NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 336

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Episode 336. Next Choice

Alejandro Leo, a French team member running toward the target location, felt a heavy impact in his abdomen at the same time as the gunshot rang in his ears.

“Ugh…?!”

If you asked whether it was enough impact to actually hurt a person, of course it wasn’t since he was wearing all his protective equipment, but the impact he felt was a heavy sensation as if someone had punched him.

The bullet that hit him during the firefight with the Indian team had only stung locally, but this one was definitely different.

The problem was that the loud gunshot echoed between the mountain and wilderness in front of him, so he couldn’t tell exactly where it came from.

Looking to the side, he saw his team leader with a panicked expression.

“First, let’s take cover somewhere… Ugh!”

Bang─!

Leo, who was speaking, hurriedly threw himself flat on the ground.

Because along with another gunshot, this time he felt an impact like being hit once in his left arm.

This was definitely different from the rifles they had encountered in firefights so far.

This was like.

“It’s sniping! Get down!”

“What?! Sniping?”

He saw the team leader with a surprised face lying flat as he had said.

Bang─!

Bang─!

Then, along with consecutive gunshots, a beeping sound came from his protective equipment.

Beep─.

It meant he was out.

According to the rules, from the moment you’re out, you can’t say anything and you can’t move from that spot.

Leo looked at his team leader lying flat a few meters away with a dejected expression.

Then he hurriedly looked at a rock in the distance and secretly gestured with his chin.

The team leader looked in that direction.

Fortunately, it seemed he understood the final message to crawl to the rock and take cover.

Then the gunshot rang out again.

Bang─!

“Argh!”

French Team Leader Gaspard Delon awkwardly bent his arm as much as possible to grab his buttocks.

It seemed the sniper shot had hit his buttocks.

The eyes of the eliminated team member Leo widened.

‘He shot and hit him while he was lying down…?’

That meant the shooter’s altitude was much higher than his own.

He could see a small mountain in front of him.

It was the place they had been running toward as their destination.

Delon, who was clutching his buttocks, snapped back to his senses.

‘It’s those guys who secured the center…!’

French Team Leader Delon jumped up and ran.

His target was the rock in front of him.

First, he had to hide his body from the direction of the mountain visible in front of him to survive.

Bang─!

Bang─!

Consecutive gunshots rang out, and even though he was running at full speed, the bullets flew like ghosts and hit his torso.

“Ugh!”

Enduring the pain felt in his right abdomen, he barely managed to throw himself toward the rock.

One shot while lying down to his buttocks.

Two shots while running.

Gaspard Delon, who had been hit by a total of three shots, had two lives remaining.

And naturally, Kim Su-hyeok, who had fired the shots, also knew this fact.

“Team Leader, I eliminated one and hit the other three times. If his life was full, he probably has two left.”

Yeon-woo nodded and looked at his smart watch.

– [Player South Korea-B] has eliminated [Player France-B].

A message arrived saying Kim Su-hyeok had eliminated a player.

“The team we just eliminated is France. The remaining one is probably the team leader.”

Player A meant the team leader.

The one who was eliminated was B, and teams without a team leader would have been automatically eliminated when the last strategy time ended, so the remaining one was likely the team leader.

“Please continue maintaining your sniping position like now to prevent him from escaping elsewhere. If he even peeks out a little, please immediately fire intimidation shots to keep him from moving.”

Then Kim Su-hyeok also understood what Yeon-woo wanted and nodded his head.

“Understood.”

As Kim Su-hyeok lay prone, put his eye to the scope, and concentrated while controlling his breathing, Yeon-woo quickly came down the hill.

There are countless differences between FPS games and reality, but the biggest one is vision.

Famous FPS games with third-person overhead view allow you to calmly secure vision while hiding behind cover.

Even if it’s first-person, since it’s ultimately a game, there are auxiliary systems that help gamers identify enemy positions through radars or various other methods.

But reality is different.

In a tense state where a sniper targeting him would shoot if he moved even slightly, the French team leader hiding behind cover had no choice but to have extremely limited vision.

Swoosh─.

Yeon-woo placed Gaspard Delon in his gun’s mechanical sights.

Without knowing that Yeon-woo, who had run over leisurely, had positioned himself in a place where he could shoot him, he was only thinking about how to escape from here.

Ratatang─!

At the sudden barrage of shots from the side, French team leader Gaspard Delon’s eyes widened as if they would tear.

He thought he would die from a heart attack rather than being eliminated by getting hit by bullets.

On the other hand, Yeon-woo’s eyebrows also twitched after shooting.

‘He should have two lives remaining, so why isn’t he dead even after hitting him with three shots?’

He immediately aimed again and then shot.

Ratatatang─!

As he poured out bullets, stinging impacts were transmitted throughout his body, and Gaspard Delon raised both hands.

“Ahhh! Stop! Stop! I’m out!”

Only then did Yeon-woo lower the gun he had been aiming and stare blankly before starting to return to his position.

‘Hmm, it seems there’s some kind of item that can restore life?’

It seemed like he had fired indiscriminately, but after shooting three rounds, he had precisely shot four more rounds.

He was trying to check how many hits it took to be eliminated.

‘When he was hit by the second bullet, his protective equipment seemed to display “out.”‘

The first three hits he landed.

And then elimination after being hit by two more shots.

That meant the guy hiding behind the stone had used some method to restore his life from two to five.

