NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 334

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Episode 334. Survival Diary

Meanwhile, Korea was heating up with news that was starting to appear in articles one after another.

– [STAR News] Will it work on the world stage too? Actor Ryu Yeon-woo departs for filming the sequel to “Survival Island”

– [News Daily] Ryu Yeon-woo returns with an even bigger scale. The champion departs for Miami to film “Global Match”

– [Channel K PICK] US Hollywood production company BWG: ‘Ryu Yeon-woo’s participation was already a necessary condition decided during the production stage’

As filming officially began, press releases were first disclosed in America under BWG’s leadership, and domestic media also began reporting one after another by citing overseas articles.

And naturally, various reactions poured out on the Internet.

– [I’m Fat Though] : I watched last time with my heart racing, I just hope he doesn’t get hurt…

└ [no_matter_how_much_ginger_i_am_still_garlic] : 222 for real ㅜㅠ

└ [Attention King] : 3333

– [High School Girl Jjang] : Whether it’s acting or variety activities, a passing uncle fan supports you

– [Hyperventilation Syndrome] : Crazy I’m already excited when will it come out if they’re filming now I’ll hold my breath waiting until it comes out and die before I can watch

└ [힐들어간다] : Sunny, calm down and take a deep breath first hahaha

The fans’ reactions naturally showed great anticipation for Yeon-woo’s activities themselves.

Following the movie “Moon” and then the drama “Parabola,” he had been doing non-stop work activities, but it was never enough for the fans.

“Summer’s dining table Season 2” had also finished coordination with JNBC, but since it hadn’t aired yet, this survival filming news was like sweet rain during a drought for fans suffering from content drought.

Of course, it was naturally a hot topic not only among fans but also among general viewers.

The original series TVM’s “Survival Island” had achieved great success domestically despite being a reality show due to its unique dramatic narrative.

Viewers who had seen the original would naturally wait for a sequel, and since the scale had grown globally, it was natural to have expectations.

Even people who hadn’t watched the original became interested in it belatedly when they heard the format was exported to Hollywood and Ryu Yeon-woo was participating as Korea’s representative, and thanks to this, “Survival Island,” which had ended several months ago, made a remarkable comeback by climbing the Netflix domestic rankings.

On the other hand, Internet reactions from those who weren’t Ryu Yeon-woo’s fans were largely divided into two categories.

Most people showed typical reactions of pure anticipation for new content, but a small number among them rushed in foaming at the mouth.

– Anyone watch Survival Island? Honestly, I think Ryu Yeonwoo’s quick judgment and adaptability are so good that he might actually make it on the world stage too lol

– Yeah I saw it too. By the way, will it air in the first half of next year? It looks like it’ll be hella fun

– The comments above are seriously ridiculous lol Do you guys actually have expectations? Excessive nationalism is a mental illness

└ For real lol, you know what kind of people those American bros are, gun ownership is free there to begin with

– Looking at foreign articles, it seems like even Yunus Kabak is playing, we’re probably gonna get absolutely destroyed lol

└ Who’s that, you otaku

└ If you don’t know, search for it, you idiot. He’s a Turkish actor famous there for being pro-level at shooting

└ It’s not Turkey, it’s Türkiye now

– Please, if you’re Korean, let’s support Ryu Yeon-woo

Most of the critical comments weren’t actually comments insulting Yeon-woo when analyzed.

The gist of their comments was questioning whether, no matter how Ryu Yeon-woo had won the domestic league with a few celebrities gathered together, he would work on the world stage where all the best were said to gather.

However, those posting comments didn’t know that Yunus Kabak from Türkiye, whom they praised, was constantly looking around with a face pale from fear.

***

“Da, damn it…”

His decision to advance clockwise was ultimately wrong.

Yunus from Türkiye had tried to go down from the 3 o’clock direction of his island and advance 500 meters during the first strategy time.

The other directions had a gloomy atmosphere due to the densely grown forest creating shadows even in broad daylight, so he didn’t dare enter.

On the other hand, if he circled the island clockwise as he chose, the side would be the sea during forward advancement so he wouldn’t need to worry about it, and the back would be the path he had walked, so he judged he only needed to guard the front and right.

He thought that method was the best in his opinion…

– [Player Japan-C] has eliminated [Player Türkiye-B].

– [Player Japan-A] has eliminated [Player Türkiye-C].

He ended up engaging in combat with another team that was ambushing in the corn field in the direction he was advancing, and both of his Expert teammates were eliminated trying to save him as he froze up from tension.

‘Pathetically, because I froze up in that situation…!’

The face of his teammate who was eliminated instead, jumping forward and blocking bullets with his body to save his defenseless exposed self, came to mind.

On the other hand, all he had done was run away disgracefully when his two teammates were eliminated.

Fortunately, right next to the battlefield was the corn field where they had been ambushing.

He frantically ran alone through the corn field that had grown to adult height, and Yunus barely succeeded in shaking off the Japanese team that was pursuing him.

