“Hello, we’re your new neighbors!”
The girl took a half-step forward and waved at An Chen.
“We live right next door to you. We just moved in today and wanted to say hello. Since we’re neighbors now, we can help each other out in the future!”
Neighbors?
An Chen was startled.
Had the house next door gotten new occupants?
He scrutinized the two of them, noticing that their clothes were quite nice; not only were they clean and tidy, but they were also from well-known brands.
“My name is Chen Mo, and his name is Chen Cheng. We’re siblings!”
Seeing An Chen observing them, Chen Mo seemed to misunderstand something and quickly explained.
“Hello.”
Chen Cheng, looking a bit reserved, extended his hand.
An Chen shook Chen Cheng’s hand, saying nothing, only nodding.
“May I ask your name?”
“My name is An Chen, An as in ‘safety,’ Chen as in ‘dust.’”
An Chen slightly widened the door crack.
“Did you just arrive in South City today?”
“That’s right! We just flew back from abroad today. The house next door was bought beforehand. An Chen, you must still be a student, right?”
An Chen nodded.
“Then are you studying at the No. 2 Middle School nearby?”
An Chen nodded again.
“That’s great!” Chen Mo smiled, her eyes curving into crescent moons: “We’re also students at No. 2 Middle School. We’ll be completing our enrollment tomorrow. We’re not familiar with this area, so you can bring us to the school and help us get acquainted with the environment!”
An Chen was surprised.
What a coincidence.
But An Chen was more concerned about the identities of the two.
Returning from abroad and transferring to No. 2 Middle School wasn’t impossible, but in this special period, one had to think twice about everything.
Since they had been living abroad, why did they choose this particular time to return to China? An Chen had only heard of high school students going abroad and then transitioning to foreign universities, but he hadn’t heard of many returning from abroad to attend high school in China, especially to attend the third year of high school.
Wasn’t this purely coming back to suffer?
This point was very suspicious.
“Mo Zi!”
Chen Cheng nudged Chen Mo, glared at her, and then looked apologetically at An Chen.
“I’m sorry, my sister has such a personality and lacks some manners, but we really do need help.”
“No problem.”
An Chen readily agreed.
Anyway, he also wanted to figure out their background; interacting with them wouldn’t hurt.
“Thank you.”
A polite smile appeared on Chen Cheng’s face. He bent down and reached into An Chen’s blind spot outside the door, pulling out a gift box.
“This is our welcome gift. From now on, we’re all friends, so please don’t refuse.”
He had probably placed this item at the door beforehand, just waiting for the right moment to present it.
An Chen looked at the gift box, not discerning anything special, but seeing the sincere expression on Chen Cheng’s face, he accepted it.
Chen Mo took out her phone and opened a QR code.
“Let’s add each other as friends; it’ll be easier to contact each other later.”
An Chen quietly took out his phone, scanned the QR code, and added them as friends.
Chen Mo’s avatar was a small rabbit, and her nickname was the same as what Chen Cheng had just called her, “Mo Zi.”
“Brother An, we won’t bother you any longer. See you tomorrow.”
Chen Cheng bowed slightly and took two steps back with Chen Mo.
“Goodbye.”
An Chen nodded and quietly closed the door.
“Why is this guy like that? He didn’t give us a smile the whole time.”
After the door closed, the smile on Chen Mo’s face quickly faded, and she muttered in a low voice.
“We’re strangers; it’s normal to be wary of strangers. Aren’t there people like that abroad too?”
Chen Cheng tapped Chen Mo’s head.
“We were so proactive…”
“You want to meet new neighbors and new friends, but others don’t necessarily want to meet you. Who can you blame?”
Chen Mo pouted and mumbled a few words.
“Why didn’t Dad buy us a better house? Not to mention a villa, at least a large flat, right? Don’t you feel cramped in this old, small apartment?”
Even though this house wasn’t particularly bad, for her, who was used to a wealthy lifestyle, this place was old, broken, and small.
“Have you forgotten what we came here to do?”
“No, to become Transcendents…”
“Exactly, but we still have to go to school. If you don’t want to live in the school dormitory, then of course we have to choose a house close to the school. That way, we’ll have more free time. And there are many shops and stores nearby, with more doors, so the probability of becoming a Transcendent will be much higher.”
“That makes sense, but the interior decoration is a bit old. Should we find someone to redecorate it?”
“Dad had already found someone to decorate it before. Don’t make excuses.”
An Chen stood inside the house, listening to their conversation gradually fade, finally disappearing with the sound of the next-door apartment door opening and closing.
So that’s how it was.
An Chen then understood that the two had returned to China to become Transcendents.
In fact, An Chen had recently seen some people like this online.
Some cities had very few Transcendents, while others had many, and South City was one of them. This was probably due to the spatial correspondence between the two worlds of Kyushu and Earth.
As for abroad, there hadn’t been any Transmigration events yet.
It was quite strange to think about; what would it be like if a few foreign faces who could Cultivate suddenly appeared on the Kyushu Continent?
An Chen couldn’t imagine black or white people flying on swords.
Therefore, “Transmigration migration” had appeared all over the country, meaning people were moving to areas with a large number and high density of Transcendents to become Transcendents, and quite a few had returned from abroad.
An Chen was never the only one who saw Transmigration as an opportunity. Just seeing the string of zeros after the selling price of those treasures from Kyushu on the market was enough to make countless people envious.
In fact, when An Chen looked at his own balance, he would also feel a shock.
These were sums of money he had never dared to imagine before.
In that case, his guard against this brother and sister could be slightly lowered. He could observe them further when they went to school tomorrow.
“Come out, it’s nothing.”
“Who was that just now?”
Su Xiaojiu walked out of the room and asked.
This time, she barely heard any sound, because the conversation happened at the door, and An Chen had only opened a crack in the door. Even with a Cultivator’s enhanced senses, she couldn’t hear such small sounds.
“Our neighbors, two people about our age, and also my classmates.”
An Chen roughly repeated the conversation from earlier, and also shared his own inferences and judgments.
“I also think they shouldn’t be a problem. How about I go with you to school tomorrow? We’ll run into them sooner or later, right?”
“Okay, your Realm is higher than mine. You can also help me see if they are Cultivators.”
He had originally intended to tell Su Xiaojiu anyway.