America: I came here to study, not to show mercy.

Chapter 170 Righteous Actions: Punishing Evil 110
Far from the hustle and bustle of New York City, the vast estate sits alone in a corner of the suburbs, immersed in a peaceful tranquility.

After the rain, the sun blazed down on the earth as if to compensate for the heat. In early November, the entire manor was sweltering. The air conditioners in the villas hummed and banged, producing a series of muffled, rhythmic beats.

"Drink... Hoo..."

Several sandbags were set up in the training field, and several people were hitting them one after another according to Amina's previous instructions, making short, panting sounds.

“Victoria, your lead hook isn’t just about extending your arm; you need to use the power of your waist and hips.”

Sophie was clearly very experienced and took the initiative to re-correct Amina's posture one-on-one after the training sessions.

Lee Shawn took a deep breath, raised his arm to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and couldn't help but glance at the one-on-one duel between Serafina and Amina on the other side.

Even though he was mentally prepared, Sean Lee was still surprised by Serafina's agility and fighting skills. He couldn't completely avoid her quick reactions and attacks when he was in her position.

Even so, Serafina was still forced to retreat steadily under the relentless pressure of Amina's close defense and relentless advance.

She truly deserves to be the woman with the highest stamina of 13 points that I've seen so far.

Li Xiaoen sighed inwardly. He took a moment to use the character lens and saw that Amina had a stamina of 13, while Serafina had a value of 12.

No wonder Serafina was so dejected when Amina said those words about the test. Thinking about it, Lee Shawn found it a little funny. She said she came to beat him up, but now she was the one who got beaten up.

"What are you looking at, you idiot?"

Forced to retreat to the side by the pressure from Amina, Serafina immediately noticed the direction of Lee Shawn and her face darkened.

Li Xiaoen didn't say anything upon hearing this, and turned back to start hitting the sandbag in front of him again.

"You need to adopt a more aggressive stance, instead of your usual lazy posture."

Suddenly, Suffer's voice came from behind him. Then, the girl reached out and grabbed his back and shoulders, and he adjusted his posture according to her instructions.

Having been grabbed rather roughly, Li Xiaoen had mixed feelings. Seeing Su Feier immediately come to Mary's side to give her instructions, he couldn't tell if it was intentional on her part.

After several rests and training sessions, Serafina finally broke free under Amina's personal sparring guidance and walked towards them.

"Hehe, Sean..."

Serafina gritted her teeth, rubbing her hands together, "Come on, let's spar and see how your training goes?"

"I reject."

After glancing over, Li Xiaoen said indifferently, "You've been training for so long, and I've only just started my first day of training. And you still want to spar with me?"

After saying that, Li Xiaoen glanced at Su Feier, but still held back his earlier comment about the true Americans.

"Simply practicing together doesn't matter much; it's a good opportunity to see how well you've mastered the basic skills from your previous training."

Amina came to the side, crossed her arms, and nodded.

Upon hearing this, all the girls looked over and noticed Serafina's gritted teeth and angry expression. Li Xiaoen slumped his shoulders.

Why? He had a vague feeling that Amina was deliberately acting as an accomplice to Serafina.

"You need to practice with someone, right?"

Li Xiaoen nodded seriously, then turned and glanced at the girls. "I choose Victoria to spar with me."

"..."

The entire training ground suddenly fell silent. The women looked up and stared at the young man, their eyes widening in surprise.

"Scoundrel!"

Realizing what was happening, Victoria rolled her eyes and spat out a curse, even though she was usually quite reserved.

Upon hearing this, the girls snapped out of their daze and cast disdainful glances at the young man standing there.

"You're so shameless..."

"It's so shameless..."

They couldn't help but echo her sentiment. Who would have thought that the young man, who seemed to be invincible and outstanding in the practical shooting competition, would say such a thing now?

"Hey hey hey..."

Li Xiaoen was unconcerned about the girls' reactions and corrected them, "Can 'thick-skinned' and 'shameless' coexist? I don't think my skin is as thick as Schrödinger's."

After saying that, ignoring the girls' eye rolls, Li Xiaoen looked at Victoria with a smile on his face, "Let's practice together. It'll be a good opportunity to see how well you've mastered the basic skills from the previous training."

Having quoted her words verbatim, even Amina, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but roll her eyes.

