NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 329

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Episode 329. Equipment Shopping

Four players standing in the shooting lanes wore hearing protection headsets and aimed their pistols at the targets with tense faces.

‘If I get eliminated here, it’ll be a real disgrace. Don’t be nervous, just like usual…’

Yunus Kabak, a Turkish-born film actor who had been expanding his recognition in Hollywood recently, tried to calm his trembling inner feelings.

Yunus did enjoy shooting as a hobby normally.

Turkey is a country where gun ownership is possible and the firearms business is quite active.

Having learned shooting from his father since childhood, he was familiar with guns, and after coming to America, he had shown off his clay shooting skills at upper-class social gatherings, which helped his business to some extent.

He had tried survival games a few times, but hadn’t done them since his face became known, so he didn’t have much experience. However, he couldn’t miss the opportunity to appear on a show produced by Blue Whale Gate.

Even without a brilliant career, he had to pretend he had one, and even if he didn’t know much about this world, he had to act like he did.

‘At least I’m fortunate that the first round is shooting…’

He naturally knew well that real combat and shooting were very different.

But he had also shot guns quite a bit himself, and with two experts attached, he participated thinking it would work out somehow.

However, when he came to the filming set and saw how the other players shot, his spirits naturally sank.

Especially Ryu Yeon-woo, who had just recorded a perfect score in the previous group and became first overall.

As a fellow film actor, he was well aware of his acting.

If he hadn’t seen the movie that won the Golden Bear award in Berlin or the drama series that took first place in Netflix’s global streaming rankings, it would be dereliction of duty as a film actor.

If someone asked him whether he was a fan of actor Ryu Yeon-woo, he would probably answer yes.

He had seen most of the other works he had filmed too.

‘But I never knew he could shoot guns this well.’

No, thinking about it, he knew he was good at shooting guns since he had naturally watched “Survival Island” too.

However, after coming here and hearing players from other countries talk carelessly about him, he wondered if he alone had been too naive in believing firmly that TV shows were all true.

And that thought was completely shattered while watching the shooting just now.

‘That wasn’t it.’

The ones who were wrong were indeed the people who had been talking carelessly about him.

His shooting skills that he witnessed directly at the filming set came across with even greater intimidation than what he had seen on Netflix.

“Phew…”

Barely enduring that pressure, he put strength into his finger and pulled the trigger.

Bang─!

‘Ah…’

Perhaps because he had too many distracting thoughts, it seemed he had made a mistake on his last shot.

The moment he fired, he instinctively felt that it had deviated far from the center.

Whirr─.

The other participants had already finished shooting, so as soon as Yunus fired his last shot, the target came flying back on the rail.

While most of the bullet holes were between 8 and 10 points, one bullet had penetrated the 4-point section.

It was definitely the bullet he had fired last.

Yunus’s total score from shooting ten rounds was 84 points.

In some ways, it might not be a bad score, but this was still a place where those who were considered quite skilled among ordinary people had gathered.

‘…D-damn it. Am I eliminated?’

Yunus looked at the electronic scoreboard with the rankings recorded with an anxious face.

1. Ryu Yeon-woo – South Korea(KOR)

2. Marco Banchero – Italy(ITA)

3. Fritz Kaufmann – Germany(DEU)

(Omitted)

18. Weizheng – China(CHN)

19. Yunus Kabak – Turkey(TUR)

20. Paweł Kamiński – Poland(POL)

“Huh?!”

Seeing his name just above the eliminated player, Yunus’s face flushed.

Rather than being overjoyed, his heart actually sank.

‘…Thank goodness.’

He had thought shooting was a field he was confident in, but the fact that everyone except one person had recorded higher scores than him made him feel a bit scared.

And the top-ranking players positioned at the very top.

Among them, the overwhelming Ryu Yeon-woo.

When the survival began, he could only hope to somehow avoid encountering him.

***

Meanwhile, while the last group’s shooting was still in progress, all the players’ attention was focused on the shelves.

Since the space was so vast that it would take quite a long time just to remove the black tarps covering the shelves, the staff ran around preparing for the next filming in advance.

They started by removing the tarps from the farthest side from where the players were gathered, and since everyone here was a military enthusiast, they could instantly recognize what everything was even from a distance.

“…Are those all equipment?”

“Oh, look at those pieces of equipment hanging over there with the distinctive shoulder parts. They look like protective gear used by special forces units?”

While some equipment was commercially available depending on the country, several pieces were still exclusively used by the military under exclusive contracts, including items they had only seen on the Internet.

The eyes of the military enthusiasts gathered here went wild.

To them, this musty-smelling dock warehouse looked more luxurious than a VIP exclusive luxury boutique.

MC Tony Williams grabbed the microphone after confirming the players’ reactions.

“Now, this concludes Round 1, and unfortunately we have an elimination. Poland’s player Paweł Kamiński, please follow the safety personnel and exit immediately.”

Watching the organizers mercilessly demand immediate departure from the eliminated contestant, the lower-ranked players breathed sighs of relief, while the top-ranked players were too busy examining the equipment to care.

During that time, Yeon-woo was looking at the weapons and protective gear on the revealed shelves, planning his movement route in his head.

‘They wouldn’t have revealed them like this just to show off the equipment they rented.’

It probably meant the players should choose their own equipment to use.

