Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space - Chapter 28

Chapter 28: Humans Live To Learn!

When Ye Kaifu thought of that, he released a long sigh.

‘Forget it. I’ll look for my other half when I board the spaceship.’

The male to female ratio on the spaceship was strictly controlled at 1:1 and all of them had undergone strict gene testing to ensure the selected volunteers had no dominant genetic diseases. In that sense, the appearance of the females on board would definitely not be lacking!

It was 250k beautiful females for goodness sake… 250k! There would definitely be one that was suited for him!

Zhang Yuan ate a mouthful of his food and pulled Ye Kaifu back to the harsh reality. “It’s just love; there’s nothing to be so envious about it. Reproduction is also not a must in life. Take a look at them, they’re just drinking all day long. What’s the point?”

Ye Kaifu disagreed with Zhang Yuan. “Isn’t the purpose of our lives to mate and reproduce?”

Zhang Yuan said with slight disdain, “Of course not! Humans live to… learn!”

“Huh?!” Ye Kaifu nearly spat out his noodles.

Zhang Yuan said in all seriousness, “Let me tell you a story. There was once a man named Wolfe who planned to commit suitcide at midnight due to a heartbreak, but he managed to survive in the end.”

“And then?”

“Due to his high efficiency, he had finished writing his will at 10 p.m and he decided to read a math book as it was yet midnight… He then saw Fermat’s Theorem and attempted to prove it. Following which, daybreak arrived and he did not manage to prove it.”

“???” Ye Kaifu was confused.

Zhang Yuan continued and said, “After a whole night of research, his head finally cleared up and he no longer decided to commit suicide. He had even managed to become a successful entrepreneur…

“After he passed away from old age, people discovered his revised will which states that he would reward the first person who successfully proved Fermat’s Theorem with his inheritance that was worth around 100k.”

“At the end of the 20th century, Mathematician Andrew Wiles ultimately obtained this inheritance.”

“???” Ye Kaifu puzzledly blinked his eyes.

“What I want to say is that love would make one turn foolish, but math would make us feel happy. Rather than wasting time on booking a hotel room, it’s better to study and learn… Knowledge will never let you down or abandon you.”

“Therefore, humans live in order to learn!”

When he finished his speech, Zhang Yuan could not help himself anymore and he immediately took out his phone, opened the Super Brain app, and enjoyed the happiness of solving questions.

Ye Kaifu was on the verge of breaking down.

He wanted to argue back but the aura from an expert forcefully made him nod his head in agreement.

When he recalled his previous days as a lapdog, he really seemed to have lost his mind where he could not differentiate from right to wrong. One word from his goddess would make him feel excited for an entire week; he was basically a retard during that time.

Ultimately, he was speechless and said, “What you said is reasonable…”

While Zhang Yuan was solving the math questions, he was praising his newly invented concept deep down.

‘Saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda.

Young man, the sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn back your head to see the shore!’

…

After Zhang Yuan enlightened Ye Kaifu, he returned to the dorm and devoted his time to research the algorithm.

The variance and dynamic programming Ye Kaifu mentioned earlier was merely foundational knowledge in operational research. Those points were too surface level and since he could have easily thought of that, there would already be someone who had done so too.

Moreover, the algorithm Ye Kaifu designed was lacking in several aspects. No matter how much he optimized it, as long as the foundation was unstable, there was not much that could be done. If he wanted to use that to write an extraordinary thesis, it was practically impossible.

Whereas his dad’s idea was much better. He suggested using nonlinear geometric theory to solve the incomplete problems in robot kinematics. In particular when two matched parts were in symmetry, it could easily be expressed and reasoned by geometric group theory.

As for the entire process… well, because his dad had already come up with the core algorithm, he only had to understand it. However, a human arm had 27 degrees of freedom and the process of explaining it was extremely cumbersome.

Zhang Yuan thought to himself, ‘Maybe dad found it troublesome and was too lazy to complete it? It’s very likely to be the case. Afterall, he had to design the various systems of the spaceship, which was even more complicated and difficult.’

‘Or perhaps, this is a small gift he specially prepared for me. Sigh, I can only say that the difference between each individual is really huge…’

Just like that, Zhang Yuan was engrossed in his research, and time went on day by day.

One day, two days, three days…

An entire week soon passed.

After Ye Kaifu had been instilled with the idea that humans lived to learn, he had also started to study like a maniac.

On one hand, he was envious, jealous, and had a mindset of comparing himself with Zhang Yuan. It was evident that Zhang Yuan’s theoretical knowledge was better than him by several notches.

On the other hand, he had the thought of wanting to surpass the other party through working hard.

When Zhang Yuan went to the library, he would follow suit. When Zhang Yuan slept, he would also sleep. In any case, he was not willing to be left behind.

Although the style of studying was illusionary, it was also real at the same time. Moreover, it would easily spread around in dormitories. If a dormitory was full of smart students, it was highly likely due to the result of cross-contamination.

However, Ye Kaifu felt like exploding after following Zhang Yuan for a week!

He really could not persist any longer.

He felt like going crazy. He had spent at least 12 hours a day studying and other than eating, drinking, and sleeping, all he had done was studying, studying and more studying!

He would even dream about those damned theories when he slept. Anymore and he was really turning into a madman.

“Why am I so desperate? I’m on a vacation for goodness sake! I won’t be able to play and fool around anymore soon, let me rest for a day.” He had tried to convince himself as such more than once.

‘Hey bro, can you take a rest? Ugh I’m dying!’ Ye Kaifu thought.

He used to think that he was a prime example of a diligent and studious student. But when compared to the real madman who regarded solving math questions as a pastime, he was basically a lazy bastard..

More importantly, that roommate of his was so happy that he could not extricate himself from it. He would even laugh happily from time to time.

What was that supposed to mean?

The more he thought, Ye Kaifu began to feel breathless as he tried to calm down his rapidly beating heart.

“Let’s work hard, jiayous, fighting! The real winner is the one that can remain calm in the end!” He cheered himself and held back his urge to fool around with pretty ladies.

However, in just a single moment, Zhang Yuan’s mutters completely destroyed Ye Kaifu psychological defense line. “Alright, I shall finish reading these documents in passing. After all, I can read these for free on the campus network. It all adds up to 200 pages. It’s not much anyways.”

200 pages!?

F*ck!

There was a devil in Ye Kaifu’s head that was frantically trying to make him give up.

‘Hey bro, I really can’t take it anymore, After he finishes the 200 pages, he will definitely study more. I want to play games, I want to flirt with girls! Eating a buffet sounds good right now… Every single cell in my body is eager for some sort of entertainment. I need rest!!’

Another angel in his mind yelled, ‘You can’t, absolutely not! If someone is smarter than you, stronger than you and is also more hardworking than you, you will be relegated to his sidekick! Ye Kaifu, you must never give up!’

‘I can’t anymore, I want to give up!’

‘…you must never give up!’

‘Ahhhhh! Zhang Yuan, hurry up and give up. Please, I beg you!’