I participated in the development of EVA

The second impact destroyed everything familiar.

This is what drives people crazy, leads them to insanity, and makes them sick.

The equipment had completed the inspection at this time, and the skinny woman drained the LCL inside the incubator through the operation panel. The clones sank as the LCL liquid inside became less and soon sank to the bottom. Losing the buoyancy provided by the LCL liquid, they sat at the bottom of the equipment in a weird posture like a puppet with its strings cut.

Fumihiko Ikari was thinking whether he should help the clone adjust its posture, as maintaining this posture for too long might cause damage.

however……

The cloned body was not a real dead object. She twisted her body unconsciously to make the strange posture look natural.

Ikari Fumihiko widened his eyes in surprise.

After a while, new LCL liquid was injected into the instrument, and the clone body floated up again, standing quietly in the LCL liquid.

It was not until this moment that Fumihiko Ikari came back to his senses from the shock of the clones' movements, but he was relieved immediately. They just had no self-awareness, not neurological defects and no perception.

After finishing her work, the skinny woman put away the equipment and did not leave, but just stared at Ikari Fumihiko with numb and empty eyes.

Although he didn't say anything, Ikari Fumihiko still knew what the other party was thinking.

Just do whatever you want to do, I'll clean up after you.

After hesitating for a moment, he opened his mouth to explain.

"If hair this long continues to grow, it might be sucked into the body with breathing. If the nails are not trimmed, they might scratch the body unconsciously."

The skinny woman said nothing, and it was unclear whether she didn't have the strength or didn't want to talk to Ikari Fumihiko.

He arrived at the gate and casually opened an incubation device. Just as he was about to reach out to take the clone out of it, his attention was drawn to the sound of the rollers turning. He turned around and saw that the skinny woman had brought the rail crane on the ceiling over. The two looked at each other in silence for a moment, and Ikari Fumihiko withdrew his hands.

If there are only one or two clones, it would be more convenient to use both hands, and the clones are not heavy enough to require a crane.

However, what we have in front of us are not just one or two cloned bodies, but five hundred of them.

After he gave up his position, the skinny woman began to operate skillfully, putting the special belt on the clone body and then activated the hook. At the moment when the clone body was hung up, he frowned and felt a little uncomfortable physically and mentally at this moment. No matter how you look at it, this scene doesn't seem like treating a human being, but more like a cargo...

Ok!

They are animals to be slaughtered.

"Okay, let me do it."

After a brief pause, Ikari Fumihiko added another sentence.

"They shouldn't be treated like this."

The cloned body was placed on the bed next to him, and Fumihiko Ikari untied its belt.

He gently laid her flat on the bed, then took out a pair of scissors and cut off her excess hair.

The trim was not even, but there was nothing he could do since he was not a professional barber.

"A bald head works better than just letting your hair down."

The skinny woman next to him said this out of the blue.

Ikari Fumihiko shook his head.

"What's the point of a girl shaving her head? Shoulder-length hair is prettier."

“No one will care.”

"I can."

"..."

"If I didn't care, I wouldn't do this."

After a slight hesitation, Fumihiko Ikari took the opportunity to express his views.

"If you really feel guilty and want to make amends, you should do what I did instead of torturing yourself with hunger."

The skinny woman opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, nothing came out. The sins she had committed were not limited to those that could be seen.

Ikari Fumihiko did not say much, but tried to cut his shoulder-length hair as smooth as possible. At the beginning, he almost collapsed just because he participated in the human experiment without any fatal accidents, let alone being involved in the experiment of cloning. If he were to face all that, he might become even more inhuman than the other party.

After a few more cuts, I finally compromised.

If they are not aligned, then let them be!

It's better than being bald.

Yes--

He felt that if he continued to struggle, the cloned body would become bald.

Seeing that Fumihiko Ikari gave up on trying to trim the clone's nails and started to trim the clone's nails, the skinny woman hesitated for a moment but still moved over, picked up the scissors and trimmed the clone's hair.

"So amazing? Have you learned this before?"

After a long time, there was no reply. Just when Fumihiko Ikari thought the other party would not reply, he received a response.

"My mother was...a hairdresser."

235. Don’t panic, wait and see what happens

After experiencing painful things, Fumihiko Ikari has a thorough understanding of the saying "Don't advise others to do good until you have experienced their suffering."

Everyone has three or two friends in this world.

Before I traveled through time, my friends had advised me against it, but heart disease needs to be treated with heart medicine.

That's why he just threw out an introduction and didn't say anything else.

One person cuts hair and one person does nail polish.

The finished cloned bodies looked much more normal, except that they lacked that weird and twisted beauty.

Fumihiko Ikari used both hands to place the cloned body into the incubation device. The skinny woman suddenly spoke again while checking the device.

"When I was in junior high school, I played a lot and my grades were terrible."

Still without saying anything, Ikari Fumihiko just listened silently.

Sometimes listening is more useful than comforting.

