A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 329

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 329

“Do you all know where the mission papers are before you start running?”

“We don’t!”

When I asked while running after Kim Dobin in confusion, I got an answer that was utterly exasperating.

“Then why are you running?”

“Because I’ve learned through multiple episodes of experience that searching with your body is faster than using your head! If you just keep running, you’ll find them eventually!”

Right, Kim Dobin, being a regular panel member, would know better than me.

“Isn’t that a mission paper over there?”

When we arrived at an area with a forest, I could see a mission paper hanging on a tree at a height that was easily reachable.

So you really do find them by running around mindlessly. I liked the fact that you didn’t need to use your brain.

While striding toward the tree, I picked up a rope that was scattered carelessly on the ground, which my shoe had stepped on. No matter how I looked at it, it wasn’t a sturdy new rope placed for broadcasting purposes, but rather looked like rope someone had used and discarded.

“What’s this, there’s rope here? Didn’t they say this was an uninhabited island?”

“Among our country’s uninhabited islands, the ones where fishing and camping are possible are classified as usable uninhabited islands and developable uninhabited islands. There’s no way people haven’t been here before.”

I shook Kim Dobin, who was explaining with a strangely proud expression, and burst out.

“If you know so much, then why did you bring a whole bunch of bottled water and food when coming to this uninhabited island, but didn’t pack the tent and sleeping bag that you actually needed to bring!”

Then Kim Dobin rolled his eyes like a dog that had caused a major accident.

I let out a deep sigh and released the hand that was gripping his shoulder. Catching this guy could wait until we returned to the dormitory, and right now surviving on this uninhabited island came first.

Thinking it might be useful, I stuffed the rope into my pocket and reached out to easily grab the mission paper from the tree.

[Mission: Collect ten clams from the tidal flat]

“Oh, that’s easy, isn’t it?”

Kim Dobin said with sparkling eyes. But I couldn’t agree with that.

“If we go into the tidal flat and get covered in mud, where and how are we going to wash it off?”

“We have bottled water. We can succeed at this mission and use one for drinking water and one for washing, right?”

“Then what’s the point of doing the mission? In the end, the bottled water we earned all goes to washing off the mud?”

Since it was the first mission paper we found, I couldn’t bring myself to throw it away and kept it for now. If we couldn’t find anything else, we’d have to do this one, wouldn’t we?

“First, we need to secure as many mission papers as possible. That way we’ll have an advantage.”

Kim Dobin chattered away like an expert beside me, but just from not bringing a single tent, that guy had already lost my trust.

While wandering around this island that wasn’t very large, we discovered five more mission papers.

[Mission: Dig up kudzu root]

[Mission: Take a selca at the photo zone set up by the production crew]

[Mission: Find a four-leaf clover]

[Mission: Take a photo of a pheasant]

[Mission: Cook ramen and share it with the supply boat captain]

The missions were small, safe things you could do on an uninhabited island. It didn’t seem like they were trying to get entertainment from watching us do the missions… so supplies were the main focus after all.

What kudzu and pheasants are on this tiny island? Since kudzu, the photo zone, and four-leaf clover don’t move but pheasants do, I predicted that among the four, this would have the highest mission difficulty.

And for the last mission, wouldn’t you need at least five things to succeed: ramen, water, a pot, a burner, and chopsticks? If butane gas isn’t included with the burner, that’s at least six items.

If there’s no burner, we’d have to make fire ourselves, which would waste missions and make the difficulty even higher.

At first glance, it looks like the easiest mission and seems like a win-win where you can eat while doing the mission, but this kind of trap was hidden.

“Oh, this one looks the easiest.”

These guys would fall into this trap and waste all the missions they worked hard to collect and complete on this one mission, just as the production crew intended.

I clicked my tongue at Kim Dobin, who was holding the last mission paper and nodding while muttering. Tsk, fake youngest. What would you have done without me?

“Boat’s coming!”

At the solo singer’s shout that echoed loudly across the uninhabited island with such vocal power, everyone stopped looking for mission papers and ran toward the beach where we first arrived by motorboat.

