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

“I… escaped.” Su Ting’s voice was hoarse, and his lips were cracked.

"Where did you escape from?"

“A system,” he gasped, “a world we thought was reality.”

The woman paused for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "You're joking. Do you think this world is really like that?"

Her smile sent a chill down Su Ting's spine. "What...do you mean by that?"

The woman didn't answer immediately, but instead reached out and gently touched his chest with her fingertips. A familiar current surged through his body, as if he were being scanned by something.

A moment later, she frowned slightly: "As expected, the identification code of the upper structure still remains. No wonder it caused such a large data fluctuation. You are... the main sequence test subject."

Su Ting was stunned. "You knew?!"

“I don’t just know.” The woman withdrew her hand, stood up, and looked at him coldly. “I was also part of the team that created you.”

This sentence was like a knife cleaving through the air, tearing open an even wider crack in the already shattered rationality.

“You…how could you…” His throat tightened with bitterness. “They all said the experiment was only conducted in Zone 1, it’s impossible…it’s impossible for anyone to leave the core area!”

“That’s because you haven’t heard of Sub-Project Twenty-Three,” she said calmly. “My name is Eileen. The ‘they’ you’re talking about don’t actually know much more than I do.”

"What about Qin Ran? What about Liya? And Cheng Yuan—is he still alive..."

“You shouldn’t be concerned about these people right now,” Eileen interrupted him. “You should ask yourself why you came into this world. You think you’ve broken free of shackles, but actually you’ve just been sent to another experimental chamber.”

Chapter 989 Never to Wake Up Again

"You're lying," Su Ting said through gritted teeth, glaring at him.

"Then you can decide for yourself." Eileen slowly raised her arm and lightly drew a line in the air. Circling blue information streams instantly spread out, constructing a series of images—

It was a huge underground space, with countless figures lying in nutrient solution. Each of them had the same facial features as Su Ting, but their faces had different expressions. Some were in pain, some were calm, and some even had a smile on their lips, as if they were having a beautiful dream.

Numbers and codes are displayed on the screen, labeled "Individual Test Number 112-7".

“You are the seventh test subject to successfully complete the jump,” Eileen said in a low voice. “The rest of them got stuck in a reboot and never woke up again.”

The screen suddenly shook violently, as if interfered with by some force; the information flow abruptly stopped, leaving only a distorted text:

[Target Identifier: SUTING-Z7 / Status: Alive | Reboot Progress: 50%]

Su Ting's eyes widened, his mind a complete mess.

"This is fake...you're lying to me..."

Eileen took a step closer, her tone softening, "I know it's hard for you to accept. But if you don't even dare to confront the truth, how can you claim to have free will?"

A low hum came from the distant wilderness, seemingly a warning of some creature approaching.

“Time is running out.” Eileen quickly turned around, helped Su Ting up, and said, “We have to leave here now and go to the next access point. If you want to know more… you’ll have to come with me.”

Su Ting staggered to his feet, his mind filled with the scene from just now, and that name that kept replaying in his head:

"You just said... you were also a member of the team that created me? Then... who is behind this plan?"

Eileen glanced back at him, a barely perceptible emotion flickering in her eyes, and said softly:

Do you remember how Leah disappeared?

Before Su Ting could speak, Eileen had already stepped forward, the wind whipping up her tattered coat like a fluttering flag.

“Find Leah,” she said, her back to him, “and perhaps you’ll find out.”

The next second, the communication device buzzed, and the alarm sounded again:

[Urgent Notice: Spatial stability has decreased sharply, and an anomalous substance is approaching. All remaining humans are requested to evacuate immediately to within the safe threshold.]

"Hey!" Su Ting finally lost his temper and grabbed Eileen's arm. "I don't even know who you are! Who sent you! Where are you taking me?"

Eileen stopped and turned to look at him.

In that instant when their eyes met, it was as if a thousand words were unspoken.

Then, she smiled, a smile that resembled that of someone he once knew well but who had long since passed away.

“Me…” she blinked, her voice as soft as the wind, “I am my mother’s daughter.”

After she finished speaking, she walked ahead, leaving behind only a series of blurry footprints and a sentence that echoed in the silent wilderness.

"Come with me. I'm going to take you to your real birthplace."

"Your mother—wait!" Su Ting gritted his teeth and said, "That makes no sense at all!"

Eileen ignored him, her steps firm and decisive. The terminal in her hand flashed incessantly, strings of data passing before her eyes, like some kind of navigation system constantly calibrating its route.

