Chapter 136: The Empty Universe

After Zhao Lan uttered this ultimatum very unceremoniously, a new reply message appeared again in the console of the Sylvia spacecraft: "You seem to have a deep hostility towards me. That being the case, then I don't mind telling you who I really am. Zhao Lan, I'm Li Yunfan, the one who stole your spaceship. ”

"Li Yunfan?!" Zhao Lan's pupils constricted again, "What are you coming to me for?" Why did you steal my spaceship? What are your intentions on me? What exactly do you want to do? ”

The name Li Yunfan set off turbulent waves in Zhao Lan's mind. Zhao Lan thinks that he and Li Yunfan are fundamentally characters from two worlds, and there should be no intersection between himself and Li Yunfan. It was already a very unexpected thing for Li Yunfan to steal his spaceship, and now, Li Yunfan actually took the initiative to find him? And at the beginning he said so many inexplicable words, so...... What does Li Yunfan want to do?

But in just a moment, Zhao Lan sensed that something was wrong. That's ...... Is this person really Li Yunfan? Zhao Lan has never forgotten Li Yunfan's identity, that is a thief who has made many shocking cases in human society, and the government has tried its best to catch him, such a legendary figure, will reveal his identity so easily? It's a little too incredible.

So Zhao Lan quickly added a question: "What evidence do you have to prove that you are Li Yunfan?" ”

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Miss Zhao Lan, you have too many questions, which one should I answer first?" In Li Yunfan's reply, his tone was very helpless, "Why don't you calm down first and ask me questions one by one?" ”

Zhao Lan snorted coldly, but he listened to the mysterious man's words, took a few deep breaths, barely calmed his mood, and sorted out his thoughts. After thinking for a while, he replied: "First of all, prove that you are Li Yunfan." ”

After the communication delayed, the mysterious man replied: "I can't prove my identity. But you can watch a clip of this. ”

This audio message is followed by a video message. This seems to have been taken by a handheld device, there are many rotations and tremors in the picture, and the shooting is not very clear, but Zhao Lan still clearly saw some scenes through this information, and these scenes made Zhao Lan's heart fluctuate again.

Zhao Lan saw the ship's console, which was painted pink. saw the cartoon sticker on the chair, and followed the movement of the picture, Zhao Lan saw the familiar corridor inside the ship, saw the rose-shaped ceiling lamp that he had specially selected, and then saw the huge brown bear doll placed in the corner of the room......

Zhao Lan saw a lot of things, all of which were perfectly corroborated by the memories in his mind. This is clearly the interior decoration of his last ship, the old Sylvia. Every detail and every decoration in this video screen is clearly telling Zhao Lan this. Except that the environment inside the spaceship is a little dirtier and messier than when I used it before. Everything else is the same as I remember.

And according to the Ministry of Joint Security, the police, the military, and people from the Martian Harbor side...... There is at least a 95% chance that his last Sylvia spaceship was stolen by Li Yunfan. They have a lot of evidence to prove it.

The mysterious man said that he could not prove his identity, obviously saying that he could not directly and clearly prove that he was Li Yunfan. However, through this video, he has proved his statement "I am Li Yunfan" from a very credible side.

At this moment, Zhao Lan's first reaction was to call the police, and immediately contact the military or the police and other government violence departments to arrest this guy. But Li Yunfan seemed to have guessed Zhao Lan's mind a long time ago, so immediately after Li Yunfan's second message, he came here: "Miss Zhao Lan, I have no ill will towards you. So please don't expose my existence. Not to mention...... Even if you call the police, it's useless. I'm in a special situation right now, and no one can catch me. Also, aren't you curious about why I stole your spaceship and found you now? Why don't you wait for me to finish talking about it before deciding whether to call the police? ”

There was not the slightest panic in Li Yunfan's words, and his voice was still calm and calm. Zhao Lan could sense that Li Yunfan's voice seemed to contain a powerful power, which could make people choose to obey unconsciously. Zhao Lan was also unconsciously affected by this discourse. So Zhao Lan thought about it again and finally made a decision: "It's okay to listen to him, you don't have to rush to call the police for the time being." ”

So Zhao Lan took back the hand that had been placed on the alarm button, and replied to Li Yunfan's words: "Very good, I won't call the police for the time being." Now, can you explain why you stole my ship in the first place? ”

"It was just an accident. I'll explain the specifics to you later. Maybe you can ask me some other questions? Li Yunfan replied.

