Chapter 323
First, we need to learn the names and appearances of the parts through the diagram.
The production team thought that since there were seven of us, we could easily assemble the tent if we worked together....
"What's a pole holder? What does it look like?"
"Does it look like a spider?"
"But hyung, hyung! Shouldn't we organize the poles first? They're all over the place?"
"Wow, wow....... I guess we have to hammer nails in!"
"Inner tent and fly sheet? Ground sheet? What are all these?"
"...... I found the pole holder."
They say that too many captains spoil the boat.
I grabbed my dizzy head as I watched the members just blurting out what they wanted to say.
At this rate, it's not like we'll be able to make it in an hour, let alone 40 minutes.
First of all, it seems like we need to organize the traffic.
"Let's all focus first!"
My loud voice echoed throughout the campsite.
The members who were absentmindedly talking about what they wanted to say all turned their heads toward me like meerkats.
When I confirmed that everyone's attention was on me, I pointed to the diagram and prioritized it.
"I don't know much because I've never set up a tent before, but I learned that in a confusing situation like this, it's best to just follow the directions. In other words, if you just follow the order on the diagram, we can assemble it in 40 minutes."
"Oh......."
"Karis is really Karisma."
".....First, it's right to find the pole holder as Yoon-chul said."
"Why are you ignoring me?"
I pretended not to hear Kang Si-yoon's ad-lib.
"The first step is to connect all the poles to the pole holders and set them up on top of the inner tent. Eun-gyu hyung-nim, what did you say the inner tent is?"
Following my instructions, the members spread out the orange inner tent widely.
Ji Yoon-chul and Yoo Min-ha firmly inserted the poles into the spider-shaped pole holders while the tents were being opened.
"It's all done!"
"As I saw earlier, it said to put this in the middle of the inner tent and put the poles in the sleeve..."
"Okay, do you want to try that?"
Song Hyung-bin received the completed pole holder from Ji Yoon-chul.
He looked at the front and back of the holder with a frown and said that he didn't know at all.
"Is this the front? It doesn't look like it when you look at it this way."
"Wouldn't we know if we put them in?"
Following Heo Yoo-bin's suggestion, they first put the poles in the tent sleeves.
But it didn't live in the shape of a spirit.
"Opposite. Opposite! Take it out again!"
"Ahhhh! Huh!"
"It was hard to even put this in.......'
"Sorry, sorry! Hey, what's the point of putting only three in?"
Song Hyung-bin tried to speak positively while expressing his apology, but even at this moment, time was passing by relentlessly.
Feeling urgent, we hurriedly pulled out the pole, but it was already quite tightly bent inside the sleeve, making it difficult to pull it out.
"Ugh, ugh!"
Heo Yu-bin, who was struggling with a pole next to me, barely managed to pull it out.
He was surprised by the pole suddenly popping out and fell backwards.
"Yoo-bin, Yoo-bin! Stop being greedy for gags!"
"Oh, no! This is just a really natural fall-!"
"Hey, Siyoon got enough of the portions at the rest stop earlier, so it's okay! You can go with a documentary instead of a variety show!"
I laughed out loud at Song Hyungbin's words while removing the pole.
Now, it seems like all the members have become Kang Siyoon-ized.
Even in this situation where dinner is on the line, they're talking about portions.
It's no exaggeration to say that they've really become professional broadcasters.
So the members decided to go with a documentary for dinner, but not everything goes as easily as they want.
"Huh? Weren't we supposed to flip this?"
"Yoo Min-ha, come to your senses! You just flipped it!"
"Oh, really? Oh, ehehe! I didn't see it!"
"You just flipped it in front......."
It's basic for the unfamiliar tent parts to lose their observation skills.
"Yoon-chul, put the thick and small pole in the ring first."
"...The thin one?"
"Not the thin and long one, but the thick and short one!"
"......I can't find the ring."
"You're stepping on it with your foot!"
"Ah."
It was common for people to make small mistakes without realizing it and cause communication errors.
Still, we were building the frame of the tent, starting from the upper part.
"Oh, wait a minute. Shouldn't the pillars have been put up first?"
"Huh?"
"What?"
Kang Si-yoon, who was wiping off his sweat and looking at the blueprint, made a sound like a bolt from the blue.
I put the pole I was putting in the ring on the floor and hurried to Kang Si-yoon's side.
When I looked closely at the instructions, the tent pictured as an example looked completely different from the one we made.
"We shouldn't have connected the poles first. I didn't see this."
"What should we do with this? How do we put the poles in the floor of this tent? Is that possible?"
"We don't have to take this apart again, do we?"
"..."
"Huh, huh? Hyung, what did you say?"
At Chae Eun-gyu's worried voice, Heo Yu-bin and Yoo Min-ha, who were sweating profusely while connecting the poles, looked at a loss.
I chewed my lips.
It was my mistake that I was so busy connecting the poles that I didn't know where to start first.
'If we go with the basics, it would be right to start over from the beginning. But too much time has already passed.'
The time limit is 40 minutes.
The time we have spent so far is probably more than 10 minutes.
If we ruin the entire process so far, it will be very tight to successfully assemble the tent in 40 minutes.
I thought about it for a moment and made a decision in my mind. I will make up for my mistakes.
That is the natural course of action for a leader of a country.
