Rodriguez could clearly detect the alienation in Zhao Lan's words, but Rodriguez seemed to have expected this a long time ago, so he did not react to it.

Zhao Lan's life is a step-by-step process. After spending a warm and happy childhood, Zhao Lan entered the school for education, obtained a doctorate degree and went out to work, and lived a peaceful life until now. Zhao Lan believes that things like so-called underground forces should not appear in his life. If it weren't for a special situation this time, Zhao Lan would never have any intersection with these things.

"Okay, Miss Zhao Lan, please come with me." Rodriguez stood up, and Zhao Lan followed him and left the breakfast room together.

After walking for a while, after leaving the Watson Square area, the two of them took a flying car together. The car took the two to the underground station and left.

To the present, long-distance and bulk transportation no longer adopts old-style rail transportation. The latest developments are magnetic levitation trains and fully enclosed vacuum track technology. People have built well-connected transportation tracks underground. These tracks are fully enclosed and vacuumed to avoid the existence of air resistance. Maglev trains avoid the existence of friction. Therefore, the operating speed of this train is extremely terrifying, even compared to the speed of aircraft hundreds of years ago.

It's even faster. Zhao Lan once read a report that said that the fastest magnetic levitation train on the earth had reached 4,500 kilometers per hour, which was almost four times the speed of sound. However, the speed of the train Zhao Lan and Rodriguez were not so fast at this moment. Zhao Lan saw from the sign at the entrance of the underground station that the average speed of this train was about 2,800 kilometers per hour, which was a little more than twice the speed of sound.

Rodriguez took Zhao Lan on the train for about an hour. Then he got off in another city. There were already a flying car waiting for the two of them. So the two of them changed again. They took this flight instrument and left the city and began to set off towards the stretching mountains on the edge of the city.

The skyscrapers and bustling scenes are gradually left behind. The scenic spots with beautiful scenery, complete facilities, and crowded crowds are also left behind. This is a long mountain. In addition to some places outside being developed into scenic spots, its interior still maintains the desolation of the uninhabited and the beauty of the original ecology of nature.

"Is it that Li Yunfan's base built here?" Zhao Lan thought secretly. "Even if humans' technological strength is much greater than before, it is still a huge cost to build a base in the mountains... Li Yunfan's power is really so huge?"

Rodriguez and the pilot of the flying car did not speak all the way, and Zhao Lan remained silent. Looking at the rolling mountains and green green under the vehicle, Zhao Lan's mood calmed down unknowingly.

After flying for a while, the flying car suddenly began to lower its height, and finally stopped in front of a hill that was slightly low and inconspicuous compared to the surrounding mountains. After a while, a flat ground covered with wild grass and trees on the ground suddenly rose up, revealing the dark and deep passage below. The flying car flew in from this passage without hesitation, and the flat ground that had passed perfectly camouflaged fell again. It merged with the surrounding environment again, as if nothing had happened here.

The car flew in the dark passage for a while and then came to a place that seemed to be a parking lot. The driver parked the car there. Rodriguez got out of the car, and at the same time opened the door next to Zhao Lan in the back seat, and then made a gesture of asking for help.

"It's here," said Rodriguez. "We emptied part of the interior of this mountain and specially reinforced it, and then built our base inside it. Our base covers an area of ​​about one square kilometer, with more than three hundred staff working here."

Rodriguez led Zhao Lan to the highest point of the base in the elevator. Standing in the stands, Zhao Lan held the railing with his hands and squinted his eyes and looked at everything in front of him.

Just as Rodriguez said, what appeared in front of Zhao Lan was an enclosed space that was about a thousand meters long, hundreds of meters wide and dozens of meters high. The space was brightly lit, with huge buildings everywhere and huge machinery that could not be named. There were many staff in white uniforms and robots of different shapes shuttled around the base, with endless instruments or indicator lights flashing here.

Although he had been mentally prepared, Zhao Lan was still extremely shocked by this place. The power of human beings and technology was presented to Zhao Lan in such an intuitive way.

