The Gardener in a Hunter World - Chapter 33

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Yoo Ji-Ha came to the garden center with seeds and seedlings of all kinds of crops in his backpack from the wholesale.

Meanwhile, the Theradrones set up a garden.

“That’s it, you did a great job.”

The furrows are straight as if they were made by machine.

If this was a real garden, more work needs to be done, but it was a garden with a world tree.

Simply plant it next to the golden, shimmering world tree and it will grow on its own.

“There will be no pests or diseases. It’s the best.”

How great would it be for the earth to be like this?

At least people will not starve anymore.

Yoo Ji-Ha carried the backpack and planted the crops in the garden.

Right next to the garden, the carnivorous plant that had been planted before was growing quite large.

Perhaps because of his plant-friendly skills, it was not aggressive at all and just looking at Yoo Ji-Ha.

He thinks the small animals are going to be devoured with that big leaf, but it ignored the Theradrone and only ate other insects.

‘But where do I use him for?’

Maybe then, wouldn’t it be possible to harvest and plant its seeds everywhere?

‘We’ll see that next time next.’

The important thing right now is to enrich the garden.

Yoo Ji-Ha drank stamina potions and worked in the fields.

‘This is the honey-sweet potato I planted before.’

There were no special buffs, but they were much larger than the common sweet potatoes.

Peeling and cutting a piece with a knife to taste, it is sweet and savory as if he had added real honey.

“Hmm… Delicious. It’s delicious even if I eat it raw.”

The sweet potatoes were addictive as if he were eating deserts.

Beom sat next to the garden and yawned.

‘Let’s plant green onions, too.’

It’s going to grow fresh because he didn’t buy it from a mart, but he cut the roots from a wholesale market.

The roots of green onions were cut a little and planted everywhere.

And after doing something else, he looked back.

“Huh? Why does it grow so fast?”

Green onions growth is said to be fast, but he didn’t know it would be this fast.

It hasn’t been long since it was planted, but he could see the stems were about 1 cm tall.

‘Then other crops will also grow like this.’

With the garden, there is no worry of starving to death.

Yoo Ji-Ha planted all crops in the large field and harvested honey sweet potatoes.

‘I don’t think I’ve planted this much in the past?’

Nevertheless, it came out close to 10 kg, so it’s probably the invisible force of the world tree.

The next task was to harvest seeds from existing crops in the garden, such as solar apples and shadow grapes.

‘I’m going to plant this behind the shop.’

Behind the general store is an empty lot where no one comes.

It’s underground, so it doesn’t matter what he does.

After all the work, he sat down with Beom in front of the cabin and made a bonfire to grill sweet potato.

“I think it’s a good idea to make a furnace instead of this, right?”

Wow.

Beom pointed to the cabin with his front foot.

It sounded like ‘what would you do if you burned down the cabin after lighting the fire incorrectly.’

It’s a cabin that is made by the world tree’s part, but will it be easy to burn?

Many of the shields found in dungeons are woods, but they also block heavy attacks of monsters.

As he played with Beom with his fingers, the sweet potatoes were baked deliciously.

“It’s hot.”

Even if his resistance goes up a little bit, the hotness is the same.

And when he was trying to peel it, the Theradrones flocked after smelling it.

‘These guys….’

They’re much bigger than they used to be.

In particular, the Theradrone knight, which was waiting in the front, was almost plum-sized, so he felt quite overwhelmed.

“Since you’ve worked so hard, you should eat too, right?”

When Yoo Ji-Ha said so, the Theradrones shook their hips happily.

‘The world’s workers give us food!’ Well, that was it mean?

When the hot honey sweet potatoes were cooled down, cut into pieces and put down, the Theradrones stuck together and took them.

Beom was surprisingly interested, so he gave it to him, and he ate it very well.

“Shall I try it too?”

As soon as he put it in his mouth, the sweetness lingered as if he was eating sweet potato mousse.

Yoo Ji-Ha constantly ate the sweet potato with admiration in his eyes.

As he filled his stomach, he laid in a place under the breezy world tree, Beom came on top of him.