Victoria met the young man's slightly narrowed eyes, turned her head to look at Sophie, and smiled with pursed lips.

She nodded: "Sure, but I'll have Sophie play for me first."

"..."

"what?"

Li Xiaoen was taken aback for a moment, then saw Su Feier strode over through gritted teeth, and quickly raised his hand, "There's no such thing as a relentless barrage of attacks, how about I..."

Before he could finish speaking, Suffer kicked him.

"What the hell..."

Startled, Li Xiaoen realized it was too late to dodge. He quickly bent over and pulled in his stomach, barely managing to avoid Su Feier's kick, and cried out in surprise.

Sophie showed no sign of holding back, kicking out and landing a left hook at the youth as she closed in.

"call……"

Quickly regaining his composure, Li Xiaoen calmed himself, bent his arm to block, and simultaneously launched a counterattack with his other hand towards Su Feier.

Sufiel, who was already in a sparring stance, raised her hand to block, but she still couldn't help but feel a burning sensation on her arm from the young man's strength. As she pushed him away, she also pulled back some distance.

His face darkened, and Suffer adjusted his breathing, his gaze finally turning serious as he stared intently at the young man…

Standing on one side of the spacious training ground, Amina watched the two fighting each other and nodded repeatedly in surprise.

Sophie knew that he had received karate training, although it was more for fitness than for fighting, but his foundation was undoubtedly much better.

On the contrary, Li Xiaoen was clearly a beginner from the very beginning of her teaching, yet she has learned the fighting stances quite well and reacted quickly in terms of combat awareness.

Because of the difference in height and weight between the sexes, Suffer tried to attack with kicks while keeping his distance, but he was able to react quickly and try to fight him in close combat every time he dodged.

While his talent for martial arts isn't as extraordinary as his talent for shooting, it's still significantly better than that of an average person.

As Amina watched Li Xiaoen's movements, she couldn't help but think to herself.

"hiss……"

Li Xiaoen punched Suffer on the shoulder, and even though he held back, he still heard the girl let out a barely audible hiss, and his body paused for a moment.

Just then, contrary to his usual behavior, Suffer did not distance himself. Instead, he grabbed Suffer's training uniform collar and took the opportunity to throw him to the ground.

"Sufeil..."

Li Xiaoen exclaimed in surprise, noticing the girl's limbs wrapped around him. He then realized what was happening and struggled to get up, but unfortunately, his head was firmly trapped between her thighs, and one of his hands was firmly grabbed and pulled to his chest.

With just a slight exertion of Suffer's thigh, he felt short of breath and struggled to no avail. Helpless, Li Xiaoen raised his other hand and patted the girl's thigh.

"Alright, Sophie wins." Amina, who was standing to the side, shouted at the right time, and Li Xiaoen was finally freed, raising his hand to pry Sophie's legs off his body.

"Humph……"

With a cold snort, Sufiel released his grip and rolled backward to stand up, then straightened his training clothes.

"Why are you taking this so seriously when it's supposed to be practice?"

Victoria also came forward and helped Li Xiaoen up. She couldn't help but mutter a complaint, and looking at Su Feier and Li Xiaoen's expressions, she couldn't help but feel a little confused.

How did a perfectly good fight turn into grappling and submission techniques?
She had heard Sophie mention that she would never use those kinds of techniques on men.

"I won."

With her hands on her hips, looking down at the young man sitting on the floor, meeting his slightly narrowed, dark eyes, Suffer finally smiled.

"I was careless this time."

If he hadn't hesitated for a moment for fear of hurting her, how could he have been thrown down and locked up? Li Xiaoen thought to himself, but he stood up helplessly.

"Dissatisfied?"

Sophie raised an eyebrow and nodded casually. "Want to come again?"

"Are you provoking me?"

Li Xiaoen paused for a moment upon hearing this, then turned to face Su Feier directly. "I can tell you right now, that opportunity is already..."

"All right!"

Finally unable to bear it any longer, Victoria came up to the two of them, raised her hand and pushed them away from the brink of another confrontation, saying with a hint of helplessness, "If you want to spar, you should at least take a break, or find someone else, right?"

She had originally planned to send Suffer to give Li Xiaoen a hard time, but the hard time actually happened, and things went wrong, which made her somewhat regretful.

"Next, I'll go!"

