Doraemon for an imperfect world

"tree of Life."

Ikari Yui looked at the object in front of her and said with certainty, "It was here that the White Moon and the Black Moon were born."

In the center of the huge Tree of Life, a mechanical body with obvious traces of human intervention was placed across the very center.

320

Chapter 320 Post-Apocalypse.

"First is the adaptation lamp and translation konjac."

Standing in front of the Thunderhawk gunship aboard the Emperor's Dream, Doraemon used his adaptive light to illuminate everyone one by one before distributing jelly-like translation konjac to everyone. "We don't know what we'll encounter yet, so we must be extra careful."

"understood."

Shinji Ikari took the translation konjac and looked at it curiously before putting it in his mouth and chewing it gently.

Mm, it tastes like jelly.

After entering the Thunderhawk gunship, this sacred machine was activated by itself. The machine spirit, which was enough to rival the Predator-class Titan, quickly mastered its body at a cognitive speed of 40,000 times per second. The ether feedback coil was activated, the promethium feedback coil was activated, the purification shield was activated, and the camouflage adjustment repeater was activated.

As the name of Om Messiah flashed on the display in binary symbols, the Thunderhawk gunship began to slowly fly towards the center of the Tree of Life.

After walking out of the Thunder Eagle gunboat, several people began to move forward cautiously. After walking through a long passage, they finally saw an old man sitting on a chair.

"Someone?"

Shinji Ikari was a little surprised.

He had thought about the existence of aliens, but he didn't expect that these aliens were also human-shaped.

"They are the origin, after all."

Yui Ikari said as she stepped forward. At this moment, as a scientist, she occupied the most dominant position. She observed the old man in front of her with the rigor and humility of a scientist, then bowed respectfully and said, "Greetings, Creator."

"You are?"

The old man wasn't particularly moved by the sudden appearance of the few people. In those cloudy eyes were the years and vicissitudes of life that had been inflicted by countless years. After enduring times unimaginable to ordinary people, there was nothing in the world that could move him. "Creator... I see."

After saying that, he frowned and looked at Doraemon again, "Have you all evolved into such a round shape?"

Doraemon: ...

“No, I’m actually a robot.”

Doraemon waved his hands and explained, "We came to this world from 4.6 billion years in the future."

"Hundred million years?"

The old man asked with his eyes narrowed tiredly.

Of course, he was not clear about the time designed by humans based on the revolution of the planets.

"In our culture, light travels 300,000 kilometers in a vacuum in one second, 31,536,000 seconds in one year, and one kilometer is roughly equivalent to the height of 633 children in the decimal system."

As she spoke, Ikari Yui patted Ikari Shinji gently.

Shinji Ikari didn't expect that the first thing he would do after seeing the aliens would be to be a unit of measurement. He couldn't help but be speechless at the time.

"That's it."

The old man nodded wearily, not particularly impressed. "Time travel? Amazing! It seems we once speculated that time is material... Is there something wrong with you being here?"

"I want to witness my own origins."

Ikari Yui said.

"origin."

The old man smiled softly, then looked behind him, where a huge red stream of light was rapidly rising to the top of the Tree of Life, giving birth to the first egg of life:

"There's nothing much to say, child. Our civilization has reached its end. It's old and dying. But if you insist on seeking the truth, I'm willing to tell you this final story."

The old man said this without paying attention to other people's responses, and said to himself:

"Our civilization experienced a technological explosion sometime... I can't quite remember, but it was tens of millions of times ago, just as the planets before us orbited the star. Our technology leaped forward in a short period of time, almost leapfrogging our time. Back then, we even discovered a system that could permanently provide energy, and incorporated it into our cells in the form of organelles. Through this artificial evolution, we successfully achieved eternal life."

"Tens of millions of years?"

Ikari Yui was stunned for a moment and said in disbelief, "You developed the S2 mechanism tens of millions of years ago?"

