Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 171

Sejun carefully wrote out the farm agreement. It was simple, but important.

**Farm Work Agreement**

Farmer Park Sejun (the boss) will give each mole rat worker (the worker) 500 grams of locust meat and one sweet potato for every full day of work on the farm.

This agreement will be checked every year. If Farmer Park Sejun or the mole rat worker wants to stop the agreement, they can do so when it is time to check it each year.

Boss Farmer: Park Sejun

Worker: Dooili (and other mole rats)

Since mole rats don’t have names, Theo decided to give them names himself.

“Chairman Park, I got all the stamps, nyaang!”

With that, Theo finished writing the mole rats’ contracts and ran onto Sejun’s lap.

“Vice Chairman Theo, well done. What we ate today is a welcome gift for joining our farm. Please take care of us from tomorrow onwards.”

Sejun stroked Theo’s head and spoke to the mole rats.

Doo doo!

Doo doo!

The mole rats were very happy. Sejun told them the meat they ate today was a gift. They didn’t have to pay for it. While eating the meat, they scurried back into their tunnels, their little noses twitching with anticipation for the work ahead, to prepare for work tomorrow.

“Hehehe. Vice Chairman Theo, did you see that? My negotiation skills?”

“As expected, Chairman Park is amazing, nyaang!”

As Theo answered, looking at Sejun with eyes of respect—

Kkueng!

[Kkuengi is sleepy!]

In the meantime, Kkuengi, who had finished lunch, hugged Sejun’s back and lay down. He was trying to take a nap.

However, Sejun and Theo hadn’t had lunch yet because they were busy getting contracts from the mole rats.

Nom.

Sejun swallowed a piece of fist-sized meat that Aileen had given him. There were 97 pieces left. He was gradually getting full.

Sejun finished his meal simply like that.

“Vice Chairman Theo, you’re going to eat Churu, right?”

“Of course, nyaang! Give me Churu quickly, nyaang!”

“Alright.”

Sejun tore open the Churu and gave it to Theo.

As time passed a little—

Nod. Nod.

Sejun, who was full and had a warm lap and back, began to doze off.

Chomp chomp chomp.

“Puhuhut. Theo Park, who doesn’t neglect his vigilance even in this situation, is amazing, nyaang!”

Theo ate Churu while guarding his surroundings.

However—

Snore.

Gurgle.

Kkulorong.

As soon as he finished eating the Churu, Theo quickly fell asleep and joined Sejun and Kkuengi’s snoring.

And—

(Bat bat. As expected, I’m the one who doesn’t let his guard down until the end.)

The golden bat hanging from the persimmon tree smiled and guarded the surroundings.

While Sejun rested on the peaceful farm, trouble was brewing elsewhere on the 49th floor.

“From here, the enemy has split into two groups. Let’s divide our forces as well.”

Hegel, who had been tracking the scent from the Three-Headed Society’s hideout, said to Urchi.

“Understood. Divide the forces into two!”

The divided forces continued their pursuit, and—

“There’s a passage here!”

They found two secret passages used by the Three-Headed Society. They didn’t know how to use these secret passages, but they knew they went to other levels of the tower, just like the paths used by merchants. After confirming the enemies’ passages, the divided forces gathered again.

And—

“Hurry, check the end and return!”

“Yes!”

Hegel instructed the wolves, and the wolves who quickly ran through the passages brought back information. The passages they found were connected to the 49th floor and the 33rd floor of the tower. One passage went up, and the other went down.

“The 49th floor is where I used to rule. I’ll take care of that place. I’ll leave the 33rd floor to you.”

“Understood. Then I’ll take care of the 33rd floor.”

With that, Urchi and Hegel led the forces of mixed Black Oaks and wolves and split up, going up and down.

30 minutes after taking a nap—

“Euchha!”

Sejun, who woke up from his nap, stretched vigorously. He felt full of energy after sleeping for a while.

“Hey, wake up.”

Sejun hurriedly woke up Theo and Kkuengi.

