NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 335

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Episode 335. Hunt Begins

The first to notice and be surprised by the ‘strange red dot’ shining alone in the center of the field was naturally not the players, but the control room.

The control room noticed Yeon-woo and his teammates’ advance around the time when Yunus from Türkiye was running through the corn field in terror, and at that moment Yeon-woo and his teammates had almost reached the central hill.

Unlike the peaceful situation of the Korean team, teams from various countries began encountering each other in earnest throughout the island, with battles starting to break out sporadically, and the control room was busy checking those battles, setting editing points in advance, and providing appropriate rewards to the winning teams.

In the midst of this chaos, a staff member checking movement distances and routes suddenly raised his hand.

Then he displayed the data on the bottom of the main monitor.

“I think we need to check the Korean team’s body cam!”

– Movement Distance by Team (from starting point)

1. South Korea – 3,478m

2. Russia – 842m

3. Italy – 762m

While all teams from top to bottom averaged around 600 meters of movement, the Korean team’s figure far exceeded five times the average, so he reported it thinking it was either an error or a special situation had occurred.

“···How much is 3,478 meters?”

“A little over 2 miles.”

The control room was tracking all participating teams in real-time via GPS and displaying each team’s position at the bottom of the large monitor, so they knew that one team was heading toward the center.

However, seeing it displayed in exact figures made the production team realize more realistically just how strange this situation was.

The staff who hurriedly checked the Korean team’s body cam confirmed that the Korean team had simply moved silently with desert movement parts attached to their shoes.

However, the problem was that the distance was overwhelming compared to other teams.

John McClellan shook his head as he watched the Korean team, who had become an irregular play simply by moving.

“···Our champion has a bolder personality than I thought.”

In fact, reaching that far wasn’t simply a matter of being lucky enough not to encounter opponents and arriving after walking and walking.

The location each team must reach has to be selected in advance on the tactical pad when that round begins.

This means they have to make judgments in advance without knowing whether they’ll encounter opponents and engage in combat, or what obstacles might be on the way.

Of course, there were other team leaders besides the Korean team who realized that the rule requiring advancement of more than 500 meters meant they could move even greater distances.

However, they didn’t have the courage to immediately put it into action, so they each chose nearby areas they judged to be safe.

But by putting it into action, Korea became the team with the lowest fatigue level despite moving farther than others, since they didn’t engage in any battles and didn’t need to guard their surroundings.

“Now, is the reward calculation finished?”

At John McClellan’s words, the table directors nodded.

Since the program’s entertainment value would be halved if players just hid in corners and only sought their own survival, they created a rule that players who made impressive performances would receive special rewards accordingly.

And the table directors are those who analyze the matches to evaluate those performances.

However, in their judgment, there wasn’t really anything that could be called an impressive play in the first round of this game.

It was a series of relatively ordinary battles, and if there was any impressive play, it would be South Korea’s long-distance traverse.

The table directors nodded after their discussion, and one of them spoke up.

“The teams receiving rewards this time will be France, which has the most kills, and South Korea, which moved the farthest distance.”

When John McClellan nodded, the table director continued.

“However, special rewards should only be given for special plays that deserve them. This round, frankly speaking, didn’t have that level of performance. We’ll have them choose between ammunition resupply and life recovery.”

Hearing this, John McClellan looked toward the gallery.

And among them, he spotted a man quietly nodding while listening to the interpreter.

‘Hmm, that person must be Mr. Ryu’s manager, right?’

Feeling mischievous, John McClellan spoke up.

“Then let’s have the representatives of each team in the gallery make the choice.”

Manager Kim Min-su, who received this through the interpreter, widened his eyes.

“Me, me?”

Gaspard Delon’s manager from the French team, sitting behind him, also widened his eyes in the same way.

Kim Min-su fell into contemplation.

Actually, sitting in the gallery and watching other teams’ matches, he felt that between ammunition and life, life was definitely more necessary.

Since the Korean team currently hadn’t consumed any life or ammunition, receiving life would be equivalent to getting a heal kit that could be used later.

Compared to Season 1, since they were engaging in multi-team battles, even though they had only completed the first round, quite a few teams had already consumed life or had team members eliminated.

‘···Hmm, what choice would the actor have made.’

Kim Min-su didn’t blink an eye and captured every action whenever the Korean team appeared briefly on screen.

‘Hmm, what should I choose.’

Kim Min-su raised his hand and conveyed his words to the interpreter.

“I have a question. When selecting ammunition, if a team uses multiple firearms, which firearm will be used as the standard for distribution?”

The table director, who received the question through interpretation, opened his mouth.

“We’ll deliver a message so the team leader can decide that directly.”

Kim Min-su, who nodded after hearing the answer, finished his selection.

Kim Min-su judged that while life would be important for someone who gets hit a lot, ammunition might be more important for someone who does a lot of hitting.

“Then I’ll decide on ammunition.”

At that, John McClellan showed a surprised expression.