A motorboat carrying some luggage arrived at the beach. Exactly the six pieces of luggage we had written on the sandy beach were placed on the motorboat.

Seeing the water bottle sitting there alone, the smallest in volume among the transported luggage, made my blood boil once again.

The production crew carried the luggage from the boat onto the sandy beach. Kim Dobin quickly grabbed the water bottle as if someone might steal it. He looked exactly like a homeless person worried about newspaper theft.

“How many mission papers are there in total?”

“You all sent photos of your luggage by text the day before. There are as many as those pieces of luggage.”

So that means there are more hidden than what the people here have collected.

“And we plan to give the uninhabited island MVP the right to plan the next trip.”

I don’t know what that trip planning right is, but seeing Kim Dobin and the other cast members’ eyes light up, it must be something good.

Anyway, thanks to that, I could tell that teamwork was out the window. You could tell by how they were sneakily hiding the mission papers they held in their hands.

“Wait, isn’t that too advantageous for Dobin? There are already two people as one team here.”

“That’s exactly the advantage.”

Kim Dobin smiled proudly with his characteristic mouth shape. I sneakily raised my hand and asked.

“Can we play individually? Please let me escape from being treated as a 1+1 set with this guy. I mean, being on the same team as someone who was going to make a makeshift house with tree branches and leaves to sleep in when coming to an uninhabited island – what did I do to deserve this?”

“Hyung, we’re already in the same group. You and I have been a community of fate since we debuted.”

Kim Dobin’s hand firmly grabbed my arm. Damn, at least here I don’t want to be a community of fate with you.

“I saw him on 【Real Men】 too. This guy is really resourceful. If you combine that with our lucky Dobin’s luck, it’s too much of a balance breaker.”

“Come on, no matter what, they can’t surpass the experience we’ve built up until now.”

The MC entertainer lightly patted the comedian’s shoulder to reassure him about his concerns.

“Since Yoon Eden came as Dobin’s advantage, you must move as one body with Dobin.”

At the PD’s declaration, Kim Dobin and my emotions crossed – joy and sorrow.

“And even if you don’t have the mission paper yourself, if you perform the mission first and prove it to us, we’ll count it as a successful mission.”

So to summarize, mission stealing was possible if you just knew the mission content without taking the mission paper. They were hammering home that it was individual competition.

“We’ve also placed tools here and there, so make good use of them. We’ll be back in an hour. And low tide is 2 hours and 30 minutes from now. Please keep this in mind.”

The motorboat carrying the PD cut through the water refreshingly and moved away again. I wanted to ride that and return to the cozy dormitory too.

“What’s low tide?”

“The mudflats come out. Tidal flats.”

“Ah, ebb tide. I guess there are crabs in the tidal flats?”

“I don’t know about blue crabs, but there should be small crabs scurrying around. Wait… crabs? Why are crabs suddenly coming up? Mission?”

“I was just saying.”

“How many do we need to catch, hyung?”

“Geez, I said I was just saying. When you think of tidal flats, don’t you think of crabs?”

“Come on, hyung, you definitely didn’t know if there were crabs. Just tell me quietly. People should help each other out.”

While the variety entertainer and actor were bickering, everyone grabbed their respective luggage. Kim Dobin approached the guitarist who was simply carrying a fishing bag and spoke to him warmly.

“Dongkyu Hyung, didn’t you bring a tent?”

“I bought it online as a set with a sleeping bag, but the delivery was delayed so I couldn’t bring it. I got a text this morning when we arrived at the filming location saying it would be delivered today.”

It was somewhat comforting to have a comrade in the same situation.

Instead of setting up a tent, I watched the panelists carefully place it in one spot and scatter again, then turned to Kim Dobin and asked.

“What should we do first? Do the mission, or look for more mission cards? Hey, experienced one. What’s better?”

“We’ll have to find these anyway to do the missions, so let’s walk around looking for them. Then at least one mission card or mission event should come up, right?”

