Ed was standing in front of the cultivation trough, watching what could barely be called a "human" inside and fell into silence. What shocked him was not that the embryos developed too fast-of course it was also shocking-but that there were two embryos.

"Too impulsive?" He turned around and said to Eoria, "Isn't it necessary to discuss such an important matter with relatives and friends first? He decides this for himself? Luo La, how about Lanren, I I want to talk to him."

"She said that he finally made up his mind. He doesn't want to see anyone, especially you. If you want to see her, you can figure it out by yourself." Aeolia looked at Ed with a weird look. "There is only me. The truth that I only knew with Diana is too hard to tell. She asked me to tell you the truth."

"What?" Ed's mind was messed up, and he didn't notice Eoria's strange look and personal name.

"Due to technical limitations, I also lacked experience. As a result, although Roland's genes were complemented, his body inevitably had various defects." Aeolia spoke while watching Ed's expression, "Simply Said that she lost the Y chromosome, but she also failed to become a full female, but became something in between."

"Huh?" Ed was stunned, "That means, this time I was so anxious for..."

"Yes." Aeolia nodded. "She can't wait to get out of this embarrassing situation and truly determine her gender. There is only so much I can say. Let her be alone when everything is over. Talk to you."

"He has been worrying about this kind of problem, but I actually..." Eddy felt guilty for no reason, "How long does this entire cultivation process take?"

"Although the cultivation process can be accelerated, it still takes a certain amount of time." Aeolia smiled self-deprecatingly. "There hasn't been much progress at other levels for so many years, but a lot of human experiments have been done. This set of things is easy to learn."

"It's not your fault. If you want to apologize, just do more." Ed comforted casually, "If this process goes down, wouldn't it be possible to continue life indefinitely? Why don't you give yourself a younger body, like that? Wouldn't it be possible to better build four modern new moons, and to shine a light on the cause of science?"

"Four modernizations?" Aeolia decisively ignored the names that he didn't understand. "Lingoes, what do you say is the most important thing about people?"

"self."

"That's the case. This is also one of the original intentions for me to establish SEELE, so that humans can escape from Lilith's control and have the opportunity to maintain themselves forever." Although Lilith’s body fluid can preserve the human soul, the soul easily loses its boundaries in it. Even NT needs to constantly accept external stimuli to maintain itself, which is the principle of GN-Drive, and for ordinary people It is almost impossible to succeed."

"It's a terrible woman..." After thinking about it, Ed realized how difficult it was for Ikumi to maintain himself in LCL for so many years, and then immediately reacted, "No, Roland and Diana are not NTs. They changed their bodies back then. How did it succeed?"

"Diana almost collapsed in her self-consciousness back then. Her temperament was not so cold. This is a sequelae of soul transfer." Aeolia said with some fear, "And Roland, she is just pure and firm in will."

"No matter how firm the will is, there is the possibility of self-defeating." Ed murmured as he looked at the embryo, "Do you just want to change back like this, at the risk of losing everything and returning to Lilith..."

"Don't worry too much. Roland is in a very good state of mind, and her transplant success rate is extremely high. Otherwise, I wouldn't take the initiative to propose it." Aeolia looked down at the time. not yet?"

"Here." Ed said in response to the induction in his consciousness, "I will be here soon."

Sure enough, it didn't take long for a beautiful young man with gray hair to push in. He looked around the room, smiled ambiguously at Ed, turned his head and said to Aeolia, "I'm sorry to be late. The earth is messy now. The flight is delayed."

"Xun..." Aeolia's eyes were very complicated, "Long time no see."

"Long time no see, doctor, or father? If I have this concept too." Zhu Xun shrugged and walked to the freezer, looking at the tube of orange liquid inside with a look of nostalgia, "Long time no see, Yui. You are thinking about it. His son grew up very healthy and has a girlfriend. The only catch is that he has not awakened to NT, which is not like you."

