Chapter 149 Crossing
Looking at the black and white photo of the man in the newspaper, Catherine's father looked at Lin Jue in disbelief as he smiled bitterly.

"Father, I'm sorry. Actually, 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 Eternal Night Castle.

The clear voice was a little hoarse. As Catherine spoke, tears flowed from her eyes uncontrollably. Elsa rushed forward and hugged her daughter. She did not blame Catherine at all. Instead, she blamed herself for not giving her daughter a stable home. She and her family knew the pain of living under someone else's roof.

"I'm sorry, sir, no... Your Excellency the Duke, I am short-sighted... I..."

Lin Jue stopped Catherine's father from making an incoherent apology.

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

"What has my daughter done to deserve this? She has even lost her status as a servant in the Earl's Mansion..."

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

Seeing her parents looking somewhat flustered and at a loss, Catherine felt a strong sense of bitterness and helplessness in her heart. She looked at Lin Jue with pleading eyes, hoping that Lin Jue would not take her father's offense to heart and make the family's situation worse.

"My Lord Duke, you just said that you want to recruit my daughter into your company. Are you serious about this?"

Despite the pessimistic mood of the father and daughter, Aisha's eyes were filled with hope.

"of course it's true!"

"I don't understand! What ability does my daughter have that you would be attracted to? 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 home in person even though you only met Catherine once. This makes us feel a little strange!"

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

Thinking of the scene where those noble ladies were competing with each other for beauty, she had never imagined that Lin Jue would fall in love with her at first sight. She was just the most unknown one among the servants.

"Haha, are you surprised at my identity as a duke? I am just an Asian, but I stand above countless people in the British Empire."

Lin Jue had to settle for the second best. This time, he was recruiting his first psychic subordinate, so he couldn't help but take him seriously.

What's more, the person he wanted to recruit was far from being as simple as she saw on the surface.

Phantom, a supernatural being that appears 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. She is immune to all attacks except certain mysterious abilities.

In X-Men: Days of Future Past, one can even travel one's thoughts to the past, and in the original series, Wolverine saved the world by traveling to the past with the help of Phantom Flame.

It can be said that the girl in front of him possesses incredible abilities, and this ability is what Lin Jue must attract to his side at all costs.

"As an outsider, I suddenly possessed supreme wealth and status. All of this was extremely easy for me. The nobles flattered me, and even the royal family was no exception. That's because I am not an ordinary person!"

"Not a mortal?" Catherine and her parents stared at each other. They were somewhat suspicious of Lin Jue's mental state.

However, the subsequent changes in the scene made them all 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. The next moment, with the pull of the trigger, the bullet hit Lin Jue's palm while Aisha was almost fainted.

He slowly placed the palm with the bullet in front of Catherine and the others. As they looked at him as if he were a monster, the bullet that did not penetrate his palm and was embedded in his flesh and blood slowly fell out by itself. Then, the hideous bloody wound healed quickly.

"you……"

Catherine's father nodded. His throat was a little dry and his voice was a little stumbling. The scene before him completely overturned his three views.

However, Lin Jue looked at Catherine, who had a strange expression on her face, with a smile on his face.

"You're not alone, Katherine!"

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 Eternal Night fell in love with their daughter, then she must also possess some extremely unique abilities.

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

Catherine's father seemed to have thought of something, his eyes were filled with shock, and he looked at his daughter with a complicated expression in a daze.

He suddenly thought of the fact that while they were hiding from the German soldiers, they were not hurt at all amidst the hail of bullets. Before, they always thought that they were lucky and blessed by God, but now... combined with Lin Jue's extraordinary ability, this made them imagine a lot.

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

"How did you figure that out..."

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

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

"I have no ill will towards you. I just admire your abilities 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 has encountered are just a matter of words 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 subsequent words, Catherine asked nervously what she would need to do if she joined. Lin Jue was the only mutant she had met, and in the current predicament, he was like a life-saving straw. She did not dislike Lin Jue's words, and even felt a little secretly happy.

A certain fantasy that had been hidden deep in her heart couldn't help but emerge again. Thinking of those girls whom she once looked up to scrambling to get the first place, that strange idea took root in her heart.

(End of this chapter)