Chapter 155 – Let’s Take It for Now

The Brazilian media was furious at the actions of Han Tae-jun and the hunters and condemned them. It was not just adding fuel to the fire; they were planting more grass that would help the locusts breed!

However,

Flutter, flutter.

The moment they saw the locusts rushing to eat the Sturdy Blade Green Onions, the tone of the Brazilian broadcasting stations changed from anger to praise.

Although they were doubtful at first, when the number of such locusts exceeded hundreds of thousands,

“Are you watching right now?! The locusts are rushing to die on their own!”

Crunch, crunch.

The broadcasting stations competed to film and broadcast the locusts dying while diligently trying to gnaw on the Sturdy Blade Green Onions, not even knowing that their bodies were being cut by the blades.

And

“We will now conduct an interview with Captain K, the leader of the Earth Defense Force, who saved the capital of Brazil by planting the Sturdy Blade Green Onions this time.”

“Hello. I am Captain K, a member of the Earth Defense Force. Under the instructions of Yellow, the deputy commander of the Earth Defense Force…”

Han Tae-jun made his broadcast debut under the code name Captain K.

***

Buzzzz.

Buzzzz.

The closer he got to the beehive, the more Poison Honeybees felt friendliness toward Se-jun and approached him.

And Se-jun came to know the reason why the eastern edge was dark. It was just that it looked dark because the number of Poison Honeybees was incredibly massive.

“Is it here?”

Surrounded by tens of thousands of Poison Honeybees, Se-jun asked the Poison Honeybee that had first guided him to their beehive.

Buzz!

[Yes! Go straight forward from here!]

Because there were too many Poison Honeybees, the Poison Honeybee sitting on Se-jun’s palm guiding him answered.

When he moved for about an hour while being guided like that,

Buzz!

[Here is our beehive!]

A giant mountain was visible.

And

Buzz!

[Please enter the cave! I will let you meet our queen!]

The Poison Honeybee guided Se-jun into the cave beneath the mountain. The inside of the cave was a giant maze. Or should it be called a giant apartment? Everywhere they went, there were rooms, and inside, five to ten Poison Honeybees were working or resting.

Buzz!

[Please go to the left!]

The Poison Honeybee found the way without any trouble in such a complicated place. When Se-jun and the animals moved inside the cave for about an hour under the guidance of the Poison Honeybee, the queen of the Poison Honeybees appeared.

[Wild Poison Honeybee Great Queen]

Beeeeeng?!

Buzz!

While the Poison Honeybee that had brought Se-jun and the Poison Honeybee Great Queen conversed,

‘Great Queen?’

Se-jun observed the Poison Honeybee Great Queen.

Her body was three times larger than the ordinary queens, and her wings were more splendid. Although Se-jun did not know it, the Poison Honeybee Great Queen was the queen of all Poison Honeybee queens. In other words, she was the supreme leader of the Poison Honeybees.

At that time,

Beeeeng. Beeeeng?

[I would also like to taste this thing called honey. I heard it is very delicious, is it not?]

The Poison Honeybee Great Queen approached Se-jun and spoke. It seemed the Poison Honeybee had done a good job marketing to its queen.

‘I should give a bonus later.’

“Yes. Taste it.”

Thinking that he should reward the Poison Honeybee that had guided him later, Se-jun poured honey into a small plate and served it to the Poison Honeybee Great Queen.

Cueng!

Of course, the remaining honey after pouring onto the plate was given to Cuengi.

The Poison Honeybee Great Queen ate the honey like that.

Beeeeng!

The moment she tasted the honey, a certain instinct engraved in her ancient genes awakened. It was the instinct from the days when the Poison Honeybees lived with flowers.

In her mind, she recalled how to obtain and produce honey, Honey Jelly, and other things.

Beeeeng!

[This was obtained from flowers?!]

“Yes. Do you know about flowers?”

Since he had never seen flowers in the eastern region, Se-jun asked the Poison Honeybee Great Queen.

Beeeeng. Beeeeng!

[Yes! Although I have never seen them directly, the memories of the mothers told me!]

“Is that so? Then it makes the conversation easy. Would you like to suck some honey at our farm?”

Se-jun tried to win over the beehive of the Poison Honeybee Great Queen.

