NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 275

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Episode 275. Epic of Victory (3)

How exactly did a report that summarized only the precise facts get condensed into ‘sweeping everyone away’?

 

Director Yoon Mi-yeon asked back, seemingly not understanding Manager Kim Min-su’s words well.

 

– Uh, um, anyway, he’s not injured anywhere, right?

“Yes. The situation room is monitoring in real-time and he’s not hurt anywhere at all.”

– Then is there anything the company needs to prepare in advance?

 

At Director Yoon Mi-yeon’s words asking if there was anything to help with since he was doing difficult physical filming, Kim Min-su scratched the back of his head.

 

“Hmm, something to prepare in advance? Well, I think you just need to prepare yourself to be surprised.”

– Yes…?

 

She had asked whether they should prepare accommodation near Wando Port in advance in case it might be difficult to come up to Seoul right away.

 

But telling her to prepare to be surprised – Director Yoon Mi-yeon on the other end of the phone kept tilting her head wondering what this nonsensical talk was about.

 

***

 

Meanwhile, while the allied players were distracted dividing themselves into pairs, Yeon-woo was crossing the island at nearly full sprint speed, heading north.

 

He had already obtained the mission box on the east side.

Now he was moving to obtain the mission box that would be on the north side.

 

Since the north side had trees growing too densely from the start, there was only one place where drones could drop items, so he had a good idea where the box would be.

 

‘Hmm, but a silencer…’

 

Yeon-woo glanced at the silencer attached to his gun barrel as he ran.

 

If one person hid really well it would be troublesome, so he had secretly hoped for a ‘Player Location Check’ to come out, but what came from the eastern mission box was a silencer.

 

Although he had used silencers countless times in actual combat, what was in the box wasn’t even a real silencer made by KAC or SureFire that he mainly used in his previous life.

 

By Yeon-woo’s standards, what looked like some kind of toy was inside, so he looked at the thing attached to the end of his gun barrel with suspicious eyes. He couldn’t even get a sense of what effect it would have when used on a survival gun.

 

‘To begin with, compared to real guns, the firing sound is weaker and the firepower is weaker, so I wonder if adding a silencer makes the bullets travel even less distance.’

 

He couldn’t predict at all what effect it would have on the range.

 

It seemed like he’d need to fire the gun at least once after obtaining the northern mission box, if only to get a feel for it.

 

Since Yeon-woo had already perfectly grasped the terrain, he moved through the forest area where trees grew so densely that sunlight couldn’t enter, as if entering and leaving his own home.

 

After walking for a while, he could see a mission box placed in a small grassland full of unknown wildflowers near the cliff located at the northernmost tip of the island.

 

Yeon-woo quickly approached, picked up the mission box, and returned to the forest.

 

Then after checking his surroundings, he hid his body among the bushes and opened the box.

 

– Hit Count Reset Ticket

If you wish to use it, please press the emergency call button on your smartwatch and look at this ticket through your head cam for more than 5 seconds.

 

‘Hmm, this is the most useless thing that could have come out right now.’

 

Since he had taken out five people alone so far but hadn’t been hit by a single shot, he couldn’t get a sense of where or how to use it.

 

Still, fortunately it didn’t seem like something he needed to use right away.

 

‘Well, I might get hit by a stray bullet while fighting in the future…’

 

Yeon-woo roughly stuffed the reset ticket into his bag.

 

The reset ticket that Bae Shin-woo wanted so much, and the silencer that Yang Ho-seong coveted, were just leftovers to Yeon-woo.

 

Having obtained two mission boxes, Yeon-woo immediately started moving without resting for even a moment.

 

Yeon-woo circled the island counterclockwise and headed at high speed toward the west side of the island where Bae Shin-woo and Yang Ho-seong were searching.

 

***

 

Meanwhile, a staff member who was observing the players’ movement routes through GPS signals in the situation room tilted his head.

 

“Why is this one so fast…?”

 

Among the dots displayed by GPS, only one was moving at nearly twice the speed of the other dots, so it immediately caught his eye.

 

“Ah, Player 7.”

 

When he confirmed that dot was Player 7, his head somehow immediately nodded.

 

It wasn’t ‘Actor Ryu Yeon-woo’ but ‘Player 7’.

 

Already within the situation room watching the survival, the presence of the monster-like combat weapon called ‘Player 7’ was greater than the halo of the A+ grade actor Ryu Yeon-woo.

