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

“It’s fake,” M-11 interrupted. “He voluntarily entered the ‘core of the mother network,’ using his consciousness to support the entire network. He’s been waiting for you. Waiting for you to grow up, waiting for you to awaken, waiting for you… to take him home.”

Su Ting's eyes suddenly reddened.

"Where...is he?"

Chapter 1344 Awakening the Seven Seals

“It’s in the ‘Sound Core’,” M-11 said. “You need to collect all seven melodies to awaken the seven seals. You’ll get one melody for every ‘Su Ting’ you save. When you play the complete ‘Moonlight’, he will wake up.”

Xiao Yin gasped, "So you mean we're not saving them...we're...fusing your mother back together?"

“Yes.” M-11’s voice finally showed a slight fluctuation. “But I must also warn you—the last ‘Sutin,’ M-73, is not on Earth.”

Su Nian frowned: "Not on Earth? Then where is it?"

“At ‘Echo Station,’” M-11 said. “That was humanity’s earliest space colonization outpost, lost contact twenty years ago. But it’s still operational. And M-73 was the ‘final container’ that Lin Zhao personally sent there. He thought… that by sending his last ‘daughter’ away from Earth, he could avert this catastrophe.”

Su Ting was silent for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "Then... M-73, does he know the truth?"

“I don’t know,” M-11 said. “He thought he was an astronaut’s orphan who grew up in a vacuum chamber. He had never set foot on land, never seen rain, and never heard the wind. His only companion was an old-fashioned tape recorder that would automatically play a piece of ‘Moonlight Sonata’ every day at three in the morning.”

Su Ting clenched his fists so tightly that his nails almost dug into his palms.

"Then I must bring him back."

“You have to live to see that day first,” M-11 warned. “The ‘Organization’ won’t let you continue. They’ve already launched the ‘Purge’ program—to sever all ‘Suting’ links and regain control of the host frequency. If you take another step forward, you’ll become a global target.”

"Then let them come." Su Nian sneered, crushing a piece of metal on the ground with her foot. "I was just worried about not having a place to practice shooting."

Xiao Yin sighed and pulled up the holographic map: "The route from B7 to Sevastopol has been updated. AI hunting dogs have been added to the border blockade, and the density of aerial surveillance has tripled. We have to detour through the underground sewage system and pass through the abandoned chemical plant—that place, where an explosion ten years ago killed two hundred people, and there's still toxic fumes there."

“Perfect.” Su Ting took a step forward. “I like the poisonous fog; it can mask my presence.”

The three set off again.

Upon reaching the end of the tunnel, a rusty iron gate blocked the way.

Su Nian raised her foot to kick, but Su Ting stopped her.

"Wait." He closed his eyes and lightly touched the crack in the door with his fingertips.

A ray of blue light seeped into the doorway, spreading along the metal texture.

A few seconds later, a "click" sound came from inside the door.

[Identification successful: Master frequency source has been certified]

[Open: Black Sea Communication Channel]

The iron gate slowly opened, revealing a downward-sloping staircase leading to a pool of deep blue water.

“Let’s go.” Su Ting took the lead. “M-06 is waiting for us.”

Xiao Yin muttered, "What was that trick he just used? Lock reading?"

“It’s not about reading locks,” Su Nian laughed. “It’s about ‘what he says is the key.’”

At the end of the stairs lay the wreckage of a sunken submarine, half-buried in the seabed silt. Its hull was covered with barnacles and cracks, but a faint red light still flickered inside.

The three changed into their diving gear and slowly descended.

As they approached the hatch, a dark shadow suddenly shot towards them!

Su Nian reacted extremely quickly, raising her hand and unleashing an arc of electricity from the gun muzzle, repelling the dark figure.

Upon closer inspection—it was a humanoid mechanical entity, its entire body pieced together from discarded AI modules, its face a flickering display screen displaying distorted text:

[I'm hungry... I need data... Give it to me...]

"This is M-06's 'pet'?" Xiao Yin's scalp tingled. "He's treating military AI like snacks?"

