Ed stood in front of the cultivation tank, looking at what could now barely be called "human" and fell into silence. What struck him was not that the embryos were developing so fast—and that was, of course—but that there were two embryos.
"Isn't it too impulsive?" He turned to Aeolia and said, "Shouldn't such an important matter be discussed with relatives and friends first? That's what he decided on his own? What about Luo La and Lan people, I Talk to him."
"She said that he finally made up his mind, and now he doesn't want to see anyone, especially you. If you want to see her, you can find a way yourself." Aeolia looked at Ed with strange eyes, "The other one is only me. And the truth that Diana only knew is too hard to tell, she asked me to tell you."
"What?" Ed's mind was in a mess, and he didn't notice Aeolia's strange look and name.
"Due to technical limitations back then, and my lack of experience, although Roland's genes were completed, his body still inevitably had various defects." Aeolia watched Ed's expression as she spoke, "Simply Say, she lost her Y chromosome, but she didn't become fully female, she became something in between."
"What?" Ed was stunned. "That is to say, this time in such a hurry is for..."
"That's right." Aeolia nodded. "She can't wait to get out of this awkward situation and get her gender really determined. That's all I can say, let her be herself when it's over. tell you."
"He's been struggling with this kind of problem, and I'm..." Ed felt a burst of guilt for no reason. "How long will this whole nurturing process take?"
"Although the cultivation process can be accelerated, it still takes a certain amount of time." Aeolia laughed at herself. "I haven't made much progress in other levels for so many years, but I have done a lot of human experiments. This set of things is very familiar."
"It's not your fault, if you want to apologize, just make more contributions." Ed comforted casually, "By the way, after this process, wouldn't you be able to continue your life indefinitely? Why don't you give yourself a younger body, that way? Wouldn't it be better to build four modern new moons to shine for the cause of science?"
"Four modernizations?" Aeolia decisively ignored the incomprehensible name, "Lingus, what do you think is the most important thing about people?"
"self."
"Exactly, this is also one of the original intentions of my establishment of SEELE, to let human beings get out of Lilith's control and have the opportunity to maintain themselves forever." Aeolia pointed to Yui Ikari in the transparent freezer, "LCL is Although Lilith's body fluids can preserve the human soul, it is very easy for the soul to lose its boundaries in it. Even NT needs to constantly receive external stimuli to maintain itself, which is the principle of GN-Drive, and for ordinary people There is little chance of success."
"What a terrible woman..." After a little thought, Ed understood how difficult it was for Ikari Yui to maintain himself in the LCL for so many years, and then immediately reacted, "No, Roland and Diana are not NTs, how did they change their bodies back then? successful?"
"Diana almost collapsed in her self-consciousness back then. Her temperament was not so cold. This is the sequelae of the soul transfer." Aeolia said with some fear, "And Roland, she is simply determined."
"No matter how strong the will is, there is a possibility of self-disintegration." Ed murmured while looking at the embryo, "Do you just want to change back, at the risk of losing everything and returning to Lilith..."
"You don't have to worry too much, Roland's mental state is very good, and the transplant success rate is very high, otherwise I wouldn't take the initiative." Aeolia looked down at the time, "It's been so long, why? not yet?"
"It's here." Ed said according to the induction in his consciousness, "I'll be there soon."
Sure enough, it didn't take long for a beautiful young man with gray hair to push the door in. He looked around the room, gave Ed an ambiguous smile, turned to Aeolia, and said, "Sorry to be late, there's a lot of chaos on Earth right now, and the flight is late."
"Xun..." Aeolia's eyes were very complicated, "Long time no see."
"Long time no see, Doctor, or, in other words, father? If I have this concept too." Zhu Xun shrugged and walked to the freezer, looking at the orange liquid inside with a nostalgic look, "Long time no see, Yui. Your heart is on your mind. His son grew up healthy and has a girlfriend. The only fly in the ointment is that he didn't wake up to NT, which is not quite like you."
