Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 228

Unlike other kudzu roots that absorb life force from a living host, this root constricts and kills the roots of surrounding kudzu, absorbing their life force instead.

Its root strength is potent, enabling it to constrict and kill other kudzu roots.

Having absorbed the life force of dozens of resilient kudzu roots, its medicinal properties are excellent.

Consuming it will increase Strength by 50 or Strength Potential by 25.

It has an extremely strong bitter taste.

Cultivator: Top Farmer Park Se-jun

Expiration Date: 210 days

Grade: A+

“Absorbing the life force of other kudzu roots, eh…?”

It was an unusual kudzu root. It seemed to be its own way of surviving, winning out in the competition with other kudzu roots.

Just as Se-jun was examining the white kudzu root that Kkueng-i had brought,

Kkueng!

[It’s not that Kkueng-i doesn’t want to eat it! It’s for Little Hyung!]

Kkueng-i, feeling guilty, made excuses.

‘Don’t lie. I know you brought it because you don’t want to eat it, Kkueng-i.’

Kkueng!

[Actually, Kkueng-i brought it because he didn’t want to eat it! But it really will help Little Hyung!]

Kkueng-i quickly revealed his true feelings.

“It’s okay. I was looking for herbs to boost the Black Rabbit’s strength anyway. Let’s give it all to the Black Rabbit.”

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[Good! This is for Papa!]

At Se-jun’s words, Kkueng-i smiled brightly and took out ten blue kudzu roots from his snack pouch, handing them to Se-jun.

“Thanks.”

Se-jun, having received the kudzu roots from Kkueng-i, ate them immediately.

Crunch. Crunch.

Gulp.

[You have consumed the Blue Potential Kudzu Root.]

[All stats potential increase by 5.]

“Hehehe. Sweet. So sweet. Here. Kkueng-i, have some honey.”

Se-jun, while eating the kudzu root, gave Kkueng-i a glass jar filled with honey.

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. Delicious!]

And so, they decided among themselves to give the extremely bitter kudzu root to the Black Rabbit, the father and son duo lost in the sweet taste.

“I’ll be working, so Kkueng-i, wait while eating snacks. Crop Gigantification.”

Se-jun filled Kkueng-i’s snack pouch with gigantified sweet potatoes and headed to the brewery.

‘Vice Chairman Teo is working hard to earn money, so I should work hard too.’

Seeing Teo’s speed at burning money, it seemed he needed to earn a lot.

Arriving at the brewery, he found 50 monkeys diligently washing the jars that had contained Samyangju.

As the amount of alcohol being brewed increased, monkeys from the 77th floor of the tower had been additionally dispatched.

Of course, as much as they were missing, the labor force in the monkey village was becoming insufficient, so Se-jun decided to periodically send crops to the village in addition to the salaries of the monkeys working at the brewery.

Ook!

Ook!

The new monkeys, working diligently, belatedly discovered Se-jun and greeted him with bows.

“It’s okay. I told you, you don’t have to do that here.”

Se-jun calmed the monkeys, who were overwhelmed at seeing a god, and

“Alright, let’s work.”

He began brewing Samyangju with the monkeys, filling the pre-washed jars with rice flour.

“Meow meow meow!”

Teo, humming a tune, arrived at the 41st floor of the tower via the High-Speed Merchant Passage.

“Humans, I have arrived, meow!”

He announced his arrival to the camp where the hunters were gathered.

“Vice Chairman Teo, have you arrived?!”

“Welcome, Vice Chairman Teo!”

The interns who were selling cherry tomatoes to the hunters hurriedly got up to greet Teo.

“Were you doing well, meow?!”

“Yes! This way, please!”

“Humans, Vice Chairman Teo has arrived, meow!”

The cat interns guided Teo to the center of the camp, announcing Teo’s arrival to the hunters.

“We need to contact the hunting team quickly.”

“Hey! It’s me, come back quickly. Teo is here.”

Thanks to this, the hunters who were resting at the camp were able to call their hunting companions back a little earlier.

