NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 140

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Episode 140. “White Blood” (1)

 

After the launch event ended, episodes 1 through 3 of “White Blood” were released on Netflix starting at 4 PM that afternoon.

 

 

 

“White Blood,” consisting of a total of 12 episodes, would be released three episodes per week over four weeks.

 

 

 

Yeon-woo’s fans had been waiting with pounding hearts since the night before.

 

And the majority of people clicked on the Korean fantasy drama released on the server with half anticipation and half worry.

 

 

 

The familiar Netflix logo appeared to them and the series began.

 

 

 

The first scene started with a man running through a dreamlike purple desert.

 

 

 

A blurry shimmer followed the man from above and shot something at him, which the man dodged with agile movements.

 

 

 

Bang─.

 

 

 

When the man dodged, a sand dune in the desert exploded as if hit directly by something and scattered in all directions.

 

 

 

Then an ancient castle appeared before the man, shimmering like a mirage.

 

The man in black clothing urgently entered that ancient castle.

 

 

 

The scene transitioned to show ‘that one-take scene’ that Yeon-woo had filmed all day for just one minute of runtime.

 

 

 

“Ohhh.”

 

“Amazing. The action is incredible, isn’t it?”

 

“Hey, this is the first scene of episode 1. At least they put their soul into this part. Since it’s fantasy, the story will probably go off the rails as it goes on.”

 

 

 

The college students gathered in the department room watching “White Blood” on Netflix through a beam projector agreed with their friend’s last comment.

 

 

 

“True, how many times have we been fooled by Korean fantasy? Last time we watched ‘Baldur’ and ended up traumatized. The story was completely messed up.”

 

 

 

Meanwhile, Yeon-woo on the screen projected by the beam projector was hit by the androids’ concentrated fire and fell like a severed kite to the bottom of the ancient castle.

 

 

 

With a swallowing sound, Yeon-woo, or rather Jeong Do-jin, fell through a crack in space-time.

 

 

 

After a moment of silence with a black screen, a muffled sound emerged and gradually became clearer with the murmuring of a courtroom.

 

 

 

The courtroom scene that followed.

 

 

 

When Yeon-woo transformed into Jeong Do-jin and walked out with the fierce presence of a tiger, rattling his chains, they were overwhelmed by the charisma that seemed to pierce through the screen.

 

 

 

And when Do-jin and Ella rode the hoverbike afterward, dodging android attacks left and right while racing through the medieval village, it looked like watching a Hollywood car chase scene.

 

 

 

“…Hey. This is actually pretty watchable?”

 

“Right. It’s like watching an American movie.”

 

 

 

The unexpectedly sophisticated CG and excellent acting began to slowly unlock the doors of their hearts that had been closed to the fantasy genre.

 

 

 

The students sitting around in the department room were now immersed in the screen.

 

 

 

***

 

 

 

“Narrator. So you’re saying there’s a direct path to the heart if we just get past the thigh?”

 

– Cardiac.

 

“Cardiac means heart.”

 

 

 

All the names in this world are like this.

 

 

 

Heart is Cardiac.

 

Thigh is Femoral.

 

Calf bone is Fibula.

 

 

 

Thanks to the place names borrowed directly from medical terminology, Jeong Do-jin, whose main job was as a doctor, could tell where he had come to.

 

 

 

Ella, riding behind and watching Do-jin talk to the narrator, tilted her head.

 

 

 

“Mister, who are you talking to?”

 

“Why am I a mister?”

 

“If it’s the path to Cardiac, I know it.”

 

“What? You know it?”

 

 

 

The fastest path from thigh to heart.

 

Femoral vein. In other words, the femoral vein.

 

 

 

Rumble─.

 

 

 

Then the ground shook violently with a loud noise.

 

 

 

“Ah! The great tremor must have started!”

 

 

 

The great tremor refers to the massive vibrations that continue for a week in this world.

 

 

 

“I see. Has another year passed already?”

 

“A year? What’s that?”

 

 

 

The cause of the great tremor is actually his younger sibling’s heartbeat.

 

Though he hadn’t calculated exactly, one heartbeat from outside the body was roughly equivalent to about a year inside the body, so Do-jin had simply recognized it as a year passing.

 

 

 

Only a few seconds had passed in outside time, but in Do-jin’s perception of time flow, it had already been 6 years since he was trapped inside the body.

 

 

 

“Mister, what’s a year?”

