huge joke.

"What if it comes to the city on its own initiative?"

He came up with an idea.

There is a bomb in the underground city of the headquarters.

The fish angel's goal must be there, like a tadpole looking for its mother, to contact the first apostle named Adam. We can wait for it to arrive at the third new Tokyo City, and then three EVA machines will rush over and beat it up.

"It is digging from the sea into the underground city and has no intention of coming to the shore. We should deal with it directly in the sea." The female captain explained, "If we wait for the apostles to dig for a long time, the sea water may pour in directly, and then it will be too late."

The German lady next to him immediately interrupted.
"Yes, don't give such stupid advice, you should take the initiative."

Ikari Shinji shrugged.

Ok.

It turns out that fighting against the apostles is not that easy.

"So it's up to you guys," the female captain said solemnly. "We'll send a fleet to the nearby sea area and put the power supply there. You'll have to connect the cables when the time comes."

"But these are not the most important things..."

She looked over with concern.

Shinji Ikari knew what Misato Katsuragi meant.

——This is a water battle.

There has never been any training on water combat in previous simulation training.

Most of the training was conducted in the city. It seemed that the headquarters had never thought that the apostles would launch an attack from the sea before.

So it was the first time for the three pilots to fight in water.

Even Shinji Ikari did not dare to guarantee his combat effectiveness in controlling Unit-01 in the sea.

But there was finally a day off. Although the marine life research base was very boring and only Ayanami Rei was watching the marine life with great interest, he was disturbed by the apostles before he had rested for long. Not only Asuka, but now even he had a desire to fight.

"We also need to prepare some water combat equipment for the EVAs. In addition, there was basically no training on underwater combat in the previous training. This aspect is indeed a bit ill-considered."

The female captain continued to speak sadly.

But Shinji Ikari already knew that this was a makeshift team, so he was not surprised at all at the unreliability of the headquarters.

In water, ranged attacks will be greatly weakened.

he thought.

In other words, it can only be used at short range again. There is no chance to use the positron cannon to destroy the apostles like last time.

Determine your battle plan.

...In fact, it just lets the driver play on his own first.

After finding out where the red core of the apostle is, Misato Katsuragi will have a plan to deal with it. The three pilots started to go to the locker room, where they were going to change into their respective combat uniforms.

When changing into combat uniform, Shinji Ikari thought of a question.

Before, he had been thinking about waiting for Asuka, the second qualified person, to come to Japan and then find out why he could become a qualified person. However, after so much time, he still has no clue.

The three people have absolutely nothing in common.

Ikari Shinji sighed.

If age could be counted... then there would be a lot of people of their age in the world.

What the qualified have in common.

I can't find it at all.

They don't have tails, their hair doesn't grow into afros, and they can't turn into giant apes on full moon nights. No matter how you look at them, they are just ordinary people. How does the agency responsible for finding qualified people determine who they are?
Could it be some specific gene?
Coming out of the locker room, he ran into Rei Ayanami, who was already wearing her white combat uniform. She was stunningly beautiful. The girl seemed to be waiting for him... This place was very close to the men's locker room. Did this girl want to talk to him about something?
Ikari Shinji looked over in confusion.

"Ayanami, what's wrong?"

The beautiful girl suddenly said, "I'll be waiting for you when you come back."

"…it is good."

Shinji Ikari nodded, a little confused. What's the big deal? It's just waiting for him. There's no need to mention it in particular.

"Ikari-kun." Then the girl looked at him seriously and said, "Keep going."

"You too."

Shinji Ikari responded with a smile.

He felt that Rei Ayanami was getting closer to him, as if she was just a stone's throw away. That was great, but people were never satisfied. After getting closer, they always wanted to get even closer to her. At first, a handshake was enough, but now only a hug could satisfy them. When he came back, would he continue to play the cello?

The two continued to wait.

The lonely and proud girl finally put on her fiery red combat uniform, walked out of the locker room, and stood alone against the wall with her arms folded across her chest.

After thinking for a while, he walked over and said,

"Come on, Asuka."

"..."

The German lady was silent for a rare time. Ikari Shinji couldn't help but blink innocently. He didn't know what his words "Come on" had offended. Even he couldn't guess what Hikaru was thinking about this inexplicable silence. Having said that, his words were normal, right? They were barely friends, and they were about to attack. Isn't it normal to say "Come on"?

Could it be that she is the kind of person who is so proud that she doesn't need, or even hates, encouragement from others?

But it wasn’t like that in our previous interactions.

"…understood."

she replied.

...How can there be such a person in the world!
Asuka thought.

Shinji Ikari, he is such an idiot, why does he do this every day? Flowers and bento. You try your best to treat him as your opponent, want to surpass him, and even want to say something harsh to show your determination, but at this time he actually runs over to look at you seriously and tells you to cheer up.

How could he be such a bad guy!
All three of them put on their combat uniforms and headed towards the cockpit of the EVA.

Enter the cockpit.

LCL injection.

Neural empathy.

Shortly after.

Shinji Ikari suddenly opened his eyes from the darkness.

At this moment they are at high altitude, and three specially made transport planes are transporting the EVA body to the seaside. After the airdrop, the pilots need to control the body and plug the cable into the power supply on the ship within five minutes.

There is naturally no problem with this step.

The fish apostle was still digging a hole in the sea and was not paying any attention to the situation on the shore.

Landing from the air, he perfectly controlled Unit-01 to land, casually grasped the cable on the body, and placed it on the ship that had just assembled at the beach. The process was safe and easy.

The base is still nearby.

From the perspective of Unit-01, it was a really small place.

Behind the marine life research base, there is an artificial blue ocean, which forms a sharp contrast with the orange-red ocean on the apostles' side.

There was actually a dense forest nearby. When the EVA landed, it startled a large number of black shadows of birds.

All aircraft have been deployed in place.

The drivers are ready.

As the order to attack sounded in the communication channel, the three machines moved at the same time. The giant's body brought a loud gust of wind, as if the fighters who pursued freedom in history were singing loudly. In front of them was the orange-red ocean, and the apostle was in it -

Neural empathy drives the body forward and runs at a fast speed.

In an instant.

The mountains, sea, wind and forests are dancing gracefully.

Today I finally unlocked the function of inserting pictures in chapters. I tried it briefly and it took me a while to figure it out.

Thanks to He Ju Hua Chen and Zou Xing Bai Gei's small road for their tips, and thank you all for your votes, I love you~
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