On the other side, Serafina quickly raised her hand.

"Forget it."

Before anyone else could react, Li Xiaoen rolled his eyes and sat down on a bench, which made Serafina's face darken.

Here, have some water.

Victoria handed him a bottle of water, which he accepted. As he looked up to thank her, he saw the girl staring at him with a meaningful look.

"what happened?"

Li Xiaoen paused for a moment.

"nothing."

Victoria shook her head casually and sat down next to him. "I'll spar with you once you've rested."

A casual remark made Li Xiaoen look over in surprise, then a mischievous smile appeared on her face, "Judging from how you fought against Su Feier, I feel like I can still give it a try."

"..."

"It was an accident, I was ambushed, okay?"

Li Xiaoen explained helplessly, "Besides, Suffer has a foundation in karate, while you don't..."

"Does it matter?"

Victoria scoffed dismissively, "Sparring? It's just practice, isn't it? I can also see how well I'm doing."

As she spoke, she raised her hand and patted Li Xiaoen's arm, "You'd better be gentle, don't hurt me."

"Good good."

Li Xiaoen nodded helplessly. Suddenly, the system screen appeared in front of him, and the information on it, which was different from the previous ones, made him freeze on the spot.

The achievement system is now activated.

Achievement (Heroic Deeds: Punishing Evil 1/10) Completed

[Congratulations, host, you have obtained: Top-tier Virtual Time Card x1, Random Item Upgrade Card x1]

[Top-tier Virtual Time Card: After use, you can freely choose one action, including employment, study, or exercise, and allocate your time accordingly. It ignores all obstacles and automatically simulates the host's current environment. The minimum time allocated at one time is 1 year, and the total available time is 10 years.]

[Random Item Upgrade Card: After use, it will randomly select one item currently owned by the host for upgrade, and the corresponding function will be doubled.]

【…】

[Duplicate item cards detected; system automatically merges them]

[Consumes: 1 Advanced Virtual Time Card (4 years), 1 Top-Tier Virtual Time Card (10 years)]

[Congratulations, host, you have obtained: Virtual Time Pool LV1 (14 years) ×1]

[Virtual Time Pool LV1: The time corresponding to the virtual time cards subsequently obtained by the host will be automatically imported. Alternatively, any card of any category below the advanced level can be converted to 50% of its time and imported.]

[Virtual Time Pool LV1: Limited to once per month, or after consuming 100% of the energy, the host can fish in the Virtual Time Pool, with a chance to obtain any item or a message in a bottle that transcends time and space]

[Current Virtual Time Pool Charge: 100%]

[Note: The system will be powered based on specific host behaviors]

"..."

Staring blankly at the information displayed on the screen, Li Xiaoen, who had initially been complaining about the newly synthesized virtual time pool's useless and exploitative features, finally brightened up when he saw the last part.

Putting aside the various powerful props, wouldn't the information he obtains from that time-traveling message in a bottle possibly encompass a prophecy of the past or future in another form?

"Sean, what's wrong?"

Seeing the young man staring blankly ahead, his expression shifting between helplessness and excitement, Victoria looked over but saw nothing, so she nudged his shoulder.

"Oh, it's okay."

Coming to his senses, Li Xiaoen suppressed his excitement and shook his head with a smile, "I was just thinking about the mistakes I made in my duel with Su Feier earlier."

After giving a perfunctory reply, Li Xiaoen sat down to rest with Victoria. He then brought up the system screen again to see the more detailed information inside.

According to the description of the virtual time pool, it has levels, which means there is a chance to upgrade it in the future. This could increase the conversion ratio of time input from the classification card, and also increase the chance of catching and obtaining it...

It's this specific charging behavior—which the system doesn't explicitly write out.

So, can we use a random upgrade card to upgrade this virtual time pool?
Li Xiaoen suddenly realized this and then understood the information on the screen at the beginning.

Upholding justice was indeed his childhood dream, but where did he go to accomplish this task of punishing evil?

Did you secretly expose the illegal activities of that manor yesterday?

Why not the achievement system that was activated yesterday?

He had just fallen into deep thought when suddenly a shadow fell over his eyes. He looked up and met a pair of light blue eyes looking down at him with slightly furrowed brows.

"Sean, did you know from the beginning that someone was committing that kind of crime at the manor we went to last night?"

(End of this chapter)