Chapter 2001: The City of Demonic Mist in the Dead World (16)

—2015.6.20—
The Garden of Gathering, Department of Literature.
The girl with blue hair and red eyes read silently with flat glasses, and the black-haired boy looked around with a water glass.
After the Fifth Apostle was shot down, Unit 0 and Unit 1 were sent for repair and maintenance, and all EVA-related training in Rei Ayanami and Shinji Ikari's schedule was canceled.
How Ayanami Ikari Shinji did not know, but he himself felt a little idle.
In addition, he feels that after this battle, the relationship between the two should be closer, but they are still the same when they get along with each other on a daily basis.
"That, Ayanami, what did you gain after this battle?" Ikari Shinji tried to ask.
"Well, here's your data." Ayanami took off her glasses and handed him a tablet.
[Ikari Shinji: Pilot of the first aircraft]
[Physical Strength: 25, Intelligence Index: 9, Mental Strength: 29, Language Ability: 23, Social Adaptation: 21, Moral Concept: 1, Feeling Ability: 25, Fatigue Level: 40, Synchronization Rate: 100%, AT Force Field Strength: 100/8000]
"Um..."
Looking at this data, Ikari Shinji had a stomach to vomit, but he didn't know which one to complain about first.
Other attributes are growing at the same time, why only the intelligence index and moral concept are gone!
Isn't the AT force field automatically restored after the end of the battle?
And the synchronization rate is rising too fast!
"The meaning of 100% synchronization rate is," Ayanami paused for a while: "'You have successfully conquered the first machine, if there are no accidents, this week will enter its ending.'"
"Can you turn off the news of the 'Information Integrated Missing Body'!" Ikari Shinji finally found his target.
"It can't be turned off," Rei Ayanami replied, "it will interject whenever it sees fit."
"Ha..." Ikari Shinji covered his face.
So, the reason why Ayanami seems to be taciturn and hardly reacts to the outside world is because there is a guy in his head who is talking about everything all day long?
"Information Integrated Missing Body also said," Ayanami reiterated again: "'According to the general law, the second female should be on stage now.'"
"Where's the female No. 2? Does EVA have a No. 2 machine?" Ikari Shinji struggled to complain.
"Yes, in Germany," Ayanami responded, before adding: "That's what I said."
"No, I can still hear it, no need to explain..." Ikari Shinji pinched his forehead: "Do you know how many EVAs there are in the world?"
"Batai," Ling Ling replied, "Although it is an artificial apostle, it can also be sensed by Eve."
"Can it also trigger a third shock?" Ikari Shinji asked casually.
"Can."
"...Really? I'll just ask casually."
"When the EVA's driver AT force field returns to zero, the body contacts Eve, which will trigger a 'third shock'."
"Then I'm only a little short of it?!"
"If your last 100 AT force fields disappear," Ayanami Zero paused again: "'It will turn into pus in a quarter of a second.'"
"Am I being put in a gourd! You have a little bit of coverage of the 'Information Integrated Mind Body'!" Ikari Shinji struggled to complain.
"It's a fact," Ayanami replied: "'AT force field (Absolute Terror Field)', the field of absolute terror, also known as the 'Wall of the Heart', that is, the degree to which an individual rejects external influences. If it disappears completely, the individual will disperse into the most The basic elements, the ingredients are the same as LCL (LinkConnect Liquid).

