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

Chapter 171 The Unexpected Party

"Are there any other crimes?"

Victoria quickly realized what was happening and hurriedly asked.

Sophie handed the phone to Victoria, and Sean Lee turned to look at it as well. On the screen was another, even more serious and unbearable crime that had been solved in the manor.

Just as he had seen with his Eye of Insight last night, the age of the suspects announced was at least 65 years old.

So, is it only when the truth is finally revealed to the public and the suspect is convicted with conclusive evidence that the achievement of punishing evil is triggered?
Li Xiaoen thought to himself that the reward for this achievement was undoubtedly much richer than the previous series of betting missions, and he was probably going to try to move in that direction.

"Such filthy things are hidden behind the striptease show!"

As Victoria scrolled through her phone screen, her brows furrowed unconsciously, and her expression darkened. When she looked up, she noticed the young man's face so close to hers, and she was momentarily stunned.

Are you referring to this crime?

Li Xiaoen looked up at Su Feier, shook his head, and said calmly, "Even the police only found out now. How could I possibly compare to the American police?"

Upon hearing this, Suffer narrowed his eyes slightly, his mind filled with uncertainty.

Have you...discussed this topic before?

Victoria stared wide-eyed at the two of them in surprise, then interjected at the opportune moment.

"No."

Facing Victoria's gaze, Sophie remained extremely calm, shaking her head to explain, "Before I came back yesterday, Sean looked very unwell, so I thought he already knew."

"Oh, right."

Victoria suddenly realized what was going on, and shifted her gaze to the young man sitting next to her.

"Yes, I knew it back then."

Li Xiaoen replied helplessly, shrugging as she met the gazes of two beautiful eyes. "According to that report, the crime must have occurred inside the house. I was with you the whole time, but I still knew. That can only be attributed to the superpower of X-ray vision."

"Then I'll activate my superpowers right now."

As he spoke, Li Xiaoen lowered his head, his gaze fixed on Victoria's high, full breasts.

A moment later, a fair hand covered his face with a crisp sound.

"Mr. Sean, this is very rude of you. Could you please be a little more serious?"

A slightly cold and soft touch came from his face, which felt somewhat comfortable. Li Xiaoen straightened his back, facing the two girls' blank and disdainful gazes.

"I am explaining that your doubts are unfounded."

Li Xiaoen shrugged, only to receive two eye rolls in return.

"Hey……"

Meanwhile, Serafina and Mary excitedly hurried over, "Catherine's throwing a party on short notice and invited us!"

"It must be because of the crimes that were just exposed at that manor that my uncle Henry asked us to go there together."

Judging from her tone, Catherine should be the same age as Seraphine and the others, but does Mr. Henry really care about young people's parties?

"Could it be some kind of social obligation again?" Li Xiaoen wondered to himself. Seeing the two girls, Su Feier and Su Feier, looking thoughtful, he simply stood up.

"You guys go ahead, I'm going back to school too, I need to take care of my reasoning model."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and was about to take a step when Mary, as if she had been expecting this, blocked his way.

"..."

"Who said you were leaving?"

Just as Li Xiaoen frowned, Seraphim chuckled and put her arm around his shoulder. "You went to that manor back then, and Henry said he wants you to go this time too."

"It's just a party hosted by people you know. It wouldn't be appropriate for a stranger like me to attend, would it?"

Noticing the expectant looks from Sophie and even Victoria, Li Xiaoen paused for a moment.

"Who said we're close to other people? In the end, we just chat with a few of us and have some fun together."

Serafina waved her hand dismissively, beckoning to the maids who had already arrived at the training ground, and the group went to the bathroom to shower...

It seems they're increasingly getting involved in the affairs of those girls' social class.

As he rubbed the foam off his hair, Li Xiaoen couldn't help but sigh inwardly before immediately focusing his attention on the system screen in front of him.

[Random Item Upgrade Card: Use]

With a thought, the golden card gradually appeared on the screen in front of him. The card spun rapidly and then suddenly exploded, releasing a strong white light that completely obscured his vision.

Damn it, what kind of unscrupulous game company has this gacha system?

Unable to suppress his inner grumbling, Li Xiaoen waited for the white light to gradually fade before noticing a three-dimensional cube floating where the card had been. Curious, he reached out and tapped it.

