Since the first unit was lost and Aeolia himself returned, Ikogendo’s job has become more like a mere Lilith warehouse keeper. Therefore, C.C. only needs to say hello to Aeolia, and he can swagger down to lead An Qi down the staff passage, and no longer need to be sneaky like a thief like before.

This is the final dogma of An Qi's first visit to the NERV underground. Except for "Wow" and "It's so big", she probably can't think of or bother to think of any suitable vocabulary to express her shock. It was also the first time for her to see Lilith. It was a huge white human figure fixed on a cross, with less than half of her body left mutilated, and it looked soft as if it would melt at any time.

"This strange thing is Lilith?" An Qi noticed the strange look in C.C.'s eyes, "What's wrong, is there anything wrong?"

"No, it shouldn't be like this." CC showed an expression of disbelief, and slowly swayed his head from side to side. "She refused to answer me, and she shouldn't look like she would disintegrate at any time. This is not...this is not simply……"

"'Isn't this the same as Ed?' I guess you want to say this?" A magnetic voice came from the shadow in the corner, and An Qi posed vigilantly to face the direction of the sound, "I suggest you hurry up Go back, maybe you can see him for the last time, instead of wasting time here."

Nagisa walked out of the darkness with an indifferent smile, took off the Bluetooth headset and put it in his pocket, and put his hands in his pockets by the way. He was still wearing the white shirt that he had never changed, and his red eyes were shining with joy.

C.C. stretched out his hand to stop An Qi who was eager to try, took a deep breath, and said in the most sincere voice she could show: "Please give me an explanation."

"Explain what? Why am I here?" Zhuxun smiled helplessly, "Neither want to follow instinct to destroy Li Lin, and can't bear to watch his compatriots be lured out one by one, so he closes his eyes and plugs his ears. 、Hiding underground, shouldn’t it be difficult to understand, right?"

"Booby?" CC noticed a keyword, but now is not the time to entangle this. "What I want to ask is how do you know Ed's current situation? Do you know what happened to Lilith? How can I save him? Please? You tell me."

"Why should I care about your request? Or do you think I am a character who is specifically responsible for explaining the setting?" Lilith, "You know, he is an outsider."

C.C. and An Qi looked at each other and nodded silently.

"He is different from your fake fake, and different from Lilith's children on earth. He is not a species at all from Li Lin, so his soul...cannot fit into Li Lin's body." Zhu Xun Turned around and looked at CC, "I remember there is an NT called Tifa on the moon, that's what he should be like."

An Qi looked ignorant and didn't understand what Zhu Xun was talking about, but CC showed a dazed expression: "He should rely on his AT force field to maintain his existence, instead of inheriting fragments from Li Lin... Defective products."

"Yes, defective products. It is a very accurate description from your mouth." Zhu Xun smiled sarcastically. "When he came over, he probably abandoned everything except memory, but Li Lin's fragments treated him like that. A powerful and independent soul cannot help it maintain a human posture, so Lilith thought of a way."

C.C. finally understood what the entity that he first smelled of intimacy in Ed was, she was just a puppet that Lilith pinched out to experience life, she was definitely not the incarnation of Lilith, that would be too high for her. On the contrary, he is. Thinking of this, her body couldn't help but start to sway slightly, as if standing a little unstable, An Qi quickly supported her when she saw that the situation was wrong.

"Look at you, understand?" Nagisa raised his mouth happily, "As a toy created by Lilith herself, it's normal to be close to her creator."

"Lilith..." C.C. swallowed, tremblingly, "divided his body to him?"

"I've already said that he is an apostle, a complete apostle, from body to soul." Zhuxun raised his arm and pointed at Lilith's remnant. "She separated a third of her own flesh and blood— —The AT force field you call — is used to complete Ed, and his anti-AT stance is now stronger than two-thirds of Lilith, so it cannot maintain the form."

"Wait, it's not right, what's wrong." CC quickly calculated mentally, and tried in vain to refute Nagisa Kaoru's theory. Controlled with a Ronginus gun, wouldn't it be possible to be discovered without so much body?"

"This is the irony of the story." Nagisa sneered, "They took the fruit of Lilith's life with their own hands, so it sounds reasonable that one-third of Lilith's body disintegrates on its own, doesn't it? That’s why I have to make a substitute for Lilith before she completely collapses, isn’t it?"

Hearing this, C.C. stood in a daze in a daze, looking unconscious.