"She can't hear it," Aeolia explained. "Her current consciousness—"

"Of course I know." Zhu Xun put her hands in her pockets and casually leaned on the test bench, "but isn't this more humane? You or Yui, what has always been done to me is not to let me Has his way of thinking become like a human being? The apostle domesticated by humans, huh, a little ironic, what do you think, Ed?"

"Wait, why have we become an intimate relationship that can be called a nickname?" Eddy felt cold behind his back.

"When is it?" Zhu Xun thought for a while, "Just now. Don't worry about this, continue with the topic just now, what did you say, Ed?"

"I said, I said that there has never been a completely free will, and the values ​​of life are all affected by the environment." Eddy still feels something is wrong while speaking, "Even if there is no set behavior pattern as an apostle, there is no There will always be something else to replace the thinking concepts that Ikuji instilled, and absolute freedom does not exist."

"A duplicity, your Geass betrayed you. Arranged background, arranged personality, arranged trajectory, free exhibits like me are different from you." Zhu Xun smiled faintly. "Speaking of which you are also a genuine apostle now, how about you, are you still obsessed with that fake?"

"Yeah, I'm very obsessed with it, I can't put it down." Ed nodded vigorously, "Besides, there is never a reason that a fake must be inferior to the real one, right?"

"A little envious, everyone is a foreigner, but you are so like..." Zhuxun sighed softly, "Human."

Seeing the topic getting further and further away, Aeolian coughed twice: "Let’s talk about business first. Have you seen what I sent you?"

"Look, waiting for you to tell the first half of the story." Eddard motioned to Zhuxun, "Does he know it doesn't matter?"

"In fact, Ikura has already told him everything, at least for the moment he is an ally." Aeolia also followed Zhuxun, "Before that..."

"I want to show that I can be trusted." With a smile, Zhu Xun picked up a black collar from the table, and sighed again while calmly putting it on his neck, "The apostle who has been domesticated by humans is really ironic..."

"Actually, your AT force field is so strong. It's easy to form a force field under your neck before the explosion to protect yourself?" Ed said strangely, "Although I made this thing by myself, my confidence is still not there. Footpath can break through your AT force field."

"It's really easy." Zhuxun gently stroked the metal collar around his neck, "but I won't do that."

"Why?" Ed asked inexplicably, "It's just a temporary cooperation 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..." Zhu Xun glanced at him enviously, "Ed, you must not understand."

"Enough, let's talk about business first." Aeolia interrupted the increasingly strange atmosphere, and said solemnly, "By the way, everything started in UC0001, at that time..."

"Stop!" In Aeolia's stunned eyes, Ed poured himself a drink, moved a stool and sat down, "Please continue."

"You...!" Aeolia almost didn't catch it. He tidied his breath and said again, "Everything started in UC0001, when the construction of the first space colonization satellite, Laplace, was completed. , The Earth Federation has just been established. As a young person, I participated in an Antarctic scientific research project composed of the world’s top scholars. We found a huge cavity under the ice layer, and found the sleeping Adam and dozens of apostles in it. Eggs, Longinus guns and Dead Sea instruments..."

Aeolian has been thinking about the possibility of extraterrestrial civilization since humans entered the cosmic age, and immediately believed in the identity of his extraterrestrial life after seeing Adam. While everyone on the expedition team was still arguing about "this is a prehistoric civilization" and "this is a revelation from God," he independently deciphered the key content of the Dead Sea document, promptly preventing individual scholars from trying to wake Adam to try. idea.

While the group of scholars were discussing how to deal with Adam and the Apostles, Eolian’s friend E·A·Ray observed signs of large-scale life activities on Jupiter. At the same time, it was observed that a shuttle-shaped object was launched from Jupiter and was flying towards the earth.

Scholars unanimously believed that the flying shuttle was a malicious alien invasion, and notified the federal government of the problem at the time, hoping that the federal government would destroy it with a nuclear bomb before the flying shuttle landed on the earth. At that time, the federal government was not long after its establishment, and it was intricately intertwined and unable to make a decision for a long time. As time became more and more pressing, scholars who were so disappointed in the Federation decided to conceal Adam's information and deal with the alien invasion on their own.

