The sun was setting in the west, a red sun slowly sinking in the sky, emitting rays of light; the light scattered on the calm lake surface, making the lake shine with brilliant light.
A gentle breeze blew, and ripples appeared on the lake surface, which was very beautiful, just like Anna beside him, who was at the peak of her beauty.
"You... do You really have a girlfriend?" Anna, immersed in the romantic scenery, suddenly asked without any warning.
Samuel smiled and asked: "Do You hope I do, or don't?"
Anna pouted and said softly: "This, this has nothing to do with me."
"It really has nothing to do with it." Samuel admitted very straightforwardly, then changed the subject and talked about Anna: "But whether You have a boyfriend or not, that has something to do with me."
Anna turned to look at him and said seriously: "I'm not that kind of girl, I admit, You are very charming, but I won't do anything to let my boyfriend down!"
Samuel shrugged noncommittally: "Have You held hands?"
Anna was startled and said somewhat flustered: "Of, of course I have."
Samuel looked at her: "Really? I don't believe it!"
"..."
Anna said absurdly and flustered: "It, it's just holding hands, what's there for You not to believe? Besides, You don't know how I get along with my boyfriend."
Samuel smiled without speaking, a Mind Manipulation Ability went over, let alone getting along with a boyfriend, I even know when You wet the bed when You were a child!
"It's time to go back!"
Samuel started the car and drove Anna, who was somewhat bewildered and helpless, back to the community from the lakeside.
After getting out of the car, Anna hesitated and said: "You, are You angry?"
Samuel shook his head speechlessly: "What am I angry about?"
Anna was a little disbelieving. Although she also felt there was nothing to be angry about and she hadn't said anything wrong, Samuel suddenly stopped talking and then just came back, which inevitably made her feel that Samuel might be angry.
Uh, whether she admitted it or not, Samuel, whom she had only known for a few hours, had already made her feel good about him.
And she was the type of girl who gives, which can be seen from the movie where she voluntarily injected the antidote to eliminate her ability, so she cared whether Samuel was angry or not.
"I'm really not angry, and You Yourself said that You are not that kind of girl. In that atmosphere just now, what do You think we could still say? What else could we do?"
"However..." Samuel suddenly smiled confidently and wickedly: "I believe You will eventually come to find me, because besides me, no one can be Your man!"
Anna didn't know what to say. Was this person always so direct and so confident when he spoke?
Samuel waved his hand, Anna said goodbye, and turned to go back to her own home.
In a blink of an eye, several days passed.
During the day, Samuel went to the Hellfire Club to spend time with the White Queen, who hadn't been there for a long time, and to build familiarity with Psylocke, Jubilee, and the Black Queen, or to cultivate a relationship with Xiao Blink.
In terms of age, Xiao Blink and Anna were about the same age, after all, the awakening of Mutant genes basically happens during adolescence, some people might awaken later, but no one awakens earlier.
Xiao Blink's full name is Clarice Ferguson, and she has Asian ancestry, and her Asian ancestry is very strong, so much so that she doesn't look mixed race at all from her appearance.
Unlike the Blink in [The Gifted], although her surname changed from Ferguson to Fang, which is very characteristic of Asian surnames, her appearance clearly shows that she is mixed race.
Although the current Xiao Blink doesn't have the heroic and cold beauty she had when fighting Sentinel Robots in the Days of Future Past period, the shyness of a young girl who is just growing up and the characteristics after awakening also give her a unique and enchanting charm.
This enchanting quality is different from the enchanting quality of the two Ravens, large and small, it has a bit of an elf feel.
She has long, wine-red hair, a purplish-red mark above and below her left eye, the eyes are not symmetrical, there is one above but not below, and in the middle of her brow is a diamond-shaped purple mark, a bit like Erlang Shen's Heavenly Eye.
But it's only similar, she didn't grow an eye.
Xiao Blink herself was somewhat unable to accept this 'elf costume', feeling that the extra marks on her face made her look ugly, but in Samuel's opinion, this 'costume' was even more charming!
From beginning to end, Samuel was not a monogamous man, the kind of thing where to the World, You are just one person; but to me, You are the whole World, would not happen to him.
If a man's love is not monogamous, then he will feel happy with any woman.
With so many people at the Hellfire Club during the day, when he came back in the evening, he naturally didn't have that determined aggressiveness towards Anna, in other words, he didn't flirt as directly as he did on the first day they met.
Anna could feel the change in Samuel's attitude towards her, which made her feel relieved, but at the same time, somewhat resentful.
Did he just give up when he saw he couldn't get her?
Pfft, Scumbag (scumbag)!
While cursing him as a scumbag, Anna often took the initiative to come to Samuel's house to chat and watch movies with him.
"Your coffee!"
Anna handed the coffee cup to Samuel on the sofa and said pretending to be dissatisfied: "I suspect You don't like me at all, You just deliberately flirt with me and then make me Your servant to bring You tea, pour Water, and make coffee."
"Do You think everyone is qualified to be my servant? Without a special identity and a passing appearance, let alone a servant, You wouldn't even be qualified to follow me."
Samuel said this as he took the coffee. During this time, their hands lightly touched, and his expression instantly froze for a moment.
Anna happened to see it and couldn't help but tease: "No way? It was just a touch of the hand, is there any need for such a big reaction?"
"It's different!"
Samuel smiled and shook his head, looking at her with burning eyes, which made her feel somewhat flustered.
"Wh, what's different? You, don't be so lewd!"
Lewd?
Samuel pouted, he wasn't lewd, but -- Anna's Mutant awakened!
The moment they touched, Samuel felt an extremely violent suction coming from the point of contact, like a prisoner who had been confined for hundreds of years finally regaining freedom, running wildly as fast as he could, not wanting to delay for a second.
As soon as Samuel felt the suction, his Mind Manipulation Ability, or more accurately, the Mind Isolation ability he had acquired from Gambit, automatically activated.
And then...
The suction generated by Anna's ability disappeared, or to be precise, it was isolated!
Mind Isolation can not only isolate the psychic invasion of Mind Manipulation Ability users, but also create an isolation layer around oneself, allowing him to have normal contact with Anna.
Of course, besides Mind Isolation, Samuel also has other abilities and methods that can achieve the same effect, but the effect of Mind Isolation mainly depends on Mind Power, and there's no need to say how strong Samuel's Mind Power is, right?
The number of times and intensity of Mind Manipulation Ability stacking far exceeds most abilities and can definitely rank in the top five among his abilities.
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