The Collection of The End

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The transparent "shell" of the huge "globe" made waves like the surface of the water, and then a big purple hand suddenly stretched out from the "water", pressed it on the "shell", and then continued to exert force, and it would be in the The first "underwater" machine was brought up.

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After the first machine stood firm, the body began to flicker, blur, fade, and finally disappeared completely, leaving only Shinji Ikari, who was originally only the size of a finger.

"..." Ikari Shinji looked down at the still rippling "water shell" of the "globe" under his feet, then turned to Nagisa Kaoru, who was standing aside with his hands in his trouser pockets: "Aren't you going to say something?"

"[What? Oh—]" Zhu Xun raised his eyebrows: "[Okay! Very energetic!]"

"I'm not asking you to comment on that sentence..." Ikari Shinji raised his hand to rest his forehead, and said after a while, "You have spent so much trouble just to let me [stay here], what is the purpose?"

"[In simple terms, only you [stay here], 'Ayanami Rei' and 'Noah' can [stay together],]" Zhu Xun replied: "[There are lovers who are married at last, which is gratifying ,congratulations.】"

"...I don't think you would be so kind to put a red line on your 'other personality'," Shinji Ikari expressed disbelief. "Also, although I don't know where Ayanami is, I'm not allowed to talk nonsense in front of her."

"[Look, don't you understand what I'm saying?]" Zhu Xun smiled: "[You don't want 'your Ayanami' to be influenced by others, and I, too.]"

"You too—" Ikari Shinji frowned, and paused before preparing to say anything, "No, no, you don't like Ayanami."

"[Of course not,]" Nagisa Xun shrugged: "[Since you have decided to 'stay', I can let you experience the 'truth of the world' a little bit.]"

What's the meaning?

Ikari Shinji looked at Nagisa Kaoru suspiciously, and saw that he didn't move, but just lifted his foot and stepped on it lightly, and the "transparent shell" protecting the "Earth" under his feet began to rise and fall like a pond with stones thrown into it.

Ikari Shinji looked down subconsciously, but found that until the "water wave" calmed down, the "earth" did not change much, but when he looked up again to ask, he was shocked by the sight in front of him and lost his voice.

Originally, even after the "Earth" became clear, the strange black fog shrouded it from all directions had disappeared, replaced by the "Earth" that covered all the "sky" within sight.

The contours of the continents and oceans, the colors of the water bodies and the land, the inclination of the earth's axis and the overall size are all different from each other. Some of them are exactly the same as Shinji Ikari's impression, while others are very different. What's more, they are completely the same. The shattered remains of a planet after a complete collapse.

After absorbing the personalities of other world lines, Shinji Ikari's vision has far surpassed before, and he can easily judge that the gap between those earths is not just a "world line" caused by whether a specific event occurs or not. Their natural laws, space laws, time flow, logical operation, and even the basic particles that make up everything are hugely different from each other. As for whether there is a profound conceptual gap that even he does not know, it is even more unknown. .

Ikari Shinji reached out to them subconsciously, but was interrupted by himself halfway through.

Now that you've decided to "stay," you shouldn't try to touch the scenery on your "journey," right?

So, "owe him one time" and "write off a sum" really mean this?

"['Monoverse' and 'Multiverse',]" Nagisa said, "[If you want to know what you missed.]"

"...Go up, is there anything else?" Ikari Shinji was silent for a moment, then asked.

"['Almighty Universe',]" Zhu Xun looked at his expression: "[Although the size of each layer can't be compared, but if I have to say it...'Glass marbles' and 'Sun'.]"

"Heh," Ikari Shinji raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "Ordinary people can't hold the 'sun' in their palms and put them in their pockets."

"[Very good idea,]" Zhu Xun said, "[Then, it's time to show you how this 'glass marble' in your hand was 'manufactured'.]"

The gray-haired and red-eyed boy looked up at the sky, raised his hand and waved lightly, and the "earth" that covered the sky spread out, revealing a land outline that was almost identical to the "earth" beneath his feet.

The next moment, it suddenly "falls" down.

A planet fell head-on, even though Shinji Ikari knew that it was just a visual representation, he was still heartbroken and could only turn his head to look at Nagisa Kaoru.

"[Welcome to visit - 'Gate of Steins'!]" Nagisa Xun smiled at him: "[ElPsyCongroo!]"

What kind of weirdness is that?

—

"Well!"

Maybe after a few minutes, or maybe a few hours, the scenery in front of Ikari Shinji changed back to the huge earth and its transparent shell. Almost at the same time, the violent headache caused him to subconsciously wrap his head in his hands.

Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw that the various "earths" that covered the sky had disappeared, and was shrouded in thick black fog again.

"[You are now above the 'single universe', and the 'multiverse' is not full. If you look at it for a long time, there will be accidents.]" Zhu Xun did not know when he turned out a big rock, and was sitting on it looking up at the sky: "[ I'll block you for the time being.]"

