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

"You have entered a forbidden zone."

"Now, the trial begins."

Noah gritted his teeth and cursed, "I told you it was too quiet just now!"

The man slowly raised his hand:

"Execute the command to clean up all 'variable entities'."

As soon as he finished speaking, countless energy chains shot out from the ground, and the air was filled with an aura of destruction.

Just before the chains were about to touch Su Ting, Lin Jin stood in front of him:

"Brother Su, do you believe me now? You have to live."

After he finished speaking, he ignited the core data in his palm without hesitation—a burst of light that swept everyone into a dazzling spatial vortex.

"You will be teleported to the final safe point." His figure gradually became transparent in the light. "Go find the true source."

Su Ting wanted to capture him:

"where you go!!"

Lin Jin smiled, a hint of relief and liberation in his eyes:

"Go and help me make up for the mistakes I made back then. Goodbye, brother."

Before the words were even finished, a burst of light erupted—

[WARNING: Emergency transfer procedure activated, countdown - 0:03]

The surrounding scenery distorted violently, and the four of them felt light. Before them was no longer the 'Garden of Origin', but another unfamiliar and tranquil space—the end of a staircase suspended above the starry sky.

At that end, a figure sat with his back to them, gazing into the deep space of the universe.

The man was wearing a long black robe and had a familiar badge hanging on his shoulder.

Noah's eyes widened:

"...Something's not right, this isn't our captain?!"

“Impossible… He’s already sacrificed himself on the twelfth floor!” Annie murmured.

Su Ting looked at the man with a complicated expression, and stepped onto the last step one by one.

Finally, he spoke:

"you are still alive?"

The man slowly turned around, revealing a smile.

But that smile didn't belong to anyone I used to know:

“Welcome back, Su Ting,” he chuckled. “You’ve finally arrived at the true ‘starting point’.”

"Who are you?" Leah warily drew the energy dagger from her waist and slowly backed away.

Noah's hand was already on the trigger of the sniper rifle on his shoulder: "This thing is definitely not the captain we know."

Gray Sparrow quickly opened the terminal: "I was just trying to read his life signal... but I couldn't detect anything! It's like—"

“It doesn’t exist,” Annie whispered, her eyes filled with fear.

That person, or rather, that being who had imitated the captain's appearance, rose slightly and slowly stood at the end of the steps.

“You call him ‘The Originator,’ but in my memory, I was called ‘Subject One—Zeta,’” he said softly. “Or you can call me…your real brother.”

"W-what?!" Su Ting's pupils contracted. "You're still alive? You're the first failed experiment?"

The man's smile remained unchanged, instead carrying an almost compassionate quality.

“Why do you think Mom created the ‘system’?” he continued. “She didn’t want anyone to repeat my mistakes. But fate is never reasonable.”

"Shut up!!" Leah suddenly took a few steps forward. "You have no right to mention her name!!"

"Oh? Is that so?" The man in black robes waved his hand lightly, and the entire staircase rippled slightly, as if a crack had been torn open in the skin of reality itself. "Then have you ever thought about this question—why did Lin Jin come back, and not me, his real brother?"

Everyone was shocked.

Chapter 966 Still thinking about escaping

Noah gritted his teeth: "Stop talking about these mystical things, what exactly is going on!? And Lin Jin... could he... still be in that timeline!?"

Gray Sparrow quickly scanned the surrounding spatial fluctuations: "The energy trajectory is unstable, and it may still be possible to catch up... but I need time to adjust the anti-teleportation program."

The man looked down at the terminal data panel in his hand: "Oh, you're still thinking about escaping? It seems your understanding of all this is still too superficial."

"Speak!" Su Ting finally broke his silence. "What do you know? Why have we become the target of this farce? What exactly is my mother trying to protect?"

The man sighed softly, as if he had heard something sad but inevitable:

"She wants to erase a possibility of the future... and you are one of the branching points."

He pointed at Su Ting's chest, but his gaze passed right through him, as if he saw some indescribable destiny.

"The birth of the Infinite Corridor is not just a disaster, it is also an opportunity. If you can traverse all the rules and control every timeline, you can change everything. End the suffering, restart the order, and rewrite the fate of the world—even the entire universe."

"Is this... what you're truly afraid of?"

“Yes.” The man turned to look at each of them. “But that’s where she went wrong. She tried to lock you in, but she didn’t know that the real key was actually hidden in your memory.”

“Memory?” Leah frowned. “You mean that brain split experiment when she was a child? She clearly deleted all the records.”

The man slowly walked towards Su Ting: "Then let me awaken a part of you."

He flipped his palm, and a dark golden light screen appeared between them.

It was a blurry projection image—a laboratory, with countless children lying in cold cabins.

“That was us in the beginning,” he said softly. “We were all prototype test subjects of the ‘consciousness container’.”

"Later, only you successfully merged, while we all became... echoes."

The words had barely left his mouth when the light and shadow suddenly distorted—

A voice rang out, like a recording clip, or like a thought directly imprinted in one's mind.

[WARNING: Core memory unlocking process is about to begin]

Everyone immediately felt a violent shock in their heads, especially Su Ting, whose head felt like it was about to explode.

He knelt on the ground, clenching his teeth, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

"What's wrong with you?" Leah immediately supported him. "Don't look! It's a trap!"

“No…” He gasped for breath and looked up, a strange light flickering in his eyes. “This isn’t fake… I really do remember some things.”

“For example what?” Noah asked.

“For example…” Su Ting raised his head, his gaze towards the man in black robes changing, “I remember your former name… ‘Qin Ran’.”

For a moment, the air seemed to freeze.

The man known as "Origin" paused for a moment, and the smile on his face gradually faded.

“You’re right,” he admitted softly. “That was my name a long time ago… when I was still human.”

“You betrayed me.” Su Ting stood up. “You were the one who first triggered the system’s loss of control mechanism, which forced her to choose to reset the level.”

"That was... to survive." Qin Ran's voice became low and hoarse.

Noah suddenly interjected, "Wait, so you're just a 'remnant' now? You're not a 'conscious entity' in the full sense anymore?"

Chapter 967 The Last Glimmer of Hope

"Yes," Qin Ran replied calmly, "but I am still strong enough."

Lia sneered, "Then tell me, why did Lin Jin choose to sacrifice himself to bring me here? Was it just so we could hear a few sad stories from your past?"

Qin Ran slowly raised his hand: "Because he found something in another dimension... that might be the last glimmer of hope to prevent the 'Infinite Corridor' from fully forming."

"What is that?" the gray sparrow asked urgently.

“A… true original core fragment, undefined data that escaped after the initial experiment failed.” He spoke slowly, “If you can find it, perhaps you can stabilize Su Ting and prevent the ‘variable’ from spreading further.”

Su Ting's eyes darkened: "Are you saying I've already been contaminated? Am I still a source of danger?"

Looking into his eyes, Qin Ran's tone softened for the first time:

"Everyone with potential has been in danger. The difference lies in whether or not someone believes you will make the right choices."

A deathly silence fell over the room.

Finally, Su Ting took a deep breath and slowly straightened up.

"Okay. I know what to do."

"Are you going to find that core fragment?" Leah asked him.

“Not only that.” Su Ting’s gaze was resolute. “I also need to confirm one thing—does Mother really think I’m the only threat? Or… has she actually planned everything all along?”

Qin Ran's lips curled into a smile again, but his expression remained indifferent.

"Now, welcome to the real starting point of the story, my dear brother."