The Collection of The End - Chapter 1987

—2015.5.1—

Third New Tokyo City.

Affected by the appearance of the “Apostles”, the once prosperous metropolis has become dead silent. Many high-rise buildings have raised protective panels on the four walls. Except for the traffic lights that are still in operation, no one person or one car can be seen in the city.

In this case, a blue car with a mottled and even duct tape galloping by would look quite out of place.

“Yes, we have already arrived. Arrange a direct transporter as soon as possible.”

Katsuragi Miri spoke to the car phone while driving.

“[Okay, the specific location will be sent to your navigation system, please be sure to protect the safety of Ikari Shinji.]” The young woman on the other side of the phone responded.

“Really, you called me back on purpose, didn’t you think I was good at avoiding danger?” Katsuragi Miri replied: “I didn’t say it, just linked those guys to bomb the apostles with N2, and we were all unscathed.”

“[…The coordinates of the lift have been sent, please return as soon as possible.]” The woman on the opposite side of the communication seemed to have no idea how to respond, and cut off the communication after saying a brief sentence.

“Ah, it’s really unfortunate, this car still has 33 months of loan to be repaid,” Katsuragi Miri pointed and poked on the navigation: “Can’t you just let that shock wave disappear directly? Even the apostle’s attack. blocked.”

“I can’t do it,” the boy, no, [Ikari Shinji] pressed the back of his empty hand: “The effect of the card I just used is, ‘It can only be launched when the enemy attacks, so that attack Ineffective, and forcibly end the battle’, although the shock wave and electromagnetic shock were successfully eliminated, the hurricane that rolled up the sand and smashed the car can only be said to be a ‘natural phenomenon’ and not an ‘attack’.”

“Hmm… The power of a qualified person is really easy to use…” Katsuragi Miri responded casually, and was suddenly taken aback: “Wait, so, the attack just now wasn’t actually launched by the ‘Apostle’?”

“If the target of the attack is judged to be an ‘Apostle’, we would probably have been blown away,” Ikari Shinji nodded: “The source of the attack just now was obviously the ‘N2 missile’ launched by the ground forces. For this attack alone, The apostles are the same ‘victims’ as we are.”

“Uh…uh…So that’s the case.” Katsuragi Miri patted the steering wheel: “I used to envy the ‘qualified people’, but now that I think about it, I might not be able to do this at all. I didn’t.”

“Qualified people have various abilities. If Sister Misato is qualified, she will definitely have the ability that suits you, and it doesn’t require much brainpower.” Shinji Ikari replied.

“I heard it, you are mocking me for being brainless.” Misato Katsuragi freed one hand to ruffle Shinji Ikari’s hair.

“You’re thinking too much,” Shinji Ikari blinked, “You don’t need to be obscure when your younger brother mocks your elder sister for being brainless.”

“…” Katsuragi Miri was silent for two seconds: “So you didn’t mock me for being brainless before?”

“You see, don’t you have a brain?”

“You stinky **** is not cute at all!”

—

NEVR Agency, Secret Entrance A-7.

On the surface, this is just an unremarkable tunnel maintenance area, but when Miri Katsuragi arrived by car, the wall behind it split to both sides, revealing a giant elevator that was silver-gray as a whole.

The blue car stumbled in slightly.

“[The gate is about to close, please be careful.]”

“[This tram is the C-22 underground train and will not stop until it reaches the C-33 area.]”

As the mechanical alert sounded, the elevator shook slightly, and the blue car began to descend.

“Well, Shinji brother, do you know what your father does?” Katsuragi Miri let go of the steering wheel and looked at the boy beside her.

“He works in an institution that studies the right people. Originally it seemed to be called GEHIRN, the Institute of Human Evolution, but then it was renamed NERV, Neurotic, and maybe the people in that institute went too far and drove themselves crazy.” Ikari Shinji looked at the rising metal structure outside the car window and replied.

“…” Katsuragi Miri didn’t respond immediately, she was silent for a while and nodded, “Indeed.”

This unexpected answer made Ikari Shinji turn to look at her.

“Personal privacy, don’t ask children,” Katsuragi Miri took out a green brochure with the words “extremely secret” printed on the cover from the car’s glove box and handed it to him: “If there is anything you want to know, just read it. , of course, it’s just an ordinary rule, and the real secret will not be written on it.”