"She can't hear," Aeolia explained. "Her consciousness now—"
"Of course I know." Zhu Xun put his hands in his pockets and leaned against the test bench casually, "But isn't this more humane? You or Wei, what you have always done to me is to let me Has the way of thinking become like a human? Apostles domesticated by humans, huh, a bit ironic, what do you think, Ed?"
"Wait, what have we become intimacy with nicknames?" Ed's back was cold.
"When?" Zhu Xun thought for a while, "Just now. Don't worry about this, continue the topic just now, what do you think, Ed?"
"I said, I said that there is never complete free will, and the values of life are all affected by the environment." Ed said at the same time that something was wrong, "Even if there is no behavior pattern set by an apostle, there is no The thinking concept that Ikari inculcates will always be replaced by something else, and absolute freedom does not exist.”
"A duplicitous person, your Geass betrayed you. With a well-arranged background, a well-arranged personality, and a well-arranged trajectory, a free you and an exhibit like me are different." Zhu Xun smiled lightly, "Speaking of which, you are also a real apostle now. How about you, are you still obsessed with that fake?"
"Yeah, I'm very infatuated with it, and I can't put it down." Ed nodded vigorously, "Besides, there's never been a reason why a fake must be inferior to the real one, right?"
"I'm a little envious, everyone is a member of the same foreign body, but you are so similar..." Zhu Xun sighed softly, "Human."
Seeing that the topic was getting farther and farther away, Aeolia coughed twice: "Let's get down to business first, let's see what I sent you?"
"Look, I'm waiting for the first half of your story." Ed gestured to Nagisa with his eyes, "Does he know that it doesn't matter?"
"Actually, Ikari has already told him everything, at least for now he is an ally." Aeolia also glanced at Nagisa Xun, "Before that..."
"I want to show that I can be trusted." Zhu Xun picked up a black collar from the table with a smile, and sighed again while putting it on his neck calmly, "The apostle who was domesticated by humans is really ironic..."
"In fact, your AT force field is so strong, it's easy to form a force field under your neck to protect yourself before the explosion, right?" Ed said strangely, "Although I made this thing myself, my confidence is not yet there. Footsteps can break through your AT force field."
"It's really easy." Nagisa Xun gently stroked the metal collar around his neck, "But I won't do that."
"Why?" Ed asked inexplicably. "It's just temporarily cooperating with Li Lin to resist foreign enemies. You don't need to deceive yourself to do this, right?"
"So you are free, your existence, your Geass, your life..." Nagisa Xun glanced at him enviously, "Ed, you must not understand."
"Enough, let's get down to business first." Aeolia interrupted the increasingly strange atmosphere and said solemnly, "In other words, everything started in UC0001, when..."
"Stop!" Eddard poured himself a drink and sat down on a stool under Aeolian's astonished eyes, "Please continue."
"You...!" Aeolia almost didn't catch a breath, he took a breath and said again, "Everything started in UC0001, when the construction of the first cosmic colony satellite 'Laplace' was completed, The Earth Federation has just been established, and when I was young, I participated in an Antarctic scientific research project composed of the world's top scholars. We found a huge cavity under the ice, and found a sleeping Adam and dozens of eggs of apostles in it. , Longinus guns and Dead Sea instruments…”
Aeolia has been thinking about the possibility of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization since human beings entered the age of the universe, and immediately believed in the identity of the alien life after seeing Adam. While the members of the expedition were still arguing about "this is a prehistoric civilization" and "this is the revelation of God", he independently deciphered the key content of the Dead Sea document, preventing individual scholars from trying to wake up Adam. idea.
While the group of scholars were discussing what to do with Adam and the apostles, E. A. Ray, a friend of Aeolians, observed signs of large-scale life activity on Jupiter. At the same time, a shuttle-shaped object was also observed launching from Jupiter and heading towards Earth.
Scholars agreed that the shuttle was a malicious alien invasion, and notified the federal government at the time of the problem, hoping that the federal government would use a nuclear bomb to destroy the shuttle before it landed on the earth. At that time, the federal government was not long after its establishment, and the internal entanglements were intertwined, and it was slow to make a decision. As time crunched, academics disillusioned with the Federation decided to withhold information from Adam and deal with the alien invasion on their own.
