NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 255

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Episode 255. Okinawa (3)

A few minutes ago, when Lee Kyu-jin detected movement in the bushes and pressed the buzzer on his chest to send an alert signal, Yeon-woo, who was wearing tactical gear, naturally received that vibration signal as well.

 

Yeon-woo immediately stopped his mixing work and approached the direction where the agents were standing guard with stealth and quick speed.

 

Soon, Yeon-woo’s field of vision captured a civilian walking through the shrubs wearing thick clothing and Lee Kyu-jin hiding and aiming a pistol at him.

 

First, he controlled his heartbeat and breathing to be as slow as possible, eliminating any presence.

He quietly approached and slowly pressed down on the wrist to prevent Lee Kyu-jin from firing the gun.

 

Then Lee Kyu-jin’s eyes widened as he looked at Yeon-woo.

But Yeon-woo was looking at the target.

 

‘I can’t kill him now.’

 

From a moral standpoint, he naturally shouldn’t kill him.

Though he had the ruthless heart to kill whenever necessary, he didn’t want to live like his previous life if possible. A new life should have new values.

 

Of course, the biggest reason not to kill wasn’t moral issues but the operation.

 

‘I could disguise it as death by fire, but there’s no need to create unnecessary suspicion for them.’

 

If killed by gun, traces of bullet penetration would inevitably remain.

 

The melting point of human bone, that is, the temperature at which human bones melt, is above 1670 degrees Celsius.

That’s quite high.

 

When remains are cremated at the crematorium, even at temperatures approaching 1000 degrees where everything else burns away, bones remain.

 

Therefore, it would be difficult to disguise damage to bone areas where bullets passed through using only the temperature from natural ignition burning the island’s vegetation.

 

Even if he disposed of the guy and threw him into the open sea to erase traces to get past that part, bullets that penetrated a person would scatter and embed somewhere nearby, whether in trees or ground.

 

‘Eventually, if Baeksol becomes suspicious and conducts a large-scale investigation, no matter how much we erased traces, they might discover something we didn’t think of.’

 

For various reasons, killing wasn’t a good method.

 

Yeon-woo showed Lee Kyu-jin a fist, then pointed to himself with his thumb and extended his index and middle fingers toward the target.

 

It meant he would handle the target himself.

 

Then Lee Kyu-jin tilted his head.

 

‘How is he going to handle it…?’

 

Yeon-woo approached closely behind the target walking in thick clothing with silent footsteps that made no sound.

 

Lee Kyu-jin and Park Jung-hyeon were now watching the scene with wide eyes.

 

The ‘Omega’ they saw seemed not very old judging by his voice, but was clearly a veteran agent with extensive real combat experience evident in every movement.

 

Therefore, they watched with wide eyes, hoping to learn something from observing his movements, which would benefit them as well.

 

Yeon-woo held his breath and walked matching the target’s stride exactly, approaching the target at high speed.

 

The target didn’t notice at all since he couldn’t sense any presence, including footsteps, even though Yeon-woo was following closely behind him.

 

Then he extended his hand blade at a right angle and struck the back of the target’s neck hard like lightning.

 

‘No way?’

 

Seeing this, Lee Kyu-jin readjusted his grip on his gun.

 

If Omega failed in his handling, commotion might occur, so he was standing by to immediately shoot and kill the target.

 

Lee Kyu-jin also knew that shooting would inevitably create suspicion, but it would be better than being caught due to commotion.

 

Thwack─.

 

“Kugh─.”

 

But contrary to Lee Kyu-jin’s worries, the target hit by the hand blade rolled his eyes back and collapsed forward.

 

It was the hand blade strike commonly called a karate chop.

They never expected this would actually knock someone out.

 

‘…Wow, that actually works? I’ve only seen that in movies.’

 

Lee Kyu-jin and Park Jung-hyeon shook their heads in disbelief.

For Han Hae-woon, it was a relatively familiar scene, so he just quietly nodded.

 

It’s a scene that regularly appears in action movies. A subduing technique that instantly knocks someone unconscious by striking the back of the neck.

