Ashes Of Deep Sea

Chapter 830: Chapter 827 Farewell

The people across the long table looked at each other in dismay, none of them speaking for a while—they hadn’t expected the captain to suddenly pose such a question, nor were they certain what the question really meant.

It was quite a while before Nina seemed to come around. She thought hard and then spoke softly, “Probably… a very safe place? I can’t imagine… I think the best place was Prand before the sun had issues. Of course, it would be better if it was a bit more spacious. The City-State was really a bit too crowded, especially after taking a boat out to sea. The world is so wide, yet there is so little space for people to stand on…”

“Yes, there will be a much wider habitable zone, much safer than now,” Duncan smiled and then turned to look at Sherry sitting beside Nina, “What about you? What do you hope the new world has?”

Sherry, with a mouthful of biscuit, muttered indistinctly: “I haven’t thought that much, just to be fed and kept warm—that would be great. And maybe, if possible, the utility bills could be a bit cheaper.”

“That’s a demand for ‘society’, not for the ‘world’,” Duncan shook his head gently, “Think again?”

Chewing on her biscuit, Sherry’s gaze started to drift as if she was seriously pondering something, then she forcefully swallowed the food in her mouth: “Then… my thoughts are similar to Nina’s, a safer and more spacious place. You’re right, the rest depends on ‘people’… Oh, right! Agatha and I want a big house, or just a big empty plot will do, where we can live without disturbances, where Agatha can confidently run around everywhere…”

Duncan nodded with a smile, and his gaze fell on Morris who was sitting nearby.

“As a scholar, I’m very aware that a society composed of people is never perfect. Even if the environment becomes safer, the group itself will create new troubles. But that’s also one of the reasons why a society can change and develop,” Morris shrugged, “So instead of imagining what a ‘perfect’ new world looks like, I hope there are more research opportunities, more things worth studying—

“More phenomena never seen before, more incredible places, more distant lands worth traveling to. I hope there are real principles to be deeply investigated behind things, rather than encountering all sorts of ‘barriers’ and ‘contradictions’ at the end of every research. I hope knowledge is no longer dangerous, that students don’t have to fear for their lives every time they open a book, I hope ‘people’ can go farther, and not be bound by unspeakable horrors, forever trapped in their own spawning grounds.”

Morris exhaled softly, his face inadvertently carrying a smile: “If possible, that would really be a good place…”