I participated in the development of EVA

The funny thing is that the relationships between the apostles are just like Hollywood blockbusters in the past.

Aliens have a hive mind.

The queen bee's consciousness is above all else and she has absolute control over her offspring.

Even if the First Angel, the Queen Bee, really dies, the other apostles may also die along with the First Angel like in Hollywood blockbusters. This possibility is not impossible, but very high. The meaning of the existence of the apostles' offspring is to help them complete their evolution, and this is what makes Ikari Fumihiko feel cold.

Is this also true of the relationship between humans and Lilith?

When this thought came to his mind, the first thing that came to Fumihiko Ikari's mind was the scene at the end of the original work where all of humanity turned into orange juice.

Before, he had always thought that it was Lilith who covered the entire world with her force field...

And I just realized it now.

In that case, it was not that Lilith had opened up an anti-AT force field covering the entire world, but that she had used another method to separate the souls of all human beings from their bodies.

Of course, this was just a conjecture he had made when he saw the First Apostle's biological brain controlling the fish-shaped body, and there was no evidence to support it.

He suppressed the discomfort in his heart and focused his attention back on his research.

"Start the release procedure."

【Yes. 】

The so-called releasing procedure is the same as last time, with two giant beasts acting as laborers to throw the fish-shaped body into the ocean.

Although it was a sunny day, the noise caused by the release procedure did not attract the attention of anyone other than the base members.

Almost all people in Japan are forced and voluntarily enter virtual games to live, because now all jobs have been taken over by the Three Sages System, and the high benefits brought by technology can only be obtained by becoming virtual game players. Under such temptation and pressure of life, people have entered virtual games.

To sum up in one sentence, there is no soil for human survival in reality.

Even prisoners have to enter the virtual game when they are in jail. Of course, their freedom will be restricted after entering the virtual game, and they will spend their entire sentence in the dream prison.

A researcher who walked out of the underground base sighed as he watched the giant beast carrying the fish-shaped body.

"Director Ikari is as amazing as ever! It would be fine if the giant EVA was used for engineering, but now the giant EVA is so cheap that it can only be used as labor."

"Compared to this, I am more concerned about whether the fish-shaped EVA we are researching this time is successful."

"It should be successful, right?"

"I hope so! Ever since the incident of the apostles attacking cargo ships in the nearby sea area, the prices have been changing almost every day. I hope they won't continue to inflate."

"Have prices gone up? Why don't I feel anything?"

"Light industry is self-sufficient, so it's not affected much. The main impact is on products related to heavy industry."

The institute brings together a large number of people, so discussions like this are not uncommon.

Among them is Misato Katsuragi.

Watching the beast going away, she gently shook the bottle of drink in her hand and muttered to herself.

"I hope this time it will be successful... Simulation training every day is really boring. Let's do some serious work."

Once the new EVA is successfully developed, their tactical department will formulate corresponding tactics according to the situation, and find ways to enhance the combat capability of the Three Sages system to control the fish-shaped EVA.

……

Soon the fish-shaped body was released into the nearby sea area.

Almost as soon as they entered the water, the broadcasting voice in the brains of the three sages began to sound.

[An unknown signal is detected, and the analysis is in progress... Insufficient data, the analysis failed. ]

Fumihiko Ikari did not pay attention to the broadcast content, but looked at the data, and then he understood what had just happened.

The fish-shaped body's organs received a lot of information and fed it back to the First Apostle's biological brain.

"Is this the ocean communication network that Seele built based on the biological characteristics of fish-shaped EVAs?"

【It should be like this. 】

Looking at the garbled characters constantly refreshing on the screen, Ikari Fumihiko sneered and sighed.

"It's really lively, just like entering a rat hole."

[Multiple unknown objects are moving at high speed. According to radar data analysis, they are suspected to be enemy fish-shaped EVAs... Ten in number.]

"Are you aware that I have successfully developed a fish-shaped EVA? Do you want to maintain your advantage by relying on numbers?"

[Expected to arrive at the current sea area in ten minutes. ]

"Notify all departments to prepare for battle."

【Yes. 】

As the combat alarm sounded, various departments took action.

Misato Katsuragi could no longer maintain her previous leisure. Hearing the urgent alarm, she couldn't help but curse inwardly.

"Damn it! I just want to change to a new job, not to start a war!"

Because starting a war means deciding the winner.

If you win, everything will be fine.

But if they lose, it means that the horn of humanity’s extinction has been sounded.

Even though she complained, she quickly took off her high heels, not even bothering to pick them up, and ran quickly into the annex elevator in her black stockings and came to the combat command center.

702. Anger

When she entered the command room and saw the ten red dots flashing on the screen, Misato Katsuragi felt her scalp tingling.

It’s not that the quantity is too large and we can’t handle it.

Instead, they were worried that this was a sign of a large-scale conflict between the apostles and humans.

"It has been confirmed that the enemy is a fish-shaped EVA developed by the Seele organization."

Hearing this, Misato Katsuragi immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Although internal strife among humans is not a good thing, it is a blessing compared to the large-scale invasion of the apostles.

As she breathed a sigh of relief, she then remembered that her high heels were left on the ground.

But I can't care about these now.

She came to her seat and joined the preparations for the battle as a staff officer.

