The current NERV has just started operation, and there is no situation where each EVA has to be overhauled at every turn, so the funds are still sufficient.

Of course, Founder will not have any psychological obstacles to spending NERV's money, unlike Misato Katsuragi, who has to take out a loan for his own car for 30 years, he directly typed a report of "official car", and easily earned a car from NERV and came back——— Founder has a good reason.

You always have to pick up and drop off drivers to and from school, and as a manager of the drivers and a teacher at their school, natural transportation is indispensable.

As for the room——— NERV spent a day, and finally found a high-rise apartment that satisfied Fangzheng, with four bedrooms and one living room, plus an open kitchen and balcony, the geographical environment is far better than Rei Ayana's original place that looked like a slum.

For Fang Zheng's unceremonious behavior of asking for money, Ikari Gentang and Dongyue were also half angry, and the order from SEELE was fully cooperative, and the reasons for the others were also very sufficient.

Didn't you say that EVA drivers are tasked with driving EVA and protecting the world? So isn't it natural to treat them better?

What else can be done?

Pinched his nose and gave it, anyway, even if the funds of this department are not enough to repair the EVA corner, it will be approved.

"Well, that's what it looks like."

Looking at the warm and calm apartment in front of him, Fang Zheng finally nodded with satisfaction. That little broken room was a prison before, and that's where people live.

"So Li, where do you live, what is the specific layout......... I'll do it for you first, and I'll say if you need it. ”

"Yes."

Rei just nodded at Fang Zheng's words——— unlike ordinary people who always salute a lot when they move, Rei Ayanami was empty except for a few changes of clothes and textbooks, and she moved in directly.

Not bad.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are fundamental, but in this part of Japan, school uniforms are worn on weekdays, so there is no need to buy clothes. The place to live has also been done, and the official car has been approved, so the next thing is .........

"I'm hungry all this day......... Leigh, is there anything you'd like to eat? ”

"Not really."

Leigh shook her head, but soon, she added.

"I don't like fish and meat."

"It's not good for your body to eat vegetarian meat, is it good to eat vegetarian meat?"

"Vegetarian meat?"

Hearing this, Li's expressionless face also showed a trace of doubt.

"What's that?"

"Even meat made from soy products tastes the same as meat, so you don't have to worry about getting fat......... Well......... You're probably planning to lose weight. ”

As he spoke, Fang Zheng looked at Rei Ayanami in front of him again, although Rei Ayanami in the animation just doesn't like to eat fish and meat, but reality is not an animation after all, who knows why Rei Ayanami doesn't like to eat fish and meat......... Maybe it's just to lose weight?

"But if you don't eat meat, you can't get enough nutrients......... Forget it, so take a step back, do the eggs be? ”

"Yes."

"Okay."

Saying this, Fang Zheng snapped his fingers.

"So, let's go grocery shopping now."

The apartment chosen by Founder is in a fairly good location, with excellent access in all directions, while there are naturally convenience stores and shops nearby. So he also took Ayanami Rei downstairs directly and went to a nearby convenience store to make a big purchase, after all, he had just moved over. Although the furniture and decoration can be done by NERV, you really have to buy things like pots and pans, firewood, rice, oil and salt for daily use.

At the moment, Rei Ayanami is still the same indifferent puppet as she was at the beginning, following behind Fang Zheng and doing nothing except being responsible for pushing the shopping cart, occasionally Fang Zheng will ask her if she wants to buy this, buy that, she just nodded or was silent——— Fang Zheng didn't care about this. After all, it hadn't even started the first rampage yet, and if he remembered correctly, it wouldn't have been long since the second clone woke up.

So take your time, there's time anyway.

After the big purchase, Fang Zheng also took Ayanami Li back to the apartment and cooked a meal.

I have to say that for Rei Ayana, this way of eating is still very novel. She had only eaten with Ikari Gentang before, but at that time, the two of them were just eating, just like eating work meals in the cafeteria, serving meals, eating, and then it was over.

But here it is different.

"If you wash rice, you have to wash the water twice, and put less water at the end, which is more fragrant."

"If you choose vegetables over there, be careful not to break the leaves."

