Three days have passed since the last battle of apostolic annihilation, the heaviest battle since the founding of NERV, the third new city of Tokyo was completely destroyed, and the pride of modern civilization is now only a pitiful ruin, hundreds of thousands of people are homeless, and people have to flee this wasteland in droves.

Early in the morning, Shinji came alone to a ruin of an astonishing scale, which was originally the first municipal middle school in the third new Tokyo city, where Shinji and his daily school were, and now, there was nothing left here except a mountain of rubble, only the basketball hoops, desks and chairs that had been badly twisted and deformed sleeping in the ruins were still silently telling the world that this was once a school.

Shinji walked aimlessly around the rubble for a few moments, and finally came to a halt in a broken house that was still fairly well preserved. Of course, the so-called "well-preserved" is only relative to the other piles of rubble, and this room has long been completely destroyed, and it can no longer even be called a "house", because only one wall remains, and this wall is only half left. But despite this, Shinji keenly saw that this was once his classroom - Year 2 Class A.

Shinji struggled to pull out a working set of tables and chairs from the rubble next to him, set them up, and sat down silently, looking up in the direction of the blackboard, but there was nothing left.

After a long time, Shinji sighed deeply and said to himself with a sad face, "Toji, Kensuke, and the squad leader, everyone moved away because they didn't have a place to live...... I don't know how I'm doing now......"

As soon as Shinji finished speaking, a beautiful voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"You're late, stupid Shinji!"

Shinji was taken aback and turned his head sharply to see Asuka standing on the top of a rubble mountain not far behind him.

The reason why Shinji came here today was actually at the request of Asuka, and he didn't know why Asuka asked him to come here, so he came obediently.

In stark contrast to Shinji's dejected head, Asuka is still full of energy and spirit, she jumps off the rubble like a dexterous swallow, and then strides up to Shinji, points at Shinji's nose, and sternly reprimands, "You're five minutes late, stupid Shinji!" ”

Shinji looked at Asuka's slender index finger and asked suspiciously, "Asuka, what are you telling me to do here?" ”

Asuka: "There's something I'd like to discuss with you. ”

Shinji frowned strangely, "Can't you discuss it at home?" ”

"Stupid Shinji! Are you so stupid, do you think you're absolutely safe at home? God knows if NERV has bugged in which corner. Asuka swore and said.

Shinji was taken aback: "No. ”

Asuka shook her head and sighed, "So, you're just a little kid." ”

"So, what are you talking to me about?" Shinji asked.

Asuka sat on the table in front of Shinji, vigilantly observing the movements around her, and said slowly, "Aren't you worried about Xiao about him?" ”

"Xiao ......" mentioned Li Xiao, Shinji immediately showed a worried expression. Of course I'm worried about him, and he hasn't been heard from since he was taken away by the spy department. ”

"Do you think he's still alive?"

Asuka's words suddenly frightened Shinji to the point that his hair stood on end, and he raised his head sharply in surprise, only to meet Asuka's extremely serious gaze.

"Asuka, you, are you serious?" Shinji's voice trembled uncontrollably.

Asuka stared at Shinji's eyes, her gaze as sharp as two daggers: "Of course I'm serious, stupid Shinji." It seems that you still don't understand the current situation at all, Xiao is now an apostle, and NERV's mission is to eliminate the apostle, do you think your father will easily let Xiao go? Maybe at this time, NERV is doing some disgusting live experiment, and maybe the living apostle, such a specimen is of infinite value to NERV. ”

Shinji's face turned pale little by little, and although he was still only a fourteen-year-old child, he understood what "live experimentation" meant. "How so? Father he...... He wouldn't do that kind of thing. ”

"Are you sure?" Asuka had sarcasm in her tone.

Shinji hesitated, he lowered his head, and his head began to fantasize about the terrible scene of Li Xiao being tied to the operating table for vivisection, he seemed to see Li Xiao fall on the operating table in despair, staring at himself with a pair of eyes, opening his mouth, and desperately begging for help to himself in a voice that was so weak that it was almost inaudible: "Shinji, save me, Shinji, save me......"

Shinji didn't dare to think any further, a look of fear on his face, his hands clutching his hair tightly. Then, he raised his head suddenly, as if grasping the only life-saving straw, and looked at Asuka with a look of expectation: "Asuka, what should we do?" ”

Asuka looked serious and said, "That's why I asked you to come here, I want to rescue Akatsuki." ”

"Rescue!" Shinji's eyes widened in surprise, and then he hesitated. "This ...... Will this work? ”

As soon as she saw Shinji's cowardice, Asuka was angry, and she slapped Shinji on the head: "Can you be like a man?" Isn't he your friend? Do you want to watch your friends vivisected? ”

Asuka woke up Shinji with this slap, he was stunned for a moment, and then immediately showed a firm expression on his face, and his fists were clenched together: "You're right, Asuka, Xiao is my friend, I'm going to save him!" ”

"That's right!" Asuka laughed happily. "Stupid Shinji, you've been a man for a while, and I'm impressed with you."

"Hey, hey......" Shinji scratched his head a little embarrassed, but then, he frowned again. But what should we do? Do you have a plan? ”

Asuka smiled proudly: "What do you think I've been doing for the past three days?" Wait for you idiot to do it, Xiao He has already gone to the western sky, I have already thought of the plan, let's ......" Asuka said this, and suddenly there was a "bang" sound from behind a nearby rubble pile, Asuka immediately looked overwhelmed, jumped down from the table, stared in the direction where the voice came from, and shouted. "Who's where!"

Then there was a rustle of walking, and a young girl came out from behind the rubble. Asuka and Shinji were both taken aback when they saw this person, and Shinji exclaimed in surprise, "Ayana, why are you here?" ”

Although the school is gone, Rei is still dressed in the same school uniform that has not changed for thousands of years, she looks at Shinji with a blank face, and replies in a voice without any tone, "I followed you." ”

Shinji immediately looked embarrassed: "What? Are you stalking me? ”

"Stupid Shinji, you big stupid! How can you be so stupid as to be followed by an honor student? Asuka immediately became popular, and grabbing Shinji's neck was a frenzied social shake.

Asuka shook Shinji in a daze, then threw Shinji aside, and looked at Rei Ayanami with fierce eyes: "Did you hear what we just said?" ”

Leigh nodded silently.

Asuka snorted hostilely, "If you want to make a small report to Commander Ikati, go ahead, but Shinji and I won't just stop!" ”

"No, you're mistaken." Li's face was expressionless, and she said in a flat voice. "I'm not going to tell Commander Ikari, I want to go with you to save Li Jun."

After Rei finished speaking, both Asuka and Shinji seemed to have heard the Arabian Nights, and the two of them immediately widened their eyes in disbelief.

Leigh thought they hadn't heard, so she repeated it again, and this time with unhesitating determination in her voice.

"I want to go with you to save Xiao."