NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 330

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Episode 330. The Emperor Penguin’s Gift

There was actually a separate reason why he decided to spend a full 10 minutes choosing a sniper rifle.

While looking at the numerous sniper rifles placed on the shelves, Yeon-woo raised his hand slightly.

“I have a question.”

The staff member looked at Yeon-woo upon hearing his words.

“Please go ahead.”

“As long as I don’t put them down on the floor, am I free to touch and examine them on the shelf?”

After thinking for a moment about Yeon-woo’s question, the staff member nodded.

Of course, when choosing something, wouldn’t it be natural to touch and examine it?

“That’s correct.”

“Since I don’t know what kind of harsh environments I might use it in, I’d like to examine it quite thoroughly. Would that be alright?”

The staff member tilted his head while looking at Yeon-woo, who was asking again.

“Yes. Of course.”

Having asked twice and received confirmation, Yeon-woo nodded.

And he began examining the gun very thoroughly.

Extremely thoroughly.

Click click.

Snap─.

Clack─.

Having somehow procured a screwdriver and wrench from his military pack, Yeon-woo began instantly disassembling the sniper rifle that had been placed on the shelf.

And seeing this, the staff member was startled and approached.

“W-wait a moment.”

“Yes?”

Yeon-woo looked at the approaching staff member with a calm face, wearing an expression that said ‘what’s the problem?’

Even while doing so, his hands continued moving frantically as he disassembled the sniper rifle.

“No, you can’t just carelessly do that…”

Looking at the flustered staff member trying to stop him, Yeon-woo tilted his head with an expression that said he had no idea what the problem was.

“Guns are items that need to be periodically disassembled and maintained, so shouldn’t I inspect for any potential defects in advance?”

The staff member looked at Yeon-woo’s confident expression and hesitated, unable to stop him any further.

He judged that Yeon-woo’s words made sense.

Crackle─.

“A-26 Site, requesting immediate engineer support.”

In the end, he opened the radio channel and requested support from an expert.

Meanwhile, Yeon-woo finished disassembling the sniper rifle with swift hand movements.

The sniper rifle, composed of numerous parts, had been completely disassembled and neatly arranged on the shelf.

‘Hmm… So this is the structure.’

While Yeon-woo was examining the disassembled barrel and its connections in detail with a military flashlight, an equipment expert came running after receiving the radio call from the staff member.

“I received the support request and came. What’s the matter?”

Yeon-woo paid no attention to whoever had entered and was completely focused on examining the interior of the disassembled gun.

The staff member looked at Yeon-woo with a bewildered expression before quietly asking the expert.

“Engineer, is this okay? The player said he wanted to examine it thoroughly, so I said it was fine, but he suddenly started disassembling it…”

The engineer then held his glasses with one hand and quietly observed Yeon-woo’s actions.

After watching silently for a moment, he nodded with satisfaction and answered.

“He disassembled it exactly according to the manual. He seems to have quite extensive knowledge about firearms. There shouldn’t be any problem at all.”

“…I-is that so?”

While the staff member, flustered by the unexpected answer, scratched his head, Yeon-woo quickly reassembled the gun he had disassembled and then took out another gun to start disassembling.

***

‘Hmm… If it’s been modified in this way, then a simple bolt-action mechanism would probably be better.’

The reason he performed the process of disassembling and reassembling guns with all his might within the given short time several times was because this was a survival game.

Strictly speaking, it wasn’t ‘survival’ that was important, but the fact that it was a ‘game’ was the point.

As soon as he heard there was an opportunity to acquire special weapons, what immediately came to mind was Kim Su-hyeok’s sniper rifle.

It was an obvious fact that a sniper could maximize their abilities best when holding a sniper rifle.

However, since this was a survival game rather than an actual battlefield, it needed to be examined thoroughly.

‘Range is ultimately determined by how much kinetic energy the bullet receives when fired.’

In this survival game, specially manufactured practice bullets would be used.

Most matters were military-related and classified, but according to the materials Blue Whale Gate had sent in advance, the practice bullets were special ammunition made from new materials that would disperse impact energy and crumble into powder upon contact with players’ protective equipment.

Thanks to this, they achieved combat simulation much closer to reality with far longer range and faster muzzle velocity than the conventional airsoft guns used in the original 「Survival Island」.

‘But that’s only true for regular rifles and pistols.’

Yeon-woo only selected one sniper rifle after completely disassembling and thoroughly examining the internals.

“I’ll take this one.”

What Yeon-woo presented was an old-style bolt-action sniper rifle with a stock and barrel made of reddish-brown walnut wood.

The engineer who had been watching Yeon-woo’s eyes lit up with interest.

“Despite all the modern firearms available, you chose a very classic and old one? I think this gun was released during President Nixon’s time. If romance is your criterion, it’s quite a good choice. Haha.”

Yeon-woo smiled quietly at the engineer’s words.

Both of his statements were wrong.

‘It’s not Nixon, but from President Johnson’s time. It was used in the early stages of the Vietnam War too.’

And Yeon-woo’s criterion for choosing the antique brown walnut sniper rifle was definitely not romance.

‘It’s simply because this has the best efficiency.’

It was a choice made from a thoroughly pragmatic perspective.

Even though they used new material bullets made with US military technology, from the manufacturer’s standpoint, they would have certainly modified the firearms to significantly reduce their basic firepower to prevent potential casualties.

And anyway, without optical equipment, combat would only be possible when the enemy entered visual range, so that range would be sufficient.

‘But sniper rifles are different.’

If they met the modification specifications required by the manufacturer, sniper rifles intended for subduing enemies at long range could easily become useless.

What merit would a sniper rifle that couldn’t shoot from a distance have?

Therefore, it was necessary to understand in advance how they were modified and select the firearm that would presumably have the longest range.

