CHAPTER 42: CHAPTER 40: SIMPLE SMART BRAIN

During these three days, while observing the birth of the elf, Li Qing wasn’t idle.

He asked for an Elf Seed and a hundred Biological Computers.

In those three days, he took out eighty computers, constantly performing the second Awakening.

Without a brain, even a Divine Treasure Artifact was pretty good for a Biological Computer.

What if he Awakened them?

As time passed, he could Awaken a single cell in just eleven seconds, and the second Awakening for Integrated Consciousness had been reduced from one week to three days.

"....."

"???...~~...***"

When eighty Biological Computers were connected, consciousness was finally born.

But Li Qing frowned slightly, sensing that the other side seemed to lack emotional fluctuation. What was this consciousness symbol, emitting electric waves?

Could it be that the Awakening of life due to the circuit structure resulted in no emotional consciousness, like a true mechanical AI?

This fingernail-sized green slime sap was his Biological Computer.

He reached out his arm, clenched his fist, and exerted force.

Crack!

Just like when he first met Ning Guochang, a transparent eight-sided diamond-shaped Zombie Crystal Core slowly floated out from Li Qing’s arm, surrounded by countless terrifying blood vessels and veins.

Li Qing placed the liquid on his Zombie Crystal Core, and then the Core returned inside his body.

Whoosh.

"It’s done."

Li Qing sensed another feeling rising within him.

A voice emerged within:

"~~~~~~"

Li Qing opened the Godhead; it was a very simple personal computer.

Although their technological power had reached this point, they weren’t into entertainment at all.

Like the most primitive computers of the last century, during the period before civilian use was widespread, the function was single, just to assist researchers at a research institute.

Some research logs had already been placed inside.

There was also an Elf Forbidden Book Catalog.

Li Qing curiously clicked and browsed, realizing they had indeed heeded his words, learned system programming, and created a rudimentary auxiliary bioengineering software for laboratory use.

Like programming tools combined with 3D modeling and drawing software.

Beside it were organized genetic codes, with two options [Body] and [Brain].

[Body]

All sorts of miscellaneous parts, bones, skin color... there were thousands upon thousands.

"White hair, green eyes, big nose... " Li Qing randomly combined them and discovered he had created a new elf, with modeling and drawing emerging.

"It’s really like a game’s face customization!"

But he was startled upon a second look.

After customization, they provided a combination DNA sequence blueprint, instructing him to construct it in reality according to this blueprint.

"They only gave a blueprint and told me to construct it?" Li Qing was surprised.

He didn’t have individual gene vials here, so it seemed impossible to assemble on site.

But he wasn’t concerned.

He could always enter, possess a divine body, and use the laboratories prepared inside, with materials ready for experiments.

He skipped the body and looked at the brain.

[Brain]

The brain page was sparse, with only three available CPU loads, being the core center of life.

[Elf Species Brain (One-Star)]: A structure researched by eight thousand gods collaboratively, with incomplete consciousness, hardly possessing creativity, emotional defects, reticent, rule-abiding, lacking competitive spirit - currently the generic brain used by the gods to create life.

Brain Characteristics: None.

[Ancient Divine Species Brain (Unknown Star)]: The existing brain structure of the gods, creation of the Light Creator God, capable of forming a unique network of Integrated Consciousness. The creative level of the brain is unknown, endowing us with mysterious powers.

Brain Characteristics: Consciousness Wave communication, subtle Telekinesis.

"They summarized the brain I gave them very well." Li Qing felt indifferent, as zombies’ subordinates naturally possessed some level of consciousness ability.

[Inferior Human Species Brain (Two-Star, Incomplete)]: Obtained from a peculiar transparent, sheath-like material found in the soil, possessing a gigantic human species’ DNA biological structure, with some genes resembling Giant Gods’ build.

However, these gigantic humans were oversized yet too weak, defective products with too many useless genes. Even women bled monthly, suspected of being an over-gene byproduct during engineering, now useless yet not removed.

Characteristics: Normal brain, possesses complete consciousness, with Seven Deadly Sins, wickedness, meanness.

A note below read:

In the process of optimizing and downsizing this brain structure.

It is highly possible to replace the crafted incomplete elf brain, becoming the new drive brain for the gods’ creations!

...

Li Qing revealed a slight smile, "They still can’t research the brain, so they’ve begun copying normal Earth humans’ brains?"

The menstruation described indeed is a phase defect in human evolution, now a burden.

Humans have many useless organs.

Like wisdom teeth.

Like the appendix, originally for digesting coarse fiber, now redundant, a useless organ that aches fiercely when inflamed, requiring surgical removal.

Moreover, there’s the Darwin’s point, a small protrusion in the upper inner edge of the ear, for gathering distant sounds, absent in many people.

Throughout long historical evolution, humans indeed harbor a host of miscellaneous historical nonfunctional genes. Today, with software updates, humans sit at the top of the food chain, comfortable and secure, and undoubtedly no longer need them.

Yet, as the programmer’s mantra goes: "If it runs, don’t touch it!"

The genetic edifice has evolved over billions of years, randomly altering its base code could trigger chain reactions, program bugs, various gene collapse syndromes.

Take for instance, the 2018 incident of genetically edited babies.

Gene modification served to resist AIDS, causing an uproar of protests, all fearing major issues arising from tampering with base code.

The controversy over whether genetically modified soybeans pose problems remains, let alone genetically modified humans mating with natural humans, risking polluting the human gene pool, causing unforeseen disasters.

"They sure are bold, attempting to modify human genome brain structures." Li Qing couldn’t help but lament, but it didn’t concern him. He wasn’t a modern human.

He had long undergone genetic metamorphosis, becoming another species.

Even wisdom teeth, following fusion with the Crystal Core, were spat out by the morning of the fourth day, through continuous metamorphosis while awakening.

After reviewing the rudimentary auxiliary computer, Li Qing felt fairly satisfied.

Although he only installed a primitive computer in his head, currently its function was inferior to a mobile phone, but what about the future?

He went to have dinner.

All the while eagerly researching this small internal computer, eating and studying simultaneously, almost like playing on a phone, and after a leisurely evening walk, he turned to the elf at home.

The construction was thoroughly completed.

He opened up her head and inserted the Integrated Consciousness inside.

Swish!

"Ugh, my body is so stiff...numb..."

With the brain installed, consciousness transmitted.

She already deemed herself from a vast and boundless Otherworld, during an era of the Elf Giant Tree Era’s Saintess.

Li Qing didn’t close her skull, but opened his eyes, gazing at her brain, a gentle radiance covering her body, making her feel as if returning to the origin of life.

"Ugh, so warm... it’s the embrace of the Elf God..."

Bang!

Li Qing closed her head.

"Ah!!!"

She screamed, feeling a sharp quake in her brain, as if it exploded.

Li Qing carried her to someone’s doorstep nearby.

Because recently, a big row broke out next door.

The old lady, infuriated by someone, ran away. Fitting to commit the act, delivering a "chance encounter with an elf in this modern world" to her.

Humans are social animals, as long as he’s on Earth, he can’t escape society, eventually reaching out to Susan as the first subject for the Umbrella Medical Corporation.

Although it’s nearly confirmed that someone like Susan is an enthusiastic chuunibyou, a Marvel character, and to avoid leaks, she needs to be given a Three Corpses Brain God Pill, a live intelligence bacteria, an internal monitor.

A gentle voice guided her.

"~~~~~~"

"Ah!!"

She woke to find herself by a house, lights aglow, in some kind of forest, a girl beckoning her to safety.

It felt like a hidden hand was controlling an RPG gameplay narrative.