EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan - Chapter 246: Unit-244, Unfreezing

There was actually a mistake... If it weren't for her poor physical condition, Asuka bit her lip, her heart was filled with indignation and unwillingness, but unfortunately, the human body's reaction was sometimes not something that could be overcome by willpower alone. Besides, this was a battlefield, and the apostles could not give her any preferential treatment.

If she continues like this, she will make another mistake sooner or later.

This apostle must be dealt with quickly.

The apostle's light beam tentacles attacked again, and Unit 2's strong right leg took a big step to the right, followed by the other leg. The entire huge body moved several dozen meters to the right, avoiding this stab.

The giant's tall limbs seemed to be able to touch the clouds in the sky, and the piercing and tearing sound was as sharp as cutting glass, and the fiery red body was flying on the battlefield. Asuka had already drawn the particle knife she was carrying, and despite a mistake just now, Unit 2 still got close to the bottom of the apostle.

“Where should I cut?”

She hesitated.

The bright white light band floats in the sky in a gravity-defying manner.

bang bang bang-

Unit 00 is continuously firing and interfering with the Angels.

One end of its light beam tentacle was restrained by Unit 0. Ayanami Rei was still trying her best to shoot in this direction, trying to create opportunities for Asuka. This was the limit of what she could do.

Unit 0 is in danger.

At this critical moment, Unit 2 jumped up to a height that was finally about to touch the apostle. It was like a giant challenging the God hanging high in the sky. The white clouds were vibrating with it, allowing a ray of golden sunlight to peek through the gap, and the particle knife was shining.

Kaka.

The moment the blade touched the light band, a sharp sound was heard.

After the powerful blow, the machine began to fall freely under the influence of gravity, like a meteor falling to the earth. Asuka looked at the damage caused by her blow and was a little bit unbelievable - from the perspective of the machine, the light strip was actually intact.

Asuka subconsciously recalled the fight with the 14th Angel. At that time, its core was also so hard. In the end, Unit-01 opened its mouth and ate the core. Then the Life Fruit and the Wisdom Fruit were combined... Could Unit-02 do this? Asuka opened her mouth, ready to move.

Unfortunately, she couldn't sense any appetite from Unit 2.

"Miri, I can't cut it!"

Asuka yelled into the comms channel.

Asuka had no idea what she was thinking.

The attack missed and Unit 2 became a target in the air.

The apostle can attack while the machine is in free fall. With nowhere to gain leverage in the air, it is difficult for Unit 2 to dodge. But there is no other way. If you want to defeat this kind of enemy floating in the sky, you have to jump up to attack it closely, and you have to accept the shortcomings of this attack method.

It seems that the more you fear something happening, the more likely it is to happen.

Asuka stared at the direction it was attacking from. It was true that Unit 2 could not use leverage during its fall, but that did not mean it could not make evasive moves. There were several jet engines on the armor of the machine, and it could use the engines to move forward when it was destroying the apostles in the sea.

There is only less than a second to react.

0.3...0.2...

0.1.

Flames and white gas burst out, leaving behind a loud noise. Driven by multiple engines, Unit 2 immediately stopped in the air for a moment, and from a distance it looked like it was suspended in the air. At the same time, the light column tentacles rushed towards Unit 2's original position.

The apostle's attack should have missed the machine.

But at the moment they passed each other, Asuka felt a pain.

How could this happen? Did it go wrong? No, the apostle's attack changed direction. It rolled up, bringing with it a sharp sound of wind. Just like the marine creature octopus in the textbook, it did dodge the simple thrust, but the tentacles seemed to be able to retract freely, ignoring the inertia of the previous thrust, and hit the left foot of Unit 2.

Pain! Intense pain was transmitted from the sole of her left foot to her nerves. Asuka broke out in a cold sweat. At the same time, her left foot immediately lost synchronization. It seemed to be invading Unit 2 through the blood vessels, drilling into the body from the bone marrow, like a terrible virus, spreading in the host's body.

This is……

Parasite? This happened during the initial startup experiment of Unit 03.

