Farming In The Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 155

The news in Brazil was very angry about what Han Tae-joon and the hunters had done. It made the situation even worse. They had been criticizing him a lot. However,

Then, when they saw the locusts rushing to eat the strong blade scallions, the TV news people quickly changed from being angry to praising him.

At first, they were not sure if it would work. But then, when there were so many locusts, hundreds of thousands of them,

“Are you watching this?! The locusts are running to their deaths!”

Crunch. Crunch. The TV stations filmed everything. The locusts were dying as they tried to bite the blade scallions. They didn’t even realize they were being cut by the blades.

“Let’s talk to Captain K now. He is the leader of the Earth Defense Force. He saved the capital of Brazil by planting these blade scallions.”

“Hello. I am Captain K of the Earth Defense Force. We are under the command of Yellow, the vice-commander of the Earth Defense Force…”

Han Tae-joon became famous on television using the code name Captain K.

Whirr.

As Sejun got closer to the hive, the venomous bees buzzed around him, seeming to know him. He realized why it was so dark in this area. It was the bees! There were so many of them, they blocked out the light.

“Is it here?”

Sejun, surrounded by tens of thousands of venomous honeybees, asked the one that had first guided him to their hive.

Whirr!

[Yes! Go straight from here!]

The venomous honeybee, sitting on Sejun’s palm and guiding him because there were too many of its kind, replied.

After moving for about an hour with its guidance,

Whirr!

[This is our hive!]

A huge mountain came into view.

And then,

Whirr!

[Enter the cave! We will introduce you to our Queen!]

The venomous honeybee guided Sejun to a cave at the foot of the mountain. The cave was like a giant maze, or even more like a huge apartment building. Rooms were everywhere, made of golden honeycomb. Inside each room, five to ten venomous honeybees were working or resting.

Whirr!

[Go to the left!]

The venomous honeybee found its way through such a complex place without any trouble. Following the bee, Sejun and his animal friends went deeper into the dark cave. The air grew warmer and the buzzing louder. Finally, they reached a large open space, and there, on a raised platform, was the Queen of the venomous honeybees.

[Wild Venomous Honeybee Great Queen] (In bee language) Beeing?!

She was the Venomous Honeybee Great Queen. Sejun stared. She was huge, three times bigger than other queen bees! Her wings were a beautiful, shimmering gold, and she had a crown-like marking on her head. She looked very important.

At that moment,

Beeing. Beeing?

[I would also like to taste honey. I hear it is so delicious?]

The Venomous Honeybee Great Queen approached Sejun and spoke to him. It seemed the little venomous honeybee had told the Queen good things about Sejun.

‘I should give it a bonus later.’

“Okay. Try it.”

Sejun, thinking he should reward the venomous honeybee that guided him later, put honey in a small dish and offered it to the Venomous Honeybee Great Queen.

Kkueng!

Of course, the honey left over in the dish was given to Kkuengi.

The Venomous Honeybee Great Queen tasted the honey.

Beeing!

As soon as the sweet taste touched her tongue, an old memory woke up inside her. It was a memory from long ago, from a time when venomous honeybees lived in fields full of bright, colorful flowers.

She remembered how to obtain and create honey, honey jelly, and other things.

Beeing!

[This is obtained from flowers?!]

“Yeah. Do you know flowers?”

Sejun asked the Venomous Honeybee Great Queen, as he had never seen flowers in the eastern region.

Beeing. Beeing!

[Yes! I have never seen flowers myself, but the old stories of my bee ancestors tell me about them!]

“Really? Then it will be easy to talk. How about your bees getting honey from our farm?”

Sejun tried to win over the queen’s hive as the conversation was going smoothly.

However,

Beeing.

[I would like to, but I’m worried. Your beekeeping skills might not be strong enough for me and all my bees. We are a very big hive!]

The Queen Bee nodded her big head. [The Wild Venomous Honeybee Great Queen has decided to follow you.] Sejun was happy, but then a thought popped into his head. *(My beekeeping level is not high enough to really manage a queen like her! I need to get better at this.)* A voice in his mind seemed to say, *Try harder!*

“I see.”

Sejun was also checking the messages.

Beeing.

[I will send one of my daughters first.]

Whirr.

At the words of the Venomous Honeybee Great Queen, one of the Venomous Honeybee Queens flew in with 10,000 venomous honeybees. She had other queen bees who were like her daughters.

[The Wild Venomous Honeybee Queen has decided to follow you.]

[The 10,000 venomous honeybees under the Wild Venomous Honeybee Queen have decided to follow you, following their queen.]

[The number of venomous honeybees has exceeded 60,000.]

[The proficiency of Beekeeping Lv. 8 greatly increases.]

Perhaps because they lived together in the Venomous Honeybee Great Queen’s hive, they did not have a separate hive.

Beeing!

[And I hope you will plant flowers in our area too!]

“Flowers?”

Asking for flowers was a good sign. It meant Sejun could plant crops here, in the bees’ territory! And if he planted flowers, he could get honey and honey jelly from *these* bees too. Sejun smiled. This was a great deal.

“I’ll plant them right away.”

Since the topic came up, he decided to plant crops right away.

Beeing?

[Really? Thank you!]

Sejun came out of the hive with the Venomous Honeybee Great Queen.

“Move the earth!”

Sejun used Miler’s hoe and started planting. He put chestnut seeds, cherry tomato seeds, and corn seeds into the dark soil. As he worked, he felt a warmth in the ground, like magic helping the seeds. He knew the plants would grow quickly here.

