At 7:30 a.m. on Monday, Ed was waiting for Amuro and his party at Copernicus Spaceport. In order to express the importance of this cooperation, the director personally picked up the plane and gave the Federation great respect.
Standing beside him was an unknown Lunar Army officer. According to the principle of equal status in diplomacy, the highest rank sent by the Earth is only Lieutenant Colonel Brett Noah, so the Moon has assigned a colonel as the person in charge of this contact. Ed was glad that General Kinkaram didn't come in person, in every sense he didn't like the man very much.
As the meeting time approached, he suddenly felt a throbbing in his heart. A huge, gentle, depressed, and sad will from the other side of the starry sky was connected to him, and the depressed mood of the other party made him feel the same way. Without language or explanation, he confirmed the identity of the other party and his own in an instant.
The resonance with Amuro made his mood a little lower. This feeling was too clear and too vivid, making him seem to be able to experience everything that Amuro has experienced. But he quickly came to his senses, this was not his feeling, not his cognition, it was a hypocritical resonance, it was impossible for him and Amuro to understand each other.
But the hallucination just now was so real, what would happen if his consciousness really shared Amuro? Knowing and understanding some things is really different. He now vaguely understands why Camus is crazy.
While he was thinking about it, Akama was already docked at the dock. A group of people in federal uniforms walked towards this side under the leadership of an officer, and the colonel of the Moon Army beside him came forward to contact them. Ed recognized Amuro in the crowd at a glance, not through his military rank or appearance, but by the sense that was still vaguely working, telling him that this person was the one who resonated with him just now. Amuro stared at Eddard without hesitation, with complicated eyes.
"Hello, Dr. Lingos, I'm Lieutenant Colonel Brett Noah, who is in charge of this operation." The officer walked up to him. He was not a soldier. Instead of salute, he extended his hand to him.
"Hello, Lieutenant Colonel Noah." Ed took Bright's outstretched hand, "On behalf of Anaheim, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the federal military for their cooperation, and also on behalf of myself to Lieutenant Colonel and Captain Ray. grateful."
"Although it was the first time that the Doctor and I met, during the One Year War I was saved by the Doctor's masterpiece many times. I should be the one to say thanks." Bright smiled sincerely, "Let me Let me introduce, this is the central figure of this operation, Captain Amuro Ray."
"Hello, Dr. Lingos." Amuro stepped forward and shook hands with Ed, without saying much. Both knew they needed to talk, but not now.
The group drove to the research institute, and Ed explained the following arrangements to Amuro directly in the car: "This time we have limited time, and we will start work today. Captain Lei, our primary goal is to determine the spirit of the three points. Observation methods, metrics, and modes of action of induction. Through the information you provided, we have established a total of fourteen model assumptions. Our task today is to verify these models one by one to see if any of them are really effective and will be telepathic. react."
"Dr. Adrian, please call me by my first name if you don't mind." Amuro looked at Bright in the co-pilot's seat. "In a sense, we are quite familiar."
During the One Year War, Amuro, as the driver of Gundam, had been giving Anaheim feedback on the body on a regular basis. At that time, the designer Ed himself was responsible for processing these feedbacks. Fortunately, Amuro is different from the semi-literate soldiers. He has a good technical level. Each report he gives can accurately reflect the real situation and problems encountered. brought great convenience.
Although the two have never met each other and have not spoken out of confidentiality, they are subtly familiar with each other.
"Then Captain Amuro." Ed is as kind as he is, "The arrangement will be tight these few days, please prepare yourself mentally."
"Don't worry about it." Amuro smiled at him, "It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders."
After a hectic day's work, Amuro finally found the correct one after trying a dozen models. After using this model to sample a lot of data, the work was temporarily handed over to the analysts, and Amuro was finally free. At Ed's invitation, the two came to his office.
"Can the two of you leave for a while?" Ed looked at the two sturdy men behind Amuro who were responsible for "protecting" him. "The next thing to talk about is business secrets, please cooperate."
The two looked at each other, and one of them took out his mobile phone and made a call. After getting permission from Bright, the two soldiers apologized to Ed and finally left the office.
"Dr. Adrian, I didn't expect that the person I sensed on the boat turned out to be you." Amuro opened the topic straight to the point, without testing each other, he directly understood the other's kindness, and he believed that Ed could also understand His, "You turned out to be a new human..."
"I just woke up from an emotional impulse recently, and it wasn't until this morning that I could be sure that this was the so-called NewType. I don't want to disclose this matter for the time being, and I hope you can keep it a secret." Amuro nodded naturally, "I have another question. I want to ask you, will the NTs be like us in the morning? Isn't it impossible to live normally? Can this ability be freely controlled?"
"It seems that I misunderstood you. I'm sorry. Generally speaking, there is only a general sense between NTs. This morning, I sensed a strange NT and took the initiative to resonate with you." Amuro looked at Eddard eyes, "But you quickly refused, didn't you."
"Yes, I thought—"
"No need to explain, you are right." Amuro showed a self-deprecating smile, "When I met Lala, I thought that humans could understand each other. But I was wrong, but I just happened to understand each other with Lala, That's all. Even Char and I, who are both NTs, can't understand each other, so what humans are we talking about?"