“Yeah.” Ikari Shinji thought for a while, but instead of continuing to ask, he opened the manual.

[4.6 billion years ago, a huge space meteorite hit the proto-Earth, this impact is called the ‘first impact’. 】

“Do you want to start with something so ancient?” Ikari Shinji turned to look at Katsuragi Misato.

“Yes, I also find it very boring. Is it necessary to raise that kind of thing to the level of ‘extremely secret’?” Misato Katsuragi seemed to be in a trance, and answered casually with her hands on the back of her head.

Shinji Ikari blinked and continued reading the manual.

[After that, human beings were born. 】

“…?” Shinji Ikari turned back the manual, making sure that he didn’t skip the number of pages.

[Humans are the first species born on earth, and their common mother is Eve, the ‘mother of life’ who came to earth with the meteorite. 】

[Humans have been born with original sins: arrogance, jealousy, anger, laziness, greed, gluttony, and astringent desires. Whenever human beings with one of these original sins exceed six-sevenths of the total, Adam who arrived on earth at the same time as Eve (Adam) will wake up and launch the ‘Planetary Life Reset Program’ ‘Genesis’ to wipe out all life on Earth, and then Eve will create life again. 】

[Since 4.6 billion years ago to the present, it is impossible to test how many times ‘Genesis’ was launched, but as we all know, the last time it was launched was September 13, 2000, that is, the ‘Second Shock’. 】

[Although the ‘second shock’ caused intense crustal movement, frequent earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis, and the world’s total population dropped by more than half in less than a week, we can proudly declare that we have ‘conquered God’. 】

[When Adam tried to cast ‘Genesis’, he was pierced by our ‘Longinus Spear’ and sealed in the underground fortress of ‘Third New Tokyo City’. ‘Watch and study. 】

[Through the analysis of the ‘Dead Sea Documents’ that arrived at the same time as Adam, when the ‘Genesis’ fails, a giant monster named ‘Apostle’ will appear to assist Adam in restarting the work. 】

[The day the apostle succeeds is when the third shock occurs and all life on earth is destroyed again, there is no possibility of understanding and coexistence between humans and the apostle. 】

[And NERV was established to deal with the attack of the apostles. We will use Adam as a blueprint to create an artificial apostle ‘EVANGELION’ to fight against it. The only ones who can drive Eva are those who have acquired some of the characteristics of Adam in the second impact.’ The Qualified’, that is, you. 】

[This world, more than ever, needs us. 】

【Are you coming? 】

“…It looks like nonsense, but I’m a little excited after reading it.” Shinji closed the book and commented.

“Right, they will definitely find a way to provoke the fighting spirit and sense of belonging of the qualified, otherwise how can they **** people from other institutions.” Katsuragi Miri tilted her head and looked out the window: “Oh, it seems to be coming.”

I always feel that her attitude is not right, not like someone who just shattered other people’s worldview…

Ikari Shinji raised his eyebrows and reopened the extremely secret manual.

“[The world-scale disaster that occurred on September 13, 2000 was caused by a massive meteorite reaching 10% of the speed of light impacting the Antarctic continent. Because of its destructiveness and destruction of dinosaurs 46 million years ago, it is called’ ‘ The asteroid impact of the first impact is almost identical, hence the name ‘second impact’.]”

“…” Shinji Ikari continued to flip through the manual, skipping a lot of meaningless content such as the hymn of human beings being the hymn of courage, and turned directly to the last page.

“[—To sum up, we humans are tenacious, and have not gone extinct like the dinosaurs, but the ‘qualified’ who have had ‘superpowers’ out of a blessing in disguise are the main force to rebuild the earth and protect the future of mankind, please don’t be stingy Contribute your strength.”

If the first 10 points, this 6 points cannot be more.

As for authenticity…

Whoohoo-hum!

Before Shinji could express his opinion, the mechanical wall around the elevator suddenly disappeared, revealing a super-giant underground cavity. At the same time, there were a large number of high-rise buildings that looked like stalactites “growing” on the “ceiling” that the elevator had just detached from.

“Welcome to the real ‘Third New Tokyo City’,” Katsuragi Miri said with a proud tone: “In order to deal with the ‘Apostle’ attack, this place is 6 kilometers away from the ground, and there are 24 layers of special protective panels to protect it. Completely foolproof.”

