Ye Wenjie, watch my moves closely.

Sandstorms come and go quickly.

As soon as Ning Shi finished her interview, the sky miraculously cleared up.

If it weren't for the dust covering the ground, no one would be able to tell that just a few hours ago this place was shrouded in gray fog.

Ning Shi was in high spirits after passing the interview. She linked arms with Qi Xia and chatted about topics that girls usually talk about. Qi Xia held Ning Shi quite seriously and asked, "Ning Shi, are you really sure about this? You're not going to IBM?"

"No, hehe."

Ning Shi refused decisively.

Qi Xia muttered to herself, "What's so good about that place?"

She simply couldn't understand how someone as outstanding as Ning Shi could get so fixated on going to the research institute.

Ning Shi was afraid of being laughed at by her good friend and didn't want to reveal too much about the AI ​​for the time being, so she acted cute towards Qi Xia and brushed the matter off.

"Pretending to be stupid again, I just can't do anything with you..."

Qi Xia glanced at the time helplessly and asked, "Professor Ye's elective cosmology class shouldn't be over yet, shall we go over?"

"Go! Of course we'll go!"

Ning Shi adjusted the straps of her schoolbag.

As graduation approaches, Professor Ye's classes are becoming fewer and fewer. Once I leave campus, I'm afraid I'll never hear such an interesting cosmology course again.

"Let's go then."

The two were about to leave hand in hand when they bumped into Li Youyu, who was coming out of the interview room.

Seeing her good friend so happy, Qi Xia didn't take it too seriously and generously invited, "Sir, would you like to have lunch at the cafeteria later? The food there is really good."

Li Youyu shook his head. "I have an appointment. Could you tell me how to get to the Astronomy Department building?"

"If you're going to the Astronomy Department, after you exit this gate and reach the intersection, turn left then right... Excuse me, are you looking for Professor Ye Wenjie?"

After pointing out the way, Ning Shi suddenly asked a question.

"You know her? Aren't you a computer engineering student?"

"We know each other, sir."

Qi Xia added, "Professor Ye is very popular among students. Her elective astronomy class is always packed. If you arrive late, you might not even be able to stand."

"Isn't astronomy a niche subject? Can you even understand those complicated orbital calculation formulas?"

"Can't understand."

Ning Shi shook her head. "But when Teacher Ye teaches, she doesn't talk about too much professional and profound knowledge. She introduces the universe to us in her own way. Every time I listen to her class, I feel like my soul is floating in the universe. All the troubles of schoolwork and interpersonal conflicts seem to become very unimportant."

"Is that so?"

By using language to convey the holistic perspective that astronauts possess, Ye Wenjie and the Future Historians have taken another step forward in their research on the universe.

"Professor Ye isn't in the Astronomy Department building right now; she's teaching an elective course on cosmology in the Physics Building. We were just about to head over. Would you like to come along, sir?"

"lead the way."

Li Youyu's words were concise and to the point.

The three of them turned left and right on the main road of the teaching area and arrived at the physics building near the west side of the campus.

From afar, you could see that the 100-person lecture hall on the first floor was already packed with people, and even the aisles were filled with students eagerly waiting.

Ning Shi and Qi Xia finally found a spot where they could see what was happening in the classroom, and quickly beckoned Li Youyu to stand next to them.

Looking over the dark mass of heads, Li Youyu saw Ye Wenjie, a slender woman, slowly recounting Hengxing's life story in simple and straightforward language on the five-foot-high platform.

It tells the story of how they were born from brilliant nebulae and then collapsed into eternal black holes.

Did you know that the iron in our blood comes from supernova explosions, the calcium in our bones comes from stellar nuclear fusion, and even the oxygen that life depends on is forged inside stars?

That's why Carl Sagan said we are all made up of stars.

In other words,

Ye Wenjie's gaze swept over the 200 or so people inside and outside the classroom, gentle as water. "At this moment, everyone in the classroom is a small fragment of a star. We are all stars in thought."

Today's devastating sandstorm shattered the students' confidence to some extent, and everyone was deeply impressed by one lesson:

Humans are utterly vulnerable in the face of nature.

But Ye Wenjie's description at this moment was so romantic that it almost made them cry.

Human beings, with their brief, fragile, and insignificant existence, actually originated from the dazzling stars.

"Teacher Ye is absolutely right."

Ning Shi pouted and sniffed softly.

Women are inherently more emotional than men, and she is better able to understand the feelings that Ye Wenjie wants to express.

However, someone else stepped forward and asked a question that was extremely disruptive to the atmosphere.

"Teacher, will the universe experience heat death? Then what is the meaning of our existence?"

"That bookworm!"

Qi Xia was very dissatisfied.

Some people just don't understand romance. They insist on thinking about things with the cold, scientific mindset of science and engineering, even when it's a moment of literary expression.

"Hey, classmate!" Qi Xia suddenly cupped her hands around a megaphone and shouted into the classroom, "If everything has to have meaning, then what's the point of living? You might as well not date at all; dating is meaningless!"

A burst of laughter erupted both inside and outside the classroom.

Everyone thought the girl made a good retort.

The boy who asked the question adjusted his glasses, looking somewhat bewildered.

Li Youyu thought the student had asked a good question.

The heat death of the universe is a pessimistic ending. If it were Ye Wenjie in the past, she would definitely have given a pessimistic answer without hesitation.

So what about now?

Li Youyu wanted to know Ye Wenjie's inclinations.

Ye Wenjie pressed her hands down to signal everyone to quiet down. Then, under everyone's gaze, she walked up to the boy and said gently, "The universe may experience heat death, but that's a long, long time from now. Before that, we have plenty of time to love someone more, read a poem more, and look at the stars more."

The boy who asked the question moved his lips; Ms. Ye's gentleness reminded him of his own mother.

He unconsciously raised his hands and gently clapped them.

A moment later, the entire classroom erupted in thunderous applause.

Soon after the bell rang, Ye Wenjie was quickly surrounded by a group of students on the podium, some asking for autographs and others asking for answers to questions.

Half an hour later, the crowd dispersed.

Ye Wenjie, carrying her handbag, walked up to Li Youyu. "I heard that our department's recruitment drive is getting a lot of buzz on campus."

"It doesn't count."

Li Youyu glanced at Ning Shi.

Qi Xia and Ning Shi, who were standing nearby, looked somewhat surprised when they heard Ye Wenjie mention "our department".

"Professor Ye, you... do you work at the Chinese Academy of Sciences?"

Qi Xia asked.

Ye Wenjie laughed and said, "Of course! The school is just a part-time job. How about joining us?"

"Ning...Ning Shi,"

Qi Xia's eyes were a little dizzy, and she pouted, saying, "I'm starting to regret it. I... I also wanted to work at the Chinese Academy of Sciences."