What appeared on the screen were countless people who looked almost the same as Asuka. Anyone could tell that those on the screen were clones. Although Asuka had already made some guesses about her life experience, after actually seeing the relevant information, she It still feels hard to accept.
"According to the data, you are not a clone, but just one of many clones. And your competitors are very likely to be clones. It is precisely because of their existence that you need The competition I face is much more intense than mine.
Now it seems that you relied on your strong ability to eliminate all competitors and became the driver of the No. 2 machine. It's hard to say whether this is luck or misfortune. "Shinji Ikari looked at the dull Asuka: "It must be difficult to accept that I am a clone and not my original body. "
Asuka: "..."
"Actually... it's okay. If I know this, I feel less guilty about my mother, which makes it easier for me." Asuka's answer was unexpected: "It doesn't matter even if it's a clone. I'll do it now It must be better than the original body. If this is the case, I am the original body."
"I really envy your confidence, but my advice is to drink the bowl of medicinal soup I gave you." Lan Nuo once again pushed the handful of black paste in front of Asuka.
"Why should I drink something like this?"
Lan Nuo shrugged: "Of course it's because of the common problem of human cloning. Your stem cells have been cloned many times, and the telomere length is much shorter than that of ordinary people. If it weren't for the fact that you became a driver and were affected by EVA, and You have been subjected to something similar to a curse, causing your body to barely grow older, and various diseases are about to appear on your body.
Compared to the person next to you, your situation is pretty good. The genetic source of the clone next to you is more complicated, so that it is quite difficult to maintain a human form. It must rely on the assistance of the AT force field to maintain itself. Her human form has to return to the headquarters regularly for maintenance. Once she is away for too long, it will completely disintegrate. For her, my medicinal soup only treats the symptoms but not the root cause.
Her problem is essentially spiritual. Without some kind of complete breakthrough, there is no way to complete the transformation. But for you, the effect will be immediate. Basically, all the problems hidden in your body can be treated. . "
Asuka faced the dark bowl of sticky substance in front of her, and she couldn't take it down for a while, but when she saw Ayanami Rei next to her still swallowing small bites, she finally gritted her teeth and picked up the bowl. He went in with a big mouthful.
Then the whole person's face was instantly distorted, like a clockwork doll that was full of energy, jumping up and down in the room.
"It's so bitter, so bitter, so bitter! Water, water, water, water!" Apparently she didn't realize that the medicine in front of her was unpalatable enough to cause physical discomfort. In the end, Asuka couldn't find the water cup, so she could only say nothing to her. I rinsed it with the faucet for a while, which made the taste in my mouth a little better.
"The apostle you face next will far exceed your expectations. It will be an enemy that is so powerful that even the three of you will have difficulty dealing with it. So before that, you all need to undergo special training." Lan Nuo said. After the chaos in the room subsided a little, a chart was opened in the holographic projection.
"Wait a minute, what do you mean by the apostle we are going to face next? Do you know what the next apostle is like?" Asuka had a suspicious expression on her face.
"Let me explain this aspect." Shinji Ikari turned his computer over and connected it to the quantum computer. His equipment could already crush most of the systems in the world, and naturally stole many things that he had never dared to think about. Thinking information.
"The Nerv we are in seems to be the frontline organization of mankind against the apostles, but it is actually just the spy agency of another larger secret organization.
Behind us, there is an organization named Seele, which roughly means soul. They were established much earlier than we imagined. They had already started before human technology was as developed as it is today. Penetration throughout the world.
Nowadays, their forces are distributed all over the world. It is not an exaggeration to say that they control human beings secretly. The continuous appearance of apostles is also expected by them, because they once unearthed a secret that does not belong to us. The ancient book of the planet, the Dead Sea Script.
As for the specific details of this aspect, I don’t know. The original Dead Sea Document is not stored in every Three Sages host in the world. I can only roughly understand that it recorded the things that once crashed on our planet. A huge creature, and the apostles he gave birth to.
Therefore, the organization that controls everything behind the scenes probably knows the order of the apostles' attack and the characteristics of each apostle. Don't you think that the last time the apostles attacked, the research department had just completed the preliminary research and development of the positron cannon? Is this a coincidence?
It's as if all of this was developed specifically for us. After encountering an apostle who couldn't be resisted by conventional means, there happened to be a targeted weapon. Here are all the records about the development of the positron cannon.
This is the financial support provided by seele. It can be seen that this project consumes a lot of funds, and more than 90% of it is provided by this organization behind the scenes. Therefore, I am almost certain that they know the characteristics of Apostle Remiel. And in order to target him, relevant research was carried out decades ago. "
"This... how on earth did you find this? Did your father give you the authority?" Asuka's face showed an incredulous expression for an unknown number of times.
"No, in fact I very much suspect that my father is one of the important members of Seele, and may even be the mastermind behind everything. Of course, the information in this area is still very limited, and even if we know it, we can't do anything now. What.
I obtained this information, as you can see, relying on computer technology. This information is clearly stored in the host of the Three Sages. As long as the defense of the host is successfully broken, the information can be obtained. "
"Are you kidding me? Do you even know what the Three Sage System is? It is the most powerful computer system ever developed by mankind. What are you using to invade it?" Asuka slapped the table, not believing it at all.
