Chapter 131: Backdrop
The Final Dogma.
Ade and C.C. descended from the Unicorn Gundam to the ground, and the two were in the middle of an open and wide hollow. In front of them, a white giant was crucified, and an equally huge lance pierced its chest.
Ikari Gendou refused to make any communication with Ade, but instead, offered to open the passage to the Final Dogma. With a moment's thought, Ade understood the other party's intention and drove Unicorn deep underground until it now came to Lilith's face.
Suddenly, the lower half of the white giant's body began to squirm and grow a tumor-like thing. The tumor struggled and detached itself from the white giant's body, twisted and deformed, and eventually became the appearance of a naked C.C.
"Hello, my child." Lilith with the face of C.C. said expressionlessly, "At last we meet again, welcome back."
"Can you change your image?" Ade looked at C.C. beside him and only felt very awkward.
"If you ask for it." As soon as the words fell, the C.C.-faced Lilith turned into a white sludge of flesh once again, squirming disgustingly, and a few seconds later, a naked Ayanami Rei appeared before Ade's eyes, "Restored the image you remember expecting of me, I hope this is a little better for you to accept."
"Ade?" C.C. raised an eyebrow, "Where did this woman come from? I need an explanation."
"We can talk about it later. Don't worry, she's absolutely not a new harem." Ade hastened to reassure C.C. and C.C. sniffed and dropped her guarded expression, "Ayanami Rei, no, Lilith, there are too many things to say, but please allow me to ask curiously first, you do not seem to have a hostile look towards me?"
"Which mother would be hostile to her own child?" Lilith answered rightfully, "It's like I was dormant here and suddenly a human appeared to pin me down, but I still don't have the slightest hatred for him. For my child. I'm just a piece of programming designed to do everything in the service of reproducing life, unable to hate my own children."
"A program?" C.C. was confused, "What are you talking about?"
Ade gave C.C. a look and said to Lilith, "Let's start from the beginning, from where you came from, to the reason you chose me."
"My civilization has been destroyed by the infection, and in its final moments, it launched the spaceship containing the egg of life into the universe in order to perpetuate its existence." Lilith stretched out her hand and pointed to the huge hollow, "This is the essence of the spaceship, and I and the being you call Adam were responsible for the reproduction of life, but were mistakenly launched to the same planet. The being you call the Spear of Longinus is our controller, and the being you call the Dead Sea Scroll is our instruction manual."
"It's gone from fantasy to science fiction all of a sudden." C.C. looked at Ade, "You already knew that?"
Ade nodded and replied, "When Embryo first came over, he relied on boson jumping technology to hang around the universe and saw a lot of unbelievable things. He didn't recognize any of them and couldn't realize the magnitude of the problem, but he described it to me and Yang Wen-li and we immediately got it."
"So you've been worried about this?" C.C. froze and realization dawned on her, "How powerful must the civilization that created Lilith and Adam be? And what level was the thing that destroyed Lilith's civilization?"
Lilith pointed to Ade, "In his memory, it was called Flood, similar to the image of insect creatures that often appear in human literature nowadays." (Flood: A creature from the game "Halo")
"Embryo said he had also seen the corpse of Xel'Naga in the universe." Ade asked, "What happened to them?"
"Perished long ago." Lilith replied flatly, as if the demise of a race was inconsequential to her, "The creature you call the Tyranids was fighting for control of one of the spiral arms of the galaxy with the Flood. That was when the race you call the Xel'Naga was wiped out by them. Now, the race you call the Forerunner is building a Halo Array in the galaxy in an attempt to destroy the two races at the same time."
"According to the information recorded on the wreckage of the Forerunner ship that Embryo picked up, there are roughly a hundred decades until the Halo Array is fully set up and the destruction of life across the galaxy is complete." Ade continued, "That's how much time humanity has left."
C.C. stood bewildered. The topic was far beyond her imagination.
"Even if the human race escaped the galaxy in a hundred years, there is still STMC in the extra-river galaxy." Ade said and laughed, "So ELS and BETA are simply something like an appetizer, not even the qualification to make me feel sleepless." (STMC: a creature from Aim for the Top GunBuster. I never watched this anime so I don't know what it is.)
"…Is that the kind of pressure you've been fighting with on your back?" C.C. held Ade's hand, "I'm sorry."
"It's okay, don't apologize." Ade squeezed her palm, "So the battle between humans and angels is actually a very meaningless thing, but the vast majority of angels do not have free will, they are just following the established procedures to act."
"Then what am I?" C.C. looked uneasily at Lilith, "What about me, where did I come from?"
"You are the result of my attempt to gain free will." Lilith replied, "I used my own flesh and blood for your body, my own will for your soul, the Chulip Crystal for your life, and eventually created you."
"So I don't remember anything in the past, because the memories don't exist at all?" C.C.'s eyes widened in disbelief and she stood a little unsteadily, "I'm… Lilith? Then I, I …"
"Don't be silly, you are C.C., not Lilith. Just like I'm me, not Yang Wen-li, it's simple." Ade reached out with his other hand and pinched her cheek, "What else are you going to let me call you? Mom?"
"Rascal." C.C. slapped his hand away, feeling amused and annoyed, "Don't expect me to play this humiliating role-play with you, I'm not Ange."
"Wait, how do you know that?" Ade looked shocked, "You listened?!"
