I participated in the development of EVA

Becoming a scapegoat is also equivalent to increasing one's own value.

No matter how well Seele's top management arranged it, the most they could do was to make the existence of the Third Impact like human consciousness. Everyone would be aware of its existence, but it could not be scientifically proven or disproven. As long as such a thing was likely to happen, no one would dare to bet the fate of all mankind that it would not happen.

And even if the Third Impact does not exist, the results achieved by Plan E are enough to ensure that he will not die.

Even if everyone knew about it, he wouldn't even be judged for it.

Thinking of this, he breathed a sigh of relief, but then frowned again, thinking that the top management would definitely have other arrangements.

Although he was worried, he was just a little uneasy in his heart, and what made him feel at ease was that such a situation did not appear in the original book.

"What are you thinking about? I'm talking to you again, are you listening?"

Yui Ikari noticed the abnormality in Ikari Fumihiko's mood, but she did not delve into it because the obscene aura emanating from Ikari Fumihiko made her feel that he must be thinking about something bad.

"Uh--"

At Ikari Yui's impatient reminder, Ikari Fumihiko came back to his senses.

"I have no opinion."

Having said that, he still felt that he shouldn't just lie down and resign himself to his fate. He should at least struggle a little.

He immediately opened his mouth and threw out the bait.

No matter what, let's throw something out first to see if it can cause any noise.

"I don't know much about children. Can you help me keep an eye on Li's current condition and see if it's normal? Why do I feel like she's developing slowly?"

There was no need for Fumihiko Ikari to remind anyone about this, as the top management had been observing Rei Ayanami's situation.

Rei Ayanami is the only EVA pilot at this stage, so no amount of attention is too much. Moreover, Fumihiko Ikari previously proposed the speculation that 'humans who drive EVA for a long time will have their bodies assimilated by EVA, resulting in humans having the same lifespan as EVA'. Naturally, the top management is always paying attention to the changes in Rei Ayanami's body.

Of course, the distortion may occur due to the EVA cells in Rei Ayanami's body, but at this stage there is only one pilot, so the data can only be collected from her.

"It's indeed better than..."

Ikari Yui originally wanted to say peers, but when the words came to her lips, she felt that the word was not appropriate. If it were an ordinary person, she would definitely not worry about these things, as long as she could express what she wanted to express, but she was a scholar, and immediately corrected the words she had used before.

"Well, compared to other children of the same physical age, her development is very slow."

221. What is artificially guided?

After this period of treatment, Rei Ayanami's cell division rate has been suppressed to the level of a normal person, but she still has the defect that she cannot leave the debugging drug for a long time.

Treating abnormal cell division is a shortcut, solving the problem by refining LCL. Faced with a problem that LCL cannot completely solve, not to mention the scholars in the R&D department, even the whole world is helpless about this problem. This is completely beyond the scope of current science.

Ikari Fumihiko hesitated for a moment and spoke again.

"And with the same batch of individuals?"

Not only the currently active Rei Ayanami received the treatment with the debugging drug, but also the spare bodies quietly lying in the incubator.

This is done to obtain reference data on drug efficacy and also to extend the shelf life of the bodies used along the way. No one knows whether these bodies will still be able to allow Rei Ayanami to drive EVA when they are activated after their physical age exceeds sixteen.

Ikari Yui shook her head.

"I don't pay much attention to it. Now the entire Lingbo project team is in your hands. You should know more about these things than me, right?"

There are so many things to deal with every day that she can't possibly pay attention to everything.

Of course, the fundamental reason why she didn't pay much attention to the Ayanami project was still Ikari Fumihiko. It was not that she trusted Ikari Fumihiko very much, but she felt that given how much Ikari Fumihiko cared about Ayanami Rei, he would definitely not let any trouble go wrong with the Ayanami project.

Ikari Fumihiko was a little embarrassed.

The Ayanami project team was indeed in his hands, but the incident at the beginning had left him with a shadow on his mind about the incubator, so he didn't pay attention to this information.

