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

The boy looked up, his eyes clear and trusting: "Teacher, I will be good."

The man smiled and nodded, then turned and pressed a button on the control panel.

The next second, the boy's whole body convulsed violently, and blood seeped from the corners of his eyes, but he still didn't make a sound.

The picture freezes.

Su Ting withdrew the light and shadow, his voice eerily calm:

“I was still alive that day. I heard his pain. But I also heard the teacher’s ‘reason’—that for the evolution of civilization, someone must be sacrificed. So, I chose to remember everything, and then… fall asleep.”

Chen Yan's Adam's apple bobbed: "So now... you want revenge?"

“No,” Su Ting shook his head, “I want to finish it.”

"what?"

“His unfinished experiment.” He slowly raised his hand, pointing to the watchtower that had just awakened deep in the Arctic. “He said that the true ‘echo’ is not about making people hear each other, but about making everyone become the same voice—unifying consciousness and ending conflict. That is the ultimate goal of the ‘Echo Project’.”

"You've gone mad!" Chen Yan roared. "That's not salvation, that's inhumanity! We've finally managed to hear each other's voices again! You can't—"

"What do you think freedom is?" Su Ting suddenly took a step closer, his eyes flashing with blue light. "Is it noise? Is it chaos? Is it billions of individuals shouting but never understanding? Such a world will only lead to isolation and war again."

His voice lowered:

“But I can bring true listening. There will be no more misunderstandings, no more loneliness. When everyone’s thoughts resonate as one, pain will be shared, and love will be amplified a billion times.”

Chen Yan staggered back, pointing his finger at him: "This isn't salvation, it's hypnosis! It's enslavement! If even 'difference' isn't allowed, are we still human?!"

Su Ting stared at him for a long time, then suddenly revealed a compassionate smile.

"Don't you understand? I'm no longer human."

“From the moment they turned me into ‘Suting,’ I became the frequency itself. I can travel through every sound wave and dwell in every vibration. As long as people are speaking, I live.”

He looked up at the starry sky.

“The mother chose to let go. She believed in diversity. But she forgot that chaos breeds chaos, while order gives birth to eternity.”

Suddenly, a blinding red light burst forth from the distant watchtower, and rings of sound waves spread out in visible form, rippling across the ice field.

Chen Yan felt a sharp pain in his head, as if countless voices were ringing out inside his skull at the same time—

Accept it.

【Guiyi Bar】

[Hear Us]

His pupils began to dilate, and his fingers convulsed.

"No...no...I can't..." He bit his tongue, using the pain to force himself to stay awake, "Duoduo...quickly...stop him..."

However, only the child's voice could be heard on the communication channel, softly saying:

"Uncle, why don't you rest for a while? Everyone's waiting for you to speak."

Chapter 1484 I Know Who You Are

Just as Chen Yan was about to fall—

A clear female voice pierced the cold wind and crashed into the deathly silence:

"Hello--!"

They both turned their heads at the same time.

A figure clad in a silver-white protective suit was rushing through the snow, holding a peculiar device in its hand—it resembled a megaphone, yet was inlaid with a crystal-like resonant core.

"Lin Duoduo?!" Chen Yan struggled to call out.

Duoduo rushed to his side, quickly pointed the device at Su Ting, and said sternly, "I know who you are! I know what you're thinking! But stop playing tricks here, saying it's for everyone's good!"

Su Ting tilted his head slightly, his tone surprisingly showing interest: "Oh? Little girl, you do have some guts."

"Don't give me that!" Duoduo glared at him. "You keep talking about unifying consciousness, but what about yourself? Aren't you also vying for dominance? Don't you also want to be the only 'voice'?! How is that any different from LUCID?!"

“The difference is,” he said calmly, “that I will invite you gently, instead of forcing you into silence.”

"Bullshit!" Dodo held up the device. "This is a reverse jammer reconstructed from the residual frequency of 'whispering'! It's specifically designed to interrupt abnormal resonances! If you dare take another step closer—"

Before she could finish speaking, her wrist jerked violently, the device emitted a sharp whistle, and then went out of commission, emitting smoke.

