351 Because I donst want to (1/2)

Chapter 351: Because I don't want to

Translator: _Min_Editor: Rundi

Carmen looked at his old father sawing wood in front of the wooden hut. Then he walked up and looked at the stack of wood in confusion.

”My dear father, you are doing… what?”

”Building a vessel… A miniature version.” Jacono wiped the sweat from his forehead as he stared at the yet to be assembled keel beside the lake.

”Building a vessel? What's the purpose of that?” Carmen looked at his father, puzzled.

”If the work that had conquered the Atlantic ocean has no purpose,” Jacono said bluntly, ”Then including us, including everything, all would be without purpose.”

He said something with an ambiguous meaning. But Carmen seemed to be accustomed to his father saying things people didn't understand, so he didn't express his attitude as he only sighed in reply.

”… Okay, but do you know how to build a vessel?”

”I don't know.” Jacono laughed delightfully; he pointed his saw at the keel starting to take shape. ”Don't underestimate it because it's just a ship, there are a lot of tricks to be learned. Including how to treat the wood and how to connect the wood. To construct this keel, it took me an entire year. Although I failed many times, the process was surprisingly fun.”

Carmen looked at his father in surprise, then he looked earnestly at the keel.

”Hard to imagine… Did no one help you?”

”Cides wanted to find me a boatman, but I rejected the proposal. I wanted to explore by myself on how the vessel worked.” He flung the saw in his hand to the side as Jacono picked up the bottle of water on the tree trunk and took a few big gulps.

Carmen looked at his father immersed in the activity; he was silent for two seconds before he said,

”I heard you needed to see me-”

”Give up on that prophecy. Jacono didn't look at him, but rather at the keel.

Carmen was shocked because of his father's abrupt words.

After a moment, he said with difficulty,

”Why?”

Jacono's sight returned as he looked at his son's eyes keenly.

”The infant would have to leave the parents one day and learn how to walk by himself. They told us a lot, but they can't tell us more. If we continue to follow this path, the future we face might be more upsetting than the situation they had gained.”

”…But if we listen to the wise words of the intellect, wouldn't it save us the trouble of going through detours?”

”Who said detours are wrong?” Jacono asked back.

Carmen fell into silence.

Seeing that his son didn't speak, Jacono continued to speak about things with deeper meaning, ”Humans should build on the intelligence of its ancestor and not depend on the future to further the future.”

”Although history has changed, the trend will not change.” The next twenty years belong to artificial intelligence; then a technological explosion led by breakthroughs in material science, and then-” unable to agree with his father's perspective, Carmen said softly.

”That might not be the case.” Jacono scorned before he picked up the saw on the ground. ”Did you see this keel? If I told you how to build a vessel, how to build a steam vessel, if ”I” died one day, would you be able to build an aircraft carrier?”

”That's the scientist's job,” Carmen said with an indifferent voice.

”Science and capital were tied together from the very beginning. Technology determines the space human live in, and capital expands the space. That is the nature of the science and capital. Did you give back all your economic knowledge to your Harvard professor? I suggest you reread the Schumpeter function chapter.”

The old father returned to working in front of the tree truck and ignored his son.

He stood beside the lake for a long time. It was not until the sky in the distance began to turn yellow did he finally turn around and leave the wooden hut of his father.

…

The next morning, Jiang Chen took a flight to Australia. Because of the combination of airport size and traffic, the airport located in Coro Island only had flights to nearby Australia and New Zealand. Therefore, to travel from Han to Xin, he would have to the first fly to Australia.

After a rather lengthy journey, Jiang Chen finally got out of the plane at Coro Island. It was midnight.

When he walked out of the airport, Ayesha was already waiting for him.