Ed didn't ask who Lara was, and he didn't have to recall what kind of grievances Amuro had with her. A sense of sadness and loneliness enveloped the office. He didn't refuse this time, and he felt carefully. , and even felt a touch of tenderness inherited from Lala Xin. Even though he had never met, he felt inexplicably close to her. It was as if the director personally held his hand and told him that Lala is a good girl, don't doubt this fact, because I am the director.
A sense of alertness that the three views were distorted made Ed abruptly cut off the spiritual connection with Amuro, and what appeared in front of him was Amuro's complicated eyes.
"Look, that's it." Amuro's voice was a little gloomy, "Humans can't understand each other, because humans don't want to understand each other at all. This is the ultimate answer of NT."
"Captain Amuro, I haven't thought about a proposition as big as a human being." Ed pondered the words carefully, "But I can't accept that an emotion I've never experienced was written into my mind, and this It's as if my cognition was forcibly distorted by an external force."
"NewType would say such a thing..." Amuro looked a little surprised, "You are very different from us..."
"Captain Amuro, I don't know why you are so entangled in understanding each other, and my level of thinking is not as high as that of all human beings." He remembered CC's statement that cognition changes the world, "I have no intention of exploring you and Char and Ra. The secrets between Miss La and I also have many secret emotions that I don't want to be known by you, but we were able to skip suspicion and temptation and have a frank conversation like this, I think it is the credit of this ability. It's just this level of mutual Understanding, at most this level of mutual understanding, I am very satisfied."
The atmosphere was a little dignified, Amuro still looked incomprehensible, and Ed couldn't find a better language to describe his thoughts. He hesitated, then tried to do what Amuro did just now.
It was a whole new feeling that Amuro had never experienced. Different from Lala's gentle, all-encompassing love, and different from Char's sharp, powerful obsession, this is a clumsy, agile, confused, stubborn, expectant, and indifferent will. In the frenzied turbidity of consciousness, he struggled to build the last fortress with reason, unyieldingly declared war on the whole world, and also on the initiator himself.
Amuro was shocked.
"...You are different from us. No wonder you asked how to control this ability as soon as you came up. In your opinion, the power of telepathy is just a somewhat special tool, and it is not fundamentally different from other powers." Lying between NTs is meaningless, Ed nodded calmly, "You are neither pessimistic like me, nor superstitious like Char that NT can lead human beings, just treat it as an objective existence."
"Isn't it an objective existence?"
"Humans can't experience the experiences of all others, but isn't the so-called mutual understanding that we accept each other's feelings without empathy? Maybe the starting point of mutual understanding is wrong." Amuro smiled wryly He wrote, "The so-called new human is just a wrong evolution in the millions of years of human evolutionary history, and Char and I are nothing but defective evolutionary failures. Maybe you are right, NT is not used to understand each other at all."
"Captain Amuro, the power of telepathy is similar to other scientific laws in my opinion. It's not what it's used for, but what I want to use it for."
"...Dr. Adrian, you haven't experienced the war yourself." Amuro lowered his head and was silent for a long time, then suddenly said, "I and a war experiencer like Char have some kind of delusion that the war can be wiped out once and for all. , and the new human being is the only thing that makes us different, and we bet all our hopes on it. I failed and gave up, and as you can see it is what it is now. Char has not given up, but his ideas may go on the path of extremes."
"Sorry, I don't understand. I also don't believe that war can be eliminated."
"So you and we have different views on 'understanding' itself." Amuro raised his head and looked directly into Ed's eyes, "I was carried away by the joy of fully understanding with Lara, and Char is nothing more than that. It’s just blindly relying on Lala, and none of us think rationally. Only you are a new human, but you are thinking about the existence of the new human from the perspective of an outsider.”
Wait a minute, the atmosphere isn't quite right, what's the situation with this kind of atmosphere where the protagonist of the previous movie handed over to the new protagonist? Did you take the role of Camus? Don't, it's very unlucky, okay
"Your quality is very good, you easily cut off the connection with me, you must know that Xiaya was indulged in a similar feeling and couldn't extricate himself." Amuro's tone was very sincere, making people embarrassed to interrupt, "I see you Only then did I know that new humans can do the same, but Char and I are too narrow-minded. I saw in you what a real new human should look like, maybe you are the right evolutionary direction."
But he didn't evolve at all. If he insisted, it was an invasion by an alien species and a sudden mutation. It was a fake.
"I can sense that you don't accept what I'm saying, but that's okay. I see human, NewType possibilities in you." The sad atmosphere just now seemed to be gone, "Dr. Adrian, I will Actively cooperate with your research. You are right, even if it is used as a tool, this ability should be used in the right way."
"Captain Amuro, forgive me for being rude." He could vaguely sense Amuro's change, "Have you changed your mind?"
"Your reason, your thinking, transcended words and directly conveyed to my will, which is really a wonderful resonance." Amuro stretched out his finger and tapped his temple, showing Ed a refreshing smile, "The same for Are you understandable as a new human?"