I participated in the development of EVA

146. Since you have seen through it, I will not hide it anymore

What's so good about this?

Apart from being a bit scary, it's not really worth paying too much attention, right?

What does Ikari Yui want to know?

With doubts in his heart, Fumihiko Ikari saw Naoko Akagi busy with something beside a traditional computer, so he walked up to her and said hello.

“It looks like it’s going well.”

With a sad face, Naoko Akagi looked back at Fumihiko Ikari and responded in a gloomy mood.

"It just looks like there's no progress in reality."

He paused for a moment, then continued speaking.

"Why are you here?"

"Didn't we agree to complete this project together?"

"hehe--"

Ritsuko Akagi smiled with resentment on her face.

"So you still remember it? I thought you had forgotten it long ago."

"Uh--"

Ikari Fumihiko smiled to hide his embarrassment.

"There are too many things going on over there."

Naoko Akagi naturally knew that Fumihiko Ikari was handling the affairs of the Unit 00 project, and she just couldn't help but complain just now.

"It's too troublesome to tell you orally, and it's hard to explain it to you clearly. Let's go to the office to get some information first."

Ikari Fumihiko did not refuse.

"Ah."

He knew in his heart that Ikari Yui asked him to come over so that he could read the information about the Three Sages.

As soon as I walked into the office, I saw Ritsuko Akagi.

After not seeing her for a few months, she has changed a lot. Not only has she grown taller and has a better figure, she has also started to learn how to dress herself up. Although she looks a lot prettier, her original long hair has been cut short and replaced with the same short hair as Akagi Naoko. He has been used to seeing Akagi Ritsuko with long hair, and now that she has short hair, he feels that short hair is not suitable for Akagi Ritsuko.

Ritsuko Akagi also noticed Fumihiko Ikari, and a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.

"Short hair doesn't suit you very well."

"Hey, hey, hey - why are you making random comments as soon as we meet? I cut my hair off just to show you."

Ikari Fumihiko didn't care.

"You're acting a little too mature, come on! You're just a freshman in high school."

Ritsuko Akagi did learn how to put on makeup, but her imitation of Naoko Akagi was too obvious.

“I’m already a sophomore in high school.”

"You're still a high school student, so light makeup suits you better. Well, if you want to dye your hair... change it to blonde! I think this color suits you better!"

"No! Blonde hair looks like a delinquent."

"Blond hair on men looks like a delinquent, but blond hair on women is fashionable."

"You haven't been out for a long time. This color is popular outside now... No! Why should I listen to you and dye my hair?"

"Okay, if you don't dye your hair, then wear white or black stockings. Well, at your age, if you don't bloom your youth, you won't have a chance."

"What do you mean by blooming youth? This is what you want to see! I will not satisfy your dirty thoughts."

Sure enough, it was a familiar feeling. Fumihiko Ikari continued to tease Ritsuko Akagi.

"Well, since you've seen through me, I won't hide it anymore. It would be a shame not to show off such beautiful thighs."

"abnormal."

"It's harmless and even quite enjoyable."

"Could you please stop being so greasy?"

Ikari Fumihiko smiled, and his gloomy mood improved a lot.

"I won't tease you anymore. I have something important to deal with."

A lonely look flashed across Ritsuko Akagi's face.

She met many people of her age at school. Although she had not been able to pass the high school entrance exam after more than two years of self-study, she had not learned many knowledge points well and her performance was seriously unbalanced. Given her current situation, it would be more appropriate for her to take a step back and go to the third year of junior high school. However, she did not want to disappoint her mother and wanted to succeed in her studies as soon as possible and make some achievements to make her mother happy. Therefore, she had no energy or mood to make friends.

Among the people I know, the only one I can chat with is still Fumihiko Ikari.

Ikari Fumihiko noticed this and felt helpless. There are too many pitiful people in this world.

"How's school going?"

Ritsuko Akagi replied with a proud look on her face.

"Of course I am number one in the grade."

This was of course a lie. Now she could only barely keep up with the courses and make up for the knowledge points she had missed in the past two years.

"No. 1 in the grade? Shouldn't he be No. 1 in the country?"

"what?"

"There are only two or three high schools in China that can open for classes right now, with two or three hundred students enrolled!? Well, if you divide the first-year high school students, there are only a few dozen people. You can't even get first place in the country?"

Akagi Ritsuko was choked, and then she explained the situation outside with a look of disdain, "What do you mean two or three? There are two or three hundred high school students. You should go out and take a look when you have time, otherwise you will soon become an alien. The main policy outside now is to restore education and establish marine protected areas. Well, in the past six months, there are at least several hundred high schools across the country that have resumed courses."

When Ikari Fumihiko heard this data, he was slightly stunned.

“There are still so many high school students?”

"You don't think everyone out there is dying, do you?"

After hearing this, Fumihiko Ikari thought about it and felt relieved.

When a disaster occurs, families will always give hope of survival to their children if possible when faced with a life or death decision, not to mention that Japan has a large population.

“How many people are there outside now?”

Ritsuko Akagi recalled for a moment and then continued speaking in a heavy tone.

"About 40 million! Nearly half of the population died in the disaster, and the remaining 10 million died in the previous war."

Even Fumihiko Ikari, who had some prejudices against Japan, was still shocked when he heard this set of data.

Then I thought of China.

