I participated in the development of EVA

Ibuki Emi glanced at him with a half-smile and said something meaningful.

"You've been using the toilet for a long time."

"A little constipated."

This shameless answer made Ibuki Emi's next words stuck in her throat.

At the same time, Fumihiko Ikari did not give her the chance to say anything else.

"You make the arrangements! After lunch, we'll be ready to leave."

Ibuki Emi responded immediately.

"it is good."

By noon, Ibuki Emi really had no idea what work to do in the afternoon, so she announced it immediately in a rush.

"That's all for today. We'll take a rest this afternoon. I'd like to wish everyone a Happy New Year in advance."

It was not until she said this that everyone realized that today was the last day of 2003. In a place like the base where you can't see the sunrise or sunset, everyone had long forgotten the time. No, they had become insensitive to time. Holidays were meaningless to them, so naturally they didn't pay attention to dates.

Everyone was a little confused by the sudden half-day holiday. They had been busy all the time. Not to mention a holiday, even sleeping in was a luxury. Many people didn't know what to do for a while.

Ikari Fumihiko and Ibuki Emi don't care about that.

After notifying everyone one by one, we agreed on a gathering place.

Akagi Eri looked at Ayanami Rei, Ibuki Emi, the Akagi mother and daughter, and then looked at Ikari Fumihiko.

I felt a vibe of a scumbag who was having two affairs at the same time.

I really want to ask the last question.

Why are all the people you know... people of the opposite sex? At least you should have at least one or two friends of the same sex, right?

Of course, she could only think these words in her heart, she didn't dare say them out loud.

Until the arrival of Ikari's only family member, including Ikari Shinji who was still in his arms, there were only three men in the group of nine people, and the remaining six were all women.

"Where's Professor Fuyutsuki?"

Ibuki Emi asked curiously.

Ikari Yui glanced at Ikari Fumihiko and then spoke.

"I'm going back to spend the New Year with Kana."

193. Yahoo Chicken

Ibuki Emi also subconsciously glanced at Ikari Fumihiko.

The men were not far away from each other, so Fumihiko Ikari naturally heard their conversation.

Maybe he didn't have any feelings for her in the first place, and now more than a month has passed and he's not as sensitive as he was at the beginning, but he still feels a little restless when he hears his ex-girlfriend's name.

Every bit of the past came to mind.

Seeing that Ikari Fumihiko didn't react, Ibuki Emi spoke in surprise.

"No way—just let him go out like that?"

Ikari Yui nodded.

"These two father and daughter haven't seen each other for many years."

These words were spoken in a subtle way, but Ibuki Emi was not stupid and immediately understood the hidden meaning of Ikari Yui's words.

Kana Fuyutsuki is Professor Fuyutsuki's weak spot.

At first I thought this reason was reasonable, but after thinking about it carefully, I felt that it was not quite reasonable.

Even if Kana is really Professor Fuyutsuki's weak point, she is not in the base. The top management will definitely not grant her such a great privilege based on this alone. There must be other reasons.

With these thoughts running through her mind, she spoke again.

"They really should get together."

He just responded along the lines of what Ikari Yui said and didn't ask any further questions.

If you want to live longer, don't be too curious.

After all, this involves a secret that can make the top management compromise.

Not to mention that she needs Ikari Fumihiko's protection now, even if Ikari Fumihiko himself is involved in such a thing, he will probably be skinned alive if he doesn't die.

Ikari Yui didn't want to continue talking about this topic.

"The new training ground has begun construction, in this direction."

Then he pointed in a direction.

Now that everyone has walked out of the base building, Ibuki Emi looked in the direction that Ikari Yui pointed, only to see some vague lights in that direction.

Seeing this, Ikari Yui said something.

"Don't look. It's quite far from here. You can't see anything with your naked eyes from here."

Ibuki Emi shook her head.

"You haven't been here these days because you're busy with the new training ground?"

In fact, she didn't really want to talk about these work matters, but she couldn't find a suitable topic to talk about them now.

"Correct."

Ikari Yui responded and continued speaking.

"It's nothing, actually. We just leveled the ground and pulled the high-voltage wires over. Of course, this is preliminary work, so we'll just deal with it temporarily and then slowly improve the details in the future." At this point, she seemed to have opened up a chatterbox and continued to talk, "When we were building this institute, we considered the training aspect, but we didn't expect the project to progress so quickly."

