I participated in the development of EVA

“This technology is incredible.”

With something on his mind, Fumihiko Ikari responded perfunctorily.

"It's incredible."

20:40:23

722. Still failed to win, just lying down.

It is not a good thing for technology to evolve too fast.

Looking at the half-mechanical cyborg that looked no different from a real person, Fumihiko Ikari felt mixed emotions.

Of course, from another perspective, this technology is definitely good news for the majority of men because it is realistic enough.

Except for the inability to ovulate, everything else is the same as a real person.

Of course, he learned these data from the database and had not verified them personally.

Hearing the perfunctory tone in Ikari Fumihiko's words, Akagi Naoko asked.

"Why are you worried?"

Ikari Fumihiko hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"I doubt you're you."

The reason he said this was because he knew that Naoko Akagi would not care about such suspicion.

"If I'm not myself, who else could I be?"

"do not know."

Ikari Fumihiko paused for a moment, then added another sentence.

"There was no fluctuation in the core when you appeared."

Ritsuko Akagi had thought about this a long time ago, so she pretended to think about it for a while before speaking.

"Could it be that my thoughts were just projected into the dream program? My soul is still in the core and hasn't come out, so it didn't cause any fluctuations."

"It's possible, but I prefer it to be you."

"If I'm not myself, who else could I be?"

"Ritsuko."

Ritsuko Akagi tried her best to remain calm and answered with a mother's mindset.

"Why do you doubt her?"

"In this situation, the only person who has the reason and conditions to do this is Ritsuko."

"What reason?"

"She wants to disrupt the relationship between you, me and her, so as to give you enough stimulation."

"If something like that really happened, I would most likely choose not to wake up."

Hearing this, Ikari Fumihiko was stunned for a moment before he reacted.

After that happened, Naoko Akagi really couldn't accept this reality and refused to return.

He had never thought of this possibility before.

Being able to say such words...

Am I wrong? The person in front of me is really Akagi Naoko! ? ?

"Are you really Naoko?"

He was shaken.

If Ritsuko Akagi could realize this, she would definitely not take the risk.

however……

Since Ritsuko Akagi could say such words, she must have realized this, but she still chose to do it.

Because other than this, she really didn't know what to do.

Naoko Akagi did not give a direct answer.

“I feel like I am who I am.”

Fumihiko Ikari looked at Naoko Akagi in confusion, who was wearing the body of a strange elf woman in front of him.

It was a long time before he spoke.

"Are you really Naoko?"

"I think... I am."

Naoko Akagi paused and asked back.

"You don't need to worry about this. Just treat me as a new colleague."

Yes--

As long as I don't cross that step, what difference does it make whether the person in front of me is Akagi Naoko! ?

Just treat them as colleagues.

Thinking of this, although he was still a little concerned, Fumihiko Ikari turned his attention back to his research.

It took some time to design the drawings of the AT reactor and AT power unit.

However, fearing that the third apostle might seize control, he did not abandon the EVA reactor.

While he was working on these designs, Naoko Akagi was also busy looking through materials.

The two of them worked peacefully until dark. When Fumihiko Ikari lay down on the bed with mixed feelings and prepared to rest, Naoko Akagi changed into pajamas and lay beside him.

The thin pajamas do not provide any covering effect at all, but instead add some interest.

It made him feel distracted.

"Didn't you agree that I should treat you as a new colleague?"

Naoko Akagi tilted her head and replied.

"I want to be with you."

"..."

Fumihiko Ikari had no choice but to return to reality to rest. However, just as he was about to take action, he remembered that Naoko Akagi also had a body in reality.

If the other person wants to sleep next to you, you can't avoid it even if you hide in the plug.

That would be even more dangerous.

There was no other way, he could only take medicine to make himself fall asleep.

In order to prevent accidents during sleep, he even made up his mind to set the gender of his virtual character to genderless.

That is to say, the three thousand roots of afflictions are removed.

Anyway, this is just a dream world and will not have any impact on reality.

He was forcibly awakened when he was in a dormant sleep.

It wasn't that Naoko Akagi, who was sleeping next to him, made some ridiculous moves, but that Nerv discovered an underwater base of Seele.

Naoko Akagi was still sleeping soundly and was not awakened.

Fumihiko Ikari stood up and walked to the computer.

Just after taking a quick look at the intelligence, he received the latest news.

【Searching for lost signal from the ship.】

He didn't react to this. The ships responsible for the search were all relatively cheap unmanned equipment.

It stands to reason that the ocean is so vast that trying to find a Seele base in it is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack. The reason why they can find a base so quickly is not simply because of good luck, but because Seele has not yet completely deviated from human society and still needs to obtain daily necessities from human society.

