Yang Qingyi fled shamefully, and the purple EVA who got up again burst out with even more powerful power, and Yang Qingyi's huge body was directly torn off by the purple EVA by accident, which frightened Yang Qingyi and ran away. Nonsense, if you don't run, it's estimated that it will soon become a purple EVA snack.

Leaving the crippled body in place, Yang Qingyi controlled the second body to run away in embarrassment, but fortunately, the purple EVA and the crippled body were consumed, which allowed Yang Qingyi to escape smoothly. After following the traction of the Fruit of Life to recover the other Fruit of Life on the crippled body, Yang Qingyi ran directly to the sea, for now, the bottom of the sea is the place where Yang Qingyi can stay with peace of mind.

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3rd New Tokyo City, NERV Headquarters, Operational Conference Room.

"Regarding the defeat of this operation, I will take full responsibility and ask the commander to punish him." Misato Katsuragi lowered her head, clenched her fists, and her pretty face was full of unwillingness and self-blame.

Red EVA is the driver of the second machine, Ming Yuexiang has been sent to the intensive care unit, Yang Qingyi's damage to the red second machine is far greater than imagined, although it can't be shown on Ming Yuexiang's body, but in fact, the mental blow to Ming Yuexiang is unprecedented, and if it can't be slowed down, it is very possible to die like this.

Purple EVA is the pilot of the first machine, Shinji Ikari was also sent to the ward, but compared to Ming Yuka, whose life was on the line, Shinji Ikari just fell into a coma, and his body was too tired, and he could wake up after a few days of coma.

This coordinated and unified battle plan was a complete failure, and this battle plan itself was implemented by Commander Misato Katsuragi under all the pressure, and after the failure of this battle plan, you can imagine how much blame Misato Katsuragi will be subjected to.

Ritsuko Akagi, the chief officer of the technology development department, knows very well the surname of her friend, and she will accept the punishment without hesitation in such a situation, no matter how serious the punishment is, in order to ease the current atmosphere, Ritsuko Akagi clapped her hands and attracted everyone's attention.

"This battle plan is theoretically completely feasible, and we have seen the possibility of reaching it in the early stage, and I personally think that the failure of this plan cannot be blamed entirely on Commander Katsuragi." As she spoke, Ritsuko Akagi turned on the projection on the wall in the distance.

The screen shows the previous battle between the first machine and the second machine and the seventh apostle, and the final screen stops at the two EVAs about to kick the seventh apostle.

"From the replay just now, we can clearly see that the execution of the battle plan was perfect at the beginning, but from here......" Ritsuko Akagi pointed to the screen screen, "From here, I think the Seventh Apostle has undergone an amazing change. ”

"At that moment, I thought that the battle plan should have been successful, and the final result should be that the two EVAs should break the apostle core of the Seventh Apostle at the same time and achieve victory, but at the last moment, the Apostle not only made a fierce counterattack, but also made a series of subsequent performances feel strange!"

The stopped footage continued to play, pausing again when the Seventh Apostle's six fingers pierced through Machine Two and let out a low roar.

"This is something I care about." Ritsuko Akagi pointed to the seventh apostle on the screen and said, "Everyone knows that the apostle is wise, but the apostle's way of acting and purpose have always seemed to us to be more like a robot and inflexible, so in the previous battles, we can always find a suitable way to defeat the apostle, but this apostle is obviously different from the other apostles." ”

As the footage continued, everyone in the room heard the apostle's muffled roar.

"It's here, although it feels a little unbelievable, but I personally feel that the voice made by the apostle at this time is actually a kind of language, a mockery or sarcasm of the second machine, but we don't understand what he said, and the performance of the seventh apostle at this moment is completely different from the seventh apostle we knew before." Ritsuko Akagi's expression was very heavy, as were most of the others in the room, and if the apostle really became smart and flexible, it would undoubtedly be a huge blow to humanity.

The footage continued to play until the Seventh Apostle separated from the other body and fled in a hurry, pausing again.

"The apostle fled." Ritsuko Akagi pointed to the departing back of the Seventh Apostle on the screen, "And it was after releasing a body as a bait and running away." ”

Ritsuko Akagi looked around at everyone and said in a deep voice: "If the previous ones are still my personal conjectures, then this scene on the screen is the best evidence. All apostles, the attacks were singular and targeted, and there was never a single case of an apostle escaping. After failing in the first battle, the Seventh Apostle was injured by an N2 mine and only stayed where he was to repair his body, but now, the Apostle actually knows how to escape without being able to win! ”

Ritsuko Akagi turned off the projection and sat down in her place.

"I think everyone should be able to understand how serious a problem this is for humanity. In the face of such an apostle with extremely strong on-the-spot adaptability and the initial judgment wisdom is not low, the mistake of Commander Katsuragi is not an unforgivable crime. ”

Ritsuko Akagi's words fell, and the entire conference room fell silent for a while. When you think about it, the performance of the Seventh Apostle is indeed surprising, and the final act of escaping is unsettling, not to mention that the Seventh Apostle itself is a difficult problem to solve.

"Dr. Akagi." Commander-in-Chief of the NERV, Ikari Gendo, who was sitting at the top, broke his silence at this time, "I want you to start analyzing and studying the behavior of the Seventh Apostle immediately, I need more detailed and accurate data than these conjectures. ”

"Okay."

"Commander Katsuragi."

"Yes." Katsuragi Misato responded a little godlessly.

"You go and check the physical condition of the pilot of the second plane, and if you can wake up, continue to arrange for her to cooperate with the pilot of the first plane; If we can't wake up anytime soon, we have to arrange for Zero to be dispatched, and we must make sure that we have two EVAs in battle before the next attack of the Seventh Apostle. ”

"Then my punishment ......" Misato Katsuragi originally thought that what was waiting for her must be a severe punishment, but she didn't expect that under Ritsuko Akagi's explanation, it seemed that this punishment was temporarily suppressed?

"The punishment is not to be carried out for the time being, your current task is to prepare the next battle plan against the Seventh Apostle as soon as possible. You can communicate the details of the Seventh Apostle with Dr. Akagi, and if you fail in the next battle, you know the consequences. Ikari Yuantang pushed his glasses, got up and announced the adjournment of the meeting, and everyone left the conference room one after another.

After a while, only Ritsuko Akagi, Misato Katsuragi, and Bless Ryoji were left in the conference room.

"Ritsuko, thank you." Misato Katsuragi said sincerely to Ritsuko Akagi, if it wasn't for Ritsuko Akagi who diverted everyone's attention, then today would definitely be Misato Katsuragi's suffering.

"No thanks, for now, I don't think NERV needs you as an operational commander, right?" Ritsuko Akagi winked at Misato Katsuragi, then turned to the side without saying a word, "Blessing, do you have anything else?" ”

"Well, as for the situation of the Seventh Apostle that Ritsuko mentioned earlier, I still want to confirm it more carefully, and let's go to the research room together later." Bless Ryoji's face was grim, and he seemed to be aware of some problems, Akagi Ritsuko nodded when he heard this, "Okay, you can go to the research room with me in a while"