He coughed dryly to cover up his inner embarrassment, then went to the computer on the desk, logged into his information and retrieved the relevant data.

Rei Ayanami, who are at different stages of their physical age, float quietly in the incubators like babies. Compared to the original work where all the bodies were piled up inside a huge incubator called an artificial womb, these bodies now can be said to be enjoying VIP treatment.

Looking at this scene, he thought of one thing.

I should put clothes on them.

In fact, he knew in his heart that it was meaningless to do so, because there was basically no chance of these bodies being activated. Even if something unexpected happened, only one or two would be activated at most, or even suitable new bodies would have to be temporarily manufactured. Now the only value of these bodies was to serve as Rei Ayanami's external brain, mainly to record Rei Ayanami's memory, no... to be precise, it should be a backup of Rei Ayanami's soul information.

"Compared to the same batch, the current Li's development speed is slower."

As he said this, he retrieved Rei Ayanami's file and took a closer look before speaking again.

“And the situation is getting worse.”

Ikari Yui didn't react at first, and she didn't realize why Ikari Fumihiko suddenly talked to her about this until now.

Fumihiko Ikari once again brought out the bait that had caused turmoil among the top leaders. No - to be precise, this was not a bait, but a research direction named 'artificially guided evolution of human EVA'.

At this stage, the research is still at the theoretical level of 'EVA and the driver interacting with each other'.

At the beginning, she had also carefully thought about whether this conjecture was true, but like other scholars who had thought about this conjecture, they were stuck on whether the human body form was influenced by the soul. No one knew how to verify this. She really couldn't understand it, so she didn't invest too much energy in this aspect. The senior management didn't mention this again, so she forgot about it.

"Is this affected by EVA? Or is it an individual problem? Or is it caused by the EVA cells in his body?"

He asked all the questions in his mind in one breath.

Because she knew very well that Fumihiko Ikari was not discussing this matter with her, but was just relaying it to the higher-ups through her.

Moreover, the top management did not mention this matter, not because they did not care, but because this matter was too sensitive. Once Ikari Fumihiko's theory was further confirmed, the top management would probably split into two groups: "Completion" and "Evolution".

Although Fumihiko Ikari wanted to attribute this change to the influence of EVA, he knew in his heart that he couldn't be too hasty about such things.

So I started analyzing it seriously.

"It may be that the long-term driving of EVA has affected the soul and caused a mutation. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that this is just an isolated case."

After thinking for a while, he spoke again.

"But the influence of EVA cells should be ruled out. All bodies have EVA cells, and if the changes are caused by EVA cells, there should be changes in the flesh. From the data, Li's flesh has not changed at all, and is still not much different from ordinary humans like us."

Ikari Yui did not completely believe what Ikari Fumihiko said. Instead, she came to Ikari Fumihiko with a strange fragrance and fixed her eyes on the computer screen.

Sensing the strange smell, Fumihiko Ikari sniffed subconsciously and immediately gave up his seat. However, he did not expect that he would feel even more embarrassed after standing up. As long as he lowered his head slightly, he could see a large area of ​​dazzling white.

Ikari Yui didn't care about these and just stared at the information displayed on the screen.

Rei Ayanami's file is extremely detailed, to the point of being insane, with all the information imaginable recorded.

After comparing the data with other bodies, the situation was indeed as Fumihiko Ikari said. Rei Ayanami's development curve was slower than that of the bodies of the same age. In order to make the comparison more intuitive, she controlled the mouse and keyboard to open a software, which converted the development data of the body and the main body into curves. This way the situation was more obvious and intuitive.

At the same time, an abnormality that had not been discovered before was also noticed. The development curves of all clones of the same physical age were exactly the same.

That is to say, all clones are exactly the same, rather than being infinitely close to 100%.

Normally, even if they are clones, there will be certain differences between individuals, it is just a matter of size, and it is impossible for them to be exactly the same as they are now.

'Is this why there is only one entity?'

This thought flashed through her mind, but she immediately put it behind her because she knew very well that modern science could not find the answer to such a question and it would be a waste of time to think about it.

Only the development curve of the main body is different from that of the other bodies.

