Chapter 2000: The City of Demonic Mist in the Dead World (15)

—2015.6.17—
EVA proving ground.
"[The first machine successfully started!]"
"[The synchronization rate is unstable, fluctuating between 30% and 70%!]"
"[Shinji-kun? Are you okay? If not, let Zero attack alone this time.]"
"It's okay, isn't the driver only mentally hurt? I've been lying down for 5 days, and everything is fine," Ikari Shinji sat in the insertion bolt, raised his hand to touch the head that was holding him [Curry Kuri] Chestnut Ball: "[Sorry for worrying you]."
"[No, I'm the one who needs to be sorry, I sent you to attack without adequate investigation work, and now I have to fight again just after waking up,]" Misato Katsuragi said with a bit of remorse: "[ When this battle is over, I will compensate you well.

Come on, what is this cursed statement of "you will die in this battle"?
"[Since the synchronization rate is still unstable, let's keep the No. 1 unit activated for the time being. Let's familiarize yourself with the weapons to be used next, and practice with Zero by the way.]" Misato Katsuragi continued.
No. 0, Ikari Shinji subconsciously remembered the giant girl in the illusion with a huge horn on her head who attacked NERV hysterically. She should not appear again...
bang, bang, bang.
With the sound of heavy footsteps, the No. 0 machine came over from the test site next door—theoretically it could only be the orange No. 0 machine.
But in Ikari Shinji's eyes, what he saw was a short silver-blue hair, short green sharp horns on his forehead, red-rimmed glasses on his face, wearing a collection of garden-style dead reservoir water, and was using no focus. Her red eyes stared at her super-giant girl.
Although he is very dissatisfied with the father leaving his mother and son alone... but he is really strong...
"[Good afternoon, Shinji-kun.]" Ayanami's voice came from the internal communication.
With the voice, the image of the giant girl disappeared in an instant, leaving only the orange one-eyed, the model number zero, which was not as cool as the first number, and it was even raising its hand to say hello to itself.
"Good afternoon, Ayanami." Ikari Shinji also asked the first machine to raise his hand to respond.
"[You... Forget it, it's a good thing to be relaxed, now, go to the arsenal to try out your equipment - open the guide channel! 】"
Following the command of Katsuragi Misato, the walls of the airframe testing ground opened to both sides, revealing a long and wide passage.
Ikari Shinji waited for Unit 0 to approach and walked in with it.
"Speaking of which, although I have seen the zero machine start, but I have not fought side by side." He said as he walked.
"[Yes.]" Ayanami was still succinct.
"Although Unit 0 is numbered higher than Unit 1, Unit 1 who has gone through two battles is the senior."
"【Um.】"
"So, if you don't understand anything about fighting the apostles, you can come and ask me."
"…"
No. 0 machine tilted his head to look at No. 1 machine.
Oops...because the atmosphere was a bit suitable, she started talking nonsense casually, where did she need to teach herself how to deal with the apostles?
Ikari Shinji was about to say something to make up for it, but Unit 0 had turned his head back.
"[Okay, 'senior'.]" Lingbo Ling replied.
"..." For a while, it was unclear whether the information integration thinking body was doing something.
"[I said, although it should be easy, but you guys are a little too easy? Now it's...]" Katsuragi Miri paused in the middle of his lecture: "[What? The synchronization rate of the first machine is stable at 65%? That's fine , you continue to talk.]"
—
Appearing in front of Ikari Shinji was a giant firearm that looked like Barrett. The whole body was black. The super-long barrel was connected to many cables with unknown functions. The parts of the gun body also had various bloated modifications. .
"[Shinji-kun, this is the firearm I specially prepared for this 'Operation Yashima',]" Ritsuko Akagi seemed to have grabbed Miri Katsuragi's microphone: "['EVA special positive electron gun·Ring acceleration type trial 20 type ·Change', pick it up and try it?]"
The gun body is bloated and the name is long-winded... Ikari Shinji looked at the new card that appeared in front of him.
[Light Gun: Equipped only for "Elemental Hero Electric Light Man", it can change the position of enemy monsters up to three times. 】
What the hell? Even if the attack power is not increased, you are too embarrassed to call it a gun?
Ikari Shinji controlled the first machine to pick up the gun and tried to weigh it: "It's too heavy, Akashi... Ritsuko sister, it's hard to move it with it."
"[This is not for you to run around with it, didn't you say it before? This time it's a 'super long-distance sniper operation',]" Akagi Ritsuko said: "[At that time, you only need to put the target into the crosshair, and then Just pull the trigger.]"
Um? In this case, this card is useful. If the fifth apostle spreads itself out and forms a cross, it is considered an "attack position", then the light gun can force it back to the regular octahedron "defense position", but that thing Isn't it "God"? Magic traps are ineffective.
【Curry Curry~】
Oh, the trap doesn't work and the magic only lasts for one turn?
So this card can be used three times in a single card, isn't it a day to overcome it?