But with all his teammates eliminated, he felt hopeless about how to overcome the difficulties ahead.

He thought that if he had entered the dark forest when setting the first target location, the future wouldn’t have been darker than now.

Unlike the forest where he could at least take cover, the battle in open ground was a one-sided massacre where whoever discovered first had already seized the advantage.

‘Sigh, by the way, where is this place.’

Yunus picked up his tactical pad.

– Time remaining until next strategy time: 00h 13m 21s.

– Distance remaining to destination 35M.

“···35 meters?”

Running frantically, it seemed he had somehow made it near his destination.

The direction he had fled wasn’t too different from the direction he had been heading anyway.

‘Unless the Japan Team marked the exact same location I set as my target, they would have headed to their own destination, so I should be safe for now.’

Making that judgment, Yunus picked up his tactical pad and moved earnestly toward his target location.

No matter how hopeless things seemed, he had to complete missions if he didn’t want to get eliminated.

– Time remaining until next strategy phase 00h 03m 13s.

– Destination reached.

Fortunately, the location he had randomly marked on the map was terrain thick with bushes.

He hid his body among those bushes and quietly held his breath, waiting for the remaining time on his tactical pad to reach zero.

‘Maybe running around alone like this actually has a higher survival rate···?’

As the game progressed to the later stages, wouldn’t there be more teams like his where they lost team members and only the team leader remained alone?

He thought that would be worth fighting for.

‘···Actually, this is good.’

Bzzzz─.

At that moment, the tactical pad in his hand vibrated with a long buzz.

Time had ended and the next strategy phase had arrived.

Yunus looked at his tactical pad.

《Team Leaders holding tactical pads, please move at least 30 meters away from other team members immediately.》

‘···Hah, I don’t have any team members to move away from, you bastard.’

It was probably a message sent commonly to all players, but somehow thinking of his situation made him feel like he was being mocked.

Beep─.

With a small beep sound, red dots appeared scattered across the map on his tactical pad.

《A total of 14 teams have survived so far. Congratulations to all survivors!》

‘Fourteen teams···.’

Since Poland was eliminated before the match and nineteen teams arrived on the island, it meant five more teams had been eliminated during the three hours since the game started.

The red dots of players that had been distributed in a large circle at roughly equal intervals when they first started were now scattered haphazardly everywhere.

‘···Now these teams will scatter in different directions again?’

Avoiding them through prediction seemed nearly impossible.

And among those numerous dots, he could see the golden dot representing Yunus’s Türkiye Team.

At the same time, he could see one other dot at quite a close distance to him.

‘Then that dot must be those Japanese bastards···.’

Most of the surviving teams seemed to have advanced toward the center, gradually closing the gaps, and there were a total of four dots that had moved along the edge of the circle, including himself and the Japan Team.

‘No, there might have been ten teams that went around the edge of the island···.’

The six teams that were already eliminated likely made the same choice as him to advance along the island’s coastline.

‘Hmm···?’

At that moment, something strange caught Yunus’s eye.

“···But what’s this?”

In the exact center of the screen Yunus was looking at, one red dot was boldly blinking as if marking the central point of the island where the match was being held.

At first he thought it might be a feature that displayed the center of the island.

‘Was there something like that when we first made our selections? ···Wait, could it be?’

One, two, three, four···.

Yunus counted the dots displayed on the pad one by one and got goosebumps all over both arms.

It was fourteen teams only when including the dot in the center.

‘That dot in the very center is also a real person···?’

If they had proceeded like him and his already eliminated teammates—watching all directions, finding structures for cover, then advancing little by little—reaching that distance would have been impossible.

Being in the center now meant they had advanced straight to the center without hesitation from the start.

‘···They’re either completely insane or a monster.’

Instantly, a participant who satisfied both the ‘monster’ and ‘insane’ keywords came to Yunus’s mind.

The player who fired rapid shots like a madman in Round 1 but hit every target like a monster.

***

While Yunus was writing his tearful survival diary, Yeon-woo was lying casually on his side on the Grassland, fiddling with his tactical pad with one hand.

It was exactly the peaceful posture of someone holding a Smartphone on the Living Room Sofa watching NeTube.

“Hmm, there’s still quite a distance left with the other guys.”

Yeon-woo looked at the multiple blinking dots on his tactical pad and couldn’t readily understand why they were dawdling around fighting among themselves.

‘No, if you think about it logically, when they said to advance at least 500 meters, you should naturally judge that you can go 1 kilometer or even 3 kilometers. Why are they fighting among themselves in that small area?’

The difference between Yeon-woo’s idea of ‘logical thinking’ and the other team leaders’ way of thinking still seemed quite large.

“Still, now that they’ve seen us in the center, the guys who realized something will come looking for us before this strategy time ends.”

Like ants advancing relentlessly toward an antlion pit they can’t escape once they fall in.

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