That's right, after returning to the apartment, Fang Zheng unceremoniously began to instruct Ayanami Rei to wash vegetables and cook with him, of course, considering Ayanami Rei's history of being able to burn her hands even if she made tea, he was not stupid enough to let Ayanami Rei come up and get started directly, but was responsible for the preparation work such as bathing and washing rice in the early stage.

And Ayanami Li has nothing to say about it, and directly executes it as an order, although it is still a little rusty, but it is still quite serious.

The movements of Fang Zheng's subordinates were not slow, and soon three meals and one soup, three vegetables and one meat were prepared. Although Ayanami Li made it clear that she didn't like to eat fish and meat, but Fang Zheng really had something to do with it, and in Fang Zheng's experience, the average child said that he didn't like to eat, so it must be not delicious. It's delicious, nothing is a problem!

At least that's how their little girls are!

However, Fang Zheng didn't have the head to challenge fish, after all, he didn't like to eat fish himself......... Well, it's not a question of whether it's delicious or not, it's that there are too many fish bones, and Fang Zheng doesn't like to eat fish with many spines. Of course, if it's only a big thorn, it's not unacceptable.

In comparison, he prefers to eat fish head.

The taste of chopped pepper fish head is still good.

For Ayanami, this is the first time she has seen this way of eating, and she is inevitably a little curious——— especially when she sees Fang Zheng smiling and directly picking up tomatoes and scrambled eggs, and then pouring all the vegetable soup into the rice.

"Is this .........?"

Seeing this, Rei Ayanami also showed a touch of surprise, although there is also a way to eat raw eggs in rice in Japan, but this way Rei Ayanami has never seen before.

"The vegetable soup soaked in rice is superb, and it tastes quite good, so you can try it too."

Fang Zheng stirred the rice in the bowl and said a word to Rei Ayana. Although it is often said on the Internet that soaking rice in vegetable soup is not good for the stomach, in Fangzheng's opinion, putting less vegetable soup will not have much effect, and the taste of the vegetable soup in the stir-fry will be more delicious if it penetrates into the rice.

Especially like scrambled eggs with tomatoes, the vegetable soup is sweet and sour, put a little in the rice and stir it, plus the aroma of the rice itself, it is the best to make people appetite!

After that, Ayanami Rei also learned from Fang Zheng to pour some vegetable soup into the rice, she didn't make any comments on it, and she didn't take a bite and her eyes lit up and burst her clothes directly———Well, Fang Zheng has never been to the food after all, his skills are just the experience of cooking with the little girls all year round, and he has not yet made food into an aphrodisiac.

But at least Rei Ayanami had finished her meal.

After eating, Fang Zheng and Rei Ayanami washed the plates together, and then .........

"What am I going to do?"

"Hmm............ From now on, you have to learn to meditate. ”

"Meditation?"

"Well, it's a special kind of mind control technology, and you should know that driving an EVA requires the driver's mental stability to be sufficient. Meditation can help you stabilize your mental ........."

There is another half sentence in the back, Fang Zheng didn't say much, that is, ——— still have a soul.

That's right, after a day of getting along with Ayanami Rei, Fang Zheng has almost seen through the truth of Ayanami's rampage.

Part of the reason for this is that it is on the Zero, because the Zero itself is incomplete. And part of the reason is that it is due to Rei Ayanami herself.

Man is made up of three elements, the heart, the soul, and the body. Rei Ayaami's body is a copy of Yui Ikari, and her soul comes from Lilith, so the last question arises.

What about her heart?

The answer is——— no.

This is why Ayanami Rei was like a robot in the early days.

Generally speaking, after a person is born, the heart, soul, and body grow together. The growth of the body leads to the growth of the mind, and the growth of the heart translates into the tenacity of the soul.

Of course, this is the statement of the Department of Magic, and in the case of the Department of Science, Rei Ayanami lacks self-awareness, and her soul and body are all external assemblies, so she runs very unstable.

The already unstable driver and the EVA with half a bucket of water are also normal to go on a rampage every day.

