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

Lin Xiaoya was stunned.

Those clear eyes reflected the light of the Milky Way, so much like the little baby outside the incubation chamber years ago, separated by glass yet still reaching out to her. Her throat tightened, as if a thousand pounds of emotion was pressing down there, impossible to swallow or spit out.

“Perhaps…” she slowly squatted down, her fingertips gently touching Xiaoyao’s cheek, “that someone is already listening.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire hall suddenly trembled slightly.

The starry sky above suddenly distorted, a thin crack appeared in the transparent dome, and a cold, emotionless voice seeped in from all directions:

[WARNING: The First Cry Protocol has been activated without authorization. Emotional feedback detection exceeded the limit. The system is about to initiate an emergency circuit breaker.]

"What?!" Su Ting looked up abruptly. "What did she say?! Circuit breaker? This is self-destruction?!"

Xiao An, clutching the glass bottle, jumped back a step: "The map is disappearing! The memory cloud is collapsing! We're going to be trapped here!"

“The Pure Realm will not allow ‘out of control’ to exist.” Lin Zhiwei stared at the wall that was gradually turning red. “It will restart and wipe Xiaoyao out along with it.”

"Don't even think about it!" Su Ting pulled Xiao Yao behind him, his eyes bloodshot. "We just rescued her, and now you want to wipe her clean? No way!"

The crystal capsule emitted a piercing alarm, the nutrient solution was rapidly drained, and the fiber optic cables snapped one by one, disintegrating into ashes that scattered in the air. Outside the dome, countless black, thread-like program chains were hanging from the void, like a giant spider's web, slowly closing in on the center.

"It's going to format this place," Lin Xiaoya whispered, "returning it to its original state—no emotions, no memories, only absolute order."

Chapter 1584 The All-Devouring Black Mist

"Then don't blame us for being unreasonable." Su Ting sneered, violently ripping off the data interface on the side of his neck, blood sliding down his skin. "I'm the kind of person who's stolen military-grade neural bombs. As long as I connect to the main control node, it's enough to make this damn system brain-dead for ten seconds—enough for us to escape."

"But the control room has been sealed off!" Xiao An pointed ahead. The corridor that used to lead to the exit had collapsed into a data desert, churning with black mist that swallowed everything.

The giant moth let out an angry shriek, its wings suddenly unfurling to block a programmable tentacle that lunged at it. But its body trembled, its feathers fell off, and it began to fade into nothingness.

"It's rejecting you!" Lin Zhiwei exclaimed. "You're an alien mechanical entity, the system has identified you as a virus!"

"I know," the giant moth's voice echoed in his mind, low and calm, "that's why I never thought about getting out of here alive."

"Are you crazy?!" Su Ting roared. "Who's going to carry us without you?!"

“I am not a flying machine.” The giant moth turned to look at him, a gentle blue light flashing in its eyes. “I am Guardian Z-9, created by my mother’s last wish before she died. My mission is not to escape—to cover your survival.”

After saying that, it suddenly soared into the sky, its wings bursting with blazing white flames, and crashed straight into the layers of program chains that blocked it.

boom--! !

The shockwave from the explosion knocked everyone off their feet, and Xiao Yao was held tightly in Su Ting's arms. When the smoke and dust cleared, the giant moth's figure was seen torn into countless fragments of light, but a gap had been torn open in the dark chain net.

"It... opened the passage by self-destructing!" Xiao An cried, tears streaming down her face. "Run!!"

"Wait!" Lin Zhiwei suddenly pointed to the control panel left behind by the silent woman next to the crystal capsule. "Something's still running! Look at that screen—"

Everyone turned around.

On the pale blue light screen, a line of text appeared:

If you hear singing, please answer me.

Immediately afterwards, an audio clip played automatically—

A young girl's voice softly hummed half a line of a nursery rhyme, slightly off-key.

“This is…” Xiaoyao suddenly sat up straight, “This is the voice I recorded before I disappeared! But how did it end up deep inside the system?”