"Thank you, the Phoenix Academy is fierce." Ikari Shinji said.

"[You're welcome, Rentaro Okabe.]" Nagisa Kaoru replied.

"Mayuri, Ayanami... It seems difficult to connect..." Ikari Shinji pinched his forehead.

"[In addition to the fact that she has died too many times, it will turn into an emoji when she laughs.]" Nagisa Kaoru replied.

"Makise Kurisu and Asuka look alike, but..." Ikari Shinji frowned.

"[The main reason is that they were all sucked in by strange spheres.]" Nagisa Kaun replied.

"Aren't the real names of Urushihara Ryuka and Kirishima a bit outrageous?"

"[Because part-time soldiers got in.]"

"Hashida Toji and Suzuhara Toji have absolutely nothing in common."

"[Don't you think their voices are very similar?]"

"But there are a lot of other people who don't correspond..."

"[I thought you already understood that the 'multiverse' can easily interfere with the 'single universe' for very absurd reasons, not the other way around. If you really want to solve the puzzle, I can take you to see the 'Suzumiya' The Melancholy of Spring'.]"

"No, forget it, I feel like my head is going to explode right now."

Pressing his forehead, Shinji Ikari summed up what he saw in "Stone Gate", the information he knew, and what Nagisa Kaoru told him.

Before those "frost meteors" that they saw in "Illusion" fell and froze the entire earth, there was human civilization in the world, but they were destroyed by themselves.

The place where the story happened is also in Japan, but it was in a place called Akihabara that Ikari Shinji had never heard of. Its basic logic is to use a phone with an oven to send a text message to a mobile phone in the past to achieve a jump. The purpose of the world line.

In this "prehistoric" world, he's called Rintaro Okabe, but he has the middle-two nickname of "Phoenix Academy" and is a...well, a mad scientist.

The collapse of the world started when he tried to change the world by sending time text messages.

The details of the story do not need to be repeated, but the final result is that "Phoenix Academy Fierce", a pseudonym that is not even a personality, gained the ability to detach from the world by jumping the world line again and again and successfully left.

Afterwards, for some reason or not if his departure attracted attention, something in the multiverse similar to the "Weave of Life" discovered the world and cast "Frost Meteor" to freeze it completely.

Then, the "Golden Tree Eve" came, the first impact, restarting the world.

Originally, it was impossible for "prehistoric humans", including himself, to regain consciousness, but by coincidence, after the golden tree was cut off by the "King of Fear" for the second time, the restored survival instinct started on its own. The third shock sucked the consciousness of all mankind into the tree trunk, and in the process of Eve reshaping mankind with LCL, the "prehistoric people" were "revived".

However, the story of Steins;Gate has passed for too long, and it is impossible for Eve to know the relevant details, so, just like the law of water flowing down, the "multiverse" inevitably has a The universe" had an effect that made it what it is now.

In the end, it was "Phoenix Academy" or "Zhu Xun", who had reached the "multiverse level". He noticed this and returned to his "hometown" to help his "old friend".

And his purpose, of course, is not about returning home, drinking water and thinking about the source, he just doesn't want "Ikari Shinji", "Ayanami" and "Noah" to go to the "multiverse".

As he said before, the "single universe" will be interfered by the "multiverse", and it just so happens that the people and things in this world are very similar to the "multiple universe" where "Zhu Kaoru" lives.

On his side, there are also "Ayanami Rei", "Asuka", "Kirishima's real name" and even "Noah".

Judging from the situation shown by Zhu Xun, when the same individual of the "single universe" and the "multiverse" meet, the high-level person can easily "fuse" or "devour" the low-level person. This behavior is seen by the low-level person. It is natural to destroy it, but in the eyes of high-level people, it is just "recycling".

In fact, all the memories and feelings of the "reclaimed" low-level people are stored in the high-level people. Friends are still friends, relatives are still relatives. If there is something that is of special concern, the high-level people will really take it as their own business. Do the same thing, but because of the different levels, maybe the originally difficult things are just a little effort. In a sense, this can actually be regarded as the "sublimation" of the low-level people.

Then, the only people who will be dissatisfied with this situation are the people who have special feelings for him/her.

Ikari Shinji understood this without any special example.

What he likes is the one he accidentally met in NERV, drives the No. 0 machine, set up a literary club, recommends detective novels, has a pair of strange glasses, is fooled by the "information integrated missing body" from time to time to say strange things, can read minds I still don’t admit it, I always stay by the bedside every time I get hurt, stuff chocolate into my mouth on Valentine’s Day, Ayanami Zero, who has a synchronization rate of 100%, is not unknown how many universes he has ruled. He is very powerful, although he has the same appearance and memory, But "Rei Ayanami" is definitely a stranger to himself.

According to Nagisa Kaoru, he doesn't care about "his Ayanami" absorbing "low-level Ayanami", but if this Ayanami has someone he likes, it won't work, he can't simply absorb Ikari Shinji to inherit this feeling , but it's a bit weird no matter how you think about it, so I planned to not absorb it from both sides, and to retain the world of Ikari Shinji is the key.