 

Of course, they knew it was possible in reality too.

 

The subduing technique called a brachial stun actually exists and is taught by various agencies and special forces.

 

Of course, they only teach it.

 

‘This is the first time I’ve seen someone use it in real combat.’

 

The internal and external carotid arteries pass through the back of the neck, and the enlarged part between them is called the ‘carotid sinus.’

 

If you deliver a very precise and strong strike to that point, a person immediately loses consciousness.

 

However, doing this in real combat would be treated as bragging even among agents and special forces personnel.

 

First, encountering situations where you need to knock someone unconscious in real combat is rare, and if operationally necessary, they would use tools like stun guns or tranquilizer guns.

 

But the agent Omega before their eyes was doing it as if familiar with the technique.

Like someone who had already experienced many situations where they needed to knock someone unconscious.

 

Meanwhile, after knocking out the target, Yeon-woo immediately signaled to Lee Kyu-jin to survey the surroundings through the thermal imaging camera.

 

Lee Kyu-jin nodded and examined the area with thermal imaging, but there were no more heat-reactive objects within at least a 50-meter radius.

 

“Clear.”

 

Hearing Lee Kyu-jin’s signal, the agents gathered in front of the fallen target.

 

“Where did he suddenly pop out from?”

“How should we handle this guy? And a knife-hand strike… I thought I was watching a movie.”

 

At the word “movie” that came from Lee Kyu-jin’s mouth, Yeon-woo felt oddly guilty and scratched his head.

 

‘Well, anyway, I’m a movie actor. Being good at techniques from movies shouldn’t be a problem.’

 

While Yeon-woo was having random thoughts, Han Hae-woon looked at the target with an expressionless face.

 

But inside, Han Hae-woon was also slightly flustered.

Either way, he was the field commander right now, so he had to give orders.

 

‘Hmm, how should I handle this? I can’t move him near their dormitory…’

 

Since it was already late at night, secretly moving him to the dormitory or storage shed or somewhere before starting the operation wouldn’t be much of a problem, but if the unconscious guy woke up in the chaos after the fire started in earnest, he would naturally be suspicious.

 

If he was walking through the forest just moments ago, then suddenly passed out and woke up in a strange place, he couldn’t help but feel something was off.

 

‘Should I just leave him here and start the operation?’

 

While Han Hae-woon was looking down at the unconscious guy and deciding his fate, Yeon-woo quietly spoke up.

 

“Alpha Beta. I’ll handle this according to the E-plan method you briefed us on earlier.”

 

Then Han Hae-woon maintained his poker face with an expressionless look and nodded.

 

“Mm, understood. Omega will take charge of handling it. Meanwhile, I’ll stand guard with Tau.”

 

Of course, Han Hae-woon, who was nodding, didn’t know what the E-plan was either.

He was just pleased that Yeon-woo would handle it.

 

Han Hae-woon went back into the grass field with Park Jung-hyeon to guard the perimeter.

 

Watching their retreating figures, Yeon-woo quietly asked Lee Kyu-jin.

 

“Delta. When you saw him through the thermal imaging camera, was this guy’s body temperature higher than normal?”

“Huh? Oh, that’s right. It was close to 40 degrees. That’s why I initially thought it was a wild animal living on this island.”

 

Walking with his hands in his pockets and body hunched over, he would have looked like a lump rather than a human form.

 

Yeon-woo nodded at Lee Kyu-jin’s words and searched the unconscious guy’s body.

 

‘It should definitely be here…’

 

There was another reason he had subdued rather than killed him.

 

As Yeon-woo searched the guy’s body, he found an envelope full of white powder in the inner pocket of his thick coat, as expected.

 

It was one of the drugs they produced.

 

The moment Yeon-woo first saw the guy’s appearance, he was immediately certain he was a drug addict.

 

‘The temperature is over 25 degrees right now, so a normal person wouldn’t wear such thick clothes.’

 

It was one of the typical drug side effects.

The actual body temperature rises as if boiling, but the body conversely experiences chills and feels cold.