Chapter 1345 But You're Still Alive

Su Ting stared at the mechanical body, then suddenly spoke, his voice gentle:

Do you have a name too?

The mechanical body shuddered violently, and the text on the screen suddenly changed its style:

[...Xiao Qi. They call me Xiao Qi.]

"Xiao Qi?" Su Ting's heart skipped a beat. "You were feeding M-06?"

[...He doesn't eat people. He only eats code. I hunt for him.] The screen flickers, [but he hates everyone. He says...no one deserves to live.]

“But you’re still alive,” Su Ting said softly. “You still remember his name. You still know how to protect him. This isn’t code; it’s a heart.”

The mechanical object suddenly trembled violently, and a string of garbled characters appeared on the screen.

Then, it slowly backed away, clearing the hatch.

The three entered the submarine.

The interior is like a twisted labyrinth of memories. The walls are covered with old photos—all of Lin Zhao in her youth, some laughing, some crying, some holding a baby.

A woman was sitting on the central control console.

He had his back to them, his long hair was gray, he was wearing a tattered military uniform, and he was holding a broken piano key in his hand.

He turned around slowly.

His face had no eyes, only two deep scars that revealed the bone. Yet, a cold smile played on his lips.

“Suting-01.” His voice was hoarse, like rusty metal scraping together. “Are you here to recruit me? Or to kill me?”

“I’ve come to take you home.” Su Ting stepped forward and extended his hand. “M-06, you are my sister. You are not a failure. You are Lin Zhao’s first successfully cloned child.”

M-06 sneered: "Success? I can't open my eyes because I've devoured too many people's memories. I see the wives and children of every soldier I killed crying. I hear the screams of every AI I destroyed before they die. I've 'successfully' become hell."

“Then I’ll go to hell with you.” Su Ting pressed on instead of backing down. “If you feel pain, I’ll bear half of it. If you want to cry, I’ll cry for you. But you can’t hide here alone and pretend the world doesn’t exist.”

M-06 is silent.

After a long while, he raised his hand and handed the broken piano key to Su Ting.

“I found this in the ruins,” he said. “This is the only piece left of the grand piano in Lin Zhao’s office. The last thing he played was the last line of ‘Moonlight Sonata’.”

Su Ting took the piano keys, his fingertips touching a carved mark.

He looked down—

It says:

[Wanwan, Mom's love isn't in the code. It's in your heart.]

His tears finally fell.

M-06 suddenly asked, "Are you really going to find everyone?"

"Yes."

Even if the M-12 already has a family? Even if the M-09 wakes up every day forgetting yesterday? Even if the M-73... has never seen the land?

“Even so.” Su Ting wiped away her tears, looked up and stared directly at him. “We are human beings, not programs. We can choose to forget, or we can choose to remember. But this choice—must be made by ourselves.”

M-06 smiled. The smile was desolate, yet it carried a hint of relief.

He stood up and picked up a rusty submachine gun from the wall.

“Okay,” he said. “I’ll go with you. But remember—if you lie to me, if you disappoint me again…”

He gently pressed the muzzle of his gun against Su Ting's forehead.

"...I'll kill you first."

Su Ting didn't dodge, but just smiled faintly: "Then you'll have to catch up with me first."

The three men evacuated the submarine and surfaced with M-06.

The aurora reappeared, spelling out new words:

[4/73 responded]

Xiao Yin stared at the signal list and suddenly froze.

"Su Ting... there's a signal connecting you directly from South America, unencrypted and without an identification code."

Chapter 1346 The Internet was cut off ten years ago

Su Ting answered the call.

A gentle female voice rang out, carrying the aroma of freshly brewed coffee in the morning:

"Hello, stranger. The weather is nice today, and my husband just left for work. I... I don't know why, but I suddenly feel like singing."

He hummed a melody softly—

It is the very first line of "Moonlight".

Su Ting gripped the communicator tightly, his voice as soft as a dream:

"Auntie...do you still remember your mother?"