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

Recording has ended.

The room was so quiet you could hear the dust settling on the floor.

Su Ting slowly squatted down and hugged the diary tightly to his chest.

“Lin Xiaoyu…” she murmured, “I heard it.”

Suddenly, a scream burst from the earphones.

"Su Ting!! A large number of armed personnel have appeared in the East District passageway!! They are carrying memory-erasing grenades!! They are preparing to detonate the deep database!!" Tian Tian's voice almost trembled. "Dr. Li said... once the explosion occurs, the consciousness of all the remaining children will be permanently erased!! Including those souls that are 'singing'!!"

"how long?"

"Three minutes at most!!"

Su Ting stood up, grabbed the tape recorder and diary, and rushed towards the door.

I had only taken two steps when the ground suddenly shook.

boom! !

The entire corridor shook violently, the ceiling collapsed, and sparks flew everywhere.

When I looked up again, the passageway was completely blocked by collapsed cement and steel frames.

"No..." she gritted her teeth and pushed the stone with all her might, "We can't stop here..."

“Sister.” Dora’s voice suddenly calmed down, carrying an unusual gentleness, “Do you remember what my mother left you?”

Su Ting was taken aback.

"What did you say?"

"My mother gave you a USB drive before she passed away... She said, 'When all roads are blocked, open it.' You haven't looked at it, have you?"

Su Ting froze.

She abruptly ripped off the necklace and took out a miniature USB drive from the pendant—it was so worn that its original color was no longer discernible.

She inserted it into her personal terminal.

The screen lights up and a video pops up.

In the picture, an elderly woman sits in a wheelchair, her face haggard, but her eyes are firm.

“Xiao Ting, if you see this, it means that the ‘aphas’ have begun to awaken.”

“I was one of the original opponents of the global ‘Silence Project’ and also a mother—my daughter was one of the first test subjects here. She didn’t survive to this day.”

"But there are three things on this USB drive."

"First, there is the design of the 'emotional resonance amplifier'. It can convert the fluctuations of collective human emotions into physical energy, which can temporarily interfere with or even reverse the neural control system."

"Secondly, there is the synthesis formula for 'awakening hormone'. It can activate dormant primitive neural synapses, allowing memories that have been blocked by drugs to flow again."

"third……"

The woman smiled, her eyes filled with tears.

"It's a password. Entering it into the Black Tower core system will awaken the last authorized account—codenamed 'Mother'."

Su Ting's pupils dilated sharply.

"Mother"……

That was the name of her biological mother, whom she had always believed to be dead.

Chapter 1520 Awakening Protocol

“Now, time is running out,” the woman in the video urged. “Connect the amplifier to the broadcast host, use everyone’s singing as energy, and activate the ‘Awakening Protocol.’ But remember—once activated, you will also be exposed to the backlash. Your memories, your emotions, your pain… will all be amplified a hundredfold.”

"You might go crazy."

"Perhaps... I will finally become a real person."

The video ends.

Su Ting stood quietly, the wind blowing her stray hairs and revealing an old surgical scar on her forehead.

She raised her hand and gently touched the wound.

"Mom..." she whispered, "Why...did you leave me here?"

Through the earpiece, Tiantian anxiously shouted, "Suting! Are you alright? The military is about to detonate the bomb in just one minute!!"

Su Ting took a deep breath, quickly pulled up the design drawings, rummaged through his backpack and pulled out a few discarded circuit boards, his fingers flying across the soldering assembly.

Three minutes later, a rough but faintly glowing device took shape.

She ran back to the broadcast room, plugged the amplifier into the host, and inserted the USB drive into the console.

The screen flickers and a login dialog box pops up:

Please enter the ultimate password.

Su Ting closed his eyes, his fingertips hovering above the keyboard.

She recalled the only image she remembered from her childhood—her mother holding her, humming a song softly outside the laboratory late at night.

That song is exactly the same as the one that's playing on repeat on the radio these days.

She opened her eyes and, slowly and deliberately, typed in the password:

Y1987M05D12—That was my mother's birthday, and also the day she was taken away.

Enter.

The screen suddenly went black.

Then, a line of golden text slowly appeared:

Welcome back, S-0999.

'Mother' authentication has been verified.

'Lullaby Protocol' activation countdown: 30 seconds.

The lights throughout the underground base changed from white to gold.

The broadcasting system automatically switched, and all speakers played the same audio simultaneously—the cries, laughter, calls, and songs of hundreds of children surged forth like a tide.

Su Ting felt a sharp pain in his chest.

Her memories flowed like a river bursting its banks.

She saw herself being wheeled into the operating room when she was six years old, saw her mother crying through the glass, saw the needle piercing her arm, and heard the doctor coldly say, "S-0999, emotional stripping complete, ready to be transferred to the 'cleaner' training camp."

She didn't come to save anyone.

She was always a part of this place.

“So…” she knelt down, clutching her head, and screamed, “I was once a ‘mute’ too?!”

"Suting!!" Dora cried out, "Hold on!! The amplifier is working!! Look—!!"

She managed to lift her head.

All around, a faint glow emanated from all the children who were still singing. Their voices converged into a golden river of sound waves, flowing upstream along the broadcast lines and into the core database.

Inside the East Zone passageway, the soldiers who were about to detonate the clearance bomb suddenly stopped.

On their helmet displays, flashes of memories that were not their own appeared one after another:

A woman smiles as she holds her baby in the delivery room;

A little boy is flying a kite and laughing loudly in the park;

An elderly man lay in his hospital bed, whispering, "I love you"...

“I…I remember…” A soldier took off his helmet, his face covered in tears, “My sister…she was also a child from here…I would secretly visit her grave every year…but I always thought she died in an accident…”

The bomb's countdown stopped at the last three seconds.

At the top of the black tower, a line of text suddenly flashed on the main control screen:

In the system's ethical conflict detection process... should the silence protocol continue to be implemented?

Chapter 1521 It will only obey

In the distant command center, an old man dressed in a black robe suddenly stood up, his face contorted.

"Impossible!! This system doesn't ask questions!! It only obeys!!"

There are four underground floors.

Su Ting struggled to her feet, walked to the microphone, and spoke in a broken but firm voice:

"The answer has been there for a long time."

She pressed the full-band broadcast button, and whispered to the world, and to all sleeping souls:

"We are not failures."

“We’ve just…never been treated like human beings for too long.”