Across the desert, the wind whipped up sand and gravel, the air so dry it seemed to suck moisture from the skin. In the distance, the remaining space station lay diagonally on the ground like a dying beast, occasionally emitting a muffled explosion that sent fragments flying.

What does Chapter 990 mean?

"Do you remember how you felt during the last test?" Eileen suddenly asked as she walked.

Su Ting was taken aback. "What do you mean?"

“I’m talking about the final holographic access experiment.” Eileen didn’t turn around. “You experienced seventeen days and seven hours of ‘real’ life in the virtual pod, and finally woke up in an old library in Zone 3.”

"How did you know these details?" Su Ting's voice turned cold.

“Because I was there too.” Eileen stopped and turned to look at him. “It’s just that… you won’t remember.”

Su Ting was silent for a moment, then said, "If all of this is true... then why did you save me? Am I a failed experiment? An escape variable?"

“You are a possibility.” Eileen’s voice was unusually calm. “The only one who can maintain stable memories amidst multiple collapses. Every death and every rebirth of yours accumulates a mutation that cannot be predicted by the model. In other words—you are the outcome that this system least wants to see.”

"So you created Cheng Yuan? To have him stop me?"

Eileen's lips curled into a slight smile. "The moment you considered him your friend, you had already passively become a pawn. The question now is—do you want to be a player in this game?"

Su Ting clenched his fist, his knuckles turning white. "I don't know how to trust you."

“Then go see her.” Eileen finally said the name. “Lia is still alive. She’s waiting for you in the old world node of the seventh quadrant.”

"Impossible!" Su Ting practically roared, "Lia was already in the Third District..."

"You're talking about the 'her' you all think she is," Eileen said, her tone unchanged. "But have you ever truly understood whether she, like you, is... another experimental subject?"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a sharp whistling sound pierced the silence.

A dark shadow streaked across the distant ruins at breakneck speed, too fast for anyone to react to.

"Get down!" Eileen instantly pulled Su Ting and rolled away. The next second, a black energy spear struck the spot where they had just been standing, exploding into a burst of scorching fire.

"What is that?" Su Ting gasped for breath.

“Hunter-type AI fragments, it seems they’ve already discovered us.” Eileen sneered, her wrist flicking rapidly, a complex information matrix appearing in the air. “I’m not as easy to talk to as you.”

She raised her hand and slammed it down into the air, and countless blue lightning bolts scattered like a spider web, firmly enveloping the dark figure.

A semi-transparent humanoid machine struggled in the electric current, its outline distorted and broken, its eyes glowing with a scarlet light.

“Target identification number: 01-SS-SUTING, initiate retrieval protocol…” A cold, mechanical voice came from its mouth, “Return to core area… return to main structure…”

Eileen's eyes suddenly turned cold. With a flick of her finger, she froze the core of his consciousness in place. Then, she stomped down hard, and the metal body shattered into dust on the sand like broken glass.

“They’ve started sending out hunters.” Eileen looked down at the pile of metal fragments. “This means the signal strength remaining on you is higher than expected. I estimate it won’t be long before the entire Ninth Division is blocked.”

"You mean, someone is monitoring this area?" Su Ting frowned.

“To be precise,” Eileen looked at him, her tone gentle but serious, “it’s about tracking down **you**.”

No sooner had she finished speaking than a series of urgent warning beeps suddenly lit up on the terminal at her waist.

Chapter 991 Tell Me Now

[Source tracing complete | Source location pinpointed to the periphery of the Zero Core Area]

【Target being tracked: SUTING-Z7】

[Status marker: Activated | Danger level: Red (Possible exceeding limits)]

A string of text popped up on the screen at the end:

Welcome back, Sequence 7 Test Subject.

In an instant, the wind picked up again.

The yellow sand obscured the view, and an ominous tremor resounded once more from the distant space.

Eileen turned and looked at the end of the storm. "Now tell me, Su Ting, are you still willing to listen to me, or are you prepared to find the answer yourself?"

Su Ting pursed his lips, his Adam's apple bobbing. "I want to know something first."

Which one?

"Why do you look... more like the real me than I do?" As he said this, a slight wavering seemed to arise in his heart.

Eileen looked at him quietly for a while, then smiled gently, "Because I once... had the same dream as you."

She raised her wrist and brought up a map projection. "The place we're going to now is called 'The Origin Site.' It's said that there's an entrance there that can let you see the real world—provided you're willing to pay any price to get it."

"I don't understand why there has to be a price to pay?"