"The government does not know that everything here, including the initial construction of the base, the installation of equipment, the allocation of personnel, and the supply of materials... are all secrets, right?" Zhao Lan asked in a low voice to Rodriguez who was standing next to him.

"Yes, everything here is secret. Only the staff inside the base and those who have obtained the boss's A-level authorization can enter here. Only these people know the existence of the base." Rodriguez replied, with an unconcealed pride in his voice.

"But, how did you build this base under the surveillance of the government?" Zhao Lan stroked his forehead weakly, "Okay, I know you have strong organization and concealment ability... I just ask one question, how did you hollow out this mountain? Where did you pile the rock waste after the emptied mountain? That was at least tens of millions of tons of rock... The government satellites are operating in the sky at all times. No matter where you pile tens of millions of tons of rock waste, it is absolutely impossible to escape the government's surveillance..."

"Those rock wastes are placed in this base." Rodriguez said mysteriously. "The instruments in the base are transported from the outside through underground passages, including the tens of millions of tons of soil and rock brought by excavation of underground passages, and are also placed in the base."

"But where are they?" Zhao Lan asked in confusion. "Together, their mass must be calculated at least in billions of tons, and 100 million tons of rocks... are probably nearly 20 million cubic meters in size. Why can't I see their shadow in the base?"

"Haha." At this time, Rodriguez laughed heartily: "Ms. Zhao Lan, in fact, it is not just the rock waste that builds the base and digs the underground passages. Our staff have never transported the waste generated by their daily lives and scientific research here. Let me be honest and tell you that this is a base that only enters and does not leave. The materials we need will be transported from the outside from the underground passages, and the materials we discarded are piled up in the base and will never be transported to the outside world. As for where they are... Sorry, Miss Zhao Lan, this belongs to the category of S-level secrets of our base. You do not have enough authority now, so I cannot tell you these secrets for the time being."

Zhao Lan patted his head and temporarily threw out the doubts in his heart. After Rodriguez said those words, a rough guess appeared in Zhao Lan's heart, but this guess was too amazing and too shocking, and it even made Zhao Lan dare not think carefully about the possibility of this guess.

The most prominent impression this base left on Zhao Lan was shock. After seeing this base, Zhao Lan's suspicion of Li Yunfan had reached a minimum. Zhao Lan could not imagine how profound wisdom and superb ability Li Yunfan had. Zhao Lan even doubted whether Li Yunfan was an alien, or a person who traveled from the future to the present. Otherwise, why would Li Yunfan have such ability, having so many leaders in different industries, and being able to build such a huge base in this mountain under the strict surveillance of the human civilization government?

And the most incredible thing is... such an outstanding figure actually tried his best to steal an ordinary small spaceship of his own, and then inexplicably had an intersection with him. Zhao Lan never knew why all this was. Li Yunfan seemed to be secretive about it and refused to tell him the truth of these things.

Shaking his head, shook away the doubts in his mind and the shock at what he saw and heard, Zhao Lan decided to do his own thing first. Zhao Lan never forgot his identity. He is a scientist, and a deeper identity than a scientist is a human. Since he is a member of human beings, then when facing a huge disaster that may come, he naturally has the obligation to deal with this disaster.

Zhao Lan wants to find evidence in this base that can confirm what Li Yunfan said. If the "special space" that Li Yunfan once existed in the solar system really exists, and Li Yunfan really studied it, then the research data is likely to reveal the truth about the abnormal disappearance of stars. After understanding all this, Zhao Lan, or human civilization, can find a way to deal with this disaster.

"Rodriguez... Please give me all the research materials of your base for the strange space that once existed in the solar system." Zhao Lan whispered, "I should have this authority." (To be continued...)

PS: It’s so hard, the monthly ticket rankings only decline but not rise. Rainbow decided not to go out during this Mid-Autumn Festival... I stayed at home and wrote, and I had to write the fourth update to explode. Everyone looked at the monthly ticket...
Chapter completed!