Chapter 1: The Beggars of Fog Castle

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

In the same year, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and China announced that they would invest heavily in the research and development of quantum computers.

In 2019, the Life Research Laboratory of Oster Creator Company announced that the scientific research project 'quantum biocomputer' dominated by protein molecular chains was officially completed, and a three-year clinical trial of biological and human implantation will be conducted.

During the phase IV clinical trial, the experimenters implanted with the biocomputer all had different symptoms of rejection, and all the subjects died after the ineffective treatment of the microcomputer, and the quantum biocomputer implantation experiment was completely stopped.

In 2022, the spokesperson of Oster Creators regretfully announced that the quantum biocomputer implantation experiment ended in failure, and the main reason was the unsolvable rejection caused by the implantation of the biochip, and the current biocomputer implantation program will be suspended indefinitely.

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Fog Castle City is a small city where human merchants gather and develop, located in the southeast of the Cooper River, human merchants pass through this small city by river or land, probably because of the fog that drifts over from the surface of the Cooper River all the year round, even if the sun shines directly into the sky on a sunny day, it always looks gray, so this place is called Fog Castle City.

"Loki, look what I found, the cassava isn't rotten!" a little boy with red hair who looked to be about ten years old, just digging through the garbage heap, happily called out to his companion behind him.

The boy named Loki in the back was a slightly taller, but emaciated child who looked malnourished. His hair was dark blonde but sloppy like a bird's nest, his face was covered with gray and black mud and dirty, and the slightly pointed and protruding ears on both sides of his small face made people see at a glance that he was different from ordinary human children.

Loki didn't seem to hear anything about his companion's shouts.

He looked ahead with dull eyes, and if someone looked closely at his eyes, the dark gray pupils must be in a state of no focus, like a deep autistic person in a daze.

Loki certainly doesn't have mental illness, and although his eyes are out of focus, his mouth is constantly opening and closing rapidly, and he is muttering something silently but quickly. If someone can read his unique mouth shape, they will understand that the information reflected in it should be 'based on the decimal system, all four operations are deduced, the numerical model is applied, and the numerical logic and other operations are tested experimentally............

‘...... The test is passed, and the data is recorded after confirmation. ’

Rocky's original name is Luo Ji, but it is only pronounced similarly but the meaning is not the same. After all, he didn't belong to this world in the first place, because of a high-end biological experiment in his previous life, as a volunteer, he failed because of some unknown mysterious scientific phenomena after the experiment, and then Luo Ji became a baby in another world, a half-elf who was abandoned after birth.

No one wants to adopt a half-elf baby, and although they have a part of the noble blood of elves, half-blood elves are completely different from elves. People will casually call them half-elven mongrels, a contemptuous title. In general, the Half-Elves are a mixed-race race with a lower social status than the poor, and are discriminated against.

Loki traveled into a baby, and after waking up, he kept the memories of his previous life, his parents died early in his previous life, he worked hard to improve but became an adult and became terminally ill, and had to pin his hopes on some dangerous medical experiments, and finally participated in a failed biological experiment to become the current half-elf baby.

When Loki was about to freeze to death, the lucky and unfortunate traffickers of the Black House picked him up and took him back to the shack, giving him the random name of 'Loki' to distinguish him from the other beggars.

Loki's childhood has always been out of place with the beggars around him, and although he can communicate with people, Loki will often remain motionless and sluggish, and the eyes around him are indescribably strange. He eats much more than his peers, and sometimes eats everything when he gets hungry, and he chews on scraps from the garbage heap, insects on the ground, tree bark, and even the roots of some weeds.

Loki's gray eyes were in focus, as if he was still in a daze, and the red-haired boy trotted to the side, sighed habitually, and shook his dirty hands in front of his eyes.

The half-elf boy's gray eyes suddenly became smart, and he grabbed the arm in front of him, and glanced at the red-haired boy with blank eyes.

Then, he took the food that the red-haired boy had turned out just now, and he didn't feel dirty enough to brush off the dirt on the surface, broke off half of the food and stuffed it into his mouth, and then picked up the other half and handed it to the other party.

The red-haired boy shook his head and refused: "It's too dirty, you'll get sick, so you might as well eat it yourself." ”

Loki nodded unkindly, shoved the food directly into his mouth, and hurriedly chewed a few times before swallowing it.

- The 'Quantum Biocomputer' consumes a lot of bioenergy to keep it running.

Loki, who has been hungry since birth, is extremely impressed by this sentence, and the failed quantum biological computer implantation experiment in his previous life has followed him to another world, and parasitized on the body of this young half-elf.

The 'Quantum Biocomputer' is a semi-finished product in the experiment, and there is no shadow of the epoch-making sign of human evolution in the propaganda, and even for the current Loki, the 'Quantum Biocomputer' is still a huge burden that cannot be discarded, a parasite that currently only has a lot of storage functions, but consumes a lot of food and cannot be turned off.

