The purpose of the apostles' third attack was not for their own "evolution", but to carry out the will of Adam's population and destroy the Lilith population (that is, human beings) from this planet. The purpose of the third impact is also different because of the difference of "SEELE side", "source side" and "sole side" According to the dead sea documents, SEELE believes that only by "abandoning individuals and learning from each other's strengths, thus evolving a new attitude" can human beings achieve "atonement" for the gods. SEELE's plan was almost successful in the end, but because Shinji finally realized the mistake of his thinking and gave up the will of "all people are one" at the last minute, the moon collapsed and people's souls returned to the earth, and SEELE's plan ended in complete failure. The source's purpose is simple: to see Ikari Yui. The specific implementation process of this goal is explained in detail here: 1. First of all, Du Yuan put forward the "Man-made-up Plan" to SEELE (that is, the TV version of sentence 2 1 Du Yuan said to Dongyue after disappearing for a week, "The road to becoming a god that no one has completed before"). In this way, Du Yuan and SEELE became apparent "allies" (although he knew it was only temporary), and as the commander-in-chief of NERV, he gained the power to command NERV, which was also necessary for him to achieve his goals. Moreover, we must clearly realize that Gendu put forward this plan with his own real intention. 2. Then, the "E Plan" and "Adam Plan" derived from the "Human Supplementary Plan" correspond to the two points of "making Eva" and "restoring Adam (that is, the embryo Adam that appeared later)". These two points are exactly what Silai and Du Yuan ·NERV did for their real purpose, including eliminating all descendants of Adam (that is, all apostles except Lilith and human beings). But please still don't forget that the abacus in the hearts of both sides is completely different. 3. Du Yuan made Ayanami Rei without telling Searle, and used her to preserve Lilith's soul. This step is the core of supply planning. As long as Li is still in his hands, the source is equivalent to controlling the soul. In this way, as long as his plan is ripe, he can "make up" his heart with Lilith's soul at any time. As for Li's true identity, SEELE didn't know it until the end. This can be seen from the 23 words "tears" in the TV version. After the birth of Lili, Dong Yue worried that the old people in SEELE would doubt Lili's identity accordingly. 4. Destroy the apostles one by one. This is the wish of both sides, so on the surface, Du Yuan and SEELE seem to "cooperate" quite happily. However, with the decrease of the number of remaining apostles and the approaching of the start-up period of SEELE project, the "small moves" of the source are gradually noticed by SEELE (but the most important thing is that Li's secret has not been revealed). However, because Du Yuan threw the gun of Ron Girnus out of the earth without authorization in the 15th Battle of the Apostles, which fundamentally disrupted SEELE's original plan, SEELE was convinced of the true face of Du Yuan as a "traitor". In this process, Du Yuan also made a crucial move: relying on Kaji Ryoji, he stole Adam's body from SEELE, which had recovered into an embryo, and finally merged with himself (that is, implanted it in the palm of his right hand). 5. After all the apostles were annihilated, before SEELE began to make up for it (that is, after the Lang gun was lost, it was made up with a horn machine and a mass production fleet), and the soul taken out of Li's body matched Adam's body in his own hand. As a person who guides and supplements himself, he becomes a God-like being. In this way, he can even create his ideal world, and the ultimate goal of "harmony without difference" has been achieved. Du Yuan's plan finally failed. Ironically, the root cause of his plan's ultimate failure is precisely his only relative-Shinji. Beauty is the core of the original plan, so the "loyalty" of beauty is indispensable for the final success of the original plan. However, in the end, the two men chose to blow themselves up for Shinji, which was naturally unexpected, and the three men were just bent on Shinji. So, although on the surface, it seems that at the beginning of Sincerely Offering the King, Sanren Lili's betrayal of Gendu was the "turning point" that led to the final failure of his plan, in fact, from the moment when Sanren Lili chose to blow herself up, it can even be said that from the moment when Sanren Lili began to fall in love with Shinko, Gendu's plan had already buried the shadow of final failure. Finally, I want to talk about Wei's wishes. Different from SEELE, she wants to leave traces of human existence in the universe after the third impact. It is for this reason that she voluntarily merged into the EVA counting machine as a "proof of human existence" and kept it forever. At the end of the 97 theatrical version of The End of the Gospel Warrior, this wish is very obvious through the quiet winter moon, so I won't go into details here. Judging from the final ending of The End of the Gospel Warrior, the only wish has been realized. Therefore, only the only desire is the "plan" that will eventually become the "third shock".