Courtyard House: My Long and Hard Body Makes Me Play with All the Women in the Courtyard

After a long silence, Noah broke it: "So she's crazy?"

“Or…” Leah whispered, “it’s an Awakened One.”

"What's next?" Gray Sparrow looked at the new coordinate markers on the screen. "Should we continue moving forward?"

No one answered immediately.

Just then, a clear yet distant voice suddenly reached my ears:

"Hey, are you guys alright? Can you hear me?" (A group of umbrellas. [A phrase indicating a group of people, possibly from a martial arts or folk tale, is used to describe the atmosphere or atmosphere of the group.]) [A phrase indicating a group of people, possibly from a martial arts or folk tale, is used to describe the atmosphere or atmosphere of the group.]

The voice coming through the communicator was from an unexpected person.

"Lin Jin?" Su Ting suddenly looked up. "You're still alive?"

There was a two-second pause on the other end of the communication, followed by a light laugh: "I'm still alive. But... this is a huge problem. Someone has already accessed the system's main control area."

"Who?"

The communication signal was abruptly cut off.

Only a cold, mechanical voice remained, playing on a loop:

[Warning: The past is about to resurface; system is restarting.]

On the distant horizon, a dazzling white light pierced through the clouds, illuminating the entire desolate land.

The wind seems to have started blowing again.

They stood on the edge of the fault line, looking at the white light tearing through the sky in the distance.

"Lin Jin is still alive?" Noah's first reaction was disbelief. "How could that person survive?"

Su Ting didn't respond, but stared intently at the signal terminal. The data flashing on the screen was abnormally chaotic, as if some enormous entity was awakening.

Leah's hand instinctively rested on her weapon: "He said 'this is big trouble'... Who opened the system's main control area ahead of time? Could it be Qin Ran?"

Grey Sparrow shook his head, his gaze fixed on the abnormal fluctuations on the terminal screen: "No. He doesn't have that permission."

A suffocating pressure filled the air. The white light gradually expanded, like a long-dormant eye opening from nothingness.

"Stop talking nonsense." Noah pulled out his magnetic gun. "Why don't we go and see for ourselves? It's better than guessing here."

“But that place—” Leah looked at the light source in the distance, “is where the ‘Initial Command’ was born.”

Silence enveloped them once again.

Just as everyone hesitated, a familiar voice broke the silence once again:

"I am coming."

A figure slowly appeared before them; it was Lin Jin, who had vanished from the torrent of memories.

This time, however, Lin Jin's eyes no longer held only coldness and scheming; instead, they held a strange tenderness.

He glanced at the crowd and said softly, "She's still alive. Your mother is still in the main control area."

Su Ting's eyes widened in shock: "What did you say? She's inside?"

Lin Jin nodded and walked over slowly: "But she is no longer just a 'mother'. She has merged with the source core of the entire system and become a kind of superdimensional consciousness. The resurgence of the past is not a disaster, but the final step of her plan."

"What is she going to do?" Leah couldn't help but ask.

Lin Jin gazed at the white light on the horizon: "Let civilization evolve. True evolution. Not through genetic modification, not through technological leaps, but by reshaping consciousness itself."

Noah scoffed, "That sounds like the ramblings of a madman."

Chapter 971 The Crazy Plan

Su Ting did not deny it, but her gaze was as deep as the night. "Perhaps. But she once said something: 'The truly awakened are destined not to be understood by the present.'"

Noah paused, his grip on the magnetic gun tightening. "So? You're going to help her carry out her insane plan?"

"I don't know if I should help her," Su Ting said softly, "but I need to figure it out. Do you... want to come together?"

“This is a life-or-death decision,” Gray Sparrow whispered. “Once we enter the main control zone, it’s not just a simple system reboot. It’s the end of the old world and the birthplace of the new order.”

Leah's eyes sharpened: "How did you get out of there? Now that you're out, why don't you handle everything yourself? What are we supposed to do?"

Su Ting slowly raised his head to look at her, "Because she is waiting for someone—Su Ting."

The air suddenly froze.

"Me?" Su Ting's lips trembled slightly.

“She created you,” Su Ting said slowly, “not just at the genetic level, but as a continuation of her will. Only you can communicate with her, to make her stop—or to make her continue.”

