NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 346

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Episode 346. Green Sea

Swoosh─.

Yeon-woo moved his body while suppressing his presence as much as possible.

Rustle─.

The ground was covered with corn leaves and kernels that had naturally fallen after enduring the Atlantic sea breeze and the scorching sunlight of Central America near the equator.

These corn leaves naturally created noise as they were stepped on with each step.

Of course, it wasn’t just Yeon-woo making noise – his opponents were doing the same.

Crackle─.

The sound of completely dried leaves being crushed under combat boots could be heard.

Yeon-woo immediately changed positions and spotted the enemy half a beat earlier.

As expected, there were two of them.

Fighting with their vision blocked, the distance between Yeon-woo and the enemy team was merely 4 meters – close enough for the other side to immediately counterattack once either side fired first.

‘…They’ll definitely return fire before I can land all five shots.’

If they were using actual assault rifles, this would be absurd.

Assault rifles with an RPM (Rounds per minute) of over 700 could literally pour out more than 700 rounds per minute if they had unlimited magazines, with such rapid fire rates.

A quick burst would mean certain death for the opponent.

However, if it proceeded that way, it would become a boring game where whoever spotted first would unconditionally win, so the production team had modified the firearms beforehand, limiting even rapid single shots to about two rounds per second at most.

Compared to Kim Su-hyeok using a sniper rifle with his skilled hand dexterity and quick aiming at a rate of once every 3 seconds, this was an absurdly slow rate of fire for a rifle.

‘In that case…’

Yeon-woo pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Bang─!

A bullet fired from the muzzle, and as expected, the opponent reacted immediately.

“······!”

“Right side! Shoot!”

Click─.

As soon as the opponent aimed at Yeon-woo, he threw his body sideways.

After landing two hits, he threw himself toward the corn field without any regrets.

Bang─!

Bang bang─!

Bullets flew consecutively toward where Yeon-woo had been standing.

Yeon-woo was alone, but his opponents were two.

Even if he shot first and started with two hits, since there were two opponents, the other person would join in while he was taking down one, meaning by the time he eliminated one person, Yeon-woo would likewise be eliminated.

‘While I’m landing five shots, even if I get hit by their delayed return fire, I’ll still end up taking six shots.’

Yeon-woo could fire two shots per second, but since there were two opponents firing four shots per second combined, he would naturally be outgunned.

Meanwhile, as Yeon-woo threw his body after shooting, the opponents panicked at the sudden ambush and their muzzles wavered.

And Yeon-woo kept his focus on the opponents without looking away until the moment he dove into the corn field.

By observing the reaction speed and responses of the two people, he could tell which one was the team leader.

‘The person I hit is the team leader.’

No matter how much the participants liked military affairs, the team leaders were ultimately civilians who had never received professional training or, even if they had received training, lacked real combat experience.

On the other hand, the team members were certainly selected as outstanding individuals among their country’s experts.

The team member who reacted immediately upon hearing gunfire, quickly turning his muzzle, shouldering, and returning fire, versus the team leader who turned his muzzle half a beat slower and followed the other person’s lead.

The distinction between the two was clear.

Yeon-woo, who had thrown himself into the corn field, executed a proper landing technique, quickly got up, and changed his position to another location.

Rustle─.

Swish─.

There was a rustling sound from a position slightly away from where the opponents had been.

This time too, Yeon-woo threw his body without hesitation.

Bang bang─!

Sure enough, bullets flew toward where Yeon-woo had been.

From now on, they had no choice but to rely solely on their senses, predicting and fighting each other.

‘Still, they probably think they have the advantage since it’s 2 against 1.’

Yeon-woo, who was reading his opponents’ movements and dodging attacks through prediction, shook his head slightly.

‘But in a battlefield like this, being two people might actually be disadvantageous.’

He wasn’t simply talking about the corn field.

He was referring to the fact that this was a TV show with rules.

Of course, if both opponents had been experts, the numerical disadvantage would have been an unfavorable condition for Yeon-woo.

However, one of the two was a civilian.

And that’s where the blind spot of this game existed.

‘The fact that the civilian is the team captain.’

A team captain’s life is much more important than a team member’s life.

The lives of the two people are assigned different values from the start.

The points earned when eliminating an opponent are also different – 2 points for a team captain, 1 point for a team member.

