Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 188

“Like last time, 1000 Top Coins for one pull, and bring only one item out.”

Same conditions as before.

“Understood, nyaa! Here are 1000 Top Coins, nyaa!”

Theo accepted Taru’s conditions and coolly handed over the money.

“Good. I wish you luck.”

Clang.

Taru took the money and opened the door to the lost and found warehouse, which was full of junk.

Taru said, “Puhuhu. I don’t need luck, nyaa!”

With a confident look, Theo stretched out his paw and entered the warehouse.

A moment later, the sound of things breaking and Theo’s scream echoed from inside.

“Nyaa! What is this, nyaa?!!!”

Crash! Bang!

“What’s going on?”

Taru hurried to help Theo, about to go inside, but he soon stopped.

“Come to think of it, I think they said this place is haunted by ghosts…” Taru quietly backed away from the door and waited for Theo.

Inside the lost and found warehouse, Theo looked around. It was a vast sea of garbage. The warehouse had an open structure with stairs leading down as soon as you entered. It seemed like it had become like this from constantly piling up items.

The last warehouse was a little bit organized, but this place… it was hard to even think about how to find anything.

“But every time I look from the outside, it seems like the inside is getting wider, nyaa!” Theo said, walking over the items, following the pull of his paw.

Just then, eerie voices spoke.

-Kikikikik.

-Give me your body!

-You can’t have my things!

Rattle. Rattle.

The surrounding items floated up and began to fly quickly towards Theo.

“Nyaa! What is this, nyaa?!!!”

Panicked, Theo screamed, dodging the items flying at him. Items fell and collapsed, causing chaos. But the panic was brief. The speed of the items was not faster than Theo, and he gradually had time to look around.

“Nya?” He discovered that whenever the items were thrown, black figures briefly appeared and disappeared. What are those, nyaa?

Just then, Gae-ron answered Theo’s question.

-Master, those are evil spirits!

“What are evil spirits, nyaa?”

-Souls obsessed with resentment or an object, when continuously exposed to negative energy, transform into evil spirits like that. Summon me! I can subdue them.

“Understood, nyaa! My helper Gae-ron, come forth, nyaa!”

When Theo summoned Gae-ron, a small swamp formed on the floor, and a frog the size of Theo’s paw appeared. It was Gae-ron in a small size to avoid destroying the surrounding objects.

Ribbit!

When Gae-ron croaked loudly once, the evil spirits suddenly screamed and began to scatter in panic. Gae-ron was once a divine being. The spiritual pressure from Gae-ron’s soul caused the evil spirits to panic. Gae-ron hunted down the fleeing evil spirits.

Lick. Lick.

Every time Gae-ron stuck out his tongue, an evil spirit was caught and sucked into his mouth.

While Gae-ron was busily hunting evil spirits, Theo raised his paw again and began searching for the item.

“Is it here, nyaa?”

“It’s below here, nyaa!” Theo, having arrived at the location where his paw was pulling, dug through the piled-up items.

However, the depth at which the items were buried was deeper than expected, and surrounding items fell into the hole Theo dug, making it difficult to search.

“How long will it take to find it like this, nyaa?” Theo’s motivation dropped.

Just then, Theo had a good idea.

“Nya! That’s it, nyaa! Evil spirits can float objects, nyaa! As expected, I am a genius, nyaa! Gae-ron, stop eating, nyaa!”

Theo praised himself and then spoke to Gae-ron, who was diligently eating the evil spirits.

-Huh? Why suddenly?

“There’s a use for the evil spirits, nyaa! Listen up, evil spirits, nyaa! Quickly come here and find the item I want, nyaa! Or Gae-ron will eat you, nyaa!”

-If we find the item, you won’t eat us, right?

One of the black evil spirits cautiously approached and asked.

“That’s right, nyaa! The rest of you, come quickly, nyaa!”

As the approaching evil spirit was unharmed, other evil spirits began to gather around Theo one by one. When all the evil spirits gathered, there were about 1000 of them. It was no wonder this place was called a cursed warehouse.

“You guys, bring the items from the places I tell you, nyaa!” Theo pointed to five places where he felt a pull and said to the evil spirits.

-Yes!

The evil spirits floated up the items buried in the places Theo pointed to, one by one, and brought them to Theo. They were inspected by Theo.

“Not this one, nyaa!”

Theo threw the items that weren’t right into areas where there was no pull, making sure the items didn’t get mixed up.

Two hours went by as Theo and the spirits worked.

“Found it, nyaa!” Theo shouted, placing his hand on a leather document. He felt a pull from the document.

-It’s done!

-It’s over!

The evil spirits, finally able to rest, cheered. After 2 hours of labor, the evil spirits were almost ready to be purified. Some of the weaker evil spirits exhausted all their energy and were purified during the work.

“Keep this safe, nyaa!” Theo said, looking at the three items he found while searching for the document.

-Huh?! Keep it?

The evil spirits asked in a confused voice. Are we coming here again?!

“That’s right, nyaa! Then see you next time, nyaa!” Theo said goodbye and left the warehouse.

-Ah… I want to be purified…

-Me too…

The remaining evil spirits envied the evil spirits who had left earlier.

Sejun, having confirmed that the black rabbit was safe, resumed working in the field. He worked hard until dinner time.

Grumble.

Finally, his stomach was empty.

“Hehehe. Kkuengee, let’s eat!” Sejun, wanting to eat ramen, hurriedly called Kkuengee, who was playing around the field, and ran to the cafeteria.

Kkuengee!

[Understood!]

Tap tap tap.

Kkuengee hurriedly followed Sejun. Sejun and Kkuengee arrived at the cafeteria.

“Kkuengee, watch over the black rabbit and wait a moment.”