 

‘Hmm? If he continues on this route…’

 

The staff member who was examining the movement route opened his mouth.

 

“PD. It looks like Player 7 will meet with two people soon.”

 

Then PD Yoon, who was watching another battle, immediately reacted.

 

Player 7 was more important than any other players.

 

“Really? Who are the two people?”

“Players 24 and 30. The Yang Ho-seong and Bae Shin-woo team.”

 

Then the managers of those participants in the gallery seats sitting behind sighed.

 

“Damn, I only have one life left now.”

“Ho-seong, run away···.”

 

Kim Jo-hoon, Yang Ho-seong’s KBC comedian classmate who came instead of the manager, shook his head while looking at the monitor.

 

Honestly, from watching Ryu Yeon-woo’s play so far, he wasn’t confident even though they had a numerical advantage of two.

 

Since they formed an alliance this morning, he had a strong ominous feeling that his classmate Yang Ho-seong would be sacrificed to ‘devil’s editing’.

 

‘I’ve been in the broadcasting business for years, I can tell at a glance.’

 

Whether it was the gap between watching from the situation room and actually participating in survival, he couldn’t understand why Yang Ho-seong made a choice that would obviously get him criticized.

 

But now that his friend was about to face off against Ryu Yeon-woo, he wondered if forming an alliance was the right choice.

 

He regretted that they had split into three teams earlier.

 

That’s how much Player 7, no, Ryu Yeon-woo, seemed more and more like a monster the more he watched.

 

***

 

Yeon-woo didn’t know if he could actually use it, but he took out the rope from his bag and wrapped it around his forearm.

 

The field shovel in his bag wasn’t sufficient to cut the rope, so he just roughly wrapped the end of the rope around his forearm and left the rest of the rope connected and put it back in the bag.

 

‘If anyone whose presence I missed sees the rope and hesitates even for a moment wondering about it, that’s enough.’

 

Yeon-woo didn’t know if the guy he eliminated at the start of today with the bag-throwing fake had revealed his player number to them at the dormitory yesterday.

 

No, if they had no points and no kills, they wouldn’t even know their own number.

Yeon-woo also only found out he was number 7 after seeing the kill log following his opening kill.

 

The group of five would also be checking the kill log, so they would likely have figured out that the member who conspired with them the night before was probably number 4, who got eliminated at the start of today’s match.

 

But if they see the rope and think for even a moment ‘Wasn’t the one eliminated by number 7 from our team?’ or ‘Was number 7 actually from our team?’, that would be a success.

 

Even that brief gap would allow him to secure an advantageous position.

 

‘Hmm?’

 

Sure enough, as Yeon-woo moved forward, he spotted two people with ropes tied to their forearms.

 

They were coming around the corner of a small cement building, a few pyeong in size, that was presumably used as storage by residents who lived on the island before it became uninhabited.

 

The moment they also spotted Yeon-woo, they stopped in their tracks.

 

The distance was quite far for shooting.

 

Since the gun’s performance wasn’t very good, he couldn’t tell if he could hit them for sure.

 

‘Why are there only two? Did the five scatter because of the mission? Or did they not all agree to form a team in the first place?’

 

After confirming there was no one else following behind, Yeon-woo briefly considered whether to take cover to the side.

 

‘They’ve already spotted me, so if I take cover here and circle around to position myself before eliminating them, it’ll take too long. They’ll move too. If they run away, it’ll be troublesome.’

 

After a brief consideration, he made his choice.

 

Yeon-woo slung the rifle he was holding over his shoulder and waved his hands high above his head.

 

Then, with large hand gestures visible from a distance, he pointed to the rope tied around his forearm.

 

The opponents seemed to understand the signal, lowered their muzzles to the ground, looked left and right, then walked toward Yeon-woo.

 

‘If they get too close, they’ll figure out my identity.’

 

The right distance.

 

He needed to get close enough to shoot but not close enough for them to figure out his identity.

 

Seeing that Yeon-woo had completely let go of his gun and slung it over his shoulder, the opponents seemed reassured and came closer.

 

Even so, they didn’t let go of their guns.

 

Seeing both of them continuously looking left and right, it seemed they weren’t suspicious of Yeon-woo but were being cautious in case another player might pop out from the surroundings.

 

***

 

The situation room watching this scene was in chaos.

 

The only way to see Yeon-woo was through the head cam and body cam attached to his helmet and chest, so the production team didn’t know he had wrapped rope around his forearm.

