I participated in the development of EVA

However, in order to conceal her identity, she still gave a bad explanation.

"I thought about it and felt that you were right..."

This explains the change in his attitude, not because the three-bolt system could not be applied to the Type 02 prototype.

Ikari Fumihiko was a little amused.

It’s come to this... and you still think of maintaining your vest? I really put it in a difficult position for you!

"It's really difficult for you."

Oops……

I accidentally said what was in my heart.

Ritsuko Akagi just turned her head away and replied pretending to be stupid.

"What do you mean?"

"nothing."

Ikari Fumihiko didn't say anything else.

The two of them refocused their attention on the assimilating body that was integrating with the fourth apostle. The time consumed for this transformation was basically the same as that of the assimilation of the third apostle.

"The time is basically the same. It seems that... it is exactly as the Soul Material Research Project Team said. The Second Apostle is an incomplete individual."

There is nothing wrong with what Ritsuko Akagi said. Since the time taken for the third and fourth angels to assimilate is the same, the second angel, which took less time, seems to have problems. Of course, this can also be explained by the reason of convergent evolution. However, compared with the situation caused by convergent evolution, Ritsuko Akagi thinks it is more scientific to think that the second angel did not develop fully because of the seal.

Fumihiko Ikari had no reason to defend Lilith, and he couldn't defend her.

It was a fact that Lilith was weak, and the more humans studied the apostles, the more they would realize this. In other words, if he made too many excuses now, it would seem unprofessional.

"It is possible."

After saying this, he turned his attention to the assimilated body.

“…Nothing has changed?”

"There is indeed no change, even in the internal organs."

At this moment, the appearance of the assimilated body has not changed much, and there are no additional features representing the fish angel, but the performance of the body has been improved again.

Ikari Fumihiko was a little surprised by this, but he soon realized what was happening after thinking about it.

The ability of the fish angel is the ability to survive and move underwater. These abilities are dispensable for the apostles who can survive in outer space. If they want to accept the evolutionary advantages of the fish angel, they must completely change their form, thus losing the ability to move on land. This is why they were not accepted.

As for deep sea water pressure?

Fish angels do not have the ability to survive in the deep sea.

If he watched the anime through the screen, he would think that the production team designed the fish angel like this in order to enrich the diversity of the apostles, that is, to make up the number.

But in reality, he regarded this as a kind of "false evolution".

And it is an inevitable mistake, because most of the earth's surface is ocean.

After a moment's silence, Ritsuko Akagi interrupted Fumihiko Ikari's wandering thoughts with a word.

"Is it possible that He has hidden the fourth angel's gene? That is, a recessive gene."

"You mean, He will now change His form according to the environment?"

"Well, He spends most of His time on land, so He hid the Fourth Apostle's genes after assimilation. These hidden genes will only be activated when He needs to move underwater."

Ikari Fumihiko lowered his head and thought, it was hard to say what would happen to mysterious creatures like the apostles.

“You can test it.”

This test was not complicated. The assimilated body that had been transformed by the three sages came to the beach and jumped directly.

After being swallowed by the ocean, changes began to appear on the assimilated body, and the speed of this change was astonishingly fast. It only took a few minutes to complete the transformation. It did not directly turn into a fish angel, but its body lines became more suitable for underwater activities, and its legs were glued together, and its feet became wider, looking somewhat similar to the legendary mermaid.

In this form, although the assimilated body has performance that surpasses that of the Fish Angel's body, it is slightly inferior in terms of underwater mobility.

A lot of energy will be consumed when they change simultaneously.

However, the disadvantages are obvious, and the advantages are equally obvious.

That is, it can be amphibious.

Just when he thought that was it, he discovered from the background data that the changes in the assimilated body had not completely stopped, but the subsequent changes were not as strong as before.

"Contact the combat command and deploy the second-generation fish-shaped EVA Zero to conduct a pressure test."

Akagi Ritsuko responded and asked back.

"Do you think that the assimilated body will accelerate its transformation after sensing danger?"

"Ah."

20:45:01

737. Space elevator?

"Attack him, be careful with your strength."

The British girl was a beat slow to react when she heard Fumihiko Ikari's order.

"Yes."

The second-generation fish-shaped EVA does not have many means of attack, or even very few, there are only two types: collision and bite. The current situation is naturally not suitable for bite, so the British girl chose collision.

With each collision, the assimilating cells became more and more active.

At the same time, energy loss also increases rapidly.

Before the energy in the body was completely depleted, the assimilated body had completely lost its human form and became somewhat similar to a fish angel.

"Okay."

Hearing this, the British girl paused and then sighed.

"Is this the new generation of EVA? This generation can actually transform... so cool!"

Different from her pure surprise, the people on the other logistics submarines following the second-generation fish-shaped EVA all widened their eyes and looked incredulous when they saw this scene.

"Minister Ikari has mastered the Apostle gene editing technology?"

Although the logistics staff are responsible for logistics, each of them is a scholar.

Therefore, the first reaction when seeing this situation was that Fumihiko Ikari had mastered the Apostle gene editing technology.

