He felt a sincere fear, a huge panic that spread psychologically and physically.

The monster of white light slowly walked towards the Deep Sea King, and the Deep Sea King, whose fear penetrated his heart, grabbed a screaming girl next to him and said loudly

"Stop! If you come again—"

Before he finished speaking, the monster's eyes suddenly burst into a dazzling white light. The next moment, a scorching ray burst out on the deep sea king's chest, and a cross-shaped beam rising into the sky rolled up half of the deep sea's body. , burning black scars.

None of the hidden monsters hiding in the rain did not escape. Jingsuke's attack did not have any concerns and thoughts. Even in the crowd, he did not hesitate to kill those monsters with the cross-like beam. !

The crowd screamed and ran, this was already a fight between monsters and monsters, they couldn't stay here.

Jingsuke walked slowly to the side of the Deep Sea King. This monster, who was still invincible just now, was charred and black, like a roasted fish, crawling on the ground with difficulty.

Jingsuke stepped on his limbs, and the screaming struggle and counterattack of the deep sea king could only be hit on his heavy AT stand, he did not have any words, just bent down, the 'angel' composed of light, opened the blood basin Big mouth.

Live, eat it.

Ayase's eyes widened and she covered her mouth. The tumultuous nausea and instinctive fear made her turn her head and dare not look at it, only to hear the deep sea king's wailing and the sound of eating flesh in the rain.

I don't know how long it took, the holy 'angel' was covered in filthy blood, and the rainstorm stopped. He raised his head and roared towards the sky like a cry.

"Oops... things seem to be really out of control."

When Mu Feng hurried over, he only saw the human-shaped apostle roaring in the sky, the girl holding a girl's body in horror, and the undocumented knight who fell to the ground and didn't know his life or death.

That 'apostle' was undoubtedly Kyosuke who ran out of Z City that day and went missing.

Because Mu Feng was a little busy during this time, he didn't go out to find him for the time being, but I didn't expect to meet again... It would be in this situation.

Seemingly aware of Mu Feng's eyes, Jingsuke, who was almost completely an apostle, turned his head sharply, and Mu Feng was startled by the gaze brought by those huge scarlet compound eyes.

Dragon level... He has been fully promoted to dragon level!

Devoured the embryo of the apostle and possessed a mini S2 mechanism, using his own weird body as a template, twisted and mutated into a different kind of apostle.

As for why he became an apostle, looking at the current scene, he probably guessed it closely.

The only question now is whether he, Kaoban Kyosuke, still has his own consciousness!

"...Kyosuke, calm down, things can be salvaged."

Mu Feng took two steps forward and whispered to the terrifying and sacred monster in a persuasive tone.

"Your sister can still be saved, and things haven't gotten so bad that they can't be undone..."

A gust of wind came, and Jingsuke rushed in front of Mu Feng and asked in a struggling and painful voice.

"Really? You still have a way...Is there a way?"

"Yes... the last solution." Mu Feng glanced at Tong Nai's corpse with a complicated look, and sighed softly.

"But now, we must leave here and go back to the vicinity of City A, otherwise when other heroes rush over, things will be difficult to explain."

Kyousuke nodded lightly, walked to Ayase, and gently took his sister's body from the stunned girl.

"Sorry, Ayase... Please tell my parents, I will take Kirino back."

Kyousuke tried his best to control his reason and thinking hoarsely, hugging Kirino's corpse and walking towards Mu Feng

The clear sunlight at the end of the rainstorm hit him, but cast a huge shadow.

"...Brother, you are not a monster! You are a hero!" Ayase clenched her pink fist and said loudly

"Not anymore." Kyousuke said hoarsely.

"In the future, forever, I will never be."

He grabbed Mu Feng's hand, the halo above his head suddenly enlarged, and the power of AT's stance enveloped them and flew into the clear sky, away from the wreckage of dust and blood and the earth.

...

Mu Feng said that there was a way to save Jingsuke's sister, which was half a lie and half truth.

Because he is not 100% sure of fulfilling his promise.

What is the soul? What is death? If it is impossible to master the spirit and thinking, and it involves the knowledge of the field of consciousness, if there is no mechanism and mechanism for accommodating the soul like **** in a world, then death probably only refers to the cessation of the function of life.

For Mu Feng, who had initially grasped the essence of spiritual power, death is not as simple as the heart stopping beating and the body not moving.

There is indeed a "soul" in human beings, a higher system that transcends the body and is not limited to the brain, but is composed of will and spirit.

But Mu Feng just knew that there was such a thing, but there was no way to separate it.

The soul cannot think if it is separated from the body, and under such conditions, it is impossible to separate the soul without killing the experimental body, and it is impossible to explore the essence of this mystery.

But Dr. Kinos and Mu Feng achieved this goal on the side through another method.

The 'pseudo apostle' Kaoban Kyosuke made from the exchanged apostle embryos should theoretically not exist in the AT position triggered by it.

The human beings in this world are not the 'apostles' bred by Lilith from the Black Moon, so even if their minds are full of gaps, they do not have the AT position, and they do not have the possibility of being 'completed' - but this does not mean Means that the above process cannot be achieved in another way.

