Although Ikari Gendo and Fuyutsuki hated Fang Zheng's arrival, the ordinary NERV staff did not feel much about it and quickly accepted it.

After all, they do need such a part.

In fact, when watching the animation, Fang Zheng was wondering why there was not a special department responsible for taking care of these drivers.

This is actually a very strange thing.

After all, unlike adults, whether it was Rei Ayanami, Shinji Ikari, or even Asuka, they were all just minors. Logically, they should be put together for special care and management.

But in the anime, among the three pilots, Rei Ayanami manages them independently, while Shinji Ikari and Asuka just throw them to Misato Katsuragi and leave them alone?

Come on, what does Misato Katsuragi do?

She's the operations director of NERV. You want her to worry about the eating, drinking, and defecation of a group of junior high school students?

What's the difference between what you're doing and not handing the soldiers over to the platoon leaders and letting the general take charge of them?

It's not my major.

And we also saw in the anime that if Katsuragi Misato hadn't called personally, Shinji Ikari would have been arranged to live alone. And if Asuka hadn't chased after Shinji Ikari, she would have been arranged to live alone... Is the NERV person mentally ill? Three pilots who are of great importance and bear the fate of the world and mankind, you don't send people to watch them 24 hours a day, but let them manage themselves?

Please, Rei Ayanami can even burn her hands while making a tea. If this kind of person is not careful in the kitchen, a bloody incident will occur.

Moreover, adults and minors have different psychological qualities.

In the movie, Shinji Ikari quarreled with Asuka and almost strangled Asuka to death. There was no one watching. If something really happened, who would be responsible?

Now that Fang Zheng was here, it was natural to set up a special department to coordinate and take care of the drivers. Others did not think there was anything wrong with this.

Since he was a member of SEELE, Ikari Gendō had to process Fang Zheng's entry procedures even if he was unwilling. After completing the entry procedures, Fang Zheng finally witnessed the most secret of NERV's secrets - EVA.

“This is EVA.”

Standing in front of the window, looking at Unit-0 and Unit-01 in front of him, Fang Zheng touched his chin. He came earlier in the timeline, strictly speaking, not long after NERV was actually built - this is why Fang Zheng was able to smoothly get this department. In the anime, Katsuragi Misato is the operations chief. After the third angel attacked, she told Ikari Shinji that she had moved to the third New Tokyo City a few days ago, and Fang Zheng's time is much earlier than Katsuragi Misato.

At least he had just learned from Ritsuko Akagi that the test of Rei Ayanami and Unit 00 would be conducted in a week.

If Fang Zheng guessed correctly, that would be the beginning of the legend of Unit-0's rampage.

In fact, the legend of Unit-0's rampage has always been a major mystery in the EVA series.

This is also normal. After all, Fang Zheng's impression of Unit-00 has always been that it is either running wild or on the way to running wild... In short, except for being relatively normal during official battles, Unit-00 will definitely not be willing to be lonely as long as it enters the testing phase.

He always wants to show his presence, which makes Ayanami Rei very upset.

There have been several theories as to why Unit-00 goes berserk so frequently and torments Rei Ayanami.

One theory is that the soul of Unit-00 comes from either Akagi Ritsuko's mother Akagi Naoko or Lilith, so it rejects Rei Ayanami. This theory is untenable in Fang Zheng's opinion. The reason why Ikari Yui's soul is in Unit-01 is because Ikari Yui herself was transformed into a sauce when she was conducting experiments in Unit-01, and her soul was integrated into Unit-01.

But Akagi Naoko committed suicide directly, and she didn't die in EVA. NERV's scientific and technological level is not enough to transplant the souls of the dead into EVA. As for Lilith, it's even more unreasonable. As we all know, Ayanami Rei's soul is Lilith's. If Unit 0 is also Lilith, how can there be rejection?

Another theory is that Unit-00 is the original unit, so it has various defects, and the prototype itself has a lot of problems. The basis for this theory comes from Unit-02, which is actually very unique. One of the strange things is that Asuka feels that her mother's soul is in Unit-02, but in fact Asuka's mother also committed suicide, and also died in a place that has nothing to do with EVA.

But if that's the case, there's a strange problem. Assuming that Unit 2 is protected by the soul of Asuka's mother, it should also be like Unit 01, strongly resisting outsiders from riding on it. In fact, when Rei Ayanami tried to ride on Unit 01, she was directly resisted.

But the fact is, Unit 02 has always been very stable, and there has never been any problem no matter who is riding it. Asuka has no problem, Kaworu Nagisa has no problem, and Maki has no problem - even Shinji Ikari actually entered the insertion plug of Unit 02 with Asuka at the beginning, and still did not cause any problems.