However,

Beeeeng.

[I would like to, but with your ability, you cannot handle all of me and my children.]

The Poison Honeybee Great Queen expressed her concern.

[The Wild Poison Honeybee Great Queen decided to follow you.]

[With the ability of Beekeeping Lv. 8, you could not tame the Poison Honeybee Great Queen.]

[Please work a bit harder!]

“I see.”

Se-jun was also confirming it through the messages.

Beeeeng.

[For now, I will send one of my daughters first.]

Buzz.

At the words of the Poison Honeybee Great Queen, a Poison Honeybee queen flew over along with 10,000 Poison Honeybees. The Poison Honeybee Great Queen ruled over several Poison Honeybee queens even inside the beehive.

[A Wild Poison Honeybee queen decided to follow you.]

[The 10,000 Poison Honeybees led by the Wild Poison Honeybee queen decided to follow you, following the queen.]

[The number of Poison Honeybees exceeded 60,000.]

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

Perhaps because they lived together in the Poison Honeybee Great Queen’s beehive, there was no separate beehive.

Beeeeng!

[And I would like you to plant flowers in our area as well!]

“Flowers?”

Asking to plant flowers meant he could plant crops in the Poison Honeybees’ territory. Moreover, since he could also obtain the honey and Honey Jelly gathered by the Poison Honeybees, it was a relief for Se-jun.

“I will plant them right now.”

Since the topic had come up, he decided to plant the crops immediately.

Beeeeng?

[Really? Thank you!]

Like that, Se-jun came out of the beehive with the Poison Honeybee Great Queen.

“Shifting Earth!”

Using Myler’s Hoe, he began planting crops.

[You planted 10 chestnuts, 10 cherry tomatoes, and 10 corn in the land filled with mana.]

[Job experience slightly increased.]

[Due to the effect of Mana Sowing Lv. 6, the probability of the seeds taking root increased.]

[Due to the effect of Mana Sowing Lv. 6, the growth rate of the crops accelerated for 24 hours.]

[The proficiency of Mana Sowing Lv. 6 slightly increased.]

Se-jun planted various crops, including chestnuts and cherry tomatoes, so that the Poison Honeybees could taste honey from different flowers. Then, he headed to the entrance of the 99th floor of the tower with the Poison Honeybee queen and the 10,000 Poison Honeybees.

“Golden Bat, go together with the Poison Honeybees and speak well to Godori.”

(Yes!)

“You guys go safely too.”

Buzz!

The Poison Honeybee queen and the honeybees had bellies full of honey. Se-jun decided to send the Poison Honeybees he brought this time down to the 83rd floor of the tower. Anyway, he needed Poison Honeybees to pollinate flowers in the farms on other floors too.

However, moving a beehive to another floor was an extremely laborious task. That was why he had been unable to send the Poison Honeybees…

Since the Poison Honeybees tamed this time did not have a beehive yet, he planned to send them down to the 83rd floor of the tower to build a beehive in the chestnut tree farm and harvest chestnut honey.

Like that, Se-jun expanded his beekeeping business to other floors.

***

Swashhhh.

The Black Dragon statue, which was spouting water on top of the fountain commemorating the 100th anniversary of Aileen’s birth, began to move.

And

Flap, flap.

-Se-jun! Where are you?!

Kaiser looked for Se-jun while roaming around the farm.

Under the pretext of establishing measures for Kellion, Kaiser put his head together with Artemis, the master of the residence, Brachio the Green Dragon, and Kellion at the Golden Dragon Artemis’s residence, and drank makgeolli. That was for almost ten days.

Meanwhile,

“Ah, we have completely run out of alcohol. My apologies. I should have prepared more…”

Artemis spoke with an apologetic expression. It was time to break up the drinking party.

“What, already?!”

Kaiser spoke with a disappointed expression. To run out of alcohol when he was in such high spirits! This could not be.

“Wait a moment! I will bring some!”

Like that, Kaiser was the one who hurriedly returned to his residence and moved the Black Dragon statue. His goal was the makgeolli Se-jun had made. However, at that time, Se-jun was seeing off the Poison Honeybees departing for the 83rd floor of the tower.

-Since Se-jun is not here, it cannot be helped.

