Remember those loot seized from the vampire lair on Nihau Island?

In addition to the Stradivarius violin prepared for Conna, Shi Xiaolei also distributed more than a dozen antiques from China. Among them, one was complained by Stark, "It is too big to be a faucet." Ugly' copper sheep head.

Let's not discuss Stark's aesthetics, just talk about this copper sheep head.

In Shi Xiaolei's opinion, this thing is definitely enough to earn himself a face that is 'big enough for Kang Na to get close contact with pandas'.

After all, several bronze beasts have been put up for auction in the past few years, and every time they appear, they have caused quite a stir in the country. Both the public and the media, large and small, have paid great attention to them.

"Are you sure? Is it really three?"

A few days later, I received a report from Natasha. Shi Xiaolei was really surprised when he heard the amount mentioned in her words, he couldn't believe it would be such a result.

In fact, in the past few days, Shi Xiaolei himself also checked some information on the Internet.

So far, including the sheep's head in Shi Xiaolei's hand, a total of eight bronze animal heads have appeared. Among them, cattle, tigers, monkeys, pigs, and horses have been rescued by patriots in recent years. After returning to China, the rabbit head and the mouse head are still outside for the time being, and they are held by two foreign collectors respectively. As for the other four pieces, namely the dragon, snake, chicken, dog and other four bronze animal heads, there is no news yet, and no one knows where they are.

The reason why Shi Xiaolei is so surprised is this - the bronze animal heads that have been born and can be traced are only two pieces of mice and rabbits. But in Natasha's report, it said three things.

"Yes." Natasha on the other end of the phone replied calmly: "What we found are rabbit heads, dragon heads and snake heads. Among them, the rabbit head was in the hands of a French collector. The dragon head and snake head are in the hands of an island country collector."

Hearing this, Shi Xiaolei was even more surprised—in the three pieces, the rat head that had already been born was not included. Instead, there were two more dragon heads and snake heads whose whereabouts were never known.

"Beautiful work~~~!" Without thinking about whether there was any secret behind it, Shi Xiaolei shouted happily: "Natalie, you really belong, you are amazing~!"

"Thank you for your compliment, it is an honor to serve you." After thanking, Natasha continued to ask: "Mr. Locke, I have to report to you about the other party's quotation. The French collector, for his hand The rabbit head was offered for 14 million euros, and the island collector..."

"Don't tell me, it doesn't matter what the price is, just make sure that these three copper heads are in my hands." Excited, Shi Xiaolei didn't bother to listen to the price. In contrast, he was more concerned about another matter: "Natalie, as far as I know, there is another rat head that can be traced. Have you contacted? What did the collector say? ?"

"Unfortunately, he did not agree to our purchase."

"What's the reason?"

"The collector is a shareholder of the auction house. He has made up his mind to put the head of the mouse in the auction held in August." After a pause, Natasha explained: "How much is the head of the mouse worth? Money, he doesn't care. His purpose is to use the mouse head to gather popularity for that auction, so even if we directly set a high price of 20 million euros, he is not willing to sell it in advance. "

"……I see."

As a Chinese, Shi Xiaolei was indeed a little resentful about this collector's arrangement.

However, there is one thing that Shi Xiaolei still understands very well—it can't be said that these things were taken away by the other party, but now, he can seize the righteousness and let the other party return it with empty words. After all, those dark and depressing years were part of history in themselves and must be acknowledged and faced squarely.

It was a war between nations at that time!

Investigating its nature, it is completely different from smuggling and illegal trading, and cannot be generalized.

"Then, Natalie, help me pay attention to the auction."

"Okay." Natasha agreed: "Do you need me to contact the organizer for you and ask them to prepare an invitation letter for you?"

"Emmm, okay, you can help me get one." Nodding, Shi Xiaolei said, "Be prepared. I have an invitation letter in hand, I will decide whether to go or not. That would be a headache."

"Okay, I took note."

"Yeah. Regarding the rabbit head, dragon head and snake head that I mentioned earlier, please help me get it done as soon as possible." Looking at the table on the cabinet, Shi Xiaolei ordered: "It's best to get it done within a week, I mean Yes, can you deliver the items to me within a week?"

"If there is no accident."

Instead of answering 'no problem' directly, this sentence came...

Is it really because there are still some uncertainties in the matter, don't you dare to be 100% sure?

Actually not, Natasha deliberately left a leeway. In fact, when she answered "no accident", she was thinking in her heart whether she wanted to arrange some accidents.

It turned out that the two bronze animal heads that had never existed before, namely the dragon head and the snake head, had always been in the hands of S.H.I.E.L.D. The island collector Natasha mentioned in his words~lightnovelpub.net~ is just a guise arranged by S.H.I.E.L.D.

As for why the dragon heads and snake heads, which are not 084 items, are hidden by S.H.I.E.L.D....

Because the current S.H.I.E.L.D. is in the hands of Nick Fury. With his urine ability to catch toads and make oil, things like dragon heads and snake heads that may be exchanged for some benefits at the level of Zhengzhi, of course, can't be taken out happily.

Like now.

The reason why Shi Xiaolei was able to hear the report on the dragon head and the snake head from Natasha was also because Nick Fury felt that it was profitable to do so—I didn’t know that Natasha’s identity had been exposed long ago, and I thought that Shi Xiaolei was not. Know that Natasha is actually an agent. According to common sense, Nick Fury takes it for granted that Natasha can gain further trust from Shi Xiaolei with the help of the birth of the dragon head and the snake head... Maybe there is no practical benefit for the time being, but With trust, you will definitely find opportunities in the future.

Lay a long line and catch a big fish. This kind of basic routine, Nick Fury has already played it thoroughly.

What's more, Shi Xiaolei, as a buyer, still has to pay for sending someone to pretend to be a collector. To put it bluntly, the dragon head and the snake head are not given away for nothing. When S.H.I.E.L.D.

Tens of millions are also money.

There is cash in the account as a guarantee, and there may be more benefits in the later stage. Why not do such a transaction?

Anyway, S.H.I.E.L.D. won't lose. With this premise, it's not hard to understand why Nick Fury made this arrangement.