I participated in the development of EVA

In the first version, Rei Ayanami might be injured, but in the second version, she would just be frightened at most. The main thing she would suffer from is the psychological pressure brought by the nuclear explosion and the N2 explosion.

If he had just traveled through time, he would definitely reject this plan. He did not want Rei Ayanami to be hurt in any way and would have over-protected her. Now he is more rational than before.

17:57:02

424. Don’t ask me why I didn’t update yesterday. I can only say 1.5

After the weapons testing meeting, Fumihiko Ikari attended the investigation department meeting before he even had time to drink a sip of water.

A director, two deputy directors, and ten senior agents from the Investigation Department walked into the conference room after the personnel from the Equipment Department left.

He didn't know much about this aspect and just looked through the relevant documents after being notified of the meeting.

The above records a brief report on the United Nations' search for the Apostles in recent years. In this regard, the United Nations has invested millions of agents, and has carried out searches around the world in the name of mineral surveying. This has caused a lot of movement and even triggered armed conflicts, but the results have been minimal, especially in those areas where humans have not set foot and the original environment is preserved.

"Minister Ikari, we need technical support from your R&D department."

"Ah."

The members of the investigation team did not react to Ikari Fumihiko's nonchalant attitude.

The head of the Investigation Department continued speaking.

"We hope that the R&D department can produce targeted search tools for the Apostle and Longinus Metal, preferably ones that can be carried on satellites, so that surface exploration can be completed in the shortest possible time."

Ikari Fumihiko shook his head.

"I don't know much about these two aspects, so I need the top management to coordinate with relevant personnel."

"I will help you report this issue to the higher-ups."

The director of the search department paused for a moment and then continued, "In addition, our department needs some permissions of the Three Sages System for information sorting."

"This is not possible yet. We need to wait until the Three Sages System is completed."

"how long it takes?"

“It depends on the progress of the construction.”

The official machine of the Three Sages took up too much space, and the space inside the underground base had long been filled up, so they had to dismantle the supercomputer in the supercomputing center to make room for the official machine of the Three Sages.

"That's a bother. Minister Ikari, please notify me once the official Three Sages System is completed."

"Ah."

After responding, Ikari Fumihiko asked back.

"Anything else?"

"Gone."

After the investigation department meeting, the operations department meeting began.

"Minister Ikari, I'm the Chief of Operations."

Only the Minister of Operations came, and he did not submit any documents in advance, but only made an appointment for the meeting.

"Ah."

Ikari Fumihiko still maintained a nonchalant attitude. It was not that he looked down on these ministers at the same level as him, but he had held too many meetings that day and did not want to talk.

"I came here this time to discuss with you the EVA sortie and the issue of Unit 2's pilot. Currently, Unit 0 and Unit 2 are the only EVAs capable of sorties. In order to respond to emergencies, the United Nations hopes that I can bring Unit 2's pilot back to Europe to complete the defense deployment of the Western Hemisphere."

"She is only five years old now, and she just celebrated her fifth birthday."

The busy life made Ikari Fumihiko neglect Asuka's birthday and he had no habit of celebrating birthdays. He never celebrated the birthdays of Ayanami Rei, Ibuki Megumi, or himself. At that time, he had no intention of bringing Asuka home, so Asuka's first birthday after losing her mother was probably spent with her mother's doll.

The reason why he had no hope of celebrating his birthday was because he guessed that Asuka would celebrate his birthday like this.

In addition to the stressful life, it was also because no one had ever celebrated his birthday since he was a child. The only time was when his mother passed away, and he gave the wooden comb left by his mother as a birthday gift to himself.

"..."

The Minister of Operations was silent for a moment, then spoke.

"She is the last line of defense. We will never let her appear on the battlefield unless it is absolutely necessary."

Then he paused and spoke again.

"Like you said before, we don't have a choice."

Ikari Fumihiko also fell silent.

"I haven't celebrated her birthday yet."

"We are unable to control the movements of the Angels. It will be too late to deploy them once we discover them. If you are worried, you can ask Ms. Ibuki Huimei to go with us to Europe to take care of the pilot of Unit 2."

Ikari Fumihiko heard that this person came for the pilot of Unit 2 and also for Ibuki Megumi.

The wind is blowing...

"Asuka can return to Europe with you. Ibuki Huimei can follow you. She has always wanted to be a teacher. I let her stay because the base was short of staff before. Now that there are enough staff, let her leave!"

The Chief of Operations seemed not to have heard the second half of the sentence and continued to ask about Asuka.

"When will the pilot of Unit 2 be able to return to Europe?"

"Wait until the weapons test is finished."

"it is good."

After the Operations Department meeting ended, Fumihiko Ikari was about to get up and leave the meeting room when a man walked in from outside.

He was a little surprised to see who was coming.

"Commander Ikari."

"Minister Ikari."

Ikari Gendo didn't find a seat to sit down, he just looked at Ikari Fumihiko and said something.

"The higher-ups don't want you to focus too much on the meeting, so they asked me to come over and handle matters other than scientific research."