The energy of the world's top scholars uniting is terrifying. When Jupiter shuttled past the colonial satellite Laplace, Laplace was completely detonated, and the shuttle was destroyed at the cost. In order to make arrangements, some scholars did not have time to evacuate on Laplace when the satellite was detonated, and sacrificed on the spot.
"Sacrificing a satellite's population in exchange for the reproduction of the race, the sacrificed Li Lin didn't even have the right to choose." Zhu Xun looked at Ed with a playful look, "Rationality is really a terrible thing, isn't it?"
"Sacrifice is the one who voluntarily dies, and what Aeolia and the others do is murder." Ed said with concern, "but even if I knew it was murder, I would have done it if I were him. ... In the face of survival, conscience is not worth mentioning."
While exploring the wreckage of Laplace, Aeolia and her companions found the surviving Saiam Bist. He was originally one of the people who had been placed in to load explosives, and he was in a position that was not affected by the explosion, so he was lucky enough to survive. The young Bister joined the inner circle after this, and showed a high level of savvy and a strong business talent. After returning to Earth, he concentrated on entrepreneurship and was responsible for funding the Scholars Association.
Next, Aeolia concentrated on cracking the Dead Sea documents. After the complete cracking, in order to prevent human beings from being completely wiped out by the anti-AT position, he began to design the layout of the adjuster and the next thing. At that time, the business empire of Biste was not yet formed, and the financial problem forced Aeolia to invite Britannia, the first power at that time, to join.
At the same time, in order to solve the problem of Jupiter's life form, which he named BETA once and for all, he spent more than ten years cracking the Longinus gun, and successfully organized a Jupiter scientific expedition in UC0015. Adam, who was under the control of the Longinus gun, was taken to Jupiter and dropped as a bomb. The giant of light and BETA fought in the dark, and finally Adam went underground and blew himself up, and perished with the core of BETA.
"Fuck." Ed's face was bewildered, "You have too much brains."
"Isn't it normal?" Aeolia's tone was very modest, but she couldn't hide her smug look, "Young people still need to study more. Of course, Lingus, your V plan is also good."
The scientific research team descended to Jupiter, obtained the fossil of BETA, found the embryo left by Adam's self-destruction, and found a broken biological computer at the core of BETA. Unfortunately, BETA was not completely dead, and the few surviving individuals attacked the expedition. Only Lei temporarily awakened into NT at a critical moment to rescue Aeolia and Bist, and the core members of the other scholar associations were all wiped out.
After the expedition returned to Earth, the Jupiter fossils were handed over to the adjusters; Ray hid the Adam embryo and went anonymous, leaving his children to die soon after, Amuro Ray was his direct descendant; They were the only three members who formed the original SEELE with the patron, the then Emperor of Britannia.
With the help of Britannia, SEELE cast a net around the world and finally found Lilith in the underground of Hakone, Japan, and Aeolia also took this opportunity to get to know CC. Under the manipulation of SEELE, Japan was divided, some people left to form Orb, and the remaining puppet regime built NERV to monitor Lilith in the name of the third new Tokyo city.
At the same time, Britannia monopolized the Antarctic in the name of resource exploitation rights and protected the Apostle's Egg, which was used as a bait. During the Jupiter expedition, some of the eggs hatched and the apostles disappeared. After returning from the expedition, Aeolia used the Longinus gun she brought back to destroy all the eggs that had not hatched, leaving only one of them to suppress with the Longinus gun as bait.
Afterwards, Aeolia worked hard to train the successors Diana and Roland, in case no one could check and balance the increasingly powerful SEELE when she died unexpectedly. After Roland discovered the remnants of the moon, Aeolia received inspiration from TurnA and had the idea of a changer. Missing his deceased friend, he made his first experiment a clone of Ray, later known as Livonz Almack.
