When the plane landed, the sun had already set, and the night sky of the new moon was dim. As soon as the fuselage stopped, Amuro couldn't wait to open the hatch and jump off the plane, rushing from the apron to the briefing room without stopping. Fortunately, he had been accustomed to Lhasa several times before, otherwise he would be able to lie down all day with just a few steps.

The door of the briefing room brushed to the floor and he was pushed open. Amuro habitually quickly salutes him: "Commander Bright, Captain of the Lund Bell team Amuro Ray reports to you...Uh, report."

"You are here, sit down first." Standing by the door, Bright patted Amuro on the shoulder, ignoring the latter's dumbfounded look, "Wait until they come to a conclusion."

The commander is all standing, why would a major in Amuro district dare to sit down? He stood neatly beside Bright and looked carefully at the briefing room where there were not many people but somehow felt crowded. It didn't take long for him to discover with amazement that only Bright and himself in the entire briefing room were from outside the military, and the rest were all young and pretty women.

Lacus in the seat was listening attentively while wearing headphones. An Qi and CC next to him were sitting and talking in low voices; Momoka, with a solemn face, hugged Audrey silently, and the little girl watched weepingly. It made people feel distressed; for some reason, Alice, whose left hand was missing, sat alone in a daze, facing the ceiling in a daze.

The Lingoes family's troublesome women Amuro basically know each other, but Shan has never seen the girl who is now standing in front of the briefing room as the speaker and crackling at the notebook. The girl with short blue hair is wearing a neat white coat, her red pupil is really eye-catching, and the powerful NT sensor in her consciousness is even more dazzling.

"Commander Bright," Amuro gently touched the arm of the person next to him, "Is that?"

"That?" Bright followed Amuro's gaze, "Oh, that is Miss Ayanami, who is said to be Lingoes' chief assistant in the laboratory. As for the apostle, we have all the information except Lingoes. No experience, now she serves as a technical consultant."

"Ayanami, Ed's research assistant and student." Almost at the same time, an indifferent voice sounded in Amuro's head, "It's not his mistress, don't compare me to the group of women over there."

When Amuro was about to explain to the man that he didn't mean that, a shrill female voice caught everyone's attention: "Lax, you have been listening to this recording for several hours, what did you find?! "

"Angie, calm down." C.C. said in a tired voice, "Let Lux think."

"Calm down? Obviously he went out with you. As a result, you are the only one who came back. You tell me that I am calm now?" An Qi said loudly, "Ten hours have passed! Ed's life and death are uncertain. Hours!"

C.C. bowed his head in pain, speechless.

"Angie, give me peace." Lacus said sternly, "I can understand your mood, but everyone is very anxious. You are not alone in worrying about Ed. It doesn't make any sense to be angry at CC. The important thing is to figure out what happened."

"I...!" An Qi stomped her foot hard, "I'm sorry C.C., I..."

"Don't be sorry, it's my fault." C.C. hugged his head helplessly, his emerald long hair blocked his face and couldn't see his expression clearly. "It's all because of my stupid lack of vigilance."

Audrey glared at C.C. unabashedly, showing an expression of gritted teeth that was completely incompatible with her age, and the latter buried her head unbearably lower.

Amuro looked at everything in front of him with a heavy heart, not knowing what to say.

"As you can see, that's it." Bright whispered, "Lingoes has been missing for ten hours. You should have seen it on the plane, the thing that swallowed him."

"Yes, I did see it." Amuro nodded with lingering fear, "The whole mountain area has disappeared..."

When the plane approached the base, Amuro saw a huge black spot from a distance. Only when he got closer did he see that it was a black shadow with a perfect circle, at least 500 meters in diameter. The strangest thing was that the round black shadow appeared to be on a perfectly smooth horizontal surface, and Amro Mingming remembered that there were several small hills before.

"At the request of the moon, Lingoes' disappearance is now in a state of confidentiality." Bright raised his chin and gestured, "Only the people in this room know about it, and there is no rumor. Before confirming his life and death, it should be all. No news will be leaked."

"Are you sure about life and death..." Amuro's heart sank, "but I don't feel Adrian at all, it's as if it doesn't exist at all..."

"Women over there, be quiet." Ayanami, who had been on the stage facing the computer and didn't know what she was busy with, said suddenly, "My research is complete, let's talk about the conclusion."

Lacus quickly took off the earphones and assumed a focused look. C.C. and An Qi who were talking also honestly closed their mouths and sat upright.

Ayanami swiftly fiddled with the notebook a few times, and a string of the apostle’s names appeared on the big screen in front of the briefing room: “Before describing the situation of the night angel, we need to analyze the appearance order and evolution of the apostles through the previous apostles. The direction. The first thing that can be confirmed is that the order of appearance of the apostles is purposeful."