Kkuengee!

[Understood!]

At Sejun’s words, Kkuengee put magic power into the bronze mirror and checked the black rabbit reflected in the mirror.

“Shall we start then?” Sejun took out two pots and carefully measured the amount of water with the 500ml water bottle he had brought when he was first stranded.

A cook who fails to control the water in ramen cooking cannot be forgiven.

Glug, glug, glug.

Sejun poured the amount of water for one ramen in the right pot and the amount of water for two ramens in the left pot, and started boiling them on the stove. The right pot was for Sejun, and the left pot was for Kkuengee. Jjajang ramen was left for Aileen, and Hellfire ramen was left for the returning black rabbit.

While the water was boiling, he put the soup powder for the broth ramen in the pot and waited for the water to boil.

Shake shake shake.

“It’s boiling.”

Sejun, who had been waiting, put one ramen in the right pot and two ramens in the left pot. He secretly poured the ramen crumbs into the right pot, hiding it from Kkuengee.

While the noodles were being cooked, Sejun quickly chopped green onions and chili peppers and put them in both pots.

Chop chop chop.

As the ramen was being completed, the smell of ramen spread through the cafeteria, and Kkuengee smelled it and stomped his feet in joy.

Sniff sniff.

Kkuengee!

[It smells delicious!]

“How’s the black rabbit?”

Kkuengee! Kkuengee!

[Little hyung is doing well! He’s chasing after a guy who’s secretly running away right now!]

“Is that so?” Looking at the mirror, he saw the black rabbit standing on the head of a giant Rock Salt Snake with his arms crossed, tracking down a salt mine worker who had escaped. He was doing his job diligently, having learned it from somewhere.

“Okay. Let’s eat now.” Sejun placed a pot in front of each of them and started eating.

Slurp.

First, he took a spoonful of the ramen broth. “Kheu! This taste! The taste I’ve missed!”

Slurp. Slurp.

He took about 5 sips of the broth and then, held up the noodles and blew on them to cool them down.

“Hoo! Hoo!”

Slurrrp.

He sucked up the noodles. A moment later, Sejun, who had been eating ramen mindlessly, came to his senses while drinking the last of the broth. It was a truly satisfying meal.

“Kheu. Huh?!”

However, Kkuengee, still feeling unsatisfied, was diligently burying his head in the bottom of the pot and licking it.

Lick. Lick.

Well, it wasn’t enough to satisfy Kkuengee. ‘I’ll feed you plenty later.’ Sejun promised himself for later and put white rice cakes in the pot. This time, he put honey inside the white rice cakes and added simmered five-colored beans. After eating ramen, he craved something a little sweet.

Kkuengee!

[Rice cake!]

Kkuengee, happy that Sejun was starting a new dish, danced, shaking his hips. ‘Then you’ll get hungry again soon….’ Sejun looked at Kkuengee worriedly. Noodles are usually digested quickly.

And Kkuengee was about to transform into a ferocious beast.

Grumble.

Kkuengee!

[Dad! Kkuengee is hungry!]

“Can’t you last even 10 minutes? Here. Kkuengee, eat this.” Sejun put the five-colored bean honey sauce, which was left over from putting it in the white rice cakes, into Kkuengee’s mouth.

Kkuengee!

[It’s delicious!]

Thump…

“Kkuengee, come here.” Sejun quickly put Kkuengee on his lap and gently shook him, satisfying Kkuengee’s excitement, as Kkuengee was about to shake his hips again after eating something delicious. If he didn’t do this, it seemed like this process would be repeated infinitely before the rice cakes were even finished.

Theo, having successfully finished the lottery, hummed a tune as he left the Wanderer Merchant Association headquarters.

“I heard there’s a land deed auction at the Wanderer Merchant headquarters today?!”

“Really?!”

“Yeah. I heard a large number of land deeds have been released this time. If you’re lucky this time, you might be able to get one.”

“Well. If that’s the case, big merchants will come and sweep up the goods.”

“Still, you never know. Let’s just go and see.”

He learned about the auction from the merchants’ conversation. He was already feeling a bit uneasy with just one land deed. I should participate in the land deed auction, nyaa! Theo turned around and followed the merchants who had just spoken.

However, an employee stopped Theo.

‘You can’t enter here.’

“Nya?”

Theo, who was following the merchants closely, was stopped by an employee standing at the entrance of the auction hall.

“What, nya?! Why are you stopping me, nya?!” Theo shouted at the employee. The merchants in front were allowed to pass, but only he was stopped. How dare they block the path of Theo Park, the deadly dragon claw yellow cat, subordinate of the Black Dragon, nyaa!

“Move, nya!”

“This is not a place where just anyone can enter!” The employee, Patton, replied in an annoyed voice to Theo. He thought that this clumsily dressed person was just a wandering merchant making unreasonable demands.

“Nya?! Just anyone?! Then why did the merchant in front go in, nya?!” Theo questioned.

“The people in front are excellent wanderer merchants whose faces I know.” Patton looked at him with contempt, as if saying, ‘You, get out of here quickly.’

“The auction will begin soon!” The sound of the auction starting was heard from inside.

Thump.

Theo hurriedly took out the golden badge that proved he was the best wanderer merchant. He wanted to punish this rude employee, but the auction was more urgent now.

“Gasp! A golden badge?!”

“Patton, I’ll remember your name, nya! Move, nya.”

At Theo’s words, Patton stepped aside without saying a word. Patton thought about a pay cut or a written apology, but he didn’t realize that a much heavier punishment was waiting for him. Patton’s future was going to be quite difficult.

‘Why is my luck so bad today….’

‘Puhuhu. I was cool just now, nya.’ Theo entered the auction hall, feeling proud.