Chapter 124
Third New Tokyo City, NERV headquarters.
The entire city has been transformed into a fortress city to resist the apostles' attack. EVA entrances and exits and various weapons and equipment are hidden in many buildings. Even some surface buildings can be lowered underground for emergency evacuation like taking an elevator when the apostles attack.
Third New Tokyo City, as the capital of the island country after its disaster reconstruction, has naturally attracted a large number of people to settle there.
However, these residents have no idea that this city has been built to wait and wait for the apostles to come. Living here is no different than a bait. Even the capital of a country has become like this. This shows the power of NERV today.
Clairvoyance Spark sees through, Apparition Li Mu has entered the underground city below Third New Tokyo City.
The transmission ended, and Li Mu appeared in the underground urban forest.
There is an underground space with a diameter of two thousand meters, underground lakes and underground forests, and a depth of more than 2,800 meters. The upper part is the NERV headquarters, below the headquarters is the EVA research institute, and the deepest part is LCL Sea, which only a few people in the world know.
LCL Sea is the water of life. To put it bluntly, the blood flowing out of Lilith is the amniotic fluid that gives birth to life.
The second apostle Lilith, who was humanoid but only had the upper body, was nailed to the LCL Sea by Spear of Longinus and fell into eternal sleep.
Li Mu looked through the earth through Clairvoyance Spark to see Lilith, and then looked through the body to see the extremely huge energy in Lily's body. It is unimaginable that such an existence would be controlled by humans, and even its soul would be extracted and transferred into the body of a clone to be cultivated into a combat weapon.
Is Lilith too weak, or are the humans in this world too powerful?
Human beings who can survive for billions of years, who can single-handedly give birth to this world, are able to severely injure the first apostle Adam and all the other apostles he created when Blue Star descended into sleep. How could such a Lilith be imprisoned by humans?
Although according to the plot, humans inserted Spear of Longinus into her while Lilith was sleeping.
Then with the help of Spear of Longinus's power, Lilith was sealed deep underground.
If that's all it is, it can be explained.
But the human then pulled out the soul of Lilith. This operation was a bit scary. You must know that the more powerful the life soul is, the more powerful it is. The human being could pull out the soul of Lilith and play with it in the palm of his hand. The technology displayed in this process made him feel afraid.
Li Mu opened Bone Blood Gourd, and the Blood Bewildering Mist in the gourd began to spread in the underground city.
All lives that inhale Blood Bewildering Mist will turn a blind eye to him.
But this couldn't fool the camera, so Li Mu put it on Illusionary Body Curse for double invisibility.
After making sure everything was safe, he wandered around the underground city.
A few hours later, he found a figure fishing by the lake. He was wearing glasses like him. Although he was fishing, he could not see the fisherman's expectation for the fish to take the bait. He just looked at the float indifferently, not knowing what he was planning in his heart.
"Gendo Ikari."
Li Mu thought in his heart.
According to his memory of the animation and the information collected by Deep Space Radar, the man not far away is the commander-in-chief of NERV, the general person in charge of the EVA project, and the promoter of the extermination of all human beings and the implementation of Human Instrumentality Project.
This man was full of ambition, but he loved his deceased wife deeply but could not express it. He was an extremely indifferent careerist.
If you can control him, you can control NERV headquarters.
He met Gendo Ikari by chance before he took the initiative to look for it. Although the main reason was that this underground city was too small, you were welcome since you happened to run into him. Mental Contamination and Imperius Curse spread over at the same time.
However, before getting close to Gendo Ikari, Mental Contamination and Imperius Curse have already expired.
To be precise, his Mental Power was repelled by the high concentration of soul matter that filled the air and dissipated.
The main source of soul matter scattered in Blue Star is the blood of Lilith. Deep underground here, humans are constantly bleeding Lilith to form an underground sea. Naturally, the NERV headquarters is filled with high concentrations of soul matter. Any Mental Power who is not an apostle here will be suppressed and rejected.
Not to mention his Imperius Curse, in the LCL Sea it is difficult for even AT Field to unfold because the soul material concentration is too high.
If you can't be mentally enslaved here, why can't you be arrested by force?
Li Mu quickly approached Gendo Ikari. The moment he walked behind him, he stretched out his fingers and stabbed his spine. The spine and the connected nerves were crushed by his fingers. Gendo Ikari lost control of his body in an instant and became paralyzed.
Li Mu summoned Bone Blood Gourd, and the gourd that could not be seen by the surrounding security enlarged and took Gendo Ikari in.
The moment Gendo Ikari disappeared, he appeared and continued fishing disguised as Gendo Ikari.
