Machine War: Infinite Frontier

"It's you!"

Asuka clenched her fists and stared at Xiao Yun: "You are the pilot of Unit 1! You hateful guy, why didn't you see me when I went to see you every day?"

"Little girl, don't have such a bad temper." Xiao Yunyun said calmly: "Why do you want to do a real melee fight? Don't be so competitive. If you fail, the whole city will be reduced to ashes in an instant."

After saying that, Xiao Yun ignored the arrogant twin tails and turned around and jumped off the high link bridge.

"Hello?!" The expression on Asuka's face changed drastically, and she reflexively grabbed Xiao Yun: "You're crazy!"

The height of the link bridge is at least more than 20 meters. If you jump like this, you will not die or be disabled. But Asuka's movements are not as fast as Xiao Yun's, and she is almost one meter away from Xiao Yun. She can't pull her at all when she stretches out her hand. Instead, Xiao Yun could only watch as this guy jumped off the bridge.

"Help, Miss Misato!" Asuka yelled in panic, threw herself directly at the guardrail of the link bridge and quickly stretched her head out to check Xiao Yun's situation, but as soon as she looked at it, an expression of disbelief appeared on her face. She saw that the falling Xiao Yun did not decline directly as she imagined, but landed lightly on a giant hand stretched out.

Xiao Yun turned back and looked up at Asuka, who still had a stunned expression on her face, smiled and said, "You little girl who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, why don't you try jumping down and I'll catch you."

"I don't want to!" Asuka shouted loudly from above, snorted and crossed her arms and looked at Katsuragi Misato: "I'm going to leave."

Misato Katsuragi smiled and said to Ling Bo Zero: "Zero, you don't have to worry about other things. You just need to pilot Unit Zero to complete your mission. Got it?"

Ling Boling's face showed no emotion: "Yeah."

The three EVAs were quickly transported to various places and stood on the ground as the brackets were raised. Xiao Yun glanced at the sky and entered the cockpit. As soon as he sat down on the cockpit tube, he entered the EVA. middle.

"Mr. Xiao Yun, only Unit 1 can operate without energy, so I will trouble you next."

"Don't worry, leave it to me." Xiao Yun responded and said, "I can't help but watch so many people die in front of me because of this kind of thing. Unit No. 1 is activated."

Unit No. 1 detached itself from the support, looked up at the sky and determined its direction. It bent its legs slightly and ejected instantly. It ejected high in an instant and then rushed out quickly.

In the NERV combat headquarters, Misato Katsuragi kept staring at the big screen with her arms crossed. She didn't give an order until everything was calculated and the coordinates of the apostle's fall were clearly calculated and the apostle who fell from the sky and was wrapped in a powerful AT force field could be seen.

"Unit Zero and Unit Two, the battle begins!"

The power supply behind the No. 0 and No. 2 fuselages was disconnected, and the two EVAs that had been prepared for a long time started running out instantly. Their movements were flexible and ridiculously fast, and they didn't look like a bulky mecha that was tens of meters high. However, EVA is not a mecha originally, it just looks like a mecha.

The black ball falling from the sky fell very fast, but suddenly the black circular barrier disappeared, revealing a spherical apostle flowing with brilliant colors.

"The falling trajectory changes and the speed increases!"

Misato Katsuragi was stunned for a moment, but she still said calmly: "Mr. Xiao Yun, this speed and distance can only be achieved by you."

Xiao Yun had no time to respond to Misato Katsuragi. Unit 01 quickly adjusted its direction after gliding and continued to chase the apostle. The speed became faster and faster and even broke through the sound barrier. The banging sounds were heard one after another, and circles of smoke spread out. , the powerful force tore apart countless surrounding buildings.

This is the first time that Xiao Yun drives a mecha to break the sound barrier by traveling on land, but this is the potential of EVA. From this point of view alone, as a semi-biological mecha, EVA does have very good potential that can be developed, but Xiao But Yun knew in his heart that this was not the limit, far from it.