Although the China in this world is not the country he is familiar with, it is at least a similar existence in the parallel world.

"What about China?"

Ritsuko Akagi gave Fumihiko Ikari a strange look.

"You have mixed blood?"

"No, what's wrong?"

Ritsuko Akagi asked this not because she had any prejudice against China, but because she was curious about why Fumihiko Ikari cared about China.

"nothing."

After recalling the relevant data, he spoke with some uncertainty.

"I haven't paid special attention to it, but I know a general situation. Although China has a large population, it has a vast territory, so the impact is relatively small compared to us. The main losses are the casualties caused by the disaster..." He paused here, and then continued to speak with some awe.

“In this catastrophe, China demonstrated a mobilization capability beyond everyone’s imagination, so the casualty rate is almost the lowest in the world.

There was even talk in the international community that China had caused this catastrophe, which was why the national mobilization was completed so quickly.”

Ikari Fumihiko couldn't help it.

"Nonsense, full of shit, is this how a normal person should think?"

Ritsuko Akagi felt Ikari Fumihiko's anger and her expression became even weirder.

But still gave his own opinion.

"Indeed, if there was any inside story in such a large-scale mobilization, it would have been exposed long ago. It is impossible for more than one billion people to keep silent."

Fumihiko Ikari did not hide his emotions at all and could not control them.

"Even you can see it, how could those people not see it? This is simply a political means to use China as a shield to divert public sentiment. No! They are just covering up their own incompetence by throwing dirty water."

147. She is my cousin indeed

Ritsuko Akagi was not very interested in political topics, so when she saw Fumihiko Ikari looking through documents, she stopped talking.

When talking with Ritsuko Akagi earlier, Fumihiko Ikari had already opened his computer and retrieved the Three Sages file.

"You get busy first."

"Ah."

Fumihiko Ikari calmed down and said nothing more. He lowered his head and began to read the documents carefully.

The first thing that catches your eye is the source of the samples of the three giant brains.

This was both within his expectations and beyond his expectations.

Ikari Yui kept urging himself to come over. He felt that there must be some deeper meaning in it, and that the phenomenon of parallel consciousness originated from Rei Ayanami. He was even prepared that these brains came from Rei Ayanami's clones. However, the source of these three brains was not cloned from Rei Ayanami's brain cells, but was peeled off alive from those biological samples that failed to be cultivated, that is, EVA.

This somewhat relieved him, but he also sighed with emotion.

Eva's vitality is vigorous.

The way the brain is stripped can be described in one word: simple and crude.

They violently cut open the skull and took out the brain. If there was any failure, they would summarize the experience and then change to another sample to continue. There were 57 detailed records of failures alone in the archives.

He was not surprised by this, as the original book mentioned that there was a large EVA cemetery beneath Nerv.

Although it is called a cemetery, it is actually different from a real cemetery. Those failed samples are not dead, but they were not cultivated into deformities, or the transformation failed. If Eva is still alive, they will be thrown into the cemetery to fend for themselves. With Eva's terrifying vitality, it can continue to survive for a long time even without nutritional supplements.

The Three Sages project was established not long ago, but the technical data contained in it is extremely complex.

Read it carefully, it will take several days to finish.

He was not prepared to actually participate in the Three Sages Project, well... he felt that he had the ability to participate in this project.

After thinking for a while, he used the search function to search the database. Using the key words such as consciousness parallelization, Rei Ayanami, and clone, he quickly retrieved two files.

One is about consciousness parallelism, and the other is about cloning.

I took a look at the contents recorded on the parallel connection of consciousness and did not notice anything unusual. It just explained in detail the meaning of the parallel connection of consciousness phenomenon.

After taking a look and seeing that Ritsuko Akagi didn't come over to peek at the screen, he opened the information related to cloning.

The content recorded above is not the detailed information of cloning technology, but the brain wave data of Rei Ayanami collected by Naoko Akagi.

Only after seeing this did he react.

Naoko Akagi wanted to build the Three Wise Men system through the phenomenon of parallel consciousness. If she wanted to understand the parallel consciousness, she naturally had to obtain relevant data from Rei Ayanami. However, she had previously thought that the Three Wise Men project would take a long time to complete, so she ignored this point. But now that she has reacted, she is nervous and angry, but also relieved.

The concern is naturally about Rei Ayanami's safety.

He was angry about his own negligence and infuriated that Rei Ayanami's project team concealed the fact that he was providing data to Naoko Akagi.

What is reassuring is that although the top management behaved inappropriately this time, they did not do anything too outrageous.

Ikari Yui asked me to come here, didn't she just want me to know these things?

After pondering for a moment, he carefully read the detailed information recorded above again. There was no big problem with the data recorded in the front, except that Ayanami Rei often had abnormal fluctuations. The data recorded in the back came from the incubator. Fumihiko Ikari was not surprised. Although the incubator had been closed, it was not completely physically isolated. The incubator and other equipment inside required power supply.

He had previously retrieved data to understand the life status of the clones in the incubator.

I just haven't paid attention to the brain wave data.

Now looking at the data in his hand, his expression suddenly became embarrassed.

When Rei Ayanami's brain waves became abnormal, the same thing happened to the other clones in the incubation room. Especially during the budding stage of Rei Ayanami's self-awareness, the frequency of communication between the two was the highest.