Stroking the soft fur made his eyelids heavy.

The two yawned and fell asleep.

 

***

 

Since dungeons and monsters appeared on the land, food conditions in Korea have been very bad.

The prolonged war has greatly reduced the population and prevented food importation from abroad.

Most of the mountains were occupied by monsters, and the government had to make every effort to secure farmland.

South Korea was not the only country, but most countries were in a similar position.

Even some countries in Africa are said to have been filled by monsters.

Satellite images show the purple-contaminated land if you take pictures of Africa.

Because of the circumstances, securing food for most people was of paramount importance.

There used to be no danger of starving to death, but now it’s a reality.

Even a few category Class 4 dungeons are opened around government-administered farmland, making food supply difficult.

Unsurprisingly, the exceptions were those with money, especially hunters.

Because they are the knights and aristocrats who fight monsters on the front lines.

Hunters with zero points, such as Yoo Ji-Ha, are not eligible, but hunters who have accumulated performance receive food coupons from the government.

He didn’t have to worry about starving if there were any points because coupons came out.

This was a government struggle not to lose valuable hunters to other countries.

Sunday.

Yoo Ji-Ha began to pack some luggage in the morning.

Here, luggage refers to fruits and vegetables that are harvested from the garden.

It was good to have planted crops in the garden, but the growth rate was enormous.

When he went to the garden after a day in reality, he found that all the green onions were grown.

The yield was great that it was impossible to handle it alone.

Just in time, Jumi decided rather than eating alone, they should play so he to took some with him.

‘Dimension pocket is really amazing.’

Fruits and vegetables kept going in as if there was another dimension inside.

The capacity may not be infinite, but there is still room considering quite a lot of harvests in the garden have been put in.

‘I left somethings to eat… That’s it.’

As he carried his backpack, Beom jumped on the cover of the backpack and hugged his neck.

Now he’s quite big, and he can’t get on top of Yoo Ji-Ha’s head.

As he walked through the streets on Sunday morning, one large SUV stopped, and the driver took a look.

“Huh? Aren’t you Mr. Yoo Ji-Ha?”

Who was it? Ji-Ha looked up and the driver smiled and said he was a hunter who had previously been appraised with earring artifacts.

Come to think of it, his face looks familiar.

“Oh, hello.”

“Where are you going so early in the morning?”

“I’m going to district 5. The residential complex on that side.”

“The residential complex there? My direction is similar. Get on.”

There’s no reason to refuse to help.

“I’ll owe to you for a second.”

“Oh my. What are you talking about? If you owed me one, I would have lost. The artifact I’ve appraised before, I’m using it well.”

The artifact is an earring with an option that gives high resistance in special situations.

“Oh, those earrings, they were very pretty.”

When asked, he stroked his neck as if he were ashamed.

“It has great performance, but as guy who’s almost 40, fighting with heart earrings is kind of weird, right? So, I change it into a ring.”

“Aha.”

Indeed, those cute earrings is an artifact that doesn’t suit on a man.

It does not perform just by having it, so they have to wear it, but the eyes of people around you are…….

Hunternet has a marketplace for such cases.

Although Yoo Ji-Ha has never used one, artifacts that are worth billions are often traded.

Before long, they arrived at the 5th district’s housing complex.

After thanking Hunter for driving him, Yoo Ji-Ha handed over a solar apple.

“No, this is precious.”

His eyes opened wide.

He looked like he was asking if he dare eat something like this.

Yoo Ji-Ha laughed and nodded.

“That’s fine. It doesn’t work. Sometimes, there are apples like that”

“Oh, yes. Thank you.”

He drove away and Yoo Ji-Ha looked around the housing complex with Beom.

Not as much as HyeJin’s mansion, but quite luxurious houses were neatly constructed.

SeongHo and Jumi have quite a lot of money, so they can live in these places.

Most of the people who live here are Hunters, so he pretended to know them.

As he walked in greeting one by one, he arrived at his destination.

[SeongHo and Jumi’s Love House]

‘Uhm….’

It’s burdensome even if it’s not a sign he has seen once or twice.