"Siyoon. Is it okay if you help me for a moment?"
"What are you going to do?"
"Just come and see."
Kang Siyoon listened to me and followed me.
I held the pole that was inserted in the opposite direction and figured out the hole where this pole should be inserted.
'I guess I can bend it at this angle.'
Kang Si-yoon, who followed my gaze, soon realized what I was trying to do.
"Ah, ah! Are you just going to force the pole in here?"
"Yes. If we do this, we don't have to take the tent apart."
"Okay, then I can just hold the sheet here?"
Kang Si-yoon held the tent floor tightly.
He tried to make the part with the hole as far out as possible so that I could easily insert the pole.
"Let's go."
I pulled the pole down with all my might.
The upper part was fixed to the pole connected to the pole holder, so there was tremendous elasticity at the bottom.
You really wouldn't be able to bend it without applying a lot of force.
"Ugh!"
But I am different.
The desire to enjoy a sumptuous dinner with the members.
The sense of responsibility for not being able to examine the drawing in more detail.
The determination to succeed at all costs created an enormous resume.
"Ohhhh! It works, it works!"
The first pillar was put in place.
As the long pillar bent like a bow, the top of the tent bulged out like a dome.
When Kang Si-yoon cheered, the other members hurriedly came to me and were amazed.
"This works?"
"Why is it so funny to solve it with force?"
"It works. It works. It works! Hyung! This is awesome!"
Everyone couldn't contain their joy at the fact that they didn't have to break the tent and start over from scratch.
Heo Yu-bin and Ji Yoon-chul, who had given up on assembling the pillars, connected the remaining pillars with eyes filled with enthusiasm.
I could picture their tails twirling like excited puppies.
"Hyung, we're done here! I'll be connecting the next one!"
"Wait! We'll be there soon!"
The gloomy atmosphere suddenly brightened up.
The members regained their energy and moved as one body, knowing that they had found a breakthrough.
The number of poles that had been scattered everywhere when they first started had decreased significantly.
Thanks to everyone's unified hands, the tent gradually took on a proper shape.
"Huh-huh-!"
"Karis, good!"
"Hey, you can do it! Pull harder, more!"
Encouraged by the members' cheers, I gritted my teeth and put more strength into my arms.
This was the 'unity' meeting that the planning team had envisioned in their heads.
I don't know who planned it, but it seems like a really well-made idea.
"Guys, we can do it!"
"There's not much left, hyungs! Just hang in there!"
"...... If we do this, we'll get meat. If we do this, we'll get meat. If we do this, we'll get meat........"
There is no pleasure in finishing a difficult task.
The members heading to that destination showed off their teamwork by giving each other more motivation.
"Whew!"
"You really worked hard. Are your arms okay?"
"Of course they're okay. This much is easy."
As I exhaled heavily and spun my arms around for a moment, Kang Si-yoon checked my condition while massaging my shoulders.
To be honest, I felt a slight muscle pain, but I absolutely couldn't stop.
Everything comes from momentum.
A true commander is someone who maintains the morale of his soldiers until the end.
Here, I absolutely must not show weakness.
With my efforts, the last pole was put in place.
The tent, which had a perfect dome shape, now only had the finishing touches left.
"Side poles! Just put them in the sides! We're almost there!"
"Hyung, hyung! We need to fix the side poles and packs!"
The pack that holds the tent to the ground.
If we split the work into two, it could get confusing, so it's much faster if we all do them one by one.
I stared at the empty rings on the sides as I shook my hands and stood up.
"I think we should finish the sides first."
"Minha, poles! Bring the longest poles over here!"
"Yes!"
Manager Hyung, who was watching our work, announced how many minutes had passed.
"25 minutes have passed...!"
Unlike before, his voice tone had strangely dropped.
I turned my head and smiled at Manager Hyung, after I had put the extremely long side pole into the hook.
"Are you a little anxious now? I can see your voice shaking."
The production team also knew.
If we continue like this, victory will be ours.
Meanwhile, the members were utilizing Ji Yoon-chul's tall height and always slender arms on the other side.
"That's right, Yoon-chul! Just put it in up there!"
"T-this is too tight and won't fit well!"
"Leave it as is!"
I felt the adrenaline rushing inside me.
I applied tremendous pressure to the pole I was holding.
I held the pole with my own strength, holding on to the three people on the other side who were groaning.
Then I ran to the other side like lightning and took over the pole that Ji Yoon-chul was holding.
"Huh-!"
With a short shout, I quickly bent the pole and created the right angle.
This is the moment when the old saying from
All evil begins with power.
Only the power that surpasses all evil can put the world to sleep.
And this fact applies in the real world as well.
"Enough! Enough!"
"It's over! It's over!"
Song Hyung-bin, who had hammered the last pack, raised both his hands in the air.
The tent, which had been nothing more than a shabby piece of cloth earlier, had inflated into a magnificent dome shape.
Manager Hyung, who couldn't find a single flaw, blew the whistle with a rather gloomy expression.
"You succeeded in setting up the tent in 33 minutes!"
"Azaaaah!"
"Look, we can do it!"
"Euaaaaah!"
We held each other's shoulders and spun around in a ganggangsullae.
I ignored my arms that were starting to tingle and celebrated with the members by shouting excitedly.
Yes, this is what a unity team is.
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