In fact, there was nothing much to prepare for. As early as Seele began to blockade the sea area, the global NERV combat command department began to formulate corresponding plans, and the equipment department was also making preparations and researching countermeasures and equipment.

Their main job now is to ensure that there are no mistakes in the preparation process.

"Chief, Unit-00 and the Behemoth are ready to attack."

"The giant EVA will attack and rush to the nearby sea area on its own. Unit 0 will find a good position and provide long-range fire support."

"Yes."

This decision was not made because of Rei Ayanami's relationship with Fumihiko Ikari, but because Unit-0 is different from the behemoths, and needs a power supply cord to provide power at all times, and cannot move freely for a long time. In addition, the conflict area is not a port, but a wasteland, so there is naturally no supporting power supply device.

This is the drawback of traditional EVA. Although it has more powerful strength than the behemoth, it is restricted everywhere like a horse tied with reins.

Thirty behemoths came to the ground through catapults, carrying electromagnetic rifles and matching flat axes.

When they reached the ground, they hunched their bodies and began to run quickly.

The charge of thirty giant beasts caused the earth to tremble, as if a real earthquake had occurred. This scene also soothed the anxiety in everyone's hearts.

But the development of things was beyond everyone's expectations.

The fish-shaped EVA suddenly stopped moving when it was about to enter the nearby sea.

The combat commander was the first to react.

"Check the situation in the sea area where the enemy has stopped."

"That is the trench formed after the secondary impact. There is no data on its exact depth yet."

Since the Second Impact, humans have been busy rebuilding and dealing with the apostles, so they naturally have no mood to explore the ocean. They know that a new trench has been formed here because they observed it when reconstructing the ocean routes.

The commander didn't respond for a moment.

"Did Seele set a trap in that sea area?"

Misato Katsuragi has a different idea.

"They probably want to gather more forces, or use the terrain here to prevent us from recovering the Longinus metal from the defeated fish-shaped EVA."

The commander accepted Misato Katsuragi's point of view.

"Any reaction on the radar?"

"No enemy reinforcements detected."

Just as the commander and Misato Katsuragi were both frowning in thought, Fumihiko Ikari spoke.

"If they don't dare to come over, then ignore them. Let the fish-shaped body go over to collect data from both sides and prepare for the strategy later."

The commander responded immediately.

"Yes."

Misato Katsuragi didn't say anything because she knew it very well.

Fumihiko Ikari has the final say here.

And Fumihiko Ikari's subsequent plans.

Fumihiko Ikari is preparing to solve the problem by increasing the number of troops.

With Fumihiko Ikari's ability, she can definitely turn this new type of fish-shaped EVA into an assembly line product. The longer the enemy delays, the more advantageous it will be for them.

As for the underwater equipment of the behemoth?

The initial version has been developed, but its performance is hard to describe, so it was excluded from consideration for this operation.

And just then...

"An unknown signal was detected trying to access the fish-shaped body. Firewall activated. Successfully connected to the intrusion."

Others may not know what this means, but Fumihiko Ikari knows.

This is the end of Kaworu Nagisa.

He was trying to seize control of the fish-shaped body, but was blocked by the Three Sages System.

To be honest, he was a little surprised that the firewall of the Three Sages System could actually prevent Kaworu Nagisa, the clone of the First Apostle, from seizing control of the fish-shaped body.

Although he didn't understand the principle, he felt that it should be related to the dream process.

Although the fish-shaped body is not directly connected to the dream program, the Three Sages System is connected to each other at the lepton level.

Apart from this aspect, he really couldn't think of anything else that could allow some electronic components to resist Kaworu Nagisa's control over the First Angel's cells.

After failing to seize control, the scene was quiet for a moment before an energy beam shot out from a distance.

Although the fish-shaped body could not deploy the AT force field like the giant beast, its reaction was not slow. It immediately dived deeper and treated the ocean as its own AT force field. With the buffering of the sea water, the energy beam did not cause any substantial damage to the fish-shaped body. This was because the fish-shaped body was in a semi-submerged state at the beginning.

There was nothing the fish-shaped body could do, so Kaworu Nagisa vented his anger on the thirty giant beasts.

Although the behemoths on the ground had no ocean as a barrier, nor an AT force field, the distance between the two sides was too far, and the atmosphere as a barrier also gave the behemoths enough time to react. In fact, even if they did not dodge, it would not have much impact, because as long as the behemoth's brain was not damaged, it could quickly recover from the damage with the help of the dream program.

"The distance is too far, Unit-00 cannot launch a counterattack."

In this situation, it seems that they can only passively take the beating, but in fact...

nerv is a global organization.

Fumihiko Ikari is the current Speaker of the Nerv Council.

Therefore, this battle is not about Fumihiko Ikari and Seele, but about global nerv.

The missiles are already carrying various special warheads and are ready for counterattack.

When the satellite also searched for the artificial apostles, the missiles were launched at the same time.

With the lesson learned from the last time, the artificial apostle's processor missile was more cautious this time, and more skilled than before, leaving no loopholes for the Three Sages system to exploit. However... the price of doing so was increased consumption, and after two rounds of missile attacks, the artificial apostle's movements became sluggish.

After destroying another wave of missiles, the artificial apostle dived back into the water.

This battle is still a victory of technology.