I participated in the development of EVA

Unlike Ikari Fumihiko, Jonouchi Misa simply outlines the behavior of goodbye without explaining it in detail.

It's not that she wasn't attentive enough, but she had a clear understanding of Rei Ayanami's situation. She knew that if Fumihiko Ikari explained too many things at once, Rei Ayanami wouldn't be able to remember or understand them in her current condition. In fact, even her brief and concise teaching of what to do was meaningless.

Rei Ayanami still didn't react, like a puppet being controlled by a puppeteer.

Fumihiko Ikari still smiled and waved his hand to indicate that he was leaving, then he and Dr. Ito walked out of the ward.

As the door of the ward closed, Dr. Ito began to explain in detail the problem that Rei Ayanami was experiencing. "Theoretically, there is nothing wrong with her IQ. It is at the same level as her appearance of eight years old. It's just that she has not yet established a clear concept of 'self-cognition' and cannot mobilize her own intelligence to understand the outside world.

Before……"

He paused here; this was clearly not something that should be discussed in the hallway.

"I'll continue the introduction when we get to the lab."

Ikari Fumihiko nodded.

The laboratory was not far from the ward and it only took a few minutes to reach it.

Unlike the second experimental area, the laboratory here looks like a factory workshop, with many familiar and unfamiliar equipment placed inside.

The two came to the internal elevator.

"There are three floors here. The first floor is the general area, the second floor is the office area, and the third floor is confidential."

Although Dr. Ito did not explain the third level in detail, Fumihiko Ikari had already guessed that the so-called secret of the third level was the secret of cloning, which could not be known to outsiders. After all, the value of this project team was to serve Rei Ayanami. The only secrets related to Rei Ayanami were clones and EVA. The first experimental area obviously had no access to EVA-related content, so the remaining clones naturally became the only answer.

As the elevator door opened, it was supposed to be Ikari Fumihiko and the other man who made way for the people getting off the elevator.

however……

The people getting off the elevator made way for the two people. They didn't know Fumihiko Ikari, but they knew the identity of Dr. Ito. After the two people entered, the people inside the elevator got off carefully. Others who were waiting to use the elevator did not take the opportunity to enter, and chose to wait for the next elevator on the spot.

After staying here for a few months, Fumihiko Ikari has long been accustomed to the privileges brought by this class and the respectful attitude of the people around him.

The elevator quickly reached the third floor, during which time the two did not communicate at all.

It was not until they entered the third floor that Ito spoke again.

"Someone in the project team proposed a solution that sounds a bit unbelievable. This solution is that person looked at your theory about the relationship between the pilot and the EVA, and thought that he could establish a mental connection with Rei Ayanami through a neural connection device, and use the consciousness of an adult to control Rei Ayanami's consciousness and accelerate the establishment of self-cognition."

Ikari Fumihiko was speechless.

Damn it——

How come everything has something to do with me?

Although I was speechless, I still subconsciously thought about the possibility of implementing the plan.

Uh……

This person has a really wild imagination, but theoretically it is feasible.

He now even suspects that the so-called personality writing technology in the original work was implemented in this imaginative way.

Ayanami Rei naturally has a liking for Ikari Shinji because the person who implemented this plan was Ikari Yui.

Just as Ikari Fumihiko was about to say something, Dr. Ito spoke again and revealed an important piece of information to him. "The plan was approved, but it got stuck at the most basic stage during implementation. We failed when we tried to copy the neural connection device you developed according to the blueprint. The entire project team didn't even understand which step in the assembly process went wrong."

It was only then that Fumihiko Ikari reacted.

When he was first assigned to Laboratory Zero to serve as the chief designer of Unit Zero, he simply thought that the top management didn't want him to be idle and just randomly assigned him a job.

He even held this idea just a moment ago, until he understood what Dr. Ito said. It was not just to find something for him to do, but without him in the Unit 0 construction project, they could only dismantle the neural connection device on the test machine, which was obviously not the result the top management wanted.

