"Mr. Ian, the second machine is really amazing!" Shinji's eyes sparkled: "Kill the apostle in a few clicks!" ”

As the pilot of the first machine, Shinji knows very well what it is like to fly an EVA, and he has only recently operated the first machine to fight the three apostles.

To tell the truth, the battle was so tragic that he felt that he was dead.

Until now, he didn't quite understand how the first machine defeated the Water Angel and the Day Angel.

Thunder Angel that time, with the Zero machine to cooperate with him, and also used a new electromagnetic cannon, it was understandable to defeat the apostle, but the first two battles were completely a hellish torture for him.

Especially when he piloted the first machine to fight the water angel, he didn't know that he was here to fly the EVA at first.

Until the age of fourteen, he had been living an ordinary life, but suddenly one day he was asked to drive that kind of super-large robot to fight monsters to the death, and told him that the consequences of failure were the destruction of the whole world, and he was not prepared at all.

He fought the apostles hard, because he couldn't do it without it.

But today's battle between the Second Machine and the Sixth Apostle was different from any of the three battles he had ever participated in.

Machine Two almost won with a crushing attitude, and the Apostle was no match at all.

He suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was much lighter, and it turned out that there was such a powerful foreign aid.

The combination of Ian and Asuka made him feel very reassured, as if he had found a support.

"Shinji-kun is also very powerful." Ian touched Shinji Ikari's head and praised, "I've read the information, and the first machine saved the world three times." ”

Shinji scratched his head embarrassedly, "It's all luck, I'm just a layman, far worse than the well-trained second qualifier." ”

As he spoke, the second plane jumped up from the bottom of the sea, rolled after an elegant back, and landed perfectly.

The plug-in hatch opened, and the iron-white capsule popped out.

Asuka, who was in the cockpit, controlled the LCL drain and opened the cockpit from the inside.

She grabbed the steel bar at the entrance, flipped it out with quick movements, and stood on the back of machine two.

The fiery red combat uniform reflected the sunlight, and Asuka looked down at Shinji Ikari.

"What's the matter, third qualified, now you know how big the gap between the second machine and your prototype model is!"

Shinji nodded, "Asuka-san, you're really powerful." ”

"You should be happy to have Miss Ben come to Japan to support." Asuka laughed.

Shinji echoed embarrassedly, although the second qualified person is very powerful, but the personality is not very likable.

"Asuka, let's come down and rest for a while." Misato Katsuragi's voice came from below: "You are doing very well, but don't be too arrogant, you and Shinji will be companions in the future, and you need to take care of him more." ”

"Cut." Asuka looked around a few times and asked, "Mr. Blessing?" Isn't he there? ”

Speaking of blessing Ryoji, Misato was angry, that bastard had left so many people behind and fled alone on a plane.

"Don't mention that bastard, you come down first, Ritsuko will bring someone over to assess the extent of the damage to the second machine in a moment."

"It's boring." Asuka shrugged, and while they were chatting, Ian had already found someone to push the gangway for boarding.

Asuka held the handle of the gangway and left the second unit safely.

Ian answered her with a hand and handed her a clean towel.

Her hair was still wet, and she had to be in a confined environment filled with LCL when driving the EVA, and although humans could get oxygen directly from the LCL liquid, it wasn't a comfortable feeling to be filled with water to fill her lungs, because it was actually a bit sticky.

"Very beautiful victory, Asuka." Ian gave a thumbs up.

"I'll give you a credit this time." Asuka grabbed a towel to wipe her face and turned around: "I'll leave the rest to you, I'll go take a shower first." ”

Asuka put on a towel and walked to the cabin's bathroom.

Misato Katsuragi's eyes shifted to Ian's face: "You're the assistant who blesses Ryoji?" ”

"Yes." Ian nodded, "I've admired Miss Katsuragi's name for a long time, and when Mr. Blessing was in Germany, he often mentioned you." ”

"Him?" Misato Katsuragi snorted coldly: "I'll settle accounts with him when I go back." ”

"I don't think you'll come to work with me in the future, that bastard is not reliable at all."

