Ascension journey - 247. Chapter 246

Over the past ten years, most human beings have forgotten the tragic scene of the second impact.

However, the third new city of Tokyo is somewhat different from the residents associated with NERV. This city, which has basically been under military control, will suddenly conduct evacuation drills from time to time.

The very efficient refuge system that has been run-in, those residential buildings used as defensive turrets, a large number of troops and weapons distributed around the city…

These are all reminders of the residents of this city-where you live is a fortress at the forefront of the war.

And now, the war that has been waiting for more than ten years has finally arrived.

A large number of tanks and chariots parked along the road, a rocket launcher array on a remote plain, a suspended firepower aircraft…

The cutting-edge killing weapons created by countless humans poured out infinite firepower to the tall figures who stepped into the city.

It was a black monster tens of meters high, with slender limbs and broad shoulders, and a red spherical core in the center of its body.

All kinds of shells, rockets, and missiles are intertwined in dense ballistic trajectories, but they smashed into large flames on the invisible barrier on the monster’s body. The aftermath annihilated all nearby buildings, but even the sluggish monsters disappeared for a moment. Can’t do it.

“Human weapons are really powerless before the AT force scene…”

Sitting in his own position in the command center, Ikugendō glanced at a few generals in uniform on the other side who were staring anxiously at the huge display in front.

That is the immediate boss of the army around this fortress city. Although the establishment of NERV represents the consensus reached by humans on how to fight against the apostles, and there are a lot of research data on the apostles, obviously there are still many people who do not believe in evil.

It is not very realistic to ask them not to try the various weapons that mankind is proud of, but to pin their hopes on the large humanoid weapon EVA that looks like a toy.

But… the firepower is all money. The money spilled every second can renovate the NERV headquarters, but now it is doing useless work. If it is used as NERV funds…

But in the end, it is not too bad to prove the existence of EVA.

Seeing that the N2 landmine buried on the path of the apostle detonated as desired, after the main screen of the hall lost its signal due to the super electromagnetic radiation, Ikogentang ignored the soldiers who turned back to demonstrating to him, but lowered his eyes. I took a look at the current combat readiness of the No. 1 aircraft.

……

In the control room of the EVA parking area, Miri Katsuragi hung up the phone on the console and said with a sigh of relief: “The plan was changed, and the apostle stepped on the N2 mine. It is said that we are standing still in a self-repairing state, and we have excess. Time for more preparations.”

NERV chief researcher Ritsuko Akagi, who put down the coffee cup next to him, pulled up her short blonde hair: “Don’t you want to win the pursuit?”

“Are you kidding me when you said this?” Misato squinted at his friend. “The strength of the AT force field has not been weakened. I think the Apostle is not repairing but adapting evolution.”

“Chief Gecheng.”

The EVA No. 1 unit that was released from the battle state was inserted into the bolt, and Shinji Ikura was seated in the driver’s seat wearing a black and white tights that can adjust the body to increase the synchronization rate.

After looking at the combat video record about the incoming apostle, he recalled the thick EVA-related manual, and asked with some doubts: “Isn’t the AT force field unable to be broken by conventional weapons? How did the apostle get hurt? ?”

“Yeah, just call me Misato many times.”

The older female young girl Katsuki Misato flipped through the report at hand and sighed: “The N2 mine was detonated directly at the feet of the apostle. It is impossible to confirm whether the apostle opened the AT force field below…

“But theoretically enough energy can bend time and space to break through the phase shift used for AT force field defense. The energy density within the core area of the N2 mine explosion should barely be able to achieve this, but it is only a momentary and small-scale realization. .”

Ritsuko Akagi chuckled softly: “You explain the theory of relativity to a middle school student…”

Ignoring her ridicule, Katsuragi Misato glanced at the first EVA plane that was moving deeper underground along the transportation platform, and continued to speak to Shinji.

“Don’t expect to rely on N2 to defeat the Apostle. As far as its current performance is concerned, unless the N2 equivalent is large enough to blow up the NERV headquarters and half of the island nation, and let the earth be covered by the explosion dust into the ice age, there is no such hope. , We still have to rely on you Shinji.”

“…I try my best.”

Hearing the calm voice from the first machine, Misato Katsuragi and Ritsuko Akagi looked at each other and walked towards the elevator shaft together.

“Speaking of which, Shinji adapts very quickly. I thought the children would be awkward…” Entering the elevator and pressing the button to go to the EVA experimental test floor, Misato said with some emotion.