 

“It’s something like that. Anyway, you said you know the way to Cardiac?”

 

“Yes. When I deliver oxygen, I see adults going toward Cardiac heading that way. I even delivered all the way to the front once when someone said it was urgent!”

 

 

 

Do-jin nodded at Ella’s words.

 

 

 

“That works out well. I need to go there.”

 

“Then let’s go together! I really want to escape this tedious village.”

 

 

 

At Ella’s words, Do-jin scratched his cheek as if troubled.

 

 

 

But wait, we’ve already gotten quite far from the village, so haven’t we escaped?

 

 

 

“Hmm…”

 

“Please!”

 

 

 

Ella grabbed Do-jin’s waist from behind the motorcycle and shook him.

 

 

 

Since entering this body, this was the first cell that didn’t fear him and approached him like this.

 

Especially red blood cells are timid, so they normally shrink back just from being looked at…

 

 

 

“…Instead, if you become a hindrance on the way, I’ll abandon you right there on the spot.”

 

“Yay!”

 

 

 

 

 

He rode the hoverbike for quite a while, following the path Ella showed him.

 

 

 

“Here it is!”

 

 

 

Hearing Ella’s voice from behind him as she pointed in one direction with her fidgeting hand, he stopped the motorcycle.

 

 

 

“Get off.”

 

“Yes!”

 

 

 

As Ella got off, Do-jin activated the Miniaturization Function built into the motorcycle.

 

He pointed to the forest path and asked Ella.

 

 

 

“Is this the right way?”

 

“Yes! If you go through that cave over there, you’ll reach the Femoral Vein.”

 

 

 

Seeing Ella nod her head vigorously, Do-jin took the lead and walked ahead.

 

 

 

“How do you know about a path like this?”

 

“It’s a shortcut. Our Village Chief is lazy, so he sometimes forgets oxygen delivery orders and tells us late.”

 

“Then all the villagers who do that oxygen delivery must know about it?”

 

 

 

At Do-jin’s words, Ella put her hands behind her back and puffed out her chest proudly.

 

 

 

“I’m the only one who does oxygen delivery!”

 

“Huh?”

 

 

 

He didn’t know much about the ecology of Red Blood Cell Village, but oxygen was heavier than expected.

 

It looked like transparent glass marbles on the outside, but when you actually lifted them, they had the weight of heavy iron balls.

 

 

 

“How much do you carry when you go on deliveries?”

 

“Um. I fill up two basket backpacks and take them.”

 

 

 

In reality, that would be the weight that five sturdy adult men would need to carry.

 

It definitely didn’t seem like a weight the young girl in front of him could handle.

 

 

 

“Are all red blood cells as strong as you?”

 

“No! I’m exceptionally strong. That’s why the Village Chief said he’s giving me the special privilege of doing oxygen delivery.”

 

 

 

He didn’t know why this girl was stronger than others, but it was typical exploitation.

 

 

 

“Then what do you get extra for doing oxygen delivery? Like money or something.”

 

“Money? What’s that? When I do oxygen delivery, I can go outside the village! I get to see trees and grass like this.”

 

 

 

Do-jin thought for a moment and nodded his head.

 

He thought he knew the girl’s identity.

 

Strong, cheerful, and laughs a lot.

 

 

 

“Hmm, you’re an idiot, aren’t you?”

 

“I am not!”

 

“Then a pushover?”

 

“What’s that! Oh, while digging for oxygen, I found this amazing thing too. Isn’t it pretty?”

 

 

 

Ella, who quickly smiled brightly again, pointed to and showed off the blue gem brooch hanging with purple cloth over her red cloak.

 

 

 

“Not really.”

 

“Why not! The sparkling is pretty, isn’t it?”

 

“It’s not pretty.”

 

 

 

While walking and exchanging various banter with Ella, they could see the end of the cave before they knew it.

 

 

 

Sometimes the Narrator would communicate with him and they’d have conversations, but talking with a tangible person for the first time in 6 years since entering this world felt like his mental fatigue was being relieved.

 

 

 

Though Ella wasn’t actually a person but a cell.

 

 

 

It was just that blunt words came out because the conversation after so long felt awkward.

 

Do-jin, who had been walking, stopped when he reached the end of the cave.

 

 

 

“Ow!”

 

 

 

Ella, who was following behind, bumped her forehead against Do-jin’s back with a thud and made a tearful face.

 

 

 

“What are you doing stopping suddenly?”