"Mr. Blessing just has too many things to worry about, and I am actually very taken care of by him." Ian politely declined Misato Katsuragi's offer.

He will still use a fake identity, if he runs to Miri, once someone tracks down his file, there may be a horse's foot.

I still have to rely on the blessing of Ryoji to move smoothly here, not to mention anything else, the ability to bless Ryoji is still very strong, but he is the man who stole Adam's embryo from SEELE, and he is still a triple agent, if it weren't for the too long play in the back, and found out too deep, the intelligence bureau really couldn't help him.

"You're very capable, and you're simply condescending to that bastard." Misato was not reconciled: "At such a young age, you can make such quick judgments and actions on the battlefield, if it weren't for you, we would really be in danger, I'm serious, come and work with me." ”

Although he didn't want to admit it, Misato did feel that he was a head worse than the young German man at the moment.

She really wanted to dig Ian into her and cultivate it well.

"I'm very grateful to Miss Misato for her appreciation, but let's go back to NERV headquarters for this kind of thing."

"Okay."

Seeing Ian's resolute attitude, Misato knew it would be difficult to poach him.

"Then it's not out of bounds to help, the body of the sixth apostle is left under the sea, you come and help me talk to those old guys, let them help scoop up the sixth apostle, this is a rare harvest, it can make mankind understand the apostle better."

"Okay." Ian nodded.

He himself was curious about the Apostles, and Ian felt that there was something worth digging into about the core of the Apostles and the source of their power.

In a short time, the fleet helped drag the huge body of the fish angel to the surface of the sea.

It was a hundred-meter-tall behemoth, and the adult blue whale was nothing in front of it.

Ian stood by the harbor of Shin-Yokosuka, looking at the body of the fish angel, he frowned, and felt a strange fluctuation coming from the fish angel's body, a faint fluctuation like "life".

But the fish angel was indeed defeated by the second machine, and he was already dead and could not die again.

He was a little puzzled, but at the moment, there were many people staring, and he couldn't go to the fish angel's body to find out, so he could only keep an eye on it first.

However, although he couldn't get out of it himself, he had other means.

He found an excuse to go to the ship to get something, went to the unmanned lookout alone, and created Levi's "crystallized puppet".

Ian and Levi illustrate the situation.

"That is, do you want me to go and see that monster's belly?"

"Yes, I'm sorry for you, Captain Levi."

"That's it, it's disgusting, but it's not my body anyway, I'll take a look for you."

Levi jumped from the lookout two or three times.

His foray into the water was so light that everyone's attention was on the giant monster, and no one noticed the small splash that was splashing here.

Ian was able to communicate directly with Levi, it was a body he had made, and there was an invisible connection between the two.

"At this time, the crystallized puppet is very convenient." "Nothing is omitted from the diving equipment," Ian said. ”

"Indeed." Beneath the surface of the water, Levi nodded.

This body doesn't need to breathe, and it doesn't need to think about injury, it's just a disposable.

In some cases, this can be more effective than the main body, such as carrying a bomb to a suicide attack.

If you don't consider your own survival rate, when you are besieged by many people, you can still use the game of exchanging injuries for injuries.

Even if he encounters a human with a firearm, Levi can resist it with the strength of the material of the crystalline golem.

It's just that there is a little bit of delay in operation, and there is also the problem of durability and explosiveness, and the durability and explosiveness of the crystalline puppet are fixed, and they can only play to the average level, and there is no way to suddenly explode.

"Still. The technology in this world is really advanced." Levi sighed beneath the water's surface.

He could see the ruins beneath the water's surface, even if it was just wreckage, and he could see how prosperous it had been.

"That building looks like it's thirty or forty floors." Levi stared at a collapsed skyscraper: "There are a lot of cars, and their roads are beautiful." ”

"Their basic technology is at least a hundred years ahead of us." Ian replied, "In some ways, it's probably more than a hundred years ahead of us, and the humans here are free from the shackles of gravity, they can build rockets, launch satellites into outer space, and build bases on the moon." ”

"Hey, hey, that sounds horrible, too." Levi had mixed feelings.