[Item Random Upgrade Card successfully used. Congratulations, host! The 0.5 cubic meter containment space has been successfully upgraded. The current space is 1 cubic meter.]

"..."

It's not that it's useless, but it's still somewhat of a double-edged sword for his current life.

Li Xiaoen was helpless. He had considered using up all the other usable time cards to increase his chances of drawing from the [Virtual Time Pool], but there were still other cards available, such as [Toy Car Instruction Manual] and [Playhouse Base Blueprint]. Moreover, using up the accumulated virtual time in advance would reduce his flexibility later on.

Too lazy to think about it, Li Xiaoen brought up the virtual space pool in the system's inventory.

Looking at the small pool floating in the air in front of him, Li Xiaoen began to concentrate.

Suddenly, a handheld fishing net with a stick appeared above the small pond, and it sank into the water and shook a couple of times, quite vividly. It was the message in a bottle game that he used to play online when he was a child.

A wistful look of reminiscence flashed in Li Xiaoen's eyes as he gazed at the empty fishing net he had just retrieved, and the light in his eyes dimmed.

[100% charge consumed, no gains obtained]

No way, that's unlucky, isn't it?
Feeling a little sorry for him, Li Xiaoen couldn't help but complain. The key issue was that the description of the virtual time pool didn't specify the exact probability, just like some unscrupulous game companies in China.

After a moment's hesitation, he began his second fishing attempt.

[Congratulations, host, you have obtained a message in a bottle after using one fishing opportunity this month]

With wide-eyed surprise, Li Xiaoen quickly reached out and pointed to the message in a bottle floating in front of him.

The message in the bottle automatically opened its stopper, and the roll of beige paper inside was taken out and unfolded.

On November 5, 20xx, with the president's endorsement, the virtual currency TF11 began its initial sale and its price skyrocketed. I seized the opportunity and, although I didn't manage to buy many, I still managed to purchase a full 1000 coins.
On November 6, 20xx, as news of the hot sale of T&T coin spread, more people began to flock to it, and I seized the opportunity to borrow money to increase my holdings.

└……┐
Today is November 1st, the first day after Halloween. Isn't this just about what will happen in the next few days?

Li Xiaoen was shocked and quickly scanned the daily records on the paper. He continued until he saw that the price suddenly dropped a few days later. The person who made the record still refused to give up, took out loans to buy more shares in order to average down the price. In the end, he lost everything, declared bankruptcy, and became homeless. Only then did he shake his head with emotion.

If you're going to get involved in things like stocks and cryptocurrencies, you have to be prepared to lose money.

He didn't even know if the person who recorded this message in a bottle was real, and even if they were, he would only sigh like this.

You can't only like stocks and cryptocurrencies when you're winning money.

With this information about the future, he could increase his savings again. Looking up and down at the paper in his hand, memorizing the key dates, Li Xiaoen then stored it in his system inventory.

The investment I promised Victoria and the other two girls that I would help them with can now be fulfilled.

While pondering this in his mind, Li Xiaoen quickly finished washing up, put on a bathrobe, and went out to the hall outside the bathroom—it had been agreed before that the clothes they had brought were too casual, and they would change into a new formal suit.

Refusing a maid's help, Li Xiaoen dried her hair herself, randomly picked an outfit that looked pleasing to the eye and changed into it before sitting down on the sofa to wait.

The girls took their time showering, even the carefree Serafina. She was pondering the use of the various items in the system when she finally spotted those graceful figures in the direction of the girls' bathroom.

In fact, because they come from wealthy families and have a comfortable life from childhood, any congenital defects can be corrected in time when they are young. With abundant material life, children from wealthy families are often tall and good-looking.

As Li Xiaoen watched several beautiful women walking towards him, dressed in gorgeous gowns that accentuated their perfect figures, he couldn't help but be a little stunned.

"Good evening, Mr. Sean."

Victoria, dressed in a black strapless velvet evening gown, stopped two steps away from him, gently lifted the hem of her dress with both hands to perform a standard curtsy, and then stood up, her beautiful and gentle face full of playfulness.

With her mouth agape from the start, Li Xiaoen couldn't help but smile and exhale, "Victoria, your evening gown is very beautiful."

"Um……"

With a slight smile playing on her lips, Victoria gave a soft hum, the curve of her lips undeniably charming. "On the contrary, your evening gown isn't very nice."

As she spoke, she shook her head, closed her eyes, and sighed, "Mr. Sean, your fashion sense is as terrible as ever."