“After all, the synchronization rate used to be close to 100%.” Knowing more inside than Misato, he smiled at the well-knowing Ritsuko Ikura, “He has an unexpected fit with the first machine.”

“No matter how it fits… it’s really disqualified for us adults to put teenage children on the battlefield.”

With a few words of effort, the two arrived at the vast EVA test area on the lower level of the parking area. When they walked into the experimental observation room, the No.1 aircraft descended along the track into position.

Shinji had to face actual combat the first time he got on the EVA. In an emergency, many problems could only be temporarily ignored. Everyone immediately began to conduct some of the most critical experience tests of EVA under the auspices of Ritsuko.

The first is sports.

The mechanical bolts fixed by the towering armor extended by the EVA shoulders rotated and exited, and the upper body of the EVA No. 1 aircraft sank slightly, and it had gained freedom of movement.

After connecting the sensory and motor nerve links, Shinji realized that his sense of his own body was relegated to secondary importance, but the feeling of the other body became clear and delicate. It was the huge body of the first EVA machine.

He raised his wrist tentatively and grasped the big purple hand that can easily squeeze a person into a meat sauce. Shinji began to perform targeted movements of various body parts under the command of the observation room.

The manipulation of EVA is actually not that complicated. Many steps can be replaced by “thinking” under the neural connection.

After confirming that there was no problem with free movement, the first machine stopped the behavior of walking in circles and began to test the more critical AT force field operation.

Seeing the blurry colored light curtain smoothly changing in shape, range, and intensity in front of the No.1 machine, Ritsuko sighed with incredible expression:

“The synchronization rate of Shinji and the first machine hovered around 80%. The first time the actual operation can move so smoothly, it is perfect and unimaginable… Compared with him, the second qualified person The data of the mixed-race prodigy is not enough…”

“This is a good thing, isn’t it?” Misato looked at the No. 1 machine with relief.

She is the only survivor of the second impact on the Antarctic research base. The scars in her heart and her father’s will make her enthusiastic about destroying the apostles and preventing the third impact. Of course, she is very happy that the first aircraft performed so well.

On the other side, Li Zi shook her head in her heart-a good thing? The more Shinji goes deeper into the Synchronization Unit No. 1, the more likely it is that the body will run away or even awaken. It is not necessarily a good thing now that the apostle attack has just begun.

With the crowd of different minds watching, the EVA No. 1 machine completed a round of core combat elements testing, and then a wave of undetectable vibrations was transmitted here.

“The Apostle has started to act…” Miri, who saw the latest news, took a deep breath. “…Just now, the military launched a remote N2 bomb to try to attack, but this time the N2 bomb failed to wipe the Apostle’s skin. break.”

“Has targeted measures? The apostle… is really wise?” Ritsuko nodded, and then ordered the EVA test-related staff to carry out the finishing work, so that the No. 1 aircraft returned to the transportation platform.

Glancing at the No.1 unit that was rapidly rising diagonally upward along the track, Misato turned and walked towards the elevator leading to the combat command room: “Eva’s first battle… Shinji, come on.”

……

Along with the roar of the atmosphere, the dazzling cross beams of light rose from the ground, several buildings evaporated directly, and countless building fragments were flying in the sky.

In the description of the Dead Sea document, the apostle, called the water angel, blasted through eight layers of defensive armor theoretically capable of resisting N2 bombs and caused a violent earthquake.

You know that NERV currently has only a dozen layers of defenses! This means that the apostles only need two or three shelling to penetrate the safety shell they once felt that their defenses were exaggerated to overflowing.

The EVA No. 1 machine, which was placed high in hopes by some panicked people, is now rising along the high-speed ejection channel towards the surface city.

Ikura Shinji lying in the driver’s seat had a calm face, but there was a trace of confusion in his eyes.

From sitting on the EVA, he found that his spirit had become very abnormal, and many fragmented pictures kept tumbling in his mind, making him often unable to distinguish between illusion and reality.

In these pictures, he saw a lot of things of unknown meaning, and also saw some information intertwined with reality——

Including the apostle who will come into contact later, he knows that the thing looks slender but its limbs can swell at any time to explode with powerful force, and the actual light gun extending from the palm can penetrate the armor of EVA… and even explode… .