“Nyaang… I want to sleep more…”

Kkueng……

[Kkuengi wants to sleep more too……]

The two were being fussy when Sejun woke them up.

“Then sleep a little more.”

Since Sejun was the only one working anyway, he put Theo on Kkuengi’s stomach and got up.

(Sejun, are you starting work again?)

As Sejun got up, the golden bat, who had been guarding the persimmon tree, flew over and sat on Sejun’s shoulder.

“Yeah. Golden Bat, please sing a song in the center of the farm.”

(Yes!)

Sejun sent the golden bat to the center of the farm so that all the persimmon trees could hear it. Then, Sejun put his hand on the nearest persimmon tree and began to heal it.

Kkueng.

Kkuengi got up from his spot alone. Theo had long since felt uncomfortable and went to find Sejun’s lap.

At that moment—

Kugukung.

A huge vibration occurred from the ground.

Kkueng?

[Is anyone there?]

Kwaang!

Kkuengi, feeling something strange, knocked on the place where the vibration occurred. It was a light knock.

Kugukung.

Something began to rise to the surface in response to Kkuengi’s knock. And a giant mole rat with a size of 3m poked its head out. It had horns on its head, and there was a bump on the back of its head that seemed to have just formed.

“How dare you attack Duku, the boss of the 49th floor and Horned Mole Rat?!”

Duku, as the boss of the 49th floor, could only leave his post for 1 hour a month to guard the waypoint. He was quite angry because his precious time had been disturbed.

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[No! Kkuengi didn’t attack!]

Kkuengi shook his head and answered. He didn’t attack. He just knocked lightly.

“Don’t lie! Do you think I wouldn’t know that a wave was felt from your location?!”

Kkueng?!

[Are you looking at Kkuengi as a liar now?!]

Duku’s words made Kkuengi excited. I’m a good bear who listens to Daddy! I don’t lie!

And—

Grab.

Suddenly, Kkuengi swelled in size, his fur bristling as he grew bigger and bigger, until he towered over Duku, a giant bear of muscle and magic. Kkuengi grabbed Duku by the collar with his left hand and lifted him up.

Kkueng! Kkueng?!

[I’ll ask again! Did Kkuengi really lie?!]

Shake shake.

Kkuengi shook Duku’s collar roughly and asked.

However—

‘What is this?!’

“Save me……”

Duku was already unconscious from Kkuengi’s magic power that exploded with the transformation.

Shake shake.

Kkueng!

[Wake up!]

Kkuengi woke Duku up again. But since he didn’t reduce his magic power, Duku remained unconscious.

Shake shake.

Kkuengi didn’t give up and continued to shake Duku to wake him up.

At that moment—

“Kkuengi, what’s wrong?”

Sejun, who stopped working when he felt a strong magic power, asked.

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[He said Kkuengi lied to him! So Kkuengi was explaining that he doesn’t lie!]

“That’s it?” Sejun couldn’t help but think, grabbing someone by the neck was a strange way to explain anything!

“First, calm down while eating this. Daddy will talk to him.”

Sejun gave Kkuengi a snack to calm him down after hearing the whole situation.

Kkueng!

[Okay!]

Kkuengi answered and returned to his original size.

And—

Kkueng!

[Delicious!]

Kkuengi, who was quickly in a good mood after eating a candied chestnut. As his excitement subsided, the exploded magic power also weakened, and—

“Umm……”

Duku also regained consciousness.

“Are you the one who said our Kkuengi lied to you?”

“It’s not a lie! I was definitely hit while passing by, but he says he didn’t hit me!”

Duku shouted as his resentment exploded at Sejun’s words. But his tone had changed to a polite one.

“That’s… I’ll apologize for that. Our Kkuengi still lacks control over his strength……”

Sejun apologized to Duku after hearing the situation. This was clearly Kkuengi’s fault.

And—

“Kkuengi, come to Duku and apologize.”

Sejun decided to use this opportunity to teach Kkuengi that he could harm others even unintentionally.

Kkueng?

[Why should Kkuengi apologize when he didn’t hit him?]