"Indeed, it's incredible - even thinking about it now, it still feels like a dream."

When the e-plan was first launched, no one expected that progress would be so rapid. It took only three years to complete the almost impossible e-plan.

Thinking back to when I first heard the outline of Plan e…

wrong!

Before Unit 00 was successfully put into motion, she still didn't think Plan E would be successful.

Ikari Yui and Ibuki Emi have the same idea.

"me too."

As he said this, he glanced at Ikari Fumihiko.

Ibuki Emi also looked over.

The most critical technology in Plan E is the neural connection device, which is also the most difficult technology to conquer!

There is complete technical information available for reference, but now more than half a year has passed, and no one has yet been able to fully understand this technology, and even its operating principle is only partially understood. If this technology had not been developed by Ikari Fumihiko, let alone Unit 0... Now the entire E-Project is still stuck in the technical preparation stage.

In addition, it also solves another key technology.

How to manipulate EVA.

Whether it is cloning or soul injection, these are the ideas it provides.

While the two were chatting, everyone took an off-road vehicle to the elevator leading to the outside world.

Different from the last time I went out.

The security equipment in front of the elevator has been updated. Now, instead of opening the luggage for inspection, it is done through security equipment.

“The process has finally improved.”

Seeing this, Ikari Fumihiko couldn't help but sigh.

Previous manual searches were too troublesome and time-consuming.

Ikari Yui was also a little surprised.

“When was this equipment installed?”

Ikari Gendō, who had remained silent the whole time, gave the answer.

"It was just installed a week ago."

He is the only one among the crowd who often goes out on missions, so naturally he knows more about the situation here.

Akagi Eri couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

“Isn’t that how all security checks work?”

Ikari Fumihiko shook his head.

“In the past, manual inspection was very troublesome.”

Akagi Eri nodded and looked towards the elevator with a burning gaze.

Do not--

To be precise, it is towards the outside world that the elevator is connected to.

Previously, the personal assistant Akagi Eri had been silent, which made Ikari Fumihiko forget about her. Now that she started talking, he remembered that there was such a person in the team.

"By the way, your last name is Akagi too. Aren't you from the same family as Dr. Naoko?"

He had been following him all the time and never said hello to Akagi Naoko and her daughter, which made him a little confused.

“It’s somewhat related, but the relationship is quite distant.”

He asked this question just because he thought the other person was alone, so he just picked a topic to chat about to avoid awkwardness. He didn't care much about the answer itself.

Akagi Eri didn't feel embarrassed. No, she was just too embarrassed to be embarrassed.

My heart has long been filled with yearning for the outside world.

Without waiting for him to say anything, Akagi Eri continued to ask.

"I heard that it's always summer outside now because of the shift in the earth's axis?"

"Correct."

Ikari Fumihiko responded, and then replied casually.

"Not really. The climate is closer to summer, and the temperature doesn't feel that hot. Of course, this is what I felt the last time I went out. I'm not sure if it's true or not. You should know that I went out twice before this. The first time I stayed for a few hours and came back because of a rainstorm. The second time I stayed a little longer, just one day and two nights."

As they chatted, everyone passed the security check and walked into the elevator.

The temperature outside today is hotter than last time, making people truly feel what a hot summer is.

This made Ikari Fumihiko a little embarrassed.

Previously, people said the temperature was not that high, but now the temperature outside is over 40 degrees.

"Uh - the weather is really nice today -"

He made up a random sentence to hide his embarrassment.

However, Eri Akagi didn't care about these things at all. She was completely attracted by this hot summer.

Rei Ayanami's situation was basically the same as the first time she left the underground base and came to the ground. The only difference was that she was not curious about the outside world, but nostalgic.

The scorching sun shone on her body, but at this moment she not only did not feel stuffy, but felt very comfortable.

I couldn't help but sigh.

"So comfortable-"

194. External Situation

I had been staying in the underground research institute, and suddenly I felt the sun shining on my body. That warm feeling really made me feel happy at first.

however……

This comfort did not last long. After just a few minutes, I started sweating profusely.

The heat was bearable, but the feeling of clothes sticking to the skin was very uncomfortable.

"Uh - so boring..."