"Hey, what are you in a daze?" An Qi CC twisted his face vigorously, and the latter cried out in pain and knocked out An Qi's hand, "Which one is the bigger question of you or Ed? What's the problem? After you go back, can't you two study slowly in bed? Now obviously there are more important things, right?"

"...Ah! I'm sorry." C.C. suddenly woke up, staggered his gaze and didn't dare to look at An Qi's eyes, the volume was so low that he couldn't hear him, "...and...that...that's...well...thank you."

"If you come with Ed like this once in a while, he must be so excited about it? Uh, now it doesn't seem to be auspicious." An Qi shook her hair and didn't want this, and returned her attention to Zhu Xun. "I ask, is this Lilith now, how can I say, help Eddy with her own life? At least I think it looks like this."

"Very keen insight, or intuition?" Nagisa Kaoru's pupils opened slightly, "You are right, because of the reasons I described earlier, Lilith has always been in contact with him before, and what you see What came was Lilith’s choice. Unfortunately, he grew too fast, and two-thirds of Lilith did not help. What she did was meaningless, and both would eventually lose shape."

"Is there no way?" An Qi asked loudly, "and why are you gloating? Do you and Ed have hatred? Are you so happy when he has an accident?"

"You can't understand." Nagisa shook his head with a smile, "I and he are holding almost the same script, just like Yui and Lilith. I look at him like I look at myself in the mirror, so I feel sincerely happy for him to be free before facing the bitter choice. There may be ways to'save him', who knows, but in my opinion it is not'save him'. "

"You bastard!" An Qi clenched her fists angrily, "Then don't blame me for torture!"

"Angie!" C.C. desperately took her arm to prevent the blonde girl from messing around. "He is an apostle, an apostle! Don't be impulsive!"

"But...!" An Qi gritted her teeth and threw away C.C.'s hand, "What qualifications do you have to make decisions for Ed!"

"Of course I am not qualified to decide his life, or even to decide my own qualifications. I think I still have this little freedom?" Zhuxun smiled self-deprecatingly, raised his neck and looked at the cross." What's more, time is not enough, it's over."

Accompanied by his falling voice, Lilith's fragile AT force field finally could not support her huge body, and it disintegrated into a puddle of orange liquid without warning, leaving only a lone Longinus gun still nailed to it. On the bare cross.

Nagisa Kaoru raised his arm and waved it randomly, and a cloud of orange liquid that didn't look any different from other LCLs floated and flew in front of him. He stared at the liquid, and his scarlet eyes were full of inexplicable meaning.

"...It's over?" The pale C.C. was soft, and was hugged quickly by An Qi's eyes and hands before slumping down on the ground. "Now if I rush back now...Is it too late to see him?"

"You can take Lily Ribbon back and be a company with him. Her soul is still here." Zhuxun motioned the liquid flying in front of her with her eyes, "But I suggest you kill him directly, after all, no one is more You understand the pain of living forever. You only know how to painlessly kill an NT living in Lilith's body fluid. If you don't know the method, you can ask her."

"Shut up! Ed is just transformed and not dead!" An Qi yelled with CC who was weak and unable to stand. "I will definitely find a way to recover him, even if he is dead, I will Find a way to make him come alive!"

"Neither you nor the fake in your arms, it's a great response. You don't know how happy she is at this moment, if she is happy." Zhu Xun turned a blind eye to An Qi's yelling and continued to appreciate the suspension. Lilith in her hand, "By the way, Ikogentang is unemployed? Then he can spend more time with Wei's son in the future. Why don't you give me this place."

...

"Uncle Ed, can I tell someone about you? I just need...but sometimes I can't take it alone." Minerva asked cautiously, "She is one of my NT female friends, I promise She will definitely not speak out."

Ed knew she was talking about Plu without asking, and agreed without even thinking about it.

Although the child doesn't seem to have a very bright mind, from the point of view that she can perfectly distinguish the timing of calling Minerva and calling Audrey, she knows that being an NT should have a lot of cleverness, just People are more innocent. To tell the truth, all the NTs Ed has been in contact with in his life are smart, and he has never seen a smarter and stupid NT.

"Then Uncle Ed, if... I mean if." Minerva paused, "If you are really neutralized by yourself, will you still live at home? Can I still talk to you?"

"There is a high probability that there is no problem with the communication between NTs, just like we are now."'High probability' is a scientific description method, and it is definitely not a lie. People, don’t accidentally drink me when I get up in the middle of the night looking for a drink."

