Before Limings arrived, the theoretical work on the Oxygen Destroyer had already been completed.
Serizawa had resolved the model's theoretical problems before coming here. He simply hadn't told anyone.
At that moment, he was scribbling away, working through his calculations.
Looking at the piles of paper covered in calculations strewn across the floor, Ritsuko and the other technicians had to watch where they stepped.
"Does this old guy have no sense of order at all...?" Ibuki said with a look of disgust.
"Maybe he can accomplish all this precisely because he's so eccentric..." Ritsuko could only speak up for Serizawa.
Just then, Misato arrived by plane, personally delivering the fragments of Gomess's tissue.
To protect against radiation, Misato wore a thick protective suit, and the tissue fragments were packed in a specialized shielded case.
"This big lump of who-knows-what is absolutely disgusting. It even moves!" Misato set down the shielded case with a look of disgust, took it into the radiation-shielded laboratory, and opened it. Ritsuko put on a protective suit, went inside, and carefully lifted out the flesh.
What met their eyes was an indescribable lump of flesh...
It looked fresh and alive, still blood-red and constantly writhing.
But more horrifying still, it had a creepy eye growing on it, along with numerous toothlike protrusions of bone.
"Where did this come from? It still looks alive..." Ibuki was a little frightened by the lump.
"It fell off Gomess, obviously..." Misato's voice was full of disgust.
"What happened?" Ritsuko asked curiously.
"I was leading the search for this stupid thing, wearing this suffocating protective suit. Then, just as I walked up to the foot of a building, it landed right in front of me!"
"That eye stared straight at me."
"I looked up, and there was another huge mass stuck