Ten years ago, he was riding a horse, cutting giants on the island of Paradis, using kerosene lamps, eating wheat husk bread, and even electric lamps appeared to him for the first time years ago.

And at this moment, he actually talked about outer space, and there was a sense of absurdity that cattle and horses were incompatible.

Looking up at the huge monster, it made him feel like a dream.

"Shall I go to the moon one day?" Levi sighed.

"There's a chance." Ian said, "That wave is right above you, go ahead, Captain Levi." ”

"Okay." Levi began to put his head down to work.

The monster's body, blown to tatters, was full of holes.

The Fish Angel, having lost the position of the AT, could not remain intact under the explosion of the torpedo.

Levi was in the blind spot of his vision, burrowing from his belly into the belly of the fish angel.

It was dark in front of me, and I couldn't see anything.

Ian gave him a waterproof flashlight, which he turned on to illuminate the place, surrounded by a cold field of flesh.

Levi followed Ian's instructions and walked around this intricate dark space.

"That's the front."

The light of the flashlight shone on the steel.

It was a huge knife, and a broken red orb that was much taller than Billywell's body.

"That's the core of the apostle, Captain, you try to make contact with the broken core."

"Okay." Levi walked up to the core and reached out to touch it.

Ian felt it, the faint fluctuation.

It was the soul of the fish angel, and although the body was broken, the soul of the fish angel had not completely dissipated.

But it was also very soon, although the life of the apostle, although the body was very powerful, with a large size and a terrifying AT force field, the soul was very fragile.

They are creatures born from the fruit of life and possess great vitality, but at the cost of their lack of intelligence and only act according to instinct.

If you leave it alone, I'm afraid that the soul of the fish angel won't be able to last even half a day, and it will turn into a void element.

Ian thought about it and chose to take the soul of the fish angel with him.

He came to the coordinates, and although it was completely dark, there was a faint light where Levi was, and the soul of the fish angel shone faintly like a firefly.

Levi reached out and picked up the light.

Subsequently, the crystallized golem collapsed, and his soul returned to the grotesque worm.

The soul must be placed on the body in order to exist for a long time, and Ian holds the soul of the fish angel in the palm of his hand.

If you want to save this soul that is about to dissipate, you must nurture it.

Ian connects with the soul of the fish angel through the grotesque worm, and does not feel any emotions, the fish angel is like a blank slate, it comes here, but it is the instinct of life, so that it tries to make contact with Adam's embryo.

It's a very simple thing to control.

"I'm sorry for you, Captain." Ian said, "I'll have to bring it to my body, see you next time." ”

"Okay, be careful." Levi is gone.

Ian returned to reality, and he kept the soul of the fish angel in his body.

He had an idea, if he could make a crystallized Levi, why couldn't he make a crystallized apostle?

The soul of the fish angel is already in his hands, and with some effort, he can make the fish angel reappear.

An apostle controlled by him, although he can't restore the full strength of the apostle, and he can't restore the size of the fish angel, but there should be no problem in creating an AT force field for defense, and he has already seen this possibility when he comes into contact with the soul of the fish angel.

"Good baby, sleep well, and the good days in the future will depend on you." Ian patted his left shoulder, where the soul of the fish angel rested.

He left the ship and returned to the port.

In the distance, NERV's helicopters flew.

Dr. Ritsuko Akagi arrives at the port of Shin-Yokosuka.

"It's amazing to set a new record for the synchronization rate." Ritsuko stared at the data called up in the second machine, and her face was surprised.

"I'm not alone." Asuka said, "Everyone has helped me a lot. ”

Asuka looked at Ian and waved her hand.

Shinji Ikari, who was standing on the sidelines and was bored, ran to Ian happily and chatted with the big brother.

(End of chapter)