The Apostle came out of the lake, it had slender legs and looked like a giant spider.

NERV detected it in advance, but it appeared in a location quite close to the city of Tokyo No. 3, and if the N2 mine was used at this location, it would be blown up along with the NERV headquarters, so there was no way to stop its advance by conventional means, so the only way to do so was to send EVA.

Now, there is only one EVA that can be used: the zero unit piloted by Rei Ayana.

(Diagram of machine zero)

"The Apostle is expected to arrive in the third Tokyo City in ten minutes, Rei, get ready to meet the attack." Deputy Commander Dongyue gave instructions during the call.

"Okay." Limboli had entered the insertion bolt.

The third city of New Tokyo was originally created to fight the apostles, and once the apostles arrived, the inhabitants were evacuated to the underground evacuation area.

Many of the weapons and cables used by the EVA are hidden in the city's buildings, and EVA has a unique advantage in fighting here, and the battles against the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Apostles in the past were all fought in the city of Third New Tokyo.

Machine Zero ejected from the underground base, and Rei Ayanami saw the new Apostle, its slender legs shuttling through the city, walking quickly.

It has many eye-like organs on its body, all over which it is located except for its legs.

(Rain Angel Picture)

The fighters first attacked the Apostle to test its capabilities.

The honeycomb missile swarm was launched, exploding on the surface of the guy's body, and then, from the apostle's eyes, a dark-colored bodily fluid was ejected, and the liquid rained down and splashed onto the metal surface of the fighter, making a sizzling sound.

It was a highly corrosive liquid, and even the alloy would be quickly melted, and the fighter that was drenched by the apostle's bodily fluids had a dysfunctional, and someone was poured into the face by the dripping bodily fluids from the cockpit, and let out a heart-rending cry.

The warplane crashed on the ground, and the place where the apostles had passed became a dead silence, and the trees and grass quickly withered and died.

"Is that what it's capable of?" Dongyue's complexion is not good.

"MAGI has analyzed the core location of the apostle!" Ritsuko Akagi tuned the results of the analysis into the cockpit: "It's its eyes!" ”

"It has a lot of eyes." Rei Ayanami manipulated the Zero machine and picked up the rifle.

"The core is underneath its body."

Ritsuko Akagi pulls up surveillance footage from the street, and the camera captures the Apostle walking above, where there is a huge eye, dripping acid rain downward.

"Ayana, you're going to use the Blessing Spear or the Particle Shock Knife to break that eye!"

"Just rush over like that?" Rei Ayanami asked.

"Is there nothing you can do about it?" Deputy Commander Dongyue asked.

"The apostle's acid is so corrosive that only EVA can get close to it now. Only one EVA can be used" Ritsuko Akagi said, "unless the second unit is started"

"Nope." Dongyue refused: "We can't predict what that kid will do when he gets on the second plane, at least it's not time to rely on her." ”

"That's just going to leave the task to Ayanami alone." Ritsuko Akagi sighed.

"I see." Rei Ayanami nodded.

Without further ado, Machine Zero rushed towards the Apostle.

At this moment, downstairs in the tall building, someone is also paying attention to this scene.

"The Ninth Apostle, Rain Angel, this guy should be the apostle with the worst frontal combat ability, and he can kill it with a lucky spear."

Ian stood downstairs, looking at the massive creature from a distance.

"It's okay, Mr. Bless, tell the self-team to cut off the power."

"Now?" Blessing Ryoji hesitated slightly: "But. . The agreement with the self-war team is to give priority to the elimination of the Apostle, and if the power of Unit Zero is cut off, there will be no EVA to fight the Apostle."

"Five minutes of backup power is enough, and I'll go to backup." Ian said.

"Okay." Bless Ryoji nodded and pressed the enter key on the computer.

Inside the NERV headquarters, there was a click, the electric gate tripped, and the base was plunged into complete darkness.

"What's going on!" Winter Moon slaps the table.

It was the tense moment of the battle with the Apostle, and on the screen, Machine Zero rushed towards the Apostle, but suddenly, all the equipment that used electricity failed.

"The mains power stops working, the voltage is zero!" Ritsuko Akagi said.

"Switch to backup power!" Winter Moon waved.

"No, we can't connect to backup power!"

The employees of the technical department frantically adjusted the equipment, but nothing happened.

"How so, is there still a line that works?" The winter moon is in a hurry.

"It's only 1.2 percent, and it's the old line after 2567." The technical department replied.

"Damn! It's just this time! Dongyue clenched his fist: "Can you still get in touch with machine zero?" ”

"The external signal has been cut off, and I can't talk to the driver of machine zero, and it is expected that machine zero has been switched to backup power!"

