I participated in the development of EVA

However, the current apostles are not real apostles. After possessing the complete S2 mechanism, except for some weak apostles, most of the apostles can ignore this missile war of attrition.

Of course, human technology will not stop here.

Not to mention seven years later, even at this stage the missiles are already in the process of being eliminated.

Seeing the fish-shaped EVAs still lurking in the ocean, Fumihiko Ikari thought to himself that it was a pity for his whole life.

It would be nice if space-based weapons were really like what is shown in the movies. They would come in handy in this situation...

For him, it is not difficult to realize that kind of kinetic space-based weapon. He just needs to let Unit 0 throw more tungsten rods into space.

however……

This type of kinetic space-based weapon is affected by the atmosphere and its actual power is not as strong as that of a missile.

703. I fell asleep in the middle of writing yesterday...

"Target disappears."

At this moment, the fish-shaped EVA and the artificial apostle disappeared from the radar like ghosts.

The commander made the first judgment.

"Start radar self-test to confirm that the equipment is intact."

"Self-test completed, the equipment is operating normally."

Misato Katsuragi expressed her opinion.

"AT force field?"

The commander shook his head.

"It's not possible to speculate based on common sense. It's possible that this creature has the ability to absorb radar pulses, but it just didn't use this ability before."

Misato Katsuragi expressed her opinion.

"You avoided the radar before, hoping to use it to observe the strength of the research institute?"

The commander shook his head.

"not that simple."

After a pause, he spoke to the operator below.

"Apply for Skynet permission to monitor the nation's waters."

"Permission obtained."

Misato Katsuragi was the first to react when she heard this.

"You suspect that the enemy is trying to divert our attention to one side and then land in other areas? But what good will this do them?"

"According to intelligence, the Seele organization blocked the route because they don't want the space elevator to be built. Their action this time is most likely aimed at the space elevator. Of course, we do not rule out the possibility that they want to create panic, reduce the population of virtual game players, and shake the foundation of artificial gods."

"They should be heading for the space elevator. Now the global network is under the surveillance of the Three Sages System. Unfavorable information cannot be spread on the network and cause global panic."

Misato Katsuragi’s point is simple.

With the Internet restricted, Seele's attack on Japan will cause panic, which will at most weaken the power of the artificial god.

The commander shook his head.

“The Internet is indeed the fastest way to spread information, but it is not the only way to spread information.”

"Flyers?"

“And virtual games.”

"Virtual game?"

"The Three Sages System can limit the spread of information on the Internet, but it cannot spread information that people spread by word of mouth in virtual games."

"Where they attack, can't we just shut down the corresponding regional servers?"

"This can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Offline dissemination will also cause the news to spread online."

Misato Katsuragi frowned.

Seele, a strange organization, jumped out to stop the construction of the sky elevator. She could understand that Seele was worried that Nerv's will to fight against the apostles would be shaken, and the top leaders would use their privileges to abandon most people and use the space elevator to build a small spaceship to escape the earth.

The reason she had this idea was, of course, because France was doing this.

Although France is conducting aviation-related scientific research under the slogan of exploring the universe, for those who know the inside story, it is easy to see France's true intention of fully developing aviation technology.

The French top leaders want to escape from the earth through the Spark Project.

That is why, when Seele tried to stop the construction of the space elevator, most people who knew the inside story actually stood on Seele's side.

Because from the perspective of all mankind, the construction of a space elevator will shake humanity's determination to fight against the apostles.

Simply put, without the existence of a space elevator, all of humanity will have only one choice: confrontation. But once a space elevator is built, it will be like installing a pressure relief valve, giving humanity's determination to confront the apostles an outlet. At first, it may not be a big deal, but the longer the space elevator exists, the less courage people will have to fight to the bitter end, and they will only think about how to escape from the earth.

Uh……

Ok.

They sided with Seele on the space elevator incident because of a sense of justice and because they were also among the abandoned.

But now the point of view put forward by the commander was a little difficult for her to understand.

"Spreading information about the apostles to cause panic among all of humanity, other than weakening humanity's ability to prevent the Third Impact, what benefit will this bring to that Seele organization? Aren't they worried that humanity will be defeated by the apostles and disappear from this world?"

"The fact that they are still engaging in such internal friction during this period is enough to show that they are a group of unreasonable lunatics."

Misato Katsuragi didn't say anything else, but lowered her head to think about Seele's intention in doing this.

The commander shook his head.

"Don't try to understand the thoughts of a bunch of crazy people."

There were some things he couldn't say, so he could only remind Misato Katsuragi in a tactful way.

"They destroyed the space elevator project. This action may seem just, but it doesn't mean that their starting point is just like that."

Although Misato Katsuragi still hadn't figured it out, she was no longer confused and knew what she should do.

The boss would say this, obviously knowing something that I don't know.

It can also be said that she chose to believe in NERV between SEELE, a mysterious organization that suddenly emerged, and NERV.

"I see."

The commander nodded.

The reason why he took such good care of Misato Katsuragi was naturally because he saw Misato Katsuragi's talent and wanted to train her to be his successor.

The Global Operations Command also focused its attention on artificial gods and space elevators.

If Seele showed up this time, if it was still targeting the space elevator, it would be a Japanese incident. If it was targeting the artificial god, it would be a global incident. It was not that the artificial god was related to the fate of all mankind, but that Seele wanted to shake the artificial god plan, so it must expand the incident to a global level, otherwise...

Simply confining the incident to Japan would have little impact on the global artificial god project.