Based on this speculation, the NERV Investigation Department used the Skynet system to find clues and searched one by one to find this underwater base.

As the search ship lost its signal, the second-generation fish-shaped EVA also rushed to the nearby waters.

The three Seele fish-shaped EVAs did not take the opportunity to escape, not because they did not want to, but because they wanted to buy time for the people inside the base to evacuate.

Three to one, it seemed that Seele had the upper hand, but...

In the battle, the second-generation fish-shaped EVA relied on its performance advantage to destroy the umbilical cord power supply lines of the three fish-shaped EVAs at first sight, causing the opponents to lose their endurance. The three fish-shaped EVAs wanted to do the same, but the AT force field deployed by the second-generation fish-shaped EVA blocked all attacks of the three fish-shaped EVAs.

The British girl has a high talent for driving, but her combat awareness is relatively poor.

Clearly having a performance advantage and a huge advantage at the start, the battle should have ended quickly, but instead the three fish-shaped EVAs were given the opportunity to take turns replacing the umbilical power supply lines to restore endurance.

Although the three fish-shaped EVAs managed to pull back a game, NERV's encirclement had already been set up. Without the help of the fish-shaped EVA, the SEELE members would have no way of breaking out. However, if a fish-shaped EVA left the battle to help the members break out, they would be defeated one by one by the British girl driving the second-generation fish-shaped EVA.

This means that the SEELE members at this base have lost their chance to escape.

wrong!

To be precise, from the moment they were discovered, the personnel of this base had no chance to escape. Because in addition to the fleet that was forming an encirclement, there were five fish-shaped bodies lurking on the seabed, and the second-generation fish-shaped EVAY1 that Fumihiko Ikari helped to modify, which was the second second-generation fish-shaped EVA that Nerv independently developed but failed.

The reason why they didn't rush in all at once was because they wanted to take the opportunity to hone the British girls' combat awareness.

It is also an opportunity to provide support to Seele.

But it was obvious that this base was abandoned, and these people did not receive any support until the moment when the three fish-shaped EVAs were beaten to death by the British girl.

20:40:39

723. Manual driver training program

Not everyone in the Seele organization is a die-hard fan, but all the important figures in the captured submarine died.

Some people commit suicide, while others are forced to commit suicide.

Although only some middle and lower-level personnel were captured, this harvest was already good, because no one survived in the previous captures. Of course, in addition to personnel, the biggest harvest of this operation was the Longinus metal used to transform the fish-shaped EVA and repair the underwater base, as well as two new models and one old model fish-shaped EVA.

Of the three fish-shaped EVAs that had previously fought with the British girl, two had already completed iterative upgrades.

Just as Fumihiko Ikari predicted, Seele secretly learned from him how to use Adam's Brain to cut off the connection between the body and the fish angel. The reason why the two new fish-shaped EVAs did not use the AT force field in the battle was simply because they lacked talent. The pilots' synchronization rates were only 46% and 51%.

Different from nerv, which brings together most of the world's elite groups.

Seele is an unofficial organization. In order to conceal themselves, they can only select from a limited number of internal members. In addition, they need to increase the number to fight against NERV alone, which leads to the generally low talent of the pilots.

"The results of the interrogation are out."

The Japanese combat command received the notification and received the shared intelligence at the first opportunity.

Misato Katsuragi waited until the commander put down the documents before asking.

"Chief, are there any results?"

“The situation is somewhat unsatisfactory.”

The commander pushed the information in front of Misato Katsuragi.

Misato Katsuragi quickly glanced at the content and her brows immediately frowned.

Most of these captured low- and middle-level SEELE members were coerced by the higher-ups and only knew what they were supposed to do. They stayed at their posts like assembly line workers and knew very limited things. However, some of them secretly came into contact with some valuable intelligence.

It was these slightly valuable pieces of information that made her frown.

Seele secretly won over some NERV member countries, and in the past he had always obtained various resources through these countries avoiding the Skynet system.

Of course, this is not the point, the point is Seele's internal and external propaganda. Based on Nerv's concealment of the Apostle information, they "suspected" that the Second Impact was a catastrophe caused by Nerv's secret research on the Apostle, thereby attracting new blood to join and strengthen themselves, and also used this to establish cooperation with those uninformed countries.

Misato Katsuragi thinks that only individuals believe this, and those countries that cooperate with Seele probably just want to obtain EVA through cooperation.

"The Seele organization is too dangerous. No wonder the director has always wanted to eliminate this guy."

Hearing Misato Katsuragi's sigh, the commander nodded.

“It is indeed dangerous.”

After agreeing, he sighed again.

"I hope this internal fight...can be ended before the apostles actually appear."