Only Rei Ayanami has never ridden EVA No. 2, so the last hypothesis cannot be verified - that is, there is actually nothing wrong with the machines themselves, but Rei Ayanami herself is mentally unstable, so no matter which EVA she drives, it is easy to cause rampage and rejection reactions.

In fact, in the original animation, there was a time when Rei Ayanami almost verified whether this hypothesis was correct, but Asuka at that time was unwilling to let Rei Ayanami board Unit 2, so in the spirit of scientific rigor, this hypothesis with the highest possibility in the end could only be a hypothesis.

If Rei Ayanami also showed a runaway reaction when she boarded the "Anyone Can Do It" Unit 2, then the hypothesis could be considered as evidence.

Of course, on the surface, this hypothesis is not very valid. After all, Rei Ayanami's mood swings are not big, and she doesn't look like the kind of person who would go berserk. But the facts prove that Rei Ayanami herself has no desire to survive, and even has the idea of ​​deliberately seeking death several times. Even if such a person has no problem with his personality, he may have some unspeakable thoughts in his subconscious.

After all, rushing forward with an N2 bomb and self-destructing, and fighting with a mutual destruction strategy at every turn - this does not seem like something those seemingly calm people would do.

But now, after witnessing Unit-00 with his own eyes, Fang Zheng finally figured out the problem with Unit-00's rampage legend.

Just as Hypothesis 2 speculated, as the first truly complete prototype, Unit 00 is flawed at the soul level.

This is like a computer with the GHOST system installed. You can turn it on and off without any problem, but if you want to run some programs, it may freeze or even show a blue screen due to the lack of corresponding system files in the system.

It is obvious that the problem of Unit-01 was solved by Ikari Yui herself who completed the system files. As for Unit-02... Fang Zheng has not seen it yet, so it is hard to say.

And after that, Fang Zheng finally met the most popular person in this world.

"I'm Ayanami Rei, nice to meet you."

The voice was as plain as snow, the pale hair and bright red eyes, and the indifferent face looked very similar to what Fang Zheng remembered.

"Hello, I'm Fang Zheng. You should already know that from now on, I'm the acting guardian of your pilot... Of course, there's only one of you at the moment."

Fang Zheng greeted Rei Ayanami with a smile. He was not surprised by her reaction. He had watched the entire anime and knew Rei Ayanami's personality very well.

"Can I call you Rei?"

"Can."

"Very good, Li, then you should already know that Katsuragi is responsible for the combat arrangements, Dr. Akagi is responsible for your physical condition, and my main task is to take care of your life and study... Of course, there is only you at the moment."

At this point, Fang Zheng laughed again. Just as he said, although Ikari Gendō agreed to Fang Zheng's joining, Fang Zheng's authority was currently limited to the personal life of the pilot. When it came to physical health or combat missions, he was not qualified to interfere.

In fact, Fang Zheng would not interfere. If he wanted to do it, he would do it himself. Is it necessary to communicate with these guys?

Of course not.

"Then let's go to your house first."

Although he had known the situation through the animation a long time ago, Fang Zheng was still speechless after seeing Rei Ayanami's house with his own eyes.

Does this guy Gendo Ikari really care about Rei Ayanami?

Looking at this simple single room in front of him, Fang Zheng almost didn't know what to say. The location of this place itself was very ordinary, the light was not good, and the surrounding environment was not very good. As a result, the layout inside was even worse. Not to mention, this room itself was very small, just like a resettlement house...

You could at least give me a single apartment. What's the point of giving me a pigeon cage?

Of course, with Rei Ayanami's personality, she definitely doesn't care about these things, even if she is given a shabby dormitory, she will probably live there. But the problem is that whether someone wants it or not is a matter of their personality, and whether you give it or not is a matter of your attitude.

Yuki Nagato is also a person with no worldly desires, but she does live in a high-end apartment with three bedrooms and a living room!

With Rei Ayanami's personality of living wherever she wants, it certainly wasn't because she disliked her previous house being too luxurious and deliberately asked for a shabby one, but this was the one she had arranged from the beginning!

Ikari Gendo, you can't even pretend to be complete.

Recalling the scene in the movie where Rei Ayanami confronted Gendo Ikari and said "I'm not your puppet", Fang Zheng said that this is not even as good as the treatment of puppets. Ask the otakus, which of those glass cabinets for displaying puppets is not carefully designed? The rich ones even put LEDs on them.

This is raising stray dogs.

"First, let's change our living environment."

Fang Zheng was also going to live here, but he couldn't see it completely in the animation. Now that he was here in person and had observed it carefully, Fang Zheng said that this place was too crowded for one person, let alone two people. Of course, forget it if there were more than three people living here.

So Fang Zheng decisively picked up the phone.

"Sorry, we need to change houses..."