I participated in the development of EVA

"Isn't it?"

"You're wondering about that part?"

"Kana isn't that scary, is she?"

"Not before, but now... hehe - it's better if you don't know."

Ikari Fumihiko asked hurriedly.

"Know what?"

Ibuki Emi shook her head, obviously not intending to say it out loud. She didn't even try to hide it and gave a very confused and perfunctory answer.

"nothing."

Kana Fuyutsuki suffered from schizophrenia due to the second shock. Wouldn't it destroy their relationship if she told them about it? Uh... okay! She was worried that they would quarrel over this, and that Ikari Fumihiko would be killed by Kana Fuyutsuki's second personality, and she would be buried with him. She didn't have much desire to live, but she didn't want to be buried with someone else's emotional entanglement.

"Why do you only say half of what you want to say? Is there anything you can't just say it properly?"

"I was just trying to scare you."

“Why don’t I feel like that??”

050. Don’t ask why the update is so late today. It has nothing to do with the railway.

How can a grown man like you have such a sharp intuition?

Ibuki Emi held her forehead with her hand, looking as if she had a headache.

"No way? I was just teasing you... If I had known you were so ignorant of teasing, I wouldn't have teased you."

Although there was no flaw in his expression, Fumihiko Ikari still had some doubts in his heart.

"really?"

"It's absolutely true, just like the dark circles under my eyes."

"Are you sure this isn't an attempt to pass off a lie as cosmetic surgery?"

Now Ibuki Emi was really in a headache and regretted her quick-witted behavior just now.

"What can I say for you to believe?"

Before I traveled through time, my life had always been simple. There wasn't any intrigue in my social circle, and I didn't need any ability to read people's expressions. Apart from playing games and puzzles, I didn't have to use my brain most of the time... It turned out that the repetitive and simple life of screwing screws in a factory suited me. It was a bit hard, but at least there was not so much pressure.

Fumihiko Ikari still felt that the other party was hiding something.

No matter what you say, the natural thing is to give an answer that is not so offensive.

After all, the two are just colleagues, and recently it has been revealed that Ibuki Emi is Ikari Yui's cousin and his girlfriend Fuyutsuki Kana's best friend.

"Don't joke about this topic anymore."

"Really? Is it necessary to take a joke so seriously?"

Ibuki Emi complained but then breathed a sigh of relief and brought the topic back on track.

"The top management has decided to let you be the overall person in charge of the Unit 0 construction project."

Apart from the unexpected position, the construction of Unit 00 did not surprise him. After reading last night's experimental report in the morning, he realized that the top management would not let him participate in the subsequent research and development tasks of the test machine project team, and would most likely assign him to the next stage of Unit 00 construction project.

Having participated in the entire process of manufacturing the test aircraft, for Fumihiko Ikari, building Unit 0 was not difficult.

Just like playing with building blocks, the equipment is assembled according to the idea of ​​the testing machine.

So he was more concerned about another issue.

"Where's your grandpa?"

Ibuki Emi felt a little guilty about Ikari Fumihiko asking this question. The tone of his question clearly showed that he knew that the human experiment was originally proposed by his grandfather. At the same time, she was a little surprised. In her impression, Ikari Fumihiko was a person who was oblivious to the outside world and only focused on scientific research... No! He was a weirdo who only cared about his own life and work.

A normal to abnormal weirdo.

Those who have personally experienced a doomsday catastrophe like the Second Impact and yet can remain mentally normal and maintain a normal life trajectory are the most abnormal people.

Even if Fumihiko Ikari destroyed the world for a very strange reason, she was not surprised at all, and even thought that was normal.

"He is not on the project team list. He must have been assigned to another project. I don't have the level to do that. You can use your authority to check on the host."

Fumihiko Ikari secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It would be best if he didn't have to work with Professor Yamaki, a dangerous man.

These high-ranking officials finally acted like human beings.

This kind of deployment is definitely not a coincidence. The senior management must have considered the relationship between the two people when making personnel allocations and made such an deployment.

"Forget it! Even though I am in a high position now, my internal authority is not necessarily higher than yours."