To secure even a slightly longer range, he needed a gun with the simplest operating mechanism that could simultaneously accelerate bullets to the maximum along the long barrel until they were fired toward the target.

‘I put this much effort into it, so Lambda (λ) better earn his keep, right?’

***

At that moment, Lambda and Tau—that is, Kim Su-hyeok and Park Jung-hyeon—were riding in a vehicle with a guide, moving to their destination.

“From the left turn here, it looks like we’re heading to the harbor?”

“That’s right. Straight ahead was the airport, and left turn was the harbor.”

Although their eyes weren’t covered unlike Yeon-woo, they were having the same thoughts as when Yeon-woo was taken away, exchanging information in Korean.

“The actor isn’t coming with us.”

At Park Jung-hyeon’s words, Kim Su-hyeok quietly nodded and continued.

“From now on, actor Ryu Yeon-woo is our team leader, so not actor but Team Leader.”

“Ah, yes.”

Although it was a temporary team for a TV show, actor Ryu Yeon-woo was the superior during this mission.

Kim Su-hyeok, whose personality couldn’t tolerate insubordination under any circumstances, was planning to thoroughly carry out operations as actor Ryu Yeon-woo instructed.

Considering the judgment he showed in 「Survival Island」 and the talent he observed while spending the past three days together, he expected that despite being a civilian, he would perform his assigned role quite well.

‘If a team of only three members had two commanders, there would be no greater rabble than that.’

While having various thoughts, the car entered the harbor as Kim Su-hyeok and Park Jung-hyeon had predicted.

Of course, until then, they couldn’t even imagine what had happened inside this warehouse for the past hour.

Vans stopped in a line in front of the large warehouse at the wharf, and team members from each country got out.

In fact, the team members were composed of specialists who had worked actively in their respective fields, so each person getting out of the cars exuded tremendous presence.

And Kim Su-hyeok and Park Jung-hyeon also got out with leisurely steps, scratching their heads and looking around.

“I’ve brought people to secluded warehouses like this before, but this is my first time being dragged to one.”

“That’s right.”

Park Jung-hyeon nodded as if agreeing, and a guide approached from behind him.

“You’re the Korean team, right? Please come this way. I’ll guide you.”

As the two followed the guide into the warehouse, team members from other countries were also guided to waiting areas, each with a staff member assigned to them.

Kim Su-hyeok entered the warehouse, looked around once, and tilted his head.

“It seems like they gathered only the team leaders before we came and did something in advance?”

He could see a shooting range, and in the distance, he could see players running around in a space filled with black shelves.

Then Park Jung-hyeon pointed to one place with his thick finger.

“Did you see that?”

1. Ryu Yeon-woo – South Korea(KOR)

2. Marco Banchero – Italy(ITA)

(Omitted)

20. Paweł Kamiński – Poland(POL)

When Kim Su-hyeok looked in the direction Park Jung-hyeon’s finger was pointing, he could see Ryu Yeon-woo’s name shining on the scoreboard.

“Hmm, I don’t know what it is, but the top must be the good ranking, right? If our Team Leader got either first place or last place, I’d think it’s first place.”

“I think so too.”

The staff member who had guided them to their seats looked at the two and spoke up.

“That’s the results from Round 1. You said Korean team, right? As expected of the Original Series champion, his skills were overwhelming. The other countries weren’t even competition.”

“Ah, is that so?”

For some reason, Kim Su-hyeok’s shoulders rose up.

Originally, Koreans tend to develop patriotism they didn’t have when they go overseas, and since Kim Su-hyeok was already filled with patriotism from the start, it was natural that he couldn’t suppress his rising smile.

Having lived a long military deployment life constantly mingling with soldiers of other nationalities, this tendency was naturally stronger, and if Park Jung-hyeon’s mechanism was made of gukbap, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say Kim Su-hyeok’s mechanism was gukppong.

“If you wait a moment, the players who performed the last mission of this round will return.”

Kim Su-hyeok nodded at the staff member’s explanation and looked at the black shelves in the distance.

“So the mission is about equipment…”

Then something like a fat shadow popped out from between the shelves.

Running toward them while constantly waddling, it looked exactly like a penguin.

And not just any penguin, but an emperor penguin from Antarctica, said to be the largest bird among the penguin order and penguin family.

“Is that our Team Leader?”

At Park Jung-hyeon’s words, Kim Su-hyeok shook his head.

“Tsk. Calling the Team Leader ‘that thing.'”

Even so, he looked at the running penguin, no, Ryu Yeon-woo, with a curious expression.

“I don’t know what’s inside, but it looks like he packed his military gear quite thoroughly?”

“It seems the mission is to personally select the equipment to use.”

At those words, Kim Su-hyeok nodded and made a troubled expression.

“I didn’t expect this. We couldn’t teach him anything about equipment during the past three days.”

Before long, Yeon-woo had gotten close.

“Oh, CEO Kim. Team Leader Park.”

Yeon-woo approaching while waving his hand happily looked even more comical up close due to his massive military pack.

The combined volume of three military packs seemed larger than Yeon-woo’s slender body.

“I didn’t know you were called out first. You must have been working hard.”

Then Yeon-woo smiled and shook his head.

“Working hard? Oh right. I have gifts.”

“Pardon?”

When Kim Su-hyeok asked back, Yeon-woo grabbed something sticking out from the military bag on his back and rummaged through it while speaking.

“Last time when we signed the security contract with our company, I saw in your record that you worked as a sniper for a long time, right? I acquired rewards in this round, so I prepared something small.”

Then he pulled out that protruding object from the bag.

“This is the sniper rifle that CEO Kim Su-hyeok will use from now on.”

“…Pardon?”

Kim Su-hyeok never dreamed he would encounter his main weapon in a Survival Game.

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