NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 333

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Episode 333. Early Skirmish

Stones and seashells weathered over long periods of time become sand, and the sand accumulated on the coast gets blown inland by sea winds and deposited.

The coastal dunes formed this way blocked the path ahead of Yeon-woo and his agents.

“The coastal dunes stretch out like a desert.”

The terrain where their feet sank deeper than expected would likely consume a lot of stamina to move forward.

Kim Su-hyeok nodded at Yeon-woo’s words and looked down at the ground with a troubled expression.

“But if we avoid this sand field and go around to another area, it would undermine Team Leader Ryu’s purpose of avoiding early skirmishes…”

Then Yeon-woo rummaged through his bag and pulled something out.

What he took out from his bag was a wide rubber sole attachment for shoes.

“It’s an attachment for desert tactical boots. Have you used one before?”

Both men shook their heads at Yeon-woo’s question.

While Kim Su-hyeok and Park Jung-hyeon had been deployed to desert terrain in the Middle East during their service, they mostly moved by tactical vehicles and operated in unit formations, so there was no need to traverse deserts on foot.

So Yeon-woo demonstrated by attaching it to his own shoes first.

“I’ve only seen this on YouTube, so this is my first time actually using it. You position it in the center of the shoe sole and attach it like this by hooking it through the shoelace holes. Hmm, does it go here? Ah, that’s right.”

Seeing Yeon-woo deliberately acting clumsy as if trying it for the first time while saying he saw it on YouTube, Han Hae-woon would probably burst out laughing.

Having attached the equipment to both feet, Yeon-woo slowly walked on the desertified dunes.

“Oh, my feet don’t sink at all.”

“They say it’s the effect of distributing the center of gravity over a wider area. But once sand accumulates on top, it starts to sink, so you need to shake it off occasionally. Ah, that’s what they said on YouTube.”

The two men just nodded at Yeon-woo’s words.

“You two should put them on quickly. We have a long way to go.”

“Yes. Understood.”

They had come as guides and experts to give advice and help, but since arriving, they seemed to have been continuously receiving help from the young actor.

Actually, by now, such thoughts didn’t particularly occur to them.

Just receiving orders felt completely natural.

The two men quickly attached the equipment and positioned themselves in front and behind Yeon-woo.

Since the game would end if the team leader got out, if they encountered enemies, Yeon-woo must not be hit first.

“Let’s move out.”

Step step─.

The regular sound of stepping on sand could be heard.

***

“Oh ho, was there such equipment?”

John McClellan, who was buried in the sofa in the control room with his legs crossed watching the screen, stroked his chin.

The screen showed the Korean team crossing the vast desert at high speed.

The Chief Director next to him shrugged and gestured that he didn’t know either.

“The equipment was filled in by military experts, but you’d need to know what that is to choose it. Didn’t Francis Bacon say so?”

“Knowledge is power?”

“Yes.”

Then a staff member monitoring shouted.

“Engagement occurring in B-13 Zone.”

B-13 Zone was at the 8 o’clock direction of the island.

“Put it on screen.”

Before John McClellan finished speaking, the screen displayed those who were fighting.

Two teams were facing off, each using trees and rocks as cover.

“Which teams are they?”

“France and England.”

“Oh ho.”

From the Hundred Years’ War when the hero Joan of Arc appeared to the Battle of Waterloo that brought about Napoleon’s downfall.

While not as much as Korea and Japan, or India and Pakistan, Anglo-French relations were also quite a fiery rivalry.

For entertainment purposes, when arranging positions, they had deliberately placed France next to England, and Japan and China next to Korea, but it was exciting that the first engagement was between England and France as intended.

And while both France and England were overshadowed by the presence of Ryu Yeon-woo and Marco Banchero, they were countries where ranking players who recorded 4th and 5th place respectively from Round 1 served as team leaders.

In the standoff situation, both sides had two team members hit each, maintaining a tense balance.

Then the English team started shooting again and France returned fire.

Taking advantage of the confusion, one expert from the French team threw himself toward the entrance of a densely wooded forest.

The English team discovered him late and shot at him, but the cover fire from other French team members hidden behind rocks was so intense that they only managed to hit him once.

– Damn. One target has moved out of sight. I need to relocate before getting caught in a blind spot!

The urgent voice of the England team came through the speakers in the control room.

Even though one person had left creating a numerical advantage in the standoff behind cover, it was still too risky to charge in for suppression.

In such a situation, losing track of another player’s position naturally put them at a strategic disadvantage.

If the player who had thrown himself toward the forest and disappeared between the trees came around the other side to attack from behind, they would be helplessly caught in crossfire from both sides.

Then the confused voice of the UK Representative came through the speaker.

– Relocate? Retreat? What should we do?

While he had plenty of experience with survival games using airsoft guns, this battle was on a completely different level.

Using special ammunition, it sounded very similar to actual gunfire, and since both our team and the opposing team were all experts, the tempo of combat was too fast to keep up with.

– Whether left or right, decide quickly! We need to move fast!

The powerful noise from the gun firing bounced off trees in all directions, reflecting and diffracting.

– R, right!

His ears became muffled from the gunshots that seemed to come from all directions, and with the expert’s pressing voice added to that, the increasingly panicked England team captain finally decided to move right, and that became his last choice.