“Yeah, let’s try it for now. We need to get supplies. What can we do with just one bottle of water.”

Rather than the wide open beach, there was a higher probability that mission cards were hidden in the hill that could barely be called a mountain, and since many of the missions we picked up could be done in the forest, we immediately climbed the hill.

“Hyung, there’s a shovel here.”

Not far along, there was a shovel neatly placed along with traces that looked like someone had dug up the soil.

“Could it be kudzu?”

“But have you ever seen kudzu? I’ve never seen kudzu before, so how would I know what to dig for?”

“I saw a wildcat on YouTube, but kudzu… doesn’t it look like tree roots? A bit blacker?”

We started digging anyway.

There was only one shovel, and it had been proven during the old semi-basement dorm snowstorm isolation that Kim Dobin was terrible at digging, so I just took charge of all the digging since I had a talent for it.

“Wow, a human excavator itself.”

As I dug the ground at high speed, Kim Dobin clapped beside me. Hearing that clapping didn’t particularly energize me.

“This, this, this. Isn’t this kudzu?”

“Isn’t that a tree root? No matter how I look at it, it’s a tree root, right?”

“Let’s try pulling it out first, Hyung. Let’s pull it out and when the supply boat comes, we’ll take it to the PD and have them identify it.”

“Hey, how do we pull this out? Can this thing even be pulled out?”

After wrestling with it for a long time, we finally pulled out what might have been kudzu or tree roots from the ground. We carefully collected it and walked a bit more to find a colony of clover.

“Are there any four-leaf ones? No matter how I look, they’re all three leaves?”

“Hyung, don’t kick them with your feet and hurry up and look. There’s definitely a four-leaf clover since they put it in the mission.”

“Let’s just make one, Dobin. Add one more leaf and stick it on, nobody will know. I’m really good at making those.”

“They’ll all figure it out. Wait a moment. Let me put up a photo of the CEO on my phone…”

“Are you doing CEO PPL all the way out here? Make sure to get paid for promotional fees when you settle accounts.”

“Oh, I found it! As expected, a lucky totem!”

Less than a minute after Kim Dobin displayed the CEO’s photo on his phone, a four-leaf clover was proudly held in his hand.

What the hell is that really…?

When I checked the time on my wristwatch, 45 minutes had passed. To be the first to get supplies that no one else had taken, we had to give up the remaining missions and go to the beach first.

“Hey, Dobin! Let’s hurry down!”

We hurriedly came down the hill and waited at the beach, and after waiting a bit, a motorboat appeared. The other panelists rushed over urgently, but we were the fastest since we had been waiting at the beach in advance.

“Yes, first place!”

“Yes, the kudzu and four-leaf clover are confirmed. Please take two supply items.”

While the PD was speaking, I quickly scanned the pile of supplies.

“Wow, it really was kudzu. Oh, there’s a burner! Hyung! Hyung! Burner and blanket! If not blanket, then pot!”

“Be quiet, man! Definitely the tarp!”

I grabbed two tarps that were packaged together.

“We have one bottle of water! I brought that tarp in case we run out of water, for making water!”

“Oh, did you bring this? You finally brought something actually useful. But tone down the decibels a bit. I’m not deaf yet.”

“Water is useful too though.”

“Don’t you see all these water bottles stacked up here? Get it through your head! What you think of, everyone else thinks of too!”

“Hyung, decibel low, low.”

“Do I look like I’m going to lower my decibels right now! I almost had to sleep on the sandy ground with nothing but my bare body for the crime of being dragged here!”

When I glared at him, Kim Dobin finally seemed to realize the scale of my anger and quietly backed down.

“Then I’ll grab the burner.”

“Just stay still for a moment, In… Doby.”

Barely remembering that the camera was filming us, I changed my attitude and called Kim Dobin’s name in the gentlest voice possible while firmly pressing down on the back of his head as he reached toward the burner.

“Alright, time limit 5 seconds! 5, 4…”

Scanning the pile of supplies with hawk-like eyes, I finally spotted what I was looking for and quickly snatched it before the countdown ended.

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