Sejun planted various crops such as chestnuts and cherry tomatoes so that the venomous honeybees could taste the honey of various flowers. Then, he headed to the entrance of the 99th floor of the tower with the Venomous Honeybee Queen and 10,000 venomous honeybees.

“Go with the golden bat venomous honeybees and tell Godori well.”

(Yes!)

“You guys go carefully too.”

Whirr!

The Venomous Honeybee Queen and the venomous honeybees, full of honey, were sent down to the 83rd floor of the tower. After all, the farms on other floors also needed venomous honeybees to pollinate the flowers.

However, moving the hive to another floor was a very laborious task. So, he had not been able to send the venomous honeybees…

Since these new bees didn’t have a hive yet, Sejun planned to send them down to the 83rd floor. They could build a hive in the chestnut tree farm there and make chestnut honey.

Sejun was now starting to keep bees on more floors of the tower.

Swoosh.

The black dragon statue moved.

And then,

Flap. Flap.

-Sejun! Where are you?!

Kaiser wandered around the farm, looking for Sejun.

Kaiser, pretending to make a plan for Kellion, had been drinking makgeolli with Artemis, Brachio, and Kellion for days. They were just drinking and having fun.

In the meantime,

“Oh, no, the makgeolli is finished. Sorry, I should have gotten more…”

Artemis said with an apologetic expression. It was time to end the drinking session.

“Already?!”

Kaiser said with a disappointed expression. To run out of alcohol when he was in full swing! This could not be.

“Wait a minute! I’ll get it!”

Kaiser rushed back to Sejun’s place and moved the black dragon statue. He wanted more of Sejun’s makgeolli. But Sejun was busy saying goodbye to the bees who were going to the 83rd floor.

-Since Sejun is not here, I have no choice.

Kaiser, finding Sejun absent, entered the brewery himself to get the makgeolli.

And when he had gathered 10 bottles of makgeolli,

-Huh?! What is this?

Kaiser saw glass bottles that were different from the usual makgeolli bottles. Inside, there was a drink that looked like makgeolli. It was very similar, just a little yellower.

-Did he fail?

Kaiser thought Sejun had failed at making makgeolli. But because he loved trying new drinks, he had to try it. He couldn’t resist.

-Let’s grab it first!

If it tasted really bad, he could just drink normal makgeolli afterwards to get rid of the taste. He thought it was always worth trying new drinks, even if they might be bad.

-Okay.

With Kaiser’s decision, the black dragon statue swallowed the glass bottle, and Kaiser, taking the glass bottle, hurriedly flew to Artemis’s residence.

“Let’s go for a walk, kids.”

After saying goodbye to the bats and bees, Sejun walked around his farm. The scallion field was green and tidy, the corn stalks stood tall, and the cherry tomatoes were red and ripe. He saw the rabbits hopping between the rows, and the mushroom ants busily working in the soil. Everything was growing well.

He saw Cheonseokkun carefully planting cherry tomato seeds in another part of the farm.

“Kkuengi, is there anything you want to eat for dinner?”

Sejun gave Kkuengi, who had worked hard carrying him around, the right to choose the dinner menu.

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[Daddy! Kkuengi wants to eat bananas and rice cakes together!]

At Sejun’s words, Kkuengi raised his left hand, mentioning bananas, and his right hand, mentioning rice cakes. It seemed he wanted to try mixing something else with the honey rice cake after eating it a few times.

Kkueeng!

[Mixing bananas and rice cakes!]

Kkuengi waved his hands and started to dance, shaking his hips and singing a little song. He was clearly very excited about banana rice cakes!

*(Kkuengi is so funny! He could be a star on the internet, like a YouTuber.)*

“Hehehe.”

Sejun smiled and went into the kitchen, imagining Kkuengi’s happy face when he tasted the banana rice cakes. He started to make them right away.

A little later,

“Kkuengi, let’s eat!”

Kkueng!

[It’s food!]

Kkuengi, who had been playing outside alone, digging in the dirt to avoid disturbing Sejun, rushed over at Sejun’s call.

And then,

Chomp chomp.

Kkuengi held a lump of rice cake in each hand and ate them one bite at a time, alternating between hands.

“Chairman Park, give me one more Churu, nya!”

Chwaajwab!

Seeing Kkuengi eat so fast, Theo tried to eat his Churu even faster. But Theo was too small to eat as quickly as Kkuengi.

“Cough cough cough!”

Theo choked on his Churu from eating it too fast. It was the end of one who had acted recklessly.

“That’s why you shouldn’t try to compete with Kkuengi. Just enjoy eating it.”

“I just wanted to win, nya! But Chairman Park is right, nya! It’s enough to enjoy eating it, nya!”

Chwap chwap chwap.

Theo listened to Sejun’s words, gave up trying to beat Kkuengi, and started eating Churu at his original speed again.

“Ah. I’m full.”

“It was a delicious Churu, nya!”

Kkueng!

[Kkuengi is going to sleep now!]

Everyone had a delicious dinner, and

Kkuengi went to sleep with his mother.

And then,

“I should have a drink and go to sleep tonight. What should I drink?”

Sejun went to the brewery. He figured the new drinks he made would be ready by now.

Sejun was getting a bit tired of just regular makgeolli. So, he started making makgeolli with potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, and other things. He could make chestnut makgeolli easily now because he had practiced a lot and tried different things before.

Feeling excited, he arrived at the brewery.

However,

“Huh?!” All the makgeolli he had made in different flavors was all gone!