In the following days, Fangzheng lived a leisurely life with the three kids, but the same couldn't be said for Di Yuan Hall. The League of Nations summoned him to the United Nations headquarters several times in a row for an explanation. At the same time, organizations and agencies in various countries also began to collect information and clues about the "Tendo Temple".
In fact, the League of Nations already had plans to seal the NERV headquarters, but SEELE's infiltration was strong enough, so there were no changes so far.
However, Fangzheng knew that it wouldn't be long before the situation changed.
Because he received a call from Ge Chengmeili.
"The higher-ups have decided that the fifth qualified person will be taken over by you."
"Oh?"
Hearing Ge Chengmeili's voice over the phone, Fangzheng raised his eyebrows.
"What's his name?"
"Asuka."
"Haha."
Hearing the name, Fangzheng chuckled, then he rolled his eyes.
"I understand, First Lieutenant Ge Chengmeili … By the way, if you have time, why don't you come with me to pick him up?"
"Me?"
Ge Chengmeili was obviously a little surprised by Fangzheng's invitation. But she thought for a moment, then nodded.
"Okay, I happen to be free during this time."
"Then I'll pick you up."
While speaking, Fangzheng hung up the phone and walked out of the room.
"Yo, little guys, are you free today? Come with me."
"I'm fine."
Hearing Fangzheng's question, Shinji shook his head, while Rinbori stood up silently. Asuka turned her head curiously and looked at Fangzheng.
"But Fangzheng, where are we going?"
Facing Asuka's curious question, Fangzheng smiled slightly.
"To meet someone."
“？？？”
Although they were a little confused, the three obediently followed Fangzheng out by car. They first picked up Ge Chengmeili, then Fangzheng stepped on the accelerator and drove to the outskirts of New Tokyo.
"Hey."
Sitting in the middle of the back row, Asuka looked at Rinbori and Shinji on her left and right, and finally reached out to pull Shinji's clothes.
"Why do you think Fangzheng brought Misato along?"
"I don't know …"
Hikari Shinji and Ge Chengmeili were somewhat awkward, so he could only shake his head at Asuka's question.
"Say, do you think Fangzheng and Misato are secretly dating?"
Seeing Ge Chengmei sitting in the passenger seat, Asuka's imagination ran wild.
"Is he planning to find a place where we can be witnesses and then propose to Misato … It hurts! First, why did you pinch me? "
"Sorry."
Rinbori quietly retracted her hand.
"I didn't do it on purpose …"
"… Phew … Fine, I'll believe you didn't do it on purpose."
Asuka blew on the back of her hand that was pinched red. She glared at Rinbori in annoyance but did not say anything.
At that moment, Fangzheng, who was driving, spoke.
"There's still some time. Why don't I give you a lesson now?"
"A lesson?"
"That's right."
As he spoke, Fangzheng chuckled.
"A history lesson."
“？？？”
Upon hearing this, everyone couldn't help but be taken aback. However, before they could say anything, Fangzheng had already continued speaking.
"It all started a long, long time ago. At that time, there were no humans on Earth. As we discovered in archaeology, the world was dominated by dinosaurs … Well, if it weren't for a small accident, perhaps the world would have been occupied by intelligent dinosaurs. Unfortunately, these dinosaurs were not very lucky, because two uninvited guests came to this planet. "
Fangzheng looked at the sky in front of him. In fact, he already knew everything that happened in this world through the "Banners of War".
"In modern terms, we can call them extraterrestrial creatures. One of them is Adam, and the other is Lilith."
Upon hearing this, Ge Chengmeili's expression changed. She turned her head and stared intently at Fangzheng. However, Fangzheng didn't seem to notice as he continued speaking.
He continued, "Adam and Lilith respectively represented the development direction of two kinds of life forms. Adam represented the limits of the individual, while Lilith represented the wisdom of the group. As the saying goes, there can't be two tigers on one mountain. The two sides fought a great battle for dominance. In the end, Lilith defeated Adam and sealed him away. The battle between them led to the First Impact — and the extinction of the dinosaurs. "
Fangzheng could not help but sigh. In fact, strictly speaking, the war between humans and the apostles was a "civil war" because both Adam and Lilith were actually placed there by the Goddess of Order. After all, just like scientific research, it was impossible to go down a single path. One had to explore all kinds of methods, right?