The energy combined by the world's top scholars is terrifying. When Jupiter's Flying Shuttle passed by the colonial satellite Laplace, Laplace was detonated as a whole, and the Flying Shuttle was destroyed at the cost. In order to make arrangements, some scholars sacrificed on the spot when it was too late to evacuate from Laplace when the satellite was detonated.

"Sacrificing the population of a satellite in exchange for the reproduction of the race, the sacrificed Li Lin doesn't even have the right to choose." Zhuxun looked at Ed playfully, "reason is really a terrible thing, isn't it?"

"It's only sacrifices who die voluntarily. What Aeolia and the others did is murder." Ed said with a bitter heart, "but even if I knew it was murder, I would still do it if I was him. In the face of survival, conscience is not worth mentioning."

While exploring the wreckage of Laplace, Aeolia and his companions found the surviving Saiyam Bist. He was originally one of the people who had been planted in to charge explosives. His location happened to be untouched by the explosion, and he was lucky enough to survive. The young Bisite joined the inner circle after this, and showed a very high savvy and strong business talent. After returning to Earth, he concentrated on starting a business and was responsible for providing funds for scholars' associations.

Next, Aeolia concentrated on deciphering the Dead Sea document. After deciphering it completely, in order to prevent human beings from being completely wiped out by the anti-AT stance, he began to design the adjuster and the layout of the next thing. At that time, the business empire had not yet taken shape, and financial problems forced Aeolia to invite Britannia, the first power at the time, to join the company.

At the same time, in order to solve the problem of Jupiter lifeforms he named BETA once and for all, he spent more than ten years cracking the Longinus gun and successfully organized the Jupiter scientific expedition in UC0015. Adam, under the control of the Longinus gun, was taken to Jupiter and was thrown down as a bomb. The giant of light and BETA fought into the dark. Eventually, Adam went underground and blew himself up and died together with the core of BETA.

"Fuck." Ed was forced, "Your brain is too big."

"Just so?" Although Aeolia's tone is very humble, she can't hide her pride. "Young people still have to learn more. Of course, Lingoes, your V plan is also good."

The scientific expedition team descended to Jupiter, obtained the fossil of BETA, found the embryo left after Adam blew up, and found a broken biological computer at the core of BETA. Unfortunately, BETA was not completely dead, and a few remaining individuals launched an attack on the expedition team. Only Lei temporarily awakened from the critical moment into NT and rescued Aeolia and Bist, and the core personnel of other scholars' associations were all destroyed.

After the mission returned to the earth, the Jupiter fossil was handed over to the adjuster; Lei hid the Adam's embryo and left his name incognito, leaving his children to die soon afterwards. Amuro Lei is his direct descendant; Ioliya and Bist after suspended animation Together with the patron Britannia, the then emperor formed the original SEELE, and they are the only three members.

With the help of Britania, SEELE cast a net globally and finally found Lilith in the underground of Hakone, Japan. Aeolia also took this opportunity to get acquainted with C.C. Under the control of SEELE, Japan was divided, some people walked away to form Orb, and the remaining puppet regime built NERV to monitor Lilith in the name of the third new city of Tokyo.

At the same time, Britannia monopolized Antarctica in the name of resource exploitation rights, protecting the egg of the apostle used as bait. During Jupiter's expedition, some of the eggs had hatched, and the apostles were missing. After returning from the inspection, Aeolia used the Langinus gun to destroy all the eggs that had not hatched, leaving only one suppressed with the Langinus gun as a bait.

Afterwards, Aeolia made every effort to train his successors Diana and Roland to prevent SEELE, who was increasingly energetic when she died unexpectedly. After Roland discovered the relics of the moon, Aeolia received inspiration from TurnA and had the idea of ​​a changer. Missing his dead friend, he made his first experiment into a clone of Ray, which later became Livonz Almack.