At first, Mu Feng thought that this AT position was just from the power brought by the embryo of the apostle, but after several studies and experiments after that, he overturned this crude conjecture.

The people in this world are actually not much different from those in the EVA world.

This is not to say that the human beings in the One Punch Man world are also alien creations, but they are also human beings, or in other words, as creatures, under the 'anti-AT stance' that resulted from Dr. Kinos's urging of the fusion of the apostle embryos with the human body , will decompose into 'orange juice'

LCL solution, in the interpretation of the EVA world view, constitutes the essence of all organic life, which is the so-called 'primitive soup'

This substance actually exists, albeit only as a theory and a concept - the primordial soup is what biologists believe constitute the source of all matter from humans to bacteria, as Darwin once described in a letter: 'Life is the earliest It is very likely that it was born, evolved, and finally perfected in a small hot pond, and this concept has been recognized and confirmed with the continuous research on deep-sea creatures in the past three decades.

Therefore, even from a biological point of view, it is reasonable to restore two highly similar or even basically the same creatures with no difference to their essence, and finally get the same substance. After all, human beings born in test tubes and Humans born in the womb are still a species.

In the 'transformation experiment' of hundreds of replicas in the hands of Dr. Kinos, only a few experimental entities were restored from the original soup to human bodies, and the amazing thing is that the intelligence and mental perfection of these replicas have been obtained. greatly improved.

If Mu Feng guessed correctly, this is probably the so-called 'completion'. Just like the EVA theatrical version, who was recognized by her mother when she faced the mass-produced machine for you, completed the spiritual completion, and finally came out of the LCL sea of ​​all human beings.

In a sense, this is also a 'strengthening ritual' for one's own body and mind, and even Dr. Kinos is interested, but Mu Feng is still insensitive.

The ghost knows whether the 'human being' of another subject will be transformed into the original soup, and even in the completion ceremony, he is not confident to break free from the ideal dream of 'everything comes true' and 'no barriers'.

And the point is here. After Dr. Kinos made the same position test on some recently dead corpses, he found that they were transformed into LCL solution and returned, and they... came back to life.

This condition is limited to corpses whose death time does not exceed one day. It seems that within the scope of this period, the soul and body are still unified, and they are still not considered ‘death’

That's why Mu Feng said that he was sure he could save Jingsuke's sister, but the success rate...to be honest, it was too low.

Not everyone can make up what they have come back alive after turning into "orange juice", and the substance that is incorporated into the original soup cannot come back. From a human standpoint, it is no different from death.

When Mu Feng and Jingsuke returned to the new base of the Evolution House at the base of the Hero Association in City A, he gave him two choices after explaining it to Jingsuke in detail.

First, let the doctor use the anti-AT stance to convert Kirino's body into LCL solution, to gamble whether she can complete herself in an ideal dream, and accept or even be willing to return to the cold reality.

And the second option...

The 'body' built for the final plan still lacks a crucial 'core' and 'trigger'

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Section 207 48. Human upgrading plan

Evolution House Artificial Evolution Breeding Institute

This is a brand new construction factory built 2,800 meters deep underground at the headquarters of the Hero Association. It was completed in just a few months and put into work.

It sounds incredible, but for Dr. Kenos, who is backed by a large number of rich people and hired metal knights for a lot of money, it is not a remarkable project.

Money can make a ghost run, and a hero rebuilding a city in one day can build a massive underground research facility.

For Mu Feng, coming back here after a month's absence is also a slap in the face of the huge changes in the evolution house.

The researchers here are still a large group of clones of Dr. Kinos, but the projects they are researching have completely changed.

Those orange liquids that filled the culture jars were all freshly refined LCL solutions, and those soaked in those LCL solutions... all were the Keys of Nebuchadnezzar.

These small organisms, which are like the neural structure of human beings spread out, are products that did not appear clearly in the original EVA, but were given to Ikari Gendu by blessing Ryoji instead of Adam in the theatrical version. These appearances resemble humans. The nerve-spreading thing can be understood as a weaponized replica of the apostle embryo, and its only function is... to apostleize the creature.

Yes, whether it is the 'apostles' that Asuka dealt with at the beginning of Q in the new theatrical version, the mass-produced apostles in the final theatrical version, or even the mass-produced machines in the old theatrical version, they can all be said to be Nebuchadnezzar's key. The product is nothing more than one is modified from the finished product, and the other is the product of reduced mass production.

In other words, theoretically speaking, the large amount of Nebuchadnezzar's Keys loaded in the endless laboratory that Mu Feng saw at a glance could produce thousands of mass-produced apostles.

Mu Feng's lips trembled a little. Although he had this realization when he handed the apostle embryo to Dr. Kenos, when he saw it with his own eyes, he couldn't help but be surprised by this super scientific lunatic.

"Have you seen enough? Let's go down when we've seen enough."

A clone of Dr. Kinos pushed his glasses and took Mu Feng to the moving elevator leading to the underground. He said lightly.

"These 'evolved bodies'... oh, according to your official statement, they should be called Nebuchadnezzar's Keys. They are the final creations we obtained after isolating the embryos of the apostles and testing the evolutionary response of the human body."