This time he learned a lesson, he knew that simply pretending to be a third trait deception was not enough to deceive the soul's resonance, so this time he consumed HuoZhong Source Power to stimulate the deeper power of the deception trait, so that even if his soul did not resonate with other humans, it would not be discovered.
From now on, he is Gendo Ikari, the general person in charge of NERV.
But if he wants to pretend to be perfect, he also needs to obtain the memory stored in Gendo Ikari's brain.
Inside the bone gourd, Gendo Ikari's brain and flesh other than bones were melted by the Sky-Piercing Blood River's river water.
Although the brain is still alive, the soul is separated from the remaining brain and bones due to the death of the body.
Through the brain of Gendo Ikari, Li Mu begins to acquire brain memory by Mental Contamination.
After all the memories were acquired, Bone Resurrection was used by Blood Bewildering Mist to reshape Gendo Ikari's body with the flesh and bones of the living dead. Finally, Gendo Ikari's soul was inserted into the body to complete the resurrection. After the resurrection, Gendo Ikari was more shocked than fear.
In less than a minute, he experienced death and rebirth.
"Who are you?"
Gendo Ikari shouted angrily, but no one paid any attention to his performance.
Li Mu put away the fishing rod and returned to Gendo Ikari's office.
The decoration is very good. Li Mu poured two glasses of red wine before entering Bone Blood Gourd in a deserted environment.
Seeing Li Mu suddenly appearing in front of him with a bottle of red wine, Gendo Ikari was immediately startled. However, his natural composure and coolness allowed him to calmly accept the red wine handed over by the being who looked exactly like himself.
It has fallen into the hands of others, and its life has been taken away and then resurrected.
So Gendo Ikari was not worried about the poison in the wine, but his hand still shook slightly when he took the red wine.
Because he recognized it. Although the wine glass was just a common wine glass, the red wine inside was his treasure. Looking at the identical existence in front of him, it was obvious that this existence had replaced him and sneaked into his office.
He also knew the password to the office, which reminded him of his inexplicable resurrection from the dead.
In this process, his memory may no longer belong to him.
"Live quietly here from now on."
Li Mu picked up the wine glass, and the wine glass in his hand suddenly transformed into Polymorph Spell's son Shinji Ikari, the son of Gendo Ikari.
His hand suddenly exerted force, and Shinji Ikari's neck was severed, and the vertebrae were pierced from the neck. Blood flowed down his palm. The Shinji Ikari that reached LV20 Polymorph Spell Transfiguration was not a fake. It was a living, palm-sized artificial life that looked the same as Shinji Ikari.
Li Mu threw Shinji Ikari into Gendo Ikari's wine glass, and blood mixed with red wine splashed on Gendo Ikari's face.
"This is a warning."
Li Mu said calmly, "If you don't stay honest and cause trouble for me, it will really be your son next time."
Looking at the mysterious existence disappearing in front of him, Gendo Ikari poured out the red wine with trembling hands.
Although he has a very bad relationship with his son Shinji Ikari, that is just because he is not good at expressing himself, and all his energy is spent on resurrecting his dead wife Yui Ikari. This does not mean that he has no feelings for his son.
The bones are real and the blood is real, just like a completely shrunken Shinji Ikari.
He can kill him and resurrect him at will, and can turn a wine glass into a living Miniature Human. He has never heard of such a existence and such means. If what he is experiencing now is not a hallucination, there is only one thing he can do next.
They didn't kill him, they just imprisoned him and threatened him with Shinji Ikari.
These all show that although the mysterious existence is disguised as him, it is impossible to pretend without any flaws, so in certain situations the mysterious existence needs him to appear outside, otherwise the disguise of the mysterious existence will be seen through.
As long as he endures until he leaves this prison, he will wait for the opportunity to escape.
Gendo Ikari is right, he just thinks too beautifully.
Because he has no idea that Mental Contamination exists in his brain.
So Li Mu knows all his thoughts clearly.
But he didn't care. The camouflage trait deception inspired by HuoZhong Source Power was enough to make those around him ignore the unreasonable aspects of him. However, the deception trait would not take effect when exposed to long-distance video contact, so anything that required remote video contact required Gendo Ikari to come forward in person.
But he will not give Gendo Ikari a chance to resist, because Mental Contamination and Imperius Curse will take good care of him before letting him out.
Make sure that after he comes out, he will be as obedient as a dog for a short period of time.
Through the secret elevator in Gendo Ikari's office, Li Mu quickly reached the bottom of the underground city.
This is a special passage built secretly by Gendo Ikari, so when he came to the LCL Sea, no one knew he was here.