Bang─!

Rat-a-tat─!

The England team captain, who had been running while clutching his dizzy head, collapsed pathetically after taking several shots to his rear.

– [Player France-C] has eliminated [Player England-A].

A notification was sent to everyone’s smartwatch on the island.

England’s Player A had been eliminated.

In other words, the team captain had been eliminated.

Having lost their captain, England’s remaining team members now had nothing left to lose.

Even if they stayed alive, with their captain eliminated, they would all be out when the next strategy time arrived anyway.

The French team member who had circled around to the forest and taken position was not their concern right now.

England’s two veteran warriors charged straight at the remaining two French players taking cover behind the rock.

Those with nothing to lose are always the most frightening.

Whether they got shot or not, charging in like tanks, one of the two was eliminated before reaching the rock they were using for cover, but the other stepped on the rock and jumped up.

“Gasp!”

Rat-a-tat─!

With both sides firing indiscriminately at close range, it was difficult to tell whose bullet reached whom first.

And soon after, messages arrived.

– [Player France-C] has eliminated [Player England-B].

– [Player England-C] has eliminated [Player France-C].

– [Player France-A] has eliminated [Player England-C].

Looking at the messages in order, the charging England veteran was eliminated first, then the other arriving England team member eliminated the French teammate, and meanwhile the French team captain finally eliminated the England team member.

Both the England and France teams, as well as the control room, fell silent at what had happened in an instant.

“···How many lives does the France team captain have left?”

“Player France-A currently has one life remaining.”

The early engagement where all team members were alive and both lives and supplies were in perfect condition was a major loss for both teams.

France ultimately won the battle but lost one team member, and their captain’s life was barely hanging on by a thread.

“Reward team. Are the reward preparations ready?”

At John McClellan’s words, the table directors who had been discussing at the table nodded.

“We were going to give a reward for the first kill, but since that player was already eliminated before receiving the reward, we’ll only give rewards for the team elimination that completely eliminated England.”

At those words, John McClellan nodded, telling them to handle the rewards as they saw fit, and sat back down.

The team member who had left to flank returned to the French captain, who was sitting with a dazed expression in the aftermath of the fierce battle.

Then the French captain’s smartwatch chimed.

– A reward has arrived for the player who eliminated the entire England team!

Life Recovery Kit – Click to use and recover your life to maximum.

At least that was fortunate.

They had lost one team member, but managed to avoid a precarious situation.

***

Watching the kill logs continuously arriving on his smartwatch, Yeon-woo realized that “Survival Island” had begun again.

“Looks like they tore each other apart, killing and dying.”

The most terrifying-looking person uttered words that would make anyone listening tremble with fear.

At Park Jung-hyeon’s quietly muttered words, Kim Su-hyeok also opened his smart watch to check the kill count.

“As expected, early skirmishes aren’t good. Coming to secure the center was an excellent choice.”

While the situation room was distracted by the battle between England and France, Yeon-woo and his teammates steadily ran and arrived at the center of the island.

Yeon-woo and his teammates removed the attachments they had put on their tactical boots and began looking around.

The terrain at the center they saw in person was more like a gentle hill than a mountain, similar to the many oreum formations found on Jeju Island.

Other than that, there were only a few trees and insufficient terrain for taking cover, so if there were teams heading toward the center, the team that arrived first would have an absolute advantage.

“Please wait here for a moment, you two.”

At Yeon-woo’s words, the two men tilted their heads.

“Where are you planning to go?”

At Kim Su-hyeok’s question, Yeon-woo nodded.

Of course, there were certainly no other teams that had advanced this far in the current situation, but what did he mean by suddenly going somewhere?

Whether Kim Su-hyeok tilted his head or not, Yeon-woo took something out of his bag.

Seeing it, the confusion on Kim Su-hyeok’s face deepened.

“···Lacquer spray?”

While running, he had been hearing faint rattling sounds from Yeon-woo’s backpack, but he didn’t know it was the sound coming from spray cans.

Although it was labeled ‘Tactical camouflage spray’ on the surface, it wasn’t much different from regular lacquer spray.

“Don’t move from here and wait just a moment. I’ll be right back.”

With those words, Yeon-woo left his military pack behind and ran off quickly, carrying only the spray and his tactical pad.

Then the lamp at the top of the tactical pad turned red.

It was warning the team leader to return to where his teammates were when he got more than 30 meters away from them.

‘During strategy time it turned green when we moved apart, but now it works the opposite way.’

Still, the distance to his teammates was being displayed accurately.

– Distance to [Player South Korea-B]: 100m

– Distance to [Player South Korea-C]: 102m

Please hurry back to where your teammates are.

This meant that this spot was exactly 100 meters away from Kim Su-hyeok.

Yeon-woo began spraying the ground and making wide markings.

He checked the same work at 50-meter intervals up to 300 meters.

Kim Su-hyeok, who was watching this through the scope attached to his sniper rifle, clicked his tongue.

“He’s using the tactical pad to pre-check accurate distances to calculate my sniping range.”

He really was someone who cleverly made use of everything given to him.

With the stage set up this thoroughly, anyone who entered within this 300-meter range from now on would be as good as dead.

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