Their technology has not advanced at all in these tens of millions of years?

The old man looked at Ikari sadly, then closed his eyes slightly and continued:

"Indeed, immortality is a cancer on civilization. Out of our own ignorance and arrogance, we thought we could control it... Anyway, after achieving immortality, our civilization's population began to surge rapidly. Then, because the elderly refused to step down, the social system became rigid. Before long, all officials in the entire civilization, all individuals in power, even the lowest-ranking official, became elderly people who had lived for hundreds or thousands of solar revolutions. Do you understand what this means?"

Ikari Yui remained silent. She calmly simulated the situation in her mind, and then had to give an extremely cruel answer.

“Civilization is aging.”

"Yes."

A hint of sarcasm flashed in the old man's cloudy eyes. "And so, those at the bottom will never see a way out, and they will lose the motivation to continue reproducing. After a few thousand revolutions, the number of newborns will completely drop to zero. Our bodies won't die, but our consciousness will age endlessly. Creativity will begin to wither, inspiration will dry up, and passion will fade. In the years that followed, we will not make any further progress. As individuals, the price of gaining endless lifespan is the irreversible decline of civilization."

"We will learn from this."

Ikari Yui asked seriously, "May I ask what happened next?"

"Our civilization is beginning to experience serious spiritual problems. Most of the technology of the past has been forgotten in the endless aging and wear and tear, and the concept of time is gradually being lost."

The old man lamented, looking exhausted as he raised his head and said, "So, we want to be reborn in this way. We will use the Kabbalah, the only thing we have successfully created since we grew old, to separate the immortal body from the aging soul. As the last executor, I will launch them to the other side of the universe. They will never meet again, but their souls will give birth to a brand new civilization. As long as you don't repeat the same mistakes..."

"but."

Doraemon raised his hand and said, "On Shinji's planet, the Black Moon and the White Moon landed on the same planet at the same time."

The old man was silent for a moment. Just when everyone thought he hadn't heard, he raised his head with a serious look:

"come over."

He pointed at the red light behind him in an old and frail voice and said, "Press your hand there, and the resonance of your soul will cause past memories to reappear."

Ikari Yui walked forward without thinking, stretched out her hand and pressed it on an invisible barrier.

——AT position.

The moment she touched the force field, the shadow of Unit-01 suddenly appeared on Yui Ikari's body. Then, just like an error message popped up when a computer ran into an error, the shadow of Unit-01 continued to appear behind her.

321

Chapter 321. Gnosticism.

The old man tried hard to stand up. In fact, his body was still strong, but the aging of his soul limited his consciousness, which in turn affected his body.

He walked forward and gently touched a phantom behind Ikari Yui, and suddenly a picture appeared:

In front of the boiling magma, Unit-01 jumped and caught Unit-02 which was falling.

“Where are these pictures from?”

Asuka was immediately furious. "When did I fall into the lava?"

The old man wanted to explain, but he was too tired to open his mouth. As a dying man, he didn't have that much energy. He simply turned to the next illusion, and suddenly a picture appeared:

Unit 2 fought with a group of white mass-produced machines, and was then pierced through the head by a replica of the Spear of Longinus and eaten by them.

Asuka let out a long sigh.

She suspected that the other party was deliberately persecuting her.

The old man opened another phantom again, and this time he finally found what he wanted.

"What is that."

Shinji Ikari looked at the emerging picture and couldn't help holding his breath.

A huge, white Rei Ayanami stood up on the ground. Countless red crosses rose from the ground and then gathered in her hands. The crosses flowed into her body from the uniquely shaped holes in her palms. In the completed world, only Shinji Ikari and Asuka were left.

"Ling Bo?"

Asuka said in surprise.

"No, this is Lilith."

Ikari Yui said, "Lilith, the ancestor of mankind...what is going on?"

"Perhaps because two life eggs landed on the same planet, some errors occurred, causing the process of life to begin a continuous cycle."

