NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 271

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Episode 271. Survival Island Filming (3)

As soon as the staff switched the video to Player 7 Ryu Yeon-woo’s head cam, the screen captured Yeon-woo’s gun barrel aimed at the torso of Player 2 who was hiding in the shrubs.

 

Yeon-woo pulled the trigger toward his target without hesitation.

 

Bang─!

 

The plastic bullet that flew immediately hit the torso of Player 2, who was hiding behind a tree while keeping the opponent on the opposite side in check.

 

Then without hesitation, he immediately turned his body to aim at Player 29 who had taken cover behind a rock and pulled the trigger again.

 

Bang─!

Bang bang─!

 

Player 29 only had one heart remaining, but since Yeon-woo had no way of knowing this, he accurately hit three shots with rapid fire.

 

Player 29, who had been contemplating which direction to move to subdue the opponent he was confronting, was hit by the suddenly flying bullets without being able to react.

 

One shot to the head, the other two to the torso.

 

A shooting technique mainly used to subdue opponents in actual combat.

 

When hit, it can immediately incapacitate the opponent, and since the head has a smaller area than other parts, if the shot fails, two additional shots are fired at the torso to deliver immediate damage to the opponent.

 

It was the Mozambique Drill shooting technique that came out habitually.

 

Since Yeon-woo had trained his entire life to be able to shoot like that even if he woke up from sleep, he accurately hit all three shots on target without any disruption.

 

Since he fired rapid shots in such quick succession, only about 2 seconds had passed to consecutively eliminate both people.

 

– Player 7 has eliminated Player 2. (Hit 2 times)

– Player 7 has eliminated Player 29. (Hit 1 time)

 

And the other survivors who received this news through their smartwatches were shocked.

 

‘Wait, Player 7 is the guy who got the opening kill. Now it’s a double kill…?’

‘How did he get consecutive kills? Did multiple people’s routes overlap causing a chaotic battle?’

 

Since there was no way to know the situation where Players 2 and 29 were eliminated, the other participants could only speculate.

 

On the other hand, admiration echoed through the situation room that watched the entire process in real time.

 

“Wow, that’s insane. It hasn’t been long since filming started and we already have one legendary scene.”

“You’re actor Ryu Yeon-woo’s manager, right? I heard he didn’t serve in the military, so how can he shoot so well?”

 

When an entertainment industry insider sitting next to him asked Kim Min-su, he scratched his head.

Though pretending otherwise, he could feel that the staff and even the PD were subtly waiting for Kim Min-su’s answer.

 

“Well… He has quite an interest in military matters, and even in high school he did shooting in Hawaii…”

 

Before he could finish speaking, people around nodded and burst into exclamations of admiration.

 

“Wow, I knew it would be something like that. He’s been doing professional shooting overseas since he was young. A world star really is different.”

“Of course! I thought so.”

 

The stable shooting stance Yeon-woo was taking on the monitor and his calm way of managing the battlefield were areas that definitely required professional training, so people began to chime in as if they had been waiting for Kim Min-su’s explanation.

 

Originally, when people face something beyond their understanding, if someone around them provides a plausible reason, they tend to agree and somehow make it an established fact.

 

“Hmm? Professional…?”

 

Manager Kim Min-su felt like people had misunderstood something, but since it was awkward to make an effort to correct it, he kept his mouth shut.

 

***

 

Meanwhile, Yeon-woo left his position immediately after eliminating the two people.

 

‘The eliminated people will be picked up by the production crew who will track their GPS location anyway, and since I made too much gunfire noise, I need to move to another location immediately.’

 

Those two wouldn’t be the only ones heading toward the summit area, so in times like this, it was best to immediately leave the danger zone.

 

The safest route.

Since he had immediately dealt with nearby opponents as soon as the game started, Yeon-woo came down from the mountain following the same route he had climbed.

 

Then at a height where he could look down on the unpaved road, he began to understand the terrain of this island while stealthily advancing along the mountain’s perimeter.

 

‘Getting a lot of kills isn’t what’s important anyway. I need to prepare for future battles.’

 

If anyone had heard Yeon-woo’s inner thoughts, they would have been dumbfounded, asking what he meant by saying getting many kills wasn’t important when he had already gotten 3 kills not long after starting, but Yeon-woo was managing the game while controlling his own tempo.

 

‘In the later stages, how many hearts you lost on the first day will be extremely important. When the number of people decreases, the production team will try to narrow the stadium size by imposing some mission or restriction.’

 

This island was a reasonably good size for thirty people to fight.

 

But including the three people Yeon-woo had already eliminated, there were seven kill logs that had arrived on the smartwatch.

 

‘So seven people eliminated in less than an hour since the start. Probably by around 5 PM today, the number of survivors will be roughly ten to fifteen people.’

 

Maybe it could even be single digits.

Though he had only encountered three people so far, it seemed the participants’ skill level was even more dismal than he had thought.

 

Originally, when incompetent people fight each other, there are bound to be more eliminations.

 

‘They don’t seem to know how to do basic surveillance and aren’t used to eliminating their presence, so they’ll end up easily discovering each other.’

 

Walking toward a target area in a region like this with many trees and rocks that facilitate concealment and cover was tantamount to suicide.

 

Since you can’t know where enemies might be hiding, even when advancing to the next cover area right in front of you, you must stop, eliminate your presence, observe for several minutes, and only when you judge it’s safe should you move swiftly.

 

Clatter─.

 

Yeon-woo heard the sound of metal friction as he stealthily advanced forward little by little.

 

Sure enough, he could see a participant advancing from the 11 o’clock direction straight ahead.

 

In what seemed to be his own way of staying alert to the left and right, he was advancing while gripping his gun muzzle and looking around here and there like a special forces soldier from a movie or game.

