I participated in the development of EVA

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By the time all preparations were done, two hours had passed.

It was dark when Unit-0 was transported to the coast. This place was just a seaport, not a real port, and could not meet the conditions for an aircraft carrier to dock. Rei Ayanami had to drive Unit-0 into the deep water and then pull it to the cargo ship via a steel cable. This process was also uneventful. Rei Ayanami even demonstrated her driving skills, swimming to the cargo ship without the steel cable.

The only incident was that the movements were a bit too rough when boarding the ship, and the cargo ship of more than 100,000 tons was almost sunk.

"Minister Ikari, are you traveling on an aircraft carrier or a cargo ship this time?"

It is obvious that NERV had already anticipated that Fumihiko Ikari would go with Unit 0 this time.

Fumihiko Ikari looked at the aircraft carrier through the telescope, and then looked between the cargo ships.

Although he was curious about the internal structure of the aircraft carrier, he ultimately chose the latter and stayed with Rei Ayanami.

The two of them stayed in the most comfortable captain's lounge on the cargo ship.

After getting on the boat, Fumihiko Ikari felt a little seasick and his head was dizzy. After taking seasickness medicine, he lay down next to Rei Ayanami and fell asleep. The two of them had been together for a long time, so naturally they no longer had any messy thoughts. Fumihiko Ikari completely treated Rei Ayanami as his daughter, and Rei Ayanami didn't have so many thoughts, and fell asleep not long after lying down.

After spending a day and two nights in a daze due to seasickness, we arrived at the test site at noon on the third day.

After getting off the boat, before he recovered from his seasickness, he was surrounded by a large group of soldiers who looked very high-ranking, and they greeted him enthusiastically.

In a daze, he only heard one sentence.

The experiment is expected to start tomorrow afternoon.

Then he went to rest.

After more than ten hours of recuperation on the ground, he finally recovered and immediately called the site staff.

"Get me a case of Coke."

"what?"

Without waiting for the confused site staff to come to their senses, he issued the following instructions.

"Put this Coke in the center of the test site, um, behind Unit 0."

That's right, this box of Coke was used by him as a backup to stimulate Rei Ayanami's potential.

The staff at the site could understand the previous instructions, as Fumihiko Ikari wanted to drink Coke. However, the subsequent instructions were completely incomprehensible to the staff at the site.

"We didn't know in advance that Coca-Cola would be used in this experiment, and we didn't make any preparations in advance."

"Then go and report this issue to your leader."

"Uh, okay..."

17:58:56

432. Wake up, it’s already this late, embarrassing

Fumihiko Ikari thought this problem was easy to solve, after all, Coke was not a scarce resource.

However, he did not expect that a meeting would be held just because of the Coke issue. When he walked into the meeting room, he saw a group of scholars and senior officials sitting in the room with serious expressions.

Do you have to be so serious?

"Hello, Minister Ikari."

"Ah."

It’s not that he is cold and arrogant and disdains to pay attention to these people, but that he really doesn’t remember their specific identities.

“Is there any connection between Coke and this experiment?”

The person who said this twitched his mouth, and he obviously felt that it was a bit too outrageous for so many big shots to sit together and talk about a box of Coke.

"Eva's power comes from the heart. The stronger the emotional fluctuations, the stronger the AT force field that can be deployed."

Everyone who can sit here has read some EVA-related materials.

This theory proposed by Fumihiko Ikari is not unfamiliar.

Some people still don’t understand, but some people do.

"You mean, she has a strong desire to protect Coke?"

"Yes."

Everyone looked at each other, feeling that the things discussed at this meeting were becoming more and more outrageous.

however……

What’s even more outrageous is yet to come.

"I propose using fighter jets to airlift Coke from nearby countries."

This statement was not made by Fumihiko Ikari, but by a scholar.

Everyone still looked at each other.

After a moment, someone couldn't help but ask.

"Will this really have any effect?"

Before Ikari Fumihiko could speak, the scholar spoke first.

"I believe in Minister Ikari's expertise on this issue."

After everyone looked at each other for a while, some people agreed to this proposal. They could not question the authority of Fumihiko Ikari on the EVA issue.

Then the meeting ended.

This emergency meeting was convened just to discuss the issue of this box of Coke.

People from the military and some high-ranking officials wanted to build a relationship with Ikari Fumihiko, but after the meeting, Ikari Fumihiko was surrounded by the scholars at the meeting.

"Minister Ikari, I have read all the papers you wrote, but there are some questions I don't quite understand. Can you help me clear them up?"

