I participated in the development of EVA

"Yes, no matter what time it is, I will believe you."

Ikari Fumihiko took advantage of the fact that Ibuki Huimi was distracted by this sentence and changed the subject.

"Well, there's a reason why I objected just now."

"what reason?"

Fumihiko Ikari took a deep breath and his brain worked rapidly.

"You know, the top management has always been suspicious of me. If I don't do something, I might die in an accident one day. I decided to participate in this project because I determined that the Three Sages System that Team Leader Akagi wanted to develop was a cross-era technology that would panic the top management and they wanted to fully master it.

If Team Leader Akagi wasn't stupid, he would be able to realize this.

That’s why I decided to huddle together with Team Leader Akagi… Uh, no! We should unite together to prevent the higher-ups from making any rash moves.”

Ibuki Huimi was more rational and did not make a fuss at this time.

He lowered his head and thought seriously for a moment before speaking.

"I still feel that she is not trustworthy."

"Well, I didn't believe her at all, otherwise I wouldn't have used electromagnetic devices to destroy the monitoring equipment in the dormitory."

"You'd better be more careful and don't fall into the honey trap."

Honey trap?

Uh……

Naoko Akagi can really be considered a beauty trap. Although she is not as young and attractive as a young girl, she still has her own charm and flavor.

Of course you can think this way, but Fumihiko Ikari would never say this.

"Huh? How is that possible? How old is she? Ten of them wouldn't be even one ten-thousandth of yours."

"Ah--"

Ibuki Emi chuckled.

"I'm not kidding you, nor am I testing you. You must be on guard against this kind of situation."

"Yeah, yeah, I mean what I said."

"Oh--"

Ibuki Huimi responded without comment, and then her expression became serious again.

"what do you want to do?"

"What to do?"

"Do you want to protect yourself, or do you want to defect from the organization, or do you want to join the upper echelons?"

Fumihiko Ikari answered without hesitation.

"Self-preservation."

17:29:50

351. When planning something, start by planning for failure

"Do you want to protect yourself, or do you want to defect from the organization, or do you want to join the upper echelons?"

Fumihiko Ikari answered without hesitation.

"Self-preservation."

This is not a lie. From the beginning to the end, he wanted to get away from Seele, and the essence of that was to escape from the center of this vortex that concerned all of humanity.

Being suspected by the higher-ups, with his life and death at the mercy of others, he has to shoulder the heavy responsibility of saving the world...

This kind of life was too exciting for him.

"I'm not interested in power. If possible, I'd rather focus on making games."

This statement is somewhat false. In fact, it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you can be a small boss.

After a pause, he couldn't help but sigh again.

“This kind of life is so tiring now.”

Without surveillance, some of the things that I usually kept in my heart were spoken out subconsciously at this moment.

Ibuki Huimi pressed Ikari Fumihiko's head with concern, but continued with the previous topic.

"If you want to protect yourself, you have to keep some backup plans to prevent the top leaders from making rash moves, or you have to tie your interests to the top leaders."

Ikari Fumihiko sighed.

Binding?

How to bind? Conspire with those guys to sacrifice all of humanity?

Uh……

Even if I wanted to do that, those guys wouldn't give me the chance.

The top brass are on guard against him like they are against a thief.

I have a lot of thoughts in my mind, but I can't express them, and in the end I can only sigh helplessly.

"Ugh!"

Faced with this situation, Ibuki Emi didn't have a good solution and could only say a few words of comfort.

"You are the director. If the higher-ups wanted to get rid of you, they wouldn't have let you sit in this position."

"What if this is just to steady me?"

"That means the top management still needs your ability to solve the problem, so they won't take action. And given their suspicious nature, they won't take any drastic measures as long as they can't decipher the neural connection device you're researching. Just like you're worried that they'll abandon you, they're also worried that you'll have the means to fight to the death."

Ikari Fumihiko smiled bitterly.

If only there were...

Ugh!

"I hope so."

As he said this, one of his thoughts flashed through his mind again.

In the original work, the reason why Akagi Naoko died was not because the top management wanted to do so, but because Ikari Gendō facilitated it in order to seize control of the Three Sages System! ?

If that's the case...