Then Tony’s voice came through the speaker.

“I can feel the curiosity and excitement you’re experiencing being transmitted through the air to my skin!”

Then he looked at the equipment spread throughout the vast warehouse with an expression of pride and continued.

“The equipment you see before you has been specially procured by our production team with help from the U.S. Army and modified for survival use. They are mostly identical to actual equipment, with only the firearms modified to fire special survival ammunition. This is a scale only possible here.”

Yeon-woo nodded at those words.

Looking around, it was indeed a scale that would have been impossible without Blue Whale Gate, just as Tony said.

Even the equipment composition was proper.

He could even see military equipment used only in special environments like snow mountains or deserts placed here and there.

‘Well, you’d have to know what you’re doing to take those. If someone mistakenly picked up snow mountain equipment, they’d die from the heat before getting shot.’

Since they didn’t look particularly thick from the outside, there was a good chance someone might pick them up.

Snow mountain protective gear was never humanitarian equipment made with the intention of keeping wearers warm.

It was equipment made from materials that thoroughly blocked heat exchange with the outside to avoid detection by thermal cameras.

So wearing that in a stadium located in Central America would essentially be self-destruction.

‘Does this mean having an eye for good equipment is also part of one’s skills? It’s certainly a round with good discriminatory power in that regard.’

However, what Yeon-woo was considering was something else.

‘Does this really just mean choosing my own equipment?’

As soon as he had that thought, Tony’s voice rang through the speaker with ghostly timing.

“From now on, you have about 20 minutes to collect equipment for yourself and your teammates and return. However, the moment you put any equipment down on the floor even once, your selection ends and the remaining equipment will be supplied as basic items determined by the production team.”

Hearing this, Yeon-woo shook his head.

If you included combat equipment for three people plus firearms, the total weight would be heavier than an adult man’s body weight.

But since selection would end the moment you put anything down because it was too heavy, it meant you had to somehow carry everything dangling from your body while running around.

Moreover, the warehouse was damn huge.

“Phew, looks like I’ll be breaking a sweat before we start.”

Tweet─!

Then a whistle sounded and the race for loot began.

***

Since Yeon-woo was an actor, his physical conditions were somewhat disadvantageous.

Of course, there were many actors from various countries here too, but having to meet the aesthetic standards required of actors in Asian countries meant he always had to maintain a slender physique.

In contrast, Western actors often boasted relatively more macho masculinity than those from the East, and especially those invited here were more so rather than less.

And no matter how much Yeon-woo had excelled in his previous life, it was unrelated to his current physical strength.

‘I need to plan my strategy well…’

So what he chose was military backpacks and weight reduction.

While everyone else ran to secure good firearms or armor first, Yeon-woo and a few other thoughtful players ran to the corner with military backpacks.

‘Since they said selection ends immediately if you put anything on the floor, the military backpack comes first.’

After securing a military backpack, Yeon-woo ran to the corner with rifles to choose his primary weapon and quickly gathered everything at a rapid pace.

As he ran around after that, there was only one thing he kept repeating to himself.

‘Lightweight.’

In fact, in survival games modeled after modern warfare, protective gear simply referred to bulletproof vests called ‘Plate Carriers.’

It wasn’t like wearing plate armor from medieval times would increase survival rates, and true to its name, it only served to carry plates.

‘It’s not like live ammunition will be flying around like in real combat, and this is just a survival game, so there’s no need to secure good protective equipment.’

Being lightweight was all that mattered.

Yeon-woo stopped for a moment at the corner with military boots, stroking his chin as he pondered.

‘Hmm, tactically speaking, it would be better to have this.’

The equipment Yeon-woo was looking at was a rubber plate slightly wider than shoe soles, resembling insoles that would fit a giant with size 350 feet.

It was auxiliary equipment attached to shoe soles to distribute body weight over a wide area when running in the desert, preventing feet from sinking.

Yeon-woo carefully stuffed three sets into his bag.

After putting several more auxiliary equipment pieces in his bag, he strapped military packs weighing as much as his body weight to his back and both arms, then waddled off somewhere.

Yeon-woo arrived at a shelf located in the very corner of the storage shed, which was covered with a red barrier from the entrance and had two security personnel standing guard.

“This is the corner where special equipment is located. Please present your pass to enter.”

This was why he had hurried to finish selecting other equipment quickly, leaving about ten minutes remaining.

Yeon-woo pulled out the golden card he had received from the staff member after the first round ended.

The two people stepped aside and opened the red barrier to help him enter.

“Confirmed. Please go in.”

Yeon-woo nodded and went inside.

Looking around, he could see all kinds of equipment placed everywhere.

“You can only choose one piece of equipment.”

Next to the staff member explaining to Yeon-woo, he could see a medium-sized firearm capable of firing 200 rounds without reloading.

‘Can that thing also use survival ammunition…?’

If someone positioned themselves on high ground and unleashed that, probably no team could handle it.

But he soon turned his head away.

Having learned through Season 1 that the remaining number of bullets was also important, such inefficient equipment was meaningless in the current situation where he didn’t know if equipment acquisition was possible.

Yeon-woo immediately stood in front of the shelf with sniper rifles.

The reason he had run around earnestly earlier, roughly choosing other equipment based only on being lightweight and easy to move in, was to dedicate a full 10 minutes to selecting a sniper rifle.

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