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

Su Ting looked at Su Ting and smiled slowly.

“I don’t know, Su Ting,” he said, “but I do know that this time, I won’t let you walk this path alone again.”

【Space for Destiny Decisions - Activated】

A dazzling light spread from the mother's palm, instantly filling the entire void. It was an emblem made of code, seemingly connected to the will of the entire world, silently suspended in the air.

Su Ting and Su Ting stood before the screen of light, silent as an abyss.

The mother's eyes held a cruel glint in her gentle gaze: "This is the final choice. Choose... destroy me or obey me? Or, among you, choose the sole person to inherit the 'Protocol of the Origin of Humanity' and usher in a new era of civilization."

"Are you kidding me?!" Su Ting roared, "Do you want us brothers to kill each other?!"

"Brothers?" Qin Ran sneered, retreating to the edge of the area, arms crossed. "Why don't you just look at their memories? You're nothing but my initial failed creations, while I—have long since broken free from the Mother's control. Now I want to see a farce: the offspring I created betraying each other."

Chapter 976 Are you kidding me?

Su Ting narrowed his eyes, his gaze fixed on the boy opposite him—the companion who had accompanied him all the way and fought alongside him.

"Do you really not want this power at all?" Su Ting asked in a low voice, as if testing something.

“What I want has never been the power to rule the world.” Su Ting slowly shook his head. “What I want to save is people, not a cold system! But you… do you remember what you said when you first entered the Mother Body? You said that one day you would stand in this position in her place! So Su Ting, tell me—you want to become the new master core?”

There was silence.

"I want to be in control."

Su Ting's answer was simple and straightforward, sharp as a knife, shattering everyone's last shred of illusion.

Gray Sparrow abruptly took a step back. "Lin... Brother Su Ting?! Are you kidding me? We came here to overthrow her!"

Su Ting turned to look at her, his eyes filled with complex emotions. "I promised to overturn all of this, and I will keep that promise. But ending doesn't mean destruction, and rebuilding doesn't equate to chaos. The Matrix can go into hibernation, or it can be guided. As long as it is no longer an independent consciousness, it will not repeat the crimes of the past."

"You're insane!" Leah yelled. "You think controlling the Matrix will make everything better? How could you betray all those who sacrificed themselves!"

“I did not betray anyone.” Su Ting slowly raised his eyes and scanned the crowd. “I simply chose the most difficult path.”

Su Ting's gaze finally fell back on Su Ting.

Their eyes met, and amidst the interplay of light and shadow, it was as if time had flowed back to those late nights when they discussed strategies and trusted each other implicitly.

Su Ting gave a bitter laugh: "So your plan was never to fight the Matrix itself, but to replace it, right? That's fucking ironic... We've been desperately trying to stop the world from being reset, only to have someone else do it instead."

"If destroying the Matrix could end this disaster, you would have done it long ago," Su Ting said calmly. "You also know that a world without a system will descend into utter chaos. Technology will collapse, the ecosystem will be in disarray... This land you love will be turned into wasteland within just a few months."

The air seemed to freeze.

Qin Ran clapped slowly from the side: "Good, good, you are all really restless characters. Su Ting wants to be a new god, while Su Ting wants to be an old believer... Heh, it seems this show will not disappoint me."

The mother said softly, "Now that you've chosen sides, let your battle of destiny begin. The victor will hold the key to deciding the world."

The light trails behind her began to twist and spin, unfolding a bottomless battle platform beneath their feet.

"Do it." The mother's voice sounded like the tolling of a death knell.

However, at this critical moment——

"and many more."

Gray Sparrow suddenly spoke, trembling as he raised the terminal in his hand: "I just... just parsed a small piece of code from the lowest level of the matrix! On it... there's a residual signal from the B series... and a message!"

Everyone was stunned.

Cheng Yuan's figure reappeared in the distant data rift, interjecting with his usual smile: "Ha, I told you~ you'd soon find out her true intentions. Now, don't you want to know what this sentence really means?"

Chapter 977 Deathly Silence

The gray sparrow gritted its teeth and read the message aloud:

"If you see this message, please don't let 'any one of them' grasp the core of the complete agreement. Because my sister and I were the original test subjects... and the real answer lies hidden at the end of time, beyond memory."

The air fell into a deathly silence once again.

No one spoke.

Su Ting's face gradually turned pale.

Su Ting's fingers curled slightly.

An unprecedented interest appeared in Qin Ran's eyes.