Others can't see it, but Xiao Yun, who is wearing a helmet, can clearly see the additional information assistance given by VT. The time and place of the apostle's fall are also changing in real time with the angle of the apostle's fall. It can be said that the apostle's fall from The fall has never left the calculation scope of VT.

After another long run, Machine No. 1 finally stopped at the edge of the city and rushed in front of the apostle before it fell.

After raising his head to the sky and letting out a howl, a black halo of light appeared above his head, and all the green areas on his body turned red. His hands spread out with powerful force from the body and blew away everything around him.

AT force field fully activated!

Unlike the black AT field of life in this world, which was fully activated, the body surface of Unit-00 was blurred for a while, and then the body seemed to be covered with a layer of twisted black smoke. This layer of smoke not only lingered on the surface of Unit-10, but also It also began to spread towards the surroundings, covering the ground like black mud.

The original colorful ball apostle changed again, as if cracking cracks and began to deform into an apostle with huge wings. The wings and body were so large that it was unimaginable and even covered the surrounding mountains and half of the third New Tokyo city. , the center position fell straight towards the direction of Unit 1.

Without a passionate shout, Xiao Yun simply controlled Unit-01 and raised his arm to catch the falling apostle. The AT force fields of the two collided instantly. The black AT force field that rippled like water appeared above Unit-01's arm and caught the apostle. The apostle's AT force field spread out circles of colorful light in a diamond-shaped manner. The contact of the two AT force fields brought about a crackling sound and flashing arcs.

Under the strong pressure, Unit-01 seemed unusually relaxed, and even had time to roar at the apostle above his head again.

A gap suddenly appeared at the position of the apostle's core, and a weird humanoid upper body surged out from it, with five fingers open to grab Unit-01's raised palm, but the next moment, four arms composed entirely of black AT force fields stretched out from behind Unit-01, grabbing the apostle's outstretched arms in pairs, twisting them violently, and then pulling them down, tearing the apostle's arms directly and causing the apostle to howl in pain.

But the brutality of Unit-01 did not end there. After tearing off the arms of the apostle, the four black arms quickly began to transform into the shape of spiral guns and stabbed upwards. They could stab more than ten times in one second. The red liquid began to fall from the apostle's body like a waterfall, and the apostle's fast-moving core was suddenly fixed in the middle by four spiral guns.

"Ah!!!!"

Unit-01 roared again, and its arms directly tore through the apostle's AT barrier and grabbed the red core. The powerful energy of the core itself began to burn Unit-01's arms, and even Xiao Yun felt a little bit of burning.

But what does it matter? The black AT force field surrounded Unit-01's arms like silk cloth, twisted and transformed into an armored shape to protect Unit-01's arms. The four AT force field arms held the huge apostle tightly, and the hands wearing AT force field armor held the apostle's core and pulled it hard.

The howls of the apostle and Unit-01 resounded throughout the world. Unit-02 and Unit-00, who hurried over, also stopped beside Unit-01. Asuka looked at Unit-01 with a complex and amazed look on her face, and suddenly shouted, "Grab the core! I'll take care of it!"

"Don't come over!"

Xiao Yun shouted hurriedly. He was really afraid that Asuka would come and make trouble.

His goal was not to kill the apostle but to capture the core of the apostle. Based on his understanding of the apostle and his previous experience of fighting the apostle, Xiao Yun now knew very well that the true body of the apostle was the core. As for the body part, it was not important at all and had a very strong recovery ability. As long as the core was still there, it could be recovered even if the whole body was lost.

Now that the core was exposed and captured by Unit-01, Xiao Yun did not want to kill the apostle but to pull down the apostle's core, just like the apostle Water Angel at the beginning.

Before, Xiao Yun didn't know there was such a thing as a sealing pillar. Now that he knew there was something that could restrict the apostle, he naturally didn't want to kill the apostle, but planned to take the apostle back to World 0 as his trophy.

Asuka's movements suddenly paused, and Unit 2 almost stumbled and fell to the ground.

Asuka looked puzzled: "What are you doing!?"

"Wait!"

