Deep underground in the Third New Tokyo City, Li Mu stood at the door of Ayanami Rei's house.
Through the clairvoyance fire, he could see that the inside was shabby, dark and old. Because there was no time to clean and no one taught how to clean, the room was dirty and messy. Lying on the bed, wearing a one-piece skirt and pajamas, Rei Ayanami with light blue hair
Trembling in his sleep.
Apparition occurred, and Li Mu appeared next to Ayanami Rei.
The table was covered with bandages and pills, many of the bandages had blood stains on them, and empty medicine bottles were everywhere. It was obvious that injuries were a common occurrence for her, otherwise she wouldn't be shaking with pain in her sleep.
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Because she has the soul of Lilith in her body, Rei Ayanami can control all EVAs.
However, her power belonging to Lilith has not been awakened, and the EVA produced by NERV is not perfect, so she often has to board the experimental EVA body, and it is normal for her to be hurt by the out-of-control EVA body.
Li Mu took off his disguise, and a gourd of bones and blood appeared in his hand, pouring out liquid blood mist.
He pinched her cheeks and asked her to open her mouth, and the mist of blood immediately flowed down her throat and into her abdomen.
Ayanami Rei opened her eyes in a daze, and what she saw was a stranger standing beside her with a gentle smile.
Even though a stranger broke into the room, even though her cheek was pinched and some liquid was poured into her face, Ayanami Rei remained as cold as ice and motionless, because in her opinion, those who came here must be a core member of NERV, and this might just be a special experiment.
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"What a heart-wrenching little fool."
Li Mu rubbed Ayanami Rei's hair and helped her sit up.
Ayanami Rei instinctively frowned. This was an instinctive reaction to pain. Her training today was hand-to-hand combat, and many parts of her body were bruised. But as she sat up, she was surprised to find that there was no pain at all.
"What is that?"
Ayanami Rei asked with a standard three-faced expression.
"Blood Mist."
Li Mu replied.
"Will there be more in the future?"
Ayanami Rei asked softly while suppressing her inner expectations.
"As long as you want it..."
Li Mu nodded, "But this is a secret between us. We can't tell anyone except the Commander-in-Chief of Ikari Yuantang. From today on, I am the person appointed by the Commander-in-Chief of Ikari Yuantang to take care of you secretly. Every word I say
You all have to listen.”
"Really, I didn't get the notification."
Ayanami Rei looked at Li Mu suspiciously.
"Wait."
Li Mu opened the door.
Ikari Yuantang, who had been controlled by the Imperius Curse in advance, immediately walked into the house from outside the door.
Ayanami Rei immediately jumped out of bed and stood up, but Ikari Gendo didn't even look at her.
"She will be handed over to you from today on."
Ikari Yuantang said calmly.
"It's no problem now!"
Li Mu asked with a smile.
Ayanami Rei nodded and was about to talk to Ikari Gentang, but he had already turned around and left.
At the same time as Li Mu closed the door, he had already put Ding Yuantang into the gourd of bones and blood through the door.
"From today onwards, no one is allowed to know my existence..."
Li Mu stretched out his hand and pressed Ayanami Rei's head and said seriously, "Even if you are facing the Commander-in-Chief of Ikariyuantang, you are not allowed to mention me if there is anyone else around. You can only talk to Commander-in-Chief Ikariyuantang when there is no one else around."
The commander mentioned something about me."
"I see."
After speaking, Ayanami Rei looked at Li Mu doubtfully.
"What's your expression?"
Li Mu smiled.
"Why don't you leave yet?"
Ayanami Rei said coldly.
"Because my existence is a secret, I have no place to live."
Li Mu said helplessly.
"..."
Ayanami Rei didn't speak, she just pointed to the wardrobe on the side.
Li Mu opened the closet and saw the quilt stuffed in the closet.
This is to ask him to lay the floor, but building the floor is completely inconsistent with his identity.
Li Mu turned around and cast a spell silently and without a wand. First, he cleaned up the room, then cast a transformation spell to turn the original single iron bed into a luxurious double bed, and then turned the dark room into a girl full of fairy tale colors.
Room.
Even though Rei Ayanami has a cold personality, she couldn't help but rub her eyes when faced with such a change.
"There's room now."
Li Mu snickered.
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Today's night is particularly special for Ayanami Rei.
Ever since she could remember, every night she was either suffering pain alone or lying unconscious in the hospital bed. Loneliness had long been a part of life for her. This was the first time that someone was lying next to her, listening to his breathing.
It makes it difficult for her to sleep.
Ayanami Rei quietly turned her head and looked at Li Mu, who was sleeping soundly next to her.
After watching for a long time, Ayanami Rei quietly stretched out her hand and gently pinched Li Mu's cheek. She could feel that Li Mu pinched her cheek and snickered when she woke up, but she didn't understand what was so happy about it?
