Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 678

Sejun strolled through his farm, enjoying the gentle breeze. He hummed a happy tune, feeling light and carefree. Everything felt right in this moment.

Sejun was enjoying the feeling.

Kooeng!

All gone!

Squeak!

Kooengie, you’re the best!

Kooengie, who had patiently eaten all of Kamangi’s bitter melon salad, cheered with Kamangi.

Pugaro’s fifth dish is a gingerbread house!

The fifth challenge began.

This dish is so large that participants will inevitably have to move! Please follow me!

The host led them to a huge area. There, in front of them, was not just houses, but a whole village made of gingerbread! The air smelled strongly of sweet spices and baked sugar. Some houses were tall and grand, others small and cozy, all made of golden-brown gingerbread with candy windows and icing decorations.

I wish Yuren was here too.

While Kooengie thought of Yuren,

Now, please begin your meal!

Following the host’s instructions, the participants began to eat the gingerbread houses.

Koohehehe. Kooeng!

Hehehe. So exciting!

Kooengie, whose mouth was still bitter from the bitter melon salad, began to eat the gingerbread house with gusto.

Wham!

Kooengie boldly attacked the wall first.

Keeheehee. Squeak!

Heehee. This is fun!

Kamangi ran around inside the gingerbread house.

Heehee. It tastes like sweet potato!

Smack. Smack. Smack.

He began to attack the doorknob first.

Squeak…

Kooengie, I’m full…

Kamangi barely managed to eat one doorknob before lying down with his belly sticking out, asking Kooengie for help.

Koohehehe. Kooeng!

Hehehe. I’m leaving it to you!

Kooengie, who was not even 10% full, neatly ate all of Kamangi’s share.

After eating all the gingerbread houses, about 700 participants remained.

Now, it’s time to choose.

Before the sixth dish came out, the host allowed them to choose whether to receive the prize money and give up, or to continue the challenge.

From now on, dishes worthy of the name ‘Food Murderer Pugaro’ will be served, so please show the appropriate attitude. You must eat all of your food. Otherwise, you will be eliminated.

He warned that no tricks would be allowed from the next challenge.

From now on, it was a truly ‘Dangerous Dinner Show.’

Kooeng!

Kamangi is full now, so he’s going to rest!

Squeak! Squeak!

Okay! I will cheer you on instead!

With Kamangi included, 100 participants gave up the challenge, and the remaining 600 challenged the sixth dish.

A moment later.

Ding.

Pugaro’s sixth dish is a meatball with Odusa’s poison!

Ten dark red meatballs were placed in front of the participants.

A dish worthy of the name Food Murderer had arrived, with poison added to the food.

Gulp.

Of course, it was no problem for Kooengie at all.

Kooeng…

It seems a little lacking…

No. The problem was that the quantity was insufficient.

Then the next dish is…

After that, dishes with stronger poison were the norm, and large quantities of extremely bitter, sour, and salty dishes came out as the seventh, eighth, and ninth dishes, leaving Kooengie as the only remaining participant.

The other participants in the middle gave up because they couldn’t eat any more or couldn’t withstand the poison.

Now, participant Kooengie, will you give up the challenge here and receive the prize money of 3.6288 trillion Top Coins?! Or will you challenge Pugaro’s tenth dish and receive 20 times the prize money?!

Kooeng!

I’ll challenge!

Kooengie answered the host’s question without a moment’s hesitation.

He was still too weak at math to calculate anything over 10,000, so he didn’t even know how much the prize money would increase if he challenged.

I want to earn more for Dad’s treatment!

Kooengie just wanted to earn a lot of money to help his dad.

Oh! Participant Kooengie has challenged Pugaro’s tenth dish! Finally, we can see the Food Murderer Pugaro’s tenth dish for the first time in the dinner show’s history!

The host shouted in an excited voice at Kooengie’s answer.

Pugaro’s dinner show had been held hundreds of times, but Pugaro had never made a tenth dish at his dinner show before. The participants had either died or given up before then.

A moment later.

Ding.

The name of this tenth dish is Devil’s Tears. It is said to be a dish that concentrates five flavors along with poison!

An employee placed a dish with five teardrop-shaped dots in the center of a wide plate in front of Kooengie.

Five dots smaller than a pinky fingernail.

The amount was very small, but the effort and ingredients that went into making this small dish were beyond imagination.

It’s not good!

From Kooengie’s perspective, it wasn’t a delicious dish. Kooengie could tell just by smelling the dish, that this dish was far below Sejun’s cooking.

Kooengie had a talent called ‘Gourmet’ that filled him with satisfaction when he ate delicious food.

That talent had evolved day by day, and he had reached the stage where he could tell what the taste was like and how full he would feel just by the smell of the dish.

From the fact that the chef who made the dish had the alias of Food Murderer, he was at a level that could not be compared to Sejun.

So Kooengie had never said that Pugaro’s food was delicious.

Lick. Lick.

He licked the dish with his tongue as if he were eating ordinary food, even though it contained Pugaro’s tremendous effort and ingredients.

I’m still not very full! I want to eat Dad’s cooking soon!

Gulp.

As Kooengie swallowed Pugaro’s food while thinking about Sejun’s cooking,

Oh! Participant Kooengie has swallowed the Devil’s Tears! If you endure for 1 minute as it is, 72.576 trillion Top Coins will be participant Kooengie’s! 59! 58!

The host started the countdown.

