Shi Lei's request was the result of his careful consideration.

When he already knew that Bebella was actually a clone made by Black Card, he had already fully understood that the reason why Night Pupil was so frantically searching for various works of art was obviously instructed by Black Card.

It's just that as a clone, Bebella doesn't know what she's doing it for and why.

She was instilled with a simple answer by the black card, that is, in the artwork, there is black technology that transcends the times.

Shi Lei believes that in the beginning, no one believed this except for Bebella herself. After all, how can such a thing as black technology that transcends the times be contained in some past artworks?

However, as Bebella continues to "decipher" black technology from artworks, such as modifying human memories, the other members of the Night Pupil can't help but believe this.

In fact, this is just a lie, and the only purpose of Bebella's pursuit of art is to dedicate it to the black card.

Trading art with the pupil of the night is actually trading with black cards and so on.

But now, things have changed subtly.

Even with the ability of the Pupil of Night, it was difficult to remove the statue of Athena from the bottom of the Acropolis in Athens, and they could only study the statue in the belly of the Acropolis.

As a result of the research, Shi Lei of course knew that it was absolutely nothing, because the black card was no longer directly trading with the pupil of the night, so the pupil of the night and Bebella would naturally not be able to find the so-called black technology in any artwork.

Those so-called black technologies that transcend the times are actually just transactions between Black Card and them after using the Pupil of Night to collect those artworks.

This is actually no different from asking Shi Lei to complete the task assigned by the black card, the difference is that Shi Lei knows the existence of the black card, and in the eyes of the pupil of the night, and even in the eyes of Bebella, what they are facing is just a mysterious person named Mr. X.

The amount of information obtained by Shi Lei is far greater than that of Bebela, and of course he hopes that this statue of the goddess Athena can be exchanged for the greatest benefit for him.

And the way to get the most benefit is to sell two things.

While making a deal with the Pupil of the Night in exchange for the highest authority in this organization, thus making himself an existence that is actually above the Pupil of the Night.

On the other hand, Shi Lei also planned to sell the information of this statue to the black card to see what he could get from the black card.

Of course, the prestige system can help Shi Lei obtain a lot of technologies beyond the earth, as well as some superpowers, etc., but that requires a lot of prestige points, and in a short period of time, Shi Lei is just powerless in the face of so many cards.

It is still the best choice to get it directly from the black card.

Shi Lei believes that Heika now has all the information about the statue, but Heika has always been trapped by its own rules. And among its many rules, it is obviously not allowed to take any materials on the earth, otherwise, it would not have to come up with so many tricks, and with the energy it shows, it is not too difficult to turn the earth upside down. Shi Lei also believes that the earth is just a planet in the eyes of Heika, and it doesn't care about the existence or death of the earth at all.

In such a situation, the Black Card still adheres to its principles, which shows that it cannot violate the rules that bind it. If it wants to get something, a work of art, it has to get permission from its owner.

Of course, the owner of the statue of the goddess Athena is not Shi Lei, but as of now, the only person on this earth who is sure that this statue exists and knows all the details of this statue is Shi Lei. According to some convention on the earth, when a thing is in a state of ownerlessness, the first person to discover it naturally acquires ownership of it.

So, to some extent, Shi Lei is indeed the owner of the statue now, even if he exposes the information about the statue, which will lead the Greek government to cite history to claim ownership of the statue. But when no one else knew about the existence of this statue, its owner was only Shi Lei.

As a result, Shi Lei had the power to trade with the black card.

In this case, Shi Lei can't get any money-related benefits such as funds or investment opportunities from the pupil of the night, so there are only two ways for Shi Lei to trade with the pupil of the night.

One of them was proposed by Shi Lei, who asked to become an SSS-level member of the Pupil of the Night.

The other is to get the money promised by the Pupil of Night to obtain services in the future. He couldn't manifest the funds in any way, but it could be used to offset the services he sought from the Pupil of the Night.

However, Shi Lei can completely use the funds granted by the black card to obtain the services of the Night Pupil, and the funds given to him by the Night Pupil will be meaningless after his viciousness has reached hundreds of millions per cycle.

Therefore, Shi Lei chose to upgrade the membership level.

He believed that Bebella would definitely agree to him.

Since Bebella is a clone created by Heika, then, in her thinking, the priority of acquiring the artwork must be the highest among all events, not to mention that the current Bebella's control over the Pupil of the Night is unprecedentedly strong, even if it was still half a year ago, she faced the opposition of the ferryman and her supporters, Shi Lei also believed that Bebella would agree to his request.

It's just that the current monolithic state of the pupil of the night makes it easier for Wei Bodhi and others to understand Bebela's behavior.

Not long after staying in the hotel, Shi Lei received a call from Wei Bodhi again, Wei Bodhi said that she needed to meet and had come downstairs to the hotel.

Shi Lei went downstairs and saw the familiar Wei Bodhi.

Compared with the last time we met in London, Wei Bodhi has become much more mature, and many details of his behavior are much more capable than before.

It seems that during this time, after she completely adapted to the identity of Bebela's assistant, her mentality and temperament have changed greatly.

Wei Bodhi and Shi Lei walked out of the hotel side by side and walked slowly along the Thames.

Wei Bodhi said, "The chief wants to see you." ”

Shi Lei didn't mind meeting the clone, and he was actually quite curious about it, and he also wanted to know what kind of existence a clone was. Is it exactly like a human, or is it just a human appearance?

However, in such a situation, it seems that it is not a very good choice to rush to meet with Bebela.

After all, the ferryman was still hiding in a dark corner, closely watching Shi Lei's every move.

Although it was only a meeting, it should not be too much of an accident, but Shi Lei always had a strange intuition, he felt that it was not a wise move to choose to meet with Beibela at this time.

Yes, Shi Lei chose to refuse.

Shi Lei said: "It doesn't make sense, I'm just a member of your organization, and it doesn't seem to be in line with the rules to go and meet with your leader." Especially since I'm about to become a being like Mr. X, what I should do now is to cut off all contact with you, so that I can be as mysterious as Mr. X. ”

Wei Bodhi rolled his eyes and said, "Are you sick? Why are you so mysterious? The organization knew who you were from the beginning. ”

"It's okay to meet, it's really not necessary. ”