As the rockets were ejected, the three machines actually flew up. A strong driving force, like an invisible big hand, suddenly lifted them off the ground. The strong driving force pushed them forward.
As they moved away from the ground, their speed also accelerated to a level much faster than running.
In front of them, a cone-shaped airflow appeared. This phenomenon also appeared during the final sprint of Unit 1 in the original work. When Shinji Ikari ran with all his strength, Unit 1 could exceed the speed of sound, but this time
At that time, they obviously had not reached the final sprint moment, but they relied on their extremely powerful aeroengines to increase the speed of their giant bodies to supersonic speeds.
In the footage transmitted from the helicopter in the headquarters, everyone can see the structure of the entire engine. Although the AT force field is invisible, the fuel used by the engine can be seen.
The fuel used by the engines of the three bodies was all their own blood. The bright red liquid flowed in the engines and was sprayed out like mist. Then it was ignited behind the engine's air inlet, forming waves of shock waves.
, heading towards the direction of the engine nozzle at high speed, and behind the nozzle there are blue Mach rings.
With such an incredible posture, relying on such translucent golden wings, three big guys that weighed more than three thousand tons flew into the sky and the speed became faster and faster.
This time they were not intercepting on the ground at all, but flying into the sky to intercept the aerial angels falling from the sky.
"Quickly recalculate the apostle's flight trajectory, give the landing trajectory of the model lake, and send it to the pilots. We can try to conduct an air interception. The error tolerance and success rate will be greatly improved. Even if the first interception fails, we still have at least
Two chances.”
Misato Katsuragi was already determined to die, but now the situation seems to have turned around, and the probability of the plan's success has greatly increased.
When the three aircraft can fly, not only will the interception success rate be greatly improved, but even when facing other apostles in the future, the combat effectiveness will be improved to the same extent.
It has to be said that these special biological mechas have a lot of blood in their bodies, almost an endless supply. Even if the three of them are flying at such high speeds in the air, there is no feeling of lack of blood at all.
At the same time, as they moved forward, the most likely landing trajectory of the Space Angel appeared on the holographic projection around the cockpit. The three of them flew in different directions and intercepted at different heights.
At this time, the No. 1 aircraft, which was the fastest and most flexible, combined the trajectory provided by the computing device and looked up at the black sphere in the sky. With its powerful computing power, it had already determined the location of his model lake.
landing position.
Many of these are factors of intuition, judgments he made based on his own instincts, but with his eyes blank and the gene lock unlocked, the judgments he made intuitively may be better than the judgments made by large computers.
Even more accurate.
After calculating the possible landing point through visual inspection, Unit 1 turned on its engine to the highest power, turned quickly, and flew in the direction where the apostle might arrive.
In the sky, the black sphere finally began to disintegrate after it approached the ground. The outer layer of space distortion gradually disappeared, revealing an orange-yellow structure like a giant starfish inside.
Even if he loses that layer of black distortion, the size he displays is still huge. Even when he stretches his wings internally, the area covered is even larger than the previous dark sphere, and in
An eye-like structure in the center was the core of the apostle. At this moment, he fell from the sky, his wings stretched out, covering the entire Third New Tokyo.
Although everyone in the city has evacuated underground, a shadow has shrouded the entire city.
Especially now that it is exactly noon, the sun is setting straight up and down in the city, casting shadows on the entire city, and still retaining the unstretched shape of the apostle.
However, just before he fell, Unit 1 had successfully caught up with it, came under it at an incredible speed, and then stretched out his hands: "AT force field! Fully open!"
An invisible aura burst out from Unit 1. In an instant, it covered the entire space. At the same time, a layer of hexagonal light appeared on his palm, forcibly separating it from the apostles.
open.
However, this level of power was still not enough to stop the apostle from falling. The AT force field was suppressed and continued to fall downwards. However, the apostle who fell from the sky seemed to have fallen into the water. Originally at a high speed like a meteorite, the apostle suddenly started to fall.
It was getting slower and slower. While the No. 1 machine caught the apostle and buffered its landing, the other two machines also rushed over quickly.
As they were flying at high speed, a long trail was drawn behind them, and the No. 1 aircraft had already landed on a mountain.
This is the landing position chosen by Unit 1. Even if the AT force field is fully activated, it is not enough to completely stop the apostle who fell from the sky like a meteorite, but he can at least change the direction of his fall and fall on the top of the mountain, at least better than
It is better to fall in the city. As long as he can hold on, the top of the mountain is higher than most buildings in the city. In theory, it can prevent the city from being destroyed by its wings during the fall.
As he fell to the top of the mountain and his legs hit the ground, the same AT force field also acted on the earth. If only his legs bear such a huge weight and bear such huge pressure brought by the apostle, then
He had long been smashed into the soil like a nail, and what he was doing now was to evenly distribute the huge pressure he endured over the entire earth.
And this also means that he needs to bear the power of the entire apostle, and the strong pressure makes the body of Unit 1 arch up. Even the most powerful Unit 1 among several units cannot withstand this level of pressure.
pressure.
At this time, in the eyes of the apostle's core, a pair of hands stretched out, held hands with Unit 1, and held a pair of his palms. Then, in the apostle's outstretched hands, the palms of his hands were stabbed hard.
Two spikes came out and penetrated the hands of Unit 1. The severe pain made even Shinji Ikari tremble. But at this time, he must not let go of his hands and let himself feel like he was nailed.
Like a cross, it penetrated both hands, and it continued to work hard to hold up the giant thing in the sky. It was like after the creation of the world, holding up the nine heavens with both hands and stepping on the nine quiet Pangu, forcibly holding open the heaven and earth that might be re-closed at any time.
