I participated in the development of EVA

Ritsuko Akagi wanted to protect Naoko Akagi, but she didn't dare to, for fear that showing her weak side would displease her mother.

Naoko Akagi lowered her head and thought for a moment before she reacted.

It was not that she read Ritsuko Akagi's thoughts, but that she opened her heart to her.

wrong!

It is Ritsuko's soul that is begging... This is the truth of everything.

She hesitated for a moment, then made a decision.

He had to bear the consequences of his own mistakes and let Ritsuko get rid of them.

So she spoke according to what Ritsuko Akagi was thinking.

"It seems that the plan went wrong, otherwise... you wouldn't be here."

"Plan? Is this the driver training plan you and Wen Yan are planning for me?"

"You really did realize it."

"..."

Ritsuko Akagi fell silent. After getting a positive answer, she felt relieved but also very uncomfortable. However, compared to before, this truth made her feel much more relaxed.

Feeling her inner reaction, Akagi Naoko sighed in her heart and felt even more guilty.

"Don't blame him, I made this plan."

Ritsuko Akagi seemed to be hesitant to speak, as she really didn't know what to say.

"..."

Naoko Akagi didn't know what to say to make Ritsuko Akagi truly relieved, so she continued to speak according to Ritsuko's thoughts, "Originally he didn't agree, and I was also hesitant, but that kind of thing happened suddenly at that time, so I took the initiative to implement this plan. Ritsuko... This matter is of great importance. Apart from you and him, I don't feel at ease to entrust the power of the artificial god to anyone else.

If you want to save the world, you have to put the responsibility on yourself.

I am not telling you this now because I want you to understand me, but I just hope you can understand and take on this responsibility. "

Ritsuko Akagi opened her mouth to say something, but was interrupted by Naoko Akagi's subsequent words.

"Ritsuko, I am not a qualified mother, and I cannot be a qualified mother. As my daughter, you have to bear all this.

Feel sorry……

If there is a next life, you'd better not be my daughter anymore.

Then you will be able to live happily and won’t be so miserable anymore.”

These confusing words were not spoken by Naoko Akagi based on what she had read into Ritsuko Akagi's heart, but rather she wanted to express her guilt but was unable to do so clearly.

Ritsuko Akagi could no longer control her emotions and wanted to hug Naoko Akagi, but was blocked by the other party's AT force field.

"Mother, I..."

She wanted to say: I never felt it was a misfortune to be your daughter.

Just as he was about to say something, he was interrupted by Akagi Naoko.

"Go back! It is your mission to become a pilot and eliminate the apostles. It is also my responsibility to complete the artificial god. It is far greater than my responsibility as your mother..." Looking at the tears on Ritsuko Akagi's face, Naoko Akagi's hardened heart softened at this moment, and her words were no longer so tough.

"Don't come here again. I will not leave here and return to reality until the apostles are completely eliminated."

Hearing this, Ritsuko Akagi's eyes lit up and her gaze suddenly became determined.

"Mother, I will never let you down...Humanity will destroy the apostles and continue to exist forever!"

20:49:51

759. Optimism

[Consciousness signal detected... Connection failed! Are you reconnecting?——]

Fumihiko Ikari frowned and gave up the operation.

After Naoko Akagi's consciousness signal was captured by the mental connection device, he tried hundreds of times, but... every connection ended in failure.

Clearly, he miscalculated.

This method cannot force salvage.

In addition, he also noticed another thing, that the brain consciousness of the three sages disappeared.

wrong!

To be precise, it didn't disappear.

The relevant intelligent program is still in the database, but it has lost its response.

From the fact that the three sages' brain consciousness programs lost response when Naoko Akagi's consciousness revived, it can be determined that this consciousness is a by-product of Naoko Akagi's soul. However, if the variable of Lilith is taken into consideration, there is another possibility that Lilith is using this to conceal her existence.

He just paid some attention to it and then stopped thinking about it.

no way……

The variable of Lilith is too huge, and it is impossible to get a clear answer if we just think rationally.

Instead of playing guessing games with Lilith, it would be better to focus more on how to rescue Naoko Akagi.

While he was thinking...

The screen twisted, and a line of text popped out.

[Ritsuko, I think that what happened between you and me, and my disappearance, are all part of the driver training plan you and I made for her in order to liberate the power of the artificial god.]

"Are you Naoko?"

【Um. 】

Ikari Fumihiko was a little surprised, but then he was relieved.

From a certain perspective, the Three Sages System is the conscious clone of Naoko Akagi, but Naoko Akagi is an ordinary person and cannot control these clones. Now she survives in the form of soul in the core of the Type 02 prototype, which allows her to break the boundaries of human beings and possess the ability to use consciousness to control the Three Sages System.

Before he could speak, Naoko Akagi started writing again.

[I have cooperated and defined things like this... You should also cooperate. Only by doing this can she be freed from the previous pain.]