Yoo Ji-Ha laughed thinking how embarrassed SeongHo must have been seeing this.

When he pressed the doorbell and went inside, SeongHo, Jumi, and Kyungbaek greeted him.

“Oh? You were here, too.”

“What’s up, come on. I want to get breakfast right away. Anyway, is the cat, Beom? It’s giving me a nasty look.”

Kim Kyungbaek. A man with frivolity reminiscent of a name.

In the Happy Hunters Guild, he was in a position of a small brother who cause accidents.

His skills are certain, but the downside was that he looks a little perverted.

“Oh, you came Ji-Ha.”

“What did you bring with you, Ji-Ha? The backpack looks full.”

SeongHo greeted and Jumi showed interest in his backpack.

“You’ll be surprised if you know what I’ve brought, noona.”

“Oh? What’s it, what is it?”

When he pulled his luggage out of his backpack in the kitchen, he heard some strange news from the TV in the living room.

 

—Breaking news. A super-sized whale monster appeared on waters near Hawaii. The U.S. authorities have identified it as a new destruction class monster and are working to track it down. Let’s check the data screen.

 

When he saw the screen, he heard the voice of SeongHo and Kyungbaek admiring it.

“Wow! That’s really big. Would that be bigger than Leviathan or Chromag?”

“It can swallow a Chromag in one bite. But Hyung, don’t you think I’ve seen that whale before?”

“Where?”

“Haha, it’s you, here.”

“Hey!”

SeongHo slapped the back of Kyungbaek’s head to see what he turned on.

Pak!

There was a loud sound, but Kyungbaek laughed even though he was hit by a warning.

“Puhehe!”

While the two were doing so, Jumi was distracted by seeing the fruits and vegetables that Ji-Ha had taken out of his backpack.

“Oh my God, what’s all this? Where did you buy something so big?”

“I didn’t buy it, I got it from a dungeon.”

“You also found this. How does it taste?”

“It was sweet and delicious. I thought about selling it at the wholesale center, but I’m just going to give it to you, noona.”

“Aigoo, what are you talking about?”

Jumi smiled brightly as she was happy with Yoo Ji-Ha’s gift.

She is a hunter, and she makes very good money, but surprisingly, such a small gift was appreciated.

Well, she is a person who wants to cook and live rather than fight.

“Thank you, Ji-Ha.”

Chuk.

When Jumi kissed Yoo Ji-Ha in the cheek, Kyungbaek who witnessed it, made a fuss.

“It’s an affair! It’s an affair!”

“Hey, madman, you’re noisy.”

He was suppressed by Seongho’s attack on the back of his head.

“Doesn’t it bother you when your wife is kissing another man?”

“If its Yoo Ji-Ha, why bother? Never mind. Just call SeonYoung and Haeseon. Let’s eat together.”

“Haeseon can’t come because he has something to do. SeonYoung won’t just come.”

“No way. She is just reading a book.”

Before long, Jumi cut the fruit and sat in the living room with Yoo Ji-Ha.

When Kyungbaek saw the yellow apple shell, he made another fuss.

“Wow, isn’t this solar apple? A Solar apple! A 10 million won!”

“Not 10 million won. This doesn’t work, so I just decided to eat it.”

“Wow, that’s amazing.”

Except for Yoo Ji-Ha, the three ate the Solar apple and shadow grapes, and marveled at the taste of it.

 

—This super-sized whale monster appears to swallow everything, including other monsters and trash. And it’s getting exponentially bigger over time. We can’t help but worry about how much bigger it will be. This was OBS News.

 

Only then did Yoo Ji-Ha recognize the whale monster.

‘Huh?’

Why… It looks like the worldether who he saved from the beach.

Considering what has happened so far, it’s probably the same one.

He could see him opening his big mouth and inhaling the garbage of the Pacific Ocean.

Yoo Ji-Ha unconsciously cheered for him.

Please cleanse our sea, he thought.

‘But you can’t get sick from eating too much trash.’

It’s a natural god, so what will happen?

Yoo Ji-Ha enjoyed a Sunday morning.

T/n: Sorry for the late update.