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Chapter 1003 Dingying in the Game
Xia Shou reviewed the information on this custom-made hero and finally understood what kind of organization it was.

To be precise, this is a law firm.

They were doing the same thing as the control bureau—rescuing people.

However, the purpose and methods of this type of firm are fundamentally different from those of the Control Bureau.

Although both are rescue operations, the Authority does not charge any fees. It will take action as soon as it receives a distress call, and sometimes it will take action even if it does not receive a distress call.

Those individual agencies, which require a certain amount of money to take rescue action, are for-profit organizations.

However, these differences led to significant differences in the operational patterns of the two sides during the rescue.

The Bureau of Emergency Management is all about saving lives, just like firefighters rushing into a fire. They save as many people as they can, regardless of the status or identity of the person reporting the incident.

For agencies that specialize in custom-made heroes, the primary goal is to rescue their clients. However, whether they will rescue other innocent civilians in the process of rescuing their clients varies depending on the style of each agency.

Because of this difference, some people choose to seek help from private firms when they encounter special circumstances, rather than informing the regulatory authority immediately.

There was once a famous anomaly where the young heir of an extremely wealthy extraordinary family was trapped in an anomalous realm along with three hundred other people. The heir was deep inside the monster's lair, while the three hundred people were on the shallower side. If the ordinary people were rescued first, it would most likely lead to the death of the heir deep inside the lair.

So the family spent a lot of money to hire an agency, which eventually succeeded in rescuing the family heir, but this resulted in three hundred ordinary people becoming monster prey.

This practice cannot be called evil, and the actions taken by the firm cannot be defined purely as evil.

Furthermore, such needs are very common among many extraordinary families and organizations, and the Bureau of Control has no legitimate reason to crack down on them. Therefore, in the field of rescue, the Bureau of Control maintains a very delicate relationship with this industry.

The "Personal Hero Customization" agency is a leader in this industry, and as Kehenju's example illustrates, it is extremely famous in Japan.

Founded three years ago, it has climbed the ranks of agencies on DreamNet at an extremely rapid pace, reaching the third place in the Japanese rescue agency rankings in just three years, demonstrating its strong business capabilities.

Of course, strong professional skills alone are not enough to generate such popularity.

This agency has over a hundred people in charge of reception and general intelligence investigation, but only less than ten people are actually responsible for dealing with the supernatural, which is less than one-fifth of the number in an ordinary agency. In contrast, the agencies on the list have more than ten times that number.

But this agency happens to have a high success rate, reasonable prices, and all the superhumans are handsome men and beautiful women with idol attributes and excellent personal personas.

They truly lived up to their reputation as heroes in their work, perfectly embodying the name "custom-made heroes."

Therefore, its popularity is explosive.

Some of the more naive fans affectionately call them "Dingying," and they are very famous locally, even having collaborated with the local control authority on several occasions.

However, the owner of Dingying's agency has never made a public appearance and has always been very mysterious, leading to much speculation.

But now, Kiyoikawa Rei has jumped out.

"Really?" Xia Shou questioned. "He's the boss? He looks so young. The information says he's only nineteen. That means he founded this agency and became the boss at sixteen, and then made it number one in Japan within three years?" "If it's true, and he didn't have any parents helping him, then he's a genuine genius," Ke Hen said.

While others were discussing Kiyogawa Rei, the owner of Tei-ei, Jiang Wengao sat quietly to the side, the events surrounding the Tei-ei incident flashing through his mind like a slow-motion slideshow.

The custom hero concept has disappeared without a trace fifty years later, just like any other once-glorious but now defunct company.

The reason players learn about this agency is actually due to a special side quest.

Even though Dingying only appears as a background character in this mission and is not given any specific plot details, it must be said that Dingying, as a background character, is indeed impressive. Even though she only appears briefly, she has left a deep impression on many players.

As a backdrop for a bizarre event, Dingying possesses remarkable aesthetic appeal and a high degree of intrigue, and is also unusually involved in a corner of the pillars of humanity.

Jiang Wengao remembered that the boss of that side quest was a necromancer. The reason was that a few victims appeared in a certain area. Although the number was small, the way they died was extremely bizarre, which attracted the attention of the control bureau.

Players can participate in side quests as an employee of the Control Bureau, or they can participate in them using other social roles.

The historical background presented in this mission led many players to believe that there would be significant clues to follow. However, until Jiang Wengao's time travel, the necromancer side quest remained unexplored.

The brilliant background setting placed on this trivial event creates an incongruous feeling, like wearing Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry on a sow.

The necromancer, the mastermind behind everything, wasn't particularly outstanding; he was just a troublesome minor boss.

On the contrary, the six corpses he manipulated had more screen time than he did.

Those six corpses were members of the Dingying Agency, who were dug up by necromancers and turned into combat corpses.

There's not much to say about what happened to these corpses fifty years later; they were simply defeated by players. What's interesting is the accident they encountered forty-five years ago.

Yes, forty-five years ago, which means it will happen in four years from now.

To be honest... if the game had progressed as it should have, that would have happened.

It's not just these six corpses, but all members of Dingying; they will all disappear one morning, and the disappearance will last for about half a month.

During this time, many people will be searching for them because Dingying is very famous and popular, so the Control Bureau, the Tower of Babel, and the Clock Tower all participated in the search.

While playing the game, Jiang Wengao didn't take this information seriously, thinking it was just the game AI trying to amplify the event's impact by randomly quoting a few large organizations to endorse it.

But now that he knows that Kiyogawa Rei is the mastermind behind Sadahide, the involvement of the Clock Tower and the Tower of Babel in the search makes sense.

It must have been Kiyokawa Rei's parents who used their connections.

In short, all the participants investigated for half a month in the game, but still found nothing.

(End of this chapter)