Chapter 114: Goodbye, Era

He sat there, dazed, unable to calm the tumult in his heart. Zhang Yuan didn't know what was wrong with him, but a voice inside kept telling him that these emails had just been sent yesterday, and whether it was out of etiquette, responsibility, or obligation, he needed to reply.

But reason told him that these people were long gone and didn't need a response.

Even if he did respond, they wouldn't receive it.

Besides, he was no longer the authority on turbulence issues; with one hundred and eighty-three years gone by, humanity had already grasped the method very clearly, and new theories may have emerged that no longer required his guidance.

"What's the point?" he asked himself.

He sighed once again, trying to free himself from the complex scientific documents.

It wasn't necessary, really, it wasn't.

The next letter was no longer about scientific research but the good news that his cousin Ye Qingqing had been accepted to university.