Journey to the Half-Elf Plane

Chapter 1Beggars in Fog City

In 2017, Chinese-American scientists announced in Science magazine that the angel particle conjecture that had troubled physicists for 80 years—Majorana fermions—was discovered and confirmed for the first time, which means that the development of quantum computers is possible.

In the same year, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and China unilaterally announced plans to invest heavily in the development and development of quantum computers.

In 2019, the Life Research Laboratory of the American Oster Creator Company announced that the scientific research project "Quantum Biocomputer" led by protein molecular chains has been officially completed, and will be followed by a three-year biological and human implant clinical trial.

During the Phase IV clinical trial, the experimenters who were implanted with biocomputers all developed rejection reactions with different symptoms. After all-out treatment failed, all the subjects died, and the quantum biocomputer implantation experiment was completely stopped.

In 2022, a spokesman for Oster Creator Company regretfully announced that the quantum biocomputer implantation experiment ended in failure. The main reason was that the biochip implantation caused unresolved rejection, and the current biocomputer implantation plan will be suspended indefinitely. .

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Fog Castle is a small city developed by human merchants. It is located in the southeast of the Cooper River. Human merchants pass through this small city by river or land.

Perhaps because of the fog that drifts away from the Cooper River all year round, the sky always looks gray even on sunny days when the sun shines directly on it, so this place is called Fog Castle.

"Loki, look what I found, the cassava isn't rotten yet!" A little boy with red hair, who looked about ten years old, had just found something from the trash and shouted happily to his companions behind him.

The boy named Loki in the back is a slightly taller, thin kid who appears to be malnourished.

His hair is dark blond but as slovenly as a bird's nest, and his face is covered in gray and black dirt, which makes him look dirty. His slightly pointed and protruding ears on both sides of his small face make it easy to distinguish him from ordinary human children at a glance. The difference comes from.

Loki seemed to hear nothing about his companion's shouts.

His eyes were staring blankly in front of him. If someone looked at his eyes carefully, the gray pupils must be in an unfocused state, just like a profoundly autistic patient in a daze.

Of course Loki is not mentally ill. Although his eyes are in a daze as if they have lost focus, his mouth has been opening and closing rapidly, muttering silently but quickly.

If someone could read his unique mouth shape, they would understand that the information reflected in it should be 'Based on the decimal system, all four arithmetic operations have been deduced, digital models are applied, and digital logic and other operations are experimentally tested...'

'...The test passes, and the data is recorded after confirmation. '

Loki's original name was Luo Ji, which sounded similar but had different meanings.

After all, he did not belong to this world. Because of a high-end biological experiment in his previous life, as a volunteer, he failed due to some unknown mysterious scientific phenomena. Then Luo Ji became a baby in another world, a A half-elf who was abandoned after birth.

No one wants to adopt a half-elf baby. Although he has part of the noble blood of elves, mixed elves and elves are completely different.People would casually call them half-elf bastards, a term full of contempt.Generally speaking, half-elves are a mixed race with a lower social status than the poor and are highly discriminated against.

Loki traveled through time and became a baby. After waking up, he kept the memories of his previous life. In his previous life, his parents died early and he had nothing to worry about. He worked hard to make progress but became terminally ill as an adult and had to pin his hopes on some dangerous medical experiments. He eventually participated in a failed biological experiment and became the half-elf baby he is today.

When he was about to freeze to death, luckily and unfortunately, the traffickers from the Black House Gang picked him up and took him back to their shack. They casually named him "Rocky" to distinguish him from other beggars.

Loki has always been incompatible with the beggars around him since he was a child. Although he can communicate with others, Loki will often remain motionless and sluggish, looking strange in the eyes of those around him.His appetite is much larger than that of his peers. Sometimes he will eat anything when he is hungry. He chews leftovers from the garbage, bugs on the ground, tree bark, and even the roots of some weeds directly into his mouth.

The half-elf boy's gray eyes were unfocused, as if he was still in a daze. The red-haired boy trotted to the side, sighed as usual, and waved his dirty hands in front of his eyes.

Loki's gray eyes suddenly became alert. He grabbed the arm in front of him and glanced at the red-haired boy blankly.

Then, he took the food that the red-haired boy had just dug out. He brushed off the dirt on the surface even if it was dirty. He broke off half of the food and stuffed it into his mouth. Then he picked up the other half and handed it to the other person inquiringly.

The red-haired boy shook his head and refused: "It's too dirty. You'll get sick. You'd better eat it yourself."

Loki nodded and put the food directly into his mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it.

——The 'quantum biocomputer' consumes a large amount of biological energy to keep it running.

Loki, who had been hungry since birth, was deeply impressed by these words. The failed quantum biocomputer implantation experiment in his previous life had followed him to another world and parasitized this young body. Half-elf body.

'Quantum biocomputer

'It is a semi-finished product in the process of experimentation. It has absolutely no trace of the epoch-making symbol of human evolution that is advertised. Even for Loki now, the 'quantum biological computer' is still a huge burden that cannot be discarded. It currently only has a large storage function. , but it takes a lot of food to turn off the parasites.