And in his palms, even in his arms, blood sprayed out like a fountain. From the amount of bleeding, it can be seen that there is much more blood in the No. 1 Unit than it seems.
More, definitely larger than its size.
And just when Shinji Ikari unlocked the second-level gene lock and was about to fight, the other two machines finally arrived with a roar. Asuka took out her utility knife and thrust it towards the core of the apostle.
However, at the moment when the attack will be launched tomorrow, the apostle's core suddenly rotates rapidly. Although the core can only exist in the eye of the apostle's center, the eye is so big that the originally huge core is not visible between the eyes.
There is quite a lot of space for activities.
The first attack failed to hit, and Asuka also unlocked the genetic lock at the same time. In Asuka's eyes, which were blank, everything in the world slowed down. The core, which was moving at high speed and could hardly be captured by the human eye, was in his eyes.
His eyes became able to capture, and the utility knife in his hand stabbed hard to the core.
However, after leaving a wound on the core, the thing was weak and flew out again. It just paused and slowed down again. However, before he could speed up, a pair of white palms had torn the apostle apart.
The AT force field withstood the corrosion and destruction of the apostle and grabbed the blood-red core.
At the same time, he freed up his other hand and thrust the dagger into the core. Asuka followed closely behind and thrust her dagger in with all her strength.
In the end, only Shinji Ikari was left, and he was seen holding the sky with one hand. He also took out a dagger with the other hand and inserted it into the core of the apostle.
"Only ten seconds left!" Everyone in the headquarters forgot to breathe and looked nervously at the scene of the battle.
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And as the three daggers were inserted into the core of the apostle, the three of them roared in unison: "At force field! Fully open!"
The powerful AT force field was injected into the core of the apostles along with their daggers, and exploded from the inside. With a violent explosion, the core was torn apart and turned into pieces scattered in all directions. At the same time, blood poured from their heads.
Come down.
The apostle finally stopped his movements, and his wings slowly fell down like pieces of feathers, covering the city and the three machines.
Shinji Ikari didn't know why, but he always felt that this scene was familiar. What followed seemed to be an extremely terrifying explosion that would seriously injure the three machines and them.
So he decisively used his remaining strength to blast a big pit into the ground, pulled the two machines and jumped into the pit.
However, the situation seemed to be different from what he imagined. The apostles that covered the city fell like feathers and suddenly disintegrated into a large amount of red blood.
There was no violent explosion, it was just a blood-red flood that washed over the entire city. Floods that were taller than skyscrapers swept through. If this was not a fortress city, nothing would be left.
The explosion did occur, but it was much weaker than they imagined. Just like the explosion after the ordinary apostles were eliminated, a purple cross-shaped light exploded in the flood, and the three machines hiding in the pit were unscathed.
hurt.
"By the way, why are you so excited all of a sudden? The explosion just now couldn't hurt us at all, right?" Asuka squatted in the pit and was a little confused. At this time, they had no power, although in theory they could still continue to move by relying on the at force field.
, but the battle is over, and there is no need to use this desperate fighting method. The three of them swam out of the insertion bolt, waiting for the arrival of the follow-up rescue team, because there was a big hole made by the No. 1 machine here, and the three of them swam out.
The aircraft body was all buried in the blood-red flood, and the three of them could only float on the lake, waiting for helicopter rescue.
"I don't know why, but I just somehow feel that after we catch this guy and destroy the core, it will still create an unprecedented terrifying explosion when it falls on the ground." Shinji Ikari scratched his head, not knowing where this intuition came from.
Coming?
"Are you stupid? After all the apostles have their cores destroyed by us, they will no longer be able to maintain their bodies and will completely disintegrate into blood. How can there be other explosions besides their core explosions?"
Asuka said with a venomous tongue.
Shinji Ikari frowned in thought. He remembered more things. It seemed that he had an impression of the apostle in front of him. In his impression, what fell from the sky should be an orange flying object with three big eyes.
Even after being blocked by them, a violent explosion still occurred when it landed on the ground, seriously injuring the three of them and severely damaging the machine.
Shinji Ikari, who has now reached the third level, believes in his intuition, and it is definitely not without reason. These incomplete memory fragments are definitely well-founded, but he still can't figure out why he has similar memories.
Now he doesn't have enough information to deduce that the whole world is actually reincarnation, and those incomplete memory fragments are his memories from the previous reincarnation.
The battle ended successfully. Although the city of Third New Tokyo was baptized by the blood-red flood. Many fortress buildings were swaying, but this kind of thing was not a trouble at all for the engineering capabilities of Third New Tokyo. With the building
Relying on ropes to pull each other, the crooked buildings were repositioned, and the parts damaged by the flood were repaired.
One major difference from the original historical line is that during the reconstruction process, it was not just the engineering team that was contributing. Three EVAs were inexplicably turned into engineering units and sent to move bricks in the ruined city.
went.
"We are soldiers, and we are soldiers who have just won the battle. Why would we do such a thing?" Asuka complained, while straightening a crooked building.
"How do I know? I heard that this bad idea came from my uncle, but I don't know why, but I always feel that this kind of work is very familiar, as if I have done it before." Shinji Ikari used his AT force field extremely skillfully to pull the crumbling
The building was being reinforced, waiting for construction machinery to replace the building structures damaged by the flood. He had been having some inexplicable memories recently, and it seemed that this had started to happen since he defeated Apostle Remiel.
"I heard that the No. 3 unit has also been shipped. When the uncle becomes the pilot, let him also taste the pain of his own random ideas!" Asuka gritted her teeth, but Shinji Ikari frowned: "I have a bad feeling.
I have a hunch that Unit 3... I always feel like there will be something wrong with Unit 3."