His position level has been repeatedly promoted, but he does not have the corresponding internal authority. This situation obviously shows that the higher-ups do not trust him very much. If it were someone else, they would definitely be dissatisfied. However, Fumihiko Ikari hopes that this situation will continue. Only in this way will the higher-ups be less vigilant towards him.

EVA is considered a secret for ordinary people, but it is not necessarily a secret for the top five permanent members of the United Nations.

Previously, the situation was chaotic and the Five Permanent Members had lost their original control over the world. Now that the situation has begun to stabilize and the Five Permanent Members have gradually recovered their control over the world, it is difficult to conceal the fact that Seele built the EVA. It is impossible for such a large and ancient secret cult like Seele to have no trace of its activities. It must be on the Five Permanent Members' key focus list.

Even the research and development of EVA has the support of Wuchang, or part of it.

"If someone else were treated unfairly like this, they would definitely be dissatisfied. But from your tone, it seems like you don't care at all? You really don't have any desire for power. No! Apart from women and entertainment, you don't show any other desires. No... Now it seems that you have combined entertainment and women together."

Having said that, Ibuki Emi didn't think in her heart that Ikari Fumihiko really didn't care about power, and was not as indifferent as he appeared to be.

Except for those chosen ones who are extremely lucky, most people with low desires find it difficult to succeed. After all, desires are the driving force that propels human beings to keep moving forward. If Ikari Fumihiko's desires were really so low as they appear, he would definitely rest on his laurels for the achievement of the mental link device and stop working hard... What about Ikari Fumihiko?

Since Fumihiko Ikari unexpectedly became the team leader after being discharged from the hospital, he has proposed many verified theories, and almost every theory has had a huge impact on the development of the entire E-plan.

The research progress of one person can be compared with...

wrong!

It is a research and development team consisting of more than hundreds of people. Such behavior does not seem like that of a person with low desires no matter how you look at it.

Possessing amazing talent, but lacking in intelligence...

This was her evaluation of Ikari Fumihiko.

"Cough cough..."

Ikari Fumihiko was taken aback by this fierce statement.

What do you mean by entertainment and women are combined together! Is it really appropriate for you, a single woman, to say such things to a member of the opposite sex?

Isn't this really a hint to me!?

"No way! How can you think such dirty things of me!? I feel the same as everyone else, working hard to save all of humanity."

Ibuki Emi nodded in admiration.

Is this salvation of yours really the salvation I understand? !

She has always been worried in her heart that she regarded Fumihiko Ikari as a dangerous person. She believed that Fumihiko Ikari wanted to take the initiative to trigger the Third Impact to completely destroy the world. In this way, he would purify the world and redeem all mankind from the purgatory of reality. However, she did not report Fumihiko Ikari to the higher-ups because she had no substantial evidence.

Yes!

Most people, like Ibuki Emi, have a relatively good impression of the top management of SEELE. After all, the people here were all sponsored and trained by SEELE, so they naturally have a certain good impression of them.

Of course, the premise is that they are unaware of humans' crazy plan to complete it.

"In that case, Kana will be leaving in the next two days... You should also concentrate and work overtime to prove whether your awareness is the same as everyone else's!"

"Uh--"

I didn't expect Ibuki Emi to say this. Ikari Fumihiko was obviously stunned for a moment, then he reacted, "There is no necessary connection between working overtime and working hard. Working long hours doesn't mean anything if the work is meaningless, right?! To be honest, your morbid thinking that working long overtime hours means a person is working hard is unacceptable."

Ibuki Emi, who has always been deeply influenced by the overtime culture, really doesn't realize that there is anything wrong with the idea that overtime equals hard work.

He only realized it now after Fumihiko Ikari pointed it out.

"Okay! You're right."

051. My railway is definitely not level 27, Genshin Impact is level 60

The two walked into the team leader's office. It was obvious that Professor Yamaki had been transferred away in a hurry, and some personal books were left in the office.

Just from the name and the cover, you can tell that these are novels about samurai.

