Li Yunfan's words caused Zhao Lan to fall into a brief silence again. After a while, Zhao Lan responded, "But...... Li Yunfan, if you don't tell the police about your relevant information, you have already done your duty, why should I help you? After all, our relationship doesn't seem to be that good, and not so long ago, you stole my spaceship and caused inconvenience to my movements. ”

"I don't have a reason to help you." Zhao Lan repeated, "There is no obligation to help you. ”

"No, you have enough reasons to help me." Li Yunfan's response already brought a little smile: "For the sake of the good cooperation between you and me, I don't mind telling you a little bit about my identity." Well, if I'm not mistaken, you're back on Earth this time, and in addition to going on vacation, you're planning to visit Professor Sid, right? ”

Professor Sid is a theoretical physicist of great repute, and in recognition of his contributions to the scientific community, he was awarded the position of honorary professor by the first university in human civilization, so he is generally known as Professor Sid. However, this person has an eccentric temperament and rarely communicates with people, so the general public is generally unaware of this person's existence except in the scientific community.

Zhao Lan did have plans to visit Professor Sid. It was by chance that Zhao Lan got this opportunity, and it is very rare to be able to accept the teachings of a scientist in person, so Zhao Lan attaches great importance to this matter.

"How did you know I was going to visit Professor Sid?" Zhao Lan asked with some confusion.

Li Yunfan replied with a smile: "Because...... Professor Sid is me, and I am Professor Sid. This is just one of several identities that I have on the surface. In addition, the painter Sun Wei, the psychologist Wilson, the condensed matter physics expert Davis, and the black hole expert Anderson...... These people are me. Of course, these are just side hustles that I did casually, my original profession is a thief, I am Li Yunfan. ”

"What?!" Zhao Lan covered her mouth in surprise, shocked to the point of disbelief. Because of the names mentioned by Li Yunfan. Everyone can be considered a leader in their own industry, and it can be said that they are masters, such as the painter Sun Wei, whose paintings have sold for record high prices in auction houses several times. For example, the psychologist Wilson, who even served as a psychological adviser to the Führer, and Anderson, who published several groundbreaking papers on black holes...... Each of these people is so famous that even people outside Zhao Lan's industry have heard of it. But now. Li Yunfan said that those people are just one of his identities, and they are just a side hustle?

Zhao Lan couldn't believe this at all. The most important point is that although these people are all famous figures, their personalities, appearances, growth backgrounds, social intersections and other circles are different, and they can be said to be unrelated characters. Who would have thought that these people were actually all one person?

"You must be kidding, you must be." Zhao Lan muttered, "This is impossible, this is absolutely impossible." ”

"It doesn't matter if you don't believe it now, when you return to Earth, you will confirm it with what you have seen and heard with your own eyes." Li Yunfan continued, "So now, do you believe in my ability? Especially, now that I am in this empty universe, I have been studying the strange space that exists in the solar system for a long time. So...... If there is one person in our human civilization who can prevent this catastrophe, it is me. So, you are not only helping me escape this empty universe and return to our universe, you are saving the entire human civilization. In this case...... Will you help me? ”

"But...... Since you have so many outstanding identities. Why would you want to be a thief if you believe that wealth, or social status, honor, and so on are all things that you want? Zhao Lan muttered.

Li Yunfan continued to smile and said, "Because I like it." I like the feeling of being in the palm of my hand, I like the feeling that people can't figure out what I'm going to do, and I like the feeling of being in society in a different capacity and everyone is kept in the dark. Don't you find this interesting? ”

"Including stealing my ship?" Zhao Lan touched his forehead a little weakly and asked.

"This matter is a bit special, and I will explain the specific reasons to you later." Li Yunfan replied. "Okay, let's talk about it first, after you return to Earth, you might as well contact a guy named Rodriguez first, and I'll send you the specific contact information and password later. After you tell him the password, he'll take you to my lab. Once you've seen my data, you'll be convinced. ”

What I saw and heard today is really amazing, everything this guy named Li Yunfan said sounds like nonsense, like the babbling of a madman, but there is a kind of logic and persuasion that makes people unable to find faults and flaws. Especially the sentence: "When you see my laboratory, you will completely believe me", Zhao Lan couldn't help but start believing that all this was true.

