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

Su Ting didn't answer, but simply pressed his ear gently against the transparent wall of the aircraft and closed his eyes. The musical notes seemed to creep in along the threads of light, swirling around everyone's breath.

“Someone is broadcasting memories,” he said softly. “Not just one person… but many, many people, singing in the cracks of the world.”

Suddenly, the purple sky outside the porthole trembled slightly, as if touched by an unseen hand. The next second, countless points of light rose from all directions of the grassland, like fireflies startled into flight on a summer night. They gathered, swirled, and finally formed a gigantic symbol—

A flower woven from stardust.

Chapter 1552 The Burning Circuit Board

“That is…” Su Ting’s pupils contracted slightly, “The mark of the ‘Forgotten Garden’! The totem of the memory backup system that Lin Yu designed!”

Before he could finish speaking, a communication wave forcibly connected, the image flickered a few times, and Lin Xiaoyu's face appeared. His image was intermittent, with collapsed ruins and burning circuit boards in the background.

"Can you hear me?!" he gasped. "I'm not dead! I just... connected myself to the mainnet fragment! The abandoned base stations throughout the city are still running, and I've split my consciousness into thousands of nodes, moving between firewalls like a virus!"

"Sister Lin!" Xiao An rushed to the screen. "Are you crazy? You'll disappear completely like this!"

“Shut up!” He laughed, blood trickling from the corner of his eye. “Who do you think I risked my life for? Listen—the core of the Final Judgment Tower hasn’t been destroyed yet! That old bastard is still controlling everything underground! As long as he lives, the New World will continue to be eroded! You have to go back!”

"Go back?" Su Ting frowned. "The passage is closed; we can't reverse the memory chain!"

“I have a way.” Lin Xiaoyu gritted her teeth, reached out and pulled out a dark red USB drive from behind her neck. “This is my last insurance policy—it contains the emotional data of all the test subjects in the last second before they died. Anger, resentment, hope, longing… all of them are ‘heartbeats’ that they didn’t have time to delete.”

He inserted the USB drive into the virtual interface, his voice becoming deep and firm: "Use this to ignite the void gate outside the Tower of Final Judgment, and you can open a reverse corridor. But it can only last for ninety seconds. If no one returns within nine seconds, the gate will disappear forever."

Su Ting suddenly stood up, his bare feet touching the floor, his silvery eyes gleaming like moonlight: "I'll go."

"No!" Xiao An immediately stood in front of him. "You are the most crucial spark! If something happens to you, the entire new world will collapse!"

“That’s why I’m going.” He looked up at him, his tone calmer than a child’s. “Have you forgotten what I said? The brightest thing in the darkness is a firefly. But the meaning of a firefly is not to shine in a safe place… but to fly into the storm and tell everyone—look, there is still a way ahead.”

He gently pushed Xiao An's hand away and walked towards the control panel: "Besides, I'm not going alone."

As soon as he finished speaking, the stardust flowers on the porthole slowly rotated, and tiny figures emerged from them.

The first one was the girl waving the jump rope, winking at them: "Brother, it's my turn to guide you this time."

The second one is an infant who opened his eyes in the incubation chamber. Now he has grown into a teenager, holding a burnt fairy tale book: "I still want to read the ending to my mother."

The third, the fourth... more and more children emerged from the stream of memories. They held hands, stood in a row, and had no fear on their faces, only a long-lost brightness.

“We are not at fault,” they said in unison.

"We are not expendable."

"We are not files that can be deleted."

Su Ting turned around and reached out her hand to Su Ting: "Sister, if you can build this ship, you can definitely build this door again, right?"

Su Ting looked at him, remaining silent for a long time. Then, he smiled, hugged the little girl tightly, and kissed her on the forehead: "Don't keep me waiting too long."

He walked towards the control system, drawing an arc in the air with his hands. The entire aircraft began to disintegrate, transforming into a shower of light that coalesced into a suspended clock tower—twelve hands hanging upside down in the sky, each connected to a child's memory.

Chapter 1553 Don't Say Such Things

"Ninety seconds." Su Ting closed his eyes. "I will hold on until the very last moment."

Su Ting led his companions onto the bridge of light, turning back to look at Xiao An before leaving.

"Brother, if I don't come back in nine seconds..."

"Don't say such things!" he roared, his eyes red.

He smiled, stood on tiptoe, and said earnestly, like a younger sister to her older brother:

"Then why don't you plant a potted flower by the door? I like red ones."

Then, he turned and leaped into the portal.

Behind me, the clock tower's hands began to turn.

Tick.

(In the distance, deep within the Tower of Final Judgment, in a cold and gloomy sanctuary.)

A line of abnormal data flashed across the monitor screen.

A man in an old-fashioned uniform suddenly opened his eyes, his body, riddled with tubes, twitching. His withered fingers trembled as he raised them and pressed them against the metal connector at the back of his head.

