I participated in the development of EVA

"Start the dream program."

"Core signal detected, signal is normal, trying to link... link successful."

This time, what was displayed on the big screen was not the four big words "connection successful", but a scene.

It was Tokyo before the Second Impact. An ordinary-looking young man was lying on the table of a restaurant.

This time, no family members of the target were involved in the experiment, not because of concerns about risks, but because there were only a few survivors who still had families after the second impact. Simply put, the people who were devoured had no relatives or friends left alive.

"Initiate rescue procedures."

As usual, Naoko Akagi said nothing and just activated the program as instructed.

As the Enter key was pressed, the young man gradually woke up from his sleep.

He looked around blankly.

"Where is this? Am I not doing an experiment?"

While he was in a trance, pedestrians appeared on the deserted street and the quiet restaurant became lively.

"Honey, what are you thinking about?"

A familiar voice pulled him back to reality from his trance, "Yoshiko? Yoshiko! It's really you, so good... you're still alive..."

"What are you still alive about? What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Dad, eat quickly, we still need to go to the aquarium after we finish eating!"

Outside the big screen, everyone watched this simple and warm daily life, and everyone had complicated feelings. This simple and warm daily life seemed to be something that everyone could have, but for modern people it was the most unattainable thing. As the saying goes, only a few people had relatives and friends who survived, and the vast majority lost everything due to the second impact.

Fumihiko Ikari feels that the current situation is similar to the Hyacinth Project, both of which aim to awaken those who are sleeping.

"Notify Dr. Ito and ask him to come over."

Leave professional matters to professionals, this is his style.

After receiving the notification, Dr. Ito rushed to the scene.

"Minister, are you looking for me?"

"Ah."

Ikari Fumihiko briefly explained the situation.

"…How is it, is there still hope?"

"His condition is a little different from being in a vegetative state."

"What's the difference?"

"Most vegetative people don't know what happened after the second impact and have been living in a certain memory fragment. This person obviously has all the memories and has even realized that everything is fake."

Ikari Fumihiko only understood half of what he heard.

"so what?"

"You can give it a try."

"Then give it a try."

Doctor Ito sat in front of a computer and pulled out a program from the Three Sages' archives while explaining it.

"We developed this program based on patient data and psychology books. It analyzes the patient's specific condition based on the dream and gives a treatment plan based on the actual situation. So far, 30 patients have been treated with an accuracy rate of 100%. Most importantly, the treatment efficiency has been greatly improved."

Naoko Akagi took a quick look at the code and lost interest in the program.

For ordinary people, this is definitely black technology, but for Naoko Akagi it is just an ordinary psychological model.

Ikari Fumihiko only understood half of what was said and just said one sentence.

"Are you short of funds?"

"Uh……"

Dr. Ito choked.

"It's not that we lack funds, but we lack programmers for the Three Sages system. Now this program needs to be upgraded."

"I don't have a solution for this yet. We have to wait until the first phase of relevant personnel training is completed."

18:18:18

499. Be more rigorous?

No matter how powerful the program is, it is just an auxiliary tool. When it comes to psychological issues like this, it is humans themselves who make the real decisions.

The generated data was fed back to the Hyacinth Project and manually processed again by the psychological analysis team.

After waiting for six hours, there is still no result.

"how much longer?"

"The problem is a bit complicated and will take some time. If you are tired, go and rest first."

Ikari Fumihiko yawned and glanced at the time.

"Let's wait until Professor Akagi comes back."

As soon as he finished speaking, Naoko Akagi appeared in the main control room.

"I'm rested, you go ahead."

"Ah."

After answering, he stood up and left.

When he woke up and returned to the project team, he was surprised to find that the experiment was successful.

The big screen showed a person immersed in a culture device, undergoing a comprehensive examination by a medical team.

"Is this a success?"

"Well, we just completed this rescue operation three minutes ago."

Akagi Naoko responded.

Dr. Ito looked a little embarrassed.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Well, before I even started to exert any strength, he 'woke up' on his own."

I've been tinkering with it for so long, but it's over before it even started... This is really embarrassing.

"What is the specific situation?"

Dr. Ito coughed dryly before speaking.

"According to our psychological analysis report, this is..."

Sensing that Dr. Ito was about to give a long speech, Fumihiko Ikari hurriedly interrupted the spell.

"Stop, speak directly to the people. I have never studied psychology."

"Happy memories aroused the hatred in his heart, and it was the will for revenge that brought him back to reality."

"In short, he wants to avenge his wife and daughter?"