"Feed all the remaining electricity to MAGI and the Central Dogma Zone!" Dongyue gritted her teeth, hesitated for a moment and said, "Ritsuko, you go and release the pilot of the second machine, the backup power of the second machine can still be active for five minutes, let her go to support Li, and definitely not let the apostle invade the central dogma area!" ”

"I see." Ritsuko Akagi nodded.

She hurried out of the command room and made her way to the cell with the others.

Due to the power outage, all elevators and gates were inoperable, and she had to climb the emergency ladder to reach her cell.

On the ground, Rei Ayanami also sensed the anomaly.

A five-minute countdown appears on the screen in the upper right corner, indicating that the power to her and HQ has been cut off, and EVA is now using a backup battery.

"What's going on? Isn't the cable still plugged in? Rei Ayanami wondered, "Call headquarters, can you hear me?" ”

No one responded, and she lost contact with NERV headquarters.

The apostle was close at hand, there was no way, she couldn't retreat at this time, she could only go up hard.

Machine Zero continued to sprint forward, approaching the Rain Angel.

The Apostle sensed the arrival of Machine Zero, and all eyes turned in the same direction, and a large amount of acid spewed out.

Using the building as a cover, Zero dodged the first attack, and then continued to approach.

The apostle stopped unleashing acid rain in all directions and concentrated on his current opponent.

As the minutes ticked by, and with three minutes left in the countdown to the backup power, Unit Zero finally approached the Apostle's side.

At such a close distance, she had to carry the acid hard, shuttle underneath the apostle, and shoot at the core.

This is the only chance, if it is missed, the zero machine that has lost its power will no longer be able to move, and even the AT force field will disappear.

Rei Ayanami waited for her chance, and in the gap between the apostle's acid jets, she didn't hesitate to push the lever and run forward, however, she miscalculated.

The Rain Angel's fighting instinct was even more powerful than she thought, and the acid seemed to be sprayed all at Unit Zero, but in fact, a considerable part of it was used to corrode the bottom of the surrounding floors.

The buildings were crumbling, and the Zero made a violent vibration as it ran, and the Rain Angel added another blow, and to the bottom of those buildings, click, the buildings on the street fell.

The ruins smashed on the body of Unit Zero, and obstacles appeared in the way on the originally flat ground, and the acid made the ground slippery, and Unit Zero tripped and fell to the ground in the process of desperate sprinting.

The battle between EVA and the Apostle is only a matter of one move.

The rain angel's eyes were focused, aiming at the fallen machine zero.

"Suffered."

Rei Ayanami could feel that Zero's AT force field was neutralized, and the blow would melt the EVA, and the corrosive acid would penetrate the plug, melting her into a puddle of blood.

"Ikaru-kun. Looks like I'm done with it too."

At this most dangerous moment, what appeared in front of her eyes was not Ikari Gendo, but the face of Shinji Ikari.

It was that night that she and Shinji Ikari joined hands to defeat the Thunder Angel, and Shinji Ikari unscrewed the plug with a tearful smile.

However, things didn't go her way, and instead of spraying Zero's body, the Rain Angel's acid sprayed diagonally into the sky, melting a distant building into molten iron.

The Rain Angel, falling, leans backwards, exposing its core.

Rei Ayanami's reaction was swift, and she seized the only opportunity to raise her rifle and shoot at the core!

Sudden Sudden Sudden Sudden Sudden

The bullet flickered, and the bullet hit the rain angel's biggest eye, and the creature's energy was disordered, and it exploded with a thud of violent sparks.

Before Unit Zero ran out of power, Rei Ayanami saw the figure helping her.

It was the Musical Angel, about twenty meters or so, a crystallized Musical Angel that grabbed the Rain Angel's hind legs and lifted the creature backwards.

"Is that guy back?"

"Why do you want to help me?"

Rei Ayanami has a question, but the countdown in the upper right corner of the screen has gone to zero.

The light inserted into the plug dimmed, and she entered the driver's life support mode, completely disconnecting from the outside world.

"The Ninth Apostle, the Rain Angel, has been annihilated." Ian reverted back to his human form and spoke over the intercom, "Assault, Captain." ”

"I see, everyone, forward!"

Levi, who is dormant, appears with the crowd, equipped with three-dimensional mobile devices around their waists, and they are like Spider-Man, moving forward in the high-rise buildings.

Blessor Ryoji, who is in a confined building, uses a computer to connect with the troops, and tells them which direction to move in with simple instructions.

