Journey to the Half-Elf Plane

Chapter 3

Quaid kept kicking Loki, who was huddled on the ground. Faced with the beating, Loki was very tough and didn't even say a word for mercy.

He just kept repeating, "I didn't hide the money, I only got ten coppers."

Quaid played for a while and felt that it was not interesting. After collecting the money from the third house, he continued to choose the next target to vent his anger on.

Loki let out a heavy breath and collapsed on the cold ground. It wasn't until Quaid's footsteps really faded away that the other beggars dared to step forward to check on Loki's injuries.

Four-year-old Hazel stood helplessly, looking at Loki who was covered in injuries on the ground. Finally, she couldn't help crying and said intermittently: "I'm sorry Loki, if it weren't for you saving me." , it won’t be like this.”

Loki said to Ned who was checking his injuries: "Help me up."

"Stop crying, Hazel." Loki knew why the four-year-old girl blamed herself so much. Among these beggars, there were many who couldn't hand over the copper and were beaten severely by Quaid every day.As for the fact that Hazel was cured of typhoid fever, many beggars knew that it was because of Loki. There was no airtight wall in the world, let alone a place like a broken house. Someone would always inform Quaid.

"Don't blame yourself. Quaid will always find a reason for hitting me, even if it doesn't happen."

Loki rubbed the redness and swelling on his face vigorously, and a sharp pain came over him. He had been beaten for a long time, and he would carefully use various means to avoid injuries to his vital organs and internal organs.But sometimes he couldn't avoid the injuries on his face, and he couldn't even dodge subconsciously. Dodging would arouse Quaid's impatience and violence, and he would often be beaten worse.

"Damn Quaid, one day I will..." A lame beggar stood nearby. When he talked about Quaid, he gritted his teeth and hated him, but he was too afraid to really curse out loud.

This lame beggar is nine-year-old Linn. One of his legs was hoisted and lame by Quaid before.Because of their status as half-elves, the other beggars usually have a very normal relationship with Loki. Perhaps it was because Loki saved Hazel a few days ago that Lame Lynn took the initiative to speak to Loki.

Loki nodded but said nothing more. He walked back to the corner and sat on the broken straw mat again. The expression on his face returned to dullness.

"Ultron, summarize all Quaid's data and create a character card."

"Confirm execution, Master."

As soon as the machine-like dull beep sounded, a clear piece of data consciousness was immediately transmitted to the memory storage area of ​​the brain.

With the infusion of information from the biological computer, Loki felt as if his brain was suddenly slowed down. He couldn't help but frown. The connection between the system and the memory storage area was not smooth. The operating system of Ultron was far from qualified.

"Ultron, in the future, simple chart information will be projected onto the optic nerve. Also, pay attention to optimizing and adjusting the transparency of the information so as not to affect vision."

Name: Quaid

Race: human

Height: 186.5cm

Weight: XNUM X kg

Power: 1.61

Agility: 1.09

Physique: Approximately 1.56 (the exact number cannot be estimated through simple image observation)

Spirit: (cannot be observed through visual images, cannot be digitally embodied)

(The average value for ordinary adults is 1. This data is the limit value and is not affected by abnormal physical conditions)

Loki immediately saw a bunch of digital table images appearing on his retinas, which were the digital evaluations of Quaid's observations and analysis by the biological computer.

Quaid's physical data made him feel weak. His strength of 1.61 was almost half of the maximum for a normal adult, and was higher than Loki's previous estimate. His light power attribute was more than five times his. Although Loki The agility is slightly higher, but if you take into account weight, height, and physique to compare the physical data, Quaid can beat Loki by about ten to twenty with his bare hands.

Loki gritted his teeth and had no other choice, and decided in his heart: "We can only endure it now, but we must have other means of self-protection, otherwise our lives here will face huge threats at any time."

The image on the retina appeared translucent, and Loki turned his head to test the new function of the system.

When he moves his gaze to other places, the translucent information is still displayed in the center of his retina, and will not cause jitter due to the shift of his gaze, nor will it cause him any discomfort such as visual vertigo.