 

But when they looked at Yeon-woo through the head cams of Players 24 and 30 who encountered him, he somehow had rope wrapped around his arm.

 

“Huh? What’s with that rope wrapped around his arm? Player 7 definitely slept in a different dormitory, so how?”

“He deduced it from seeing the player he eliminated this morning. He’s really smart.”

“He goes to Korea University.”

“Ah, right.”

 

Meanwhile, PD Yoon Chang-jun, who was watching this scene on the situation room monitor, was having trouble keeping his composure because every scene was legendary.

 

‘Should I request additional episodes? There are too many scenes to use···?’

 

Originally, they had received approval for 6 episodes to air for about a month and a half, but if the footage didn’t turn out well, he was even considering reducing it to 4 episodes.

 

But with this, he wondered if even extending it to 8 episodes would be enough to contain everything.

 

On the monitor, three players were gradually getting closer to each other.

 

Unlike Bae Shin-woo, who was lowering his muzzle but approaching cautiously, comedian Yang Ho-seong walked quickly toward Yeon-woo.

 

“Did you find the mission box?”

 

At Yang Ho-seong’s words, the approaching person drew a large circle above his head.

Then he pointed with his hand to the silencer attached to the end of the gun slung over his shoulder.

 

“Oh!”

 

Just as Yang Ho-seong was about to say something while looking toward where Bae Shin-woo, who was moving with him, was located upon hearing that the mission box had been found, Yang Ho-seong’s eyes caught sight of Bae Shin-woo suddenly pointing his gun at him.

 

‘Why…? Is Bae Shin-woo betraying me?’

 

Yang Ho-seong also hurriedly tried to draw his gun and aim at Bae Shin-woo, but someone from behind grabbed his right arm with rough hands, making it difficult to raise his muzzle.

 

When he turned his head to glance behind him, the opponent who he thought was definitely more than three meters away had somehow appeared behind him like a ghost and was wrapping his arms around him.

 

‘What kind of strength…!’

 

His body, caught and wrapped by one arm, wouldn’t budge at all.

 

Yeon-woo subdued the man in front of him so he couldn’t move and used him as a shield while quickly drawing the pistol at his waist with his other arm.

 

Bang─.

Rat-a-tat-tat─.

 

When Yeon-woo shot at Bae Shin-woo, Bae Shin-woo immediately returned fire.

 

“Ugh!”

“Kugh.”

 

Since they shot at each other from quite a close distance, the spots where the plastic bullets hit stung considerably.

 

And red lights lit up on protective gear from both sides simultaneously.

 

Of course, the owners of the protective gear with the lit red lights were Bae Shin-woo and Yang Ho-seong.

 

‘Human shields are a strategy with a long tradition.’

 

Only then did Yeon-woo release Yang Ho-seong, whom he had been tightly wrapping with his arm and not letting go.

 

Human shield.

In English-speaking countries, it’s also called more directly a Meat Shield or Bullet Sponge.

 

Of course, if it were real guns, this strategy wouldn’t work since human bodies are easily penetrated, but since this was a survival game, it was quite useful.

 

Then the eliminated Bae Shin-woo and Yang Ho-seong looked at the mysterious player in front of them with bewildered eyes.

 

“…Who exactly are you?”

 

Bzzzzt─.

 

– Player 30 has eliminated Player 24. (3 hits)

– Player 7 has eliminated Player 30. (1 hit)

 

Only then did they realize that the man in front of them was Player 7, whom they had only encountered through kill logs.

 

 

Meanwhile, the message announcing the eliminations was delivered to the survivors scattered across the island.

 

‘What? Number 30 is Bae Shin-woo. And number 24 is Yang Ho-seong?’

 

Bae Shin-woo had gotten a kill on the first day, and Yang Ho-seong had luckily scored a kill while hunting players in groups, so both were players whose participant numbers had been confirmed.

 

‘Why did Bae Shin-woo kill Yang Ho-seong? And why is number 7 involved there again?’

 

Their heads were filled with confusion about what exactly had happened.

 

Seeing the message that Bae Shin-woo, who had been grilling meat and laughing and chatting together just the day before, had eliminated Yang Ho-seong, the player Jang Ju-won walking beside them suddenly felt unfamiliar.

 

Suddenly, they thought that people were the most frightening thing.

 

And they could no longer trust that he wouldn’t shoot them in the back.

 

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