“Vice Chairman Teo, I’ve been waiting for you.”

Han Tae-jun approached Teo.

“What’s the matter, meow?”

“Purple Locusts have appeared on Earth.”

“What, meow?! Chairman Park is working hard to help, what are the humans doing, meow?!”

Teo was furious at Han Tae-jun’s words. If Chairman Park heard this news, he would be anxious, meow! He didn’t like that, meow! He didn’t like it, meow!

“Hoonyang…”

Teo took a deep breath. Chairman Park always took a deep breath like this when problems arose, meow! His chest felt a little cooler, meow!

Teo, having clearly followed Se-jun’s example, organized his thoughts.

“From now on, I will also supply Detox Daepa, so plant the Sturdy Blade Daepa and Detox Daepa in a ratio of 9 to 1, meow!”

Teo passed on a new method to Han Tae-jun, handing over all 10,000 Detox Daepa from his bundle.

The detoxification effect of Detox Daepa is so outstanding that even one Detox Daepa can easily wipe out tens of thousands of Purple Locusts around it.

Therefore, Teo anticipated that the Purple Locusts would quickly degenerate back into Red Locusts and did not reduce the number of Sturdy Blade Daepa.

“Understood.”

Han Tae-jun, having received the Detox Daepa from Teo, hurriedly returned to Earth to plant the Detox Daepa.

“Vice Chairman Teo, all the hunters have gathered, meow!”

While he was talking with Han Tae-jun, all the hunters who had gone out hunting gathered, and Mark, a cat intern who idolized Teo and was practicing the Granier dialect to imitate Teo’s speech, reported to Teo.

“Understood, meow!”

Teo moved to the center of the camp with a confident stride and climbed onto the platform that the cat interns had built in advance by stacking wooden boxes.

“I will start the auction, meow!”

Teo began selling Se-jun’s crops.

“Magic Peanuts, sold out, meow!”

Today’s auction was also successful. The total sales amount seemed to be approaching nearly 10 million Top Coins.

As the auction was nearing its end,

“Vice Chairman Teo, aren’t you selling Detox Daepa today?”

The hunters who had been waiting to buy Detox Daepa asked Teo.

“That’s right, meow! I’m not selling Detox Daepa today, meow! And for the time being, Detox Daepa must be prioritized for supply to the Earth Defense Force to protect Earth, so I will greatly reduce the sales volume of Detox Daepa, meow!”

“What?! Where does that come from?!”

Some of the hunters protested at Teo’s words that he would not sell Detox Daepa, but

“How rude, meow! How dare you argue with Vice Chairman Teo, meow!?!”

Mark quietly took those hunters away with the cat interns and persuaded (?) them. The cat interns were once the gangsters who dominated Granier Village, although they had been suppressing their temper lately.

“Now, I shall be going, meow!”

With the auction over, Teo hurriedly ran to the 99th floor of the tower where Se-jun was.

“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, wait for me, meow!”

Teo, lying on Se-jun’s lap and receiving Churu, was excited at the thought of burning Se-jun’s money.

“Finished.”

Se-jun finished the starter mash work on 1500 of the 3300 jars that had been washed.

“Now, I need to make noodles.”

Noodles were a must for a wedding. Se-jun decided to make banquet noodles for the Black Rabbit’s wedding.

And he decided to do it properly this time. Se-jun had always been dissatisfied with the tasteless food served at wedding halls.

‘I can’t let the Black Rabbit be criticized for the food!’

Se-jun was planning to make delicious banquet noodles so that there would be no talk of the food being tasteless at the Black Rabbit’s wedding. Black Rabbit, even if they forget your wedding, I’ll make sure they remember the banquet noodles!

Thud. Thud.

Se-jun kneaded the rice dough obtained by putting Top Coins into the resource-swallowing rice dough. Since there was no wheat flour, he planned to use rice noodles instead.

He put the finished dough into a tree with holes and began pressing the dough by blocking the holes with another tree that was exactly the right size for the holes.

