Comfort, setting plans in motion, and driving with Misato to buy groceries (don't get the wrong idea)

The hands of a clock never turn back, but you can move forward with your own hands. - Gendo Ikari

When Huang Zhetian saw Rei Ayanami holding the Spear of Longinus in Unit-00's hand, he understood that this was where Gendo Ikari began rapidly advancing his own script, even openly. By the time the committee and SEELE finished focusing on the Mass Production Units and turned their attention back to him, Gendo Ikari would already have all his pieces in place.

SEELE had no choice but to remain onstage and finish this performance with Gendo Ikari, because they had lost their most fundamental control over him!

Huang Zhetian opened the system panel and browsed the merchandise. He had to keep Rei Ayanami alive in the next battle against an Angel!

If Rei Ayanami wasn't replaced by another iteration, the coming events would develop faster, and Gendo Ikari could stop hesitating and move much faster than he had in the original story! He would find it easier to develop a reliance on and trust in Rei Ayanami similar to what he felt for Yui Ikari. What Gendo Ikari didn't know, however, was that after fighting the Womb Angel, whether Rei Ayanami lived or died, she would no longer feel the way she once had about him. Instead, she would have awakened to her own sense of self...

In short, if Rei Ayanami wasn't replaced, the later cloning incident would be delayed, giving Huang Zhetian time to set up his own script before it happened!

Finally, in a corner of the System Store, Huang Zhetian spotted a paper talisman labeled: Borrowed Corpse Resurrection, Possession Technique, no side effects. The user could attach the talisman to a corpse or another person in advance, allowing it to merge into them. After the user died