In UC0036, the Earth-Moon War broke out, and the Moon gained independence with the overwhelming power of TurnA. Aeolia secretly sent Diana and Roland a lot of cross-generational technologies to help them set up Anaheim, and the moon forces could gain a foothold in the world.
Shortly after the war, Lifonz and Charles rebelled, and Aeolia was placed under house arrest.
"Except for being overshadowed by Lifengzi at the end and having no heroine, you are the template of the protagonist against the sky." Ed sighed with emotion, and at the same time, a sudden and smooth pleasure like constipation for more than ten years swept through his whole body. He couldn't help shouting, "It's round, it's round!"
"Lifungs looks so much like him, I can't bear to suspect him. As for women, how can women be interesting in scientific research?" Aeolia asked back, but she pushed her glasses with relief when she saw Ed's excited look. , "I love science and truth so much, it's not much better than I was in the past. Children can be taught."
The information deciphered by Aeolia from BETA's biological computer was shared with Ed before. According to the above records, BETA is actually a miner made by some kind of silicon-based life form, in order to mine some rare material in the universe. In addition, it also records the existence of another metal-based life form with a deep relationship with BETA, which Aeolia named ELS.
BETA drove to the home planet of ELS when it opened a mine, and ELS was a peace-loving race, thinking that BETA had good intentions and directly let their shuttles land. It happened that the core energy source for ELS to survive was the mining target of BETA. As a result, BETA hollowed out the parent star of ELS in a blink of an eye.
After the angry ELS wiped out the native BETA, they left the home planet to seek revenge for the silicon-based life. However, after absorbing BETA's technology and information, ELS discovered that silicon-based life had been wiped out by a more violent unknown civilization, and the miners were just following the procedure.
In order to survive, ELS, which lacks energy, has to use the technology of absorption to search for BETA—where there are miners, there must be rare substances in need; and because BETA has lost its owner, it cannot flexibly come up with a solution, and can only mine according to the existing procedures. mine, while faithfully recording everything and sharing it with other BETAs in the universe.
For humans, there are minerals needed for ELS on Jupiter, and in the depths of the earth, according to Aeolian discoveries not long ago. The location of ELS is quite close to the solar system, and it is almost certain that they have captured the coordinates of the solar system, and will come back at any time after swallowing the last planet.
"What is this rare substance called?" Ed asked.
"The wave of radiation emitted by this substance is very similar to the wave that CC emits when an injury heals," Aeolia said. "I named it CC crystal."
"Chyurippu Crystal, tulip crystal." Ed touched his forehead with his hand and sighed, "I knew that things with similar settings must be the same thing, so it seems that it is normal for ELS to transition within the plane. ."
"If you can't observe it, it doesn't exist. If it doesn't work, you can buy hundreds of thousands of years. I will fully support you in the V plan." Aeolia replied nonchalantly, "I hope my old bones can still come in handy, you Just assign it to me directly. Even if I can't make it through that time, Ikari can still take my class."
"I'm not interested in wives." Ed also replied nonchalantly, "V's plan is too far away, so let's talk about the things in front of me first."
"Let me guess first," Zhu Xun interrupted him with a smile, "Do you want me to convince my brothers to fight against the possible ELS together, and for this reason to truce with Li Lin indefinitely?"
"According to the data in BETA, the result I calculated is a maximum of ten years, within ten years ELS will definitely reach the solar system." Aeolia said affirmatively, "Ten years of armistice."
"Okay, that's why I put it on." Zhu Xun touched the collar and said neatly, "Anything else?"
"By the way, among the buddies you ran out, was there a big one called Sky Angel who could fly?" Zhu Xun nodded in surprise under Ed's gaze, "Well, I have a ruthless request. , can you let it go to Jupiter for sentry?"
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PS: There is no eunuch, my mother forced me to go on a blind date on weekends, wasting time and money. I racked my brains in the middle of the way to find a way to end it politely and early, but I didn't know that we were told that we were not suitable when the identity of the author of the online article was revealed at the end. Just pity my diligence.