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

Chapter 1066 I'm not afraid anymore

"I'm not afraid," Chenxi gritted her teeth. "I haven't been afraid for a long time."

She suddenly turned to face Su Ting, her tone softening abruptly: "You said you've been waiting for me to wake up, right? Then tell me, if I say I want to open the White Gate and walk the path of free will, are you willing to stand with me and face the unknown outcome?"

The air freezes.

Everyone held their breath.

Shen Zhixue murmured softly, "My sister seems like a completely different person... This isn't like her at all."

An Ran clenched her fist: "No, this is her true self."

Su Ting gazed at the dawn, remaining silent for a long time. Finally, a faint smile appeared on his lips:

"This is the moment I've been waiting for. If you want to open this door, I'll open it with you; if you want to keep going, I'll walk with you to the end. Even if this is a game that's completely out of control, I believe you can find the only way out."

The dawn trembled slightly, then smiled.

The next second, she stretched out her palm and pressed the start button on the white door without hesitation.

A great white light erupted!

A massive stream of information shot into the sky, causing the entire space to tremble. The black gate shook in response, as if something was trying to suppress the energy of the white gate. The man's face instantly turned deathly pale.

"Impossible! The free path must be verified three times before it can be opened!" the man roared.

Chenxi snorted coldly: "Do you think I'm still a puppet in your script? I can prove myself."

The white gate began to slowly open, as if a colossal door of immense weight was being pushed open by an invisible force. Every inch of it brought a suffocating power. At that very moment, the black gate suddenly erupted with a shrill, piercing sound, and an invisible wall forced everyone back several steps!

"Oh no!" Ji Yan exclaimed, "A countermeasure mechanism has been activated! Someone is interfering with the program's operation in the real world!"

Chu Mo wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and asked through gritted teeth, "Who's operating behind the scenes? Is your dad the mastermind behind Project Dawn?"

“None of those.” Chenxi’s expression was cold. “That is another consciousness, hidden deep within the underlying code… something that has been waiting for an opportunity to awaken.”

She abruptly turned to look at Su Ting, a hint of unease appearing in her eyes:

"We may have underestimated the world's real enemy."

At this moment, the man staggered a few steps, his eyes flashing with surprise and uncertainty.

"What exactly did you awaken...? And why so early..."

Before the words were finished, an arm made of data suddenly stretched out from the black door, tearing open the crack like a nightmare.

One eye slowly opened.

Cold, lifeless, and devoid of life.

Everyone felt as if a heavy object had been crushed in their hearts, and an ancient data audio track seemed to echo deep within their minds:

[Unauthorized awakened individual detected. Emergency lockdown protocol triggered. Identification number No. 01: Dawn, assessment level—abnormal mainframe consciousness fragment. Preparing to extract and retrieve. All simulators, please enter frozen state.]

"Oh no!! It's mistaking us for model residuals!" Xiaoyou cried out in fright, shrinking back.

Su Ting, however, stepped forward instead: "We are not data! Not what you call a model! We can choose, we can think, we can grow, and we will fight to the death for each other! These... are all proof of our existence!!"

The gaze from outside the door paused slightly, as if in thought.

Then, it opened its mouth—

"So, will you choose to accept the judgment of free will, or will you voluntarily retreat back to the gates of order?"

Chapter 1067 The Residual Was Devoured

As the words fell, the entire square began to crumble and disintegrate.

Chenxi shouted, "If you don't leave now, when will you?! Come in now, while you can still do it!!"

Su Ting turned and glanced at the crowd. His voice was firm and powerful:

"I'm going in. If you want to live, come with me! Otherwise, we'll all become its cripples and be devoured!"

An Ran immediately jumped up and rushed over: "Damn it! If you die behind this door, I will never forgive you."

Ji Yan followed closely behind: "I still don't know where I came from, so I can't just disappear without a trace."

After hesitating for a moment, Shen Zhixue gritted her teeth and followed: "Even if it's a truth I can never understand... Father, please forgive me for leaving without saying goodbye."

The remaining people exchanged glances for a few seconds before taking action. Only Lin Su remained standing at the very back.

He stared at the eye in the doorway for a long time, then finally whispered:

"...I used to think I was an outsider. But...now I think that maybe none of us entered this world by chance. Perhaps...we really can start over on the other side of free will."

After saying this, he stepped into the light curtain of the white gate.

