Farming In The Tower Alone Chapter 4

Episode 4. make a fire

Episode 4. make a fire

Sejun quickly grasped the pink atmosphere flowing between the two.

“Surely you and your wife?”

Beep!

Beep!

They both nodded at the same time.

‘shit!’

And now, I can’t believe I’m stuck with a rabbit couple…

There was a time in college where I had a meal with a couple because I didn’t have a friend who had the same class schedule as me. It was really embarrassing, but I couldn’t eat alone all semester, so we had to eat together.

Then one day, while they were eating together, a cold wind blew between them. It was a fight. Sejun felt sick while eating that day.

‘And I gained the ability to eat alone.’

After that, I decided that I would never eat together as a couple again…

beep beep.

Her husband, Rabbit, seemed to sense that Sejun was in a strange mood and showed affection by rubbing his face into Sejun’s hand. It was a desperate gesture to be allowed to stay here.

‘I’m trying so hard to protect my family…’

Sejun’s heart weakened. And I felt ashamed of myself for still being tied to the past.

‘okay. They were a couple and these are a couple.’

Sejun did not know the profound world of the couple.

“Okay, stay here. But it’s not free.”

It wasn’t what I expected.

Beep!

Beep!

At Sejun’s consent, the rabbit couple nodded vigorously as if it was obvious, and ran to the corner of the cave and started digging a hole to make their own home.

“cave?”

As Sejun watched a rabbit digging a hole, something came to mind. When I thought about it, I thought I might be able to dig out of here.

‘Stupid! There was a hole at the top so I only thought about that side!’

“rabbit!”

Bleep?

My husband’s rabbit, who was digging hard, stuck his head out at Sejun’s call.

“Can we dig a tunnel and get out of here?”

Piy…

The rabbit thought for a moment and shook his head left and right.

“no?”

Ssuk suk.

The rabbit started drawing on the floor. I drew the cave where Sejun was and started digging deep underneath it.

And

shoot.

I poured water into the hole with the water aperture I was holding. The bottom of Sejun’s cave was filled with water.

“Ah. The bottom is all water.”

Beep!

The rabbit nodded.

“Okay. Keep doing what you’re doing.”

Beep!

The rabbit went to dig a hole again.

At that time,

beep beep beep beep beep beep.

The alarm went off. The smartphone’s battery is 100%. Considering the speed at which the laptop discharges, I thought it could be fully charged at least once more.

[May 16, 6 a.m.]

Sejun’s daily routine has begun.

First, I checked the cherry tomato sprouts.

“Good job guys.”

(…T…)

Now the green leaves have fully bloomed. There was no news from the sweet potato field yet.

Sejun went to the pond, washed his face, and watered the field.

And

boom, boom, boom.

I cut the green onions so that the cherry tomato sprouts could see the sun. The more you break the green onion, the thicker the stem becomes and splits, producing more leaves. At first, there were about 3 leaves per green onion, but now there are 8 leaves.

“I guess defeating them will be a task later, right?”

Sejun dried the leaves he tore off in the sun. The leaves that were first exposed to the sun have now hardened with almost no moisture.

Crunchy.

Sejun finished his morning work by eating the leaves he had just picked. Now, eight hours later, pick the green onions once more and water them, and the day’s work is over.

After finishing work, Sejun sat down in his reserved seat and looked blankly at the sky.

How long have you been looking at the sky like that?

Woo! Woo!

Buu! Buu!

“Huh? What does this mean?”

Sejun looked in the direction of the sound. It was a sound coming from a hole dug by rabbits.

The sound stopped quickly.

“what?”

When Sejun looked at the sky again and was about to fall into a daze,

wow! wow!

Buu! Buu!

The sound came again. When I listened closely, I heard it was the sound of someone gasping for breath.

‘no way?!’

“These!”

As soon as the rabbit couple built their home, they started breeding.

Since then, breeding activities have continued several more times.

A few hours later.

At 2pm, Sejun woke up to do his afternoon work.

Then

beep.

Beep.

The rabbit couple came out of the hole in good harmony.

And then he started moving around and started doing the farming work that Sejun wanted to do.

Beep beep.

Shoot!

My husband’s rabbit hummed as he watered the crops with a watering can and

said, ‘Byap-byap.’

Snip, snip.

The wife rabbit cut green onions with scissors while harmonizing the husband rabbit’s song.

The husband sings and the wife sings along. Buchang Busu (夫唱婦隨). Those words just came to mind.

But there was something else that bothered Sejun.

“What are those…”

It turned out that the water bottle that the husband rabbit was holding and the apron that the wife rabbit was wearing were items.

Water continued to come out of the water stop without stopping. And the apron seemed to be enchanted with space magic, so whenever my wife Rabbit needed farming tools like scissors or shovels, she took them out of the apron.

I was a little jealous. I can’t believe they have equipment like that. He dug and ripped it with his hands and scooped up water.

Time passed well as I watched the rabbits working.

But I got bored quickly. At that time, I saw the light passing through the plastic bottle placed next to me being refracted and converging into a strong light.

When I saw that, something suddenly occurred to me. There was a TV broadcast a while ago where survival experts appeared, and a scene in which they filled plastic bottles with water and started a fire came to mind.

‘Shall we start a fire?’

It seemed like if you lit well-dried pie leaves on fire, they would burn easily.

“good.”

Sejun got up and gathered the dried pie leaves.

And

boom, boom.

I tore the leaves into thin pieces and gathered them in the center so that the fire could start well.

Then, Sejun used a plastic bottle filled with water to focus the light into one point like a magnifying glass and began to shine it on the pie leaves.