Since Se-jun was not there, Kaiser entered the brewery to pack the makgeolli himself.

And when he packed 10 bottles of makgeolli,

-Huh?! What is this?

Kaiser discovered glass bottles separate from the glass bottles containing makgeolli. Inside, there was a liquid that looked like makgeolli, but from the outside, there was no big difference except that the color had a slightly more yellowish tint than the makgeolli.

-Was it a failure?

Although it seemed that Se-jun had failed while making makgeolli, the instinct of an alcohol lover strongly told him to drink it rather than ignore it.

-Let’s take it for now!

If it was truly a failure, he could just rinse his mouth with makgeolli right away. And above all, if one was a lover of alcohol, one always had to be able to enjoy the danger.

-Good.

With Kaiser’s decision, the Black Dragon statue swallowed the glass bottles, and Kaiser, having packed the glass bottles, hurriedly flew to Artemis’s residence.

***

“Guys, let’s go for a walk.”

Having returned after seeing off the Golden Bat and the Poison Honeybees, Se-jun walked around, inspecting the farm. The green onion fields, cornfields, and cherry tomato fields were well-managed thanks to the rabbits and mushroom ants.

And

[A tenant farmer planted cherry tomato seeds using Mana Sowing Lv. 6.]

[A Thousand-bag Grain Owner received a 5% reward.]

[The job experience of the Thousand-bag Grain Owner slightly increased.]

[The proficiency of the Thousand-bag Grain Owner’s Mana Sowing Lv. 6 slightly increased.]

…

..

.

The messages proved that. Everything was going smoothly. Like that, on his way back home after inspecting the entire farm,

“Is there anything you want to eat for dinner, Cuengi?”

Se-jun gave the right to decide the dinner menu to Cuengi, who had worked hard carrying him around.

Cueng! Cueng!

[Dad! Cuengi wants to eat bananas and rice cakes together!]

At Se-jun’s words, Cuengi raised his left hand and mentioned bananas, and raised his right hand and mentioned rice cakes. Having eaten honey rice cakes a few times, he seemed to want to try mixing something else with the rice cakes.

Cueeeng!

[Mixing bananas and rice cakes-da-yo!]

Cuengi waved both hands, sang a song alone, and shook his butt as he danced. He seemed to express the taste of mixed bananas and rice cakes with his body.

‘He would do well if he became a YouTuber.’

While Cuengi did the performing, he would earn the money,

“Hehehe.”

Se-jun entered the kitchen area while imagining pleasant thoughts alone and began making rice cakes.

After a while,

“Cuengi, let’s eat!”

Cueng!

[It is food-da-yo!]

Cuengi, who was playing alone outside digging the dirt to avoid bothering Se-jun, hurriedly ran over at Se-jun’s call.

And

Munch, munch.

Cuengi held a lump of rice cake in each hand and ate them alternately in a single bite.

“Chairman Park, give me one more Churu too, meow!”

Slurp!

Whether stimulated by Cuengi’s eating, Theo accelerated the speed at which he ate the Churu. However, a crow-tit could not keep up with a stork.

“Kek, kek, kek!”

It was Theo, who only choked while eating the Churu quickly. It was the end of the one who showed foolhardiness.

“See? Why did you try to compete with Cuengi? You should just eat it deliciously, and that’s it.”

“I just wanted to win, meow! But Chairman Park’s words seem to be right, meow! Eating it deliciously is all that matters, meow!”

Chwap, chwap, chwap.

Theo gave up on beating Cuengi and began eating the Churu at his original speed again.

“Ah. I am full.”

“It was a delicious Churu, meow!”

Cueng!

[I ate well-da-yo!]

After everyone had a delicious dinner,

Cueng!

[Cuengi is going to sleep-da-yo!]

Cuengi went to sleep with his mother.

And

“I should sleep after having a drink today. What alcohol should I drink?”

Se-jun headed to the brewery. Around today, it was time for the alcohol he made to be completed.

As Se-jun began to get slightly tired of ordinary makgeolli, he had started making makgeolli by adding potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, and so on. The reason he could easily make the chestnut makgeolli today was also because there had already been trial and error.

The brewery he arrived at with such an fluttering heart.

However,

“Huh?!”

The various flavored makgeolli Se-jun had made had all disappeared.