The reason is naturally because of the rule that if the team captain is eliminated, the entire team is eliminated when the next strategy time begins.

While human lives cannot be valued, in an actual battlefield, it’s an unavoidable fact that having veterans survive helps in combat.

‘But here, it’s the opposite.’

This is where the opponent’s disadvantage emerges.

Bang─!

This time, Yeon-woo spotted the opponent first among the corn stalks swaying left and right in the Atlantic sea breeze.

“Ugh···!”

Rat-a-tat─!

The hit opposing team captain and the team member standing beside him fired wildly.

Yeon-woo hurriedly threw himself down, but this time the opposing team expert predicted he would dive and sprayed bullets everywhere, causing Yeon-woo to get hit by one stray bullet.

‘Assuming everyone started with full life, the opposing team captain now has 1 point, the team member has 5 points. And I have 4 points.’

Since his smart watch didn’t vibrate and no beeping sound came from the opponent’s defensive equipment, he was probably right.

The remaining life count was six total for the opponents and four for Yeon-woo, but the opponents consisted of a team captain and team member while Yeon-woo was a solo team captain.

‘The opponents will have to make a choice now. Or they might have already transferred it midway.’

He was talking about life points.

Yeon-woo recalled the fourth rule that was announced when the game started.

《4. Remaining life can only be transferred from team member to team captain.》

Now, to save the opposing team captain who was down to his last life, the team member would have no choice but to transfer life points.

In reality, the fight was between the opposing team expert and Yeon-woo – just those two.

The opposing team captain would only add firepower by shooting half a beat slower when his team member started firing, but in this fast-paced guerrilla warfare, he was nothing but dead weight.

‘In a 2-on-1 situation where one person is dead weight, the solo side actually has the advantage.’

The opposing team’s expert was probably also a combat operative forged by real combat experience, so it would be hard to guarantee who would be superior if they faced off directly.

Just as Yeon-woo could quickly process numerous pieces of information to predict the opponent’s attacks and dive to avoid them, the opponent could do the same.

But the opposing team captain was different.

‘From the team member’s perspective, that existence itself is like fighting while leaving his own life in external hands. And in an easily attackable state at that.’

By now, they would have consumed the team member’s life to restore the team captain’s life.

It didn’t matter if they hadn’t.

If they hadn’t transferred it, he could just eliminate the team captain as is.

Rustle─.

As soon as he heard the opponent stepping on corn husks at close range, he rolled forward without hesitation.

Rat-a-tat─!

Sure enough, bullets rained down on where Yeon-woo had been once again.

But this time was different.

‘···The gunfire is from one person.’

It seemed the opposing expert had realized the disadvantage after transferring life points.

Right after rolling, Yeon-woo immediately returned fire.

Bang─!

Rat-a-tat─!

He detected the opponent diving sideways and swept his muzzle horizontally while pulling the trigger, but the lushly grown corn stalks seemed to act as a natural barrier and block the shots.

There wasn’t a moment to spare for delay.

He immediately moved to a different location.

***

“Ooh─!”

The gallery was filled with exclamations as they watched the breathtakingly tense battle.

“That’s amazing? Honestly, when Mister Ryu faced those two opponents, I thought he’d unfortunately be out.”

When the American team, who had been eliminated by the Italian team on the first day, said this while watching the screen, a man behind them raised his voice.

“Ah, well, Mister Ryu is different, you know? You absolutely can’t think of him as an ordinary person.”

The one speaking with his chest puffed out, somehow proudly, was Myles Kroeger from the Canadian team.

“What’s this, Myles. Are you Mister Ryu’s father? Why are you so proud?”

“No, that’s not what I meant.”

Meanwhile, Kim Minsu, caught in the middle, rolled his eyes around and tried his best to listen carefully to the conversations happening around him.

‘They keep saying “Mr. Ryu, Mr. Ryu,” so it definitely seems like they’re talking about our actor…’

I couldn’t understand what they were saying at all.

Could they be badmouthing our Actor Ryu’s father? Trash talk···? No, that can’t be it.

‘···Sigh, when I get back to Korea, I’m going to study English like crazy. He’ll be working overseas in the future, and me not knowing English yet is basically neglecting my duties.’

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The battle unfolded frantically.