"…"
"Under normal circumstances, the AT force field will return to full after the battle, but you are still fixed at 100, so the reason must be related to the 'god' you mentioned earlier." Ayanami continued.
No, the AT force field is dedicated to "God"...
No, wait, are those three elemental heroes also—?
Ikari Shinji subconsciously touched the back of his left hand, and of course there was nothing there when he was not fighting.
At this moment, Ayanami zero squeezed the frame of her glasses, put down the book and stood up.
"The sixth apostle has appeared, let's go back," she paused and added: "This time you don't have to play the glass man."
Sooner or later, I will teach the "Information Integrated Missing Body" a lesson!
—
NERV headquarters.
When Ikari Shinji returned to the NERV headquarters, he did not see the busy preparations for the battle. The command room was empty, except for the regular waveform detection of the apostles and various analysis trend charts about the third new Tokyo city.
Is the apostle not nearby this time? Ikari Shinji looked at Ling Ayanami, and she shook her head slightly to indicate that she was not quite sure.
"Shinji, Rei, you came back just in time." At this moment, Katsuragi Misato, who rarely wore a uniform that matched her "first lieutenant" rank, stepped out of an elevator: "Would you like to meet the Germans from Germany? 'EVA 2' and its pilot?"
"Female No. 2" is really here! Ikari Shinji subconsciously looked at Rei Ayanami.
"According to regulations, NERV headquarters must stay behind at least one EVA and driver," Rei Ayanami replied in a calm tone: "But if this is an order, I will execute it."
This refusal is too polite.
"Well, it seems that there is such a rule," Katsuragi Miri rubbed her chin: "Then Shinji-kun, come with me, anyway, your AT force field with a mere 100 points can't attack."
"Well, let me ask, where are you going to pick me up? The airport or the train station?" Ikari Shinji ignored Misato's evaluation of him.
"The second plane was shipped from Germany, of course—by sea." Katsuragi Miri patted his shoulder vigorously.
Never heard of this of course!
"Ayanami..." Ikari Shinji looked at Ling Ayanami, wanting to finally confirm the position of the sixth apostle.
"Be careful on the road." The girl said in a tone that couldn't guess her emotions as always.
It may just be an ordinary farewell speech to others, but Shinji Ikari already knows her to a considerable extent, so it should be heard like this - the sixth apostle is likely to plan to attack the No. 2 aircraft during its transportation, only 100AT You have to be careful with the force field.
Is this the effect of 100% sync rate?
Although there is only a 100AT force field, I have two gods, and even if I don't drive the first machine, I can raise it...probably.
"Then... I'm going out." Ikari Shinji said.
"It's alright, alright, I know you have a good relationship, but consider how I feel as an older single woman, OK?" Katsuragi Miri broke off Shinji Ikari's shoulder and pushed her away.
"Sister Merry is not old at all."
"Yes Yes Yes."

Pacific High Seas.
Army green gunships painted with the NERV leaf logo swept across the dark red sea.
"Every time I see this piece of the Red Sea, I have the feeling of 'I really can't go back'," Miri Katsuragi said, looking out the window, "There is no problem with refraction and spectrum, and there is nothing in the water that will cause the water body to change. The red material, even the marine life in the water is the same as before, but why is it red?"
"Maybe the meteorite that fell at the South Pole was a lump of alien paint." Shinji Ikari said nonsense.
"So the apostle is a pigment essence?"
"Hahaha."
He knows the truth, and Katsuragi Misato probably knows that he knows the truth, but after all, there are crew members on the plane who may not know the truth, so it is better to use the NERV propaganda to discuss it.
"Do you know?" Katsuragi Miri took the initiative to turn away from the boring topic as if "have you eaten?" and instead said: "The two shots you shot down the Fifth Apostle directly drained the electricity of the entire 11th District, protesting and The complaint almost buried Commander Ikari."
"That's... a pity." Ikari Shinji temporarily changed his tune.
"The most hateful thing is that some thief leaked out the data and videos of these EVA battles, and the guys from the Earth Alliance actually imitated a ridiculous thing called 'JVA' based on the structure of EVA, Prepare to funds from us." Miri Katsuragi continued.
"And then?" Ikari Shinji had never heard of such a thing, and felt that those people might be cold.
"The large sweeping robot went out of control immediately after it was activated. After stepping on the command post, it rushed into the sea and disappeared. If you are lucky, you might walk ashore on the other side of the sea." Miri Katsuragi spread her hands.
"It must have been Dr. Akagi." Ikari Shinji said nonsense.
"Really... um...?" Katsuragi Misato began to seriously consider the possibility.
Don't let yourself say it right? After all, she is a female doctor who is in charge of managing the three supercomputers in the entire NERV, so it is not unusual to be able to do anything.
"Cough, in short, affected by this incident and the double injury of the first and zero planes, NERV specially brought back the second plane built in Germany in case of emergency," Katsuragi Miri changed the topic: "But Commander Ikari It’s a little strange to ask us to meet with the local navy in advance, to give them face? But hasn’t he always looked down on the armed forces that can’t deal with the apostles?