"It is really difficult to invade under normal circumstances. Even if I have learned a lot of techniques from my uncle and programmed my own artificial intelligence, I can only steal some scattered information.
To truly and completely break through the system's defenses and obtain a large amount of confidential information, we still rely on the quantum computer here. I have mentioned it several times before. Even though the equipment here is so small, its computing power is even greater than An entire supercomputing center is even more exaggerated.
Normally this would sound like science fiction to us, but it's actually happening, and there's a prototype here. "
Shinji Ikari stroked a machine next to him that looked no bigger than a refrigerator. Such a little guy's computing power had crushed almost all computers in the world. If he could have one...
This time Asuka's attention was finally transferred to Lan Nuo. This man seemed to have endless secrets. No matter how he explored, he could not uncover these secrets.
Shinji Ikari shrugged: "Uncle has never told me these things, and I don't know where his weird things come from. In short, he must have a lot of secrets. As for what they are, I can only rely on We uncovered it ourselves.”
"You just said that you didn't find any specific content about the Dead Sea Document in the Three Sages' system. Then why does uncle know that the next apostle will be difficult for us to deal with."
Asuka always felt that this guy next to her was the real mastermind behind everything.
"I don't know. Anyway, uncle knows everything, but he won't tell us personally. In fact, I will give you an example and you will understand. Miss Misato has also been investigating the truth about the apostles, and she actually has an unforgettable hatred for the apostles.
Fifteen years ago, she and her father faced the second impact in Antarctica, and that impact also caused her to lose everything. Therefore, she hates the apostles more than all of us. This is what she has done time and time again. An important reason for being proactive in directing the battle between us and the Apostles.
But in the process, he is also investigating the truth about the Second Impact and the Apostles. So let me ask you, if we tell her directly that everything is part of the mastermind's plan, do you think she will believe it?
In fact, let alone Miss Misato, I think even you are full of doubts about the so-called truth I investigated. After all, the equipment I used sounds too incredible, and the technology I used sounds completely impossible. understand.
That’s why I say that some truths are only credible if you investigate them yourself. I think this is also an important reason why the uncle knows a lot of things but is unwilling to tell us personally. "
"No, I just think it's fun to be a riddler and let you guess, but if you can't guess the answer, you jump up and down like a monkey." Lan Nuo gave an answer that made several people present want to strangle him. .
"Ahem, let's get back to the point. I do know some secrets, including the next apostle. He is a guy who you can't fight against now. Well... If Shinji Ikari goes all out, he probably has a chance to defeat him. As for the You two are still too far apart.
If he was only as good as the two of you now, if the three of you teamed up to face that guy, the winning rate would be less than 1%. Even now, the winning rate against that guy would be less than 10%. "What Lan Nuo didn't say was that as long as there was a theoretical winning rate, for them, the victory would be almost 100%.
Even if they can't win, Seele will find a way for them to win.
As for now, that's not necessarily the case. The development of the plot is probably somewhat beyond seele's control. In this case, what choice will they make? Will they abandon one or two bodies in the process? Driver? All are unpredictable.
"So in order to increase your probability of winning in the future, you all need to undergo special training. Especially the two of you, even if you cannot improve to Shinji Ikari's current level, you must at least be close to his strength before facing the apostle Remiel. ." Lan Nuo then pointed to the training plan above and explained the contents of the plan to the two of them.
"Asuka, you no longer need to continue training in combat skills. You have received the most professional training on how to drive EVA, so I have nothing to teach you. What you need to practice next is to face death, and to This process shows a strong enough desire to survive.
However, it should be difficult to break through in this process, but at least it can lay a better foundation for you. When facing a real crisis in the future, you will have enough foundation to be able to accumulate. Well, in order to ensure that you You can truly feel the approach of death and feel the sense of crisis. The specific training plan will not be directly told to you. "
Just as Asuka was about to ask something, she felt a strong sense of crisis, and then a feeling of weightlessness. She was instantly kicked off the balcony and fell from a height of more than 20 floors. This scene immediately made her Feeling that death was approaching, she entered a state where her eyes were blank. However, during the fall, there was no object to grab, and she seemed unable to do anything.
Then... just when Asuka thought she was going to hit the ground and turn into a piece of meat, the ground was unexpectedly elastic, and what looked like the ground on that layer was actually a sheet. The elastic cloth painted the same color as the ground next to it. When he landed on it, he realized that this thing was like a trampoline. After he pressed on it, it fell deeply downwards, and then bounced up again. In the process , the impact that was originally enough to knock a person into a piece of flesh was cushioned.
But Asuka was still scared to death, and at the same time she also roughly understood what it means to feel death? I don’t know why Asuka feels that she has experienced this kind of extremely cheating training before? Something engraved in the soul. Even the reshaping of the world cannot completely erase, for example, the extremely strong psychological shadow...
After kicking Asuka downstairs, Lan Nuo looked at Ayanami Rei beside him: "You and her have different problems. Although you are also clones, there is no divine factor in Asuka's genetic origin, and you The difference is that part of your genes originally come from demigods, so you have some potential that can be developed.
And if you want to develop this part of your potential, the most important thing for you is to experience a real human life and let yourself have the same emotions and self-awareness as other people. If you can get rid of your current puppet-like state Get rid of it and you will gain great power immediately. "
[To be continued]
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