NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 341

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Episode 341. Start of Day Two of the “Global Match”

“···Hmm, he’s really a good person.”

Park Jung-hyeon made a happy expression as he looked at the Korean soup that had arrived via room service.

The bowl that had contained the Korean soup was already showing its bottom, and the members’ stomachs were now full.

And in Park Jung-hyeon’s mind, following Yeon-woo, his manager Kim Min-su was also registered as a good person.

“It’s a shame it’s not in a stone pot, but still, I’m glad we could bring in outside food like this. It would have been frustrating if we couldn’t eat it.”

Though not as much of a Korean soup lover as Park Jung-hyeon, Kim Su-hyeok also wiped away the beads of sweat on his forehead with a satisfied expression.

No matter how much they had won consecutive battles without anyone being eliminated, it didn’t mean they weren’t tired.

In some ways, it was true that the South Korean team had traveled the most distance, putting more strain on their muscles.

However, because they had planned their strategy well from the beginning, even though they moved a lot, unlike other teams, they were able to rest comfortably when they could, with their safety secured, so they weren’t that exhausted.

On the other hand, the other teams had performed nearly ten hours of combat while extremely tense, so they were obviously all exhausted.

‘The worst part is the epinephrine.’

When humans enter combat and become extremely tense, they secrete epinephrine.

Epinephrine, commonly known as adrenaline, is a catecholamine hormone secreted by the adrenal glands that helps enable quick responses in emergency situations.

When the body determines it’s in an emergency situation, it reduces blood supply to relatively less important organs like the digestive system or skin, and increases blood supply to places like the brain, heart, or muscles.

‘The brain supports you to act faster, more accurately, and stronger if you don’t want to die.’

Physical abilities may increase in the short term, but fatigue also accumulates doubly.

And the biggest aftereffect of excessive hormone secretion comes at night.

“I’ll head back to my room now.”

When Yeon-woo stood up, the two team members quickly got up and roughly organized the bowls they had eaten from, placing them on the serving cart.

When Yeon-woo grabbed the serving cart, the two people stopped him.

“Ah, we’ll do it.”

“No, it’s fine. I’ll just leave it roughly in the hallway on my way out. They said they’d come and take it.”

Pushing the serving cart with the empty Korean soup bowls, Yeon-woo left his two teammates’ room.

“You need to maintain your condition, so go to sleep right away.”

“Yes. Of course.”

Watching the two nod their heads, as his teammates’ door closed, Yeon-woo also left the serving cart in one corner of the hallway and headed to his own room.

And then he walked past his room door and stood in front of the elevator.

‘The downside of days when epinephrine is excessively secreted like today is insomnia.’

Taking the elevator down to the lobby on the hotel’s 2nd floor, he could see numerous players pacing around, unable to contain their excitement from today’s match.

This time he took the elevator again and went out to the rooftop garden on the 4th floor.

The rooftop garden seemed to be used as a smoking area, with people holding cigarettes scattered here and there.

– If I hadn’t made that immediate decision and run behind the rock…

– Wow. That’s right. You know what I was thinking at that moment? On the left…

Voices telling heroic tales among themselves in various languages could be heard carried by the wind from afar.

‘As expected, they’re busy chattering about what happened today everywhere.’

It was already past 10 PM.

Of course, for modern people, 10 PM isn’t particularly late.

But from a soldier’s perspective performing combat, it’s golden time when muscles should be relaxing and recovering, so fatigue must be recovered.

Yeon-woo walked around the hotel, checking the faces of those who couldn’t sleep due to excitement from today’s match.

‘Hmm, as expected, the ones not visible are Italy, Japan, and Switzerland.’

Coincidentally, this matched the ranking of winning probabilities evaluated by the 16-member external evaluation panel.

The reason Yeon-woo was walking around checking these things was because of an item he had obtained at the end of today.

‘A radar detector that’s only a radar in name. I need to use it well somehow.’

He had to carefully distinguish who were the more powerful targets to be wary of by gathering various information.

Then someone called Yeon-woo from behind.

“Hey, Ryu!”

When Yeon-woo looked toward where the voice came from, he could see Myles Kroeger from the Canadian team, who had cheerfully shouted “Annyeonghaseyo” this evening, waving his hand with a bright smile.

He seemed to be chatting while smoking with other Canadian team members in a corner of the rooftop garden.

When Yeon-woo approached them, Myles Kroeger rummaged in his pocket and pulled out something silver.

At first he thought it was a smartphone, but thinking about it, since communication with the outside was still prohibited, they wouldn’t have gotten their confiscated smartphones back yet.

Looking again, the silver object was a somewhat old-model digital camera.

“I wanted to take a photo with you so badly that I pestered the staff, and they gave me this. My daughter would absolutely faint if she knew I took a photo with you.”

“Haha, is that so? How old is your daughter?”

“She just turned twelve. Still just a little one.”

“She must be adorable.”

For a conversation with the very person who had eliminated them today, it was quite amicable.

This was partly because Myles Kroeger’s claim of being Yeon-woo’s fan wasn’t empty words but genuine, and also because the Canadian team members weren’t particularly aggressive by nature.

Yeon-woo took photos with Myles Kroeger and the other Canadian team members, and even made a promise with their team captain, Kamal Wotherspoon, a famous Canadian actor active in Hollywood, to exchange contacts as fellow actors after the competition ended.

‘They’re good-natured people.’

Though they had only chatted briefly, he felt they were quite decent people.

