Collapse, surrender to me!

Shinji, who felt a little depressed after leaving NERV, felt much more comfortable.

He walked into a corner of the field and a wide lake came into view.

The surface of the lake is like a mirror, reflecting the beauty of the world. Small flowers sway by the lake, dragonflies dance on the lake, and fish play in the water, presenting a harmonious pastoral ecological picture.

The water in the lake ripples gently, so calm that it seems to calm the restlessness and fatigue in one's heart at this moment.

Here, he also saw the figure of Grayshu.

The girl was sitting in the field with a drawing board in front of her, facing the lake, and seemed to be painting.

And in Shinji's eyes.

Gresh was bathed in the sunshine, with the shadows of trees swaying around her, and she was listening to the chirping of insects and birds.

For him, the scene of Grayshut among the fields and lakes before him was the most healing picture in the world.

Yes, Kyubey talked a lot about Grayshu’s identity.

But when Grayxiu introduced himself to him, he didn't mention these random identities.

But the owner of the studio.

It seems normal to paint here nowadays.

He leaned over and took a look.

What Grayxiu painted was the fields and lake in front of her.

Unlike ordinary painters, ordinary painters, even if they reach their limit, can only make their works lifelike.

And Grayshu seemed to have given this world real life.

Of course, what attracted Shinji the most was a strange-looking fish in the picture.

It is in the painting, but not on the lake.

This fish, to be honest, is really pretty.

Shinji came to the lake and wanted to see the real thing.

Then, I saw a big pot next to me, and the fragrance spread from ten miles away.

Suddenly I had a bad feeling...

"This couldn't be..."

"Yes, it's what you think."

Gray nodded.

"I cooked it because it looked like a specialty of your world and it looked really delicious."

"But I wasn't sure if I could find the second one, so I drew a picture of it as a commemoration."

Chapter 299: Do you want to be my messenger?

Shinji swallowed.

To be frank, he was greedy.

After all, it was the fish that Grace cooked herself.

Too bad it doesn't look ripe yet.

"Just wait a few more minutes."

As Grayshull spoke, she did not stop her hands, just like a real little artist sketching in the wild.

Shinji looked at Graysh for a while and suddenly said.

"I refuse to drive an EVA."

"Yeah, Kyubey told me."

"...Do you think I'm too willful?"

Shinji sat on the ground, hugging his legs, no longer with the determination he had when he left NERV.

"In your world, there are also Herrschers who come every once in a while like the Apostles. If I choose not to fight now, will you look down on me?"

"No, you're only two years older than me."

Gresh shook her head.

"Even in our world, I don't have to go to the battlefield, although... I am equivalent to a pilot who can drive an EVA in your world and have the ability to fight against the apostles."

"You are Unit-01. Misato promised to give me Unit-03, which was shipped back from America. That means there is Unit-02, and maybe Unit-04, Unit-05, and Unit-06. You are the only one missing now."

"You're right, but I just saw the pilot of Unit 0."

Although Shinji did not go back, the image of Rei Ayanami limping into the NERV base while holding on to the wall was something he could never forget for a long time.

It’s not that we fell in love with each other.

There is some sympathy.

But more disgusting.

Disgusted with his father and disgusted with the world.

"My teacher said that my father was a hero who protected the world. I believed it at the time. It's really ironic."

Shinji said.

"Why, if what they say is true, humanity is on the brink of extinction. Why can't everyone work together to fight the apostles? More than half of the people died in the Second Impact. Do they have to die?"

Shinji felt that the NERV he came into contact with was completely devoid of humanity compared to the Fire Moths in Gray's world.

Everyone has their own purpose.

Defeating the apostles and saving the world are secondary things.

Shinji can fight to save the world, but he can't accept being manipulated like a fool, like a tool, and not a hero at all.

"Then why don't you try to create a whole new world on your own?"

Gresh put the painting away, walked to the campfire, and turned on the fish pot.

The fish was overcooked and there was nothing else.

The whole pot of soup is "orange juice".

"..."

Of course Shinji recognized this thing; when he was piloting the EVA, the plug was filled with this liquid.

It is a liquid used to establish a neural connection between the driver and the EVA. It can also supply the driver with oxygen and protect against shocks, a bit like the amniotic fluid in the uterus.

"…Um, can this be boiled and drunk?"

"Yes, at least it's of some use to you."

Grace pointed to the pot of LCL liquid fish soup.

"This is something I've dealt with before. Drink it to strengthen your body."

Gray filled a bowl and handed it to Shinji.

"Don't you want to know what your father wants to do?" Gray said, "I can tell you."

For Grayshu, Commander Ikari had no secrets from her.

Grace rarely takes the initiative to look through other people's experiences.