"Okay, I'll wait until I see your lab data." Zhao Lan replied.

After this sentence, the communication between the two men was disconnected. During this period of communication, Zhao Lan's spacecraft had advanced a distance of more than a million kilometers. At this moment, Zhao Lan was no longer far away from the Earth Port, and the spaceship also received orbital parameters such as the channel and speed from the Earth Port, so Zhao Lan raised his spirit and prepared to drive the spacecraft to the Earth Port.

Earthport is located over the capital city, which is located above the Earth's equator. The capital city gradually developed from the city of life at the time of the solar crisis, and because of its special geographical location, it eventually became the political, technological and economic center of the earth, and at the same time, it is also the most populous city on the earth.

Under the guidance of the port staff, the Sylvia ship finally docked smoothly in the harbor. Before leaving the spaceship, Zhao Lan deliberately kept the spaceship's communication interface open, and also deliberately brought a small communication device with him. The communication interface opened on the spaceship can keep the ship in touch with Li Yunfan, and the communication device that he brings with him can keep in touch with the Sylvia spacecraft. Through the transfer of the spaceship, no matter where Zhao Lan is on the earth, Zhao Lan can talk to Li Yunfan.

Under the guidance of the staff, Zhao Lan took the shuttle bus to the air-space interaction system, and then took the space elevator to embark on the journey to Earth. A space elevator built on Earth is larger and more spectacular than a space elevator built on Mars. The scenery above Earth is also more beautiful than that of Mars.

It was daytime, so Zhao Lan, who was tens of thousands of kilometers in the air, saw the blue, white, yellow and green colors on the earth. The green is the forest, the blue is the sea, the white is the clouds, and the yellow is the desert. The earth seen from above is more gorgeous and more peaceful.

Zhao Lan has not been to Earth for several years, and the long-lost food and beautiful scenery in his memory, as well as the bustling city and crowded crowds, have such a special attraction for Zhao Lan now. Zhao Lan had been waiting for this moment for a long time, but when this moment really came, Zhao Lan didn't have much expectation and excitement in his heart.

The words that he had talked to Li Yunfan in the spaceship had always hovered in Zhao Lan's mind. About the empty universe, about the fate of the earth, about the vanished stars and the impending disaster, about the mystery of Li Yunfan...... All of this was heavily pressed in Zhao Lan's heart, so that Zhao Lan's emotions could never be high.

"Don't worry about this stuff yet." Zhao Lan comforted herself like this, "Maybe the so-called Li Yunfan is just a liar at all, and everything he said is nonsense." There are many reasons that may cause the stars to disappear, but perhaps the truth is just a physical process that we have not yet discovered and will not affect the earth at all, where will there be a fold in space and a fall into the empty universe......"

Because the space elevator descended too quickly, Zhao Lan has been in a state of weightlessness. It wasn't a great experience, but Zhao Lan had to spend hours in this state.

These few hours were spent in Zhao Lan's cranky thoughts. As time passed, outside the window, everything above the earth seemed bigger and bigger, and the details became more and more perfect. Here, Zhao Lan could even see the towering peaks and equally tall buildings.

The clouds outside the space elevator have also become dense from their initial sparseness. In this process, gravity gradually returned to Zhao Lan's side, so that Zhao Lan was finally no longer bound by the seat belt and could sit firmly on the seat. Even, because of the constant deceleration, Zhao Lan even felt a sense of oppression that was greater than normal gravity.

After a few more moments, gravity returned to normal. The space elevator stopped, Zhao Lan untied the safety belt and went outside, and finally breathed the fresh air on the earth that he had not seen for a long time. Looking up, the space elevator stretched high into the sky like on Mars, until it was out of sight. (To be continued.) )