In fact, in the anime, this is obvious, every time Rei Ayanami and Shinji Ikari "have a divine relationship", the most she says is "Who am I?" Where am I? What do I want to do? "It gives people a sense of confusion and confusion where they have nowhere to live, and that's why.

Why is Limpoli so dazed?

The reason is simple, because neither body nor soul is hers!

She is like a rootless pinch, a woodless root, which does not belong to her body or her soul, which makes Ayanami Rei inevitably have philosophical questions.

If you follow the mainstream routine of Japanese animation, it should be subtle at this time, so that Ayanami Rei gradually feels herself, just like in the animation, at first she didn't care about anything, and later she was even willing to sacrifice herself for Shinji Ikari. That's growth.

But......... Now that there is Founder, where do you need such an awkward and time-consuming growth model!

He's not Shinji Ikati's little kid, he's a god!

Of course, Fang Zheng ostensibly told Rei Ayanami that her meditation was a technique for controlling her spirit, but in fact it was often used by spellcasters from the Overworld. After all, there are many soul-based spells in the main world, and the mage himself will occasionally lose his soul, and meditation has the effect of consolidating his spirit and will, and at the same time integrating and mastering the soul.

Fang Zheng is not worried about whether it will be useful, although Ayanami Rei has Lilith's soul, but Lilith's soul has no will, so it can be said that it was given for nothing.

In the words of martial arts, Rei Ayanami woke up and obtained the skills of Lilith Yijiazi, but unfortunately she didn't know the mantra and didn't know how to use them. And what Fang Zheng has to do is to make up for this part of what is missing, let Ayanami Rei gradually digest Lilith's soul power, and then use this power to control Ikari Yui's body in turn.

In this way, the body, soul, and self, which were originally separated, will merge again.

In fact, as Fang Zheng expected, in the following week, Ayanami Rei changed very significantly.

Perhaps because of the power she felt and mastered in meditation, Rei Ayaami's self-consciousness began to become clearer, from the initial silence when the other party was persuading her to eat meat, to now being able to say "I don't want to eat" unmistakably is an improvement. Not only that, but even the rest of NERV noticed that Rei Ayanami had changed.

In the past, she would only do what they were told like a robot, but now many times, she actually raises her own questions and ideas.

This surprised many staff members and at the same time, they also had a higher evaluation of Founder. After all, the staff of NERV also know about EVA, and if a person with an awkward personality drives EVA, even if they don't say it, they will still feel uneasy in their hearts. Now they are quite relieved to see that the girl who is usually not interested in anyone has started to become more accessible so quickly.

It's just that Ikari Yuantang sees it in his eyes, but it hurts in his heart!

You take my funds, live in a good house, buy a good car, and live with my woman!

What makes Ikari Gendo's heart hurt even more is that now Ayanami Rei obviously prefers to follow Fang Zheng's side instead of herself! Just like after the previous special inspection, Ikari Gendo subconsciously invited Ayanami Rei to eat together, originally Ikari Yuantang thought that Ayanami Rei would definitely agree, but Ayanami Rei actually said that "Second Lieutenant Fang Zheng has prepared lunch and is going home."

And then just leave!

At that time, he was so angry that Gendo almost had a heart attack!

Ikari Gentang couldn't understand why Ayanami Li didn't lie to everyone else, but was so close to this Founder?

Of course he couldn't figure it out, the reason why Ayanami Li was close to Fang Zheng was because Fang Zheng interfered and managed her life, and of course she had to obey orders.

On the other hand, ——— Founder has the Order Seal.

That's right, like Kodoli and the others in the previous world, Fang Zheng also felt the breath of order coordinates from Ayanami Rei's body.

So Lilith's identity can be hammered.

In that world, the coordinates sent by the goddess of order were the star gods, so in this world, the goddess of order sent Lilith as the coordinates.

It's just that just like the soul fragment of the star god was taken to make a golden goblin, the soul of Lilith of this world was also stuffed into Rei Ayabaami's body.

Order coordinates and order engraving are attracted to each other, so it's normal for Ayanami to be close to Founder.

And so it went by for a week.

Finally, for Rei Ayana——— fateful day has arrived.

The initial start-up test of the zero machine is about to begin.