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Chapter 173 The Power of God

"AT Field?!"

Colonel Klaus von Heydrich's exclamation was mixed with an almost absurd disbelief.

As an internal executive at SEELE, he had access to secrets far beyond what ordinary people could imagine.

He deeply understands the nature of humanity. Born from the body of the Second Apostle Lilith, he was endowed with the fruit of wisdom, thus possessing a complex intelligence and civilization far surpassing that of the Apostles.

However, the price of this wisdom is vulnerability.

Every human being is weak and vulnerable, confined to this flesh and blood body, unable to unleash an AT field powerful enough to distort the laws of physics like the Apostles, unable to maintain that god-like enormous body, and even less able to possess eternal life.

It is precisely because of this deep-rooted "incompleteness" that the sages of SEELE firmly believe that humanity's ultimate destiny is to abandon this flawed individual form and return to Lilith's warm womb to complete the restoration of life.

But now, right before his eyes, a pure human being, a flesh and blood body that should have been easily pierced by bullets, has unfolded an absolute domain that only Angels and EVAs can materialize and that is visible to the naked eye.

This completely overturned everything he believed in...

"nothing is impossible……"

Zhang Qi's voice remained calm, as if what had just blocked the bullet was not a miracle, but merely the removal of a speck of dust from his shoulder.

He started walking towards Klaus...

"Fire! Shoot!"

Klaus's professional instincts as a soldier kept him calm, and he immediately issued the order.

Upon hearing the order, the special forces soldiers snapped out of their shock and carried out the shooting order without hesitation.

In an instant, dozens of assault rifles roared simultaneously, spitting out deadly tongues of fire from their muzzles.

The dense hail of bullets formed a metallic storm, tearing through the air with a sharp whistling sound as it rained down on Zhang Qi.

However, this barrage of bullets, powerful enough to tear steel to shreds, seemed to crash into a viscous, invisible swamp when it came within half a meter of Zhang Qi's body.

Each bullet slowed abruptly within the orange aura, its kinetic energy rapidly absorbed, before falling to the ground with a feeble clang.

Zhang Qi strolled leisurely amidst the hail of bullets, the orange AT field carving out an absolutely safe path for him in the storm of death.

The scene was like the magnificent miracle of Moses parting the Red Sea in a mythological epic, filled with an unreal and awe-inspiring sense of oppression.

The surviving experts in the control room looked at each other, their minds completely blank.

Only those few NERV technicians knew how incredible this was, even though Angels, EVAs, and humans shared similar genetic information maps.

However, the human body is too small, and there is no S2 engine, known as the "perpetual motion machine," to provide nearly unlimited energy, so it can only maintain its form through the AT position.

Maintaining such a strong AT field requires an astronomical amount of energy output.

How did he do it?
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Zhang Qi stopped in front of the control panel.

He slowly opened his right hand, revealing a flawless crystal octahedron die emitting a faint blue light in his palm.

The die floated silently, and then its geometry began to change subtly and rapidly, its edges flowing and its structure reorganizing, as if it had come to life.

Upon witnessing this scene, Colonel Klaus's ominous premonition instantly reached its peak.

He had seen this form in SEELE's top-secret files!
That was the Fifth Apostle, a terrifying being codenamed "Thunder Angel"!
The next moment, Klaus's premonition turned into a bloody reality.

The blue crystal, which had been deformed into a complex geometric shape, suddenly emitted a blinding white light from its red core.

A stream of highly condensed particles shot out from it without any warning!

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The beam of light swept silently across, precisely grazing the waists and abdomens of all the special forces soldiers.

There was no explosion, no loud noise, only a faint hissing sound from the tissue and bones that were instantly vaporized.

The fully armed soldiers' upper bodies remained in a firing stance, but their lower bodies had disappeared.

A fraction of a second later, the mutilated bodies collapsed to the ground.

Scalding hot blood and entrails instantly covered the cold ground. The pungent smell of burnt protein mixed with the strong stench of blood, creating a nauseating odor that assaulted everyone's senses.

"vomit--"

Finally, one of the scholars could no longer bear the hellish sight and bent over, retching violently.

The entire control room fell into a deathly silence, with only the alarm of the S2 machine going out of control sounding like a dirge for this one-sided massacre.

