“...How did they pull that off?” a member of the audience muttered quietly.

Even though it was nothing more than some dude raising his leg high before slamming it down, the log on the stage was snapped in half and fell to the floor as if it had been chopped in half by an axe.

“Whoooooa!”

“Wow, that SFX rocks!”

“They must've sawn that log in half beforehand, right?”

“Even if that's true, wasn't this performance so real? They did an excellent job!”

Jo Won-Gu could only smile awkwardly when the voices of the audience members below the stage reached his ears.

'Special effect, my ass...'

Didn't someone say being realistic and convincing were the true pinnacle of entertainment? The performance being put on by Jo Won-Gu's squad was nothing more than a simple miracle of kicking a log and breaking it in half, but the audience members seemed to think some kind of special effects had been employed here.

'...Then again, even I can hardly believe it. And I'm in the loop, too!'

Seong Tae-Ho's plan was quite effective. All the other contestants were trying their hardest to make the audience laugh with their comedy routines. Unfortunately, there was a limit to how funny a regular person could be. If they were super-funny, to begin with, they would've been assigned to the culture promotion division or as a member of the armed forces entertainment division.

The audience, exhausted by one routine of unfunny jokes after another, was primed to be bowled over by the 'realistic' display of physical might. Lady luck was on the 3rd Squad's side as well since their turn was toward the end of the competition.

“J-Jin-Ho! I won't get injured during this, right?” Jeon Hyeok-Su asked in a stuttering voice.

Kang Jin-Ho replied in his usual...