Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 528: Proof of Existence and Humanity (Original)
But Shinji Ikari was still confused and asked, "Then where is my reality?"

“That’s the end of the dream.”

Ayanami Rei finally answered.

Letters and messages appeared on the screen.

Those were the messages from Lin Qingshan’s fans, some thanking him, some cursing him, some encouraging him, some comforting him…

Each sentence appeared quickly on the screen.

Dreams are the continuation of reality, and reality is the end of dreams.

This statement shocked many viewers.

Yes, what humans call dreams are nothing more than things that cannot continue in reality.

And reality is the end of the dream.

They felt that this conversation was truly philosophical and full of touching things.

When some viewers saw this plot, they even thought... maybe they should just leave.

From the dream of drunkenness, strange lights and seemingly beautiful things, let's return to reality for a moment...

Although... although the real world is not as beautiful as the world in anime and comics, it is still a dream, just a continuation of reality.

Without reality, it would completely collapse and cease to exist.

Reality is the ending of dreams, but the two are interdependent.

An imperfect reality has to exist.

After watching this episode that night, many viewers suddenly had some enlightenment, and tried to go out when they woke up the next day instead of staying at home.

Then the next scene showed "Lilith" hanging high above the earth, with a large amount of blood spurting out as if her neck was suddenly cut.

Even the powerful blood spurt directly formed a strong reaction force, causing her body to fall backwards.

She fell down slowly, but her eyes looked back as if at the audience.

With the sound of faint background music, Ikari Shinji appeared on the screen again.

But this time he was lying on the ground and saw Rei Ayanami.

"Ayanami Rei..."

Shinji Ikari seemed to have just woken up and asked, "Where is this..."

“This is the LCL Sea, the ocean of life.”

Rei Ayanami looked at him and said expressionlessly, "A world without the AT field, without my own form."

However, her arm was still fused with Shinji Ikari's body, as if they had just separated from a state of being one.

“I don’t know where my own world ends and where someone else’s world ends.”

Rei Ayanami continued, "I am everywhere, but I am nowhere. It's a fragile world."

At this time, the audience seemed to gradually understand what the Human Instrumentality Project was.

Perhaps the ultimate goal is to be like now, where everyone and everything are united, but consciousness is still preserved, and the world is merged with everyone's consciousness?

Although I have lost my physical form, this is perhaps another form of eternal life.

Such a world...is actually quite beautiful.

They even had such an absurd thought in their minds.

But soon, they began to wonder if they were crazy.

I actually think this world is beautiful...

But after what happened just now, and because they themselves felt that reality was not good, they really felt...

A world like this where everyone's consciousness is integrated together and there are no mental barriers at all seems really beautiful.

Perhaps only in this way can mankind achieve the long-cherished world of equality where everyone lives together.

No classes, no material needs, no death, no lies, no concealment, no struggle...

It seems that only under such circumstances can all the things that humans have always hated be eliminated.

"Am I dead?"

Ikari Shinji immediately asked again.

"No, it's just all merged into one."

Rei Ayanami replied, "This is exactly the world you wish for."

However, at this moment, Shinji Ikari felt as if he was holding something in his palm.

He opened his palms, and the cross necklace that Misato gave him before her death floated up and floated in front of him.

"But this is wrong."

Shinji Ikari looked at the cross necklace and said, "I don't think this is right."

"If you expect the existence of others again now."

But Rei Ayanami said, "The wall of the heart will separate people again, and the fear of others will reappear."

But this time...

"It's ok."

Shinji Ikari seemed relieved and reached out to grab Rei Ayanami's arm.

Then the two of them separated completely, and they reached out to each other and held hands.

This scene is a bit like the scene in "Genesis: The Creation of Adam" where Adam reaches out and touches the Lord.

At this moment, Shinji Ikari is like Adam, and Rei Ayanami, as Lilith, is God, representing the Holy Lord.

"Thank you."

Shinji Ikari said finally.

Then everything seemed to separate, and the picture that lit up again was not the orange ocean, but an ordinary ocean.

At this time, the completely separated Ikari Shinji rested his head on Ayanami Rei's knees.

"I feel like there's just so much stuff there that I hate."

Shinji Ikari suddenly added, "That's why I thought it would be better to escape, but when I came to the new place, nothing good happened... Because I wasn't there, just like everyone else wasn't there."

At this moment, Kaworu Nagisa suddenly appeared in front of them.

"AT force field, it's okay to hurt you and others again?"

Nagisa Kaworu put his hands in his pockets and asked casually.

"It's ok."

Suddenly the scene changed, and Shinji Ikari, dressed neatly, stood on a flat ground.

Standing opposite him were Kaworu Nagisa and Rei Ayanami.

"But what exactly are you in my mind?"

He asked again curiously.

"It's hope."

Rei Ayanami replied, "Perhaps people can understand each other."

"Together with the words I like you."

Nagisa Kaworu also replied with a smile.

The scene around them suddenly began to change, from the sudden appearance of human figures, to the rolling dirt hills, to the jungle, and then to the city highway.

"But that's just for show."

Shinji Ikari said, "It's just my wishful thinking, just like praying. It can't last forever. One day I will be betrayed by others and they will abandon me."

"but……"

In this desperate situation, he continued, "I want to see it again because I think the mood at that time was real."

Suddenly, a picture appeared on the screen that the audience had never seen before, showing most of the characters of "EVA" taking a happy photo together.

In the group photo, Shinji Ikari was smiling very happily.

At this moment, he seemed to have made his decision.

"I can stay here!"

Shinji Ikari said with a smile. Then at this moment, all of a sudden, with him as the center, everything changed again.

Countless familiar figures appeared around him.

They all clapped and cheered, cheering for Shinji Ikari.