"..." Ikari Shinji froze for a while, looked at the chestnut ball, and said in his heart: Just say a few more words?
【Curry Curry~】
Well, I can't understand it again, and I don't know what the principle is, so let it go.
"But that thing will also fight back? If I can't move, wouldn't I become a target?" Ikari Shinji made a reasonable analysis based on the actual situation.
"[Hmph, it's time for another special weapon to appear at this time! Dangdang!]" Akagi Ritsuko even added a sound effect for himself: "[EVA special heat-resistant light wave defense shield · Change 2]! Zero, go try."
Another weapon workshop opened, but a huge and thick black circular cross shield appeared.
But the card that appears because of it is very beautifully bling.
[Millennium Shield: Attack: 0, Defense: 3000]
Um? Um? Ikari Shinji had seen this shield before, and was once held by the "Guardian of the Giant Shield". But that guy's attribute is 100 attack, 2600 defense, and sacrificed four times the defense in order to increase his attack ability by 100 points.
Although Ayanami's ability as a "qualified person" is different from his own, he can't use it if he can't see the card, but just looking at the defense points, he is almost invincible in the world.
He watched Unit 0 step forward to take off the giant shield, and tried to put on a few defensive postures, his heart settled.
This is steady.
—2015.6.17—
Yashima, Futako Mountain.
Destroying the Fifth Apostle with one blow from a long distance was a simple plan, but it was quite troublesome to implement.
Ikari Shinji sat on the restraint frame flush with the first machine, watching the NERV staff below busy, charging the "Light Gun" and setting up defensive positions for the "Millennium Shield".
During the five days they were in a coma, they used a variety of self-propelled artillery drones and even missiles to test the longest counter-attack distance of the Fifth Apostle and the strength of the AT force field, and then they came up with this sniper plan.
The current position is "the limit of the distance that will not be counterattacked before launching an attack". Although it is not that I don't want to directly arrange a super long distance that cannot be counterattacked, the power of the weapon will be greatly reduced, and it is not enough to penetrate the Apostle's AT force field. .
According to the plan, there are only two attack opportunities in this battle. If the first hit is missed, the No. 0 machine will raise the shield to defend the apostle's attack and support it until the second hit is ready. If the second time is not hit, either sacrifice Zero The No. 1 plane buys time for the third strike, or abandons the battle plan and fights a decisive battle in the underground fortress with only a 13% chance of winning.
But for Shinji Ikari, the "ball lightning" that is not a direct attack is the real threat. It does not exist in reality and cannot be countered, but it can accurately destroy his own monsters. If there is no way to deal with it, the reality The sniper plan also failed to materialize.
"Ayanami," he said to Rei Ayanami on the other side of the restraint frame, "you say, since they are called Angels, will there be Gods?"
Although that dragon doesn't look like a god, but what Chestnut Ball clearly said...
"Yes, I am."
"...Don't follow the words of the 'Information Integrated Mind Body'."
"Not it."
"Well..." Ikari Shinji spent more than ten seconds trying to understand what she was talking about, and found that it was indeed the case.
"Angels" are created by "God", and "God" can easily create and destroy the world.
The "Apostle" was created by "Eve", who can also create and destroy the world.
And Ayanami zero is roughly equal to Eve, roughly equal to "God".
There's nothing wrong with this logic.
Although it has nothing to do with the dragon that I want to ask about.
"Forget it, I just felt it, it's about time, let's go back and insert the bolt." Ikari Shinji stood up.
"Wait." Ayanami stopped him.
"what?"
"Even if it's a 'God,'" Ayanami said, "you can defeat it."
"Borne your good words." Ikari Shinji waved his hand and stepped off the restraint frame.
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[Elemental Hero Electric Man, Attack: 1600, Defense: 1400]
【Light Gun】
Not very surprising, or rather, not surprising at all.
Shinji Ikari summoned Electron—a lanky "hero" in blue-clothed gold armor, though quite human-like in its entirety, but metal was okay to say—and equipped him with a stun gun.
【Curry Curry! 】The chestnut ball swung its little paws desperately.
"[Shinji-kun! Zero! There is a high-energy reaction inside the apostle!]"
Since he aimed at the fifth apostle with that yang electron gun, the duel plate appeared automatically, obviously entering the battle, but since the opponent chose to wait and see, Shinji Ikari didn't mind waiting for an extra two minutes.
I'm waiting for the card draw, what are you waiting for?
Unexpectedly, when the Electric Light Man appeared, the fifth apostle, who had turned into a red giant dragon, opened the first mouth on its head and smashed a ball of lightning straight at it.
At the beginning, Blister Man just ate this and disappeared immediately, but that was because the distance was too close, and it was too late to react, but now, at such a distance, the thunderball would have to fly for a while, so I now Can-
Activate the light gun effect and turn the enemy monster into defense position!
"[Kakaka—]" The red giant roared unwillingly, and fell down, and the half-flying thunderball disappeared.
