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Chapter 19 – Planting Potatoes
154th day of being stranded, morning.
“Heave-ho!”
Scribble. Scribble.
Se-jun got up and drew a line on the cave wall.
At that moment,
Buzz, buzz.
Buzz, buzz.
The sound of wings heard from behind. The poison honeybees were already up and sucking nectar. The way they gathered honey so diligently lately made it seem like the Queen Poison Honeybee had started laying eggs again.
While Se-jun was looking at the poison honeybees,
Pyik!
Pyaang!
Pyak!
The rabbits lined up and came out of the burrow, greeting energetically. In all of their hands, they held the carrots left over from yesterday.
Since the size of the carrots was similar to the rabbits, the rabbits had eaten half of the carrots, which were as big as their bodies, until their bellies were full yesterday. It was to the point of being fascinating how that went into their bellies.
However, the rabbits just felt it was regrettable that there was carrot left over. So they had looked at the carrots regretfully, taken them into the burrow, and then brought them out again in the morning.
Perhaps because they had eaten the carrots at night as well, the size of the carrots they brought out was much smaller than when they went in.
Crunch, crunch.
The rabbits who came out of the burrow rubbed their eyes and began to eat the rest of the carrots left over from yesterday.
“Is it that delicious?”
When Se-jun looked at the Black Rabbit as if he was persistent,
Pyak!
The Black Rabbit nodded toward Se-jun and said. Of course!
Thanks to that, Se-jun was also swept up in the mood, ate a simple breakfast of cherry tomatoes and carrots, and started his morning farming.
Today Se-jun had a lot of work to do. He had to harvest cherry tomatoes and even harvest carrots.
However, today the poison honeybees and the rabbits were busier than Se-jun.
As flowers began to bloom in the newly planted cherry tomato field, the poison honeybees moved even busier, with their travel distance increasing.
And as for the rabbits, the rabbit couple sent their children out of the cave.
Pyik!
Pyaa?!
They had independentized their children. The six rabbits kicked out of the house began to make their own burrows.
“Why go independent?”
Don’t tell me?! That thing again?!
Se-jun prayed it was not.
Because the grade of cherry tomatoes would quickly drop if he missed the harvest time, he harvested the cherry tomatoes quickly first.
Then, Se-jun, who finished harvesting cherry tomatoes, went to the carrot field and started harvesting carrots.
Tug.
As expected, the carrots pulled out easily.
[You have harvested a ripe Agility Carrot.]
[Your job experience increases slightly.]
[The proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 2 increases very slightly.]
[You have obtained 12 experience points.]
Fortunately, it was an E+ grade carrot from the start.
Tug. Tug.
Se-jun began harvesting carrots in earnest.
Pyak! Pyak!
When Se-jun piled the diligently pulled carrots on the side, the Black Rabbit, under the pretext of physical training, carried a carrot on each shoulder and moved them to the storage.
The carrot storage had been made yesterday by digging a square pit next to the cherry tomato storage in advance and lining it with green onion leaves.
Pya…
After going back and forth about ten times, the Black Rabbit seemed to run out of energy, and his moving speed slowed down rapidly.
Tap. Tap.
Roll, roll.
He was stealthily kicking the carrots to move them to the storage, only to be caught by the mother rabbit and scolded.
“Hehehe. I knew you would do that.”
While Se-jun was laughing while watching the Black Rabbit get scolded,
[You have obtained 1 mL of honey from the cherry tomato flower.]
[The proficiency of Beekeeping Lv. 1 increases slightly.]
[You have obtained 1 mL of honey from the cherry tomato flower.]
[The proficiency of Beekeeping Lv. 1 increases slightly.]
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..
.
The poison honeybees filled the plastic water bottle with honey.
And,
[You have obtained 1 mL of honey from the cherry tomato flower.]
[The proficiency of Beekeeping Lv. 1 increases slightly.]
[The proficiency of Beekeeping Lv. 1 is filled, and the level increases.]
The level of the Beekeeping skill increased.
Se-jun examined the leveled-up Beekeeping skill.