……

Fumihiko Ikari was paying attention to all this and realized that the reason for Seele's action this time was not because he developed the fish-shaped body that made Seele feel threatened, but because it was Ritsuko Akagi who triggered this incident.

To be more precise, it was Ritsuko Akagi who revealed the news that he was going to shut down the virtual game.

This made Seele realize that the virtual game might have gotten out of his control, but Seele couldn't be sure whether this was a trap, so he took action by the appearance of the fish-shaped body to conceal his true intentions. In short, Seele's real intention of showing up this time was to confirm whether the virtual game was really out of his control.

The reason he was able to think of these things was because he was reminded by Misato Katsuragi's conversation with the commander.

He had not originally thought of this relationship.

I just thought that Seele showed up this time because he sensed the threat posed by the fish-shaped body. After hearing the conversation between Misato Katsuragi and the commander, I realized that Seele might be coming for the artificial god this time.

After realizing this, he still couldn't understand what Seele wanted to do.

But there was one thing he was sure of, Seele must have discovered something and thought it was an opportunity so he took action.

After thinking about it, among all the recent events related to artificial gods, only his desire to shut down the virtual game was related to it, and this news was only known to him and Ritsuko Akagi, and he did not disclose it to the outside world. So only Ritsuko Akagi revealed this information.

He was just suspicious at first, but after seeing the emails between Ritsuko Akagi and the NERV Parliament, he realized this logic.

704. Go with the flow

“What should we do to cause the greatest panic among people?”

The first thought that flashed through Fumihiko Ikari's mind was not the traditional methods of analyzing leaflets by the combat command, but...

live streaming!

Whether it's leaflets or spreading rumors.

These can arouse certain public opinion, but they can only arouse certain public opinion and cannot achieve any substantial results. Because NERV has an official status, it can completely explain the lies and flyers as a hype, and then make a movie based on the relevant rumors and flyers to defuse this wave of public opinion offensive.

"Seele wants to transmit the artificial god image into the virtual game through live broadcast!"

In this situation, only live broadcast can trigger public opinion.

And this live broadcast must have enough attention, only in this way can we exploit the loophole and catch nerv off guard.

"List the biggest live streaming channels near the coast right now."

【Only one is the largest gaming guild offline camping on the Japanese server. 】

"Find a reason to close their live broadcast room, forget it...just use the network fluctuation as an excuse to temporarily shut down the live broadcast module."

【Yes. 】

The three wise men paused for a moment and then put forward their suggestions.

[Do you want to investigate the members of this game guild? ]

"No need. Seele doesn't do things too deliberately. He just follows the flow. He must have made this plan after knowing that the guild was going to hold an offline gathering."

After a pause, Ikari Fumihiko added another sentence.

"Can the fish-shaped body sense the enemy's position?"

【no. 】

Although Fumihiko Ikari felt that if he shut down the live broadcast module, Seele might not act according to the original plan, he still gave an order to the three sages' brains for safety reasons.

"Issue a typhoon warning and drive these people back to the city."

【Yes. 】

After receiving the typhoon warning, everyone in the gaming guild immediately rushed back to the city in a panic.

Ikari Fumihiko didn't pay much attention to these people, but was staring at the sea not far away through the Skynet system.

Just as expected, the huge figure of the artificial apostle walked out of the ocean with heavy steps, like a giant awakened from ancient times. Although the location of the offline dinner of the game guild just now was far away from the location where the artificial apostle logged in, such a big movement would definitely attract the attention of these players, and thus spread the figure of the artificial apostle into the virtual game through the camera equipment.

In addition, once the war breaks out, public opinion will likely get out of control without even Seele's incitement.

Although public opinion can be suppressed through post-event remediation, this will still sow the seeds of suspicion in people's minds. As long as Seele creates the same incident again, public opinion will be completely out of control.

When the artificial apostle was discovered by the Skynet system, the combat command center also received the news.

Five super-large transport planes took off from a nearby military base.

The transport plane did not carry any weapons, but was a special transport tool for EVA that had appeared in the original work. However, it was not the traditional EVA that was mounted here, but five giant beasts. At the same time, the Institute Unit 0 also took this special transport plane to fly to the location where the artificial apostle appeared.

The behemoth model EVA does not have an AT force field, so even in a five-to-one situation, its chances of winning against the artificial apostle who has energy provided by Kaworu Nagisa are still slim.

Only the Unit 00 piloted by Rei Ayanami has enough power to suppress the artificial apostles.

In other words, the five behemoth-shaped EVAs were just cannon fodder to delay the artificial apostles from approaching the city.

The five transport planes were discovered when they were still a long distance away from the artificial apostles. Red light flashed in their eyes, and the five giant beasts were cut in half along with the transport planes before they got close. However, after being cut in half, the upper and lower bodies had not yet been separated, and were forcibly glued together due to the injection of huge heart power.

It seemed that the artificial god knew that such an attack was not enough to destroy the giant beast Eva, so he took advantage of the giant beast Eva's mid-air to make a finishing blow, and this time the attack was all aimed at the giant beast Eva's only weak point, the head.

However, this time the finishing blow did not achieve the expected effect. Due to the distance, the power was weakened and was blocked by the giant beast-shaped EVA using a flat axe.

Although the attack was blocked, the five giant beast-shaped EVAs were also knocked away and were unable to land for a while.

The artificial apostles had to continue their attacks, but NERV's main missile attack had already arrived, giving the five giant beast-shaped EVAs a chance to catch their breath.

……

Although the battle was very loud, the players had already got on the highway back to the city. Due to the increasing distance, the evacuating group of players did not notice anything unusual.