“Su Ting,” she said softly, “you’ve finally come.”

“It’s you.” Su Ting’s tone was slightly somber. “I’ve been looking for you.”

“I know.” She walked slowly closer and reached out to touch his face. “But I can’t wait for you forever. You’re not good enough.”

Chapter 963 seems to have been altered.

Noah suddenly muttered under his breath, "Damn, this woman has bad intentions."

"What do you mean?" Leah asked, puzzled.

Noah narrowed his eyes: "Her emotional data is wrong, it looks like it's been tampered with. This isn't the real 'Su Ting's mother'."

Annie quickly brought up the terminal scan, and the screen immediately displayed a series of warning messages: "Consciousness copy, non-original personality model!"

The woman seemed to have already noticed: "You guys are getting smarter and smarter."

A colossal figure of light and shadow appeared behind her—like the reflection of some deity—gradually devouring reality.

“Welcome to the ‘Garden of Origins’,” the woman smiled. “There, you will see the beginning and the end of everything.”

"And then?" Su Ting asked, "Then erase me? Or trap us all here?"

“If you are strong enough, maybe you can change everything,” she said, pointing ahead, “or become the next me, waiting for the next batch of people to step in.”

The air suddenly turned icy cold.

Su Ting took a step forward.

The woman's eyes narrowed.

at this time--

A sharp alarm blared!

Immediately afterwards, a mechanical voice exploded:

[WARNING: Unauthorized access to core privileges detected!]

The space trembled violently, the ceiling collapsed with a crash, and a group of figures in gray uniforms slowly descended, holding energy chain guns, sealing off all directions.

"Damn it!" Noah instantly activated the defensive barrier. "How did they find this place?!"

Leah drew her dual pistols and roared, "Who cares how he got here! Just shoot him!"

Annie quickly drew up countermeasures: "They're using the fragments of access permissions on us to track us, spread out quickly!"

Su Ting stood still, staring at the figure: "Who sent you? The administrator? Or someone from higher up?"

The woman simply smiled faintly and remained silent.

There were explosions in the distance.

The moment the dust rose, an unfamiliar voice came through the loudspeaker:

“Dear test subjects, we’ve kept you waiting—we’re ready to welcome you home.”

Then came a mocking laugh:

"You think you're fugitives? Actually... you've been on the chessboard all along."

Su Ting's pupils contracted, he slowly raised his head, and coldly shouted:

"Who are you!"

The voice paused for a few seconds, then responded with a mocking laugh:

"Guess who it is, brother?"

Dust billowed, and metal fragments fell like rain.

Annie pulled the gray sparrow away, narrowly dodging a streak of energy light: "Don't stand still! Their firepower is too intense!"

Leah rolled and raised her dual pistols, firing in rapid succession. Exploding blue bullets struck the energy chain guns of two enemies, instantly detonating—"Boom!" Flames shot into the air!

“Take them down one by one!” she grinned. “These crows are quite troublesome.”

Noah gritted his teeth, his arms outstretched, cracks already appearing in the protective barrier: "These bastards aren't afraid of death at all! They won't last five more minutes like this!"

The voice sounded again:

"Dear test subjects, stop struggling. All your actions have been precisely modeled, and every gesture of resistance has already been written into the system script. You are not the main characters, but just one of the 'test variables'."

Su Ting glanced coldly at the woman who was still standing quietly beside the mechanical device.

"Are you the mastermind?" He leaped onto the broken floating platform in mid-air, his gaze sharp as a knife.

The woman raised an eyebrow slightly: "You're overthinking it. I'm just an observer."

"Then shut up."

Chapter 964 But at this very moment

The next second, he transformed into a blur and rushed towards her.

But at that very moment, a furious roar descended from the sky:

"Stop! You think you can see everything? You have no idea what your mother has done!!"

A figure came hurtling through the air.

Yes—Lin Jin.

Lin Jin, who was once considered a missing person, had tattered clothes, but strange runes flickered on his back, as if some ancient contract was burning on him.

"You... how are you still alive?" Su Ting was shocked.

Lin Jin landed, his gaze fixed coldly on the woman: "She's right, this is neither the end nor the core of the truth."

He turned abruptly, looking at the gray-clad combatants pouring into the battlefield in the distance:

"Those people... are the ones who truly control everything."

While parrying attacks, Noah shouted, "Can we put aside this philosophical question for now?! I feel like we're about to be completely finished!"

Leah kicked away an enemy who lunged at her: "Even if we're dead, we have to get rid of this guy first!"

Meanwhile, Gray Sparrow quickly connected to a nearby terminal from the rear: "Give me two seconds, and I can hack into their communication channel!"

"Stop talking nonsense and tell me your thoughts." Su Ting stared at Lin Jin.

Lin Jin was silent for a few seconds before whispering, "Do you know why your mother is trapped here? She's not a loser, she's... a traitor."

The air seemed to freeze in an instant.

Everyone paused for a moment, and even the enemies not far away seemed to slow down for some unknown reason.

"What did you say?" Su Ting's voice was very soft.

Lin Jin met his gaze: "She said that the 'system' is not just a collection of programs, but a product of the evolution of our consciousness—in other words, it is a god shaped by human fear, desire, obsession and hope."

He slowly opened his palm, and a faint light emerged from it.

It was clearly a core part of the "mother's" data!

"She chose to erase her own traces and reset all levels—just to eliminate one existence. But the administrator betrayed her, sealing her consciousness in this projection and creating what happened today."

The woman finally showed a flicker of emotion, but she didn't speak.

Su Ting stared intently at the faintly glowing core, his voice hoarse: "Who is it? Who is the being that Mother wants to eliminate?"

“It’s you,” Lin Jin replied, “or more accurately, it’s the ‘you’ that might be born in the future.”

Everyone gasped.

“Ridiculous,” Leah growled. “How could that be! Who would want to kill someone who didn’t even happen?”

“Because that is the greatest calamity of the future world—the ‘Infinite Corridor Being,’ an existence that can ignore hierarchical rules and freely travel through and reconstruct timelines.” Lin Jin’s eyes were deep. “And according to the initial deduction, only you have a 63% probability of becoming it.”

Noah frowned: "Wait, shouldn't we tie him up now just in case?"

“No,” Su Ting interrupted him. “If this were a real threat, Mom wouldn’t have chosen to deal with it this way.”

He walked toward the woman—the projection of his mother:

"If I am a calamity, then you can stop me."

The woman looked at him silently for a long time before finally speaking:

“But I’m old, and I only have a little bit of consciousness left. You’re the only one who can keep the story going.”

Suddenly, the gray sparrow cried out in alarm:

"Damn it! The enemy commander is here!!"

Chapter 965 Executing Orders

The space began to tremble violently, and a huge phantom emerged in a semi-transparent form—it was a man whose entire body was wrapped in a silver halo, and whose face wore a cold mask.

He stood in the air, like a god descending.

His voice carried a certain indescribable power:

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