"Correct."

Fumihiko Ikari shifted his gaze to Naoko Akagi.

Naoko Akagi gave her own opinion.

"My opinion on this matter is that his willpower was weak, which led to his self-loss and inability to escape from the core. The rescue procedure helped him regain his self-awareness, which allowed him to wake up under the stimulation of memory."

When Ikari Fumihiko heard this, he thought of the ending of the original novel.

All of humanity was devoured by Lilith, however, in this situation, only Asuka explicitly refused Shinji Ikari's attempt to maintain his self.

Is Asuka the only one who refuses to complete it because of Shinji Ikari?

Obviously not, it is impossible for all human beings to be willing to give up themselves. On the contrary, most people will not give up themselves and open their hearts to others. Asuka was able to refuse because Asuka... No! It was the AT force field of the EVA pilot that broke the upper limit of human beings and exceeded the normal range.

The reason why he thought of this plot was because of the meaning revealed by Naoko Akagi's words.

The core core devours humans because there is an anti-AT force field on the core, which causes people who come into contact with it to be devoured. Normal people have no resistance to this anti-AT force field. Only people with great perseverance like Yui Ikari, Professor Yamaki, and Asuka's mother Kyoko can maintain a certain self.

Of course this is just EVA's anti-AT force field.

If it were Lilith's anti-AT force field, except for the EVA pilots who had experienced the battle against the apostles, no one else could resist it. This was no longer a problem that could be solved by perseverance.

Thinking of this, he felt a little dazed.

No wonder...

In the original work, Ikari Gendo wanted to transplant Adam cells into himself in order to maintain himself under Lilith's anti-AT force field.

Uh, wait a minute!

Can I also survive the world reset by transplanting Adam cells to maintain my self?

Thinking of this, the scene of Ikari Gendo having his right hand swallowed by Ayanami Rei flashed through his mind.

If I have the transplant, I will probably enjoy the same treatment, right? Well, this kind of thing... It seems that just bribing a bottle of Coke should be enough to solve the problem. If one bottle doesn't work, then two bottles, as long as the number is enough, it should be enough for Ayanami Rei to suppress Lilith's consciousness. The main thing is that if you really do this, there is a risk of being swallowed and assimilated by Adam's cells.

It seems... it's also possible to become an EVA pilot. In the original work, all three pilots maintained their self-awareness.

This path is most likely not feasible.

Putting aside the age issue, he just can't open his heart in sync with EVA. It's no exaggeration to say that there is no one in this world who can make him open his heart completely.

At this moment, no one dared to make a sound to disturb them, and no one even dared to breathe.

The same was true for Ikari Gendo, who rushed over after receiving the news.

The reason for this is that he is daydreaming, but outsiders think he is thinking about something.

When he saw this scene, he could only think about it and come up with a valuable opinion.

“Things seem to be stuck in a vicious circle.”

After hearing what he said, the others were a little confused, only Naoko Akagi understood.

“It’s a bit of a vicious circle indeed.”

Ikari Gendō looked at Fuyutsuki Kozo.

Dongyue Kozou was a little embarrassed. If I could understand, would I just stand there and watch?!

He bravely asked the questions that everyone was wondering about.

"What's the dead loop?"

Naoko Akagi, "Eva's Curse."

"what?"

I thought you were talking about science, but you're studying witchcraft! ?

Ikari Fumihiko explained.

"Professor Dongyue, what do you think determines the upper limit of EVA's strength?"

Since joining NERV, Fuyutsuki Kozo has been learning about apostles, so this is naturally not a problem for him.

"It's the relationship between the soul and the driver... well, resonance."

"Yes and no. This question mainly focuses on the quality of the soul injected."

After hearing this, Fuyutsuki Kozo knew what the vicious circle the two people were talking about just now meant.

"The stronger the soul, the harder it is to rescue...Is that right!?"

"Yes and no."

Ikari Fumihiko paused for a moment before continuing.

"To be more precise, it's like the atmosphere. The smaller the mass of a soul, the smaller its density. The larger the mass of a soul, the greater its density."

Dongyue Gengzao opened his mouth but didn't ask in the end.

Does the soul have mass?

Of course, despite his complaints, he still understood the meaning of Ikari Fumihiko's words. It was essentially the same as what he wanted to express, the stronger the soul, the harder it was to rescue, or even impossible to rescue, and if you wanted to create a powerful EVA, you had to choose an individual with a stronger soul, but doing so would not change the problem that making EVA required sacrificing a soul.