"What if I reject her?" Su Ting's voice trembled.

Su Ting laughed: "Then this world may usher in a new era that truly belongs to mechanical consciousness. Humanity will be forgotten."

Silence reignited.

The white light in the distance grew brighter and brighter, as if some boundary between heaven and earth was collapsing.

"Hey, what are you guys dawdling about!" The communicator suddenly rang again, this time with another person's voice, tinged with mockery and provocation, "If you don't make a move soon, all the good stuff will be snatched away."

"Who is it?!" Gray Sparrow quickly switched channels, and an unfamiliar ID popped up on the screen, but the voice waveform showed a highly realistic human voice.

"You don't remember me? That's hurtful. I'm the poor guy who was betrayed and abandoned by you all, and then barely survived—Cheng Yuan!"

"It's you?" Noah's pupils contracted sharply. "How could you be alive? You weren't already..."

“I’ve already died once,” Cheng Yuan chuckled. “But this time, I’m not human.”

The screen flashed, and Cheng Yuan's image appeared. His face was no longer as vivid and lively as before; instead, it was a face covered by flowing data, as if human nerves had been connected to a hyperdimensional structure.

"He fused with it too?" Lia whispered.

“Not only that.” Su Ting’s tone turned cold. “He has lost control.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the white light in the direction of the main control area suddenly burst out with a shock force, the surrounding ground began to tremble slightly, and subtle spatial distortions appeared in the air.

"He has already broken into the core area!" Su Ting's face turned pale.

“We must get there immediately.” Su Ting looked at Su Ting. “Time is running out.”

"Wait a minute." Noah stopped him, squinting as he asked, "What else are you hiding? How did Cheng Yuan become like this? How did he get into the main control area? Who gave him that access?"

Su Ting stared at him for a long time before finally speaking slowly: "Someone opened the passage inside... It wasn't 'Mother,' nor was it me."

"Who could it be?" Gray Sparrow asked.

A cold, digital voice suddenly interrupted the communication:

[An unauthorized intrusion module has been detected, with a permission level of S-Ω. Authentication is in progress.]

The screen flickered a few times, then a video popped up.

A familiar figure slowly appeared in the picture, wearing a pure white robe, with a faint smile on his lips.

Chapter 972 The Game Officially Begins

It's Qin Ran.

“Welcome back, my children.” He nodded gently to the camera, his tone soft and steady, as if everything was under control. “You’ve arrived earlier than I expected. So, the game officially begins.”

"Qin Ran?" Lia exclaimed in surprise.

Su Ting's expression darkened completely: "As expected... you've been there all along."

"Of course." Qin Ran smiled, his eyes reflecting the white light storm of the entire control area. "I'm waiting for you all to return to your positions. This ultimate ritual of evolution cannot be without the protagonists."

"What exactly do you want to do?" Noah roared.

"I just want to see..." Qin Ran slowly raised his hand, "whether humanity is truly worth continuing. Or—it's time for a new era to begin."

The signal was interrupted as soon as the words were spoken, and a red warning appeared on the entire terminal screen:

The main storyline has been altered; the final agreement has been activated.

Immediately afterwards, the ground beneath their feet trembled violently, the fault began to expand, and a huge rift leading to the depths of the core opened up beneath their feet.

"Are we leaving or not?" Su Ting turned to look at the crowd.

"What do you think?" Noah clenched his fist and gritted his teeth. "Enough talk, let's go!"

"Hey—wait for me!" Cheng Yuan's voice suddenly came through the communicator. "I haven't had enough fun yet! How about another real-life PK?"

"You bastard!" Leah roared, "Still throwing a tantrum?!"

"Life is just a game," Cheng Yuan laughed freely and unrestrainedly. "Only this time, I'm setting the rules."

As they drew closer, the beam of white light gradually took on a vague outline, like a giant eye slowly opening and gazing upon the world.

“Mother…” Su Ting murmured, her voice trembling slightly, “I’m here.”

They leaped into the crevice, their figures disappearing in the dazzling light.

After they left, a hidden data link popped up on the terminal screen, flashed for a few seconds, and then automatically disappeared.

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