Chapter 1: Ghost-Spider? I never expected you to be this kind of Gwen!

New York City, Lower East Side, Manhattan.

Through the morning mist, sunlight shone into an attic studio.

In front of an easel, a youth with maxed-out charm was leisurely depicting the impressions in his mind.

A scene of war soon appeared on the canvas: blue light portals standing atop buildings, monster soldiers as numerous as ants running rampant, giant beast warships covering the sky...

"Dear brother! Breakfast is ready, come down quickly."

A call came from below the attic.

"Alright, Jessica, please wait a moment."

Ye Li replied.

Finishing the last stroke, he took a piece of white cloth to cover the painting.

The Battle of New York had not yet occurred, so this impulsive painting could not be revealed just yet.

Ye Li was a transmigrator.

Judging by information like Stark Industries and Oscorp, this should be the Marvel Universe.

So, upon realizing he was just an ordinary person, he chose to lie flat and relax.

Save the world?

Leave that to the superheroes.

However, it is worth mentioning.

Although Ye Li was an ordinary person, in terms of interpersonal relationships, he was not just a passerby.

Hmm...

At the very least, he was a named extra.

His neighbor to the left was NYPD Captain George Stacy.

George had a daughter named Gwen Stacy, a few years younger than Ye Li, who had been very close to him since childhood.

Then the neighbor to the right went without saying; three people lived there: Ben Parker, Aunt May, and...

Peter Parker.

Yes, Peter Parker, Spider-Man.

Ye Li never expected that a character he quite liked in his past life would follow behind him like a little kid.

And it didn't end there.

The girl downstairs just now was Jessica Ye, formerly known as Jessica Campbell.

She was Gwen's high school classmate and friend, whose family had all perished in a car accident.

Back then, Ye Li had a momentary lapse in judgment and took her in as a "cheap" little sister.

Later, he realized that Jessica's familiar life script was none other than "Knightress" Jessica Jones.

The buffs were fully stacked, weren't they?

As everyone knows, the survival rate of superhero friends and family is not high.

But Ye Li had managed to survive until now.

Perhaps it was because Peter and Jessica hadn't gone out to become superheroes yet.

After going downstairs.

Ye Li saw two girls already eating breakfast at the table: Jessica and Gwen.

They were both dressed in youthful, pretty casual attire, their faces as exquisite as illustrations, cute and sexy.

Furthermore, the two had long black hair and short golden shoulder-length hair, respectively.

The black-haired beauty and the blonde beauty sitting together looked quite visually striking.

"Hi, Gwen, you're here too." Ye Li greeted.

Gwen winked at him playfully.

"The Chinese breakfast you taught Jessica to make is amazing."

Clearly, she was here to mooch a meal.

"Li, come over."

Jessica smiled and pulled out a chair between herself and Gwen.

A spot they had specifically reserved for Ye Li.

There was no need to elaborate on the little thoughts behind that.

"Jessica, it's Li (Li), not Li (Lee)."

Ye Li sat down, placed a soup dumpling on each of the girls' plates, and joked with Jessica.

"We've been together for so long; I'll be sad if you keep saying it wrong~"

"Ugh, Chinese pronunciation is too hard."

Jessica curled her tongue cutely, correcting her pronunciation, "Li... Li."

"Li~" Gwen said easily.

"Hey, Gwen, your pronunciation is so standard!" Jessica said in surprise.

Gwen smiled, "I've been learning Chinese recently."

"Oh, that's hard."

"Brother teaches me occasionally, but I still can't speak standard Mandarin."

Jessica learned Chinese cooking quickly, but she didn't seem to have a talent for languages.

"You can start by learning Pinyin."

"I'll recommend a website to you."

Gwen opened her phone, tapped a URL, and reached around Ye Li to hand it to Jessica.

"It's this one."

"Take a look."

Her slender figure pressed against Ye Li without any hesitation.

The two girls started chatting.

Ye Li was also used to the physical sensation coming from behind, sandwiched between their delicate limbs and slender waists, occasionally interjecting a word.

As the saying goes, beauty is a feast.

In this somewhat indescribable atmosphere.

He had much more of an appetite for breakfast.

He quickly finished a steamer of soup dumplings, plus a bowl of egg drop soup.

"Huh?"

"My god."

Jessica, scrolling through the webpage, saw a notification pop up and immediately placed her phone on the table in front of Ye Li to share, "Look at this, a superhero, so cool!"

On the phone was an article.

The title contained the words "Spider-Man," accompanied by a photo.

Ye Li looked on, puzzled.

Peter debuted?

Why is the color not quite right?

He clicked on the photo and used two fingers to zoom in on the screen.

Then he was a bit dumbfounded.

The Spider-Man in the photo had a curvaceous figure.

A black and white suit mixed with purple.

The suit also featured a white hood.

Spider-Gwen?

No wonder Gwen had golden hair.

I kept saying something felt off.

I never expected you to be this kind of Gwen!

With complex emotions, Ye Li turned to Gwen on his left, wanting to see her expression.

