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.

our sprouts grown

Sejun went to see the cherry tomato sprouts without washing his face or eating. He was very curious about how

“Oh!”

(…”…)

split. However, a dark shadow blocked the sprouts. The scallions had grown back to Sejun’s height, blocking the light that should have reached

Crunch. Crunch.

mercilessly broke off the

“Phew.”

scallions,

Splash! Splash!

finished washing his

Gulp. Gulp. Gulp.

bottle and plastic container with water to water the soil around the cherry tomato sprouts, as

hate you,

the

When he finished watering,

Gurgle.

as if there could be no unpaid

“Time to eat breakfast.”

scallion he had just

Crunch. Crunch.

of sweet potatoes and cherry tomatoes, he thought

empty, nor did he feel drained of energy.

180 cm per day, there was actually so much that it was

need to dry

it seemed unlikely that the well-growing leeks would suddenly

can predict affairs. Who would have thought that he would be stranded in an

and

Thud. Thud.

and planted the cherry tomatoes and

And then,

Trickle, trickle.

“Grow big and strong.”

gave them plenty of water along with his encouragement and sat on his designated seat, a

“The sky is nice.”

was clear and beautiful. The human heart was fickle, He thought to himself. Despite feeling suffocated yesterday, he found the sky to be pleasant

to think of it, he had been staring

sky for days when I was working at the company…

feeling was

something’s missing. If only I had

Americano with an

Se-jun looked at the sky, reminiscing about city

Beep. Beep.

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

with this

consumed less power than a laptop and informed him of the time to wake up

Blink.

showing 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 company and had intended to

Click.

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, it was

else will do it

would take over, but it wasn’t a situation where he could do

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

his smartphone was charging, he looked at the cherry

he looked, it made him

the cherry tomato sprouts

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Water dropped from above.

“What? Is it raining?”

knew that wasn’t the case, even as he spoke. Apart from a few

be

got goosebumps imagining a monster looking down at

But,

“Huh?!”

the hole in the ceiling, there was a small white

that a

he saw in front

Squeak!

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

Boing.

“Uh?!”

It’s Dangerous!

towards the falling rabbit, not knowing if it was a

direction using its long ears, avoiding Sejun’s hand, stepped on his shoulder with both feet,

“……”

was quite embarrassing to have his hand

At that moment,

Squeak.

on two legs and pointed to the scallion with its trembling finger. Seeing it walk on two legs, it was not just an ordinary

“Can you eat this?”

Squeak!

nodding its head vigorously. There was a desperate

“Here.”

Snap.

whole scallion leaf and gave it to

Squeak!

Crunch. Crunch.

the scallion

Snap. Snap.

broke off more