 

‘Hmm, if I make gunshot sounds here, the guys nearby will be on guard and it’ll become harder to advance…’

 

Even though it was a survival gun, the island was so quiet that gunshots echoed quite far.

 

Roughly estimating, it seemed to be clearly audible up to about 100 meters in a straight line.

 

‘But if I don’t take him out, our paths will keep overlapping as I advance forward and it’ll be annoying.’

 

There was only one method.

 

‘I have no choice but to induce a Surrender.’

 

Surrender is a rule for making an opponent give up.

 

While it’s originally an English word that means surrender itself, in gaming terms, its origin comes from the blackjack rule in casinos where a player can forfeit the game when they judge their first two dealt cards to be hopeless.

 

Similarly, in Survival Games, if you judge resistance to be impossible regardless of the number of hearts you have, you’re immediately eliminated.

 

‘The PD explained that putting the gun muzzle to the back of the opponent’s neck or taking away their gun itself would meet the requirements for Surrender.’

 

The opponent was moving forward with an awkward form but still gripping his gun and staying alert to the left and right like in movies.

 

Taking away his gun would probably be too difficult.

 

‘Then there’s only one method left.’

 

Yeon-woo slung the rifle over his shoulder and drew the pistol from his waist.

 

Then he began following behind the guy while killing his footsteps.

 

Just like when he had followed the Southeast Asian worker who suddenly left his post and entered the forest during the Okinawa operation, he carefully watched the opponent’s stride and stepped forward at perfect timing.

 

When the opponent extended his right foot forward, Yeon-woo did the same, and it was the same for the opposite foot.

 

However, since his stride was much larger than his opponent who was taking small steps while staying alert and moving slowly, the distance between them gradually closed, and since he advanced by skillfully avoiding the scattered fallen leaves and small branches on the ground and only stepping on dry earth, his opponent who was concentrating all his attention ahead didn’t notice.

 

After following for about ten steps, Yeon-woo had approached within close range of his target.

 

In case any unexpected situation occurred like the opponent suddenly looking back or running, he had his index finger on the pistol’s trigger ready to immediately fire three rapid shots to eliminate him.

 

***

 

“Ugh, my palms are sweating.”

“Why isn’t he shooting right away and following like that?”

 

The managers, officials, and even staff who had already become spectators watching the game in the situation room were gripping their sweaty hands while staring at the monitors.

 

They were also keeping track of battles happening in other areas by connecting to the closest cameras in real-time, but among them, the main monitor was continuously broadcasting only the cam screen of Player 7, namely Ryu Yeon-woo.

 

“Is he aiming for a Surrender…”

 

PD Yoon Chang-jun, who was watching the monitor, shook his head.

 

Just with Ryu Yeon-woo’s performance so far, they could produce an amazing broadcast, but since things had come this far, he wanted to try making a legendary hit variety show that would go down in history.

 

For that, Ryu Yeon-woo needed to survive a bit longer.

But Ryu Yeon-woo’s appearance on the monitor looked precarious.

 

“Even so, that’s just reckless…”

 

Surrender was actually just a processing method created to handle players who lost their weapons or lost their will to fight without shooting them, not a rule made to be actively used during actual combat.

 

What idiot would obediently let someone put a gun muzzle to the back of their neck or have their weapon taken away?

 

But that idiot was right here.

 

“Huh?”

 

But the people watching the monitor collectively opened their mouths and tilted their heads in confusion.

 

“Wait, why doesn’t he notice someone following from behind?”

“Right? Is he too nervous to hear footsteps or presence?”

 

On the monitor, they could see Ryu Yeon-woo had caught up to close range of the player ahead while aiming his gun muzzle, but the player was still walking without knowing someone was following from behind.

 

Since the only viewpoints available in the situation room were Yeon-woo’s head cam and body cam, plus a fixed camera filming them both from a distance, it was difficult to grasp that he was approaching silently while precisely matching his stride.

 

Before long, the distance between the two had narrowed to within 1 meter, and Yeon-woo approached with quick footwork and placed the pistol’s muzzle against the back of his opponent’s neck.

 

***

 

“Stop.”

“Eek!”

 

When someone suddenly whispered right behind him while he was extremely tense, the startled opponent convulsed and tried to turn around.

 

Then Yeon-woo restrained him by pushing the opponent’s thigh with his knee as he tried to turn, firmly gripping the opposite shoulder to hold him in place, then pressed the pistol in harder.

 

And from behind, a calm voice that felt somehow languid came, unbalanced with the urgent situation.

 

“Hey, sir. If I shoot from this distance, even plastic bullets would hurt a lot, you know? Let’s acknowledge the Surrender.”

“Ugh, what kind of strength…”

 

He instinctively tried to turn his body, but his tightly gripped upper body wouldn’t budge an inch.

 

The situation room must have been watching as well, because even though his opponent hadn’t expressed surrender, they judged it an inescapable situation and the red light on the protective gear lit up.

 

Realizing he had been eliminated, his opponent sat down with a dejected expression.

Rather than being discouraged, his legs had given out from being in such a tense state for too long.

 

“How on earth…?”

 

The man looked helplessly at the back alley his opponent must have followed.

He couldn’t believe he hadn’t noticed someone approaching close enough to press the muzzle directly against his neck.

 

 

Meanwhile, those who heard this news and had big question marks floating above their heads were scattered all over the island.

 

– Player 7 has eliminated Player 26. (Surrender)

 

Jo Yoon-hyeok, who had arrived late near the octagonal pavilion where Yeon-woo had eliminated the two and was hiding in the bushes, couldn’t believe his eyes.

 

‘…What? He eliminated someone by surrender?’

 

It’s Player 7 again.

 

Even if Opening Kill or double kill were somehow possible, he couldn’t understand what kind of situation would lead to a surrender.

 

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