Minerva couldn't help but laughed out loud.

"Alright, let's not talk." Ed in the passenger seat leaned forward and opened the door on the driver's side with the hand that can still be used. "I have something to do on my side. I'll talk about it later."

After Minerva said goodbye obediently, Ed closed the chat room.

Laura sat in the driver's seat like death, leaning on Ed's shoulder without a word. After all, Ed and Aeolia had something embarrassing and they didn't choose to follow up, but the result can be read from Laura's face without asking.

"I'm sorry." Laura repeated feebly, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault, why are you apologizing?" Ed saw that Laura was still depressed in front of him, and tried to ease the atmosphere, "Uh, I'm actually quite satisfied."

"What are you talking about!" Lola bounced off him like an electric shock, her face flushed flushing, "Ah, no, I... I'm sorry, Ed, it's you who are obviously injured, I But he looked hopeless."

"Anyway, people outside can't see the inside of the car. It doesn't matter if you are not promising, but you can't always comfort me unilaterally." Ed said with a smile, "I just think I can't talk to you in the future, I feel a little lonely. ."

"Is there really no way?" Laura leaned back on his shoulder, closing his eyes in pain, "I can't bear such a future."

"I can only hope that Aeolia will live longer." Ed put his hand on the lap of the people around him, and patted it gently like a child. "He is the smartest of the rest. The attainments are also the highest, and I can only hope that he will make a breakthrough in theory."

"By the way, λ-drive!" Lola stood up in excitement suddenly, and dropped her head weakly after just a second, "It's no use, you are so smart, you must have thought of it from the beginning."

"It's okay, really, don't force yourself." Eddy said softly, "It is normal for the plot to have a twist. Although this twist is a bit...big, am I still alive? There is always hope when I live. ."

"Don't use such irresponsible remarks to perfuse me!" Laura said with tears in her eyes, "I...we...we just..."

"I'm sorry." Ed interrupted Laura apologetically, "It's getting late. I have to go home. Someone needs me more."

"Sorry." Laura wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes as if she was waking up from a dream, "Yes, I can't be too selfish."

"I'm sorry," Ed can only say, "She needs me now."

He could feel as if there was a familiar and kind existence supporting him from a distant place, but he couldn't hold on for long enough, and he probably didn't have much time left. And when he went out, the sad and helpless expression of Lacus that he accidentally caught sight of still clearly appeared in front of him at this moment.

As he said to Laura, he wished to think that Lux needed him at the moment.

When he was taken home by Laura, Angel and C.C. of course had not returned, Minerva had been told to stay in the room honestly. He walked straight to the second floor and opened the door of Lux's room. She was sitting on the bed with her knees in her pajamas, her head buried deep between the two strands, her beautiful pink hair covering her face.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Lacus raised her head with a surprised look: "I thought you would... be back later."

"Isn't it agreed to talk in detail after I come back?" Ed sits on the side of the bed, "I will be back as soon as the matter is over."

"How's it going?" Lacus turned her head and played with her hairpin unconsciously. "Is there any good news?"

"Iolia can't help it, my time, no, our time is running out." Ed folds the hand that still has strength on her other hand, "Even if I disintegrate. , You should be able to talk in the form of a changer, but what if you can’t? I was terrified when I thought of this, and I didn’t even dare to tell Minerva.”

This is the last chance, surrender yourself, are you going to live the rest of your life with endless regrets? But for some reason, when he spoke, it turned into: "Minerva came back when you went out, go and accompany her."

"You are more important now." Eddard said firmly, taking out the phone and shaking it, "This time we turn it off. I'm tired of the eight o'clock dog-blood plot."

It's really the last chance, Ed has reached out to you. Are you worse than a kid like Camus? You are the daughter of Siegel Klein! Courage, just a little bit of courage, as long as half a step forward here, holding his outstretched hand, I can—

"Ed, I—"

"君の姿は~僕に似ている~同じ世界を见てる、君がいる事って~"

"It's CC's phone." She saw the caller ID with a drooping gaze, and it was over. It was like this again. She should have known it long ago. "Maybe a solution to the problem has been found, or maybe she has found that there is no way to tell you the last. In a word, in short, it should be a very important thing. I really don't care, let's deal with it first, since you have more important things."

Please, just once, say no, say no, say no!

Ed was silent for a moment, pressed a key on the phone, and the music stopped abruptly: "No."