Squeeze.

The pressurized dough began to come out through the small holes that had been densely drilled in advance.

“Hehehe. It works! Hiyah!”

Se-jun pressed the dough harder as he watched the compressed rice noodles coming out.

Tremble tremble.

“I should stop here for today. Ah. I can’t put any strength in my hands.”

Se-jun, who had made noodles for 1000 people, sat down for a while to rest, his hands trembling.

Kkueng!

[Papa, I’m hungry!]

Squeak!

Ook!

The animals gathered at the cafeteria as it was time for dinner.

“Wait a minute.”

Se-jun, who had recovered some of his strength, quickly prepared the meal. He had already prepared the broth and toppings, having boiled locust meat, Daepa, and other vegetables, thinking of eating banquet noodles today, so all that was left was to boil the noodles.

Poke. Poke. Poke.

Se-jun made small holes in several small pots with a dagger, creating something similar to a strainer for boiling noodles separately in ramen or udon restaurants.

Swish.

He began to boil the rice noodles.

“Done.”

Waiting in front of the pot, when the noodles were cooked,

Whack. Whack. Whack.

Se-jun shook the pot in the air to remove the water and picked up an appropriate amount of noodles, putting them in a bowl.

Drizzle.

Finally, he ladled warm broth into the bowl, completing the banquet noodles.

“Eat up, everyone.”

He handed out the banquet noodles one by one to the waiting animals,

“Kkueng-i, eat here.”

Se-jun transferred his broth, put 100 servings of noodles into the broth pot, and gave it to Kkueng-i.

‘Still, there are 800 servings left.’

Se-jun felt proud as he checked the remaining rice noodles. He thought he could make 5000 servings by the wedding.

Slurp.

Se-jun, having confirmed the amount of rice noodles, ate the noodles with peace of mind.

“Hmm. Delicious.”

The taste of the banquet noodles was not quite right due to the lack of ingredients, but perhaps because he was hungry, it went down his throat easily.

After eating dinner,

“I’m going to sleep first, so please finish up.”

Se-jun, who was tired from pulling 1000 servings of noodles, went to bed first.

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. Delicious!]

Kkueng-i, left alone, diligently ate the banquet noodles until all the other animals had finished eating and washed their bowls.

Kkueng!

[Kkueng-i will eat a lot and become strong to protect Papa!]

Kkueng-i dipped the rice noodles that Se-jun had hung up to dry in the broth and ate them like shabu-shabu. The rice noodles quickly disappeared.

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[I ate it all! I’m sleepy now!]

In the end, Kkueng-i ate all 800 servings of rice noodles that Se-jun had left behind. Se-jun had overlooked his talent for gluttony.

“Meow meow meow~meow?!”

Teo, who was humming a tune and excitedly heading to the 99th floor of the tower via the High-Speed Merchant Passage, suddenly stopped.

“That’s right, meow! I have to do the lottery, meow!”

He remembered that he had to do the lottery on the 75th floor.

“Puhuhut. I am smart after all, meow! Meow meow meow~”

Teo praised himself for remembering before passing the 75th floor and started humming again as he moved.

“Meow?!”

Teo was flustered as he saw the road split into two in front of him.

“Why are there two roads, meow?”

This was a place where the road should not be divided. Teo examined the crossroads in detail.

“Meow! The floor is different from the original road, meow!”

Teo realized that the material of the floor on the left road was different.

“Puhuhut. Vice Chairman Teo won’t be fooled, meow!”

Teo walked down the right road with a confident stride.

Thud.

The right road that Teo entered closed, and a giant snake’s face appeared.

It was a fragment of Jormungandr, the World-Devouring Serpent, located in the 3rd seat among the 12 Apostles of Destruction, who had made a hole in the High-Speed Merchant Passage and disguised it as a road, waiting for prey to enter on its own.

-Hehehe. It’s a double trick. You fool.

Teo, who had unnecessarily used his brain, had entered the enemy’s mouth himself.