There was no big change in the options. It just changed from increasing slightly to increasing a bit. Honestly, saying ‘a bit’ made it ambiguous as to how much it had changed.
Instead, there was something that changed clearly. The number of hives that could be owned changed from (1/1) to (1/2), increasing by one.
Although not yet, if the poison honeybees swarmed later, he would be able to own two hives at that time.
“Good job.”
Se-jun found the poison honeybees that sucked honey diligently commendable, so he patted the plump tails of the poison honeybees nearby and praised them.
Trudge, trudge.
In the meantime, the Black Rabbit, who returned depressed after being scolded by his mother, discovered Se-jun patting the tails of the poison honeybees.
Pyak?! Pyak!
The Black Rabbit also thrust his butt toward Se-jun and said. What about me?! I won’t lose when it comes to a plump butt!
“Sure.”
Se-jun patted the Black Rabbit’s butt that rolled in on its own, having a brief healing time with each other.
Crunch.
Crunch.
while chewing on a carrot.
And,
“Where are you going?”
when the break ended, he caught the Black Rabbit who was trying to sneak away to the pond and made him carry carrots again.
While Se-jun was putting energy into harvesting carrots again like that,
[You have harvested a ripe Agility Carrot.]
[Your job experience increases slightly.]
[The proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 2 increases very slightly.]
[You have obtained 10 experience points.]
[You have leveled up.]
[You have obtained 1 bonus stat.]
His level increased to level 10. Se-jun increased stamina with the bonus stat. As stamina increased, it felt like his heavy body became a little lighter.
[A quest occurs.]
“What?! Can’t you see I’m busy?”
Se-jun complained to the tower administrator without checking the details of the message.
[The tower administrator feels wronged, saying it is not them.]
“Huh?! It’s not you?”
Se-jun checked the quest message in detail belatedly.
[Job Quest: Expand the farm to 50 pyeong or more.]
Reward: Level 11, 10 Tower Coins, 1 additional job characteristic
Come to think of it, he seemed to have heard of it. The job quest at level 10. He had to pass that quest to obtain a new job characteristic and move on to the next level.
While the quests of other hunters were usually subduing a few monsters, it seemed the content of his quest was different because he was a farmer.
“Expanding the farm is easy.”
Since he had already expanded the fields several times, it was not difficult for Se-jun. It just meant he would have more work.
[The tower administrator says ‘look at that’ and that they are disappointed.]
“Sorry. Instead, I’ll make you cherry tomato juice later.”
Se-jun appeased the tower administrator.
And he quickly finished harvesting carrots and went into making fields.
When the rabbits made spots with shovels, Se-jun planted cherry tomatoes. Although he ended up planting too many cherry tomatoes, there was no choice because the only thing he could harvest seeds from right now was cherry tomatoes, so there was no choice.
Planting like that, he could barely finish planting cherry tomatoes before going to bed. The number of cherry tomato seeds planted was 1,000. Since he had gotten greedy since he was doing it anyway, the scale became a bit large.
[You have completed the quest.]
[You have reached level 11 as a quest completion reward.]
[You have obtained 1 bonus stat.]
[You have obtained 10 Tower Coins as a quest completion reward.]
[You have obtained 1 job characteristic as a quest completion reward.]
[Job Characteristic: You can obtain experience points every time you make 1 pyeong of rice paddy or field.
Until now, he had obtained experience points only when harvesting crops, but now he became able to obtain experience points even when making fields or rice paddies.
“This is good.”
Se-jun was satisfied with the newly obtained job characteristic.
That night, as Se-jun expected, the rabbit couple prepared for the big event.
However, when the rabbit couple was creating a hot atmosphere for the big event, an unexpected interferer appeared.
Snore. Snort.
Snore. Snort.
Pyik?!
Pyak?!
At the loud roar echoing through the cave late at night, the rabbits ran out of the burrow in groups, thinking a monster had invaded.
And,
Snore.
Phew.
realizing it was the snoring of Se-jun, who was tired from hard labor, they had to go through the trouble of pushing Se-jun’s body to make him sleep on his side, and then enter the burrow again.