 

‘At this level, he’s already severely addicted.’

 

Yeon-woo took out the lighter gun he had used for mixing reagents from his chest, picked some nearby shrubs, lit them on fire, and burned them.

 

When the shrub leaves had burned to some extent, he stamped out the fire with his shoes.

 

Then he rubbed the ash created from the burning leaves on the ground onto his hands and began applying it around the unconscious guy’s philtrum and chin area.

 

Soon the forest would be burning fiercely and ash would be flying everywhere, so it wouldn’t make sense for him not to have inhaled that smoke.

 

Judging by the fact that the guy had walked all the way here to secretly inhale drugs, it was clear that Baeksol’s precious “products” being secretly diverted for personal use was definitely not permitted.

 

And if he got caught doing that, Baeksol wouldn’t leave this guy alone anyway.

 

‘To survive, he’ll somehow make excuses.’

 

Actually, there wasn’t much to make excuses about.

 

‘When this guy wakes up later, he’ll see the island turned to ash and his memory will be confused about whether he passed out from the smoke or just from inhaling drugs.’

 

Since his addiction symptoms were already severe, blackout phenomena where his memory cuts out would happen regularly.

 

Whichever way this guy thought about it, he would never even dream that a special agent appeared like a ghost and struck the back of his neck, knocking him unconscious like in a movie, and that was enough.

 

Yeon-woo carried the guy on his back and headed toward the sea right next to them.

It was a rocky area with a gentler slope than the cliff where the agents had climbed up when infiltrating the island.

 

Yeon-woo roughly threw the unconscious guy onto the coastal rocks where there was no grass around.

 

‘Well, at least he won’t burn to death here.’

 

***

 

After Yeon-woo finished mixing with the special solution again, the agents divided up the resulting white phosphorus solution and scattered to various parts of the island.

 

Since they had already perfectly mapped out this island’s patrol routes and times, as well as the surveillance camera positions through long drone observations, their movements were unhindered.

 

The agents followed their designated routes, moving like ghosts while avoiding surveillance cameras and spraying the solution throughout the island.

 

Among these, the storage warehouses and production facilities had to burn completely without leaving any traces, so they took special care to evenly distribute the solution.

 

This was the reason for going all the way to Brazil to obtain the special solution.

Once ignited, it would burn fiercely before vaporizing and disappearing without a trace.

 

The fire was planned to start from the back of the island.

Since the workers’ dormitory was located fairly close to the dock, there would be no problem evacuating to the coastline.

 

It was hard to believe these island workers had come here voluntarily.

 

When observed through drones, most of the workers appeared to be Southeast Asian, so they were most likely secretly taken and brought here before being deported for illegal residence in Japan.

 

‘If that’s the case, they’re living essentially slave-like lives, having to manufacture drugs here until they die.’

 

Perhaps the blazing fire would also break their chains.

 

Bzzt─.

 

The sensor on Yeon-woo’s chest vibrated rapidly three times.

 

‘Looks like everyone’s finished.’

 

Kim Su-hyeok at headquarters had analyzed the agents’ movements via GPS and judged this was sufficient, sending a signal to regroup.

 

Since they had to move while avoiding surveillance cameras throughout the island, they couldn’t spray everywhere perfectly, but this amount was enough to start the rat fire festival.

 

***

 

The agents descended via ropes to the rubber boat below the cliff.

Yeon-woo, who remained last, held a lighter gun and crouched in front of the grassland right before him.

 

Looking at descriptions of ancestors in 19th-century texts like “Dongguk Sesigi” and “Yeolyang Sesigi,” they would gather in groups with torches, place straw on field ridges or rice paddy ridges near villages, and set fires simultaneously at night to burn weeds.

 

Fires would rise from all directions creating a spectacular sight, which was called rat fire festival.

 

The reason for setting fires in the fields was to exterminate rats and pests and to prepare the land for new sprouts to grow.

 

Yeon-woo looked toward Baeksol’s drug facilities that would be beyond the bushes.

 

‘Indeed, exterminating pests with blazing fire is ancestral wisdom.’

 

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