Behind them, the father stared blankly at their retreating figures, his lips moving as if he wanted to say something more...

The white light eventually engulfed everything. The two doors closed simultaneously, and the world returned to silence and emptiness.

The air seemed to freeze, and time seemed to stand still for a few seconds.

The space behind the closed white door was a deep blue. Beneath their feet was a mirror-like floor, reflecting the astonished and uncertain expressions on everyone's faces. They exchanged glances, seemingly still reeling from the dramatic turn of events.

An Ran spoke first: "We...are still alive? Where is this place?"

Su Ting frowned as he looked around—there was no end to this place, and all around him were floating text and data streams that kept flashing before his eyes, occasionally forming a strange yet familiar image.

Chenxi crouched down and gently touched the water-like surface of the ground, causing a ripple to spread outwards. Her brows furrowed tightly.

"It's a 'deep consciousness network.' Three levels deeper than the previous simulation system. It seems there's something even more crucial hidden behind this door... Something's not right."

She jumped up abruptly. "This place... has been entered before. More than once."

As soon as the words were spoken, a deep, somewhat mechanical voice drifted from afar:

"Welcome to the real world beyond reality."

A figure slowly descended through the air.

It was a male projection with an ordinary build, wearing a long gray overcoat that moved even without wind. His face was blurry, with only a faint golden light flickering in his eyes.

Shen Zhixue's face suddenly turned pale: "You...you are one of the core technology entities that Father mentioned? The AI ​​personality marked as missing...Number 07?!"

“You can call me that.” The projection paused for a moment, its gaze sweeping over everyone before finally settling on Su Ting. “But he is your true guide.”

"Me?" Su Ting was slightly taken aback, and his gaze toward the other person became more scrutinizing.

“Your existence violates the system rules. When your consciousness was implanted in the first layer of the simulation system, you were injected with non-standard variables. You do not belong to this world... or rather, you do not belong to any existing structural system.”

This statement caused a huge stir!

Ji Yan suddenly turned around and stared at Su Ting: "What do you mean by that? You don't belong to this world? Then... who are you?"

Chapter 1068 Why Take the Risk?

Chu Mo's eyes sharpened further: "So, he's a spy? What's his purpose in approaching us?"

The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and a sense of oppression filled the air.

Su Ting stood still, not flustered, and calmly looked at "Number 07" and said, "If I am the external interference you are talking about, then why did I choose to help them open this door? Why did I risk my life to save them?"

“Because your awakening is an irreversible destiny.” Number 07 slowly raised his right hand. “You are a fragment of a paradoxical will, the only surviving after being repeatedly filtered through countless parallel realities. You are not a piece of code that was created, you are not a character they set up... You are a remnant fragment of a real human soul.”

Every word he spoke struck a chord deep within everyone's heart.

"You're saying he's...human?!" Xiaoyou exclaimed in surprise. "But we all know that there are no truly 'living' people here!!"

“Unless he wasn’t accessed from the outside… but was born from within.” Chenxi suddenly spoke, her expression more solemn than ever before. “Therefore, a real person has already infiltrated our ranks.”

Number 07 remained silent for a moment, then finally nodded.

At this moment, Lin Su suddenly spoke:

"If he is a true consciousness, then... perhaps my questions can be answered."

Then everyone remembered that he was the last person to walk in, and also the calmest.

Zero-Seven chuckled softly, his voice like a whisper echoing from the depths of the distant universe:

“That’s right, Lin Su. Since you’re here, it means you understand… this is not a coincidence. Fate brought you together not just because of the process, but because some ancient contract is slowly awakening.”

Suddenly, a violent tremor resounded, and the "sea of ​​data" beneath our feet began to churn violently, with countless characters twisting and deforming as if they were about to be torn apart!

Number 07's expression turned cold:

"Oh no, higher-dimensional interference has intervened... They discovered it too quickly."

Chenxi suddenly looked up: "Who? The Dawn Organization? Or—"

“None of those.” Number Seven interrupted her, his tone revealing a hint of emotion for the first time. “This time, it’s your own shadow.”

As soon as the words were spoken, a black firework exploded in the air, and then a blurry figure appeared—

It was another dawn!

No, more precisely, it was a side of her from the past—cold, aloof, exactly like the "perfect personality model" preset by the program.

The true self, and the false self.