Seeing Li Mu being pinched into a duck's mouth by her, Ayanami Rei suddenly couldn't help but smile.
It seems good to have this person taking care of her.
Although the physical injuries from the day's training were healed, the mental fatigue still made Ayanami Rei, who didn't want to sleep for the first time, fall asleep quietly. Li Mu also opened his eyes at this time. It seemed that he performed well during the first meeting.
Early the next morning, Ayanami Rei woke up.
Li Mu had been sitting aside for a while. When he saw Ayanami Rei getting up, he immediately lifted the transformation spell. The warm room filled with the warmth of a girl immediately turned into a cold and old dilapidated house. Ayanami Rei's good mood from getting up early suddenly disappeared.
She didn't say much, she just walked to the bathroom silently to take a shower.
Li Mu had prepared breakfast. Ayanami Rei had already wiped her hair with a towel and left the bathroom. She completely ignored that she was naked and just dug out clothes in the closet and put on clothes with her back to Li Mu. Li Mu was shocked by this tough approach.
stunned.
This fool who has no common sense in life has no idea that girls need to protect themselves.
"You can't change clothes in front of men from now on."
Li Mu choked on his saliva and coughed and said.
"knew."
Ayanami Rei said as she picked up the remaining clothes and walked to the bathroom.
Li Mu suddenly felt a little regretful. Would it have been better if he had said it later?
Inadvertently, a pair of glasses appeared on the bridge of his nose.
When Ayanami Rei changed her clothes and came out, the glasses on Li Mu's nose suddenly disappeared again.
After breakfast, Li Mu sent Ayanami Rei out of the house.
After apparating away, he had returned to Ikari Yuantang's huge office to prepare for a new day's work.
A new day of work for NERV has just begun. Some secret departments have received secret orders from Li Mu. All the stored spare clones of Ayanami Rei were destroyed in the shortest possible time. Without a replacement body, Ayanami Rei will only have one from now on.
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Ayanami Rei did not come to training today because she was injured yesterday and can go to school.
But going to school means nothing to her because she has no friends and no contact with anyone.
At night, Li Mu appeared at Ayanami Rei's house again.
Through the transformation spell, the old house immediately became warm and beautiful. Although Ayanami Rei didn't say anything, she felt a little happy in her heart, so much so that she fell into insomnia and fell asleep slowly in the middle of the night.
Seeing Ayanami Rei sleeping, Li Mu fell asleep too.
If Ayanami Rei's daily life consists of cruel training in addition to cold loneliness, and if she can only relax and embrace warmth in her own place, soon his status in her heart will surpass that of Ikari Gendo, who is similar to her father to her.
When that time comes, Ayanami Rei will stand by his side without hesitation.
There is no need to go to school the next day, there are new training tasks today.
Ayanami Rei went to the base early to prepare for new training, and Li Mu also came to Ikari Yuantang's office again.
Misato Katsuragi from the Tactical Operations Department of NERV, Ritsuko Akagi from the Technical Development Department of NERV, and Komaso Fuyutsuki, the deputy commander of NERV, were all summoned by Li Mu to his office, which made them all aware that something big was going on today.
"I received the message..."
Li Mu paused as he spoke, "The Sea Serpent Base of Country M has developed a new EVA body, and its reliability is even better than the EVA we developed. I am going to dispatch Unit Zero to raid the Sea Serpent Base and bring back the EVA body developed by the Sea Serpent Base. It just so happens that
Conduct an actual battle before the apostles attack."
"This is impossible."
Ritsuko Akagi said angrily.
Ikari Yuantang's words made her feel that her profession was insulted.
"I don't believe it either, so I took the body back and showed it to me."
Li Mu said seriously.
Ritsuko Akagi left angrily, leaving Katsuragi Mei to formulate a battle plan.
Because the Sea Serpent base is located on the bottom of the sea, Opportunity Zero takes a specially designed submarine to approach the target, and then releases Unit Zero for underwater operations to destroy the Sea Serpent base. Although an underwater base like this is difficult to discover, it is too easy to destroy once discovered.
Just open a few holes and the submarine base will turn into a submarine tomb.
Because the speed of the submarine is very slow, even if it is urgently modified to speed up the operation, the combat plan will last at least a few days. After most of the day's preparation, Ayanami Rei and Unit Zero finally boarded the special submarine and headed for the Sea Snake Base.
A few days later, Unit Zero approached the Sea Serpent base.
Just like Katsuragi Mi's battle plan, through the architectural drawings of the Sea Serpent base sent by the mole, Ayanami Rei piloted Unit Zero and used the high-vibration particle knife to easily open several holes in the Sea Serpent base, and the seawater poured in and turned the Sea Serpent base into a tomb.
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In the end, Unit Zero blew open the hangar and successfully captured the Freedom Gundam that Li Mu had placed in advance from the Sea Snake Base.