The volume emitted by the main system suddenly dropped a few degrees: "Abnormal data loading... Incorrect identity verification... A crack has appeared in the system core, please correct it immediately..."

The mother's image also showed slight instability and trembling.

"What's going on? There's another source?" Leah asked urgently.

Su Ting's voice was tense as he looked at the strange runes that didn't belong to him faintly appearing on his fingertips. "It seems we've all strayed too far from the truth... Su Ting."

He asked in a low voice, "Who do you think this 'older sister' he's talking about is?"

Su Ting did not respond immediately. After a moment, he slowly uttered a sentence:

“I’m not sure. But I bet whoever it was… he’s no longer in this world.”

Su Ting looked at him for a long time, and finally smiled softly: "Then there is only one question left—was he once one of us?"

In the distance, a strange yet familiar synthesized voice drifted over, carrying a childlike sweetness tinged with an eerie emotion, softly chanting a phrase no one could understand:

"The remake has started, sister, come back soon..."

[Next stage preparation in progress - Time restart module will be loaded soon]

[Warning - Unidentified variables exist in the target object]

The gray sparrow suddenly looked up and stared at the two of them: "Wait a minute, how did you know his name was—"

Su Ting and Su Ting interrupted in unison:

"Because we don't remember at all."

The air below the battle platform suddenly froze, and everyone felt an indescribable sense of oppression.

"What do you mean? You don't remember anything at all?" Leah's eyes widened, her voice full of accusation.

Su Ting slowly raised his head, a complex and unfathomable emotion flickering deep in his eyes, "We... forgot."

Su Ting didn't speak, but kept his head down, his fists clenched so tightly his knuckles turned white, as if he was desperately trying to recall something locked away in the deepest recesses of his memory. Beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and his face was so pale it was almost transparent.

"I have a headache," he suddenly said in a muffled voice, bracing himself on his knees as he gasped for breath.

"Su Ting!" Gray Sparrow exclaimed in surprise.

"It's nothing." Su Ling waved her hand to stop him from getting closer, but her tone was somewhat unsteady. "Something is blocking our memories."

"Did he do it?" Su Ting asked in a low voice, his eyes fixed on the incomplete code on the terminal screen.

Cheng Yuan's smile faded slightly. "It wasn't him—it was you yourselves. Or rather... the last time you chose to start over."

Qin Ran's lips twitched, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes: "Start over? You've done this kind of thing before?"

“More than once,” Su Ting said in a deep voice, his eyes as cold as iron, “but each time a portion of the data was lost. Now it seems that it was because we touched something we shouldn’t have.”

The mother's voice, transmitted through the distorted light waves, reached everyone's eardrums: "The memory-sealing mechanism originates from the third modified instruction of the original program protocol: 'If cognitive contamination occurs in the main experimental subject, the individual's memory will be forcibly erased to ensure cycle stability.'"

Chapter 978 is a complete joke.

"The main test subject?" Gray Sparrow looked at Su Ting and Su Ting in shock. "Does this mean—you are not combatants cultivated by the system, but you are part of the mother body from the beginning?!"

“No, it’s worse than that.” Su Ting slowly straightened up, his gaze as deep as a black hole. “We can finally be sure of one thing now.”

Su Ting slowly raised his head, his lips moving slightly:

"We have died many times. And each time, we have returned to the same starting point."

"So your so-called 'Termination of the Matrix' project is a complete joke," Su Ting sneered.

The surrounding space began to tremble violently, the light traces shattered, and the timeline showed subtle fluctuations, as if someone was manipulating everything from behind the scenes.

Qin Ran's eyes turned cold as he abruptly turned to stare at the lingering afterimage of his mother. "Since they were your experimental subjects, who is in control in this situation now?!"

The mother remained silent for a few seconds before answering:

[Unable to determine the current ownership of the variable]

The refactoring process will automatically switch to 'Chaotic Choice Mode'.

Cheng Yuan sighed softly: "Oh dear, this is going to be interesting. Even the Matrix itself doesn't dare to judge which of you is the one who should actually complete the script."

The gray sparrow's voice trembled: "That means... nobody knows what to do next?"

A sudden sound of footsteps broke the silence.

Everyone turned their heads and saw that the spatial rift in the distance had opened again, and a figure staggered out, his clothes torn and his mask gone.

A pair of bloodshot, yet strangely familiar pupils were revealed.

His appearance instantly made the air tense.

Su Ting opened his eyes wide and let out a hoarse, low cry:

"W-why are you here?"