Solo Farming In The Tower

Crunch.

The scallion leaf was cut off with a pleasant sound, easier than expected. The texture was good as well.

Ahh.

As soon as he chewed the scallion, a spicy taste spread throughout his mouth. His body warmed up from the spiciness. His pores opened and sweat poured out like rain.

Swallowing his saliva.

Sejun wiped the flowing sweat and continued to chew the scallion. However, the expected sweetness didn’t come.

‘I thought the sweetness would be stronger because the spiciness became stronger…’

It seemed that the taste had become entirely spicy.

Gulp.

When he swallowed the scallion, the spiciness disappeared cleanly. Fortunately, it didn’t upset his stomach.

‘I can eat the scallions when I crave something spicy.’

Crunch.

Sejun continued to eat the scallions, which only had a spicy taste. For now, he had to satisfy his hunger.

So, Sejun seemed to have eaten about a foot of scallions while dripping with sweat. Somehow, the more he sweated, the lighter his body felt.

Crunch. Crunch.

Sejun, who filled his stomach with scallions, mercilessly broke the scallions that provided shade in his spot. It was not because he was venting his anger since there was no sweetness at all.

‘Well… let’s not say it’s absolute. I was a little hopeful.’

He laid the broken scallions in a place well-exposed to sunlight. Today, he started his work a little late because of the scallions, but it didn’t matter. The work was…

Drip, drip, drip.

Briefly watering the crops and

“……”

Staring blankly at the hole in the ceiling.

Still, something had appeared to relieve his boredom.

When he stared blankly at the ceiling for a while, the scallions had grown significantly in the meantime.

“Do scallions usually grow this fast?”

He even checked the time on his smartphone to see if it was just his imagination. The scallions grew about 10cm per hour. An astonishing growth rate. Sejun, who had no farming experience, thought this was impossible.

“Is it because they were grown in the tower?”

There was nothing else to suspect. They were just scallions that he had bought from the market. If the seeds had truly been scallions that grew 10cm per hour, they would have been called golden scallions.

“But there’s no growth from these guys.”

Sejun glanced at the spots where he had planted cherry tomatoes and sweet potatoes next to the scallions. If the soil was the reason for the scallions’ miraculous growth, then other things would grow well too.

However, there was no change in the ground.

“Is this soil only suitable for growing scallions?”

With a suspicious mind, he looked more closely.

“Huh?!”

Upon closer inspection, the soil where the sweet potatoes were planted remained the same, but the soil where the cherry tomatoes were planted seemed slightly bulging. Sejun lay down on the ground and stared intently at the bulging soil.

“Ah!”

There it was!

(…i…)

A green stem with a shiny yellow head emerged shyly between the soil, revealing its appearance.

“One, two, three…”

There were a total of 52 sprouts. Sejun stared at the cherry tomato sprouts for a long time.

“Hehehe. So cute.”

He felt a sense of pride just by looking at the plants he had grown himself and seeing them grow so well. It made him feel accomplished.

*****

Beep-beep. Beep-beep.

[May 15th, 6:00 am]

Sejun welcomed the 6th day’s morning. Yesterday, he spent the whole day just looking at the cherry tomato sprouts. They didn’t grow as fast as the scallions, but watching them grow little by little over time made him feel full even without eating.

“Ha!”

Sejun got up lightly from his seat. Lately, his body was getting lighter day by day. At first, he thought it was because the fatigue from overwork had been relieved, but recently, he began to think that it might not be the case.

Have our sprouts grown a

soon as he got up, Sejun went to see the cherry tomato sprouts without washing his face or eating. He was very curious about how much they had grown while he was

“Oh!”

(…”…)

greenish yellow heads, were slightly split. However, a dark shadow blocked the sprouts. The scallions had grown back to Sejun’s height, blocking the light that should

Crunch. Crunch.

broke off the scallion

“Phew.”

breaking all the scallions, Sejun hurried

Splash! Splash!

finished washing

Gulp. Gulp. Gulp.

soil around

don’t hate you, you

especially gave the

When he finished watering,

Gurgle.

if there could be

“Time to eat breakfast.”

he had just broken

Crunch. Crunch.

yesterday instead of sweet potatoes and cherry tomatoes, he thought he could satisfy his hunger

feel drained of energy. Somehow, it felt like carbohydrates

importantly, there was plenty of it. Growing about 180 cm per day, there was actually so

need to dry

the current situation, it seemed unlikely that the well-growing leeks would suddenly stop growing, but Se-jun decided to prepare for the

predict affairs. Who would have thought that he would be stranded

cherry tomatoes and sweet potatoes for more food in

Thud. Thud.

the soil and planted the cherry tomatoes and sweet

And then,

Trickle, trickle.

“Grow big and strong.”

plenty of water along with his encouragement and sat on his designated seat, a flat rock where the sun shined well.

“The sky is nice.”

was clear and beautiful. The human heart was fickle, He thought to himself. Despite feeling suffocated yesterday, he

to think of it, he had been staring at the

sky for days when I was working at the company…

that feeling was

If only I had

iced Americano with an extra shot. He

the

Beep. Beep.

He had set the screen to low power mode and only looked at it when needed, but he couldn’t completely prevent battery

it with this for

his laptop and pressed the power button. A smartphone that consumed less power than a laptop and informed

Blink.

an Excel window with work he had been doing. It was an estimate to send to a client, which he hadn’t finished at the

Click.

window without any hesitation. Of course, he didn’t save anything. Although it was an estimate he had worked on for several days, he didn’t feel any regret. Besides,

will

for the person who would take over, but it wasn’t a situation where he could do anything

charged his phone. He also turned on low power mode for the laptop to reduce

was charging, he looked at

how many times he looked, it

watching the cherry tomato sprouts for

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Water dropped from above.

“What? Is it raining?”

the case, even as he spoke. Apart from a few floors,

be a

imagining a monster looking down at him and drooling. Se-jun

But,

“Huh?!”

the hole in the ceiling, there was a small white rabbit, drooling as it looked down through

a monster

wondering if the rabbit he saw in

Squeak!

rabbit’s eyes met Sejun’s, it let out a cute cry and jumped down from the

Boing.

“Uh?!”

It’s Dangerous!

towards the falling rabbit, not knowing if it was a

the rabbit adjusted its falling direction using its long ears, avoiding Sejun’s hand, stepped on his shoulder with both

“……”

was quite embarrassing to have his hand outstretched in

At that moment,

Squeak.

on two legs and pointed to the scallion with its trembling finger. Seeing it walk on two legs, it was

“Can you eat this?”

Squeak!

was

“Here.”

Snap.

whole scallion leaf and gave it to

Squeak!

Crunch. Crunch.

started eating the scallion leaf Sejun handed

Snap. Snap.

eating the scallion, Sejun broke off more leaves. He decided to break them