However, the moment he turned his head, his eyes were blinded by something, and a sense of softness struck him head-on.

It turned out that Jessica and Gwen were standing and leaning over to look at the report on the phone, and only Ye Li in the middle was sitting; this turn naturally resulted in a face-full...

"It's okay, Li."

"I-I know you didn't mean it."

Gwen's fair face turned slightly red, and she reached out to cover her chest.

That was too understanding, too fast; I hadn't even apologized yet.

Ye Li was momentarily speechless.

Since Gwen was Spider-Woman, she must have Spider-Sense.

So she must have intentionally not dodged.

Still, the way a young girl acts in love is truly alluring...

He was just admiring Gwen's shy demeanor.

A cold, indifferent voice suddenly rang in his ears.

[Supernatural Connection System has finished loading]

A system?

Ye Li maintained his expression, not getting too excited.

As a transmigrator, a system arriving late is quite normal.

Quickly organizing the information provided by the system in his mind, Ye Li understood the system's function.

He needed to first achieve the status of [Supernatural Connection] before the system would issue corresponding tasks.

As for the definition of [Supernatural Connection]—like Iron Man's Pepper Potts, Spider-Man Peter Parker's friend Ned, or Ben Parker who gave Peter Parker his heroic conviction, etc., they could all be defined as [Supernatural Connections].

Simply put,

Only by having a sufficient bond with a superhero can one be considered a [Connection] of that superhero.

And after becoming a [Connection] to a certain superhero, the system would have a chance to trigger tasks related to that superhero; these tasks were also simply and crudely named by the system as [XXXX's Connection Task], with random content, usually related to the superhero's personal concerns.

By completing the relevant tasks, Ye Li could obtain rewards.

It seems this system wants him to rely on building relationships with superheroes to embark on the path of becoming stronger.

Fortunately, thanks to his relationship with Jessica and Gwen, he already met this condition inherently; now he just had to wait for tasks to trigger.

"Intentionally?"

Jessica looked up and asked, "Did you two do something, Gwen?"

She had been carefully scrolling through the report on her phone and hadn't noticed the intimate contact between her brother and her friend.

Gwen lowered her hand without a trace, "Li just accidentally bumped into me."

After a vague remark, she changed the subject, "Jessica, are you interested in Ghost-Spider?"

"Yes, I think she's cool!"

Jessica held the handsome photo of Ghost-Spider next to her face and winked at Gwen with her left eye, "Don't you think so?"

Gwen held back a laugh, "Besides cool, my dear Jessica, is there anything else?"

"Oh... also, her figure is quite good."

Jessica touched her chin and scanned Gwen up and down, "Looks even better than your figure, Gwen."

Ye Li saw Gwen's face twitch slightly; she was clearly holding back a lot.

It seems the feeling of "an acquaintance praising you to your face without knowing it's you" is quite satisfying.

"Li, what about you?"

Gwen's sparkling eyes turned to him, "What do you think of Ghost-Spider?"

Praise me, quick~

That was what she was thinking in her heart.

Gwen, having just become a superhero, was looking forward to praise from her childhood neighbor brother.

Oh ho, she even wants me to praise her.

Ye Li had this thought.

Must say, the two of them were quite in sync.

"I think your figure is better, Gwen."

Ye Li said so.

"Li, what are you saying? That's too awkward..."

Gwen's earlobes turned red.

She didn't want praise in that regard, although she was quite happy about it.

Ye Li said innocently.

"Didn't you ask me what I think?"

"Is there nothing else?" Gwen asked, unwilling to let it go.

[Please note, you have triggered the novice bonus]

[The system will select two superhero templates nearby to copy and fuse]

[After the fusion is complete, you will gain corresponding abilities]

A novice bonus?

Ye Li, who was about to answer Gwen, froze.

The two superheroes nearby, aren't the closest ones Gwen and Jessica?

Sure enough.

The next second, the system broadcasted:

[Selected "Knightress" Jessica Ye, supernatural template copying...]

[Selected "Ghost-Spider" Gwen Stacy, supernatural template copying...]

"Li?" Gwen saw Ye Li dazed and asked curiously, "What's wrong? Is this question that hard to think about?"

"Oh..." Ye Li came back to his senses and immediately said, "Hmm... Ghost-Spider has extraordinary power and uses it to help the weak; I think that's very good, very great!"

How could it not be great?

The powerful Miss Gwen is contributing a supernatural template to him, the 'weak' one...

"Very great...?"

Gwen was stunned.

She used those abilities to teach thugs a lesson on the street; at first, she just wanted to test her abilities for fun.

Of course, there was also the reason of her police captain father's upbringing since childhood.

But she didn't expect Li's view of her to be so... so noble.

Is that what you think, Li?

While Gwen felt embarrassed in her heart, she also felt a sense of floating.

Jessica also thoughtfully squeezed her own hand.

[Knightress supernatural template copying complete]

[Ghost-Spider supernatural template copying complete]