"Minister Ikari, Eva..."

"Minister Ikari..."

Fumihiko Ikari answered these people's questions one by one.

In addition to these overly enthusiastic scholars, there is another group of scholars who are somewhat disdainful of him.

Ikari Fumihiko asked curiously.

"Who are those people?"

"There are two factions in the academic community regarding EVA. One faction agrees with your statement that 'humanity has no other choice' and supports the EVA project. The other faction believes that this kind of power from the enemy is unreliable and opposes the EVA project. Those people are scholars who hold opposing views."

Fumihiko Ikari was not surprised that there were differences in the academic community on the EVA incident, but he was a little surprised that there were only two factions.

"No neutrals?"

"There is no neutrality on this issue. Humanity does not have enough time to develop in two directions at the same time. We must choose a major direction to obtain the power to prevent the third impact as soon as possible."

Before Ikari Fumihiko could say anything, another scholar spoke up.

"After this weapons test, people will see the power of EVA, and those who cannot see the reality will wake up."

Ikari Fumihiko naturally heard the hidden meaning of this sentence. In a way, the power displayed by EVA represents the power of the apostles. Looking at the fanaticism on these people's faces, he felt that there were a lot of believers around him. Of course, the things these people believed in were not him, but the mysterious creatures of the apostles.

The apostles were given the name apostles mostly because of these people.

"What do you think an apostle is?"

His question elicited a variety of responses.

"It's probably a special creature that was born in prehistoric times."

"Based on the fact that life will transform into LCL liquid after losing the AT force field, they should be related to the origin of life."

"They should be the real gods in myths and legends from all over the world."

……

Every scholar has his or her own opinion.

However, unlike the result he expected, the more mainstream voice did not think that the apostles were the real gods in myths and legends around the world, but believed that the apostles were accidentally brought to the earth by the meteorite that destroyed the entire Jurassic period. They are a kind of strange life form living in the universe, which makes the view that apostles are related to gods relatively rare.

"Minister Ikari, what do you think?"

"Whatever they are, they will only be stepping stones for us humans to look further into the universe."

Fumihiko Ikari thought that his speech would be met with applause, but the atmosphere unexpectedly became cold.

He didn't react until a scholar spoke.

“Is this starry sky above us really a dark forest?”

If someone hadn't mentioned it at this time, he would have forgotten what he had said about the Dark Forest Law.

At this time, he could only bite the bullet and reply.

"Maybe, maybe not. We have to witness it ourselves."

The atmosphere of despair brought about by the Dark Forest Law obviously cannot be resolved by this one sentence.

The atmosphere fell silent, and Fumihiko Ikari followed everyone to the experimental center.

There, a huge shield was lying quietly on the ground. This was the giant reactive armor shield that protected Unit 0 during the experiment.

The huge and oppressive body of Unit-0 was squatting beside the shield. Ayanami Rei, wearing combat uniform, was sitting in EVA's huge palm, staring at the endless blood-red ocean in the distance. This world was completely different from what she had seen in the animal world, at least the color of the ocean did not match.

Ikari Fumihiko took out the walkie-talkie and asked.

"Li, what are you thinking about?"

“The ocean is the wrong color.”

"The second impact caused the death of a large number of marine life, and their blood dyed the entire ocean red."

In this situation, although marine life has not been completely extinct, most of it has been extinct.

"This smell is very similar to LCL. It turns out it is the smell of blood."

"Ah."

Just as Fumihiko Ikari was about to say something else, he received the news that the Coke had been airlifted.

"Li, get ready, the experiment will start soon."

"Ah."

Fumihiko Ikari came to the command room and ordered someone to pack a bottle of Coke in a cardboard box and place it not far behind the No. 0 fuselage.

With the Coke in place, the experiment began to get on track.

Everyone gathered in the command room in the military bunker, observing the situation in the center of the test site through the large screen.

"Rei, enter Unit 0."

"receive."

Rei Ayanami entered the insertion plug, and as the neural connection device was successfully activated, Unit 0's single eye immediately lit up.

The synchronization rate continued to rise and finally settled at 86.53%.

17:59:10

433. Coke is most likely to cause no damage

Unit 00 picked up the giant shield on the ground and immediately deployed the AT force field.

"Unit 0 is in place, and the experiment can begin at any time."

Everyone in the command room looked at Ikari Fumihiko, obviously curious about how he would use Coke to stimulate the potential of Unit 00.

Ikari Fumihiko cleared his throat before speaking.