Keeheehee. Squeak! Squeak!

Hey! Host, give us the money quickly! Kooengie, who is the Great Kamangi’s hyung, can endure it enough!

Kamangi urged the host to give them the money.

2! 1!

In the meantime, 1 minute had passed.

Success! Participant Kooengie has eaten Food Murderer Pugaro’s tenth dish and safely completed the Dangerous Dinner Show! Participant Kooengie, congratulations!

The host congratulated Kooengie.

Clap. Clap. Clap.

Excellent.

Pugaro, who was in the kitchen, clapped and revealed himself. He was a slender man, beautiful enough to be seen as a woman.

Kooengie, I have a proposal for you. If you eat my ultimate dish, I will give you 100 times the prize money.

Pugaro proposed a new challenge to Kooengie.

To pay 100 times 72.576 trillion Top Coins, he had to bet all the money he had earned from the Dangerous Dinner Show so far.

But it didn’t matter.

Somehow, his dinner show had become popular with a unique concept, earning him a lot of money, but what Pugaro, who had been on the path of cooking for a long time, needed was not money.

500 years since he started cooking. He had been searching for his whole life for a guest who would eat the ultimate dish he had created.

He was so curious about the taste evaluation of the guest who ate the dish that he himself could not eat.

Oh! Food Murderer Pugaro is proposing a new challenge! The condition is 100 times the prize money. A very unconventional condition! Participant Kooengie, will you accept?!

The host shouted, excited by the unexpected situation. This was the fun of the proceedings.

Kooeng!

Okay!

Kooengie naturally accepted Pugaro’s proposal, which was at stake.

Hehehe. Kooengie is going to earn a lot of money!

Eating food that doesn’t fill him up very much is a bit much, but there was no reason to refuse since he could earn money just by eating it.

Thank you! Please wait a moment.

While Pugaro hurriedly went into the kitchen to cook,

This is a disaster! The money is almost gone! At this rate, our great Hybrid Park CEO will die!

Theo, who was healing Sejun, became more worried as Sejun’s wealth disappeared.

The wealth he and Iona had was already burned a long time ago.

(Baet-baet! Big Brother, here it is!)

Baet-baet hurriedly went to the Black Tower and burned the money he had received from Eileen and the dragons.

The dragons usually spent all their Top Coins at the Dragon Dragon Market, so they didn’t have much money.

Even after scraping together all the money, they were short about 100 trillion.

Treating Sejun was costing a lot of money, and it wasn’t working very fast.

I can’t! What am I going to do without CEO Park?!

He was precious to Theo.

Where can I get money? CEO Park said I was lucky! Money will fall from somewhere!

Theo continued Sejun’s treatment, placing his last hope on his luck.

Ding.

When the kitchen bell rang,

Oh! Everyone, you’ve been waiting for a long time! Finally, the bell has rung to announce that the dish is complete!

The host picked up the microphone again and began to host.

Step. Step.

Pugaro came out of the kitchen carrying the dish himself this time.

This dish is the ultimate dish that embodies the dish in my imagination, and it is a soup made with only the best poisons and ingredients I know. The name is ‘Seeing Heaven’ in the sense of eating it and seeing heaven.

He explained his dish in front of Kooengie.

However, if you carefully chew over Pugaro’s explanation, each one was terrifying.

He said that he put all kinds of poison in an imaginary dish that he had never made before.

In addition, saying to see heaven was no different from just saying to die and go.

Gulp.

Of course, Kooengie chugged the soup without a word.

What… what does it taste like?!

Don’t die! Answer and die!

Pugaro asked, staring intently at Kooengie with a desperate expression.

Kooeng!

I’m hungry!

Kooengie said something completely different.

I’m so hungry!

It was an emergency situation. After eating something so unappetizing, hunger rose sharply instead of fullness.

Rustle. Rustle.

Kooengie hurriedly put his front paws into his snack pouch and frantically ate the snacks Sejun had made to fill his stomach.

While Kooengie was filling his stomach,

He’s hungry after eating my ultimate dish? Does that mean he wants to eat more?

‘That means my dish is so delicious that he wants to eat more!’

Pugaro interpreted Kooengie’s answer as he pleased.

Hehehe. If my dish was so delicious, I will be your exclusive chef.

Pugaro offered to become Kooengie’s exclusive chef.

Kooeng!

I don’t want to!

Of course, Kooengie refused.

The prize money was automatically deposited into the card used to pay the participation fee.

Kooeng!

Kamangi is going!

Keeheehee. Squeak!

Heehee. Let’s go!

Kooengie hurriedly left the dinner show with Kamangi, leaving Pugaro behind, who was calling out to him with anguish.

Please use me as a chef~!

I want to get taste evaluations!

In this way, Kooengie earned seven quadrillion Top Coins instead of seeing heaven.

Nyang?!

Money really fell from the sky!

Theo felt Sejun’s account suddenly become thick.

Whoosh!

Money! Burn!

Press. Press. Press.

He gleefully burned the money and massaged Sejun’s face.

Puhuhut.

Theo found his smile again.

As expected, if you believe in the words of the great Hybrid Park CEO, even an empty balance will be filled again!

His faith in Sejun grew stronger today as well. There was no end to the fanatic’s faith.

A moment later.

Puhuhut. It’s all done!

When Theo’s treatment was over,

Flying away… Ack!

Crack. Crack.

Sejun’s body, which was about to fly into the sky, twisted and his metamorphosis began.