In Kedori's world, the Goddess of Order wanted to seek to transform the creatures of Chaos back into creatures of Order, so she asked the Astral Goddess to seal the power of those beasts and transform them into humans. Of course, the final result was already known. The soul of the Astral Goddess was not enough to continue to maintain the existence of humans, which led to humans turning into beasts again and the destruction of the world.
In this world, the Goddess of Order obviously wanted to see which order was more effective between the ultimate individual and the wisdom of the group. The result was that Adam failed, and Lilith won.
"After that, Adam's body was sealed, and his other parts were scattered all over the world and fell into a deep sleep. Lilith also created humans … as the representative creatures of the wisdom of the group. In fact, this story should have ended there. "
Fangzheng glanced at Ge Chengmeri beside him.
"Until the Second Impact happened."
Ge Chengmeri's expression changed slightly when she heard the word "Second Impact". She forced herself to look out of the window. On the contrary, Shinji was stunned for a moment. He could not help but ask.
"But didn't Sensei say that the Second Impact was caused by the fall of a meteorite?"
"Are you an idiot?"
Asuka immediately scolded Shinji.
"That's just an excuse to deceive people. That's not the case at all … As an Eva pilot, you should at least know something about this. Am I right? Number one? "
"…."
Rinboli just nodded slightly at Asuka's question and stared at Fangzheng in silence.
"That's right. The Second Impact has nothing to do with the meteorite. In fact, the first impact did not cause the extinction of the dinosaurs because of the meteorite …. But before that, I want to tell you about an organization called SEELE."
“SEELE？！”
Asuka and Shinji immediately perked up when they heard the name. The girl with the red ponytail had mentioned the existence of "SEELE" before, and now that Fangzheng mentioned the name again, the two realized that Fangzheng did not bring them out this time to have a picnic or enjoy the scenery.
"That's right. Before the Second Onslaught, the order of the world was not like it is now. To put it bluntly, SEELE at that time was just a shady religious organization, just like the Illuminati or similar organizations. They held a book of nonsense written by someone hundreds or thousands of years ago and regarded it as a holy scripture, and they fought for it for the rest of their lives … Well, to put it bluntly, they were just a cult group hiding in the shadows."
Fangzheng chuckled and looked at Shinji through the rearview mirror.
"Shinji, don't think that this has nothing to do with you. In fact, your mother was once funded by SEELE. That's why your father got close to her."
"Huh?!!"
Shinji was shocked when he heard this.
"Mr. Fangzheng, you're saying that my mother … is that …."
"Of course, I'm not saying that your mother is a bad person. Although in my opinion, SEELE is a psychopathic cult, at that time, it was just an organization similar to a public welfare foundation. It would sponsor some promising researchers. At that time, your mother was funded by SEELE when she was doing research under Professor Dongyue. "
"You mean Deputy Commander Dongyue?"
At this time, Ge Chengmeili was also shocked. She had never thought that there would be such a thing.
"As for Di Yuanchang …. I don't know what he was thinking, but at that time, he got in touch with your mother because he wanted to get in touch with SEELE. In the end, they got married and had a child …. That's you."
With that said, Fangzheng swept a glance at Ge Chengmeili.
"First Lieutenant Ge Chengmeili, you may not know this, but Di Yuanchang was also in the investigation team led by your father … Professor Ge Chengmeili. The day before the second onslaught, Di Yuanchang left the investigation team with all the investigation materials. In other words … .one day after Di Yuanchang left the investigation team, the second onslaught happened. "
"You mean … … … … …"
Ge Chengmeili was not a fool. She was just young at that time, but now, after listening to Fangzheng, she seemed to realize something. She clenched her fists.
"Yes, the second onslaught was not an accident. It wasn't even an accident as described in the official documents."
Fangzheng turned the steering wheel again.
"The truth is that the Chairman of SEELE, Geru Lorenz, deliberately removed Adam's seal through remote control, triggering the second onslaught. Because for their so-called 'Human Completion Plan', the second onslaught is necessary …. "
"Bang!!!"
Before Fangzheng could finish, Ge Chengmeili slammed her fist on the car window next to her, startling both Asuka and Shinji.
As for Fangzheng, he only calmly swept a glance at her.
"Don't hit it. You'll have to pay for it if you break it."
"… .It's fine. You can get the NERV Operations Department to reimburse you."