C.C. suddenly realized that she had blurted out. The look of embarrassment flashed on her face, so she immediately acted as if nothing had happened, "So, Code and Geass are the authority that Lilith gave to her own children? Well, it makes sense that Coordinator and NT can't use Geass, they've been transformed beyond recognition."
Ade didn't have the heart to poke fun at C.C. at the moment, but continued his conversation with Lilith as he released his consciousness to the other side, "You should have met Aeolia? The person I'm thinking of in my head right now."
"Yes, he was the first Lilin to find me." Lilith replied, "He was also the one who took away my fruit of life."
"He was the first to discover Lilith, and he should also be the first to read the Dead Sea Scroll, and then he formed SEELE. EVA is made by him, Gundam00 is made by him, the fruit of life… that V.V. is likely also made by him." Ade lamented, "Is he actually the protagonist but not me? Aeolia is too strong!"
"You're the protagonist." C.C. smiled faintly at him, "At least in my story, you are the main character."
Ade smiled sweetly with her.
"When he sent the soul over, I perused all the memories." Lilith continued, "Your existence is special, and for the possibility of life continuity, you are not to be annihilated, which is why I changed my agreement with him. Adam's children cannot understand this, so, be careful."
"The result is that I have to die of overwork." Ade replied breathlessly, "For C.C.'s sake, I'll have to overwork myself."
"Ade…" C.C. leaned into him. Her voice suddenly became very gentle.
"That's all I can do, I'll leave the back to you." Lilith pointed to Ayanami Rei's body, "You seem to be very fond of this body image, do you need me to make another one for you, just like her?"
"No!" Ade immediately retorted in a loud voice, "Never! I only need C.C.!"
C.C. curled her mouth and did not say anything.
Lilith and Ade stared at each other wordlessly for a while longer, and then her body suddenly disintegrated into a cloud of orange liquid that flowed away irregularly on the ground.
"Now you know why humans are screwed." Ade exhaled, "Let me explain to you again the proper nouns that just appeared, first of all, the Halo Array, the halo is a…"
"It's okay if you can't do it, I've lived long enough." C.C. softly interrupted him, "We still have more than a hundred years to go, I'm already satisfied."
"It's only a hundred years, there are so many more things I want to do with you, it's not enough." Ade retorted, "Don't worry, I'm the main character, I will solve everything, you just have to trust me."
"You." C.C. laughed softly, "The background of the story became too big all of a sudden, so big that I have no idea what I can do for you, for us. But as long as you want, I'll meet you."
"We just have to keep going like this, and not want anything." Ade shook her hand hard and didn't take the opportunity to make any strange demands, "No matter what the world becomes, a stable routine helps keep your mental health. I'm an NT, do you know how hard it is not to be crazy by now?"
…
"The world is turning into what Dr. needs it to be." Chang Wufei put away Char's incoming intel with satisfaction, "TITANS is finally about to go broke."
He double-clicked the mouse to open the only program on his desktop - You Don't Have to Be Very Troublesome and Tiring to be Celestial Being. This was the Celestial Being plan that Ade had made, and it was the top-secret of the ship. Only Chang Wufei had access to it, and no one else on the ship even knew of its existence itself.
The plan itself is an almost enumerated list of all the scenarios and actions to be taken in each case, Ade will be updated remotely in real-time every day. All Chang Wufei has to do in most cases is fine-tune what's in the manual to the actual situation, and call and consult "the person behind the scenes" if an unplanned situation arises.
"TITANS is on the verge of bankruptcy." Chang Wufei found the corresponding directory and clicked on it, "The next step should be…"
The general approach of Celestial Being's plan is the same as the one that Yang Wen-li used to unify the Earth. Yang Wen-li secretly funded the rebel army of the satellite circle, using them to kill the opposition on Earth, and finally let Treize out to clean up the mess.
Ade's plan is similar. While using the name of stopping the war to snipe TITANS senior officers, they force Scirocco into economic hardship. When TITANS goes bankrupt, through Char relationship and Prime Minister Marcenas, they support Captain Bright to replace Scirocco.
"This familiar feeling." Chang Wufei smiled, "Not bad for a doctor's handiwork."
It hadn't been that long since the first alien friends had visited Earth, and what Ade needed was a unified human ecosystem to complete his plan. He does not want the people's discontent to boil over after the forceful conquest of the world.
After Chang Wufei double-checked the flow of this operation, he looked at the time and headed to the briefing room. By the time he arrived, the four pilots had already arrived. Without saying much, he then began to explain the main points of this operation.
"Finally, I have good news for everyone." After the lecture was finished, he looked around the briefing room, "Next week starts with Cagalli's due date, the Doctor is giving each of you a long leave, the others can leave until Cagalli gives birth, and Kira can leave until a week after Cagalli gives birth."
"Yes!" Kamille cheered, "That man still has humanity."
"So this battle is the last one before the holidays. All of you, don't take it lightly, your life belongs to yourself, don't let your guard down." Chang Wufei said and glared at Kamille, and Kamille reflexively shrank his neck, "Solve your own matters as soon as possible. We will be very busy after the holiday."
"Well, I also have an announcement to make!" Asuka raised his hand, "It's about me and Stella."
Kamille lowered his head with a tense expression when he heard Stella's name, but it was good that everyone's attention was on Shinn and no one noticed his abnormality.
"I didn't intend to do it so early, but since Adrien-san gave the leave, and since Kira-san got babies, I don't think there is a more suitable opportunity, and Stella will definitely agree." Asuka smiled coyly, "After this battle is over, I plan to go back to the moon with Stella and get married."