"My mother was worried that I would learn bad things, so she forced me to learn hairdressing from her. It was during the summer vacation of my second year in junior high school. I still remember that the business was very good at that time. Basically, we were busy all day long. We didn't even have time to eat. It was too hard and tiring. What I realized at that time was not how hard my mother worked, but that I didn't want to become as hard-working as her in the future.

Am I... a very selfish person?

He only thinks about himself in everything and cannot even understand the suffering of his family members. "

Ikari Fumihiko shook his head.

"No, this is very common and normal."

The second clone was fished out.

"In fact, most people were like this when they were young. They simply couldn't understand so many things."

The skinny woman didn't respond and only spoke again after a while.

"After that, I studied hard every day, and my mother and father also used most of their savings to support me. I was admitted to Kyoto University, and everything went smoothly without any waves. After graduating from university, I felt that this was not enough, so I applied for a graduate school. I thought I could finally change my fate..."

At this point he could no longer control his voice and became choked up, but he did not continue.

Because what happens next is obvious.

The second shock at the moment when she thought she had successfully changed her life destroyed everything, along with years of hard work and her parents who had worked hard for her for most of their lives.

Ikari Fumihiko still didn't say anything, but just said one sentence after placing the cloned body on the bed.

"Are you done over there? Come over here when you're done."

And put the scissors in the skinny woman's hand.

She held the scissors tightly, tears dripping on them, and after a long time she mechanically trimmed the clone's hair.

When she first learned haircutting from her mother, the first hair she came into contact with was shoulder-length hair.

In a trance, I seemed to be back to that summer vacation.

Ikari Fumihiko remained silent, mainly because he didn't know what to say, and he was not the kind of person who was willing to please others.

When I encounter people in trouble, I will help them as long as it does not affect myself, but I will not dream of saving everything.

Just like what he is doing now, giving the opponent a little help before he kills him.

The two of them didn't speak again after that, just busying themselves in silence.

After trimming the hair and nails of twenty-four clones in one go, Ikari Fumihiko was so tired that he almost collapsed. He was already exhausted when he got to the eighteenth one, but the skinny woman who looked malnourished was still persisting, so he was too embarrassed to take a break and just gritted his teeth and persevered.

This is not him being false.

The main reason was that each clone weighed more than 60 kilograms, and he was able to carry 24 of them up and down thanks to the driver training he had received before.

Otherwise, with his lazy pace of life, he would have given up long ago.

"That's it for today."

At first, it only took a dozen minutes to clone a body. Later on, both of them slowed down and it took almost half an hour to complete one. Now it was already past dinner time and it was almost time to get off work on weekdays.

The skinny woman nodded numbly, then fell to the ground and fainted.

Ikari Fumihiko was not surprised by this, as he had expected this scene. After confirming that the other party was still breathing, he sat back on the hospital bed.

After a while, he picked up the other person and put him on the hospital bed.

Before pushing the other person away, he did not forget to debug the incubation device of the last clone body. After watching it for so long, he already knew how to do it.

After finishing all these, he pushed the bed out. Before leaving, he looked back at the dim space behind him.

When they arrived at the medical room of the Lingbo project, doctors and nurses surrounded them as soon as they entered, checking the skinny woman's physical condition.

Without waiting for Fumihiko Ikari to ask, the doctor took the initiative to explain the situation after the examination.

"The coma caused by overwork and long-term malnutrition requires hospitalization for observation and treatment."

"Ah."

It was not until then that Fumihiko Ikari learned the skinny woman's name.

Ueno Kiriha.

"Take care of her."

After giving these instructions, he was about to turn around and walk outside, but when he reached the door, he stopped and added something.

"When she woke up, she said that she could do more if she took good care of her body."

Ikari Fumihiko didn't know whether this sentence was useful or not, or whether it could be the right remedy for her condition. He just thought it might be useful, so he said it. The rest depended on her own choice.

Again……

There are too many people like her around, and he can't help them even if he has three heads and six arms.

What's more, this is all a mental illness.

I returned to the pharmaceutical area to check the situation. Ikari Yui had already left. It was obvious that she had other important things to do. Dr. Ito still hadn't made any progress.

There is only one piece of good news.

Ibuki Huimi did not forget about herself and brought dinner over.

He asked the nurse to heat up his lunch box, and when he was halfway through his meal he received a call from Ibuki Megumi.

"Li and I are back in the dormitory. When will you be back?"

He was a little surprised and looked up at the clock. Time had unknowingly reached eleven o'clock.

"I'll go back right now."

"Then I wait for you."

"Ah."

After hanging up the phone, Fumihiko Ikari quickly ate the remaining food, then got up and walked out. At this moment, he inexplicably once again felt guilty for skipping work. Looking back, he had a sense of traveling through time and space. The atmosphere in the Pharmaceutical Research and Development Department was exactly the same as when he had just traveled through time, tense and depressing to the point of suffocating.

The importance of the lcl problem is only slightly less than the failure of Unit 00.

When I returned to the dormitory, as soon as I entered, I saw Ibuki Megumi and Ayanami Rei staring at each other, and Ayanami Rei was wearing a loose pajamas. I knew without asking that the pajamas belonged to Ibuki Megumi.

As for Ibuki Huimi standing next to her?