“I should have never come on this MT.”
“With the new and returning students, I figured this is a great opportunity to mingle with girls.”
Lee Hyun too, wanted to clear the many misconceptions the students thought about him being a returnee.
He wanted to get along with the freshmen and reiterate that he was also a freshman.
Or else, all that was left about spending time at school was the depression of singularity.
With this ambition in mind, he was willing to carry this out during this trap of an MT.
“Why’d he say that place.”
“Huwew, please don’t remind me…”
“Give me a life vest so I can swim away from here.”
The returning students have already guessed the location.
The professor’s slip of the tongue of the first syllable pretty much gave them the island.
‘Sil’ was that character.
The island was the tile of a film with a base audience at the box office of a whopping 10 million viewers and made the island famous.
Nowadays, not many people knew of the island itself; in the usually cases, even the returning seniors, most made the connection to the film in its stead.
“Silmido.”
“Keoheuk!”
“Why that place…”
For the seniors, it was exactly like they predicted.
Southwest of the Ports of Incheon, the ship arrived at Silmido!
What welcomed them were the sandy beach and the foreshore.
Their hardship was just beginning.
“Here is the MT timetable. Please keep an eye out for this; hopefully we can smoothly match the times set for the MT.”
[Your day by day is tabulated here.]
Day 1 — Arrival at 1100.
— 1200 Group meaclass="underline"
Cannot use matches or lighters.
Live as those in the wilderness, make your own fire.
Once fire’s done, you can start with the meal preparation.
— 1400 Training course of hell #1:
Run one lap around the island on the shore; race to be the first 30 people.
Whoever arrives afterward must run another lap.
However, if you can’t do it and give in, one of your members can take on the duty in your stead.
The group will do so until it is dinner hours; if not finished by then, having dinner is prohibited.
— 1700 Group dinner and rest.
— 200 °Courage test:
Each group will be given a specific target to be reclaimed in the mountain.
The group that obtains many targets will be presented with an exception.
— 2300 Bed time.
Day 2 — Wake at 0600, toiletries.
— 0700 Group meal.
— 0800 Training course of hell #2:
Lunges 300 meters, then get on wooden canoes and row 1 trip around the island.
— 1200 Group meal.
— 1300 Sport competitions.
Events: Football(soccer), wrestling, log (bridge) boxing, lug of war, no exceptions. Unconditional participation.
Souvenirs to groups according to performance.
— 1700 Break.
Sincere information exchanges between the grades as you share drinks. Talent show.
— 2200 Free time from here.
If you want, you can sleep as long as possible.
Day 3 — wake at 0800, toiletries.
— 0900 Meaclass="underline"
Each group can make you own food and share with the entire lot.
— 100 °Clean up.
— 1100 Free to tour Silmido.
— 1300 Returning.
[Writing this is an enormous pain…huek…]
The so-called timetable of hell!
If it was the usual MT, they’d be busy playing and eating.
But as the professors who planned this MT, they firmly swore.
“Unconditional wilderness! And hell’s training!”
The groups were made to take care of the preparations themselves, and now the intensity of the training was raising the works to a higher height.
After putting together the timetable, the professors were very pleased.
“We’ve completed this good timetable and are now heading back.”
“It’s necessary to adhere to this guideline.”
“This is a bit generous already so don’t ask for more. We won’t do it.”
“Never!”
The professors recalled last year’s Teacher’s Day.
It was a sad day since they did not receive a single flower or gift from the students!
But this was not done through vengeance due to that.
It most definitely was not.
The timetable was accepted with some concerns.
“Do you think they’ll really commit to this ridiculous thing?”
“It has to be a joke.”
The symptoms of escaping reality!
While still dubious, each set their baggage on the open and spacious sand.
“Well then, let’s set up our place.”
They did not care for breakfast and got started working on their settlement.
Each wanted to start early before night falls so they pulled out the equipments to set up the tents.
Most groups had essentially got a tent that could accommodate eight people to sleep in.
The tent, within the given allotted budget, spent most of it.
As for Lee Hyun, it was a different story.
“Our group will also set up an accommodation.”
Yet, the stuffs he removed from the compressed baggage were Styrofoam, aluminum rods, and building insulators that were used on construction sites.
“That’s the tent?”
The group members were dazzled in confusion.
Lee Hyun was carrying most of the stuff so they didn’t know most of the things acquired.
“We’re not going to make a tent. We’re going to create a temporary place to live.”
“……”
Park Sunjo asked cautiously.
“But we’re lacking a lot of materials to build something like that.”
Lee Hyun only removed a total of eight rods.
The insulators and the Styrofoam were barely able to fill one backpack.
“I know. Without the rest of the materials, these wont be enough.”
“Then how…”
“Local sourcing! I’m gonna go get things to make pillars and roof so you guys wait here.”
Lee Hyun pulled a saw from the tool box. Then he went into the woods nearby.
The group members then, were truly speechless.
Although the mountain was not very big and the woods weren’t completely dense or hazardous, his unexpected behavior caused them to be in the state of static panic.
Surprisingly, Lee Hyun returned pretty soon.
Along with the saw he brought, there was an additional tree he cut.
The dead and fallen tree branches were intertwined with other branches and kept close to the trunk.
He returned with the tree on his back, dragging it by the trunk.
Lee Hyun’s shoulders and arm muscles tighten as he kept the tension onto the material.
After his tendons thickened, he was overflowing with physical attractiveness.
It was not an exaggeration to call him a wreck once before, but thanked to the workouts in the Dojang, he built a strong body.
‘Look at those chest and forearm.’
‘His abdomen looks rock hard.’
Most of the girl’s eyes sparkled.
The members of the other groups privately talked about Lee Hyun.
Since then, the teachers also looked toward him with interests.
“Materials are all prepare, so I’ll build a house.”
Lee Hyun nailed the aluminum rods deep into the ground.
And on the ceiling, he has established a solid roof using the braches.
Choi Sang-jung didn’t like the roof very much.
“When it rains, it’ll leak through and put out the fire.”
The cut off branches were woven together and looked quite sturdy.
But if there were too many small openings, it would be too vulnerable against the rain drops regardless of its constitution.