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Chapter 1004 The Last Supper: The Passion

Two weeks later, without any warning, almost all of the missing people returned.

Those who went missing were the core members of the Dingying Agency responsible for the rescue work. They were nicknamed heroes because of their immense popularity. Fans and clients called them heroes, while detractors also used the same term to mock them.

Although in reality, Dingying has fewer than ten "heroes".

However, forty-five years before the game's storyline, the number of heroes in the Tei-ei Agency had already reached twelve.

When they disappeared, all twelve of them had vanished.

But only eleven people returned.

The location of their discovery was a meeting room on the second floor of Dingying Law Firm. The first person to see them was an employee of the firm.

According to the records, someone had used the meeting room just five minutes earlier, and everything was normal. However, just five minutes later, when the employee opened the door, he found eleven missing heroes in the office, and the scene was extremely bizarre.

These eleven people are seated around the long table in the conference room, arranged and in the same manner as the figures in Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting "The Last Supper".

Of the eleven people, ten have died.

According to normal people's judgment, all eleven people should be dead, but one of them has not completely stopped moving.

Some of the bodies at the scene were already decomposed, while others remained remarkably fresh. Their postures were fixed in the same way as the twelve disciples in "The Last Supper," though the methods used to fix their bodies varied.

Some people have their bones and joints fixed with iron nails;

Some people had fishing lines hanging from their bodies, which were nailed to the ceiling, and they moved like marionettes.

Some of the bodies were frozen;

……

Their postures and movements are largely the same as those of the characters in "The Last Supper," but there are still some differences.

As is well known, Jesus had twelve disciples, making a total of thirteen including Jesus.

Of the twelve missing people, only eleven returned.

These eleven people each played one of the eleven disciples, but the role that should have belonged to Judas in the painting was left unplayed, with Judas's place completely empty.

The eleven corpses present were all missing parts of their bodies; some were missing hands, some arms, some feet, and some chests.

If the missing parts of these corpses were in key supporting positions, they would be filled with wooden carvings to ensure the overall integrity of the body.

At the very center of the conference table, in the place that should belong to Jesus, stands a cross, and the person on the cross plays the role of Jesus being tortured. This body of Jesus is pieced together from the missing limbs of the eleven disciples.

When the first person at the firm discovered the scene, the Jesus figure pieced together from body parts was still "alive," and the only words he uttered were: "Our Lord has ascended to a higher kingdom."

The head that speaks belongs to the one of the eleven who sits in Peter's place.

In mythology, Peter was one of Jesus' three closest disciples, highly respected among them, and recognized as the head of the twelve apostles. After Jesus' ascension, he became the leader of all the disciples.

The person sitting in Peter's position is actually the most prestigious leader of the Dingying Agency in reality, which corresponds to Peter's position in the myth.

In addition, there is a mysterious pattern on the wall of that conference room. The file does not provide an explanation for this pattern, but players in the game will learn its meaning later. It is a symbol representing the pillar of humanity before the existence of the Control Bureau's pillar of humanity was hidden.

This unusual event, named "The Last Supper: The Passion," only appears during the investigation of the necromancer's side quest in the game. The event itself has no connection to the side quest; the only connection between the two is that the necromancer used the corpses of those people at the time.

However, the sheer amount of information and mysterious atmosphere surrounding this event sparked extensive and prolonged discussions among forum users. Eventually, a wealthy individual even offered a million-dollar reward for the hidden details of this side quest.

Unfortunately, during the month-long exploration, no one found the hidden side quest.

Even so, Jiang Wengao still remembers that, until just before his transmigration, the online forums continued to analyze and develop this minor side quest.

There are a few interesting little details.

First, why is Judas missing from the original twelve disciples?
Second, why is the image of Jesus in the central position depicted as being tortured, and why is the body of the tortured Jesus pieced together from the other eleven disciples?
Third, was the one who was tortured truly Jesus? Or should he be considered Peter?
Peter was the most faithful follower of Jesus, and the most important revelation on the assembled body on the cross is the head of the person playing Peter. Does this imply something?
And that phrase—"My Lord has ascended to a higher kingdom."

What message does this sentence convey?
Did becoming a named person mean entering the Kingdom of God?

In addition, why are there icons and symbols representing the pillars of humanity in the past on the wall?

Why did such a big change occur in the meeting room in just five minutes?
At that time, the forum was full of unsolved mysteries, and the biggest mystery was who the owner of Dingying Law Firm was.

Dingying Agency should have a boss, but the game never mentions any information about this boss, which makes it even more suspicious.

That's why Jiang Wengao was so surprised when he heard that so-and-so was the boss of Dingying.

The changes between reality and the game's storyline are... just too drastic.

Jiang Wengao leaned back in his chair, his brain, which hadn't had a rest in a long time, working laboriously like a rusty machine.

Looking at Xia Shou and the others discussing their business trip, Jiang Wengao suddenly felt a little envious. He really wanted to pour out all the things in his head and discuss them with everyone, and then send all the intelligence to the analysis department so that those smart people could work on it.

He now feels as if some unseen force is playing tricks on him, letting him know so much and giving him such a clear premonition about the future, yet also leaving him unable to control his elusive fate.

Moreover, he has no one to confide in or share his feelings with.

Now he feels that he might be much happier if he knew nothing.

But if he were truly given the freedom to choose, he would still be willing to pay the price of not being able to leak information in order to have the right to play the game.

After all, those who witness the truth can never return to that state of blissful ignorance. Even if someone could fall asleep instantly again after waking up to find themselves in a fire, they would not choose to sleep.

“Minister, I would like to make contact with that Kiyokawa Rei,” Jiang Wengao suddenly said.

As for the Heart of the Rending King, it's none of his business anymore, but the plot twists in Dingying are unsettling no matter how you look at it.

Even if he had no clue whatsoever, he wanted to start investigating, hoping that he could find a way to solve the mystery in reality.

After much thought, the only way to gain anything is to contact the behind-the-scenes boss, Kiyogawa Rei, who has revealed his identity.

It seems that Kiyoikawa Rei wants to challenge Mamoru. If he, as a member of the third division, is sent there, the other party should not refuse to make contact.

If I could stay at Dingying's firm for a while, I might discover some clues.

"Do you have a reason to give?" Shangguan Yan looked at him scrutinizingly.

"No."

"How long do you plan to stay there? And in what capacity do you intend to negotiate with them? Once you've thought it through, write a report and submit it," Shangguan Yan said.

(End of this chapter)