Blessing Ryoji explained: "The purpose is to take Dr. Ritsuko Akagi hostage, the Japanese self-war team has reached an agreement with us, as long as the evidence of the truth of the second attack is brought out, they will assist us in occupying the NERV headquarters!" ”

Among these people, there is a man named Hanji who has learned basic Japanese in just ten days, and although he is still very unproficient, he can already have a simple conversation with him, and that person is also in this assault mission.

Outside Zero, Ian came to the location of EVA's spine.

"Judging from the experience of the No. 4 machine, the location of the plug should be here."

He found a bearing, condensed his huge arms, dismantled the iron plate there, and forcibly pulled out the insertion bolt.

The Fish Angel was lying dormant in the offshore sea under his orders, and the S2 trap was also there, so he was using his own physical strength now.

There is no way, there is only one S2 mechanism, if you bring the fish angel to the land, the movement is too big, that thing is five or six meters big, weighs more than three tons, and it is impossible to carry it with you.

However, a few days ago, he had already reached an agreement with the Japanese self-fighting team.

It was a sunny afternoon, and he broke into the Prime Minister's Office together with the Survey Corps, which was equipped with a three-dimensional mobile device.

Almost effortlessly, they broke into that heavily guarded place, and the performance of the three-dimensional mobile device in this kind of task is perfect, not to mention that Levi exists in this world in the form of crystallized people, and can ignore ordinary bullets, even if they are hit, there are snatched body armor to cushion the impact.

He approached the upper echelons of the government and created an opportunity for conversation to bless good governance.

With his superb negotiation skills, Ryoji Blesse made his position clear, while exposing the doubts in NERV, SEELE, and the second shock.

Originally, Blesser Ryoji was a spy in Japan, and he said to the people in the self-war team, I was just following the orders you gave me to investigate the underground circuit diagram of NERV, but suddenly a group of people came and attacked us.

It was a secret negotiation that lasted until the early hours of the next morning, and Ryoji managed to convince the Sentai team.

He handed over the underground circuit diagram that he had drawn during that month, and according to the original progress, he would not have until the Ninth Apostle appeared, and he would almost hand over this information to the self-fighting team, but with Ian's help, the drawing efficiency was much faster.

On that day, when SEELE's troops came to carry out the mission, in fact, the drawing of the circuit diagram was almost completed, and only a few dilapidated old lines had not been investigated, which was actually irrelevant.

"Okay." The top management of the Japanese self-war team replied: "We can let the NERV temporarily cut off the power, but this incident has nothing to do with our side, and it is all your own behavior." ”

"Unless you can produce solid evidence that the second assault was indeed orchestrated by NERV and SEELE, we will not be further involved."

In other words, the Japanese government has basically agreed with the information of Blessing Ryoji, but there is still something substantial, and if it can come up with substantive information, then the self-fighting teams that are preparing for war in the vicinity will be dispatched to occupy the NERV headquarters with them.

If they can't get it, then the self-team will still maintain a clear harmony with NERV, but the seeds of suspicion have been planted, and they will investigate the suspicions behind NERV and SEELE themselves, and maybe launch a military operation against NERV like the original trajectory.

After all, in this world, not everyone agrees with the human completion plan, at least not the people of the self-war team, and their most fundamental purpose is to prevent the occurrence of the third impact.

Everyone has a common purpose, and they can naturally become allies, and blessing good governance is the middle rope of this alliance.

He has this circumferential social and negotiation skills, and as a blessed good rule as a spy, he is impeccable.

"The third new Tokyo, after more than a month, I'm back."

Ian stared at the apartment building where he had lived, the place in his field of vision, but not in the area where the Rain Angel had passed.

The apartment building was far away, and I could barely see the complex.

He was quite familiar with this place, and he had lived here peacefully for almost two months, and it was difficult to be familiar with it.

The insertion bolt of machine zero was forcibly taken out by him, and Rei Ayanami inside felt something strange, and the insertion bolt was unscrewed, and the LCL was discharged, and she saw the sunlight and the person standing in front of the insertion bolt.

"It's you, the one who killed Shinji Ikari." Rei Ayanami looked at Ian's face expressionlessly, "Are you here to kill me?" ”

"Kill you?" Ian was stunned by Rei Ayanami's question for a moment, but quickly reacted and replied, "Why do you think that?" Do I have a reason to kill you? ”

"But you killed Ikaru-kun." Rei Ayanami said.

"Shinji is still alive, alive and well." Ian stretched out his hand: "If you want to see him, just grab me, and I'll pull you out." ”

Rei Ayanami hesitated, but still held out her hand, she felt that Ian had not lied to her.

There is no special reason, if I have to say it, it is a woman's sixth sense.

The person in front of him felt different from the others who gave Rei Ayana, as if he could know if he was lying.

(End of chapter)