"With these things, humans can be transformed into 'apostles' with the so-called AT position strength and strong soul with the highest success rate - 30% possibility."

Having said that, the eyes of this clone suddenly turned red in the darkness, and smiled softly at Mu Feng.

"Just like me, mastering this transcendent spirit and essence...the psychic connection between our replicas, it's an amazing feeling,"

Mu Feng's mouth was a little bitter, and it is impossible to use the so-called 'prophet advantage' to suppress such a real wise man and monster.

"So... how many 'apostles' like you are in this laboratory now."

"Not many, only one hundred and ninety-eight." Kinos said lightly

"At present, we are optimizing the characteristics of these keys of Nebuchadnezzar, and the focus is on how to control the reason why the LCL solution cannot be returned after the human body is implanted - we have found signs, and it will probably take a long time to increase the success rate. Bring it up."

good guy! It's a shame that the EVA world doesn't have your character. Otherwise, what will the human beings do to make up for it? If everyone comes to be apostolic, wouldn't it be beautiful for the whole nation to soar?

The roaring elevator took Jinos and Mu Feng slowly towards the dark underground. When it fell with a slow tremor, in front of the elevator door that opened, there was a white road that stretched forward infinitely.

On both sides of the road leading from the middle, there were bottomless pools filled with orange LCL solution. Mu Feng probed the probe with a shocked and lying face.

He thought that he would see a warehouse full of 'Ayanori', or a replica apostle made with Nebuchadnezzar's key.

However, what he saw was... There are hundreds of 'giants' here

It's not as huge as the original EVA, and its shape is closer to the mass-produced machine in which Asuka was dismembered in the theatrical version.

"This is probably the EVA you said."

Another apostolic Dr. Kenos came not far away, pushed his glasses, and said calmly.

"I don't know what's wrong with you. Such purely scientific creations like to be named after myths... These are just complete bodies that have been implanted with Nebuchadnezzar's spoon for controlled cultivation and growth, aren't they apostles? ?"

The only difference between the EVA and the apostle is that it has no fruit of life. Dr. Kenos can create these things based on an apostle embryo... It doesn't seem unimaginable.

After all, the technology in EVA looks dark, but to be honest, it is essentially a bunch of cloned biotechnology.

The entire series of EVA machines are clones of Adam and Lilith, and Ayanami is the body of Ikari Yui and the soul of Lilith. Except for the metaphysics that cannot be explained by their own settings, the technology tree that runs through the entire EVA is the cloning technology.

However, when it comes to cloning, Dr. Kinos is not targeting anyone. He has developed a rejuvenating and unrestricted clone of mature bodies. Dr. Kinos of the learning device said that everyone here is a hot chicken.

"...You didn't create the fruit of life, the S2 mechanism, right?" Mu Feng smacked his tongue.

"No, the theory you're talking about is too complicated." Dr. Kinos shook his head and said calmly.

Mu Feng breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that even a genius of the sky can't handle a project like 'Perpetual Motion' for a while.

Having said that, if he really came up with the artificial S2 mechanism, Mu Feng really has to worry about whether Jinos will get rid of it someday and make a first impact or something...

But having said that, despite the huge financial support of those rich people, it is obviously not something that money can do that Dr. Kenos can 'nurture' so many artificial apostles in such a short period of time.

"It's all thanks to what you brought back then."

It seems that he sensed the meaning in Mu Feng's eyes, Dr. Kinos explained lightly.

"The king of biceps, the super steroid developed by Dr. Fokko, has the ability to catalyze the enlargement of the body size and give it essential strength. I optimized his formula to weaken the effect of overstrengthening muscle tissue and become It can adapt to most biological reproduction embryos. In addition, the body tissue of the vaccine person you sent is strong enough and there are no weird cells."

"I first cloned a large number of vaccinated human body tissues and combined them with the Key of Nebuchadnezzar, and then injected a sufficient amount of super steroids to produce enough 'body' in a short period of time. These products I call them It's a 'hybrid', with great combat capabilities, invulnerability recovery, and the ability to hold an anti-AT stance with a pseudo-Longinus gun."

"But you haven't solved the most deficient energy problem." Mu Feng continued his words.

The EVA thing is actually not a weapon at all. No matter in the animation comics, the role of these 'clone apostles' is only to defend against other apostles, and then act as a trigger to complete the human race.

Cloning the body is nothing, the biggest problem is the problem of starting energy. In the case of not obtaining the S2 mechanism of the apostle, or equipped with an artificially manufactured S2 mechanism, the battle time after linking the umbilical cable is only 300 seconds.

Moreover, in order for any EVA to truly have sufficient combat power, it must sacrifice part of its soul...

"Yes." Dr. Kinos sighed deeply

"To drive these giant creatures to move, you need to access the 'driver' control of their neurons. It doesn't matter. The key is its energy link, which must match its wavelength of energy..."

"The S2 mechanism you are talking about is actually a huge circuit formed by DNA-sized biological superconducting coils in these organisms to generate energy in a way similar to the elimination of pairs of suns and electrons. The same principle of energy access can indeed be used. , but the cost is too high.”

"so?"