Chapter 149: Crossing

Looking at the black and white photo of the man in the newspaper, Catherine's father looked at Lin Jue with a bitter smile in disbelief.

"Father, I'm sorry, I did something wrong today and was... fired!"

Catherine tried hard to suppress the grievance in her heart and told everything that happened today, including what she saw and heard in the Evernight Castle.

The crisp voice was a little hoarse. As Catherine spoke, tears flowed from her eyes involuntarily. Aisha rushed forward and hugged her daughter. She didn't blame Catherine at all, but blamed herself for not giving her daughter a stable home. The pain of living under someone else's roof was not unknown to her family.

"Sorry, sir, no... Duke, I am short-sighted... I"

Lin Jue stopped Catherine's father's somewhat incoherent apology.

"It's okay, uncle. I sympathize with your daughter. Unlike Miss Avril, I have a different view of Catherine. In my opinion, she is a kind-hearted girl."

"What is my daughter's virtue? She has now lost her status as a servant in the Earl's Mansion..."

Catherine's father looked a little pale. Hearing the bad news, his mind was already in a mess. His mind was full of the next rent, population check, and where to escape? A bunch of miscellaneous questions, and he completely forgot about Lin Jue's previous attempt to recruit Catherine.

Seeing her parents' somewhat flustered appearance, Catherine felt a strong bitterness and helplessness in her heart. She looked at Lin Jue with pleading eyes, hoping that Lin Jue would not care about her father's offense and make the family worse.

"My Lord Duke, are you serious about recruiting my daughter into your company?"

Apart from the pessimism of the father and daughter, Aisha looked hopeful.

"Of course it's true!"

"I don't understand! What ability does my daughter have that you would like? If it's her appearance, I believe that with your status and position, you will never lack beautiful girls to like you. You even came to my daughter's house in person after only meeting Catherine once. This is a bit strange for us!"

Listening to her mother's words, Catherine was also stunned. Even she herself didn't understand why Lin Jue appeared in her house, just to recruit her?

Thinking of the scene of the group of noble ladies competing for beauty, she never imagined that Lin Jue would take a fancy to her at first sight. She was just the most unknown person among the servants.

"Hehe, are you surprised by my identity as a duke? Obviously, he is just an Asian, but he stands above the heads of countless people in the British Empire."

Lin Jue made a second choice. This time he came to recruit his first superpower subordinate, so he couldn't help but pay attention to it.

In addition, the one he wanted to recruit was far from being as simple as she saw on the surface.

Phantom Cat, a superpower in the X-Men series, has the ability to travel through everything in the world, and she can also control the objects she touches and transform them into that kind of nothingness, which is immune to all attacks except some mysterious abilities.

In X-Men: Days of Future Past, people's thoughts can even travel to the past, and in the original series, Wolverine relied on Phantom Cat to travel to the past and save the world.

It can be said that the girl in front of him has incredible abilities, and this ability is what Lin Jue must win over to his side no matter what.

"As an outsider, I suddenly have supreme wealth and status. All this is extremely simple for me. Those nobles flatter me, even the royal family is no exception, that's because I am not a mortal!"

"Not a mortal?"

Catherine and her parents stared at each other, they were a little suspicious of Lin Jue's mental state in front of them.

However, the changes in the scene that followed made them look terrified, and Catherine even pulled her brother behind her.

Lin Jue slowly took out a golden pistol from his side. He looked at Catherine's family with a smile on his face. The next moment, as Aisha was almost fainted, the bullet hit Lin Jue's palm with the trigger pulled.

Slowly, he placed the palm with the bullet in front of Catherine and others. In their eyes, which were like looking at a monster, the bullet that did not penetrate the palm and was embedded in the flesh and blood slowly fell out by itself, and then the hideous bloody wound healed quickly.

"You..."

Catherine's father nodded. At this time, his throat was a little dry and his body was a little stumbling. The scene in front of him completely overturned his three views.

But Lin Jue smiled at Catherine, who looked a little strange.

"You are not alone, Catherine!"

Some meaningful words made Catherine's parents slowly turn their eyes to their daughter.

How could they not understand that if the noble Grand Duke of Yongye fell in love with their daughter, then she must have some extremely unique abilities.

"Catherine? Do you also have some strange abilities?"

Catherine's father seemed to have thought of something, and looked at his daughter with a complex expression in shock.

He suddenly thought of the fact that during the process of hiding from the German soldiers, the four of them were not hurt in the hail of bullets. Before, they always thought that they were lucky and blessed by the Lord, but now... combined with Lin Jue's extraordinary ability, it made them imagine again and again.

Unlike Catherine's father, Aisha hugged her daughter tightly. No matter what her daughter became, she was still her daughter.

"How did you see that..."

Catherine was a little uneasy, looking directly at Lin Jue, who always had a smile on his face. She thought that since she led her family to Great Britain safely, she had never used her ability again, and there was no chance of being exposed.

She was a little afraid that Lin Jue would make her story public. Ordinary people in this society could not accept those who were different from ordinary people. She had heard with her own ears that a girl who seemed to have extraordinary abilities was burned to death as a witch.

"I have no ill will towards you, I just admire your ability and character. If you are willing to join my team, I can give you wealth that ordinary people cannot imagine. All the problems your family encounters are just a word in front of me. Of course, if you really don't want to, I am willing to buy it, as long as you don't resist..."

Ignoring Lin Jue's words, Catherine asked nervously what she would need to do if she joined. Lin Jue was the only mutant she met. In this predicament, he was like a life-saving straw. She did not dislike Lin Jue's words, and even had a little snickering.

A certain fantasy that was originally hidden in her heart could not help but emerge again. Thinking of the girls she once looked up to, scrambling to get ahead, that strange idea took root in her heart.