When I Opened My Eyes, I Was in the Middle of the Battlefield

A few days later, Washington DC, USA

Robert Anderson, director of the Department of External Affairs, who had finished reporting to the Vice Minister for the ongoing pursuit of Sergey, returned to the office and received a new secure email.

The caller is Jake.

Robert, whose eyes were tired, quickly sat down.

It was because it was one of the few reports that I waited with interest in the midst of my heavy work.

Click.

As the mail opened, the desired name appeared.

Kang Tae Lee.

The moment he saw the three letters, a smile came to his lips.

I was genuinely curious about Kang-tae’s performance, but I was even more pleased because it was a test conducted without sniper training.

Perhaps this video will allow you to see Kangtae’s talent more clearly.

“ruler… where… … .”

Robert, muttering to himself excitedly, activated the attached video.

Wait for the recorded version of the scope video to come out.

“… … !”

His eyes widened.

It was because the process of aiming and firing was unbelievably fast.

Seconds to decimal places.

Robert’s head turned left and right.

‘… Huh, this is no different from a fully automatic fire control system.’

Compared to military systems in which aiming and firing are accomplished by pressing a single button, it seemed to lack nothing.

Even the movement of the scope was machine-like.

The shaking of the lens was steady until aiming, but at some point it stopped as if it were stopped and the trigger was fired at the same time.

Robert wanted to ask how the hell he did this, but it happened to be in the report.

[…] ‘If you ask me, it’s innate,’ he said to himself. Sniper Brad, who took the test together, also evaluated Kang-tae as a shooting genius.]

Robert, a born genius, muttered those words.

There was already a precedent.

There are geniuses who have stood out in all kinds of fields, but among them, there was one representative example who worked in the military field, including the Manhattan Project.

That’s John von Neumann.

He was a genius who made a mark in the history of modern mathematics and was still talked about in the military field.

A person who developed various military technologies that even dozens or hundreds of scientists could not solve, and who also solved problems.

That, of course, was not something ordinary people could understand.

Just like Kang Tae’s aim and trigger.

Of course, John von Neumann showed his genius from an early age, and Kang Tae did not stand out in the special forces record.

What mattered was the verifiable results.

Coming from Korea, Kang Tae’s few lines of special forces records were unreliable in comparison.

I didn’t mean forgery, but it was highly likely that it was a formality.

Perhaps the vertical and closed-minded Korean military might have turned Kang Tae into an ordinary soldier.

In that respect, the conclusion Robert could draw was very clear.

‘Lee is the most powerful strategic weapon in close combat, and at the same time has become a sniper that can be active from a distance. In a word, he became the reaper of death.’

At the end of that thought, Robert smiled.

It was thanks to Jake’s sentence at the end of the report.

[He recommended permanent residency, and said that he would apply for a permanent residency issuance to the company when returning from vacation.]

I was a little concerned about the method of recommending permanent residency, but it was successful, so there was nothing wrong with it.

Above all, the relationship between Kangtae and Charlie’s team at G&G Corp was very close, especially with Jake, so this report was reliable.

Of course, it wasn’t without regret.

Right Rachel.

As an elite resource who came through the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the CIA, she was instructed to develop a relationship with Kang-tae, but there were no meaningful results.

The frequency of conversations increased until right before the vacation, but it was just meaningless words.

‘Rachel is sluggish than I thought… It’s been a month now, so I’ll have to keep an eye on it.’

The most important thing was a natural relationship.

I wanted to brainwash Kang-tae into the national view and quickly issue him citizenship, but I didn’t have the confidence to endure the side effects that would arise.

Because Kangtae was an anti-personnel strategic weapon that could not be obtained anywhere.

Perhaps, like John von Neumann, Kang Tae might become a great man who would make a mark in the industry.

It had to be handled with the utmost care.

* * *

I booked a room at a luxury hotel called ‘The Nines’ in Portland, and went to the shooting range every morning in Jake’s monstrous pickup truck.

It was safe to say that was all of the rest of the vacation schedule.

In the evening, I do strength training at the hotel gym, but that was only for an hour or two, and I did shooting for about half a day.

If you go in the morning until lunch, if you go from lunch until dinner.

Excluding gear rentals, I was spending hundreds of dollars every day on ammunition alone.

It seemed like a waste, but to me it was worth it.

It wasn’t because of the advantage of handling multiple firearms and experiencing various shooting courses.

It was really fun.

I liked the taste of shooting while pulling the trigger, and even the guns and courses were diverse, so there was no time to get bored.

Shooting was what I did a lot in the army, but it was incomparable to that.

Al Jamash’s training center and training range were the same.

Shooting at that time was not fun, perhaps because of a sense of duty, but what I am doing now is a completely different real-life FPS.

A game where you can enjoy shooting with all five senses.

“Big… This is it.”

– I had the same admiration every day.

After using the sniper rifle Brad had brought with me on the first day, the next day, I mastered all kinds of rifles that were rented at the shooting range, and then I enjoyed chewing, tearing, and tasting shotguns and pistols.

Of course, I tried every type of ammunition in the shooting range.

That was the day the last shot was completed.

I stopped by the office to drink coffee and say hello to the cashier, when I heard a voice from behind.

“excuse me… What is your name?”

“Me?”

“Ah yes. I just saw you shooting… You’re so good, I thought I’d say hello.”

It was a person I only saw briefly at the shooting range.

While he asks me for a handshake and briefly accepts it.

Suddenly, Jake appeared.

“What is your business?”

It was around the time that his characteristic gruff voice came out heavy.

The man standing in front of me seemed to have been suppressed by that force, hesitating and backing away.

