Chapter 1309

There are about a dozen custom sets on Jurassic Island, all concentrated in a large park, with different styles and themes in each room.

And today, the crew came to an area in the basement of a research institute, which was divided by wire mesh and filled with electrical appliances similar to mainframes and electronic controls.

"Yuko-san~"

Naoki Nagayama was speaking somewhat seriously to Yuko Tanaka about the scene to be filmed,

"This shoot is about going to the basement to restart the crashed mainframe.

Your character is suddenly startled while happy and relaxed... just like in a horror movie, it's... just..."

After organizing his language a little, Naoki Nagayama continued:

"It's like the feeling of just escaping death, and then a monster suddenly jumps out from behind to give you a fright!"

"... Is it just a fright..."

Looking at this director who started out filming horror movies, Yuko Tanaka was a bit speechless... This rhythm of "relaxed—suddenly tense" is undoubtedly an important turning point in the movie.

She had seen "Ring"; when Sadako suddenly appeared, that wasn't just a fright... that was enough to scare someone to death!

Didn't they say that a famous director watched this scene and was scared to the point of wetting himself~

"So Yuko-san, although you know the Velociraptor is coming out from behind, I won't notify you when the Velociraptor is coming out... or where it's coming out from..."

Naoki Nagayama hadn't finished speaking,

"I just want to capture the shot of you jumping in fright!"

"..."

As a female artist, Yuko Tanaka couldn't help but bite her lip; this was going to ruin her expression!!

No matter what, she's a beauty, okay?!

"Yuko-san, is there a problem?"

"... Daijobu!"

"That's good~"

Naoki Nagayama said to Yuko Tanaka with a smile,

"Yuko-san, relax. The props team promised me they would scare people; they won't let your performance fail!"

"... I thank them!"

"Alright, alright, go prepare~"

Watching Yuko Tanaka go to familiarize herself with the lines, Naoki Nagayama then turned to the backstage area as if nothing had happened.

He saw Takehiko Takei of the props team smirking with his apprentice as they corrected the Velociraptor half-body model on the table.

"Yes, yes, yes, paint the teeth a bit brighter here... white, sharp fangs!"

"The eyes... the eyes of a hunting Velociraptor should also be more ferocious!"

"... Takei-sensei, I think the pupils could use a snake-eye style; it's colder and more frightening..."

Apprentice Ryohei Matsuura also suggested with a smirk,

"That would make it even more frightening!"

"Hmm, hmm, that works, that works..."

Besides the two of them, there were a few others in the logistics team who would interject from time to time, all thinking about how they could scare Yuko Tanaka......

Well, when doing bad things, the human brain runs at two hundred percent~

"Ahem!"

Naoki Nagayama coughed lightly to interrupt their conspiracy,

"I say, Matsuura-kun... you can't treat Yuko-san like an enemy!"

"Ah... Naoki-san!" Ryohei Matsuura's face showed a bit of embarrassment, "We just want to make Yuko-san's reaction more realistic..."

"Hmm... that makes sense! Then I'll help too!!"

Saying that, Naoki Nagayama also threw himself into the great cause of pranking Yuko Tanaka~

And as time flew by, soon, it was time to film this scene.

"Positions... ready... Action!"

Naoki Nagayama started filming with a serious expression, while Masataka Komori operated the moving camera, following the heroine's performance closely.

Yuko Tanaka went down the stairs into the basement...

The mainframes in the basement were stacked layer upon layer, lined with various thick data cables that were so dense they blocked the view. At this time, the mainframes had shut down due to protective measures, and the indicator lights on some layers showed a faulty red...

And Yuko Tanaka, as the heroine, walked to the mainframe, operated the buttons a few times—seemingly nervous but actually casually—and then saw the indicator lights turn to the green of normal operation!

Just like hackers in movies always press a few keys on the keyboard and can hack into some Security Bureau or a five-cornered building in a few seconds... It's just repairing a mainframe, isn't that something you can do with your hands?!

"Haha!"

A smile appeared on Yuko Tanaka's face; she turned around, looked up, and shouted to someone at the entrance of the basement,

"I think I've fixed the mainframe!!!"

And just at this moment, a hiss suddenly came from the thick data cables behind her back!

Then, the ferocious head of a Velociraptor rushed out from the data cables!

The slender snake pupils flashed with the cold light of a cold-blooded species, the sharp teeth seemed to have flesh and blood remaining, the dark green scales scraped and creaked as they twisted, and terrible hissing sounds kept coming from the bloody mouth...

At this very moment, Yuko Tanaka's face turned pale, and when she turned her head and saw this Velociraptor, her facial control was completely lost!