Bleep?

beep?

When Sejun didn’t move in the same position for more than 20 minutes, the rabbit couple approached him. He seemed curious about what the farm owner was doing. After about 10 minutes

of nodding

, the rabbits seemed to be bored and began to doze off.

At that time,

all of a sudden.

Smoke rose from a pile of shredded pie leaves. A spark was created.

‘do!’

Sejun concentrated even more and shined light on the embers using a plastic bottle. The embers grew stronger and the smoke became thicker.

“Whoo! Whoo!”

Sejun picked up the torn leaf containing the embers and carefully blew on it.

I woke up to the sound of the rabbit couple blowing air and looked at Sejun.

And

beep!

Beep!

I was shocked to see the smoke coming out of Pai Irapi.

How much wind did you blow in like that?

Roaring.

A fire broke out and spit out flames.

“Hehehe! That’s it!”

Beep.

Beep.

The rabbit couple looked at Sejun with respect. Among the rabbits’ items, there was no item that could start a fire.

The first thing Sejun did when the fire started was to roast and eat green onions. I just wanted to fill my stomach with something warm.

The dried green onions became hard enough to be used as firewood and were difficult to eat, so I roasted the green onions I tore off today.

When the outside of the green onion turned black, Sejun grabbed the end and lifted it up.

and

“Aw! Hot! Ho-oh.”

He blew his fingers over the other leaves and peeled off the charred skin of the green onion.

I lifted the grilled green onion upward and put the peeled part into my mouth.

Munch.

‘…Sweet!’

Sejun’s eyes opened wide at the incredible taste. Sugar rushed in my mouth. A tremendous sweetness exploded.

Sejun threw some of the green onions he was going to eat into the fire and began to eat them hungrily.

Beep?

In response to Sejun’s reaction, Rabbit’s husband courageously put green onions into the fire.

And after a while,

beep!

Beep!

The rabbit couple peeled and ate the green onions with impressed expressions. All three had soot on their faces and ate eagerly.

Day 7 of the shipwreck.

For the first time, Sejun fell asleep after filling his stomach with warm food.

***

Beep beep beep beep beep beep.

[May 19, 6 a.m.]

Day 10 of the shipwreck.

“Tsk tsk.”

Sejun woke up energetic today again.

Beep!

Beep!

The rabbit couple woke up first and greeted Sejun.

“Okay. Good morning.”

Oops! Oops!

Sejun went to the edge of the pond, washed his face, and sat down in his seat.

Beep.

My wife Rabbit brought roasted green onions.

“thank you.”

Sejun said as he received the food.

Munching.

While eating grilled green onions, I looked at the fields planted with crops. The green onions had already been cut and the ground was soaked. The rabbits who woke up early have already finished their work.

Plus, my wife, Rabbit, even made a meal for me. It’s so nice that they take care of it for you.

But

“……”

In a place where there was already nothing to do, there was even less to do.

“I need to move a little.”

Today, I decided to transplant the cherry tomatoes that I had been putting off. If they grow too close together, they will not be able to absorb nutrients properly, so it is time to transplant them.

Puck. Puck.

Sejun dug the soil with his hands and made a place to plant the cherry tomatoes

.

My husband, Rabbit, carefully scooped them up one by one with a spoon-sized shovel. While moving, the 6 sprouts that were planted later were also moved.

A total of 58 buds were created in 6 rows of 10 per row.

“Whew.”

Seeing the sprouts planted neatly and neatly in rows filled me with pride. These days, Sejun easily gets proud of trivial things.

As soon as Sejun finished transplanting cherry tomatoes, he started a new job.

Making a torch.

I made a handle by plaiting several pieces of leaves I cut today, and tore the dried leaves at the end into small pieces and wrapped them hundreds of times.

Dried pie leaves held fire for quite a long time, so it seemed like they could be used as torches. In fact, the pie leaves burned for such a long time that there was no need to take care of the fire.

It was such a tedious task that normally I would have thrown it away right away. But now, it was so fun to use my own body to create what I needed in my life solely through my own will.

After spending several hours making a torch, the alarm went off to let me know it was time to go to bed.

Beep beep beep beep beep beep.

[May 20, 6 a.m.] The morning of the

11th day of the shipwreck dawned.

“Tsk!”

Beep!

Beep!

“Okay. Good morning.”

As soon as I woke up, I said good morning to the rabbit couple and went to the pond to wash my face.

The pond was brighter than yesterday. Sejun, who always felt uncomfortable in the dark when washing his face, was the first to set up a torch in the pond.

“Good. Hehehe.”

Sejun took his face to the pond to wash his face while watching the burning torch.

Then

splash!

A fish suddenly jumped out of the pond and tried to bite Sejun’s face.

“100 million?!”

Sejun hurriedly leaned back. The fishy smell of water from the fish’s body passed my nose. I really narrowly avoided it.

Flap flutter.

The fish that fell to the ground struggled to return to the water.

“Wha…what?!”

Sejun, who was embarrassed, approached the fluttering fish and took a closer look.

Its body had golden stripes on a black background and it had sharp teeth.

If I had been just a little late, my nose would have been cut off.

puck!

Sejun kicked the fish to the other side of the pond to prevent it from escaping.

And I looked inside the pond.

“oh!”

Inside, there were several more swimming around of the same species as the fish that had just attacked Sejun.

“Why is this here?”

While Sejun was thinking about the reason,

the sound fluttered.

The fish was moving its body and trying to escape into the pond.

‘This is not the time to be like this!’

Sejun hurriedly caught the fish that had fallen to the ground.

On the 11th day of the shipwreck, I was finally able to eat meat.