NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 281

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Episode 281. Player 7

The video that started with Player 7 running through the forest path had now switched to show the situation room.

 

On the large screen was a map of the island where the survival game was taking place, with densely packed small dots visible across it.

 

It was intuitively clear that each dot on the map represented the GPS signals of the players participating in the survival game.

 

Then one of those dots suddenly flashed red before disappearing, and a message appeared at the top of the screen.

 

– Player 22 out.

 

The situation room immediately became chaotic.

 

Since the game had just started and a player was suddenly eliminated, the confused spectators were flustered.

 

– Huh?

– What?

– It’s only been a minute since it started and someone’s already out?

 

With thirty managers and entertainment company officials gathered in the situation room, the reaction sounds were quite loud, like a studio broadcast with a live audience.

 

Then the voices of the production staff could be heard.

 

– Is it another sensor malfunction? The safety personnel nearby…

– It doesn’t seem like equipment failure? Check camera 47…

 

‘Ah, I eliminated someone so quickly that they think it’s a sensor malfunction.’

 

This was also new for Yeon-woo since he was seeing the situation room’s reaction for the first time through the broadcast.

 

After showing the situation room, the program rewound three minutes to return to Player 7 running through the forest path.

 

All the staff in the main conference room were impressed by the following opening kill scene.

 

The sight of swiftly running to secure advantageous high ground and then cleanly eliminating the opponent with shooting.

 

It was quick situational judgment and accurate shooting skills.

 

“Wow, that person must have started running immediately and eliminated someone nearby first.”

“Well, striking first is always the key to victory.”

 

Yeon-woo smiled slightly while watching the management team staff chatting with each other.

 

‘Ah, people don’t know that Player 7 is me yet.’

 

Yeon-woo unconsciously recognized the person on screen as himself, but thinking about it, he was wearing protective gear from head to toe, and at most only the upper part of his face was visible, and even that was covered by large goggles, making him unrecognizable unless there was a close-up.

 

‘Of course, the production team wouldn’t just leave it like that.’

 

They were probably delaying it slightly for a dramatic reveal.

 

The screen switched to show other players hearing news of the opening kill and each checking their smartwatches.

 

Then after covering battles that continued throughout various parts of the island, it showed the standoff situation at the mountain peak.

 

It was the battle scene between two players who arrived late, after Yeon-woo had already climbed up first and hidden himself among the bushes.

 

It drew immersion by showing the head cam footage of Players 2 and 29, who were facing off in a thrilling confrontation, from the participants’ perspective.

 

The people in the main conference room watching the broadcast were also tensely swallowing their saliva.

 

Then the screen switched back to Player 7, who had recorded the opening kill, showing him arriving first before the other two, securing his position, and watching everything unfold.

 

– Bang─!

– Bang bang─!

 

Then it continued with the scene where Player 7, who had arrived first, calmly waited and intervened at the right timing to eliminate both fighting players and achieve a double kill.

 

– Player 7 has eliminated Player 2…

– Player 7 has eliminated Player…

 

The staff were also impressed by the consecutive kill announcements.

 

“Huh? Isn’t that the same person who eliminated someone right at the start?”

“Right. It was Player 7 earlier too. So they’ve already eliminated three people?”

“Whoever it is, they’ll probably gain quite a bit of popularity from this opportunity.”

“That’s true. But why aren’t they revealing who it is?”

 

Meanwhile, Gong Min-jeong, who was alternating between looking at the screen and her smartphone to check internet reactions, glanced at Yeon-woo sitting at the next table.

 

‘He still hasn’t appeared… The community trolls are probably excitedly posting about how he’s going to get crushed. Sigh.’

 

Thinking that Yeon-woo hadn’t appeared even once since the game started, Gong Min-jeong sighed in anticipation of negative community reactions.

 

Sure enough, the anonymous communities were excitedly going wild.

 

– [Breaking] Ryu Must-Fail missing

– See? I told you so? As expected, he vanished right when the game started, right?

– Ryu fans went silent like ghosts as soon as the match started

– Where’s the Hawaii Cup shooting champion? Immediately went missing

 

Gong Min-jeong clenched her fists while checking the community reactions.

 

She wanted to land even her soft punches right in the solar plexus of those trolls.

 

Meanwhile, just when the staff gathered in the main conference room were thinking ‘When will Ryu Yeon-woo appear?’, the screen switched to show Yeon-woo being interviewed at the dormitory.

 

The Saebyeol staff tilted their heads in confusion.

 

‘Hmm? It’s good that he’s appearing, but so suddenly like this?’

 

She thought the timing of the interview scene appearing was a bit strange.

 

Gong Min-jeong was also slightly dissatisfied with the editing.

 

‘Don’t tell me they’re planning to interrupt intermittently like this and insert Yeon-woo’s comments about other players’ performances?’

 

If that were the case, not only would it reduce immersion in the match they were concentrating on watching, but the production team’s obvious intention to milk Ryu Yeon-woo’s presence for all it was worth would likely create resistance among general viewers.

 

‘Ah, this doesn’t seem right…’

 

Just then, the interview question flowed through the speaker.

 

– Player 7 made an opening kill and double kill from the beginning of combat, causing other players who received that news to panic. Could you explain directly what the situation was like?

 

Seeing this, Gong Min-jeong shook her head disapprovingly.

 

‘Sigh, those broadcasting station people… Looking at how they edited it, they’re clearly planning to ask Yeon-woo how he viewed it every time someone gets eliminated. Are they trying to use him like a mascot or figurehead? I’ll have to file a complaint at the company level.’