The Freedom Gundam was delivered to the NERV headquarters, and Ritsuko Akagi immediately went to check it out. She wanted to prove that her technical expertise was unparalleled, and that not just anyone who made a superficial thing could be called an EVA.
However, after some inspections, Ritsuko Akagi's mentality was completely shattered.
She couldn't recognize the material of the Liberty Gundam's surface armor at all, and couldn't even remove the armor. In the end, she tried her best to gain control of the core computer of the Liberty Gundam, allowing the pilot to enter this world.
EVA that left her helpless.
The most suitable candidate for the test drive is, of course, Rei Ayanami, who has many clones and is not afraid of death.
Ritsuko Akagi didn't know that all the clones of Ayanami Rei had been destroyed. After applying to Li Mu for approval, she immediately directed Ayanami Rei to enter the Freedom Gundam. After successfully entering the cockpit, Ayanami Rei found that the Freedom Gundam was completely different from other EVAs she drove.
First, there is no LCL solution in the cockpit.
Secondly, the energy source of Freedom Gundam is thermal energy.
Then, the weapons of the Freedom Gundam are integrated. Unlike other EVA weapons, which are all external devices and can be loaded with what is needed. Whether it is a thermal beam cannon or a space shock wave, they are weapons that she does not understand at all.
In the end, Ayanami Rei discovered that the Freedom Gundam was incredibly easy to control.
There was no sign of losing control at all, and she felt that she could deploy the AT field at will. This feeling was completely different from driving Unit Zero. If driving Unit Zero brought pain, driving the Freedom Gundam brought ease and peace.
enjoy.
Under the command of Ritsuko Akagi, Ayanami Rei piloted the Freedom Gundam and gave an answer ten times higher than the full score.
When Rei Ayanami got off the plane, all she saw was the lost Ritsuko Akagi and the ecstatic Katsuragi Mi. For Ritsuko Akagi, her pride had been completely trampled on, but for Katsuragi Mi, the appearance of the Freedom Gundam meant that
The apostle's chances of winning the war have greatly increased.
When Ayanami Rei came home in the evening, Li Mu had already prepared dinner.
Ayanami Rei, who was already in a good mood, felt even better when she saw a table full of her favorite food.
"Is the Freedom Gundam I made with my own hands useful?"
Li Mu asked while picking up vegetables for Ayanami Rei.
“Easy to use.”
Ayanami Rei answered subconsciously.
After answering, he realized that Li Mu said that Liberty Gundam was an EVA made by him?
"That's the EVA I made specifically for you."
Li Mu smiled softly and said, "From now on, you don't have to be injured due to the loss of control of Unit Zero. The Freedom Gundam will protect you on my behalf when it's inconvenient for me to show up. If you think there is anything that needs to be improved during the driving process, just tell me."
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Ayanami Rei looked at Li Mu blankly, and suddenly felt that she seemed to understand the feeling of happiness mentioned in the textbook.
Even Commander-in-Chief Ikari Yuantang, who cared for her the most, would never consider how painful Unit Zero's loss of control caused her. Others treated her as a tool and had no regard for her life or death. Although they did not say it out loud,
She can feel it.
This was the first time that someone cared about her like this.
That night, Ayanami Rei quietly grabbed Li Mu's sleeve and hugged his arm. She saw the men and women who had a good relationship like this on the street. This was the first time she grabbed someone's arm. She didn't know why she
His face suddenly turned red.
Li Mu couldn't complain in her heart. She blushed like crazy when I grabbed her arm!
But it's not surprising when she thinks about it. In her mind, being looked at by him might not be as intimate as grabbing her sleeves and holding her arms.
This wrong view must be corrected, but he has never been a teacher...
Neither Li Mu nor Rei Ayanami slept well that night. Early in the morning, Rei Ayanami went to apply to drive Freedom Gundam. This was the first time she felt happy and looking forward to driving an EVA. However, Rei Ayanami was disappointed that her application was rejected.
Rejected.
Because she drove so well last time, Dr. Ritsuko Akagi decided to try another driver.
However, a terrible accident happened, and the out-of-control Freedom Gundam killed all the pilots.
He even almost killed the researchers, but finally stopped suddenly in front of Ayanami Rei. This allowed Li Mu to seize the opportunity to reprimand Ritsuko Akagi, and at the same time gave Ayanami Rei the opportunity to pilot the Freedom Gundam.
In the next few days, Ritsuko Akagi was still unwilling to give in, but after the second accident, she had no choice but to accept her fate.
This Freedom Gundam was completely beyond her understanding, and she could not figure out why Ayanami Rei could perfectly control the Freedom Gundam. Only Ayanami Rei, after two accidents, and personally asking Ikari Gendo, truly believed that the Freedom Gundam was real.