The names of Fish Angel, Sky Angel, Horror Angel and Free Angel on the screen went dark.

"Regardless of these special cases that appeared early due to accidents, the remaining apostles, without exception, used NT as an imaginary enemy and appeared on the stage with progressive strength." Ayanami said and looked at Amuro and Audrey. "Ed once said that NT is an evolutionary direction that humans naturally select in order to escape from Lilith's restraint. It can pose the greatest threat to the apostle. Therefore, the apostle’s strategy is rough but meaningful."

The first thing that appeared on the screen was the day angel who looked like a squid, and Amuro was deeply impressed by it.

"This uncharacteristic apostle is a cannon fodder destined to be sacrificed. It is an abandoned child of the apostle group. It is used to test the strength of human arms and the ability of NT." Ayanami said while switching out the picture, "Confirming NT's in the apostle After a substantial threat, Thunder Angel used to try to avoid the possibility of being close by NT, and Li Angel used to try to be close behind to eliminate the possibility of forcing NT. Then they found out that they had been deceived and learned through some channels. Behind the scenes is news of Ed."

Amuro keenly noticed that Lacus's eyes suddenly became sharp, and his biting killing intent caused him, a veteran of all wars, to chill behind him. Although he never thought that Lux was an innocent girl, this appearance still surprised him a bit. In the past, this is probably a good material for teasing Adrian, but now... I pray that I will have the opportunity to talk to him on this topic in the future.

"The halo angel was used to try to solve Ed’s problem indirectly but failed. Then the apostles tried to eliminate Ed directly." The two protagonists of today finally appeared on the screen. Cheated, or formed a mindset, these two actually cooperated in action. The bird angel made a precise strike from the orbit against the NT induction, blocking Ed's ability to move and thinking, and the night angel took this opportunity to sneak in. Going to the target location fundamentally obliterates the existence of the object."

"So, that makes sense." Lacus suddenly realized, "Ed is the NT who can find the apostle for the first time. When he woke up, DX was probably captured by the night angel. At that time, he was probably able to figure it out. DX concluded that there was no way to escape from the situation at the time, so it said, "I can't figure out how to solve the scene.""

"But DX obviously..." C.C. was stunned, "Ah..."

"Yes, probably let you go on the condition of not resisting. NT and the apostle are able to talk anyway, and the apostle is silly and foolish." An Qi said in a depressed voice, "He is this kind of person." La, it has always been."

C.C. lay on the table feebly, her delicate face was blocked by long hair and arms, her shoulders twitched slightly, but there was no sound.

Ayanami looked away sadly, and took a deep breath to cheer up and continued: "Next, we will talk about the situation of the night angel. We observed through the instrument that its body is about six or eight hundred meters in diameter and three nanometers in thickness. The surface of the cylinder is wrapped by an astonishingly strong reverse AT force field, but the ball above is actually the shadow. I don’t care about it. The AT force field of the apostle previously blocked us from entering. Humans, machines and detectors can enter freely, but the contents inside cannot come out."

An Qi raised her hand: "Where is it in the end?"

"There is a channel connecting the Dirac Sea, the imaginary space, and the quantum realm, whatever you call it. Although countless different terms have been changed throughout the ages, they all refer to the same place. Some scholars even believe that it is all intelligent life. The return of the soul after death, but this claim cannot be verified or falsified." Ayanami pointed to the black circle on the screen, "The body of the night angel should be the channel itself."

"Where is Ed?" C.C. with red eyes raised his head and asked in a trembling voice, "What about Ed?"

"The night angel has not moved so far, so I speculate that Ed should still stay in the passage and not enter the imaginary space. The specific principle is unknown." Ayanami looked at Alice's disappeared left arm with a complex expression, "Thanks to Alice for the offer. For the experimental materials, you can go to Commander Noah to install the recovered fragments yourself. According to the degree of corrosion of the fragments, Ed's body can protect the LCL in his body for at most 72 hours."

An Qi quickly glanced at the time: "There are only 61 hours and 25 minutes left. Don't talk nonsense and don't understand the principles. Just ask what we can do to rescue Ed?"

"Because of the existence of the reverse AT force field, all actions from the outside can't affect the apostle." Ayanami tapped the keyboard and listed a whole screen of dense formulas. "There needs to be enough firepower to destroy from the inside. When the stability of the AT force field is affected, the huge pressure from the imaginary space will cause the channel constructed by the apostle to collapse on its own, and Ed in it has a certain chance to be spit out by the apostle before being crushed and crushed."

Everyone couldn't help showing a look of joy, and an emotion named hope was brewing in the briefing room. Only Amuro calmly noticed the word "a certain probability", since this Miss Ayanami is unwilling to say specific numbers... the probability may be as low as a miracle.