Zhang Qi ignored it all. He didn't even glance at the lives he had wiped out in an instant. Instead, he slowly turned around and calmly swept his gaze over the pale-faced survivors.

SEELE's actions were indeed beyond his expectations. He had thought the other side would use more covert methods to detonate the base, but he did not expect them to choose such a direct military intervention.

Fortunately, he never placed his hopes on the enemy's folly. This power naturally stemmed from his research—the Adam Cell and the Miniature S2 Mechanical Complex.

It is a product of extreme modification of Adam cells obtained from Antarctica and an incomplete S2 mechanism using the technology of the Guyver Armor World Descendants.

He successfully crystallized and miniaturized the energy extraction process of the S2 agency, and then used Adam cells, which have unlimited differentiation potential, as biological carriers.

As a human, he possesses the "fruit of wisdom," which he controls through EVA's neural connection technology, ultimately becoming a piece of equipment controlled by him.

That's what he just did.

"Wait...wait! We didn't see anything! We don't know anything!"

"That's right! It was SEELE! SEELE did all of this! It has nothing to do with you!"

Seeing Zhang Qi's gaze, the survivors finally broke free from their fear, and their survival instincts made them immediately begin to express their opinions.

"Sorry, now is not the time to reveal this ability."

Zhang Qi shook his head and explained.

"If the outside world knew that I had completed the weaponization of the Apostle's power, then the Apostle crisis would cease to exist, and instead, a world war would vie for this power."

His words were like a bucket of ice water, extinguishing the last glimmer of hope in everyone's hearts.

Those present were all top scholars in their respective fields, and they instantly understood the weighty meaning behind Zhang Qi's words.

Humans fear the unknown, and these scholars, as a whole, have dedicated their lives to challenging the unknown.

They knew better than anyone that once the common external threat of the "Apostles" disappeared, and when an absolute force capable of overturning the world order was in the hands of an individual or power, the greed, suspicion, and strife that had been lurking within humanity for thousands of years would inevitably erupt uncontrollably.

That would be a global catastrophe, far more devastating than the Apostle Impact.

"...We understand, Dr. Zhang Qi."

The white-haired German professor who had previously rebuked Klaus was now unusually calm.

He straightened his collar, which was splattered with blood, and a relieved smile appeared on his aged face. He took a step forward and bowed slightly to Zhang Qi.

"Kill us... that's the best outcome."

He spoke calmly, as if discussing an academic issue.
"This secret will be buried here forever with our deaths."

Although everyone else present was trembling, no one refuted it.

They all understood that this was the only, and cleanest, solution.

"Ah……"

Zhang Qi let out a soft chuckle and shook his head.

"You seem to have misunderstood something. I never said I was going to kill you."

"I just... need you to sleep for a while."

The moment he finished speaking, a dazzling golden light shone in Zhang Qi's eyes, like two burning stars.

The orange AT field behind him surged, expanded, and transformed into a pair of enormous and magnificent wings of light made of pure energy.

Immediately afterwards, the fragment he was wearing around his neck glowed. It was a replica of the Spear of Longinus that he carried, which served as a suppressor for Adam and Lilith, and its core function was singular.

That means initiating an anti-AT stance...

The next moment, an invisible wave suddenly spread out from Zhang Qi!
Under this fluctuation, the physical outlines of all the surviving humans present began to blur and disintegrate, losing their material form and transforming into streaks of orange-red, liquid-like soul light.
They were involuntarily drawn towards Zhang Qi's other hand.

There, a red crystal, like the core of an EVA, absorbed all the light of the soul and fell into silence.

After doing all this, Zhang Qi slowly raised his head, his gaze piercing through the wall of the control room and resonating with the silver-white giant in the hangar that was about to go out of control.

He opened his arms, and the waves of the quantum sea were reflected in his golden eyes.

"Then, let's get started."

He whispered softly.

Echoing his will, the rampaging S2 mechanism on Unit 4's chest finally broke free from its final restraints.

Endless energy was frantically drawn from the Dirac Sea, and then, in an instant, it was completely detonated.

A white light, powerful enough to devour everything, burst forth from the depths of the third branch of NERV in Germany.

The massive explosion silently tore the earth apart, instantly wiping the entire base and hundreds of square kilometers of surrounding land from the face of the earth...

(End of this chapter)