Misato, Ayanami Rei, Ritsuko, Kaji Ryoji, Suzuhara, Kensuke, Penguin, and all the familiar members of the NERV headquarters, even... Deputy Commander Fuyutsuki, and his father and mother - Ikari Gendo and Ikari Yui.

The only person missing was Asuka, and they were all clapping and cheering.

Then they said to Shinji Ikari one by one, "Congratulations--!"

"Congratulations--!"

"Congratulations--!"

"Congratulations--!"

……

Then, Shinji Ikari once again smiled with great joy and said, "Thank you!"

The audience felt this scene was very strange, and it seemed... very confusing.

But I feel...

"This is the style of the old thief Qingshan."

Zhou Wenwei said speechlessly, "This is too much, especially since I saw the commander clapping and congratulating Shinji..."

"Shinji has finally come out of this."

Ke Xinjie said with emotion, "But...why is Asuka not here?"

"It should be...Ikari Shinji knows that Asuka rejected him?"

Zhou Wenwei analyzed and said, "Because Asuka seems to be in a state of completion, knowing Shinji Ikari's experience and understanding him, but still hates him..."

But no matter what, this inexplicable and even slightly psychotic plot made the audience laugh, and then joked -

"Mental patients are so much happier... I can't handle this plot."

"What does this mean? Does this mean Shinji has completely gotten over it?"

"It's very much in the style of the old thief Qingshan..."

“But it’s really weird.”

"Hahaha, that's what mentally ill people are like. If you can guess what they're going to do, then there's something fishy going on."

"This clapping scene is really outrageous. What's even more unbearable is that the commander also ran out."

"This represents Shinji's inner world. He has completely completed himself."

"I think... this applause is actually - congratulations! Congratulations on being discharged from the hospital!"

"Hahaha, congratulations on being discharged! He really is a mental patient who has been discharged."

"Ikari Shinji can be discharged from the hospital now. As for that old thief Aoyama... Go back and increase the dosage for me!"

"Old Thief Qingshan: At this point, will increasing the dosage still be of any use to me?"

"Indeed, mentally ill patients like Qingshan Laozei have already developed drug resistance!"

"Awesome! I'm starting to understand everything!"

"I'm out of the hospital!"

"Go back!"

……

However, the animation is not over yet, after Shinji Ikari made the final decision.

Lilith's huge body finally began to fall apart and spread out in blood.

Unit-01 appears again.

At this time, Nagisa Kaworu and Ayanami Rei said alternately -

"Reality lies in the unknown..."

"Dreams exist in reality..."

"And the truth lies in the heart..."

"Because a person's image is formed by his heart."

"And the new image will change the mind and form of man..."

……

As the two spoke, Lilith's huge body completely broke apart and collapsed, falling onto the ground covered with crosses.

"Imagery, imagination, our future..."

"It was developed by relying on the torrent of time..."

"But, if humans don't act on their own will..."

"Nothing will change..."

“So the lost self can only be found by one’s own strength… even if one loses one’s own opinions or is confused by the words of others…”

"Anyone can regain their human form if they can create their own image with their mind."

Unit-01 directly pulled out the Spear of Longinus. When it restored its shape, changes also occurred on the bodies of other mass-produced EVAs. Their flesh and blood rolled and exploded.

Then everything started to change.

"Don't worry, all life has the power to recover."

"As long as I can think about living..."

This time it was the voice of Shinji Ikari's mother, Yui Ikari, who said hopefully, "Anywhere can be heaven, because... we are still alive, and there is a chance to be happy anywhere."

Unit-01 seemed to have restored everything to its original state, and then Shinji Ikari saw... his mother, Ikari Yui, whom he had not seen for a long time.

She stroked Shinji Ikari's face, and then her body fell to the bottom of the sea behind her. She smiled and said to Shinji Ikari, "It's all right now."

Shinji Ikari looked at his mother going away and asked softly, "I still don't understand where happiness lies... But I will continue to think about the meaning of my coming to this world and the future..."

"I find these are just the things that should be done in order to maintain my own identity..."

However, Ikari Yui did not respond to him, but continued to fall into the deep sea.

And Ikari Shinji floated up until he reached the surface of the sea, "Mom...Mom, what are you going to do?"

However, in front of him, Lilith's huge head looked at him, but gradually slid down and split into two halves.

This scene... looks a bit scary.

But at this moment, memories suddenly flowed back to him, and the scene appeared where Ikari Yui was holding the infant Ikari Shinji and talking with her teacher Fuyutsuki.

"Humans imitated God and created EVA."

Dongyue expressed her concerns and said, "This is the real purpose."

However, Ikari Yui had no concerns at all. She just teased Shinji Ikari who knew nothing and said with a smile, "Well, humans can only survive on this planet, but EVA can survive forever, along with the hearts of the people living in it."

"Even if five billion years pass and the moon, the earth, and even the sun disappear, EVA will still exist."

"Even if only one person survives, it will be very lonely, but as long as we continue to live..."

In the picture, the moon, the earth, and the sun all appeared one by one, and finally in the vast and empty universe, Unit-01 was floating there with the Spear of Longinus.

"Then the proof of human existence will last forever."

……

At this time, Shinji Ikari finally understood, and then he finally said, "Goodbye, Mom."

When Fan Siwei saw this plot, he suddenly remembered the ending of "Flame Fist".

The earth was destroyed and mankind became extinct. Agni was floating in space and met Yoda again.

In the finale of "Flame Fist", many people think that this means that everything is nothingness, whether it is human beings, civilization, or life, they will all disappear in the end.

But when Fan Siwei heard what his father said, he felt that "Flame Fist" was actually talking about realistic existentialism.

Now the finale of "EVA" seems to confirm his idea again.

Lin Qingshan...is a positive realist existentialist.

(End of this chapter)