In addition to these things that he seemed to have experienced, he saw his mother the most, the violent No. 1 machine, and one, no, many girls with short blue hair…

Ikura Shinji murmured silently: “Mom… Ayanami…”

Cheng Bin, who was present in the No.1 machine with an indescribable posture, watched this scene with great interest. When he used Shinji’s contact with Ikuji to revamp the algorithm of mining Shinji’s soul, he found that Shinji was really the same as last time. As Kaoru found out, there were some abnormal connections and similarities with him.

The specific manifestation is that Cheng Bin discovered the hidden interface of Shinji for receiving reincarnation memory.

This is very interesting… Cheng Bin checked the situation of other human beings and found that everyone else did not have this kind of thing, and the apostle soul is not easy to touch now, and he hasn’t looked at it for the time being.

After thinking about it, Cheng Bin drastically distorts his consciousness by designating Ikura Shinji to load information fragments from other reincarnations, greatly advancing the progress of the transformation.

After completing a stage of transformation, Cheng Bin couldn’t help feeling sighed: “Even without a complete memory, he can still make the correct decision needed… This feeling is slightly reflected in Shinji, and it is still much more. Just experiment.”

When the aircraft passed through the surface isolation door and stopped at the end of the track, Shinji Ikura looked at the apostle ahead of him who was exactly the same as he had in his mind through EVA’s eyes, and his expression became a little subtle and gloomy.

The messy memory fragments surrounded Shinji’s mind, but he felt that he was extremely awake, and an inexplicable feeling filled his mind, allowing him to understand what he should do without much thinking.

Manipulating the No.1 plane skilfully and flexibly left the fixed orbit, Ikura Shinji stared at the apostle who stood still and seemed to be observing him. He turned a deaf ear to Misato’s command from the communication system, and walked towards the apostle step by step.

Grab it…eat it! This way he can know what the messy information that comes up in his mind really means.

At this moment, the people in the command center were stunned to find that the data of the No. 1 aircraft that had not yet been engaged in the battle had undergone familiar changes. The driver synchronization rate was directly at 100%, and the insertion bolt connection depth exceeded the warning line.

More importantly, the plug that provided the power supply on the back of the first phone was unplugged with one hand and dropped to the side. A five-minute countdown flashed on the main screen of the command center-that is the maximum time limit for the first phone after losing external power. .

“It’s too dangerous Shinji! What are you doing!?”

Ikura Shinji glanced at the roaring Misato Katsuragi in the side view of the driver’s seat. He sighed and then cut off the communication: “Sorry…”

In the command room, Ikugendang, Fuyuki, and Ritsuko frowned at the same time. They knew that the so-called five-minute power supply was not used to support EVA activities. The power of EVA was derived from the flesh and blood of the apostle, and the external power supply …

In fact, it is used to support some seemingly armors on the EVA body, which is essentially a restraint device that suppresses the strength of the EVA.

And now Ikari Shinji, whose synchronization rate has reached the peak, can fully use the true power of EVA, and he unplugged the power himself…

In the case where the commander Ikogentang did not issue a clear order, the command center personnel who originally served as logistics, auxiliary control, and tactical support could only watch the EVA No. 1 aircraft approach the apostle unhurriedly.

The mask-like face of the water angel was aimed at the No. 1 machine, two cavities on his face flashed dazzlingly, a cross shelling close to the No. 1 body exploded, and the aftermath tore three blocks into a huge one. moat.

However, the No.1 machine stepped out of the sea of fire without changing its pace. The powerful AT force field obscured the space around it, leaving it unscathed.

The water angel raised his hands, the elbows that looked like barbs turned into light blades, and then suddenly contracted to eject from the palms of the hands to the head of the No.1 machine.

In Shinji’s chaotic mind, a picture suddenly became profound-it was the appearance of his head being directly pierced by the water angel when he was driving the first plane and was caught by the water angel.

There seemed to be phantom pain from the right eye to the back of his head. Shinji narrowed his right eye, and the multi-layered AT force field behind the No.1 fuselage flashed away, and suddenly accelerated and rushed forward.

A tens of meters high giant wrapped a dazzling light curtain and smashed the air, and suddenly set off a terrifying sonic boom in the city. Large swaths of cars and building fragments were torn apart like pieces of paper.

The stabbing light gun suddenly shattered, and the polygonal light curtain in front of the water angel collapsed.

Before he could make any response, the Water Angel was hit by the EVA No. 1 machine and hit the mountain outside the city. In the blink of an eye, his limbs collapsed and his body was ripped apart.

The water angel who had lost the ability to resist grabbed his head and raised it, and the armored mouth of the first unit suddenly opened, revealing its huge hideous teeth.