'Retina display mapped images' are like science fiction movies and TV shows from previous generations.But Loki knew that the images he saw had nothing to do with the retina. Instead, the images were directly transmitted to the specialized visual nerves of the brain through the Ultron system, allowing Loki to have this kind of "brain information" on the retina. Show' function.

"Ultron, optimize the optic nerve display image and optimize the distribution area so as not to interfere with normal vision."

"Executing, Master."

As soon as Ultron's voice fell, Loki felt the scene in front of him suddenly distort, and a feeling of dizziness immediately flooded his brain. He forced himself to hold back the vomiting sensation caused by the discomfort in his brain.

After a while, Loki finally recovered. Everything he could see in front of him was different from before. His vision seemed to be refracted by a huge lens, distorting things into bigger or smaller ones, which he couldn't adapt to at all.

"Ultron, adjust the optic nerve optimization, and reduce the optimization degree by 50.00% based on percentage."

Loki has nothing to complain about. After all, Ultron is just a simple biological computer operating system.

Although it was originally labeled with the word 'bionic', it is now not even the most basic. It can only execute simple commands but cannot understand human thoughts.

In the end, it was not until late at night that Loki tried to optimize the settings no less than twenty times. When his head was dizzy and turned into a puddle of mush, the retinal imaging and visual nerve optimization reached a state that he could adapt to.

Loki looked through the hole in the roof of the black room and saw the eternal starry sky in front of him. Two huge bright moons, one red and one blue, hung high in the night sky. This was a scene he had been familiar with for ten years, but there was something different today. The difference was that he felt like the sea and sky were vast before his eyes, and the optimization of his optic nerve actually made him see more clearly.

"Optic nerve optimization completed, Master."

"Visual image processing is optimized by 10%, the pseudo field of view is increased by 20%, the normal field of view remains unchanged, and the recognition of the field of view is increased by 15%"

Without the need for Ultron's consciousness to remind him, Loki's field of vision suddenly widened, as if he had suddenly changed from a 15.5-inch computer monitor to a 19-inch widescreen monitor. The original blind spots on both sides of his vision showed this optimization chart.

In fact, it seems that Loki's field of view has increased.But he knew in his heart that this was just a 20% increase in the pseudo visual field. Everything he felt was an image received and processed by his brain, and the real visual field range did not change.The so-called 'pseudo field of view' is mainly to optimize retinal imaging so that the 'retina can display some system information' will no longer affect Loki's normal observation vision.

However, what really surprised Loki was the reminder that 'field of view recognition increased by 15%'. After communicating with Ultron several times in consciousness, he understood what field of view recognition meant.

The field of vision of ordinary people is generally around 60°. Within this 60° range, people's sensitive vision is only 1°. For example, if a person's eyes carefully focus on the letter A key on the keyboard, he will not be able to pay close attention to the L key.This is determined by the human vision and brain, so people are far from perfect, they just adapt to the environment.

But now Loki is different. With the quantum biocomputer, he already has unlimited possibilities. The 'field of view recognition 15%' optimization allows him to focus on observing one direction and at the same time, other places within 60° can also be blurred.

The 15% increase in visual field recognition is not only useful in daily sight observation. Don't forget, Loki also has memory storage space. He uses his eyes to automatically record the observed environment all the time. Now it is equivalent to the lens angle of his video recorder. The scope is wider and clearer.

The stars in the night sky were shining brightly like the Milky Way. Loki's eyes could see more clearly than before. He knew that this was the result of visual optimization. Currently, biological computers can only do so much to optimize visual images.

There is not a single shooting star in the sky with a black background, and all the stars remain motionless, and their positions will not change for several years. Loki even heard from some people's conversations that the stars are always the same - no more, no less. It's just common sense that it won't move.

This common sense almost destroyed Loki's scientific outlook, but so what?After experiencing a mysterious journey through reality, and in an extremely tragic background, science and morality have left him far away.

Now Loki just needs to survive and fight for his own destiny...