In UC0036, the Earth-Moon War broke out, and the Moon gained independence with the overwhelming power of TurnA. Aeolian secretly provided Diana and Roland with many cross-age technologies, helping them to establish Anaheim, and enabling the lunar power to gain a foothold in the world.

Soon after the war, Livonz and Charles rebelled, and Aeolia was placed under house arrest.

"Apart from being overshadowed by Livonzi and having no heroine at the end, you are the protagonist's template against the sky." Ed sighed, and at the same time, a sensation that felt like constipation had suddenly been unblocked for more than ten years swept his whole body. He couldn't help shouting, "The circle is up, the circle is up!"

"Livonz looks too much like him, I can't bear to jealously jealous of him. As for women, how can women be interesting in scientific research?" Aeolia asked, but watching Ed's excitement, she pushed his glasses comfortably. , "I love science and truth so much, no more than I was in the past. Ruzi can teach me."

The information that Aeolia deciphered from BETA’s biological computer was shared with Ed. According to the above record, BETA is actually a miner made by a certain kind of silicon-based life form, in order to mine a certain rare substance in the universe. In addition, it also records the existence of another metal-based life form that has a deep relationship with BETA, which Aeolian named ELS.

BETA reached the home planet of ELS when it opened the mine, and ELS is a peace-loving race, thinking that BETA had goodwill and directly let their shuttles land. It happens that the core energy that ELS relies on is BETA's mining goal, and as a result, BETA knocked out the home star of ELS in a blink of an eye.

After the angry ELS wiped out the native BETA, he left the home planet and prepared to seek revenge from the silicon-based life. However, after absorbing BETA's technology and information, ELS discovered that silicon-based life had been wiped out by an even more fierce and unknown civilization, and the miners were just following the procedures.

In order to survive, the ELS, which lacks energy, has to use the technology to search for BETA-where there are miners, there must be rare substances that are needed; and because BETA has lost its owner, it cannot flexibly come up with a treatment plan and can only follow the existing procedures. Mining, while faithfully recording everything and sharing with other BETA in the universe.

For humans, there are minerals needed for ELS on Jupiter, and there are also found in the depths of the earth according to Aeolia not long ago. The ELS's location is quite close to the solar system, and it is almost certain that they have captured the coordinates of the solar system, and will find them at any time after swallowing the previous planet.

"What is this rare substance called?" Ed asked.

"The radiation waveform emitted by this substance is very similar to the wave emitted by C.C.'s wound healing." Aeolia said, "I named it CC crystal."

"ChyurippuCrystal, tulip crystal." Ed sighed with a hand on his forehead, "I knew that things with similar settings must be the same thing, so it seems that the transition within the ELS meeting plane is also a normal thing. "

"If you can't observe it, it doesn't exist. If you can fight for hundreds of thousands of years, plan V I will fully support you." Aeolia replied, "I hope my old bones can still be used, you Just give me the subject. Even if I can't make it through that time, Ikura can still take my class."

"I'm not interested in married women." Ed also answered the wrong question, "Plan V is too far, let's talk about the immediate matter first."

"Let me guess first," Zhu Xun interrupted him with a smile, "You want me to persuade my brothers to fight the ELS that may come together, and for this reason and Li Lin to cease the war indefinitely?"

"According to the data in BETA, the result I calculated is that at most ten years, the ELS will definitely reach the solar system within ten years." Aeolia affirmed, "Ten years of armistice."

"Yes, I put it on for this." Zhu Xun touched the collar and said plainly, "Anything else?"

"By the way, is there someone named Kongangang who is big and flying?" Zhu Xun nodded in surprise under Ed's gaze, "Well, I have a merciless please , Can you let it go to Jupiter to watch?"

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PS: No eunuch, my mother forced me to go on a blind date on weekends, wasting time and money. I racked my brains halfway through to figure out how to end it politely, and I was told that it was not appropriate to know that the identity of the author of the net article was revealed at the end. Only pity for my full attendance.