The production team immediately dispatched a nearby helicopter camera for the thrilling combat.

Swoosh─.

Corn leaves rustled from all directions.

When the wind blowing from the Atlantic Ocean swept through the corn field, sharp gunshots pierced through the wind between the rustling.

Bang─!

Rat-a-tat─!

Like dolphins hiding in the waves and appearing here and there above the rippling surface of a green sea, Yeon-woo and the opposing team expert kept popping up suddenly.

Then they would unleash gunfire at their opponents and immediately disappear without a trace, hiding in the green sea made of corn leaves.

Even in the midst of this, Yeon-woo was moving systematically.

‘I moved about five steps to the left, so this time I’ll go straight ahead.’

Because he knew what the opponent was aiming for.

With corn fields all around, if he didn’t think about where he was moving, continuing to fight would gradually take him farther from his original position.

‘They’re trying to protect their captain.’

The captain must be hiding somewhere.

The reason the two opposing team members separated was clearly to push Yeon-woo away from their captain.

But even knowing their scheme, there was no reason to fall for it.

While moving systematically and fighting, Yeon-woo searched for the opposing team captain who should be nearby and spotted a black object in the corn field filled with green and yellow.

‘So you were here···!’

He fired two shots with his rifle toward the opponent and threw himself forward to close in.

“Eek!”

The opposing team captain, who had been extremely tense from the gunshots coming from all directions, had his muscles contracted, slowing his reaction speed, and though he turned his gun barrel toward Yeon-woo who was throwing himself forward, he was too close to aim properly.

In real combat at this close range, they would probably need to attach a bayonet to the gun barrel and engage in close-quarters combat.

Throwing himself forward and wrapping the assault rifle’s sling around his shoulder while airborne, Yeon-woo drew the pistol from his waist.

At the same time, he rolled on the ground and got extremely close to his opponent, less than a meter away, and Yeon-woo made eye contact through the helmet’s goggles with the panicking opposing team captain.

Through the goggles fogged with sweat and humidity, he could see the opponent’s eyes, round with surprise.

At extremely close range, grabbing the opponent’s hand holding the rifle in an almost embracing position, Yeon-woo fired his pistol repeatedly into the opposing team captain’s abdomen.

Bang─!

Rat-a-tat─!

Beep─.

Buzz─!

Along with the gunshots, a red light flashed on top of the opponent’s defensive equipment and a beeping sound was heard.

Of course, Yeon-woo’s smartwatch vibrated as well.

Looking at the opposing team captain who still had a dazed expression, not yet realizing what had happened to him, Yeon-woo lightly patted his shoulder.

Pat pat─.

And with that, Yeon-woo went back into the corn sea made of green leaves.

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Realizing that his team captain had been eliminated, the opposing team expert frantically pursued Yeon-woo.

The opposing team’s expert frantically chased after Yeonwoo upon realizing that their team leader had been eliminated.

After exchanging gunfire several times, Yeon-woo felt that his opponent’s skills were even better than he had expected.

His predictive shooting was impressive, and his ability to anticipate and dodge Yeon-woo’s attacks was also remarkable.

With only one life remaining each, the corn field served as a natural barrier, making it difficult for either to land a hit.

As the chase continued without either managing to deal damage to the other, the end of the corn field came into view.

Yeon-woo reached the edge of the corn field first and tracked his pursuer’s movement path through the roughly bent corn stalks.

Then both simultaneously rushed toward the point where the corn field ended, throwing themselves forward.

Yeon-woo to eliminate his opponent.

His opponent to inflict at least some damage on Yeon-woo, since his team leader was already out anyway.

Bang─!

A loud gunshot echoed.

It wasn’t the sound from Yeon-woo’s gun, nor from his opponent’s gun.

Whirr─.

– [Player Republic of Korea-B] has eliminated [Player Brazil-B].

The owner of that echoing loud gunshot was Kim Su-hyeok, who had quickly assessed the situation from the continuous gunfire nearby and the kill log that arrived on his smart watch, then rushed over and waited in position.

In the distance, he could see Kim Su-hyeok waving at him.

“Good timing too. Taking my kill with a last hit like that.”

Yeon-woo looked toward Kim Su-hyeok in the distance and muttered to himself with a pleased laugh.

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