"[Uh, wait, Shinji-kun, it was a false report just now, and the high-energy reaction in the apostle disappeared.]"
That was not a false positive, Ikari Shinji raised his hand to draw a card.
【Elemental Hero · Bubble Man】
He hesitated, without trying to summon it.
In the case that the distance is too far to carry out close combat, the Yang Electron Cannon is the only means of attack. If you continue to summon monsters and let it emit the kind of thunderballs aimed at the newly emerged monsters, it will be troublesome if the Electron Cannon is destroyed.
"[Kakaka-]"
A minute later, the red dragon looked up and was pressed down by the electric light gun.
The next minute, it was repeated again, but this time, the equipment magic card of the electric light gun exploded and disappeared.
The two newly drawn cards by Shinji Ikari are:
【Elemental Hero · Clayman】
[United Heroes: When there are "heroes" on the field, summon two other "heroes" from the hand. 】
It seems... there is no way to overcome the enemy and win, do they all call out a gang fight? What to do if attacked by a thunderball?
"[Shinji-kun! The Yang Electron Cannon is fully charged, and it can be fired after confirming the aiming!]"
Anyway, let's take a shot and try it out.
coke—
At the same time that the yang electron gun on the first pilot excites the blue light beam, the red dragon also raised its head and sprayed the white dragon breath at this side.
The two sides met halfway, entangled with each other a little, and then all went in irrelevant directions.
The lightning thrown from the hands of Electron, who launched the attack in sync, also crooked, blowing a little smoke around the red dragon.
However, this behavior is not useless. After the smoke dissipated, the card data of the red dragon, which was originally only an image, appeared.
【■■■■■■■, Attack: 7000, Defense: 7000】
[For every card in the hand, the attack and defense increase by 1000 points. 】
Is it even waiting for a card draw? !
"[The Yang Electron Cannon is urgently charged, and there are 50 seconds left in the re-launch time!]"
"[Zero! Defend!]"
Bang bang bang, No. 0 machine hurriedly held a shield and came to the defensive position in front of No. 1 machine's sniper position and set up a shield.
"[Ka-]" The dragon breath of the red dragon struck again, but it was completely blocked by the zero machine.
Lingbo Ling didn't have her own card system, so naturally she couldn't see the dragon's breath. What she actually endured was the constant apostle beam that almost burned through the first machine. Under the burning beam, the "Millennium Shield" It is melting at a speed visible to the naked eye, and when it is completely destroyed, the AT force field of the No. 0 machine and the No. 0 machine itself are on top.
Due to the existence of the emergency ejection system, Rei Ayanami himself will be fine, but he may sacrifice Unit 0...
Ikari Shinji was anxiously waiting for the Yang Electron Cannon to charge and draw cards, when an illusion suddenly appeared in front of him.
The girl with short silver-blue hair and long horns on her forehead was wearing a set of dark armor, holding a giant shield to block the dragon's breath. The white light of the dragon's breath became more and more intense, and the shield gradually collapsed. She just turned her head slightly to look at herself, and the corners of her eyes and mouth were slightly bent, causing a shallow smile to appear on her expressionless face.
asshole! God is amazing! ? Is the 7000 attack amazing? ?
Ikari Shinji ignored the card draw interval, raised his hand to hold down the deck, and just dragged a card down from the top.
【■■■■■■: Attack: ? defense:? 】
The original vague card name, the card face and description were instantly clear under Ikari Shinji's stare.
[The Winged Dragon of the Sun God: Attack: ? defense:? 】
[Need to liberate three monsters to summon. 】
[When the summoning is successful, the HP (AT force field strength) can be reduced to 100, and the attack and defense are equal to the reduced value. 】
"Unity of Heroes" summons "Bubble Man" and "Clayman", liberates the three to summon "Helios Wing Dragon", lowers the AT force field to 100, increases the attack of "Helios Wing God" to 7900, and then—
"[Although I don't know why! But the Yang Electron Cannon is charged ahead of time!]"
"【Shinji!】"
Go away! Damn dragon!
Shinji Ikari pulled the trigger hard.
In his eyes, at the moment when the yang electron cannon was activated, a huge bird of fire phantom flew out from the fuselage of No. 1, ignoring the distance and directly engulfing the red giant dragon.
Almost at the same time, the "duel plate" on his left arm disappeared.
"Hmm..." Ikari Shinji felt that his consciousness was about to disappear, so he used his last strength to direct the No. 1 Unit to catch the No. 0 Unit, whose front armor had melted a lot and was crumbling.
Shi, Ling Ling's communication came in again. Although she looked a little embarrassed, she didn't seem to be hurt.
"Shinji-kun?"
"...Am I handsome?" Ikari Shinji didn't even have the energy to think of more suitable lines.
"Well," Ling Ling replied, "You are a good person."
I shouldn't have taught in the first place!
The moment before Ikari Shinji's consciousness disappeared, he seemed to see Rei Ayanami revealing a slight smile that was almost the same as in the illusion.