The old man said vaguely.

"Is it like a computer system that keeps repeating the same task?"

Doraemon asked, "How can we solve this problem?"

The old man paused for a moment, then forced himself to look at Ikari Yui. "To answer this question, I first need to know what you are doing?"

"…Human Completion Project."

Ikari Yui replied, "Someone is trying to get humanity back into Lilith's body. By then, the walls of everyone's hearts will be dissolved, and everyone's thoughts will be connected without reservation, thus achieving the sublimation of life."

The old man was silent for a moment, then couldn't help asking, "You call returning to the mother body sublimation?"

Ikari Yui was silent for a moment, then said, "I am against this plan."

"It does not matter."

The old man said, "I've said before, because of endless aging and wear and tear, our people have serious mental illnesses. Even if their souls were decomposed and reconstructed into you, they would still exist. You must face it in order to move forward into the future."

"Face it?"

Doraemon asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

The old man sighed and said, "There are many imperfections in life. You must face them head-on, whether they are innate bad habits or flaws in your own soul."

As he spoke, he turned around and gently placed his hand on Shinji Ikari's shoulder. "You are different from us, child. Our civilization has reached its end, but yours has just begun. I am sorry to have left you with such a legacy, but please do not run away. Go and face it."

"I?"

Shinji Ikari's expression was as confused as a catfish demon who was called to eliminate Tang Monk and his disciples. He didn't know how this heavy burden fell on his shoulders inexplicably.

"Soon, seven Life Eggs will carry the souls of my people to the other side of the universe. After they arrive, they will each design a different life form. Originally, as a precaution, I would not participate, but terminate the plan if problems arose."

As the old man spoke, his body sank into the AT force field. His flesh and blood began to melt away, and his soul also gathered into it. "But now it seems that insurance is no longer needed."

With the entry of the old man, the red soul stream completely gathered at the top of the Tree of Life, and seven huge spheres began to carry the souls of the first ancestors into the depths of the universe.

"So, what should we do?"

Doraemon asked in confusion.

It wanted to find the Creator to solve the problem, but what it saw was an old man who was spiritually old. Then the man said a few inexplicable words to it and then jumped into the torrent of souls and flew into the universe with his people?

"I know what to do."

Ikari Yui suddenly said, "Gnosticism, do you know Gnosticism?"

Shinji Ikari looked at Asuka blankly, then looked at Doraemon, and finally the three of them shook their heads together.

"Ok."

Yui Ikari explains, "Gnostic philosophy holds the view that gods, having fallen into the material world, reside within certain humans, and can return to the spiritual realm through awakening. Therefore, the salvation of a single individual is equivalent to the restoration of a god. It's not just the salvation of one individual, but a matter of great concern to the entire world."

If you think about it carefully, if the angels recorded in the Bible are human beings' record of the apostles' blind men and the elephant, then Gnosticism is a silhouette of the first ancestors.

On the way back to the Thunderhawk gunship, Ikari Yui continued to explain:

"Shinji, you are the core of the Human Completion Project. In the previous reincarnations, the power to restart the world was handed to you. However, at that time, you were not able to truly face yourself. You were still full of self-pity, so you rejected the completion and walked out with Asuka to become the Adam and Eve of the new generation."

"Wait, do you mean..."

Asuka suddenly lost her composure.

"Well, perhaps our generation of humans also originated from Shinji and Asuka in the previous reincarnation?"

Ikari Yui said calmly, "Theoretically, your souls have reincarnated many times, and each time they have reached the same destination. It's just that the memories are not stored in the body but in the soul, so you don't remember each other, just like Ayanami Rei."

"Clam?"

Asuka's face flushed bright red. "Me...and him...?"

"What's with that expression on your face? Is it so hard for me to accept it?"

Shinji Ikari also asked, "And this is too ridiculous. The world is reincarnated and so on. Even if it is like this, there will always be some traces left, right?"