Kkuengi tilted his head and asked. It was because he had no intention of hitting him. He had never had bad intentions, so Kkuengi didn’t understand why Sejun was telling him to apologize.

“Kkuengi, even if you didn’t hit with the intention to hit, if the other person hurts, then it’s hitting. So let’s apologize to Duku.”

Kkueng……

[I’m sorry……]

He still didn’t seem to understand, but Kkuengi apologized to Duku because Sejun told him to. He could learn slowly like that.

“It’s okay. I also misunderstood on my own.”

Duku coolly accepted the apology when Kkuengi apologized.

“Thank you. This is a gift of apology.”

Sejun handed Duku a whole chunk of locust meat.

“Oh! Thank you!”

Duku, who received the meat gift, drooled and couldn’t take his eyes off the meat.

“But can you, as a boss monster, stay here like this?”

“Ah! It’s already time! I have to go back!”

Duku, who came to his senses at Sejun’s words, hurriedly tried to return to the waypoint.

“Let’s go together!”

Sejun was planning to find out the way to the waypoint in advance and register the waypoint.

In this way, Sejun made acquaintance with the boss of the 49th floor and registered the waypoint in one go. He then returned to heal the persimmon trees and spent his first night on the 49th floor.

The next morning—

“Ugh……”

Sejun couldn’t move his right arm as if he was having sleep paralysis.

There was no pink fur here, so Kkuengi naturally slept with Sejun, and Kkuengi was hugging Sejun’s right arm while sleeping. Looking at the posture, it was almost like an armbar.

Kkuengi unconsciously using advanced techniques. He was indeed a scary guy.

“Hey, let’s wake up.”

Sejun hurriedly woke up the animals. The mole rats would be coming to work from today, so he had to move busily to teach the mole rats farming while working.

Sejun woke up the animals and came out of the brick house that looked similar to the 99th floor. It was a brick house built yesterday using Miller’s hoe and the land moving skill. Next to it was a kitchen that was built together.

“Let’s eat breakfast.”

Sejun hurriedly prepared breakfast and called the animals.

While Sejun and the animals were eating breakfast—

Doo doo!

The mole rats began to come to work by digging tunnels.

“First, I need to organize the mole rats’ roads.”

Sejun said, looking at the tunnels that the mole rats had made haphazardly. If the mole rats came to work like this every time, he wouldn’t be able to make a field.

As Sejun was finishing his breakfast—

Doo doo!

All 2012 mole rats had come to work.

“Today, Instructor Kkuengi will teach you how to make and plant fields.”

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[Follow Kkuengi! Kkuengi will teach you how to plant!]

At Sejun’s words, Kkuengi took the mole rats to the land that Toryongi had mixed well.

“Our Kkuengi has grown a lot.”

Sejun looked at Kkuengi with a proud smile. Kkuengi used to plant fish heads in the ground. But now he had grown enough to teach farming to other new farmers.

Sejun watched Kkuengi.

“Now, let’s work too.”

(Yes!)

He went to the golden bat and the persimmon tree field. Of course, Theo was attached to Sejun’s lap as a basic option.

[Warm Hands of a Farmer Lv. 4 is activated.]

[The roots of the persimmon tree are slightly healed while the touch is in effect.]

Since the preliminary work had already been done with the golden bat’s song, he was able to heal the persimmon trees a little faster than yesterday.

When Sejun had healed about 20 persimmon trees—

“There’s a suspicious guy over there!”

The Black Oaks, who had arrived on the 49th floor and were tracking the Three-Headed Society, surrounded Sejun. These Black Oaks looked serious, and they were pointing their weapons right at him. He wondered why they were here, and if they were friendly.

“Nyaang?! They’re Black Oaks, nyaang!”

“What?! Do you know them, Vice Chairman Theo?!”

Sejun, who was wearing a bone helmet and preparing for battle, asked Theo.

“Of course, nyaang! They’re the subordinates of my subordinate Urchi, nyaang! Where is Urchi, nyaang?!”

Theo said proudly and called for Urchi, the king of the Black Oaks.