 

 

 

Ella complained, but Do-jin couldn’t answer, overwhelmed by the sight before his eyes and staring blankly.

 

 

 

“Hehe, it’s really pretty, right? The Femoral Vein.”

 

 

 

Femoral Vein.

 

Translated, it’s the femoral vein, the fastest path from the thigh to the heart.

 

The passage to leave this place and ascend to another dimension.

 

The orbital elevator.

 

 

 

“What kind of vein looks like this…”

 

 

 

A massive pillar of light stretching up to heights so distant that its end couldn’t be fathomed.

 

The massive pillar of light, with pulses rhythmically fluctuating, was piercing through the sky while emitting the violet hue of violets.

 

 

 

No, it was tearing through the sky and surging upward into higher dimensions beyond.

 

 

 

“···It looks just like a quasar I saw on the internet.”

 

 

 

He had once seen an image of energy being sucked into a supermassive black hole and then ejected from the center in the form of jets due to the tremendous magnetic field and explosive energy of the accretion disk, and the sight before him was exactly like that.

 

 

 

“You always use words I’ve never heard before. Quasar?”

 

“So this is why they call the human body a microcosm.”

 

“There it is again. Another word I don’t know.”

 

 

 

Do-jin ignored Ella, who was hopping around in front of him, waving her hands and blocking his view, and walked forward.

 

 

 

“Let’s go together!”

 

 

 

***

 

 

 

Since the White Blood Army was guarding the boarding gate of the orbital elevator, there was no way to approach directly.

 

 

 

Even though he could deal with them, doing so might cause them to stop the orbital elevator’s operation, so Do-jin needed to board secretly.

 

 

 

“You have to get on properly, mister. You absolutely must!”

 

 

 

Ella wanted to venture outside the village, but was too scared to leave alone, so she kept grabbing Do-jin and pleading with him repeatedly.

 

 

 

Do-jin told Ella to board the elevator first, and was now timing his jump from the top of the cliff closest to the elevator.

 

 

 

“There she is.”

 

 

 

In the distance, he could see Ella’s back as she mixed with other Red Blood Cells, underwent inspection, and boarded the elevator.

 

 

 

Her twin braids bounced up and down as she walked, making her easy to distinguish from the other Red Blood Cells.

 

 

 

“This should be about right. Narrator, do some calculations.”

 

– I’ll analyze your running speed and the Femoral Vein’s movement to tell you the exact moment to start.

 

 

 

Do-jin nodded and backed away to prepare for his leap.

 

Soon after, the Narrator’s voice rang in his ears.

 

 

 

– Now.

 

“Hup!”

 

 

 

Do-jin kicked off powerfully from the base of a tree behind him and shot out like a bullet.

 

 

 

The wide, white cylindrical elevator reminded him of a whipped cream cake, and just as Do-jin leaped out, the elevator doors closed and it began to operate.

 

 

 

Whooom─.

 

Clack─.

 

 

 

The elevator began operating and started magnetic levitation, while Do-jin kicked off the cliff and descended in a parabolic arc, meeting at a single point.

 

 

 

Thud─.

 

 

 

Do-jin’s black figure flew through the air and landed on the roof of the orbital elevator, which had started moving and risen about 30 meters into the sky.

 

 

 

– Hold on tight. The pressure will be tremendous.

 

“Pressure? What pressure?”

 

 

 

As soon as the Narrator’s voice was heard, the Femoral Vein’s light pillar began glowing purple and started pushing the orbital elevator inside it upward with tremendous force.

 

 

 

“Ugh!”

 

 

 

He didn’t know what the speed per second would be, but he was certain it would be faster than any rocket humans had ever launched, and he gritted his teeth to endure the crushing pressure bearing down on him.

 

 

 

After enduring and ascending for a while, the planet from which Do-jin and Ella’s elevator had departed became as small as a dot, and the Purple Light Pillar of the Femoral Vein, whose end was unknowable, continued navigating straight through the universe.

 

 

 

And so, quite some time passed.

 

 

 

‘How much further do we have to go?’

 

 

 

The pressure was so strong he couldn’t even open his mouth.

 

When Do-jin asked through his thoughts, the Narrator’s response came back.

 

 

 

– It seems like we’ve come about halfway.

 

 

 

That’s when it happened.

 

As soon as the Narrator’s voice was heard, the orbital elevator began shaking with tremendous force.

 

 

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