lerbook #739 - Humanoid Apostle!
#739 - Humanoid Apostle!
The entire timeline of EVA's plot isn't actually that long. If you set aside the conspiracies and intrigues happening within humanity itself, the actual time needed is even shorter.
Liang Yue wasn't interested in running out to participate in or witness their shady plans behind the scenes.
However, if there was even a hint of it, he would step in when necessary to correct the plot and push it forward.
However, considering that his own mission also required time to complete, the World Tree's roots and the Fruit of Life were fine; once he got his hands on them, he could basically complete it.
The S2 Engine, however, still needed careful research, and this definitely required setting aside some time.
In fact, by the latter half of the Neon Genesis Evangelion storyline, SEELE, the higher-up department of the NERV organization, should have already researched some results.
And after noticing Gendo Ikari's conspiracy, they immediately dispatched nine artificial Angels to harass Tokyo-3, resulting in Asuka being dismembered by a flock of bird-like creatures…
Then, there was a long stretch of stream-of-consciousness interlude, Rei Ayanami defected to Shinji Ikari, followed by Human Instrumentality…
Well, that's the plot in the TV version.
The situation in the theatrical version has undergone many changes. The SEELE organization has basically been reduced to a pure backdrop, and NERV has also researched the secrets of the S2 Engine.
Gendo Ikari then naturally evolved into the final boss of the entire show.
Rei Ayanami's role was weakened, and the final result evolved into a father-son showdown.
But no matter where the plot goes, the Human Instrumentality Project will be successfully achieved. After it's over, Shinji Ikari, who becomes the sole creator, finally emerges from the shadow of his life, completes his reconciliation with himself, and decides to restart the world…
Okay, although this plot sounds a bit far-fetched, it is indeed the established process.
The entire plot development of the current world, on a grand scale, is a continuation of the eons-long war between Angels and humans, a battle of destiny between the offspring of Adam and Lilith.
On a smaller scale, it's the process of a child with mental illness and childhood trauma overcoming psychological obstacles.
Liang Yue certainly had no interest in coming over to play house with a child and go through a process of therapy.
After many years, the re-opened All Heavens experience had given him a lot of expectations.
In terms of combat power alone, the current EVA world is not a purely high-energy plane, but the many mysteries hidden in ethics and struggles are also worth exploring.
Things like the World Tree, the Fruit of Life, and infinite energy conversion, even in some supreme planes, would still be heavenly treasures pursued by great powers.
Since Liang Yue had already descended into this world, he naturally had no reason to give up.
Of course, regarding the Human Instrumentality Project itself, Liang Yue was actually happy to see it succeed.
After all, the main mission of his system was to revive the World Tree.
Uniting the flesh and soul of the First Angel Adam and the Second Angel Lilith was a necessary condition.
If he wanted to be on the safe side, he would even have to promote the progress of the Human Instrumentality Project to a certain extent~
After all, it would take some thought to both utilize Adam and Lilith and prevent their existence from dominating this plan.
Therefore, the Eighteenth Angel Lilin could not maintain a giant body like other Angels, and without a strong enough AT Field, they could only split into individual humans.
And gradually formed their own ethnic group.
That is to say, from the moment of their birth, the humans of this world automatically carry the Fruit of Wisdom in their bodies.
Although it's rare, the quantity is not a problem, as long as it exists~
And to facilitate the Human Instrumentality Project, it is necessary to gather the Fruit of Life, the Fruit of Wisdom, and the soul and body of Adam and Lilith.
This cannot be achieved by Liang Yue's own subjective will alone; it requires someone to cooperate~
… …
In a mysterious room~
Gendo Ikari was sitting quietly there at this time, with his arms on the desk in front of him, his hands supporting his chin, his face calm and without any expression.
And opposite him, five people projected by holographic display devices of different colors, looking somewhat eerie, were also sitting upright at the sides of the table.
Almost at the first moment the Angel was destroyed, they gathered here. After a moment of silence between them, someone finally couldn't help but speak.
"Have you found out what exactly killed the Day Angel?"
"There is a recording of the scene, but that thing seems to be invisible. Except for some signs when destroying the Angel, it didn't leave any traces."
"The Angel's corpse has also been taken away by the other party. What is the other party's purpose in doing this?"
"Is it possible that it is a premeditated plan from some other organization or country?"
"Is there a force in this world more powerful than the Angels?"
"If there is, it is unlikely to be launched so quietly like now. We didn't get any information beforehand, and we don't even understand the process of the battle."
"Judging from the Day Angel's reaction at the time, it should have indeed encountered some powerful individual, causing it to involuntarily show a fighting stance, but the result is obvious.
The Angel had no ability to resist in front of the other party, and was almost killed in one face-to-face encounter. This kind of power is definitely not something mortals should have."
"The only thing that can kill an Angel is the Angel itself."
"Actually, according to the combat process at the time, although we didn't detect any specific data, we can still analyze something from indirect information."
Gendo Ikari, who had been silent on the side, suddenly spoke at this time.
"Oh? Have you found anything useful?"
"Tell us about it~"
"The key to determining the information appeared during the time between the Angel standing up and showing its fighting stance and activating the AT Field."
As he said that, Gendo Ikari took out a transparent holographic phenomenon device the size of a book from his pocket at this time.
He laid it flat on the table and gently pressed the power button.
A 3D battle scene suddenly appeared on it.
During the battle, the Fourth Angel, the Day Angel's pair of high-heat light whips kept waving, extremely fast, like two lightning bolts dancing wildly in front of it!
Within a short half-second, it accumulated and lashed out hundreds of times in front of itself!
The power of these light whips was truly amazing. Almost all the buildings, vegetation, and hills within a range of four to five hundred meters in front of it were shattered in this attack!
"… … However, only the central position attacked by the two light whips showed a void, or rather, there was some kind of unknown force guarding that area."
After saying that, Gendo Ikari operated on this holographic phenomenon device a few more times.
The movement trajectories of all the hundreds of lashes of the Angel's pair of light whips during this process were all displayed, and instantly superimposed together.
It was like an alternative, abstract way of outlining.
It could be seen that within a few hundred meters in front of the Day Angel, the shadows of the whips were heavy and almost filled the entire half-sky.
But only the central position being whipped was missed by the movement trajectories of this pair of light whips, which made it indirectly outline a silhouette there.
Compared to the Day Angel opposite, this silhouette seemed very small, but it was unusually conspicuous!
His image was somewhat ethereal and blurred.
Because it had been in uniform motion throughout this process.
However, through precise holographic phenomenon technology, everyone present could still determine the other party's identity at the first moment through this outline.
"It's actually a person!?"
"A humanoid Angel?"
"Is it Number Seventeen?"
"Impossible. At the first moment the Angel was resolved, I personally checked his whereabouts. He has been staying quietly in the designated area of our SEELE headquarters."
"The flesh of the First Angel has now been restored to an embryo, and the soul has also been injected into the body of Number Seventeen."
"Lilith's upper body is being sealed by the Lance of Longinus, and her lower body, which has evolved into Unit-01, has been in a state of imminent combat before this.
Her soul has been injected into the body of that vessel."
"A mysterious humanoid Angel… …"