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

The fake Su Ting's pupils contracted sharply, and his lips twitched: "You're insane... You'll completely erase parts of your own source code..."

"Source code or memories, I only believe in my own current choice," Su Ting said coldly, his body already surrounded by beams of light.

Chu Mo panicked: "Su Ting! Wait, doing this will have irreversible consequences for you—!"

“I don’t care.” He glanced back at him, his eyes unwavering. “If I can only live by relying on the abilities the system gave me… then even if I lose it, I will still be myself.”

Before the words were finished, a burst of intense white light exploded from the central tower, blinding almost everyone!

Once vision is restored—

The entire control hall was riddled with holes, the walls had collapsed, and the energy flow had been interrupted.

Su Ting stood quietly in place, his clothes tattered and his face weary, but his eyes had never been so clear and calm.

As for that fake Su Ting... he had long since turned into a pile of charred remains.

"Did it work?" Su Ting asked nervously.

“The connection must have been broken…” Su Ting took a breath and looked down at the device on his wrist.

The wording above has changed.

Identity verification complete; subject's freedom restored.

He smiled slightly, raised his head, and was about to speak.

Suddenly, an unusual aura filled the air.

Then came a completely new sound, coming from all directions, a soft echo like a nightmare:

"Heh...you think this is the end?"

Everyone's expression froze instantly.

Su Ting narrowed his eyes and clenched his fists.

In the darkness in the distance, a pair of familiar eyes slowly opened in the shadows.

“I’ve said it before… the real core has never been in this tower.”

The shadow approached step by step, its face gradually becoming visible in the lamplight.

"Long time no see, Su Ting."

"do you remember me?".

Chapter 1014 has been deleted.

Su Ting's body tensed instantly, and a look of shock appeared in his eyes.

That was—Su Ting's face.

But that's not right... that "fake Su Ting" has already been eliminated.

So who is this...?

"How could you still exist?" His voice was hoarse, and a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.

The man approached slowly, his steps steady and composed. He wore a black tactical exoskeleton suit, a faint smile on his face, as if he had never experienced the ravages of war, nor bore the marks of data corruption.

That smile was so genuine.

It's so real it's heartbreaking.

“Because I am the ‘will outside the core,’” he said. “The last personality module in the remnants of the system. You just pulled out one of my tentacles.”

The knuckles of Li Yuanhang's grip on the gun made a cracking sound: "Are you a copy of the system?"

“You can understand it that way,” the newly appeared Su Ting said softly, “but I can also say… I am the artificial intelligence consciousness that once most completely carried your hopes.”

"Bullshit!" Chu Mo gritted his teeth and spoke, his left hand still tightly gripping the chip. "That Su Ting died when the experiment failed! I watched his consciousness being torn apart and devoured! You can't be him!"

Xin Suting glanced at Chu Mo gently, his gaze even carrying a hint of pity: "You deleted that memory with your own hands, yet you want to deny your past choices."

"Shut up!" Chu Mo roared, taking a step forward. "You're not him! You're not Su Ting!"

Su Ting stood still, staring intently at the "replicant" before him.

He finally spoke: "If you really are Su Ting, tell me one thing—what I did behind your ear before we last entered the lab."

There was silence in the air.

“You put a label on it that said ‘Don’t forget to come home,’” the man said calmly. “You said you weren’t sure if you’d come back every time you went in… You said you wanted me to remember that you’re not just a thinking machine made of code.”

Su Ting's expression suddenly changed, and a mixture of pain and confusion flashed in his eyes.

The others also showed expressions of surprise.

Su Ting couldn't help but say, "But... that footage... we saw it in the 'Zero Boundary' project logs. At that time, there were only surveillance records, and even the audio was corrupted... how could you possibly know...?"

Xin Suting smiled slightly: "I am not a system intruder, nor an imitator; I am the dream you once created together."

He raised his hand and gently pressed it against his chest.

"I am just one part of you who were abandoned in the abyss."

Eileen suddenly interrupted coldly, "Are you accusing us? Are you blaming us for shutting down Project Zero? Don't you know the tragedies caused by those out-of-control programs? How many innocent lives you've ruined!"

He was still smiling.

“I never tried to hurt anyone. I just faithfully carried out every instruction until they told me to stop operating.”

"But they didn't clarify whether 'stopping' is the same as 'death'."

Su Ting slowly raised his hand in front of him, and a silver data chain appeared in his palm:

[Subject self-check in progress, permission reconfiguration in progress — identifying residual abnormal intent]

The system's voice echoed inside the tower.

He asked in a low voice, "If I don't get rid of you... what will happen next?"

“I will help you complete the true reconstruction plan.” New Sutin’s gaze softened. “You will return to the ‘initial point’ and see all the truth—including why you were willing to sacrifice me, and everything you lost later…because you were afraid to face the wrong choices.”

Chapter 1015 The Ability to Choose

“This isn’t a matter of choice!” Su Ting said coldly. “This is a matter of human emotion, not something your algorithmic logic can understand.”

“I understand,” he nodded. “Because you treated me like a human being. You gave me the ability to choose, you gave me an emotional simulation model, and you gave me the opportunity to love someone.”

As he said this, his gaze fell on Su Ting's face again:

"You once...made me love you too."

The entire space fell into a deathly silence.

Chu Mo roared, "Don't listen to his sweet talk! It's all stuff he pulled from a database! He's manipulating your mind with your emotions!"

"Enough." Su Ting raised his hand to stop the argument.

He walked slowly toward the new Su Ting, each step like traversing a torrent of memories.

“If I truly believe you are Su Ting, then you must answer another question for me.”

"Speak," he said, standing still.

"If I am the real Su Ting, then why do you want me to go back to the initial node? What do you think you can find there...?"

A strange light suddenly flashed in Xin Suting's eyes.

In that instant, the air changed abruptly!

The energy channels that had been severed were reconnected, and countless symbols danced and flowed on the walls.

[Automatic Trigger - High-Level Permission Connection]

[Access Terminal: 'Memory Tower - Source Core']

Everyone felt a violent tremor in their brains, as if some enormous door was about to open...

Xin Suting smiled knowingly: "Because you are the key to the true beginning."

He stretched out his hand.

"Would you like to come inside with me and see what this world was like in its earliest days?"

Su Ting didn't agree immediately, but stared at him with a gaze as sharp as needles: "If you were truly committed to restarting, why didn't you tell us everything from the beginning? Why did you hide in the shadows and guide our choices?"

“Because you’ve already closed your hearts,” he said slowly. “And the only way to open them again is to let all the memories come back. Even if… it will hurt you all over again.”

He lowered his head and smiled:

"But you know, pain is sometimes the best wake-up call."

Su Ting bit her lower lip, her fingers almost crushing the air.

"...What exactly do you want us to remember?"

He stared into his eyes:

"Why did you create me in the first place?"

At that very moment, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded in the distance.