"Ah!!!"

A terrified scream escaped her lips, and her body also rushed away in a tremble, even wanting to climb directly onto the wire mesh... Who said Japanese women are weak?!

"Cut!!"

Naoki Nagayama shouted in time, and then immediately surrounded the still-shaken Yuko Tanaka with the crew.

While walking, he signaled to the props team:

"Quick, pull the head back!!!"

Only after surrounding Yuko Tanaka with a group of people did Naoki Nagayama ask softly:

"Yuko-san? Daijobu?!"

"..."

The feeling of terror actually only lasted for a moment; after running away, Yuko Tanaka had already reacted... but her startled body didn't recover so quickly; the adrenaline that had already been secreted was making Yuko Tanaka tremble all over, full of energy...

And after seeing Naoki Nagayama's annoying appearance, Yuko Tanaka, both startled and angry, subconsciously punched Naoki Nagayama in the chest!

"Boom!"

"..."

After throwing this punch, both Yuko Tanaka and Naoki Nagayama were stunned!

Yuko Tanaka, who reacted quickly, hurriedly retracted her fist, a very apologetic expression on her face:

"Ah... sumimasen, I was too scared just now and couldn't control myself... Naoki-san, daijobu?!"

"Hmm..."

Naoki Nagayama, who had been punched in the chest by a woman, to be honest, was indeed in some pain, but with so many people watching on set...

"Ahem..."

He pretended to be calm and patted the clothes on his chest,

"Luckily, I'm also someone who has trained! This is nothing...

Let me catch my breath for a moment, recover..."

Then he walked toward the break room with firm steps. Once he was out of everyone's sight, he hurriedly raised his hand to rub his pectoralis major... It's really painful to be hit by a woman when you're not paying attention!

And at this time, Yuko Tanaka's face on the set had turned from pale to flushed; on one hand, she had recovered, and on the other, she was worried because she had hit the director hard.

If it were any other director and actor, they might have just replaced her. Luckily, Naoki Nagayama wasn't someone who held grudges, and her relationship with Naoki Nagayama was quite good~

"Yuko-san, redo your makeup... it's a bit smudged~"

Masataka Komori arranged the crew's next plan on Naoki Nagayama's behalf,

"Everyone else, prepare for the next scene..."

This scene was definitely a pass... they couldn't film Yuko Tanaka's reaction to being scared again anyway~

"Hai~" XN

Then, when Naoki Nagayama walked out of the break room with a cup of coffee, the crew was already preparing in an orderly fashion.

"Naoki-san... hontoni sumimasen!"

Yuko Tanaka found Naoki Nagayama and apologized sincerely again.

"Hahaha, Yuko-san, I already said it's fine~" Naoki Nagayama waved his hand, "It's just a girl's strength..."

"Really?"

"Really, really~"

Naoki Nagayama joked,

"Do you think my fitness training is for nothing! I don't feel anything at all!"

"... That's good!"

Yuko Tanaka breathed a sigh of relief~

"Yuko-san, next we're going to continue filming the scene where you're being chased." Naoki Nagayama said, "In this basement, you're going to have a life-and-death race with the Velociraptor..."

These were all in the script, so Yuko Tanaka naturally had no problems.

However, in the next segment to be filmed, she had to hang at the entrance above the basement to avoid the Velociraptor below... and then she had to climb up...

As everyone knows, pull-ups are a very strenuous movement...

And because the camera was filming from top to bottom, they couldn't film the support underneath... so they tried many times!

"Ganbatte!" "Yuko-san, go for it!" "Use your strength!!" "..."

After Yuko Tanaka finally climbed up, she heard Naoki Nagayama say,

"Cut... one more take!" Naoki Nagayama, who had poked his head out from behind the camera, said, "In this take just now, Yuko-san's expression wasn't right; it leaned toward struggling! It needs to be terror mixed with a desire to survive!"

"And there were a few too many small movements..."

"..."

Yuko Tanaka looked at Naoki Nagayama helplessly,

"Naoki-san, if you want to climb up, you need to grind out the distance a little bit!"

"Sigh... Yuko-san really is too weak!" Naoki Nagayama shook his head, "Props team, give Yuko-san the props!"

For this level, you only need some transparent nylon rope as an aid, and it can be pressed under the arm so it won't be filmed~

"..."

Too weak?

A thought rose in Yuko Tanaka's heart as she climbed for the Nth time: if only that punch earlier had been a little harder!

While Naoki Nagayama was busy filming the movie, the election for the Japanese Diet finally reached its final moment.

In the last week of November, the election for members of the House of Representatives finally reached its final voting moment.

