"Catherine, your surname really hasn't changed at all."

In the early morning, looking at Catherine, who was only wearing a simple gray-green dress and a radiant face, Pearl raised her round jaw, frowned slightly, and said with a complicated look. Catherine's face was moistened by the wind and rain, and it was almost unmistakable to declare to Pearl what had happened last night.

Or maybe she'd guessed it since she saw Catherine's sneaky figure at night. And now, this is confirmed.

"What do you mean?" Catherine folded her arms on the table, tore at a piece of bread in her hand, and asked a nonchalantly rhetorical question.

"You know what I'm referring to." Pearl stood on the other side of the table and replied unceremoniously.

"Well, if you're referring to the fact that I robbed your master or little ** on the first day I joined you, I'm sorry! He was a strong and attractive man, and I couldn't hold back for a while. Catherine threw the leftover bread in her hand on the plate next to her, clapped her hands, stood up from her chair, and said with a sweet smile.

"Then I hope you can endure it in the future. You don't know Don yet. If you still want to play the same trick as you did thirty years ago, and provoke two men at the same time, I can be sure that your fate will not be much better than that of being hunted down by Klaus for four hundred years. It's a piece of advice between good friends. Pearl raised her chin haughtily and said pointedly.

"You mean Damon and Stefan?" As if she didn't hear the inner meaning of the pearl's words, Catherine's delicate and charming face still had the previous sweet smile mixed with **.

"The two of them are frantically looking for you, especially Damon. I don't expect you to have any sincerity towards those two brothers, but I just want to tell you that if you want to reunite with people like these two brothers, you need to be prepared accordingly. Pearl said coldly.

"Thank you for the pearls, but your worries are unnecessary. My story with my two brothers is over. More than that, I want to get rid of Klaus and get my own **. Survive under this sky! Catherine clapped her hands and replied with a smile.

"Miss, I've prepared the meal you wanted." Expressionless, Acelica walked over with a large dinner plate, and after bypassing the table on one side, she stopped directly in front of Catherine and opened her mouth to say to her.

"Thank you, Asilika." Catherine squatted slightly, stretched out her hands, took the plate from Eslima's hand, thanked her, and said to Pearl, "I'm going to bring him breakfast, do you want to come along?" ”

Pearl took a slight step back and reached out to Catherine to make a gesture of please, but she didn't reveal the meaning of the same.

Catherine smiled absently, and the delicate body holding the plate suddenly blurred, and disappeared in front of Pearl and Acelika's eyes in the blink of an eye.

Tang Bai's bedroom.

When Catherine pushed the door in, Tang Bai had already woken up from his sleep.

"Good morning! I think you need this. After Catherine entered the bedroom, she closed the bedroom door with her backhand, and swayed towards Tang Bai, who was leaning on the pillow, while smiling and shaking the dinner plate in her hand.

"Thank you." Tang Bai put away Xiaolong's finger and smiled at Catherine. In the time when there is no ** activity, Xiaolong will mostly hover on Tang Bai's fingers or wrists, sleeping quietly.

"How long have you been here?" Tang Bai asked while unceremoniously enjoying the breakfast sent by Catherine.

"Chicago? More than a year. I was always wandering back and forth from city to city and country, never staying in one place for long. Even if it creates false news that I'm dead. Catherine sat on the edge of the fluffy bed and stroked the long hair that fell from her ear.

"In other words, you have your own contacts and sources here, huh?" Tang Bai glanced at Catherine.

"These are always essential, without sources of information and so-called partners, it is not very realistic for me to fight against Klaus's pursuit alone." Catherine was a little unsure of Tang Bai's inquiry, but she still answered in the affirmative.

Catherine is indeed good at lying, but she never bothered to weave lies that can be pierced and broken at the first pok. To put it bluntly, Catherine's ability to lie has reached a level, not just a key lie sandwiched between ten sentences, she will use her knowledge of the target of the lie to lie about her surname when she lies.

This makes even people like Damon and Stefan who know Catherine very vigilant in the face of Catherine's lies, even if they are firm in their minds not to believe her from the beginning, when Catherine opens her mouth to weave, they will always fall into Catherine's trap again and again.

"Unleash the power of those people, go find some for me. It's not just a city. Before I entrust you with the formal work, let me take a look at your abilities and wrists. Tang Bai drank the warm milk and asked without refusal.

"Who?" Catherine didn't care about Tang Bai's tone, she had already expected this when she chose to join Tang Bai's side last night. After more than 400 years on the run, Catherine knows very well what to do when facing someone, and how to win his favor.

"Scientific researchers who are capable but not valued, and people who are frustrated and desperate after bankruptcy." Tang Bai roughly summarized it. These are only the main ones, and the others can be postponed for the time being.

"What do you want to do?" Catherine's eyes widened for a moment.

"Give them hope and a precious chance to make a comeback. Of course, they come at a price. Tang Bai flicked his fingers, put the dinner plate on the bedside table next to him, and said lightly.

"You want to be in control of their lives after that?" Catherine speculated.

"Don't say it so ugly, just take what you need. I don't want to indulge their lives all the time, I just need to cultivate some spokespeople. After all, this is a human-dominated world, and if I want to do something big without being noticed by them, or even hostile, I need to have people among them who speak for me and have enough influence. Of course, you can also donate money to support or build a few universities or something. The country's prestigious universities are filled with all sorts of elite organizations that help each other. Tang Bai had a strange smile on his face.

"Integrating into humanity? Klaus didn't think so. Catherine pouted.

"That's because Klaus never took humans as a race. In his eyes, human beings are just food to quench his hunger and thirst, and slaves to what he needs. Are food and slaves qualified to be equal to their masters and negotiate? No! So Klaus only knows how to give orders like a tyrant, and then, kill the dissidents and rebels. That's his flaw. He knew this himself, but he had no intention of changing it. I don't have that sense of being on top of the world. I just need that influence, that influence that allows me to do things in this world without any scruples. Tang Bai replied unceremoniously. (To be continued.) )