Xiao Yun held the operating lever tightly with both hands, and pulled the operating lever with both hands. All the strength of him and Unit 01 burst out at this moment. Only a sharp tearing sound was heard, and the huge core was directly torn off the apostle's body by Unit 01. A sharp howl sounded, and the originally huge apostle's body lost all movement. The light emanating from the body began to dissipate from the end and turned into a black corrupt appearance, and finally turned into a huge red wave that covered all directions.

The torn red core lost its body but still had powerful energy. It released more dazzling light and huge energy, but was tightly restricted by Unit-01's palms. The black AT force field covered the surface of the core like mud, and the four AT force field arms also turned into something like a bandage to wrap the core.

"The operation is over."

Xiao Yun looked at the apostle who had no ability to resist and breathed a sigh of relief. He rubbed his hands together and shook them lightly as if to shake off the burning sensation on his arms.

"It's over?"

Asuka looked at the scene in front of her in confusion. She hadn't done anything yet, and the apostle's core hadn't been destroyed. How could this be considered the end?

Zero tilted his head in the cockpit of Unit-00, and a rare incomprehensible expression appeared on his face.

"Pilot of Unit-01, we must destroy the core."

A clear voice sounded, and Xiao Yun looked at Ling Nan who suddenly appeared on the screen: "No need, the operation is over."

"Why?"

Asuka asked loudly in confusion: "Not destroying the core is equivalent to not destroying the apostle! Such things should not exist at all!"

"That's enough, Asuka, the operation is over and the crisis is resolved." Misato Katsuragi intervened in the communication, and then said to Xiao Yun: "Mr. Xiao Yun, the sealing pillars are ready."

Unit-02 and Unit-00 suddenly lowered their heads and lost their response. This was because the batteries in the bodies had been exhausted.

Without the S2 mechanism and its own core, these two machines can only operate for five minutes at most after being disconnected from the power supply. Under normal circumstances, the battle between EVA and the apostle will actually be limited to a very short time. On the one hand, the battle between the two The competition is about skills, but the competition is more about the strength of the AT field. As long as the AT field is strong enough, it will be very easy to deal with the apostles, and vice versa, it will become very difficult.

The AT force field displayed by Unit 1 is different, but it is not the AT force field of Unit 1 but Xiao Yun's. Although Xiao Yun can only use the AT force field through Unit 1, it boils down to this AT force field. It was because of Xiao Yun that he became like this strangely. The power of confusion and rejection was so powerful that it was like cheating. It had already crushed several apostles one after another, and now this restricted core was the same.

"Wait until someone comes to collect you."

Xiao Yun glanced at the two girls who controlled Unit 1 and left directly. Asuka sat in the cockpit and stayed stunned for a long time. It was not until the cockpit turned into darkness that she curled up unconsciously, hugging her legs and trembling slightly. : "It's too strong. Even one person can deal with such an apostle. Am I useless? I'm useless anymore."

Zero's mood was still very stable. He was emotionless and expressionless sitting in the darkened cockpit. He just sat there quietly as if he didn't care about anything.

Xiao Yun took the lead in returning to Dawning Headquarters, and under the guidance of the technical staff below, he placed the brought back core in an already established sealing area. It was originally an area used to seal EVA, but now its function has been temporarily changed to The apostle's sealing place.

Seal pillars flashing red light are erected everywhere. This kind of thing seems to have a very strong suppressive force on the apostle and related things. Moreover, the apostle has only one core left, even if it self-destructs, it will not cause much damage. The seal area However, even a mere core in a place that cannot be destroyed by EVA naturally does not have such ability, and Xiao Yun did not return Unit 1 to the hangar until all blockades were completed.

Today's world has the ability to seal apostles. The apostles who sabotaged and attacked the Bethany base before were actually captured by humans and sealed there for research. Although we don't know how much it cost, it at least shows that humans actually captured the apostles. And the ability to seal the apostles, it's just that some people didn't want to see such a thing happen, and there was no chance to capture the apostles until Xiao Yun took action again.

After leaving the cockpit and landing on the trestle, Xiao Yun took off his helmet and said to the technician who ran over: "The arm has suffered some damage and recover as soon as possible."

"Understood." (End of chapter)