Yeon-woo, who had returned to where Kim Su-hyeok was, checked his smartwatch.

– [Player South Korea-A] has eliminated [Player France-A].

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

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

Seeing the message that arrived, his questions were resolved.

It seemed the control room was sending special benefits whenever certain achievements were accomplished.

‘Come to think of it, in the first killog, the French guys had completely eliminated England. So were they saving the reward they received then without using it?’

Yeon-woo opened his tactical pad.

Then there was a blinking icon at the bottom.

It was a notification that gifts had arrived.

– Life Recovery Kit

– Additional Ammunition Resupply

‘Hm? But why are there two?’

When he opened the gift box, the Life Recovery Kit he had just received for eliminating the French team was there, and separately, there was also a message for ‘Additional Ammunition Resupply.’

When he clicked it, a message from the control room was displayed.

– An activity bonus for the first round of this game is being awarded.

A bonus given to the team that traveled the longest distance.

[Additional Ammunition Resupply]

You can select one of the weapons the player possesses to receive additional ammunition resupply.

The resupply will be delivered by drone during the next strategy time.

Yeon-woo nodded with a satisfied expression after seeing the message.

And without hesitation, he selected additional ammunition supply for Kim Su-hyeok’s sniper rifle.

Looking at the watch at the top of the tactical pad, he saw that the time for this round had almost run out.

Since he had agreed to rendezvous with Park Jung-hyeon when 30 minutes remained, it was time to start moving.

‘Hmm, once this round ends, we’ll need to make another long-distance move.’

Not moving to Park Jung-hyeon on the opposite side of the oreum, but to an even more distant location.

Spotting enemies first from this oreum and shooting them might seem like easy pickings, but timing is crucial for all operations.

And this operation definitely had an expiration date.

‘Other teams will start converging on the center from now on.’

People easily fall into the illusion of control fallacy.

It’s a psychological illusion where people believe they can control situations even in purely luck-based events like dice rolling or lottery, if they’re actively participating.

Yeon-woo’s choice to target the exact center when the match first started was decided based on predicting what psychological decisions other participants would make.

But now it’s different.

All teams had already scattered in all directions, and subsequent choices were impossible to measure due to too many factors to consider.

Nevertheless, it was obvious what choices some of the other team leaders would make going forward.

‘There will only be differences in speed, but they’ll ultimately make the same choice as France.’

If Yeon-woo and his team members take out the enemies who approached the center along with the France team, then during the next strategy time, the only red dot visible on the map in the center will be the South Korea team.

When that time comes, team leaders who fall into the illusion of control fallacy, believing they can control variables, will all head toward the center.

The reason we usually fail when investing in stocks or making investments lies there.

Opportunities that seem visible only to your eyes are generally visible to others as well.

And answers that everyone sees are likely not the real answer.

‘That’s why it’s time for us to pull back.’

Buying when others don’t buy and selling when everyone else is buying is basic.

There was no need to participate in the chaotic battle that would unfold among the rushing zombie horde.

Since they had created a large colosseum in the center, it was now time for Yeon-woo and his team members to move to the outskirts and hunt other teams instead.

Yeon-woo and Kim Su-hyeok rendezvoused with Park Jung-hyeon, who had been checking for any enemies approaching from the opposite side.

And shortly after, the tactical pad vibrated.

Bzzzz─.

This round had ended and strategy time for preparing the next round had arrived.

《Team Leader holding the tactical pad, please move at least 30 meters away from other team members immediately.》

Yeon-woo nodded and moved away from his team members.

Beep─.

With a small beep sound, the positions of surviving teams were displayed on the tactical pad’s map.

《A total of 11 teams have survived so far. Congratulations to all survivors!》

Three more teams had been eliminated.

Since Yeon-woo had personally finished off one of those teams, it meant two other teams had been completely eliminated through combat as well.

Of course, there were probably more cases where only team members were eliminated, leaving two or one person remaining, rather than complete elimination.

In the current situation, he wondered which team other than South Korea had all three members alive, all their lives intact, plus spare ammunition and life recovery kits.

And the dot marked in the center on the map was proudly maintaining its position.

Although the distance from other teams had considerably narrowed compared to the last strategy time, there was still quite a gap.

‘Now teams that see our position and gain confidence will come rushing in.’

Yeon-woo clicked on the next destination without hesitation.

The place where Yeon-woo and his team members first started.

From this current location, the safest route to escape to the outskirts was the desertified coastal dunes that Yeon-woo had used when coming here.

The sand field where feet sink deep is a route all teams avoid because it reduces mobility.

Encountering enemies in a slowed state not only reduces survival chances, but walking through sand where feet sink requires much more stamina consumption than flat ground even when covering the same distance.

‘Good thing I brought the desert attachment.’

He had suffered so much from sand deserts during operations in the Middle East that he instinctively stuffed it into his bag as soon as he saw it, but he never expected to use it so effectively.

“Thanks to the France team providing good information, we can proceed more wildly from the next round.”

Taking out one team gives you a life recovery kit.

Since he thought lives lost during combat couldn’t be recovered, he had avoided combat as much as possible, but if that wasn’t the case, he needed to circle around from the outskirts and systematically eliminate teams one by one.

Yeon-woo smiled as he looked at the ten red dots blinking on the tactical pad.

“I guess it’s time to get serious.”

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