“Could it be that changes are caused by external factors such as diet and training?”

She suggested another possibility.

Ikari Fumihiko thought about it and felt that what Ikari Yui raised was not impossible. After all, the bodies of the same age used for comparison had been immersed in the incubator without contact with the outside world, while the original body was different. It had been eating and drinking and undergoing various trainings, and its body had been affected by many external factors.

But before Ikari Fumihiko could say anything, Ikari Yui retrieved more data and extended the timeline to the moment when Ayanami Rei was born.

She believes more in the answers she finds than the answers given by others.

The original body curve has always been the same as the other body curves, until recently it started to differ from the rest of the clones.

This is enough to show that Rei Ayanami's development is not affected by external factors.

222. Well said

After a long silence, Ikari Yui turned his eyes away from the screen.

In any case, there is only one sample now, and there are too many external factors affecting it. As experimental data, it is really not convincing.

If this project wasn’t so sensitive, the current situation would have come from Fumihiko Ikari’s own words.

She only said one sentence -

This alone is not enough.

And now.

"I will report all of this to the top management. Do you have anything to add?"

When she said this, she found that Fumihiko Ikari was a little strange. He was not looking at her but looking up at the ceiling. What did that mean?

Looking up, there was only one light on the ceiling.

This confusion only flashed across his mind for a moment, and then he thought Ikari Fumihiko's strange behavior was that he was looking at the camera.

She felt that Fumihiko Ikari was a little too sensitive. Although there was a professional team within the organization that kept a close eye on Fumihiko Ikari's every move and fed back information to senior management in real time, the senior management was not sitting around doing nothing and keeping an eye on these things. Even if sensitive words were triggered and the senior management was reminded, they might not have time to check the situation immediately.

"Ah."

Ikari Fumihiko responded, not knowing that Ikari Yui misunderstood his averting his gaze as looking at the camera.

"There is nothing to add at the moment."

Ikari Yui nodded and added as she turned to leave.

"You don't need to worry too much about the Hyacinth Project. It won't have any impact on you after it's developed externally."

Fumihiko Ikari didn't quite understand and asked back.

"What influence?"

"It won't affect your current life. To put it simply, you don't have to deal with speeches, seminars, and the like. Dr. Ito will take care of these tedious matters for you."

This is a good thing to say, and it won't affect Fumihiko Ikari's life. In fact, compared to him, the top management trusts Dr. Ito more.

Without waiting for his reaction, Ikari Yui immediately added another sentence.

"If you're worried, you can arrange for Huimei to come in."

Ikari Fumihiko shook his head.

"No need. I talked to Huimei about this last night, and she didn't want to go out."

Ikari Yui was not surprised by this and just agreed with it casually.

"It's actually better not to go there. It's easy to get fat if you stay there doing nothing all day."

Just like what Ikari Yui said.

After arranging Ibuki Huimi to enter, in order to prevent her from leaking information, she will definitely not be given the opportunity to contact people from outside.

Fumihiko Ikari was a little envious of that kind of life, where he didn't have to do anything and just sat there in a daze every day, without having to think about anything all day long and could just be a freeloader.

I didn't know what to say, so I just responded perfunctorily.

"Ah."

Ikari Yui said casually again.

"Obesity is a woman's natural enemy."

After saying that, he stood up and walked out of the office without paying any more attention to Fumihiko Ikari.

After Ikari Yui left, Ikari Fumihiko came to the computer and prepared to close the database, but before closing it, he took a close look at the table that Ikari Yui had just made.

It's exactly the same curve.

At this moment, the same doubts that Ikari Yui had before emerged in her mind.

With so many external factors influencing it, how come the previous development curves are still completely consistent?

Is it caused by the EVA gene? Or is it caused by some parallel connection of consciousness?

Compared with the former, he felt that the latter was more likely. To put it simply, the so-called parallel consciousness means that all bodies share the same soul.

For the life in this world, the soul determines the form of existence of the organism.

Simply put, the soul determines everything about life on the material level, including species, appearance, height, weight... everything.