Because he knew that the sixth apostle had appeared, although he didn't know if he knew about it at the same time as Rei Ayanami.
Ikari Shinji thought for a while, and then said, "Because cannons and giant ships are a man's romance."
"..." Katsuragi Misato stared at him with a ghostly expression.
"Well, is that the fleet?" Ikari Shinji looked down through the window.
On the slightly turbulent Red Sea, a fleet of 6 aircraft carriers, 4 battleships and a dozen destroyers is sailing. Aside from the flaw that firepower can never break the Apostle's AT force field, such a scale The fleet can already walk sideways in the world.
He took a few more glances, and soon saw something out of place on an aircraft carrier - a humanoid object covered by a huge military canvas.
Is that the female number two?
Pooh! It's the second machine!

"Hello Commander, here are the handover documents and related procedures from the NERV side, you only need to sign in these places..."
"Aren't young people today ignorant of manners?"
The commander of this fleet was an old man in a white navy uniform, with white hair and beard, and smoking a pipe. He didn't even look at the document information board that Misato Katsuragi took out, and pointed at her with a pipe:
"We're on a mission to a big toy, but no one can stop us from completing it, not even early delivery. I won't sign this until it disembarks at its intended destination port."
"but…"
"Even if I sign it, what can you do? Carry it like a vegetable basket in your helicopter?"
"Well…"
I always feel that she will have a strong hostility towards "men's romance" in the future...
Ikari Shinji looked at the "official meeting" over there, and while no one was paying attention to him, he turned and slipped away, and ran to the No. 2 aircraft parked on the deck.
If there are a total of eight EVAs, maybe the colors will be assigned according to the seven colors of light? No. 0 machine is orange, No. 1 machine is purple, there is no pattern, then No. 2 machine...
Oh red.
Ikari Shinji circled around the No. 2 machine for half a circle, and set off the canvas probe several times to look at it, but he could not see anything except that it was entirely red and occasionally had a green indicator light. Is this the feeling of a blind man touching an elephant?
"Are you the driver of that relationship?"
When he got out from under the canvas again, thinking about going back to Misato, Shinji Ikari was blocked.
It was a slender girl in a goose-yellow dress. She had reddish-brown shawl hair, a pair of blue pupils, raised eyes at the corners of her eyes, and a pair of red receivers on her forehead. stared at himself.
"Hello, my name is Ikari Shinji." Ikari Shinji decided to ignore the title of "connected household" and extended his hand to her.
"..." The girl raised her eyebrows, stepped towards Ikari Shinji, and extended her hand at the same time: "Hello, my name is Suguru Asuka Langley."
Her personality seems to be alright-
call…
At the moment when Shinji Ikari thought so, the duel plate appeared on his left arm.
Does she want to hit someone? !
He only has 100 life points, the kind that can kill him even if he hits a chestnut ball!
Before he could think about it, Shinji Ikari directly covered the first card he had drawn, and then the girl with the long name showed a "you're fooled" expression, raised his hand to grab his arm and activated it.
"Unsuspecting! You—"
[Ripple Shield・Wave Power: When the opponent's monster launches a direct attack, return all monsters in the attack position to the deck. 】
Ikari Shinji grabbed the girl with a backhand and pinned the the deck.
"...Is it a...driver...?" The girl who called herself Asuka stared at the floor and finished her sentence.
"sorry, I-"
boom! Splash sand!
The next moment, a huge fish-shaped monster jumped up from the sea beside the ship, opened its mouth to bite at Ikari Shinji and Asuka, but when it was still in the air, the second machine, which was lying quietly next to it, suddenly got up. , raised his hand and grabbed the tentacles beside the mouth of the fish-shaped monster, and kicked it out of the sea from the other side of the deck.
Well, it turns out that Captain No. 2 looks like this, with four eyes.
I don't know if it's factorial or additive, but machine number 8 must be a hundred-eyed monster.
"【woo-】"
"[Enemy attack!]"
The fleet's alarm then sounded belatedly.
"Ah..." Asuka's eyes were a little dull.
"As expected of the strongest driver!" Ikari Shinji immediately lifted her up and praised: "It's amazing! You can command it to repel the apostles without entering the plug! Precise German craftsmanship!"
"..." Asuka looked at Unit 2, who kept throwing the apostle posture, and then looked at Shinji Ikari, who looked innocent. She opened her mouth, as if she wanted to ask something, and then gave up. Finally, she folded her arms and raised her chin: " handsome, right?"