This is not surprising. Scientists are also normal human beings. It is not surprising that they read miscellaneous books other than science, just like domestic scientists like to read martial arts novels. What's more, Kana Fuyutsuki once said that Professor Yamaki's ancestor was a samurai, and the other party has always been proud of it. Naturally, he will be attracted to samurai novels.

look--

Staying at your job for a long time does not necessarily mean you are working hard, so stop using overtime as a benchmark of hard work.

Of course, these words are just something you should think about in your mind. Saying them out loud may offend people too much.

But he hinted at it anyway.

"Is this the book your grandfather left behind? It looks like some samurai novels, and it looks like... he reads them quite often."

Ibuki Emi was not angry at Ikari Fumihiko's sarcasm. It was not that she could not hear the sarcasm in it, but that this level of sarcasm was not enough to cause emotional fluctuations.

In the past two years or so, she had heard too much overt and covert sarcasm, and even insults, because of her grandfather's radical research proposals. After all, not everyone can stay rational all the time, so she no longer takes these things seriously. Well... her emotions have always been unstable. In addition to the second impact as the main reason, these are also related to it.

I looked at Ikari Fumihiko speechlessly.

Really love to hold grudges——

Didn’t I just make a little sarcasm about you not working hard enough?

Is it really necessary? Is it so urgent to get it back?

With such a strong desire for revenge, he must be an antisocial personality. No! It should be said that he is an anti-human personality.

She briefly flipped through the novels left by her grandfather, hesitated for a moment and put the books back to their original places. She felt that these books were left behind by her grandfather on purpose. First, her grandfather was not the kind of person who would lose things, and he would not lose anything no matter how hurried he was. Second, she told her grandfather about her suspicions about Ikari Fumihiko yesterday.

As for the purpose of leaving the book behind? It was simply to influence Ikari Fumihiko through the samurai spirit contained in the novel.

After experiencing the second impact, she was infected by the samurai spirit conveyed in samurai novels and gained the courage to survive in this cruel world.

"You are not the only one who has a lot of pressure here. Everyone has pressure, and it's no less than yours. You are a human being, and so are others. They are ordinary people with flesh and blood and their own emotions, not NPCs in the game... You need games and love to relieve your inner pressure, and others also need to relieve their pressure."

All right--

She was still a little angry that her grandfather was being ridiculed.

Without giving Ikari Fumihiko a chance to speak, she took out a document from a filing cabinet nearby and placed it in front of him.

"This is the design sketch of Unit 0 that was faxed over by the top management. Please review it. If there is nothing that needs to be modified, Unit 0 will be built according to this design."

They will continue to work together, and Fumihiko Ikari doesn't want to make the relationship too stiff.

"I'm sorry, I didn't express myself correctly just now. I didn't mean to mock your grandfather. I just wanted to tell you that short working hours don't mean a person doesn't work hard enough."

Ibuki Emi accepted this explanation and adopted the same attitude. She spoke in a more sincere tone than Ikari Fumihiko and with a more serious expression: "I didn't say that you didn't work hard enough. It was because you wanted to build Unit 0 as soon as possible that you were impatient and said such stupid words without thinking."

Regardless of whether the two people's explanations were sincere or not, these things are not important at all. What is important is the attitude of not wanting to make enemies.

It was not until then that Fumihiko Ikari looked at the design drawings of Unit 0.

Fumihiko Ikari is not the only one working in the institute. The tedious work of filling the prototype with content will naturally be done by other people. It is impossible for Fumihiko Ikari, the chief designer, to complete it personally after the project starts. This is too inefficient and a group of people will be waiting for Fumihiko Ikari alone.

After a quick read, Fumihiko Ikari looked a little strange.

"Did your grandfather participate in the design?"

Ibuki Emi had obviously never seen the design drawings, and was obviously a little confused at the moment.

"Ok?"

Ikari Fumihiko handed the design drawing to Ibuki Emi.

Looking at some of the traditional samurai elements included in the design, Ibuki Emi was speechless.

"It seems to be the case."

Ikari Fumihiko shook his head.

This is not EVA, it's clearly Susanoo.

wrong!

It's the one-eyed crow tengu.

Not to mention that he looks weirdly handsome.