At the same time, I also understand where Dr. Ito's confidence in becoming the general manager comes from.

"The neural chain device you developed is completely beyond this era. No! It is a technological product that will not appear in the next era."

"I just assembled this device based on the drawings left by Professor Ishida."

Dr. Ito didn't believe it at all.

At the beginning, the entire project team assembled the device over ten times according to the drawings, and replaced almost every part during the process, but they still failed to assemble it successfully. It was obviously a problem with the drawings. It was not that Fumihiko Ikari tampered with the drawings, but that Fumihiko Ikari improved the design left by Professor Ishida, which led to the lack of key data in the drawings in their hands, making it impossible to manufacture the second neural connection device.

"Do you think this plan is feasible?"

Since Fumihiko Ikari was unwilling to talk about the neural connection device, Dr. Ito naturally changed the subject.

Ikari Fumihiko didn't say anything. He seemed to be thinking about whether this plan had an implementation plan. In fact, he was recalling what modifications he had made to the neural connection device... Okay! He was just fooling around. Not to mention the past, even now, he still had only a vague understanding of the neural connection device.

fine--

The situation was urgent and he remembered it clearly. It wasn't too long ago, so he quickly recalled all the details.

However, he is still a little unsure about asking him to replicate a neural connection device now.

067. Once humans go crazy

Did it take so long to think about it? Maybe you have some concerns about the experiment itself?

really……

The greater the power, the greater the pressure.

Dr. Ito could understand Ikari Fumihiko's concerns and was opposed to this plan from the bottom of his heart, but this plan was theoretically valid and had a high success rate. Now no one knew when the third impact would occur, so naturally they had to prepare for the worst and treat every day as the last. This showed how difficult it was to make a decision.

That is why she was against cloning experiments but participated in them at the same time.

Without disturbing Ikari Fumihiko's thoughts, she now hoped that Ikari Fumihiko could give a different answer. At the same time, she also hoped that Ikari Fumihiko would learn to compromise and bow to reality like herself.

No matter what choice Fumihiko Ikari makes, she will fully support him.

She was fed up with Professor Yamaki's unscrupulous research and development philosophy that any method would be acceptable as long as it could achieve results. She had no ability to change all this, so she hoped that Fumihiko Ikari could step up and complete the research while maintaining restraint, so that she and the project team members could live a little more like human beings and no longer be in such a miserable state.

Fumihiko Ikari had no idea what Ito was thinking, and only spoke after remembering his plan for the "improvement" of the neural connection device.

"There is nothing wrong with this plan in theory, but it is a bit too risky, and this kind of experiment that distorts someone else's self is very risky to implement."

She would definitely not adopt the option of personality programming.

After all, the apostles will not come until fourteen years later, and there are still about thirteen years to prepare, so there is no need to rush.

As expected, a different decision was made.

Dr. Ito breathed a sigh of relief, but he also became nervous. After all, the development of Project E was delayed, and every additional delay would bring human civilization one step closer to destruction.

"But at this stage, this is the only solution with the highest success rate and the easiest to achieve results."

By asking this question, she hoped that Fumihiko Ikari could come up with a perfect solution that would not delay the research and development progress and would be more humane. Even if there was no such perfect solution, he had to give a reason that was convincing enough, rather than some willful reasons such as too great a risk or too adventurous just for the sake of opposing.

Unable to directly state that the apostles would not come until fourteen years later, Ikari Fumihiko could only make up a similar excuse on the spot and spoke after pondering for a moment.

"Who among us do you think is qualified to be the guide?"

Dr. Ito was a little slow to react as he was trying to understand the meaning of the word "guide" that Fumihiko Ikari said.

"Is he the person who guided Rei Ayanami to quickly build her personality?"

"Yes, who do you think can play this role in the current situation?"

Dr. Ito thought about it carefully.

The people alive today are all bound in their hearts by the memories of the past, and have been tortured by the pain brought by the catastrophe. The souls hatched under the influence of this tormented mind will inevitably have the same characteristics. What they want to do most is not to prevent the third impact, but to seek relief from the pain and torture.