 

Gong Min-jeong, who was planning to immediately protest to PD Yoon Chang-jun through Director Yoon Mi-yeon about the editing direction once the first broadcast ended, tilted her head in confusion upon seeing the subtitle that followed.

 

The people in the main conference room felt the same way.

 

The subtitle that appeared below Yeon-woo conducting the interview.

 

– Ryu Yeon-woo (Player No.7)

Player Details

Kills: 3

Times Hit: 0

 

“Huh?”

“Eh?”

 

Gong Min-jeong’s eyes widened.

Son Jin-wook, who was looking at the screen right next to Yeon-woo, felt the same way.

 

“What do you mean? Yo, Yeon-woo, that’s you?”

 

To think that Player 7, who had been performing all this time, was actually Yeon-woo sitting right next to him.

 

– Ah, the situation at that time was that I had to make quick decisions to expand my range of movement after the game started…

 

On screen, Yeon-woo was calmly explaining in a composed voice the background behind making such judgments at the time, but the eyes of people in the main conference room weren’t looking at the screen.

 

Seeing everyone looking at him, Yeon-woo scratched his head.

 

“Yes, I’m Player 7.”

 

Then intense reactions erupted from the staff filling the main conference room.

It meant that Yeon-woo hadn’t been absent until now, but rather essentially ‘only’ Yeon-woo had been appearing.

 

“Woaaah, Player 7 was?”

“Whoa, this is incredible.”

“Crazy… I take back what I said earlier about Player 7 becoming famous from this broadcast. Turns out he can’t get any more famous.”

“That was Yeon-woo…?”

 

Meanwhile, at that moment, Yeon-woo’s parents and younger sibling, who were checking the live broadcast at home, were equally surprised.

 

Ryu So-hyeon had heard that her brother was appearing on a variety show for the first time in a long while, so despite being a test-taker with the college entrance exam not far away, she had made a big sacrifice to sit in front of the TV.

 

“What? That was our Yeon-woo?”

“Incredible. Father. That’s not a rigged show where everyone’s acting for my brother’s sake, is it?”

“What’s a rigged show?”

 

Ryu So-hyeon realized even as she said it that it didn’t make sense and shook her head.

If they created a rigged show on that scale, there’s no way there wouldn’t be rumors afterward.

 

Mother, who was sitting next to her, looked at So-hyeon.

 

“Oh my, I was worried about what would happen if our son got hurt appearing on such a program… So-hyeon, check the internet on your phone. What are people saying?”

“Wait a moment, let me look it up.”

 

Ryu So-hyeon recalled what her brother had always told her.

 

‘Don’t bother telling our parents about negative reactions, So-hyeon. You filter them well and only show them the good stuff. Got it?’

 

– The return of King Ryu Hwang-god

– Amazing 5252 I believed in you

– Yeah Ryu haters completely annihilated lololol

– Shit!! Crazy, Player 7 who I was cheering for until just now was Ryu Yeon-woo who I was gritting my teeth and criticizing as a draft dodger?

 

‘Hmm, these are definitely all posts from people supporting my brother, but what should I show them…? They’ll see the fan cafe reactions anyway.’

 

Dramas and movies usually had many posts from female viewers, so there were at least posts at a ‘readable’ level.

 

On the other hand, this Survival Island, no matter how much Yeon-woo appeared in it, had mostly male viewers, and ordinary men rarely write posts on the internet.

 

So most posts uploaded on the internet weren’t from ordinary men but mostly from people with brains pickled in communities, filled with internet slang and profanity, making it hard to find posts that parents could understand.

 

“Um, anyway they’re saying it’s good. There’s quite a bit of profanity written… but it’s hard to explain, but it’s an expression of praise?”

 

***

 

Meanwhile, there was another person who had been waiting for the first broadcast of 「Survival Island」.

 

Someone who was covered head to toe in protective gear with their face not showing, but could instantly recognize it was Yeon-woo just from the running movements and gun-holding posture.

 

“Ah, this will be fun.”

 

Han Hae-woon felt restless while watching TV.

He himself would have liked to try appearing on such shows if he had been reincarnated as a celebrity, which was regrettable.

 

If a national soccer team player hid their identity and joined amateur soccer, would it be too boring and uninteresting?

 

Absolutely not.

 

There’s a reason why former professional athletes get passionate about amateur sports.

The fun of dominating was only greater, never less.

 

“Wow, but you’re really holding back a lot since it’s a broadcast. With the Team Leader’s Rapid Fire skills, there’d be no problem at all even if you didn’t hide and went into Full-Scale War with everyone you encountered.”

 

Just then, Han Hae-woon’s smartphone vibrated.

 

Bzzzz─.

 

‘Hm? This isn’t my phone, it’s Alpha Beta’s operational phone.’

 

Is there something urgent to report at this late hour?

I haven’t assigned any separate missions right now…

 

Han Hae-woon’s expression became strange as he tilted his head and picked up the smartphone.

 

– Team Leader Kim Su-hyeok (λ) : Commander, I’m contacting you to see if you’ve seen this video. We’ve been recruiting Prydwen Security Company agents only from among discharged soldiers, but if the Survival Game club is at this level, we might want to consider hiring from there too. [Link: Live Survival Island Ryu Yeon-woo Is This Real]

 

“…”

 

Han Hae-woon broke out in a cold sweat after checking the message content.

 

‘That’s not it…’

 

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