"But." Ayanami paused for a while, sadly watching the joy on everyone's faces slowly dissipate, "The apostle has been adapting to the particle beam weapon by changing the force structure of the AT force field, the known bird angel So that TurnA’s beam rifle can’t penetrate the defense, the night angel will only be stronger than the bird angel and cannot be weaker, and the only DX satellite microwave cannon with sufficient firepower does not support the exchange of energy with the moon base in the imaginary space. As for the inside. I have also thought about detonating multiple nuclear bombs, but Ed will also die. It can only be used as a last resort."

The room was quiet for a while, and a neutral voice suddenly sounded in the corner: "How do you know if you don't try."

Amuro followed the prestige, and was surprised to find: "His Royal Highness, are you there?"

"How do you know if you don't try it." Laura stood up in the shadow of the corner, who had no sense of existence, and stared at Ayanami firmly, "TurnA is useless on Bird Angel, not necessarily on Night Angel Right? Maybe in order to support the AT force field of the night angel in the imaginary space, the resistance to the particle beam was sacrificed? How do you know if you don't try it?"

"Roland, don't deceive yourself." Ayanami said softly, "TurnA's positioning is a functional machine, and Moonlight Butterfly's positioning is environmental cleaning. The design does not have any powerful firepower commensurate with its terrible performance except for the few weapons used for self-protection. Prove that these are what Ed told me before his death—"

"What is life?!" Laura snarled and interrupted her, "How can I know if I don't try?!"

"The space structure inside is extremely special. The boson jump is likely to fail, that is to say, it will never come out again. The driver is a trivial matter, and the moon is unacceptable to lose TurnA itself. I don't want to lose him. But..." Ayanami sighed and shook her head, "The only help I can give is that, so make your own decision."

No matter how much Lola was willing to recklessly, Diana couldn't agree to take TurnA, the country's most important weapon, to take this risk. With an insight into the development, Laura leaned down and hammered the table hard, and the tiny drops of water that had just dropped on it were shattered by this force.

Bean big tears flowed out from Audrey's eyes, but the little girl made no sound firmly. Lacus stared at the screen with a frown, trying in vain to come up with a solution that didn't exist. C.C. stared at the ground blankly, breathless with self-blame and guilt. Alice was as quiet as a dead machine, there was no movement at all.

"Keep your heart sad, I'll leave first, Momoka, you stay and take care of Audrey." An Qi stood up and walked straight to the door without taking a second look. Only Amuro and Bright glanced at her in surprise, but neither of them planned to talk about Lingoes' housework.

"I'm not an expert in this area, but let's start with a try anyway. Time is running out, and thinking here is no way." Amuro took the lead in breaking the silence and said in a calm voice as much as possible, "Commander Bright, I ask. Go in with a unicorn and take a look."

"Amuro?" Bright was startled, "but..."

"Isn't you calling me back to play a corresponding role? Besides, it's easier to find Adrian if you go in for NT." Amuro pretended to smile lightly, "The road to heaven is inexhaustible, and I go in." There will always be a solution later."

"But..." Bright frowned tangledly, "It's almost the same as sending you to death..."

"The warrior's accusation is to die. The most important thing is to die in the right place and the right place. You are the best commander I have ever seen, and I definitely don't need me to talk to you about this simple truth." Amuro said seriously. , "Even if the Unicorn Gundam is really just good-looking, I still want to try it. Your Royal Highness is right. How can I know if I don't try it?"

"Amuro..." Bright suddenly showed a look of nostalgia, and said with emotion, "Then give it a try."

...

Ed has been floating in this ghost place for a long time, and the concepts of time and space seem to have disappeared. There is no light, no sound, and I can only feel that my body is being corroded bit by bit, and the feeling of cutting meat with a blunt knife is maddening. It's over when the remaining human part is exposed, right? He thought silently.

NT's intuition made him instinctively feel that this is not the so-called quantum domain, but just a channel connecting there. Using the analogy of known knowledge, it is like the border in hell, the periphery in purgatory. Even though Ye Angel pushed him to the real Quantum Realm on the opposite side countless times, for some reason, an invisible repulsive force kept him back.

Now that I don't know how many attempts have been made, Night Angel pushed him again, and he was bounced back again as usual. He could imagine that Xiao Ye was swearing unhappily with its meager vocabulary, but it was a pity that this spiritual master was as far-reaching as a bird, and Ed had already been ruthlessly kicked out of the chat room.

"Sure enough, you can't make it, I knew it." A familiar voice suddenly sounded in Ed's consciousness, "but why did you take it so early? Was it stabbed to death by CC or cut by Lacus? The head?"