Ikari Fumihiko didn't say anything, he just looked at Ikari Gendō, and the fear he once had in his heart was gone. He knew that the high-level person Ikari Gendō was referring to was Seele, and he knew even more clearly that Ikari Gendō's reappearance after disappearing for so long meant that Seele had already formulated a human completion plan, and had chosen Ikari Gendō as the executor of the plan, just like in the original novel.

Ikari Gendō's gaze is as deep and unfathomable as ever.

To outsiders, the two men had very similar temperaments, and their expressions were both as cold as machines, except that one had a penetrating gaze, while the other had a deep one.

Fumihiko Ikari glanced at the four secretaries beside him.

"You guys get out."

The four hesitated for a moment before turning around and leaving.

Fumihiko Ikari used the Three Sages System to directly block the surveillance video in the conference room. Now that the United Nations has taken over the entire base, and he has also admitted that the Three Sages System controls the surveillance network, there is no need to hide it as in the past.

Still feeling uneasy, he asked Ikari Gendō.

"Are there any other listening devices here? I want to talk to you about something that I don't want anyone else to know."

"The monitoring equipment is still there, but the video equipment is gone."

"Then let's communicate using text."

"it is good."

Ikari Gendo came and sat down at a seat not far away, without saying a word, just looking at Ikari Fumihiko.

Ikari Fumihiko picked up a pen and paper and wrote a few words.

"I actually met my cousin that time."

Ikari Yui is the source of Ikari Gendō's madness and also his weak spot.

Without waiting for Ikari Gendō to respond, he wrote another sentence on the paper.

"She was the one who didn't want to come back. Do you know why?"

17:57:14

425. All misunderstandings come from the lack of understanding between people

Just as Ikari Fumihiko had expected, Ikari Gendō's pupils suddenly shrank and the expression on his face became completely uncontrollable.

"Why!"

Things involving Ikari Yui made him completely lose control.

Instead of communicating in the agreed way, he asked the question "why" out loud.

Ikari Fumihiko did not reply, but just looked at Ikari Gendō.

It took a long time for Ikari Gendo to calm down and take out a device from his pocket.

"There is only one line pipeline reserved here. They can't install wired devices because they are worried that the Three Sages system itself has the ability to receive wireless signals. Therefore, the equipment installed here is all recording devices."

As he spoke, he stood up and removed the monitoring equipment in the conference room.

Then he spoke again.

"You can speak now."

Until this moment, Fumihiko Ikari did not reveal that he knew about the Human Instrumentality Project, but just started from another direction.

"Women are more sensitive than men. She loves you, but you chose her for the sake of profit."

"..."

Ikari Gendou remained silent. He couldn't refute this.

"It was like this at first...but it wasn't like that later..."

Ikari Fumihiko felt a little sorry at this time. Akagi Naoko and Ikari Gendō were not together. Otherwise, he could have said, "How dare you say you love her but get involved with another woman?"

He interrupted Ikari Gendō's subsequent words.

"I just said that women are more sensitive than men. This is a thorn that is difficult to remove."

"..."

Ikari Gendō didn't know what to say at this moment, so Ikari Fumihiko asked back, "The soul injection experiment was carried out three times in total, and people came back twice. Although it cost a certain price, they came back anyway. The only exception was the one with my cousin. Do you know what this means?"

"represents what?"

Ikari Gendo's voice was trembling.

"This actually doesn't require any in-depth research. Anyone who knows something about the at force field can guess the answer. You were unwilling to give up and hid in the archives for so long to read so much information. You should be able to hear what I am saying." Ikari Fumihiko spoke again slowly and asked only one question.

"The answer has actually already emerged in your mind, hasn't it?"

Ikari Gendō fell silent.

"..."

Ikari Fumihiko continued talking to himself.

“I have done some in-depth research on these three experiments over the past few years.

In the first experiment, although Professor Yamaki kept saying that he could give everything for humanity, in fact he was not as noble as he said. Most of his actions so far were to satisfy his childhood fantasy of being a samurai. He had not enjoyed enough people's praise, so he returned to reality. However, he was a little hypocritical, and in his heart he still cared about the safety of all mankind.

Of course, it is also possible that he left behind part of his soul in order to avenge his family members who died in the Second Impact.

He summarized the things about Professor Yamaki from what Ibuki Huimi said every day.

As if he was unwilling to accept his own guess, or perhaps he really didn't understand, Ikari Gendō asked back.

"Where's Ikari Yui?"

However, Ikari Fumihiko avoided Ikari Yui.

"In the third experiment, Professor Kyoko made the same choice, but she still had a lingering attachment to the real world, so she successfully returned to reality. However, the thoughts left in her heart were deeper than those of Professor Yamaki, which caused most of her soul to remain in Unit 2, and only a small part returned to reality. This is why she became crazy."

"..."

Ikari Gendō fell silent again.

A similar choice is actually enough to explain the problem.

The answer was just as he expected.

"That thorn made her choose the child over me."

Fumihiko Ikari's goal was not to make Ikari Gendō collapse, no... no matter how hard he hit her, Ikari Gendō would not collapse. His first impression of Ikari Gendō was that this person would only believe what he wanted to believe and would only do what he thought was right. He kept saying that he loved Ikari Yui, but he never considered what Ikari Yui wanted. To put it bluntly, everything he did was for himself.