"He's come looking for me already?"
Hunter watched in surprise as Vince stormed straight at him.
He'd assumed the guy would wait until the day after tomorrow, when he returned to the garage, to 'teach him a lesson.'
He hadn't expected him to show up today.
Inwardly, Hunter's resentment toward Old Parker deepened.
Only Old Parker knew his home address. Last time he'd let it slide when the old man told Mia,
but now even Vince knew where he lived.
Old Parker was too slick—he'd clearly sold him out.
"Looks like I need to cut ties with that garage as soon as possible."
You can't make real money working for someone else!
When Hunter did side jobs with Old Parker, the biggest cut always went to the old man.
Originally Hunter didn't mind, since the work still let him level up his Repair skill,
but Old Parker's betrayal now magnified every grievance.
In seconds he resolved to sever all connection with Old Parker's garage.
A torrent of thoughts flashed through his mind, yet Hunter still unhurriedly dismounted.
Every muscle coiled, seemingly relaxed but ready to counter in an instant.
Why else had he gone to the boxing club today?
Besides wanting to confirm his earlier guess,
some skills could indeed be triggered quickly—if you were willing to spend the money.
After Mia went back, Hunter began to prepare for the day their relationship became public.
Dominic and his crew had grown up in the underground racing scene.
They were notorious highway thugs in California who openly robbed trucks on the freeway.
Although in the fast & furious storyline Dominic's gang had never used guns on those truckers,
Hunter knew only too well that this was a real world.
Dominic and Vince had ruled the underground circuits, entered countless illegal races, and modified cars against the law.
For years they had pulled off more than a dozen heists on the highways.
In Hunter's previous life, they would have been labeled a standard criminal syndicate.
So, the moment he entangled Mia, he started bracing for retaliation.
Inside his private space lay firearms.
Therefore Hunter wasn't worried about the worst-case scenario.
Vince probably wouldn't dare go too far, fearing he might call the cops and put Dominic on the police radar.
Most likely he would just bring a few guys to teach him a lesson.
Hunter had spent money grinding out the boxing skill precisely to deal with Vince.
As the two closed the distance, he quickly saw every detail.
Veins bulged on Vince's arms, and his face was twisted with rage and jealousy.
Seeing that Hunter didn't run but stood waiting,
Vince burned even hotter and snarled, "Damn yellow monkey!"
It was outright racism; in America, Chinese were indeed at the bottom of the immigrant pecking order for political convenience.
In fact, Hunter felt no real attachment to the United States.
Still, Vince's slur grated on him.
In that instant, Hunter, already set on teaching Vince a lesson,
threw every last reservation over his shoulder.
"Filthy cockroach!"
"Eat shit!"
Vince's repertoire of insults was pathetic.
No matter how he cursed, it was the same lines over and over.
From the apartment door to the parking spot was barely ten meters.
Hunter kept standing there, even wearing a faint smile.
Vince rushed up and angrily reached to grab his collar.
To Vince, aside from some height, the guy was a coward.
He'd hurled abuse and Hunter hadn't dared answer back.
He'd only fooled Mia with his pretty face.
Thinking of the sexy, hot Mia deceived by this Chinese guy
made Vince's fury spike; his already contorted face grew uglier.
"Bastard!"
He clenched a fist and swung at Hunter's handsome, envied face.
But the other man merely stepped half a pace back,
leaving Vince's grab at his collar swiping empty air.
At the same time, a calm, cold voice sounded.
"Done cursing?"
The moment the words landed, Vince felt a stab of pain in his swinging fist.
He looked and saw the tall, lean, handsome Chinese in front of him
had somehow shot out a hand to block his furious punch.
And that wasn't all!
Vince, humiliated, tried to yank his fist back,
only to find the man's fingers clamped like a vise, locking his right hand so he couldn't withdraw.
And as those five fingers tightened,
Vince could hear his own knuckles crackling—
the other's terrifying grip was squeezing his bones.
"Bastard, damn yellow monkey!"
Vince had always been short-tempered and short on brains,
or he wouldn't have come alone to ambush and teach a stranger a lesson.
Unable to free his right hand, he only grew angrier.
His left fist, which had missed grabbing Hunter's neck, clenched again and swung at his face.
Hunter simply tilted his body and once more dodged Vince's punch.
However, he took the opportunity to release Vince's right hand, which he had been forcefully restraining just a moment ago.
"Is this all you've got, you stupid white pig?"
Hunter launched his counterattack without hesitation.
Simultaneously, he clenched his fists into a Boxing stance, a mocking smile still on his face as he looked down at Vince from a superior height.
Over the past two days, thanks to spending money lavishly and Mia's help,
Hunter had not only improved his swimming and Shooting skills again, but he had also awakened two new skills.
One of them was called Procreation, which appeared suddenly while he was getting intimate with Mia.
Thanks to Mia's fiery passion last night, it had already reached Level 1.
The other skill, Boxing, was triggered shortly after receiving five hours of guidance and coaching from a former professional boxer today, and it had also successfully reached Level 1.
With the four newly acquired free attribute points, Hunter once again distributed them evenly among Strength, agility, constitution, and endurance.
Now his intelligence had reached sixteen points, still the highest among his five-dimensional attributes.
Meanwhile, his Strength, agility, constitution, and endurance had all reached fourteen points.
All of these significantly exceeded the average of ten points for an adult male in this world.
Dealing with Vince, whose Strength and constitution seemed only slightly higher than an average person's, was already a total stomp...
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