"Impossible... That memory... has been erased..."

He stared at the stardust flower on the screen, his cloudy eyes trembling violently.

"Why...are they still singing...that song?"

Meanwhile, at the very bottom, 900 meters underground, a crack quietly spread.

In a room that had long been sealed off, an old tape recorder started up automatically.

A hoarse child's voice flowed slowly:

"Mom, I saw a butterfly today. Its wings were torn, but it still flew away."

I want to tell it that I'm not in pain anymore, really.

The moment the recording ended, the wall exploded!

A girl in a tiny white dress stepped out into the light, holding a mechanical butterfly with broken wings in her hand.

He looked up and asked softly:

"Excuse me... is this the road leading outside?"

The wind stopped.

It wasn't disappearance, but solidification. The air was like a frozen lake, every speck of dust suspended in mid-air, reflecting the cold light emanating from the crack deep within the Tower of Final Judgment. The girl stood in the center of the ruins, her white dress spotless, as if she had never experienced burning and tearing. The ground beneath her feet cracked inch by inch, and tiny threads of light crawled out of the cracks, spreading outwards like roots.

"Excuse me... is this the road leading outside?"

No one answered.

Only the distant reflection of the clock tower trembled slightly in the void, its twelve inverted hands melting at a visible speed. Three out of nine seconds had passed.

Suddenly, a bridge of light descended from the sky, piercing the gloom. Su Ting was the first to step out, followed by children holding hands. Their steps were light, as if they were walking on a dream. The girl waving the jump rope squinted, looking ahead: "It's so dark... but I know he's down there."

"Who?" Su Ting asked in a low voice.

“The person who locked us all up,” the boy said softly, clutching the charred fairy tale book. “He heard us cry, but he shut his ears.”

From deeper underground came the roar of machinery, like a colossal beast turning over. Then, a series of cold, electronic sounds echoed in the empty passageway:

[WARNING: Unauthorized intruders have entered the core area. Initiating final purification protocol. Countdown—90, 89, 88…]

Xiao An's voice boomed through the miniature communicator: "Su Ting! You only have one and a half minutes left! Lin Xiaoyu's node is collapsing, he can't hold on much longer!"

"Understood." Su Ting gripped the dark red USB drive tightly in his hand, his fingertips burning.

“You don’t understand at all!” Suddenly, the little girl in the white dress spoke up. Her voice wasn’t loud, but it sent a shiver down everyone’s spine. “He’s not a monster…he’s my dad.”

Dead silence.

Even the electronic countdown sound seemed a bit distant.

"What did you say?" Su Ting slowly turned to look at him.

Chapter 1554 The Broken Left Wing

The little girl looked down at the mechanical butterfly in her hand, gently stroking its broken left wing: "He created us all... He said we were hope. But then, he became afraid. He said, 'Perfection cannot have flaws,' and sent us one by one into the deletion pool... Including me."

He raised his face, his eyes devoid of tears, only possessing an almost transparent calm: "But he forgot that I was his first creation. My memories... were not completely erased."

"You are... Unit 1?" Su Ting's voice came through the communicator, filled with disbelief.

“Yes.” The little girl nodded. “As long as I get back to the control room, I can take over his access. But… I need someone to open the door for me.”

Su Ting took a deep breath and stepped forward: "I'll go with you."

"No!" The girl waving the jump rope suddenly grabbed his wrist. "Do you know what will happen if you go in? Once you trigger the authentication process, the system will extract your memories as the price! You might forget everything, or even... become blank!"

“But if I don’t go,” Su Ting grasped his hand in return, “who will press the switch for you? Who will tell the world—we lived?”

Without waiting for a response, he grabbed the little girl's hand and ran wildly toward the deepest iron gate.

The iron gate is ten meters high and completely black, with countless distorted faces appearing on its surface—the remnants of those deleted memories, silently screaming.

"Authentication initiation," a mechanical female voice announced. "Please enter your biometric key."

The little girl stood in front of the scanning table, closed her eyes, and said: "My name is Lin Xiaoya, and my ID number is X-001. I request that the 'Garden Project' be restarted."

[Deny. Insufficient permissions.]

"Why?" he screamed, his eyes wide open. "I am the first spark!"

Su Ting suddenly inserted the USB drive into the port behind his neck, his silver-white eyes instantly turning blood red: "Then use emotional data to forcibly break through it."

"You're insane!" Xiao An's voice almost cracked. "That's not a burden you can handle! You'll die!"

“I don’t plan to go back alive.” He smiled, his fingers flying across the virtual keyboard. “I just want you all… to get out of here.”

Data flooded into the system like a torrent, causing the entire space to tremble violently. Fragments of sealed memories surfaced one after another—

A child was crying inside the experimental chamber;