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

soon as he got up, Sejun went to see the cherry tomato sprouts without washing his

“Oh!”

(…”…)

sprouts. The scallions had grown back to Sejun’s height, blocking the light that should have

Crunch. Crunch.

off

“Phew.”

scallions,

Splash! Splash!

quickly finished washing

Gulp. Gulp. Gulp.

the soil around the cherry

don’t hate you, you

especially gave the

When he finished watering,

Gurgle.

demanded payment, as if there could

“Time to eat breakfast.”

scallion he had just broken into

Crunch. Crunch.

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

he feel drained of energy.

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

I need to dry

at the current situation, it seemed unlikely that the well-growing leeks

would have thought that he would be stranded in an unknown

decided to plant the remaining cherry tomatoes and sweet potatoes for more

Thud. Thud.

dug into the soil and planted the cherry

And then,

Trickle, trickle.

“Grow big and strong.”

encouragement and sat on his designated seat, a flat rock where

“The sky is nice.”

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

he had been staring at the sky for

for days when I was working at the

that feeling was

something’s missing. If only I had

iced Americano with an extra shot.

Se-jun looked at the

Beep. Beep.

dropped below 20%. He had set the screen to low power

it with this for

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

Blink.

up, showing an Excel window with work he had been doing. It was an estimate to send to a client, which

Click.

course, he didn’t save anything. Although it was an estimate he had worked on for several days, he didn’t feel any regret.

will do it

take over, but it

He also turned on

his smartphone was charging, he looked at

how many times he looked, it

the cherry tomato

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Water dropped from above.

“What? Is it raining?”

spoke. Apart from a few floors, the tower always had

be

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

But,

“Huh?!”

there was a small white rabbit, drooling as it looked

that a monster

rabbit he saw in front of

Squeak!

met Sejun’s, it let out a cute cry and jumped down

Boing.

“Uh?!”

It’s Dangerous!

hand towards the falling rabbit, not knowing if it was a

direction using its long ears, avoiding Sejun’s hand, stepped on his

“……”

embarrassing to have his hand outstretched in

At that moment,

Squeak.

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

“Can you eat this?”

Squeak!

head vigorously. There was a desperate

“Here.”

Snap.

a whole scallion leaf and gave it to the

Squeak!

Crunch. Crunch.

eating the scallion leaf Sejun handed

Snap. Snap.

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