"With how things are now, isn't every piece of land has been contaminated with mutagenic factors? Nothing can grow anymore. Even if something does sprout, who knows what kind of mutated plant it'll become?"

"How do we subtly tell Mr. Kim that nothing can grow here?"

Gang Yuwon who is sitting nearby, almost wanted to knock some sense into their team leader. "Shin Woncheon, this is Mr. Kim we're talking about! Do you think he doesn't know that the soil has mutagenic factors in it and you can't grow regular crops anymore? I'm sure he has a reason for growing something. Maybe he's not even trying to plant regular plants."

"Exactly!" Ryu Hyunwoo's eyes lit up. "Look at all the mutated plants around us. Maybe Mr. Kim is researching how to grow a new kind of mutated plant! You know, the kind that can be tamed and friendly most of the time, but has insane combat abilities when needed."

"Maybe all these mutated plants were grown by Mr. Kim. Why else would they behave so well around him? It's like they're trying to impress their parent!"

Shin Woncheon: "..."

Usually, this guy's wild imagination goes nowhere, but for once, Shin Woncheon found himself thinking that maybe he had a point.

"Alright, alright, let's just go to sleep. Get some rest so we're ready for tomorrow. We don't want to mess up anything Mr. Kim asks us to do."

The group nodded, closed their eyes, and quickly fell asleep.

...

As the sky began to lighten, the team members in the living room slowly opened their eyes one after another. They had long since lost the habit of sleeping in, hardened by years of struggling to survive in the apocalypse. After waking, they didn't hear any sounds from the bedroom, so they quietly tidied themselves up and headed outside.

The moment they opened the door and looked at the ground, they froze in place.

Oh my god! Green shoots!

The very soil they had been discussing yesterday now had tiny, tender green sprouts poking out of it!

The sprouts were soft, had no strange colors, and didn't move on their own without wind—just perfectly normal green shoots!

The group stared in shock, frozen in place.

Kim Haru, who had just woken up, was startled by the group standing like statues near the door.

"Huh?" What's going on?

Following their line of sight, Kim Haru looked over and was instantly filled with excitement.

As expected, the farming system really was something else. He had just planted the seeds yesterday, and today they had already sprouted and grown this much! He had thought it would take several days to see any progress.

Ignoring the odd behavior of Shin Woncheon and the others, Kim Haru went back inside, grabbed a watering can, and headed out again.

He noticed that the soil under the new sprouts had lightened significantly, an obvious sign that it was time to water them.

Kim Haru dunked the watering can into the pond, filling it up with water before watering each of the thirty plots one by one.