Just a few days after Chu Xuan's injuries on his hands had healed, Dr. Ritsuko Akagi informed Chu Xuan of the occurrence of an "accident".

"The Third Apostle, who was sealed in the Bethany base for research, escaped, and although it was broken by Eva's Temporary Aircraft Five, it blew itself up with Aircraft Five."

In the interval between the lunch break, Dr. Ritsuko Akagi, who took the initiative to find her with a cup of coffee, said to Chu Xuan in a calm tone.

"The Third Apostle? It turns out that the apostles have already reappeared. ”

Chu Xuan pushed down his reflective glasses expressionlessly, and said as if talking to himself.

Because this is not the original world of EVA, but the "world of machine warfare", the reason for the establishment of NERV, the reason for the appearance of the Apostles, and the "Dead Sea Papers" that Seele treats as a prophecy book are all subtly different.

According to Chu Xuan's investigation, in this world where there has not been a "second impact", the first apostle, that is, "Adam", and the second apostle, "Adam's" first wife "Lilith", should have been discovered by an archaeological organization sponsored by a religious institution in the form of ancient fossils and the like.

Before the agency's follow-up research on "Adam" began, the zenith star and the interstellar insect appeared in the human eye, so the agency's research plan for "Adam" was postponed again - but it was their luck.

From EVA's "original", we can know that the truth of "Second Impact" is:

In 2000 AD, when an organization conducted a contact experiment on "Adam" in the "White Moon" located deep in the Antarctic continent, the experimental situation was out of control, causing the sleeping "Adam" in the "White Moon" to wake up and release its power, causing a big explosion in the Antarctic region, sea level rise, deflection of the earth's axis, and seasonal changes in most areas.

If it weren't for the fact that history took a huge turn before 2000, if it weren't for the fact that the institution had gained some experimental success or failure before studying "Adam", the "second shock" would still be inevitable when the institution began to study "Adam".

――Of course, perhaps this is not how the "plot" unfolds in this "world of machine warfare", and perhaps the agency's research on Adam's accident will not lead to a global disaster such as the "Second Shock", but will lead to a local disaster, and the plot of various robots teaming up to fight against the "Apostles" who come to Earth one after another in order to contact "Adam".

Judging from the information Chu Xuan has now, it is likely that the next plot will be like this:

Although Seele safely finished to "Adam...... There should still be research work on "Lilith", but because the spear of Longinus, which had been sealing "Adam", was pulled out, the "Apostles" who were still alive somewhere on Earth or in space near Earth received the signal from "Adam", so they went to contact "Adam" and "complete" their own life form.

-- According to the theory that created the information integration mind body of Yuki Nagato, it is a living entity whose own evolution has come to a standstill, and in order to find a possible surname for self-discipline evolution, it is trying to obtain the information carried by its "distant ancestor".

And the eighteenth apostle "Li Lin", that is, among the human race, there is also such a part of the knowers who try to compete for this opportunity to make up for it - that is, the high-level of the organization "seele".

But whether they want to "represent" all mankind to compete for the opportunity to make up for it, or because they feel that no matter how human beings develop, it is impossible to defeat even the interstellar alien insects that countless cosmic civilizations that are more advanced than human beings, including the Zenith Star Man, can only flee in the wilderness, so they want to find another way...... Even early mass suicide, their purpose cannot be made public, and can only be carried out in secret.

-- Even if everyone knows that they will perish in the future, for a human being who has his or her own will to read, there is a very different difference between dying and being forced to give up his or her will to read, and not many people will agree to implement any "human completion plan".

Even the vast majority of people in the NERV organization don't know what Seele really does, and in this regard, Seele is much worse than the extreme religious environmental organization in the world of Attack on Titan.

At least the vast majority of the people in that group knew exactly what they were doing, and firmly believed that they were doing it to protect the environment and humanity itself, and Seele couldn't find even many of these "comrades" who shared his beliefs, or even enough of them to form a nerv made up entirely of "comrades".

No...... Perhaps Seele sent all of his "comrades" to various secret research institutes, and it was only in the executive agency of NERV, which was openly active and likely to be planted by various countries and organizations, that a large number of "outsiders" were used in the dark.

――This also includes Chu Xuan.

"Well, the Third Apostle in the Dead Sea Papers has actually been excavated from the permafrost, but in order to avoid causing panic among the common people, we have not released this information, but have studied it secretly.

- Actually, this was also because everyone's attention was focused on the very 'scientific' things such as the 'Zenith', the 'Alien Worm', and the other cosmic civilizations described by the Zenith, and at the beginning, few people believed that the prophecies in religious texts like the Dead Sea Papers, which had nothing to do with 'science', would come true, so Seele had to prepare to deal with the 'Apostles' on his own.

It is through the study of the Third Apostle that we have gained a great deal of first-hand information about the Apostle, which is not found in the Dead Sea Papers.

And if it weren't for Seele's proof of the existence of such a thing as an apostle, the formation of NERV would not have been understood and supported by other countries and organizations - although they still do not consider the 'apostles' to be servants of God, but rather as a biological combat weapon left over from an alien civilization that came to Earth in ancient times.

But I'm also inspired by this realization, after all, I'm a scientist first, and a researcher at NERV second. ”

Although Ritsuko Akagi's words were true, she used the most common method of a wise man like Chu Xuan, which was to narrate only a part of the truth, and use this part of the truth to direct other people's minds to the path they needed.

Of course, Ritsuko Akagi herself should not know the truth of the "Human Completion Plan", but she will definitely not be unaware of the existence of "Adam" and "Lilith", but she did not tell Chu Xuan the truth about the first and second apostles.

In the Dead Sea Papers, which can be made public, the first apostle "Adam" and the second apostle "Lilith" have long since disappeared, or are "lucky" to be fossils; The third apostle and the later apostles are different in that they are angels who are about to appear on earth to destroy sinners according to the prophesied "end of the world."

As for the purpose of the establishment of NERV, it is not to cooperate with the "apostles" to purify the earth, but to fight against the angels sent by God to protect the earth and protect mankind, so they will write "God~is~in~his~heaven, alls~right~with~the~world" on the logo of NERV.

"God dwells in the sky, and the world is peaceful", which actually means that God, your old man, only obediently bless mankind in heaven, as long as your old man does not send the world-destroying angel to make trouble, the world will be peaceful.

Of course, since the world is now peaceful, then the angel of destruction sent by God, an old fool, is naturally "illegal", and human beings must take up arms to defend their "legitimate" right to exist in this world, even if they want to point weapons at God's apostles.

In order to accomplish this, they dug up "Adam" from the fossil again and locked it in the "Central Dogma" in the deepest part of the underground base of the Third New Tokyo City, the fortress where humans faced the "Apostles", in order to lure the Apostles, who had to come into contact with "Adam" to launch the "Second Impact", to fight against humans at the chosen battle site of the Humans.

In this way, the apostles who do not know which day will appear occupy only the "heavenly time", but the human race occupies both "location" and "people", and the odds of victory are increased. (To be continued.) )