Peninsula: Superpowered Daily Life

Chapter 6 The Girl Next Door

Back at the villa, Zhou Wenzhe took out his phone, sat on the sofa, and dialed his mother's number.

To his surprise, the phone rang until it automatically disconnected, but no one answered. He called again, but the same thing happened.

Having no other option, he called his father again, only to find the same thing had happened.

What's going on?

Could it be... that something happened?

For a moment, Zhou Wenzhe felt a little flustered. Just as he was about to call someone else to ask about the situation, his mother called back.

As soon as the call connected, he heard a lively sound on the other end, as if there were quite a few people. He immediately felt relieved, thinking that there were probably too many people to hear the phone ringing.

"Hey, Mom, where are you? It's so lively here." Zhou Wenzhe asked in Chinese. Although his mother was Korean, they always communicated in Chinese at home.

"Your dad and I are in Vancouver. Why are you calling me all of a sudden? Is something wrong?"

"Vancouver? What are you going there for?"

"We have an investment project we'd like to investigate. What's the matter with your call?"

"I was planning to go back tomorrow, but since you're not home, I'll go back later. I'll go to Japan first."

The system requires Zhou Wenzhe to find at least five girlfriends with an intimacy level of 100 within five years, but he still doesn't know where to start or what his goal is. He can only complete the side quest first and decide what to do next based on the situation.

"Then you should come directly to Vancouver. Your Aunt Li was just asking about you."

"Aunt Li? Who's that?"

"You forgot? She's our neighbor from when we lived in Seoul, the one with two daughters. Her family immigrated here a few years ago."

"Oh, I remember now, how did you meet?" Zhou Wenzhe's memory was suddenly unlocked, but he couldn't quite remember what the family looked like.

"What a coincidence! One of the people in charge of this project is your Uncle Sun."

"Really? That's quite a coincidence."

This so-called neighbor was the family that lived downstairs from Zhou Wenzhe's family during the two years he attended elementary school in Seoul.

The two families got along quite well at the time, but they lost contact after the other family returned to the United States. Unexpectedly, they met again in Canada.

"By the way, what are you going to Japan for?"

"Go find a friend."

"You have friends in Japan? Who are they? Male or female? How old are they?..."

"Stop...stop...we're just ordinary friends. I happen to have some things to do over there."

"Don't go away and not come home for several years again. Come to Vancouver first, we'll be waiting for you here."

"Okay, okay, I'll be there tomorrow."

"Okay, send me your flight number, and I'll come pick you up."

"understood."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Wenzhe used the system to book himself a first-class ticket to Vancouver.

Besides assigning him tasks, this system can also handle anything that needs to be done online, and it's completely intelligent; he only needs to think about it to complete it, which is extremely convenient.

. . .

The next morning, Zhou Wenzhe packed his luggage quickly and took a car to the airport.

After boarding the plane, he opened the intimacy system again and found that his intimacy with Sulli had increased by one point, reaching 66.

Why was there no system notification this time, and what caused this upgrade?

From this perspective, it seems that increasing intimacy level isn't so difficult after all.

A few hours later, the plane landed at Vancouver International Airport.

After clearing customs, Zhou Wenzhe saw his mother waiting at the arrival gate from afar, with another woman of similar age next to her.

This must be Aunt Li.

"mom."

Zhou Wenzhe gave his mother a big hug, and then politely greeted Aunt Li next to him.

"You brat, you haven't come back for so long." The mother touched Zhou Wenzhe's face with some heartache, her tone slightly reproachful. Although her son would video call her from time to time over the past two years, it still felt different.

"Hehe, I just have something to do."

"I saw it. The places you went to are too dangerous."

To cover his tracks, Zhou Wenzhe created the guise of a travel blogger and uploaded adventure videos to platforms like YouTube. Over the years, he has amassed nearly 1000 million subscribers, earning him a substantial monthly income.

The reason his videos are so popular is that he goes to dangerous areas that are difficult for ordinary people to access, such as the Amazon rainforest, Mount Everest, the North and South Poles, etc. Moreover, the videos are all filmed from a first-person perspective, making it feel like you are experiencing it firsthand, which is very immersive.

However, he never shows his face in the videos, only his voice, so no one knows what he looks like to this day.

"Life is about having an adventurous spirit, otherwise you'll have lived in vain." Zhou Wenzhe laughed. In fact, all of this was automatically recorded and edited by the system and uploaded to the Internet. He didn't need to operate it at all.

When Zhou Wenzhe first said he wanted to travel around the world, his parents strongly opposed it because of his health condition. They only reluctantly agreed after he said it.

Later, seeing that his health was getting better and better and there were no signs of him getting sick again, his parents stopped caring and even encouraged him to travel around.

"Alright, you and your son can talk again when you get back. We'd better head back now," Aunt Li said with a smile.

The three arrived at the parking lot and got into a Mercedes SUV.

On the way back to the city.

"Xiao Zhe, do you still remember Aunt Li's youngest daughter?" the mother asked with a smile.

"I vaguely remember her. Is she still in college?" Zhou Wenzhe tried hard to recall, but he couldn't remember what his neighbor looked like at all. He only remembered that she was short and had short hair.

"Haha, she's a big star now, and she's even having a concert here today."

"Huh? She's a singer now?" Zhou Wenzhe was quite surprised, his face showing an astonished expression. How come she's a celebrity again? He met Sulli yesterday, and today he learned that the girl next door from back then has also become a celebrity.

Something unusual is bound to happen. If we keep encountering these kinds of things, there must be something fishy going on.

Is the system giving him some kind of hint? Could it be that he should find a girlfriend among celebrities?!

"Yes, she's been in the industry in South Korea for four years," said Aunt Li, who was driving, her tone tinged with pride.

"Debuted in South Korea? In a girl group?"

"Yes, their group is called Red Velvet, have you heard of them?"

"No, I don't really care about that." Zhou Wenzhe shook his head. He didn't have time to care about the entertainment industry, let alone the Korean entertainment industry.

The Sulli I met yesterday was a former member of f(x), but I didn't bother to look up what kind of group f(x) was.

But since we've brought it up, why don't he check it out?

Zhou Wenzhe took out his phone from his pocket, opened the Google search app, and pretended to search, but in reality, he directly had the system retrieve all the information about the two combinations in his mind.

The system displays much more detailed information than Google, including some very confidential information.

After so many years of observation, Zhou Wenzhe has found that nothing in this world can be hidden from this system, not even the most confidential secrets of governments around the world.

However, he doesn't have enough permissions yet, so he can't see a lot of content.

Zhou Wenzhe first looked at the information of f(x) and its members, and then looked at the girl group called Red Velvet.

He didn't expect that the two girl groups were actually from the same company, SM Entertainment, one of the largest entertainment companies in South Korea.

Son Seung-wan.

This is the Korean name of Aunt Li's youngest daughter, now known by her stage name Wendy, who is the lead vocalist in this group.

After reviewing the neighbor's information, Zhou Wenzhe then looked at the information of Red Velvet's leader, whose stage name is Irene.

What a coincidence! Irene and Sulli share the same birthday, but Irene is three years older than Sulli, which means she is also three years older than Irene.

This woman is quite pretty, but she's a bit short.

The other three members of the group are Seulgi, Joy, and Yeri.

The oldest, Irene, and the youngest, Yeri, are eight years apart. Can they get along well together?

"They're having a concert in Vancouver today, let's go see it together tonight," the mother said.

Zhou Wenzhe nodded. Besides being interested in his former neighbor, he was also curious to know if this was a deliberate arrangement by the system, otherwise, how could such a coincidence happen?

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