"I think it looks alright, quite pleasing to the eye."

Li Xiaoen looked down at his charcoal gray suit.

"The color combination isn't perfect."

Victoria nodded to emphasize, took two steps back, the fluffy velvet hem of her skirt swaying, looked the young man up and down, tugged at his tie, pulled the pocket square out of his pocket, and walked toward the men's clothing that had been prepared in advance.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Victoria took a burgundy pocket square, folded it into a shape, and stuffed it back into Sean Lee's pocket.

"Um……"

Victoria took two steps back again, looked him up and down, and finally smiled with satisfaction.

Looking at himself in the full-length mirror that the maid had just pushed over, Li Xiaoen frowned slightly and looked at the other girls.

Do you think there's a big difference compared to before?

The women remained silent, and Li Xiaoen couldn't help but focus his gaze on Su Feier.

Sophie wore a red, fitted, bodycon dress, which looked quite like her passionate and assertive personality.

"The colors do look more harmonious."

Sophie nodded and gave a simple answer.

"is it?"

Li Xiaoen was a little annoyed and couldn't help but turn to look at Mary, only to receive a smile from the girl as she shook her head repeatedly. He then looked at Serafina.

"Forget it."

Seeing the expectant and joyful look on the other person's face, Li Xiaoen shook his head and looked away.

"Sean, are you provoking me?!"

Her face instantly darkened, and Serafina gritted her teeth, staring intently at him.

"Stop trying to upset Serafina!"

Seeing this, Victoria rolled her eyes and scolded him reproachfully.

"Mainly because she likes military and criminal investigation, so her sense of style in clothing might not be as good as mine."

Sean Lee shook his head and explained, then suddenly remembered something and turned to Serafina, "Serafina, based on previous experience, would you also be like the beautiful female agents in the movies, with a gun strapped to your thigh under your evening gown?"

"..."

Upon hearing this, the gazes of several girls turned towards him were rather intriguing.

"Do you want to know?"

Serafina tilted her head back and hummed softly, then tugged at the slit in her skirt on the side of her thigh. "To put it nicely, I can show you."

"never mind."

Without a second thought, Sean Lee shook his head in response, causing Serafina to pause in her action of lifting her skirt.

"You guy..."

She took a deep breath, lifted her skirt with both hands, and rushed towards Li Xiaoen, but was stopped by Victoria, who was waiting in advance.

"Alright, let's not waste any more time, let's get going, okay?"

Victoria, who has always been gentle and elegant, spoke in a way that seemed irresistible to everyone. She glared at Serafina fiercely, and Serafina had no choice but to stop in her tracks.

"Although my fashion sense isn't great, I still know that pulling up the skirt while wearing an evening gown greatly affects the overall look."

Li Xiaoen softened her tone and explained, "Victoria, don't you think so?"

"What you said makes a good point."

Victoria paused for a moment upon hearing this, then nodded in agreement.

"right?"

Upon hearing this, Li Xiaoen raised his eyebrows smugly.

"Alright, let's not waste any more time."

Victoria glanced at Serafina and, seeing that her expression had softened, couldn't help but roll her eyes.

She naturally understood what the young man meant; he was simply implying that his taste was better than Seraphina's. Fortunately, Seraphina didn't catch on. Feeling a bit annoyed, she quickly led the way towards the door.
"Let's get going."

The party was held at Chelsea Pier on the west side of Manhattan Island, New York, an open-air waterfront area called Pier 60. The group arrived by car at 7:30 p.m.

With several girls, including Victoria, walking beside him, Li Xiaoen skipped the identity verification process at the entrance and was curiously looking around the venue when a young woman in a form-fitting white strapless evening gown smiled and quickly came to greet him.

Is this the woman named Catherine?

Li Xiaoen thought to himself, but his gaze was unconsciously drawn to the two hemispheres on her chest that were shaking as she walked quickly. He quickly looked up and forcibly looked away.

However, to everyone's surprise, the young woman who came forward did not greet the other girls immediately, but instead grabbed his arm.

"Sean, why are you so late? I've been waiting for you for ages..."

Li Xiaoen: “???”

Before he could react, several furrowed and intense gazes were fixed on him, and Li Xiaoen froze in place.

What the f**k, who are you?
He couldn't help but exclaim inwardly.

(End of this chapter)