Since he couldn't resist, Loki could only choose to accept it.

After struggling to survive for ten years, in addition to constantly eating a lot of food, he devoted all his energy to this biological computer. The basic quantum biological computer he understood was composed of protein molecular chains, which is a kind of computing power. A biological cell tissue unified with storage capacity, it can perform data calculations and other functions through specialized equipment and programs.

Unfortunately, Loki lacks device analysis, and it is impossible to have a special program to help him master the biological computer.He can only gain full access to the biocomputer through trance.

In Loki's deep consciousness, the biological computer is like a huge chaotic and messy space. Through Loki's eyes and ears and other senses, the huge space continuously receives images and sounds from the outside world, making the interior of the storage space even more chaotic.

From the moment the biological computer was implanted, Loki had an enviable photographic memory of his past life. Even the smallest memories were as if they were engraved in the brain, but the shortcomings were also extremely obvious. For ordinary people, recalling only requires - association (memories are related to each other). ) will do.As for Loki, if he wanted to recall certain things accurately, he had to immerse himself in the deep storage space and constantly rummage through it, and he would also have to stand still and sluggishly.

In order to improve the dilemma caused by the biological computer, Loki could only fumble and try to build a simple system, specifically used as an auxiliary system for the biological computer. He spent six years organizing the order of the memory storage space and dividing the program execution While stacking space to avoid confusion with memory space, it is also necessary to limit unique ways of inputting and modifying programs.

Rocky was not a computer-related professional in his previous life, but he also knew some basic programming knowledge.But ordinary programming knowledge was of little use to his cerebral predicament.The biological computer is obviously very different from ordinary integrated circuit computers. It does not require binary code machine language. It exists in the cranial cavity, connects with the memory nerves in the brain, and can directly affect human brain consciousness.

After countless failures and attempts, Loki came to some obvious conclusions. Using consciousness to establish a simple and clear logical consciousness in some areas can run in the brain as an auxiliary program.

It doesn't seem difficult to say, but how can biological computer programming be an easy task.Human beings' subconscious thinking is inherently messy, especially for a guy like Loki who has a photographic memory. His thinking is so unconstrained that it makes it extremely difficult for him to create programs.

At the same time, he must also pay attention to the standardization of program consciousness input. Programmers in previous lives who entered incorrect code can quickly detect and correct it after correcting it.

If Loki misreads the program in his head, or enters some contradictory logical paradoxes, what awaits him is that his brain will be overloaded and his head will continue to hurt like needles, and a large amount of bioenergy will be consumed, causing extreme hunger. feel.

Loki later spent another three years building a simple associative memory program to optimize his huge and chaotic memory storage space. The advantage was that while maintaining his photographic memory, he also seemed less stupid, at least compared to the time he was in a daze before. Dramatically shortened.

Ordinary home computer systems have a multi-level structure. Likewise, Loki also has his own ambitious vision for a quantum biological computer.He comprehensively considered the biological computer he knew and finally decided to build it in three levels. Unfortunately, Loki had not even touched the bottom operating system in the eight years he had spent before.

After looking at the red-haired boy who was hesitant to speak, Loki took out a small linen purse with his dirty little hands, poured out more than a dozen polished copper coins, and handed one to the other person.

Loki's voice was low, "Go find more food, and I'll continue to trade it with you in copper."

"Thank you, Loki." The red-haired boy took the copper coins and ran to other places to rummage or beg for food.

Loki watched the beggar trotting away indifferently. The red-haired boy's name was Ned, and he was also a poor abandoned child. Of course, all beggars had their own pitiful life experiences.

The Black House Gang ceased to exist a few years ago. It was eliminated and annexed by a more powerful "Black Street Brotherhood" in the city. Many people died, including the kidnapper who originally saved Loki's life.But the fate of beggars will not change at all. The traffickers of the Black Street Brotherhood are even more cruel to beggars than the previous Black House Gang.

The Black Street Brotherhood is a well-known underground force in Fog Castle City. Child begging is just a small branch of the Black Street Brotherhood, but that's it. Every day, as many as dozens of beggars are distributed on the streets under human traffickers, either begging or stealing as beggars. The only means of livelihood for children.

Loki was over ten years old, and he was considered older among these beggars. Among them, the youngest beggar was only four or five years old. These beggars undoubtedly had a tragic fate. They died of illness, accident, or fall. He has seen people drowned, even hanged, and beaten to death. His photographic memory makes every death so impressive.

The trafficker leader of the Black Street Brotherhood, Quaid, is a cruel and vicious guy. He has controlled the beggar group for several years.The beggars under him not only set extremely strict begging amounts every day, but also often took pleasure in beating and abusing the beggars.

Loki, who has witnessed death, is often helpless. He is only a ten-year-old child, and he is still a half-elf bastard who is discriminated against by his surroundings. In addition, the energy consumption of the quantum biological computer also makes him thinner than children of the same age.

The powerlessness of reality forced Loki to accumulate anger and coldness deep in his heart again and again.