Thinking of this, she noticed that Ibuki Huimi opened her mouth to say something, and she immediately raised her hand.

"Don't talk yet, I'm thinking about something."

This would also explain why Kiyotaki Gendo was not silenced by the higher-ups after Ikari Yui disappeared.

Yes!

According to the "standard", Ikari Gendō definitely meets the conditions for being silenced by the higher-ups. As the husband of Ikari Yui, who knows part of the content of the human completion plan, there is a high probability that Ikari Gendō knows the content of the human completion plan. To be on the safe side, the higher-ups should have silenced Ikari Gendō directly after Ikari Yui disappeared and eliminated the potential threat, instead of reusing Ikari Gendō.

As he thought about this, an idea flashed through his mind.

Does the Human Completion Project really need to be kept secret? !

He had never thought about it.

I have always subconsciously thought that this plan must be kept absolutely secret. Except for the top management, anyone who knows about this plan must die. It was not until now that I suddenly realized that even if this plan was leaked, it would probably not cause any waves... No! The top management knew that there is no absolutely airtight wall in this world, so they had already laid the groundwork.

The concept of human completion had actually been spread throughout the institute a long time ago. Basically, all middle-level managers knew about it, but the concepts were mixed up...

The plan was not to sacrifice all of humanity to the gods, but was shuffled into humanity's final plan to fight its enemies.

The content of this plan is very simple, which is to sacrifice all mankind to complete EVA and perish together with the mysterious creatures that invaded the earth when defeat is certain.

Thinking of this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

These old silver coins...

It's true that they started planning by planning for failure, and they had prepared a fallback plan before EVA was even created.

Then he smiled bitterly.

wrong!

In the original novel, the top management was able to tolerate Ikari Gendō controlling the authority of the Three Sages System because they knew that Ikari Gendō would cooperate with the implementation of the plan.

Now the Three Sages System is in the hands of Naoko Akagi and I, and the higher-ups may not be too tolerant.

Still not right...

If the top leaders really wanted to take action, they could have done it now.

Ugh!

His confused thoughts once again made him couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"The more I think about it, the more confused I am. Forget it, let's see how things develop... go to sleep."

"Ah."

Ibuki Huimi responded but didn't say anything else.

The things that need to be reminded have already been reminded before.

The next day, after having breakfast with Ibuki Megumi and Ayanami Rei, Fumihiko Ikari got up and went to the project team.

As soon as I walked into the core research area, I saw Professor Langrey still looking through materials in front of the computer, and he looked like he hadn't slept all night.

It's really hard work...

He pretended not to notice anything and came to his post. Before he started working, someone ran over.

"what's up?"

"Director, someone is looking for you."

"Who?"

"He said he was a council representative."

Senior representatives?

Fumihiko Ikari subconsciously glanced at Professor Langley. A high-level person came at this time. Could it be that the American consul was about to collapse? ?

"Tell him to wait for me in the office."

"Yes."

I got up and went to the office. As soon as I walked in, I found a middle-aged man wearing glasses and looking very gentle sitting on the sofa.

"Hello, Director Ikari."

"Ah."

Ikari Fumihiko didn't know the other person's name, so he didn't say anything polite.

"The Council asked me to ask you when the construction of the first generation of the Three Sages System will begin."

“The system still has some flaws and it will take some time to be further improved.”

"Regarding this, the Council hopes that you can build the first generation machine first and then gradually improve it."

"There's no need to be so hasty, right!?"

"The Council wants to use the power of the first-generation machine to transform the Third New Tokyo into the world's first smart city, so as to attract more people to settle here. Of course, the main purpose of this smart city is to pave the way for all mankind to fight against those mysterious creatures in the future." As he said this, he took out a disk and handed it to Ikari Fumihiko respectfully.

“This is the blueprint for a smart city.”

Fumihiko Ikari used a computer to read the disk and took a quick look. He found that it was not much different from the Third New Tokyo in the original work.

"During war, putting the city underground to avoid losses in battle? That's a good idea."

"Not only in wartime, even if the Third Impact occurs, damage can be avoided in this way. Such a design can only be achieved by using the power of the Three Sages System."

17:30:03

352. It's up to people to plan, and it's up to heaven

It's the same old routine as always.