"The Voice Chain for All, Launch!"

In an instant, all unshielded sound wave devices automatically connected, from mines to grasslands, from the seabed to ruins, billions of hertz converged into a rushing river of sound!

[WARNING: Voice chain intrusion! Core firewall is crashing!]

[Countdown: 90 seconds... 78 seconds... 63 seconds...]

Su Ting charged into B-17, where he was met by three automatic turrets with red flashing muzzles.

He didn't hide.

Instead, he took out the broken piano key from his pocket and pressed it against his chest.

“Mom, this time, I’m not just going to listen to you sing.” He closed his eyes. “This time, I’ll sing it for you.”

The piano keys suddenly glowed, resonating with the scars on his back, and a sound wave, sharp as a blade, swept out!

The turret twisted and exploded!

He continued running, and in the glass cabins on both sides of the corridor, more children floated—they were immersed in a pale green liquid, their ears had been cut off, their vocal cords severed, but their lips were opening and closing silently, as if they were singing.

"Wait for me," Su Ting whispered. "Right away."

The last door was made of pure black metal, with the words "Source of Silence" engraved in huge letters.

There is an input panel next to the door that requires voiceprint authentication.

Su Ting smiled.

He pressed the keys against the piano panel and began to sing softly:

"The moonlight shines on the river bend, my mother is calling me home to sleep..."

The system remained silent for a second.

Then, a mechanical voice sounded:

[Voiceprint matching...97% match. Access: Su Wanqiu—Former Chief Acoustics Researcher, defector.]

[Warning: This permission has been permanently revoked.]

Su Ting slammed his fist on the control panel, and blood splattered all over the screen.

"Cancel my ass! She didn't defect! She was fleeing with the truth! You killed her, gagged her, cut off her ears, but guess what?"

He stared at the surveillance camera, speaking each word clearly:

"She planted her last song in my bones."

Suddenly, a faint light flashed across the panel.

[Voiceprint matching updated...100%. Additional emotional waveform confirmation: Maternal love index - peak value.]

[Permissions...reactivated.]

"boom--!"

The door is open.

Inside, there was only one enormous black machine, shaped like an inverted bell, its surface covered with honeycomb-shaped sound-absorbing holes. In its very center, suspended, was a pulsating blue core of light—the heart of the "Sound-Eating Black Hole."

Chapter 1364 Used to stabilize black holes

Below the machine, a white-haired woman was kneeling, wearing a tattered white coat, her hands nailed to the ground.

She looked up, her face covered in blood, but she forced a smile.

"Xiao Ting...you're here."

Su Ting stumbled and rushed over: "Mom?! You...you're still alive?!"

“Alive.” She coughed up blood. “But they turned me into a ‘living acoustic anchor’ to stabilize the black hole. As long as I keep beating, this thing won’t go out of control.”

"I'll take you away!" Su Ting reached out and took her hand.

“No.” She shook her head. “If we cut it off now, the black hole will instantly swallow all sounds within a ten-kilometer radius—including those children underground. The only way… is for someone to volunteer to jump in and use the sound waves to impact the core from the inside, thus disintegrating it.”

“I’ll do it,” Su Ting said without hesitation.

"No!" Xiao Yin's voice boomed from the communicator, "You will be completely annihilated! Not even ashes will remain!"

Su Ting smiled and turned to look at his mother.

"Do you remember? When we were little, I always asked you, why do you only sing 'Moonlight'?"

The woman nodded, her voice trembling.

“You said it’s because this song is the most ordinary and commonplace, yet every mother knows how to sing it. It’s not valuable, but it belongs to everyone.”

He stood up, took off his combat uniform, revealing his body covered in scars.

"Today, I want to make this song the most expensive song in the world."

He walked toward the machine with firm steps.

The mother suddenly screamed, "Wait! There's one more thing! Your sister—do you remember her? The little sister who was taken away!"

Su Ting suddenly stopped.

"She...she was the first-generation embodiment of the 'Silence Protocol.' They used her voice as a prototype to create all the silence programs. She has always been alive, at the very bottom...codename 'Original Voice.'"

"She...is still alive?"

“Alive.” The mother wept. “Every day, her sound waves were extracted to suppress the world. But recently… her voice began to rebel against the system. Because she heard you.”

Su Ting's eye sockets bulged, and blood flowed down the corners of his eyes.

"Where is she?"

"Below... the deepest well. But you're out of time! The black hole has only forty seconds left to activate!"

Su Ting turned around abruptly and rushed toward the maintenance passage next to the machine.

"Xiao Yin! Connect me to all the channels! I want the whole world to hear it—"

His voice pierced through the communication network and traveled in all directions:

"Listen! My name is Su Ting! I'm going to save my sister! Her name is Su Xin! Code name 'Original Sound'! She's not a weapon, she's my sister! Today, I'm going to... bring her home!"

The passage was narrow and steep, spiraling downwards.

Su Ting ran wildly, the wind whistling in his ears, but suddenly he heard—

A very soft song drifted from the bottom of the abyss.

"The moonlight shines on the river bend..."

It was my sister's voice.

Clear and pure, like a stream that has never been polluted.

Su Ting was in tears, but quickened his pace.

[Countdown: 10, 9, 8...]

He rushed into the secret chamber at the bottom, where he found himself in a deep well with sound-absorbing material covering the walls and a transparent cabin suspended in the center.

Inside the pod, a girl of about twelve or thirteen years old lay with her eyes closed, her body covered in tubes. Her mouth was moving, but the sounds she made were swallowed up by the layers of tissue.

Su Ting rushed to the well and shouted, "Xin Xin! It's your brother! I've come to get you!"

The girl's eyelashes trembled.

Then, she opened her eyes.

Those were incredibly bright eyes, as if they held the entire Milky Way within them.

She looked at Su Ting, a slight smile playing on her lips, and said in a whisper:

"Brother...you...finally...came."

Su Ting smashed open the control panel, attempting to pull out the catheter.

Chapter 1365 Frantically Slamming on the Cabin Door

The alarm suddenly went off!

[Unauthorized intervention detected! Activating the 'Original Audio' self-destruct program! Countdown: 30 seconds!]

"No—!" Su Ting roared, frantically pounding on the hatch.

The girl gently raised her hand and placed it on the glass.

“Brother… listen to me.” Her voice was broken. “They… can’t control me anymore. Because… I heard you singing. From today onwards… I am no longer the ‘original voice’.”

She closed her eyes and suddenly began to sing softly:

"...My mother called me to go home and sleep; chili powder was drying on the roof..."

As she sang, the well walls began to vibrate, and pieces of sound-absorbing material peeled off.

Su Ting immediately realized what was happening, stuck the piano key fragments to the edge of the well, and loudly continued singing:

"My daughter was squatting down and sneaking a bite!"

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