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Ikari Shinji and Nagisa Kaoru were walking on a "road" completely shrouded in black mist. Although they couldn't see anything, Nagisa Kaoru didn't hesitate at all. Shinji Ikari followed closely behind him, telling him something along the way. No.

"[After you bring your Ayanami back, don't let her come out. I'm afraid it will be embarrassing to admit the wrong person.]"

"Oh, I guess you've made a mistake more than once?"

"【that's not important.】"

"I don't need to guess, she should be looking for a 'stronger self' to ask her to help solve the 'spider of life' and other **** to break the cycle of reincarnation, I called her back, you have to help ."

"[The labor of raising a hand, by the way is the 'weaving thread of life']"

"My intuition tells me that you are hiding a lot of things from me, and some are cheating, but as long as I can find Ayanami, I can pretend that I didn't find it."

"[It's not good to hear too much about the multiverse. I just replaced some concepts that you are hard to understand and knowledge that is not suitable for you to know with words that you are more familiar with.]"

"What if, if we go back and have a breakthrough in power, we have to come to the 'multiverse' again?"

"[You think too much, but if there is such a thing... it's better to change your look.]"

"You people in the multiverse don't change clothes and hairstyles for 10,000 years, do they?"

"[On average every 50,000 years.]"

"Is this just cheating?"

"【you guess?】"

Ikari Shinji was about to reply, "Guess I guess or not," when suddenly he felt someone pushed him behind his back, he staggered forward involuntarily, and then his eyes suddenly opened up.

"'Shanshui Lecheng Community'?" Ikari Shinji looked at the map of the community in front of him, and looked at the surrounding environment of ordinary urban communities and leisurely pedestrians.

Should I say thankfully I didn't come out in a driver's suit? That must be regarded as a weirdo, right?

At this moment, a subtle chatter came down the wind:

"Hey, did you see that the Coser of 'Ayanami' who just passed by is really professional."

"But why do I feel that she looks familiar, why does she look like 'Little Zero'? Didn't she start playing with this?"

"probably not."

"I saw that girl helping Qingshui grass by the artificial lake before. It's definitely not."

"Forget it, forget about other people's affairs."

Ayanami ran out wearing a driver's suit? !

Ikari Shinji quickly determined the location of the artificial lake on the map, and ran over there.

…Uh?

For some reason, the surrounding environment is extremely normal, but he moves like he is wearing shackles of dozens of pounds, and his breathing is extremely difficult. He clearly wants to sprint with all his strength, but the movements he does are like jogging after meals, and even other The same jogger nodded to him.

...is this the high-level world?

In the end, Shinji Ikari saw Rei Ayanami beside the sparkling artificial lake. She was indeed wearing that pure white driving suit and walked all the way to the artificial lake as if she was walking, completely ignoring the attention of the passers-by around her. present.

This is differential treatment!

Ikari Shinji was sweating anxiously, but he could only continue to work hard to "jog" to catch up.

As the distance approached, he finally saw what happened by the lake:

A huge "fourth apostle" was floating on the surface of the artificial lake, twitching from time to time.

As for the lakeside, in addition to ordinary community residents, there are many people who are not ordinary people at first sight. Men and women in strange clothes are watching, and Lingbo Lingyi's driving suit has perfectly integrated into the atmosphere of this group of people. No one questioned when I walked in.

But that's not the point, the point is the direction Ayanami is going.

There was a girl standing there, wearing high-waisted jeans and a white T-shirt, with a light blue coat tied around her waist. She looked exactly like Ayanami five or six years older—dyed her hair black, and put it on again. With black contact lenses, he was grabbing at the ear of a boy who was holding a skateboard and reprimanded him.

So high-level Ayanami is like this? Do you think you will sit on a high throne and look down on all beings? If it is such Ayanami, it seems that...

Of course not! She doesn't like me!

At this time, Ling Ling, who was wearing a driver's suit, had already walked in front of the girl, and the girl had also spotted her, so she threw the boy aside and looked up and down with curiosity.

Ayanami seemed to say something and reached out to her, but the girl didn't seem to understand, but she also reached out and tried to shake her.

Do not! no!

Ayanami who is not Ayanami is not Ayanami I want!

【puff. 】

At this moment, there seemed to be a faint voice that could not hold back his laughter. Ikari Shinji, who was trying to speed up, suddenly felt a slack on his body. At the same time as the speed suddenly increased, the armed abilities that came from other personalities were also activated simultaneously.

As a result, the sudden appearance of Unit 1 grabbed Rei Ayanami from the girl.

At the same time, Shinji Ikari's roar resounded by the artificial lake:

"【Ayanami is mine!】"

The girl who reached out and held an empty hand tilted her head and looked at the first phone, then flipped out and took out a mobile phone and held it up.

Click.