But this character, who is obviously the sixth one, is an exception.

That day, Ikari Gendō talked to her. It can be said that in Ikari Gendō's own eyes, he was still competing with Grayshure in wits and courage, but in fact, his underwear had been seen through.

"According to Ikari Gendō's memory, humanity has experienced two shocks."

"At the beginning of the world, there was a sacred tree that bore the fruit of life and wisdom. Adam was the first life created by God and was called the first apostle. After the first apostle Adam fell into the South Pole with the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Spear of Longinus, he gave birth to the third to sixteenth apostles. The apostles obtained the fruit of life and were prepared to merge with each other in the future and return to Adam's body. After the GUF gate was opened, they returned to heaven and became gods.

The second Angel, Lilith, fell in Japan, causing the first impact, and the Angels went into hibernation because of the impact. Lilith gave birth to humans, who obtained the Fruit of Wisdom and became the eighteenth Angel. Because they did not have the blessing of the Fruit of Life, the AT position was too weak to maintain the original form of the Angels, so they were scattered like this now. "

In other words, humans on Earth.

They are not humans in the traditional sense, but aliens that emerged from Lilith.

This is why Grayshu feels that the humans and apostles in this world are very strange. In essence, they are all split and not the normal biological evolution path, so of course they feel very strange.

"After the death of the Tree of Life, it turned into Longinus (the Spear of Death) and the Spear of Hope. Adam is the ancestor of life. If the apostles obtain the fruit of the other party and return to Adam's body, they can evolve into new life."

Later, the sealed Adam and Lilith were hidden in the life forbidden zone of Antarctica.

Since humans do not have eternal life, over the course of time, this secret was passed down as a religion.

In the year 2000, as the scope of human activities expanded, a group of extremely psychologically empty religious people called Seele discovered the sealed Adam and Lilith, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Spear of Longinus in Antarctica, and learned how to create the world.

Seele and his group of believers are dissatisfied with the world and want to recreate it. A crazy creation plan is born...the human completion plan.

In this plan, both the apostles and humans are enemies.

In order to destroy mankind, they pulled out the magic gun from Adam, and Adam revived. The angry Adam caused a huge explosion, resulting in the second impact. Half of the life in the world was exterminated and the earth's axis deviated.

Then Seele deceived the remaining humans and used the EVA he created to destroy the apostles, causing humans and apostles to kill each other.

In order to win the final victory, Seele must first eliminate the powerful apostles and then the remaining humans. In order to cover up the truth, he deceives the public by saying that a meteorite hit Antarctica, causing a huge explosion that affected the world.

They made adequate preparations to destroy the apostles.

Human power is too weak. In order to deal with powerful apostles, they copied Adam's body and created humanoid apostle weapons. Because they came from Adam, they were called: Eva, which means born in Adam.

The only exception is Unit-01, which was a copy of Lilith's body as a backup. The body of the First Angel Adam was restored into the key to the Nebuchadnezzar armor.

Eva has no soul, so she must find a driver.

After having weapons, they will deal with the apostles.

So in order to lure the apostles to come, they disguised Lilith as Adam and inserted two magic spears into her body as bait, hiding it underground in Japan. The soul was extracted and made into Rei Ayanami, because the apostles can only sense the location of Adam based on the magic spear transformed from the sacred tree, so in order to return to Adam, the apostles will keep coming like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather.

"You mean... this Lilith is here at NERV?!"

Shinji soon figured out why his father had asked him to come over.

Why did this city welcome the visit of two apostles in such a short period of time?

Isn't this the leading party? !

There is nothing wrong with the guide. You can also say that this is a trap. It’s also good to wait for the other party to come to you.

"But if that's really the case? Why build a city here?!"

Shinji simply couldn't understand.

The population of this new Tokyo city is not small, why should these ordinary people live here? !

If the apostles are constantly attracted by the Liliths here, what are these adults doing? !

Shinji felt that his father was not a human being before.

But I just don't know why I'm selfish.

But Grayshu's words made him face the reality of this world once again.

I felt a chill on my head.

"If we are only dealing with the apostles, we can just build a fortress. Why do we need to build a city here..."

Shinji spoke with difficulty, feeling as if all the air in his lungs had been sucked out.

Incomprehensible.

This is blatant murder.

Shinji, who had fought against the Angels before, understood that a shelter was as fragile as a piece of paper to the Angels, and even the aftermath of a battle was not something a human could endure.

During this time at NERV.

Almost everyone told Shinji that we must protect this city.

Thinking of this sentence now, Shinji felt an inexplicable blockage in his heart and it was difficult for him to breathe.

"What on earth was my father thinking?!"

When Shinji said this.