Without Clairvoyance Spark, he could also see the second apostle Lilith in the distance. This was a white Giant with seven eyes. He was nailed to the cross by Spear of Longinus. Only the upper body was intact and the lower body was cut away. The wound continuously left blood and merged into the LCL Sea.
Li Mu quickly walked to Lilith, and Precursor Light Wheel broke through the air and kept cutting towards the wound.
He quickly cut off three pieces of meat from a place on the back that couldn't be seen.
The smallest piece remained for gene cloning, and the larger piece was blended into the river water of the Sky-Piercing Blood River to generate Blood Bewildering Mist. As more and more Blood Bewildering Mist were manufactured, Li Mu gradually discovered that the Blood Bewildering Mist generated by different life forms had different hidden characteristics.
For example, Blood Bewildering Mist generated by Fierce Wolf actually has hidden characteristics that make people manic and irritable.
He tried using a clone of the Adam gene to generate Blood Bewildering Mist, but he didn't know if it was a counterfeit product. The clone of Adam could not generate Blood Bewildering Mist, so he was curious whether the flesh and blood of Lilith could generate Blood Bewildering Mist?
The last and biggest piece of flesh and blood he planned to leave to Freedom Gundam for Human Instrumentality.
Through this Human Instrumentality, he can judge whether Freedom Gundam can completely swallow the bodies of Adam and Lilith.
If you can't devour the main body directly, then dismember Lilith who can't resist and devour it bit by bit here.
Li Mu returned to Gendo Ikari's office and entered Bone Blood Gourd to start testing.
Gendo Ikari is not far away, quietly observing Li Mu.
Then he saw a gorgeous machine that was hundreds of meters tall suddenly appearing next to the mysterious being. Then he saw the armor on the head of the machine separate. He reached out and grabbed a piece of meat that appeared out of thin air and stuffed it into the mouth inside the armor. He swallowed the piece of meat into his belly with the sound of chewing.
"EVA..."
Gendo Ikari said through gritted teeth.
His first reaction now was that his hidden intention of betraying SEELE was discovered, so they sent Mysterious Person to replace him, and collected Lilith's meat pieces to feed to EVA. But weren't they worried that EVA would lose control?
Gendo Ikari was quickly disappointed. Freedom Gundam ate the meat of Lilith without any abnormality.
Li Mu stood nearby to remotely control Freedom Gundam, and Freedom Gundam immediately unfolded AT Field.
AT Field is not much enhanced, but AT Field is much easier to control.
This is obvious. If you want to strengthen AT Field, eat Adam and the apostles he created. If you want to perfectly control AT Field, eat Lilith, after all, Adam owns Fruit of Life, which represents life and strength, while Lilith owns Fruit of Wisdom, which represents wisdom.
In the plot, as long as the apostles have more brains, they will not be played by humans and defeated one by one with applause.
Li Mu left Bone Blood Gourd and waited until night to secretly cut Lilith's meat.
Only one-third of Lilith's upper body was cut off. When Lilith was approaching Spear of Longinus, Lilith struggled slightly and even moved his head slightly. Li Mu immediately realized that this was the end. If he continued, Lilith would be stimulated enough to wake up.
After completely devouring all the pieces of flesh, Li Mu even felt that Tom's soul in Freedom Gundam was about to regain consciousness.
Of course this is not possible. He does not think that Tom is qualified to become Freedom Gundam's soul. He is originally a temporary substitute, so Li Mu does not hesitate to use Freedom Gundam's fire to suppress Tom's soul.
He had already chosen the real owner of Freedom Gundam, the artificial human Rei Ayanami made by Gendo Ikari.
Rei Ayanami is a clone, whose genes are derived from the DNA of Gendo Ikari's wife Yui Ikari and the body cells of Lilith, but the soul of Rei Ayanami is the soul of the second apostle Lilith. The original Rei Ayanami is the container that carries the soul of Lilith.
Humanity has cleansed Lilith's soul, and the memories belonging to Lilith no longer exist.
All that is left is Rei Ayanami's new personality in more than ten years. This is the most suitable driver for Freedom Gundam, Freedom Gundam After Human Instrumentality became a god, even he, the fire holder, could not exert the full power of Freedom Gundam. Only Adam and Rei Ayanami could perfectly control Freedom Gundam.
But Adam is a boy and Rei Ayanami is a girl, no need to say which one to choose?
After years of training by Gendo Ikari, Rei Ayanami's new personality respects Gendo Ikari very much.
Although he betrayed Gendo Ikari in the end, it was only because Gendo Ikari used Rei Ayanami as a tool. Now that Gendo Ikari has been replaced by him, Rei Ayanami's future is destined to change. He will not give Rei Ayanami a chance to betray, but will give her a pain-free and bright future.