In that manner, Se-jun unintentionally interfered with the rabbit couple’s big event.
***
155th day of being stranded.
Today was the important day when the seed shop opened. As soon as Se-jun woke up, he drew a line on the wall, went to the pond, and washed his face.
Pyik…
Pyaa…
Pyaak…
The rabbits came out with tired faces, perhaps because they had not slept well.
“What? What did you do without sleeping?”
Pyiiik!
Pyaaa!
Pyaak! Pyaak!
At Se-jun’s words, the rabbits raged. Especially the rabbit couple got furious like fire. It’s because of you!
“Hahaha. Sorry.”
Se-jun pacified the rabbits’ anger by offering carrots to soothe the angry rabbits.
And he began morning farming.
“Hum, hum, hum.”
While Se-jun was humming and focusing on harvesting cherry tomatoes for a long time,
[The seed shop opens.]
[Three types of seeds to be sold today are displayed at random.]
[Seeds can be purchased only once at the current grade.]
The seeds that could be purchased today appeared.
[Seed Potatoes 100 – 5 Tower Coins]
[Strawberry Seeds 100 – 0.5 Tower Coins]
[Lettuce Seeds 1000 – 0.1 Tower Coins]
“Since there’s no meat, pass on the lettuce.”
The remaining ones were seed potatoes and strawberries. Since he had plenty of money, he did not consider the price.
“Ah. I’m conflicted.”
While Se-jun was debating which of the two to buy, he imagined eating potatoes and strawberries.
Wrapping potatoes in green onion leaves, baking them, then blowing on them while peeling the skin, and taking a bite of the steaming potato flesh, that fluffy texture and subtle saltiness…
“Keuh!”
Just imagining it made him feel warm in his stomach.
What about strawberries? Picking a ripe red strawberry, putting it in one’s mouth, and chewing, the unique flavor of the strawberry along with the sourness and sugar-sprinkled sweetness fills the mouth.
“Slurp.”
Se-jun wiped his falling drool and looked at the seed shop window.
“What should I buy?”
Se-jun deliberated for a long time before holding back tears and choosing the seed potatoes.
Lately, he was starving for carbohydrates.
[You have purchased 100 seed potatoes.]
[5 Tower Coins are withdrawn from Se-jun Park’s Seed Bank account.]
[50 seed shop mileage points are accumulated.]
[A total of 56 seed shop mileage points have been accumulated.]
[Thank you for using the seed shop.]
You can use Seed Shop Lv. 1 again in 30 days.]
Thud.
A sack containing 100 seed potatoes appeared in front of Se-jun.
“Good.”
Se-jun quickly finished harvesting cherry tomatoes and carrots and began planting seed potatoes.
Since he had asked the rabbits to make the field in advance, he only had to plant the seed potatoes.
“You can cut it like this.”
Having seen it somewhere before, he asked the rabbit with the sickle item to cut the seed potatoes into four pieces. If looked closely, the spots where sprouts would grow could be seen, so they just had to cut it in a way that included that part.
So Se-jun planted the seed potatoes cut into four pieces like that.
[You have planted the seed potatoes.]
[The probability of the seed potatoes germinating increases due to the effect of Sowing Lv. 2.]
[The proficiency of Sowing Lv. 2 increases very slightly.]
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..
.
And Se-jun planted all 400 seed potatoes in just an hour.
Se-jun was now completely used to the work.
Shhh.
The potato planting was completely finished as the rabbits with watering cans watered the potato field.
“Ah. So proud.”
While Se-jun was proudly looking at the field where 400 seed potatoes were planted,
[You have made 10 pyeong of potato field.]
[You have obtained 10 experience points.]
1 experience point per pyeong. Although it was not big, it felt like side income was coming in.
“Isn’t it amazing? My farming divine art of planting 400 with 100 seed potatoes?”
Pyak?!
When Se-jun spoke boastfully, the Black Rabbit looked at him pathetically. What farmer doesn’t know that?!
He spoke for nothing and was only ignored.
155th day of being stranded, potatoes began to grow in Se-jun’s field.