Just as Yeon-woo was about to part ways to go back and rest, Myles Kroeger spoke to him in a low voice.

“If you happen to encounter the Norwegian team tomorrow, be careful. Something’s strange about them.”

“Strange?”

When Yeon-woo asked back, Myles Kroeger and the other Canadian team players continued.

“We definitely spotted them first and shot unilaterally at a man who appeared to be their captain holding a tactical pad, but he didn’t get eliminated.”

“Even though the three of us definitely hit him more than seven times.”

Myles Kroeger nodded at his teammates’ words and added.

“They immediately hid behind cover, and since neither side got eliminated, we didn’t know which team they were. But after the match ended and we looked into it, the only team wearing Coated co. equipment that we saw was Norway.”

“So we immediately protested to the production team, but they said the computer records showed only three hits and that they’d look into it more carefully, though they seemed to take it as us complaining because we missed our shots.”

Yeon-woo stroked his chin as he listened to the story.

The Canadian team he had faced directly was quite skilled.

Despite being ambushed, they quickly identified positions and used accurate shooting to drain three of Park Jung-hyeon’s lives, so their judgment that they hit the Norwegian captain at least seven times was probably correct.

Moreover, if the captain was holding a tactical pad, he wouldn’t have been moving either.

‘A skilled player like Myles Kroeger missing a stationary target? That’s impossible.’

They had definitely either acquired some unknown item or were using bug-like gameplay.

Yeon-woo smiled at the Canadian team who had given him valuable information.

“Thank you. By Coated co. protective gear, you mean the model with sahara color and three large front pockets, right?”

“Yes. That’s correct.”

Yeon-woo nodded and shook hands with each Canadian team member in turn.

“I’ll be careful when fighting the Norwegian team.”

He didn’t know what trick that gochujang head had used, but he was already a friend whose name was on Yeon-woo’s memo.

And at that moment.

There was someone secretly watching Yeon-woo and the Canadian team chatting and laughing from a corner of the rooftop garden.

“Hehe, my prey…”

It was Italian representative Marco Banchero.

***

The next day, the competition resumed, and fewer helicopters than the previous day cut through the sky above Central America.

‘I don’t think today’s match will end…’

For everyone except one team to be eliminated and a winner to be determined, the game would probably need to continue for another day or two.

Even excluding the Polish team that was eliminated in the first day’s shooting round, 8 teams remained out of 19.

This meant more than half had been eliminated.

However, that was because it was the first day.

If you carefully analyzed the pattern of eliminations, you could deduce that there would be far fewer eliminations on the second day.

On the first day, they started the match positioned in a circle around the island with about 700 meters between each team, so chaotic battles naturally broke out everywhere, and most eliminations occurred here.

‘When the first strategy time came, there were definitely fourteen teams left.’

As soon as the match started, all Yeon-woo and his teammates did in the first round was move toward the center.

In other words, five teams were eliminated right from the start by fighting among themselves.

‘After that, in the second round we added 1 kill by eliminating the French team, but only three teams were eliminated in total.’

Excluding the French team that Yeon-woo’s team eliminated, only two teams were eliminated.

Even in the third round, the three teams that Yeon-woo and his teammates eliminated consecutively in front of the warehouse building were all there were.

This meant no other teams were eliminated fighting each other.

‘As this competition progresses to the later stages, this structure will intensify. There’s a tendency to avoid fighting each other, but the island is too vast and scattered everywhere, making it hard to predict.’

Would the production team let this structure continue?

Yeon-woo shook his head.

There would definitely be some additional rules introduced.

Thudududu─.

As the island drew closer, the helicopter lowered its altitude.

Looking outside the window, he could see helicopters carrying other players descending to various parts of the island.

Of course, since helicopters land at points where landing is possible, those spots wouldn’t be their exact Starting Points, but they would still land as close as possible.

‘Only we’re going South Side, three helicopters are heading toward the Center, two toward the North Side, and one toward the Northwest.’

The remaining helicopter wasn’t visible outside the window, either behind Yeon-woo’s helicopter or out of sight.

Being able to grasp even approximate positions in advance would naturally be a great help.

‘So there’s one team as an unknown variable whose helicopter isn’t visible, and the closest to us are the teams in the Center. If my memory is correct, when boarding the helicopters earlier, I think Italy, Switzerland, and Germany got on.’

Since helicopter formations maintain a certain distance for safety while flying, they don’t switch positions mid-air like some shell game.

The teams aboard the helicopters that turned toward the Center were those three teams.

And the helicopters heading North Side carried Japan and Brazil.

The helicopter heading Northwest, though not certain, he remembered as Israel.

The North Side and Northwest were far in distance from the South Side where Yeon-woo was.

‘Then there’s one team left.’

Yeon-woo took out the strategy pad he was holding and touched something with his finger.

– Items(2)

– Life Recovery Ticket [3/4]

– Radar Detector [Registration Available]

Beep─.

《Would you like to register a target on the Radar Detector? Please select a team to target from the list below.》

The currently surviving teams appeared in a list, and Yeon-woo selected Norway without hesitation.

There was one team whose position he couldn’t determine from the helicopter’s direction.

It was Norway.

‘Not being able to see their helicopter means they’re flying behind us.’

If so, they were probably at a high probability of being at a close distance to Yeon-woo’s team.

Now it was time to check what the ‘secret that Gochujang head is hiding’ that the Canadian Team had hinted at actually was.

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