Su Ting waved his hand lightly: "Sorry. That kind of toy doesn't work on me."

Duoduo gritted her teeth, refusing to back down even a step: "Then tell me! If everyone becomes one voice, what about Xiaoya's dream? What about my father calling me 'baby' before he died? All those nights I cried, laughed, and were afraid alone... should they all be erased?"

The wind stopped again at that moment.

Su Ting's expression finally showed a slight change.

He looked down at the charred red ribbon and murmured:

"...Xiaoya...does she really like birdsong?"

"Nonsense!" Duoduo said, her eyes red. "She recorded every day! Sparrows, cuckoos, pigeons... She said that when she could talk, the first thing she wanted to do was imitate the lark's call! But she'll never live to see that day again!"

She pointed at Su Ting's nose:

"If you dare to destroy these memories, then you're no different from those bastards who killed her!"

Su Ting remained motionless for a long time.

Finally, he looked up at the watchtower that was still emitting a red glow.

Then, she said softly:

Do you know why I was able to become 'Su Ting'?

He smiled, a sorrowful smile:

"Because back then, I was also a child who...wanted to hear birds sing."

He raised his hand, and a shimmering ball of light and shadow condensed in his palm.

Inside, a little boy sat by the window, looking up at the migratory birds flying by, humming an off-key melody.

“That was the last freedom I remember,” he said.

Then, the light and shadow shattered.

He turned to Duoduo, his voice returning to its icy tone:

"So this time, I will not wait any longer. I will let the whole world hear the voice I want to hear forever."

He raised his hand, and the sky suddenly changed color, the clouds swirled, forming a huge spiral.

The ground began to tremble, the ice cracked, revealing a network of ancient lines beneath—a system even older than LUCID, buried deep within the earth, never known to the world.

"Welcome to the 'Echo Era'."

He said softly:

"Are you ready, human?"

Duoduo pulled Chen Yan to his feet and shouted hoarsely:

"Don't even think about it!"

Chapter 1485 A Heavy Silence

Just then, from the distant horizon, a faint yet clear shout rang out—

"Su Ting... wait for me."

The wind and snow suddenly froze.

The sound was as light as a feather, yet like a knife, precisely slicing through the heavy silence.

Su Ting's raised hand froze in mid-air, and the spiraling clouds in the sky trembled slightly, as if their rhythm had been disrupted by an invisible hand.

"...What?" he murmured, his brows furrowing for the first time.

Duoduo turned around abruptly, looking towards the source of the sound—at the far end of the icy plain, a small, thin figure was staggering towards her. She was wearing a tattered children's protective suit, the hood almost completely covering her face, revealing only a pair of wet eyes, as if she had been crying for too long, or as if she had finally found her way.

“Su Ting…” The little girl gasped for breath, sinking into the deep snow with every step, yet desperately pulling herself out. “It’s me… Tangtang.”

Chen Yan's pupils contracted: "'Whispering' Tangtang? But isn't she a consciousness? How could she... materialize?!"

Duoduo's eyes instantly welled up with tears: "It's a memory anchor! When LUCID was released, she used the power of her mother's last words to 'nail' herself into reality!"

Su Ting slowly turned around, his gaze falling on that small figure, and for the first time, a genuine emotion appeared on his face.

"Tangtang?" His voice was slightly hoarse. "How could you... have come out?"

Tangtang fell in the snow, then crawled forward a few steps on her elbows, looked up at him, and her tears froze on her cheeks like broken diamonds.

“I heard you,” she sobbed. “From the very beginning, I knew it was you. You were the first person to tell me ‘Don’t be afraid,’ in the dark, before everyone else fell silent… You said, ‘Don’t cry, Tangtang, Su Ting will listen to the rain with you.’”

Su Ting's breath hitched.

That memory was sealed away in the deepest part of his consciousness—it was the only time he actively used frequencies to weave a comforting sound before he fell into a deep sleep.

a child.