"Okay, then I'll continue …. As you all know, after the second onslaught, the original order and governments of the world almost collapsed. SEELE had long foreseen the second onslaught — of course, it was triggered by them, so they arranged their people in advance. After the second onslaught, when all the countries were in chaos, they secretly took control of this world. "
With that said, Fangzheng curled his lips.
"Simply put, you can think of SEELE as a virus. It needs to weaken the host before it can take effect. Right now, the world has already been completely corroded by the virus known as SEELE. However, fortunately, this stupid thing they did also brought about quite a bit of influence, and that is the awakening of the apostles. "
"The Apostles ….?"
"That's right. The Apostles are the broken body of Adam. SEELE lifted the seal on Adam, so the Apostles naturally woke up. They have been longing to reunite with Adam, which is why the Apostles stubbornly only attacked the third city, New Tokyo — because Adam's body is in the NERV Headquarters. "
"I see …. I see …."
Asuka also frowned and began to think.
"That makes sense. I was wondering why the Apostles only attacked Japan …."
"If humanity is destroyed by the Apostles before the plan is implemented, then SEELE's plan will be completely useless. That's why they established NERV — the organization to fight against the Apostles. Of course, on the surface, NERV was established to deal with the Apostles, but in fact, it's obviously more than that. In fact, the Eva is the key to the Human Completion Plan. "
"What is the Human Completion Plan?"
Ge Chengmeili finally couldn't help but ask.
"Let's not talk about the obviously stupid cult lines of SEELE. Their purpose is very simple — to create an artificial God."
"An artificial …. God?"
"That's right. Fuse all the people in the world together, abandon individual differences, fuse into a whole, and ascend to the realm of God …. Of course, that's what they say. Let me put it in simpler terms — everyone die together and ascend to heaven and become immortals."
"That disgusting? I don't want to! "
As expected, Asuka was the first to refuse.
"What Human Completion Plan? If I want to fuse with that stupid Shinji, I might as well die!"
"…."
Hearing this, Ikari Shinji's expression was somewhat subtle. He smiled bitterly, not knowing what to say. He was not stupid. He knew that if he told Asuka that "it's not bad for us to fuse together", Asuka would probably slap him in the face.
"But … how do you know all this?"
After recovering from the shock, Ge Chengmeili couldn't help but look at Fangzheng, staring at him warily.
"Who the hell are you?"
"Maybe you've already guessed it. Well … I'm too lazy to hide in the clouds, so I'll just say it out loud. On the surface, I'm a member of the League of Nations …. In fact, I am."
"Huh?"
In the face of this unexpected answer, Ge Chengmeili's jaw almost dropped.
"What did you say?"
"I'm not lying. I'm indeed a member of the League of Nations. In fact, you may not know this, but ever since the second onslaught happened, some people in the League of Nations have been suspecting that there was something wrong with the second onslaught, so they carried out secret investigations without alerting SEELE. I'm one of them. Not only that, I'm also a member of the Tendo Temple …. Do you understand now?"
"The Tendo Temple?"
Faced with this answer, everyone was shocked.
"Then the girl with the red ponytail …."
"Well …. we do know each other."
Fangzheng coughed and changed the topic. He looked at the dumbfounded Ge Chengmeili.
"First Lieutenant Ge Chengmeili, the reason why I'm telling you this is because I need your help next."
"My …. help?"
"That's right."
Fangzheng nodded and looked forward.
"But for now, let's deal with the last problem first."
Saying that, Fangzheng suddenly stepped on the brakes and stopped. Only then did everyone realize that they had reached the seaside. On the beach, a young man in a white shirt was standing there with his back to them.
"That's …."
"That's the last Apostle."
Fangzheng opened the car door.
"This is why I called you here, Rei, Asuka, Shinji. You're the EVA pilots, and your goal is to eliminate the Apostle. But this Apostle is a little too troublesome for you, so …. "
In the next moment, a knight clad in silvery-white armor and wielding a black and white dual sword appeared in front of everyone.
"Mr. Fangzheng ….?"
Seeing this scene, Shinji was shocked speechless. Asuka and Rinbori also widened their eyes in surprise.
But Fangzheng was not afraid at all. He strode behind the young man and raised the black sword in his hand.
"Are you ready to die? The Last Emissary. "
"… Of course."
Hearing Fangzheng's question, the young man in white turned around with a smile.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Li Lin."
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