“…… Judging from the previous battle data and fire reconnaissance results, the Sixth Apostle will automatically eliminate all threats within a certain range, and choose the order of attack according to the degree of threat, and its ground warning range is quite wide and far larger than the underground warning range.

But perhaps it is precisely because we are underground that we cannot attack the Sixth Apostle that it does not take us seriously.

In addition, there are four attack modes that have appeared in the Sixth Apostle, the first is an ordinary high-energy particle beam attack, the second is a strengthened high-energy particle beam, the third can attack hundreds of multiple targets at the same time, we estimate that this attack mode can also adjust the strength of the attack according to the target's defensive ability, and the fourth is a heavy artillery mode that can perform a warp attack. ”

In the operations research room of the NeRV underground base, Misato Katsuragi and Chu Xuan were listening to the analysis report of the staff department, and the technical department, maintenance and maintenance department, logistics department, and even the foreign affairs department that Ritsuko Akagi was in charge of had also sent personnel who could be in charge.

"What about the aT force field of the Sixth Apostle?"

Misato Katsuragi, who had a serious expression, did not say anything after listening to the report of the General Staff, but instead asked the Technical Department for another important piece of information.

"Due to the frequent changes in the phase pattern of the aT force field of the Sixth Apostle, the shape is unstable and the neutralization operation is extremely difficult."

Maya Ibuki replied rather neatly, and there was nothing worth saying anything about the apostle's aT force field.

That is to say...... Whether you want to engage in long-range fire or melee raids, the Sixth Apostle's attack and defense are simply perfect. ”

Misato Katsuragi touched her nose and said rather puzzled, and the next words of the staff officer and Ritsuko Akagi made her even more puzzled.

"According to the calculations of the 'Three Sages', conventional laser weapons cannot produce effective damage to the target. If you want to use N2 aeroblasts to penetrate the target's aT force field, the yield required is enough to destroy the NeRV headquarters.

The same goes for the use of the High Energy Particle Cannon or the Positive Electron Breaker, which will destroy the Sixth Apostle and will also cause devastating damage to the ground part of the Third New Tokyo City.

-- And the space warships with such powerful guns are all located between P.L.A.N.T. and Mars, and perhaps some military organizations on Earth have hidden trump cards, but we don't have time to ask them one by one and wait for their answers. It's better to solve it with the weapons and equipment that we can call on. ”

"Don't count on other organizations, there are many organizations that are concerned about the battle between NeRV and the Apostles that have advised us to abandon this place - even the inexplicable 'alien monster' and the destruction of the NeRV headquarters is exactly what many people would like to see."

"Watching the fire from the other side, they really dare to say it, if they give up here, everything will be over!"

Misato Katsuragi's face was very gloomy and she complained hatefully, but Ritsuko Akagi just shrugged her shoulders disapprovingly. said indifferently:

"After all, it's hard for other organizations to believe that just bringing the new apostles into contact with the second apostle could lead to a crisis like the 'first shock' that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

There are also many organizations that point out that since the existence of the Second Apostle is so dangerous, then we should immediately eliminate the Second Apostle, instead of waiting for the other Apostles to appear and then fight 'for the peace of the earth'.

Moreover, we cannot explain why the apostles appeared without warning in the vicinity of the Third New Tokyo City. If it weren't for the fact that those organizations didn't really believe in the unexplained 'second shock', they wouldn't have sat idly by while we were semi-openly conducting such dangerous research, and would have banded together to forcibly ban NeRV.

-- From this point of view, we should also be glad that other organizations do not believe in us. ”

Ritsuko Akagi's words give Misato Katsuragi a sense of powerlessness, but as Ritsuko Akagi said, they find other people's actions unbelievable, and others also find their actions incomprehensible. However, NeRV cannot give you a fundamentally scientific explanation for various reasons.

The Dead Sea Papers or something...... In the eyes of normal people, it will only be considered a joke.

"How much time do we have left?"

"The target's drill bit has penetrated the second layer of armor, and it is about to invade the third layer, and all 22 layers of armor will be penetrated, and the predicted time of reaching the top of the headquarters will be 0:08:14 tomorrow morning. There are still 10 hours and 02 minutes left. ”

The current situation left Misato Katsuragi without time to be depressed, and she quickly put away other unwanted emotions and threw them to the back of her mind, planning to pick them up again after the current life-and-death situation.

"It seems that the situation is not optimistic, but fortunately, the damage of the first machine is not great, and it can be put into battle again after changing the chest armor plate, and we still have the zero machine...... and a Zagu II. ”

“……”

Although Misato Katsuragi tried to boost everyone's morale. But the others didn't give her face, and they all chose to be silent.

Everyone here knows very well that even two, three, or even four eVas will not be able to destroy the Sixth Apostle, which can be called an air fortress, and the combat power of that Zaku II is even more negligible.

"Just use an ultra-long-range sniper to destroy the S2 trap when the Sixth Apostle transforms into attack mode - but because of the aT force field. The Sniper can only be played by the eVa.

The only problem is that even outside the Sixth Apostle's alert range, if the Sniper prepares for too long when performing the first snipe, he is likely to be attacked by it, and if the first hit fails, the Sixth Apostle is likely to target anyone with a similar weapon as the first target, and will not give us a second chance to snipe. ”

Just when everyone was at a loss, Chu Xuan, who had been silent, finally spoke, and after listening to his suggestion, Misato Katsuragi slapped her thigh hard, stood up directly from her seat, and resolutely said to Ritsuko Akagi:

"There's no way, it seems that we have to come up with a 'trump card' in advance!

Ritsuko, I'm going to apply to Commander Ikari for the right to use the 'high-power yang electronic cannon', okay? ”

"That's it...... The power of that one is enough, and Commander Ikari probably won't be willing, but the problem is that it's still in the trial stage, and although the unfinished self-discipline adjustment can be replaced by eVa's precision sniping, the problem of energy supply is difficult to solve......

And according to my estimates, the energy supply system, which was barely completed with our current technology, may be about the size of a small mountain, and it will not be able to move at all, so even if we temporarily assemble it and barely solve the energy supply problem, we will not be able to conduct a test launch.

However, if you don't test fire, it will be impossible to guarantee the accuracy of the first shot, and even if you call on all the resources of the 'Three Sages' to correct the trajectory of the second shot, it will not be possible to calculate it faster than the counterattack of the Sixth Apostle.

In addition, even if the temporary energy supply system can provide the energy required for the second round, it is impossible to support the 'burst' of the positive electron cannon, perhaps the 'Three Sages' have finished calculating, and the energy of the second round has not yet been replenished.

This required us to be able to defend against the Sixth Apostle's strongest counterattack until the second shot was fired, but our existing armor could not support it until the energy of the Yang Electron Cannon was replenished.

Then our only hope is to bet that the manufacturing process of the Yang electronic cannon is so good that the actual trajectory is completely consistent with the theoretical trajectory. ”

Although Ritsuko Akagi didn't mean to hit everyone, her words managed to make everyone's faces darken—except for Chu Xuan.

When Misato Katsuragi's determination to give it a go was about to crumble into powder, he pushed down his reflective glasses with a blank face, and proposed in a dull voice that was as smooth and uninhibited as ever:

"Then as long as you block it, let the first machine with a high synchronization rate act as a sniper, and the zero machine will hold a special shield and open the aT force field, which should be enough to support the second round of energy replenishment."