At a polling station in Chiba Prefecture, Yoshihiko Noda felt somewhat uneasy yet excited, because many voters showed him smiles when they saw him...

"This election is definitely nine times out of ten!"

Thinking that he would soon become the youngest member of the House of Representatives in the Diet, Yoshihiko Noda was full of pride.

"Become an assemblyman this year, become a high-level cadre within the party in the next term, serve as a Minister in the next, become the party leader in the next, and become Prime Minister!"

This is the path Yoshihiko Noda planned for himself. As someone who majored in political science and economics in college and was able to enter the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management to study for 5 years full-time right after graduation, his ambition had always been clear, and from the current point of view, his path in his official career was going very smoothly!

According to his plan, it would only take 12 years for him to step directly from being a nobody into the highest level of this country!

"After this time, the political connections from the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management can be put to use!"

Yoshihiko Noda couldn't help but fantasize; these connections all needed to at least become assemblymen and have a certain amount of power before they could be of help,

"Compared to that, Shuyou is all about money, and their connections are a bit scarce..."

"But there's no way around it; after all, Shuyou hasn't been rising for long, so it's only natural that they don't have connections in the political arena!"

"After I reach a high position in the future, I can also look after Shuyou if anything comes up..."

Yoshihiko Noda at this time was still young, his status had risen suddenly, and his mindset had risen too much; he couldn't even control his own self-cultivation!

Looking at Shuyou, which had always supported him, he actually had a somewhat condescending attitude~

At the same time, the leader of the Social Democratic Party, Takako Doi, was also feeling surging emotions.

Unlike Yoshihiko Noda, she was still waiting in the assemblyman's official residence, but the news coming from all over the Social Democratic Party made her very clearly understand that this time, the Social Democratic Party would occupy many seats in the House of Representatives!

The opposition party is about to become the ruling party!!!

And she, too, had a great possibility of becoming the first female Prime Minister in history!

And just at this moment, the office door was knocked on.

"Please come in!"

The door opened, and Noboru Takeshita, who had aged quite a bit, walked in. The baby face that should have been gentle had a few more traces of gloom.

"Chairperson Doi!"

"Takeshita-san..." Takako Doi nodded, "Why are you here?"

"I've come to congratulate the Chairperson... the majority of seats in the House of Representatives this time is already stable!"

Noboru Takeshita sat opposite the desk, his tone calm,

"The Social Democratic Party is about to become the majority party... and grasp the great affairs of the country!"

"Haha, this is also thanks to Takeshita-san's contribution!"

Takako Doi replied with a smile; if Noboru Takeshita hadn't brought a batch of key members of the Takeshita faction to the Social Democratic Party, there might have been some twists and turns.

"Chairperson Doi..."

Noboru Takeshita continued,

"You haven't forgotten the agreement between us, have you?"

Hearing this question, Takako Doi's face flashed with displeasure, but she still nodded in acknowledgment:

"Of course!"

"However, regarding the information about that whistleblower, I can indeed only find this much! Takeshita-san has also contacted the investigation team, so you should understand!"

Noboru Takeshita had been investigating the whistleblower of the Recruit scandal, and Hiromasa Ezoe of the Recruit company was also secretly sending private detectives to investigate... However, the clues broke at the editor of the Asahi Shimbun, because the editor who received the information didn't know the source either.

And the results of the official investigation were about the same; at most, they found an anonymous report case in Sapporo from before, and the method was very similar...

However, after turning their attention to the relevant areas in Hokkaido, they still couldn't find any clues.

Whether checking from the perspective of gains and losses, human relationships, or channels that could access relevant information, they couldn't find a single trace of this whistleblower.

It was as if this whistleblower had popped out of a crack in a stone; without cause or contact, they naturally knew about the bribery information, and then reported it directly for the sake of fairness and justice!

And then they plunged the upper echelons of Japan into a public opinion storm, caused the ruling party of Japan to fall apart, and made Noboru Takeshita miss out on the position of Prime Minister...

"Ah... I understand!"

Noboru Takeshita pressed his twitching eyelid. Although he was extremely angry in his heart, today wasn't for this purpose,

"I didn't come today to ask about the information on this whistleblower..."

"But to discuss with Chairperson Doi some candidates for government officials."

"..."

Takako Doi's eyes turned cold; this was reaching out for power!

But then she thought that the Takeshita faction occupied at least nearly 10 seats in the Diet, and if they were to cause trouble, her path to becoming Prime Minister might be even bumpier...

"Alright... what candidates does Takeshita-san have? Tell me so I can consider it?"

"Hai..."

Noboru Takeshita then put forward his most loyal key members, hoping they would serve as some relatively important government officials in government agencies...