Since he couldn't resist, Loki could only choose to try to accept it. In the past ten years, he has struggled to survive, in addition to constantly ingesting a large amount of food, he has devoted all his energy to this biological computer, which he understands is composed of protein molecular chains, which is a kind of biological cell organization with unified computing power and storage ability, which can perform data computing and other functions through special equipment and programs.

Unfortunately, Loki lacks the equipment to analyze and can't have a special program to help him master the biological computer. He could only get his full attention on the biocomputer by being in a daze.

In Loki's deep consciousness, the biological computer is like a chaotic and chaotic huge space, through Loki's eyes and ears, the huge space constantly receives images and sounds from the outside world, making the storage space even more chaotic.

From the moment the biocomputer was implanted, Loki has the enviable memory of his previous life, even if the small memory is like engraved in the brain, but the shortcomings are also very obvious, ordinary people only need to think about it (memories are related to each other), if Loki wants to recall something accurately, he must be immersed in the deep storage space and constantly rummage and rummag, and he must also become a static and sluggish appearance.

In order to improve the predicament posed by the biological computer, Loki could only grope for trying to build a rudimentary system, specifically applied to the auxiliary system of the biological computer, and he spent six years sorting out the order of the memory storage space, dividing the space for program operation and stacking, avoiding confusion with the memory space, and at the same time limiting the way of unique input modification programs.

Loki didn't have a computer science background in his previous life, but he also knew some basic programming knowledge. But general programming knowledge was of little use to his brain dilemma. Biological computers are obviously very different from ordinary integrated circuit computers, they do not need binary code machine language, they exist in the cranial cavity, hook the memory cranial nerves in the brain, and can directly act on the consciousness of the human brain.

After numerous failures and attempts, Loki came to some obvious conclusions that the use of consciousness to create simple and clear logical consciousness bodies in some areas can be used as auxiliary programs to run in the brain.

It doesn't seem difficult to say, but how can biological computer programming be an easy task. The human subconscious mind is inherently chaotic, especially for a guy like Loki, whose thinking is almost unbridled, adding great difficulty to creating programs.

At the same time, he must also pay attention to the standardization of program awareness input, and the programmer in the previous life can quickly detect and correct the wrong code and correct it. If Loki misreads a program to his head, or enters some paradoxical logical paradox, what awaits him is that his brain is overloaded, his head hurts like pins and needles, and he will consume a lot of biological energy, causing extreme hunger.

Loki later spent another three years building a simple associative memory program to optimize his vast and chaotic memory storage space, and the benefit was that while keeping him in the clouds, he also looked less stupid, at least much shorter than the time he spent in a daze before.

In the same way that the average computer system in the home is a multi-layered structure, Loki has his own big ideas for a quantum biocomputer. He considered the biological computer he knew, and finally decided to build it on three levels, but unfortunately Loki had spent eight years before not even touching the edge of the lowest-level operating system.

Looking at the red-haired boy who wanted to stop talking, Loki's dirty little hand took out a small linen money bag, poured out more than a dozen polished bare copper coins, and took out one and handed it to the other party.

Loki's voice was low, "Go find more to eat, and I'll continue to exchange copper with you." ”

"Thank you, Loki. The red-haired boy took the copper coin and went back to rummaging or begging for food.

Loki didn't care to look at the figure of the beggar trotting away, the red-haired boy named Ned, also a poor abandoned child, of course, all beggars have their own poor background.

The Black House Gang ceased to exist a few years ago, having been wiped out and annexed by a much more powerful 'Brotherhood of the Streets' in the city, killing many people, including the kidnappers who saved Loki's life in the first place. But the fate of the beggars will not change a little, and the traffickers of the Black Street Brotherhood are even more cruel to the beggars than the Black House Gang before.

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

Loki is more than ten years old, the oldest of these beggars, among them there are the youngest beggars who are only four or five years old, these beggars are undoubtedly tragic fate, they die of illness, crash to death, fall to death, drown, and even hanged, he has seen them all killed, and the memories of the memory that they never forget make each death so impressive.

The leader of the Brotherhood of the Black Streets, 'Quaid', is a brutal, vicious guy who has been controlling the beggars for several years. The beggars under him not only set extremely harsh begging amounts every day, but also often beat and abused the beggars for fun.

Loki, who witnessed death, was powerless a lot of the time, he was only a ten-year-old child, and he was still a half-elf bastard who was discriminated against by his surroundings, and the reason for the energy consumption of the quantum biocomputer also made him thinner than children of the same age.

The powerlessness of reality made Loki have to store his anger and coldness in his heart again and again.