“yes? Oh, I… I just wanted to say hello… oh, sorry… … .”

looks like it’s crumbling.

The person who approached eventually withdrew as if shrinking.

And Jake turned to me.

“What happened?”

“No, I was just saying hello.”

Then I lowered my voice and asked.

I wonder if I’m an unknown secret agent or a suspect.

“Do you know any faces?”

However, Jake looked around and shook his head briefly.

“No, I don’t know.”

“yes? You don’t know?”

“Yeah, I just block it before it becomes a hassle.”

“ah… … .”

I understood what you meant.

It meant that I would not bother to create a job whether it was awarded or not.

I fully understood why.

It wasn’t just that I used a variety of firearms;

A type of play by game streamers and BJs.

For example, I did tactical shooting at CQB close quarters with kar98k, and some sniping from a distance of more than 100 yards with a Smith & Wesson Model 60 revolver.

It wasn’t just for fun.

I also checked to see if it was actually possible and whether there was any effect on the sharpshooter characteristics.

And it was pretty successful. The process of reloading was not skilled, so it was just a little stumbling.

As I was quiet with that thought, Jake asked me a question.

“So, did you do all the shooting you wanted to do?”

I couldn’t answer no because it was like asking if I was going to do more strange things.

It was because there was something I gave up because I was trying to test it.

It is the dual pistol of the hero’s original color.

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Like Chow Yun-fat, I thought about using two Beretta 92Fs.

It was also a scene that I fell in love with while renting it on video when I was young, to see if the sharpshooter’s characteristics were applied to each gun.

Of course I couldn’t.

It was because after that, it really seemed like there would be a lot of rumors in the shooting range.

‘I’ll try this later. It seems that the characteristics will be applied to both of them, but… … .’

After that thought, Jake nodded towards the parking lot.

“Go now, before anyone else comes.”

“All right.”

I climbed into the car under the guard of Jake, who was not meant to be like that, and quickly left the shooting range.

I was a bit disappointed, but I couldn’t help it.

It was time to return to the battlefield, not to the luxury hotel.

* * *

Al Jamash, guard containers at the plant construction site.

“came?”

Rachel, who entered the country first, calmly greeted Kangtae and Jake.

After that, Marcus and Jose, who printed new family photos, arrived one after another with bright faces.

“This time, instead of 20 days, it was like 20 hours of vacation. Lee, how was your first vacation? Wasn’t it very exciting to go out after two months?”

José, who had just changed his clothes, leaned in front of Kang-tae’s room and asked.

“What about Korea… so so.”

When Kang-tae answered lightly while organizing his luggage, José asked properly.

“So you’re saying you haven’t had a girlfriend?”

“What is a lover… … .”

When Kang-tae answered with a smile, José frowned.

“Lee, you are thirty now. You must have a lover in your hometown… ah! be surprised… what?”

As he spoke, he flinched and looked down the hallway.

“Rachel? What are you doing there?”

“I came because I had something to say… What are you talking about? lover?”

Rachel asked as she approached slowly.

While not seeming to care, he stood in front of the door and looked at Kang-tae, and Jose’s mouth twitched at the same time.

“Oh, are you curious about Kang-tae’s lover?”

“I want to hear… Did you date a lover in Korea?”

She asked with her dark brown pupils shining, and Kang-tae asked with his eyes wide open.

“I wouldn’t have come to ask you that… Did you call from the command room? Or did the team leader call you?”

“… Um, not that.”

Rachel hesitated, then held out a piece of paper fluttering.

“A new assignment has been issued.”

“What are you talking about? Didn’t we just come back?”

“I know, I just got back.”

When Rachel replied with a nonchalant face, Jose’s expression wrinkled.

“Are you the type to tell a boring joke?”

“See for yourself, is it a joke or not.”

Rachel fluttered and held out the documents, and before she knew it, Kang Tae also came closer to check the contents.

At the same time, both eyes read the most important part.

[Republic of Camarnia: UN OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) field investigation team accommodation and mobile security]

Immediately, Jose’s mouth opened.

“Oh, damn it!”

Jose had no choice but to spit out profanity.

It was because Camarnia was the smallest battlefield in the Caucasus and was called the worst battlefield.

As a partially approved country that has been independent for less than 20 years, it is in the midst of a civil war, and Russia and Azerbaijan, which are bordering on top and bottom, are mobilizing the military.

Simply put, it was a more dangerous area than Al Jamash.

However, Kang Tae’s eyes did not waver at all while reading the same content.

‘It’s going faster than I thought.’

It was because I was well aware that it was one of the main stories of Lareple and that it was a virtual world.

If the starting point was Al Jamash, then there was Camarnia in the middle.

Of course, like an open world, I could go not only there, but also to the Taril Islands, an archipelago in Southeast Asia.

‘Then the Taril Islands will go later… … ?’

While Kangtae was thinking of the map.

“I should go and protest, I never thought I would feed sh*t like this as soon as I got back from vacation. What the hell is HQ thinking? Is that why you took a vacation? damn… … .”

While José gets more and more distant with irritation.

Suddenly, Rachel turned around as if she was about to leave and called Kang-tae.

“lee.”

“… … ?”

“Could that… You mean a lover, is it real?”

“No, no.”

Kang-tae, who answered briefly, turned around to tidy up his belongings, and Rachel cautiously continued.

“If you have a man… … ?”

“Oh really… If you’re going to keep talking nonsense, get out of here. I’m going to take a nap while resting.”

“No, I will go.”

Rachel turned around as if her business was over, and Kang-tae, who finished packing up, lay down on the bed.

It was the same day I returned to Al Jamash and a week before I left for Camarnia.