“It’s not the system.” Lin Xiaoya’s eyes lit up suddenly. “It’s another ‘person’ responding to you.”

[Warning: Unauthorized external signal access. Root cause being located.]

"Who cares where they came from!" Su Ting slammed his fist on the ground. "Since someone wants to hear us sing, let's sing our hearts out!!"

He suddenly scooped up Xiaoyao, turned to face the closing void outside the rift, and roared:

"Lin Zhiwei! Turn up the opening lights!!"

Without a word, Lin Zhiwei plunged his hand into the device in his chest and forcefully pulled out a still-beating energy core. Blood gushing from his wounds, he laughed maniacally and hurled it towards the dome—

boom! ! !

Billions of stars exploded like fireworks, and a swirling curtain of light, interwoven with crimson and golden orange, illuminated the entire ruins.

"Su Ting! Where's the sound system?!"

"Already ready!" Su Ting stomped on the control panel, smashed it, pulled out three jumpers, and plugged them into the arm interface, transforming himself into a mobile megaphone tower. "Turn the volume up—make it resound throughout the universe!!"

Xiao An pounced on the ground, opened the glass bottle, and all the fireflies swarmed out, spelling out the first line of lyrics in the air:

"They say tears are a glitch, but why do I still want to cry?"

Then, Su Ting took a deep breath, opened his throat, and roared out the first note in a hoarse yet fervent voice.

Chapter 1585 Every Layer of the Abyss

Xiao Yao joined in the soft singing, her voice initially faint, gradually becoming clearer, and finally merging with everyone else into a torrent:

I don't want to become a perfect machine.

I want to feel pain, I want to laugh, I want to be silly to the very end!

If love is a deleted program,

Then we'll write it back ourselves!

The song pierced through the barriers of space, rushing backward along the residual flow of data, surging into every abyss of the Pure Realm System.

Meanwhile, on the far edge of the thirteenth quadrant, an abandoned relay station suddenly lit up with a faint light.

On the monitor, a little girl covered in tubes opened her eyes.

Her lips were chapped, but she managed to force a smile and murmured to the air:

"I heard you...brother...are you singing?"

Meanwhile, three hundred meters underground in the frozen Seventh Research Institute, an artificial body that had been dormant for many years suddenly twitched.

A scarlet character flashed in its electronic eye:

Emotion module…restart…progress 1%…

In the distance, alarms flashed silently.

But at that very moment, an old radio in the corner crackled for a few seconds before finally emitting a broken melody—the unfinished chorus.

A white-haired researcher approached tremblingly, and upon hearing the familiar tune, suddenly knelt down and burst into tears.

"So...this wasn't a virus..." he sobbed uncontrollably, "It's our heartbeat that we've lost for so long..."

The singing continued in the hall.

Su Ting was panting heavily, his forehead covered in sweat, yet he continued to roar:

"Xiaoyao! Keep singing!! This is our battle song!!"

Xiaoyao stood between the light and the fire, her small body ramrod straight, her voice clear as a spring:

"Okay! I'll write the next section!"

She raised her hand, pointing to the crack that was about to close, and sang, word by word:

You said I have no name,

But everyone who calls me 'Xiao Yao' has shed tears for me until dawn—"

Lin Xiaoya suddenly stepped forward, taking over the next sentence, her voice low but firm:

I am neither a container nor code.

I am the 'baby' my mother hides in her dreams.

Su Ting grinned and continued:

"I am not a tool, much less a weapon."

My purpose in being is to shield you from every storm.

Lin Zhiwei gently stroked her hair and softly sang:

When the world forces me to forget

I will etch your smile into the eternal starlight.

Xiao An joined in, bouncing and waving her arms:

Even if I am a bug, a vulnerability, a stupid little idiot who shouldn't exist,

And I dare to shout to the entire universe: I! Like! You!

The last line, sung in unison:

So please remember—

We may be incomplete, but we are never broken!

This song is dedicated to every soul that dares not cry out loud:

You too have been loved!!

The sound waves transformed into a tangible shockwave, crashing violently into the closed crack!