Zhao Lan raised her eyebrows, but finally suppressed the anger in her heart, and asked again, "Why are you using pranks to trick me this time?" Based on the signal delay, you must be in orbit around Mars, and you can't be in danger or lost on the voyage to Jupiter, as you say. ”

"I'm sorry, it's really not like I'm playing tricks on you." There was a wry smile in Li Yunfan's words: "I don't know how to explain these things to you, it's complicated...... Let's start at the beginning. That day, after I managed to steal your spaceship, I drove it to Earth, and when I was still about 3 million kilometers away from Earth, Seamount II suddenly exploded as a supernova...... Immediately after, the starry sky in front of me suddenly changed, and then I didn't know why I came to an inexplicable place......"

"Well, the earth, the sun, the moon, the exploding seamounts, and all the starry sky disappeared from my vision, and I could not see anything in this inexplicable place, except darkness and darkness...... I thought it was the effects of the supernova explosion that caused the instrument to malfunction, but after checking the instrument, I found that all the instruments were intact. ”

This passage was accompanied by another video message. This video was obviously shot outside the porthole of the spaceship, so Zhao Lan saw a heart-palpitating scene.

Zhao Lan didn't see monsters or bloody scenes or anything like that, the truth is, Zhao Lan didn't see anything. But it's precisely because you haven't seen anything that it's all the more palpitating. This is not the familiar universe in Zhao Lan's memory and cognition, here...... Nothing but darkness.

Following the video, Zhao Lan's gaze extended to the infinity of the universe, but the universe in the video was always pitch black without any light source. The camera of the video turns, but nothing can be seen in either direction.

It seems to be an empty and lonely universe.

The video message is accompanied by observations from some instruments. Through those data, Zhao Lan, who is an astrophysicist, can easily see that there, the spacecraft's instruments cannot detect anything from the visible light band, the gamma ray band, or the ultraviolet ray, X-ray band, or even the most easily observable infrared band. Even...... Even the microwave background radiation is not observable.

There was no matter, no light source, no radiation, just darkness and emptiness.

Video information can also be faked, but these instruments don't lie. Zhao Lan can confirm that the observation data of these instruments are all true, and they must be true.

That's why this made Zhao Lan's heart palpitate even more. Zhao Lan couldn't imagine what kind of universe it was. Zhao Lan has heard a sentence, which says that in the universe, the place where meteorites fly and stars bomb is not the most dangerous place, but the place where there is nothing is the most dangerous place. Because as long as the spacecraft is advanced enough, it is unlikely that a general cosmic catastrophe will cause damage to it, and an open place is different. Because the spaceship could not be replenished in any way there, perhaps the spacecraft had sailed for tens of thousands of years without even getting a single stone to replenish it. In all directions, no matter which direction you sail, you will eventually usher in the end of running out of supplies and turning into cold cosmic stones after running out of power. That's the most desperate thing.

Now, the message delivered by Li Yunfan really describes such a terrible scene.

"I don't know where it is, I don't know why I'm somehow in this place...... After coming here, I used to try to sail in one direction for a while...... But I didn't notice any signs of the ship moving, other than the oppressive feeling of the ship's acceleration, which told me that it was moving. I sailed for months and covered a distance of more than a billion kilometers...... But nothing has changed in front of me. So I finally despaired, and I started trying to broadcast a distress message into the empty universe, and I didn't get any reply for more than a month. Just when I thought I was going to die in this empty universe...... I received a reply from you. Although you are scolding me in your reply...... But I felt that the voice was even more beautiful than the voice of the first beauty of mankind confessing to me. (To be continued.) )