The situation on the scene was also fed back to the NERV Parliament. Seeing this scene, all the parliamentary countries were also shocked. Except for France, which had completely given up and only wanted to escape from the earth, and Britain, which was almost ready, the other four countries all had solemn expressions. They had never given up on catching up in the field of EVA, but now they had not even thoroughly studied the first generation of EVA, and now there was a suspected third generation of EVA.

Although the assimilated body in the video has been beaten without fighting back, and its specific strength cannot be seen, just from the fact that the assimilated body accepted the continuous attacks of the second-generation fish-shaped EVA without being injured, it can be roughly inferred that the strength of its body is far beyond the first and second generation EVA.

Not to mention that this new machine also has the ability to transform.

This transformation ability seems to be very useless and it takes a long time to complete the transformation, but what it represents is something they dare not underestimate.

Of course, what it represents is not amphibious.

Because the scholars behind them speculate that the transformation ability displayed by the assimilated bodies is actually the ability to quickly adapt to the environment, which means that the third generation of EVA can change its own genes according to the living space.

Changing one's own genes to adapt to the environment sounds complicated, but it can actually be summarized in two words.

That is……

evolution!

……

When the outside world regarded the assimilated body as the third-generation EVA, Fumihiko Ikari had already begun preparing for the formal experiment, which was to use Lilith's gene sample to assimilate the genes of other apostles.

Compared to the biological sample of the first apostle Adam, he trusted Lilith more.

There was no accident in the assimilation experiment of the second apostle Lilith, except that it took Lilith a little longer than expected to devour Adam's cells at the beginning.

Ok……

It was expected to take one month, but it actually took closer to three months.

If there were not some changes in the experiment every day, Fumihiko Ikari would even suspect that the experiment had failed.

Of course, during these three months he was not just waiting for the results of the experiment. He and Ritsuko Akagi also assimilated Adam's body into the second generation EVA.

During the transformation process, it was noticed that the assimilated EVA was much larger than the normal EVA.

Conventional EVAs are two heads shorter than it.

If he had not replenished a batch of Longinus Metal by hunting fish-shaped EVA, he would have given up on this assimilated body halfway through the transformation.

After completing the construction of the first assimilation body EVA, Ritsuko Akagi asked subconsciously.

"Are we still looking for a pilot from Nerv?"

"No, this EVA is the second backup machine of the Artificial God Project."

"Number two?"

Ritsuko Akagi asked back in surprise.

"No wonder you want to add a solar system to it. No... How are you going to get such a big thing into outer space?!"

"Space Elevator."

"I remember the elevator isn't built yet!?"

Although a long time has passed since the space elevator was restarted, the construction of the space elevator's foundation and outer space platform are not small projects that can be completed in a short period of time.

"Who says that a space elevator can't be used if it's not built?"

"..."

Unable to follow Ikari Fumihiko's train of thought, Akagi Ritsuko decisively held her forehead and gave up thinking.

A week later.

When she saw the plan given by Fumihiko Ikari, she was a little confused.

"This is your space elevator?!"

"correct."

Fumihiko Ikari's plan can be described as simple and crude.

That is to use a backup machine in outer space, pull the cable made of anchor-type nanostructures to pull the assimilated body into outer space.

"Will this really not pull the backup plane down from outer space?"

"will not."

"Is it really okay?"

"No, just let go and at most sweep away some external control garbage."

"That's fine."

With a nervous mood, Ritsuko Akagi boarded the Type 02 prototype and established a connection with the backup machine in outer space.

After establishing a connection with the backup machine, it was discovered that the backup machine had arrived near the earth.

He first tried Ikari Fumihiko's idea and unfolded the AT force field in reverse. He stepped on it and was surprised to find that it could really serve as a fulcrum in the void. He breathed a sigh of relief and then quickly approached the earth. When he arrived at the expected trajectory, he waited for the launch rocket to arrive with the cable. It took about an hour and a half to complete the handover.

Although they were mentally prepared in advance, the unexpected pulling force after taking over the cable almost caused the backup aircraft to fall over.

If this really falls...

The backup aircraft will inevitably be dragged toward the earth because of the cable in its hand and thus captured by gravity.

"Sure enough... this plan is just nonsense!!"

Although she said this, she strengthened the AT force field that was deployed in reverse under her feet and activated the dream program.

As a large amount of mental power poured into the backup machine, the force of gravity suddenly became insignificant in its senses, and it didn't even have to exert any effort to drag the huge assimilated body EVA into outer space. Of course, some satellites were inevitably swept down during this period, but these satellites were all defunct satellites.

Although this operation may seem rough, it has actually been carefully calculated. Even if it fails, the worst that can happen is that the spare plane will fall into the earth, and other than that it will not cause too much loss.

Looking at the huge body of the assimilated EVA beside her, Ritsuko Akagi still found it a little hard to imagine.

"Is this...successful?"

"Well, it worked. Let's put the spare armor on the spare machine."

"Spare armor?"