However, Asuka had already fainted in the cockpit and had not really experienced it. She immediately controlled Unit 2's particle blade and slashed at the part where the apostle had invaded.

"——The Angel made physical contact with the sole of Unit 2's left foot."

"Unit 2 is being eroded."

"The Angel is trying to merge, I'm afraid it's parasitizing the body." Someone shouted, and then shouted: "Unit 0 was also hit, the hit part is the chest."

"Temporarily cut off Asuka's neural sympathy, and then cut off the left foot of Unit 2." Misato Katsuragi gave the order.

"..."

Misato Katsuragi was also a little hesitant.

If the invaded parts were the limbs, the apostle's parasitism could be prevented by physically cutting them off, but the chest... without it the body would be scrapped.

She looked at the battlefield on the surveillance screen.

The second after Unit 2 was hit. Now both units were attacked. If this continued, one of them would be destroyed. Asuka wanted to cut off the left foot of the unit with her knife, but Katsuragi Misato reacted quickly and helped to cut off the part of Unit 2 that was attacked.

puff-

Blood-red blood burst out from the left foot of the fiery red machine. Asuka did not feel the pain at that moment of disconnection. After the neural sympathy was cut off, Unit 2 lost control and it would take a while to recover.

of course.

The apostles had already focused all their attention on the Unit 0 that was hit in the chest. Asuka looked over there. As the main force, she could not completely attract the attention of the apostles, and the supporting top students were also attacked. She felt an inexplicable sense of shame in her heart. Perhaps the top students were feeling great pain now?This is how Rei Ayanami feels in Unit-0 at this moment.

But it was different from what she thought.

After being hit in the chest, the apostle's beam of light was rapidly drilling into the body. Unlike the severe pain Asuka had imagined, the girl did not feel too much pain, but an inexplicable familiar attraction.

This feeling……

Rei Ayanami had hallucinations before her eyes. Even though she did not close her eyes, she seemed to see Lilith in the Central Dogma District, and the white giant was staring at her.

She shook her head, trying to dispel the vision.

But Lilith's face became clearer and clearer. The white giant was like a melted candle. The original seven-eyed face gradually changed and evolved into human facial features, with beautiful female eyes, nose, lips... Rei Ayanami was stunned, because that was her own face. Was it an illusion? She soon found that it was not an illusion.

From the chest of Unit 0, a large mass of pink flesh broke through the yellow-white armor outside and rapidly multiplied at a speed that violated biology. Muscles, skin...

The epidermis of this newly proliferated part of the body was as pale as a drowned person. It grew out from Unit 0's chest in an instant. On its pale cheeks, there was a strange smile of an honor student. The apostle seemed to be imitating the expression of a human smile, but it was so weird that it felt like the uncanny valley.

Ugh...it looks so disgusting...

As the No. 2 unit's neural empathy recovered, feeling the pain in her left foot, Asuka frowned, looking at the No. 0 unit invaded by the Angel, she had such a presumptuous thought in her mind. Because the head of the Angel alone was more than ten meters long, and when the top student magnified it like this, even the pores on the face were clear, which looked too disgusting.

Is this gigantic fear?In the command room, Misato Katsuragi looked back at the commander sitting on the podium. She hesitated to speak. The best battle plan at the moment was to send Unit-01 out, but she was unable to issue this order with her authority.

"Well, unfreeze it."

Ikari Gendou said calmly.

The main Unit 2 pilot's body has not recovered yet, and his left leg is missing, limiting his mobility. The supporting Unit 0 is lacking in performance and has been invaded. At this time, if they want to defeat the Angel, they can only send out Unit 01.

Besides, the day of becoming a god is approaching, and no one can stop it.

The giant opened his golden eyes silently.

The mechanical tracks made a clacking sound as if they were overwhelmed, but if you listened carefully it seemed to be just an illusion. The tracks were transporting Unit-01, which had been sealed for almost a month, to the ground. The cockpit had been inserted. Shinji Ikari looked into the cabin which was emitting a faint light. Although the second neural synchronization had not yet been carried out, he seemed to be able to feel the joy of the giant he was about to control.

Unit-01.

——Unfreeze!(End of this chapter)