Between ammunition and life, anyone could see that life was more important, so he thought the balance between rewards didn’t match, but what Mr. Ryu’s manager actually chose was ammunition.

John McClellan had no way of knowing this was the resentful choice of a manager who couldn’t provide additional ammunition in Season 1 due to opposition from other galleries.

***

‘…This dot is also a real team?’

Gaspard Delon, the French team leader and popular singer, looked at the red dot blinking in the center of the tactical pad and decided on his next destination.

After encountering the British team first and engaging in battle, he lost one team member, but managed to eliminate the entire British team.

And the Indian team they encountered afterward even had all three members alive, but after the firefight, he eliminated one without taking any damage and made them flee.

Intoxicated with confidence from winning consecutive engagements, Gaspard Delon confidently selected the center of the touchpad.

“Hah. I don’t know which team it is, but they’re quite cunning. To charge straight toward the center right after the start. Come to think of it, it was the only way to avoid unnecessary engagements.”

But if he had cowardly avoided battle like that team that headed to the center, there wouldn’t have been the growth from the two engagements he experienced.

“I guess I’ll have to teach them a lesson directly. Men grow on the battlefield.”

Gaspard Delon roughly swept his hair back.

All the words he was uttering would also be recorded through the microphone mounted on his protective equipment.

‘Ah, so fucking cool.’

He was completely intoxicated by his own appearance, which he thought was cool even to himself.

And he became a gallant ant and began to advance.

***

Meanwhile, Yeon-woo, who had been lying on the grassland resting, picked up his touchpad and clicked on the opposite side of the central hill.

The hill was quite large, so about 500 meters was sufficient just by clicking on the opposite side.

Yeon-woo slowly got up from the grassland where he had been lying as if in his own room and headed toward where Kim Su-hyeok and Park Jung-hyeon were.

Those two had also put down their guns and were sprawled out lying down.

“Ah, are you finished?”

Discovering Yeon-woo approaching, they hurriedly tried to correct their posture and get up, but Yeon-woo waved his hand to stop them.

“Rest more.”

Lying on the grassland wasn’t about showing off or overconfidence in his abilities.

Rather, there would be less and less leisure from now on, and the experts the enemies brought would also have formidable combat skills, so he was lying down to conserve stamina accordingly.

“The enemies are still far away.”

The enemies were also fully armed, so just the weight of their equipment exceeded at least 15 kilograms.

The path wasn’t flat terrain either, so even if they discovered Yeon-woo and his team members in the center and rushed over as quickly as possible, it would obviously take over 20 minutes.

There was plenty of time even if they prepared leisurely.

“Our next point is B Point as planned. Team Leader Park, please go ahead and observe the situation, and if you see any enemies approaching, give a signal with gunfire.”

Park Jung-hyeon nodded at Yeon-woo’s command.

Based on the dots displayed on the tactical pad and the distance they had run so far, calculating about 500 meters away, the hill road with many cacti and stones on the opposite side of the hill seemed most suitable.

Yeon-woo now looked at Kim Su-hyeok.

“And we’ll maintain our current position until 30 minutes before the first strategy time ends. Team Leader Park will secure the opposite side of the hill in advance, so let’s eliminate all enemies approaching from both sides.”

Kim Su-hyeok silently nodded.

“Now, let’s disperse.”

“Yes.”

They immediately split into two teams and stood on opposite slopes of the hill, looking out over the wide plains.

Visibility changes relatively with altitude.

‘You can see as far as 3.57km multiplied by the square root of the height in meters.’

Simply put, because the Earth is round, you can naturally see farther when viewing from a higher position.

Therefore, standing atop the oreum and looking down, one could easily observe the movements of enemies approaching the center.

This was also the reason Yeonwoo headed to the capital.

In combat, spotting first is more important than anything else.

“Two people approaching from the southwest direction.”

When Kim Su-hyeok, who had been looking through the scope, quietly spoke, Yeon-woo examined the direction Kim Su-hyeok was looking at.

Something seemed to be moving, but it was difficult to identify with the naked eye.

“What’s the distance?”

At Yeon-woo’s question, Kim Su-hyeok examined by eye for a moment then answered.

“It seems to be roughly around 700 meters.”

“Then shoot immediately when they come within 350 meters.”

“Understood.”

Kim Su-hyeok nodded and quietly adjusted the click.

After a few minutes passed, Kim Su-hyeok quietly spoke again.

The two people had entered Kim Su-hyeok’s shooting range.

He had looked far into the distance, but there seemed to be no more companions.

“I will shoot.”

At Kim Su-hyeok’s words, Yeon-woo looked at the grassland spread wide below the oreum.

Now the silhouettes of the two people began to be clearly distinguished even to Yeon-woo’s eyes.

“Yes. Shoot.”

When Yeon-woo nodded, Kim Su-hyeok, who had laid prone on the ground and finished precise aiming, pulled the trigger.

Bang─!

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