Got it, what you see for the first time is real.

Ikari Shinji looked out the window and flipped through the manual several times, but failed to see those “facts” again.

The so-called “qualified” is really a mystery.

—

Underground City (GeoFront).

“Huh? Strange, according to the picture, we should have arrived a long time ago. Is this map out of date?” Katsuragi Miri flipped through the facility map attached to the back of the manual, her tone a little frantic.

“You have just circled the same place three times, and you are going back for the fourth time.” Ikari Shinji held on to Katsuragi Misato, who was about to walk into an elevator: “Would you like someone to pick you up?”

“Huh? If you want Ritsuko Akagi to pick me up, I’d rather get lost and die!” Misato Katsuragi said angrily.

How do you get lost and die? And do you only have one nemesis-like person to turn to in such a large institution?

“I think the elder sister who answered your phone earlier is fine,” Shinji suggested.

“Little Ibuki? No, no, she’s busy dealing with the apostle just now. It’s a violation of discipline to answer my call halfway.” Katsuragi Miri shook her head repeatedly.

Do you really feel that you have a problem with your relationships?

But speaking of apostles…

Shinji Ikari recalled a little and found that even the legendary “N2”, the most powerful weapon possessed by humans, only made the apostle stay in place after hitting the face. Wake up and attack again.

In that case, something called EVA should be on the scene, but the “superficial” manual doesn’t mention that name, so what degree of surprise should I be showing if I see it later?

Crack-chick-

At this moment, the door of the elevator opened, and a woman with short blond hair in a blue bikini walked out…

Although Misato Katsuragi looks older, at least she is trying to look young, but not only does she not dress up very well, but her hairstyle is also old-fashioned, with outdated big earrings, a tear mole on the corner of her eye, and her body is not well maintained. The deduction items are piled up, and if the appearance and temperament raise the average score, they are almost completely compared.

“First Lieutenant Katsuragi, I’ve been waiting for you for half an hour,” the blonde elder sister said, her tone and tone unsurprisingly being the version of a strong woman: “Could it be that you usually take so long to go from the bedroom to the toilet?”

“Sorry, Dr. Akagi, I was looking for who stole my selfie. When I got angry, I went the wrong way.” Katsuragi Miri replied with a gun and a stick.

“Oh,” the elder sister, known as Dr. Akagi, didn’t answer, and turned to look at Shinji Ikari: “Is this the child you picked up? It seems a bit young.”

“…” Ikari Shinji didn’t respond well for a while, saying that he was judging her appearance, so he remained silent.

“Anyway, it was selected by the book of Maxim, and it should be the most suitable candidate.” Katsuragi Miri replied.

“It’s the ‘Malu Duke Report’,” Dr. Akagi shook his head slightly: “Forget it, you come with me, the commander has ordered to unfreeze the [No. 1 machine], just wait for the driver to arrive.”

Katsuragi Miri was about to say something when the radio in the corridor suddenly rang.

“[The apostle is about to wake up, and all the personnel enter the first battle situation, ready to deal with the ground battle, repeat—]”

“Let’s go.” Akagi Ritsuko turned and walked into the elevator: “It’s time to prove that our research results are not a waste of budget.”

“Is it a bit hasty? No other qualified person can activate it, right? I suspect that it may require a specific ‘super power’. What is the probability of activation that you calculated?” Katsuragi Misato and Ikari Shinji followed.

“I heard that you encountered Dilian using N2 to attack the apostles on the road?” Ritsuko Akagi suddenly started talking about something irrelevant after starting the elevator.

“Ah, right?” Katsuragi Misato replied suspiciously.

“And then you were left unscathed in the aftermath of the most powerful weapon at your disposal?” she continued.

“Yes…” Katsuragi Misato seemed to have thought of something, and turned to look at Shinji Ikari.

“All those who are inclined to ‘driving’, ‘control’, and ‘mechanical’ have all returned,” Akagi Ritsuko took out a white coat from the pocket at his feet and put it on his body: “Does this prove that the ‘No. 1 machine’ ‘To scoff at the ‘uncompetitive’ guy?”

“And Shinji-kun once faced the attack of the apostles and escaped smoothly,” Katsuragi Misato’s eyes brightened: “So the probability of this activation is…”

“1000%”!