"..."

"Without the right person to implement this plan, it will only distort her mind and completely erase the now nearly infinite possibilities."

"I was too blind, too eager for success, and thought about things too simply."

Dr. Ito thought for a long time, but still couldn't find someone who could hatch a suitable savior's heart.

very good--

It seems that he was fooled.

Ikari Fumihiko breathed a sigh of relief and asked the question in his mind.

"Why did you only create one sequence number when you conducted the manual pilot experiment? Did you not try to create other sequences?"

"Before the project team was disbanded, we did try to create more sequences, but all subsequent related experiments ended in failure. Only the initial Lingbo series was successful. We can't confirm whether this is because the Minister cells are special and naturally have a higher degree of compatibility with EVA cells than ordinary people. In addition, some people have proposed that this is the uniqueness of EVA cells."

After a pause, Dr. Ito added.

"But this conjecture is not true in theory. If EVA is unique, we can't clone so many EVA bodies."

Fumihiko Ikari had exactly the opposite idea and felt that this theoretically invalid guess was the correct answer.

In the original work, although Rei Ayanami is infinitely close to humans, she exists like the second angel's clone.

He nodded without comment.

"Any other questions?"

"At this stage, apart from the two unresolved problems of age control and mind incubation, there are no other problems that need to be solved. No... there is one more question that needs your opinion." As he said that, he led Ikari Fumihiko into the door of a room on the third floor whose protection level far exceeded that of other areas.

Fumihiko Ikari followed Dr. Ito in with doubts. As the darkness was dispelled by the lights, the scene before him made him stunned.

Hundreds of small incubators are neatly arranged in a crowded room.

Inside each incubator filled with LCL liquid is a young body. The larger ones look about six years old, while the smaller ones have not yet fully developed. To facilitate research and observation, the incubator has no obstructions, and the transparent glass displays everything inside the incubator in full view.

The faint rise and fall of their chests let people know that they were not corpses but still had signs of life.

The sound of wind created by the central air conditioner seems to be telling the story of human evil.

The extremely shocking scene before him left Fumihiko Ikari unable to recover for a long time.

“What to do with these?”

The words coming from the side still did not bring Fumihiko Ikari back to his senses from shock.

Seeing this, Dr. Ito said nothing more, but just silently stared at the hundreds of incubators in front of them with Ikari Fumihiko.

It was unknown how long it was before Fumihiko Ikari came back to his senses, his eyes still a little dull. All the things about clones in the past only existed in the words of others. Even if he had a certain estimate of the number in his mind, he realized only when he saw the real thing that this was not something he could bear even if he was mentally prepared in advance.

This is really...

Once human beings go crazy, the whole world will mourn and only the devil will cheer for them.

An uncontrollable chill surged from the bottom of my heart, and my hands and feet became cold.

"I need some time to digest this information... No, I'm not the project leader yet..."

His words became a little confused, allowing anyone to see his trance and shaken heart.

Yes--

It was not until this moment that Fumihiko Ikari realized that he had overestimated himself and subconsciously wanted to escape from here.

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ps: Including the two free chapters that were updated in advance because I forgot the time of putting them on the shelves, about 9,000 words were updated today.

Not bad, right?

068. How do you describe this...

Dr. Ito naturally saw this.

Normally, she should have persuaded Ikari Fumihiko to stay, but when she turned to look at Ikari Fumihiko, she swallowed the words back. Ikari Fumihiko's previous leisurely and hesitant behavior made her overlook one thing. It was not until then that she realized that Ikari Fumihiko was about the same age as her dead son. No, he was three years younger than her son.

No matter how calm he appears, Fumihiko Ikari is just a junior who just turned twenty-one.

He just stood there in silence and watched Ikari Fumihiko turn and leave.

A female researcher walked out from behind the equipment.

"Why didn't you stop it just now?"

Doctor Ito sighed, "No need, he will come back."

"Are you so sure?"

"He cares about this project more than we do. No... he has a special feeling for Rei Ayanami."