Fumihiko Ikari hadn't paid any attention to what Naoko Akagi was saying before, but now he came to his senses and took a closer look.

After figuring this out, he finally understood.

During the meal, I was wondering why the attitudes of Ritsuko Akagi and Misato Katsuragi became so strange.

He hesitated.

If he agreed to this, it would mean directly denying what had happened between him and Akagi Naoko before.

[That was just a mistake... Let's just pretend that nothing happened. ]

"What if I don't agree!?"

[Then I will completely merge with the Type 02 prototype. ]

"Complete integration?"

[The soul of the Type 02 prototype will devour me completely.]

"..."

At this time, Fumihiko Ikari really didn't know what to say.

[Ritsuko, wake up soon, and I will continue to sleep... Don't let me hate you. ]

"..."

Just like the last time they parted, Naoko Akagi asked Fumihiko Ikari whether he loved her, this time Fumihiko Ikari remained silent.

When Fumihiko Ikari was distracted, Ritsuko Akagi woke up.

"Wen Yan, I saw my mother this time..."

Fumihiko Ikari keenly noticed that Akagi Ritsuko had changed the way he addressed him, so he restored his original name.

There is something in my heart, hesitation, confusion...

But he still responded calmly.

"I've discovered that the rescue plan has failed. She disagrees... so the mental connection device cannot forcibly salvage the body."

Ritsuko Akagi was silent for a moment and then said something with a double meaning.

"I already know……"

There was a hint of relief in his tone.

Although she shouldered the heavy responsibility of saving human civilization, she was freed from the torment of ethics, morality, love, and family affection.

Ikari Fumihiko understood, but also didn’t understand.

The main reason was that the development of the matter was unexpected, which made him dazed and he didn't know how to face Ritsuko Akagi at this moment.

So I responded.

"Oh."

I then organized the experimental data and prepared to write it into a paper and publish it to prevent other teams conducting related research projects from repeating the same mistakes.

Uh……

Well, the main purpose is to find something to do to divert my attention, and at the same time reduce my contact with Ritsuko Akagi.

The only ones that can use this plan are conventional EVAs, namely Unit-01 and Unit-02. Thinking that Fuyutsuki Kozo and others might replicate this experiment and try to rescue Ikari Yui, he added his own modification plan to it, so that this experiment can be completed without upgrading the first-generation unit to the second-generation unit.

The modification plan is very simple, which is to make the equipment into an in vitro device.

As for why the first-generation machine is not transformed into the second-generation machine, it is naturally because the second-generation machine may seem good, but in fact it has the disadvantage of a locked upper limit.

The brains of the second-generation machines are all biological brains equipped with the Three Sages System. When the synchronization rate reaches the limit, the soul injected into the core will conflict with Naoko Akagi's consciousness in the biological brain, affecting the normal operation of the biological brain. In this way, the soul injected into the core will be disconnected from the dream program... Without the dream anchor point, the soul injected into the core cannot return to reality.

To put it bluntly, once the synchronization rate exceeds the limit, the second-generation machine will become a first-generation machine.

Ritsuko Akagi left the insertion plug, came to the control room wearing combat uniform, and spoke to Fumihiko Ikari who was sorting out the data.

"Mother said she would only return to reality after the Apostles were destroyed."

Ikari Fumihiko heard the hint in these words.

Stop pretending, I already know the truth!

"The rescue cannot stop."

"Ok?"

“What if the apostles don’t appear until decades later?”

"Uh……"

Ritsuko Akagi had never thought about this before.

Ikari Fumihiko added, "If the war continues for a century or two, do we have that much time to wait until the end of the war?"

Ritsuko Akagi panicked, but calmed down the next moment.

"Your assumption is based on the premise that we passively wait for the apostles to appear. In fact, with the current speed of technological development, it won't take that long to develop targeted search equipment to find all the apostles on Earth... No matter how pessimistic this war is, it will only last for fifty years at most..."

"Even fifty years is not a short time."

"Fifty years may seem like a long time, but that was in the old days. Today's medical technology is enough to extend human lifespan to over 150 years. Based on this lifespan... 50 years is actually not that long. Not to mention, medical technology is still developing at a very fast pace. In 20 or 30 years, human lifespan may be extended to over 200 years."

Ikari Fumihiko felt it.

After untying her emotional knot and improving her attitude, Ritsuko Akagi became more optimistic about things.

Before he could open his mouth to explain, Ritsuko Akagi spoke again.

"Even if the development of science and technology encounters a bottleneck, the population will also explode during this period. Even if the population does not explode, based on the current base, the accumulated mental power in a few decades... will definitely be enough to support an AT force field covering the entire world, and can also find the apostles from the dark."

20:50:02

760.Mask

Ikari Fumihiko was a little confused by what he said, but he quickly reacted.

"That's the truth, provided you can use the power of the artificial god to its fullest."