Franchise God - Chapter 50



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Franchise God Episode 050

Chapter 10 It’s Just a Dog Dream (2)

“The time is coming soon to introduce mechanized farming methods.”

Ha Su-yeong was sitting on a chair, resting her chin on both hands, watching the mushrooms growing at an astonishing rate.

It was as if the video had been sped up dozens of times.

“It’s a waste to do it with my hands anymore. And this isn’t even a mushroom.”

Pine mushrooms are overwhelmingly more expensive than golden umbrella mushrooms.

It can be called the emperor of mushrooms.

But Ha Su-yeong did not want to disrupt the pine mushroom market.

“It’s not good for pine mushrooms to end up looking like flounder.”

Originally, flounder was a high-quality raw fish, but after mass farming succeeded, it came to have the image of being a cheap raw fish.

The taste itself is excellent, so it is popular among people who like raw fish, but because of its cheap price, there is a prejudice that it is not a very good dish.

Ha Soo-young didn’t want the pine mushrooms to end up like that.

So, in order to maintain the price level, the production of pine mushrooms was intentionally adjusted to an appropriate level.

“I can’t grow the yellow oyster mushrooms by hand anymore. I can’t hire people yet either… So I’ll have to wait for the machines I ordered to arrive before I can do anything.”

Prime Company has not yet properly established itself.

In this situation, if you use your staff to spread the spores of the yellow mushroom, the rumor will spread immediately.

As word spreads, companies eager for a cheaper way to grow the crop will flock in.

“I have to go as tiringly as possible. I can’t repeat the same mistake. … But I’m only human, so would I repeat the same mistake? No. This time, I’m going to make my dream come true.”

Ha Su-yeong got up from her seat while muttering.

There was a mountain of work to do before the mushroom pickers arrived.

* * *

The king was always lonely.

Although he was an absolute ruler who ruled over tens of thousands of planets, his loneliness was as profound as the power the king possessed.

A tiny civilization that was originally unable to even expand beyond its planet.

But under the leadership of a great king who united the continent and took over the planet, humanity opened its eyes to the universe.

And so, hundreds of years later, humanity has come to inhabit tens of thousands of planets.

Humanity opened its eyes to science and space, but never doubted the dignity of the king.

The king had no descendants.

He held the throne for hundreds of years among humans who did not even live to be a hundred years old. He did not even age.

The citizens of the kingdom at first thought it was magic, and now they regard it as the power of secret science.

After all, highly developed science tends to appear like magic.

However, how the king came to possess such power on his own remains an unsolved mystery and a mysterious legend, even now that the home of life has expanded from one planet to tens of thousands of planets.

After about 600 years of space exploration, the king suddenly made a shocking announcement.

“I will divide my powers and delegate them to the Congress, the Governor-General, and the Judiciary, and henceforth I will relinquish all power.”

“Your Majesty! Why!”

“No, Your Majesty! We cannot lose a great king like you!”

“Please tell me the reason!”

Despite the pleas of numerous ministers and citizens, the king would not bend his will.

“Human civilization has developed sufficiently to the point where it seems there is no need for me to interfere any longer. I would like to take a rest now.”

“your majesty!”

“Do not seek me. This is my final command as king.”

And then the king suddenly disappeared.

Countless subjects, tycoons, nobles, scientists, and citizens searched desperately for their king.

But no matter how thoroughly they searched each and every asteroid, they could not find any trace of the king.

“He is truly a miracle.”

The people were amazed by the mysterious powers the king displayed until the end, and joined forces to move forward into the future.

More than ten years have passed.

Humanity was living in a hell of greed.

Peace had long been broken, and tens of thousands of planets, each formed by thousands of factions or alliances, were constantly at war to kill each other.

“Your Majesty! Please come back!”

“Please save foolish mankind!”

Many cried out to the king in their despair, but the king did not answer.

Over a billion soldiers and civilians were turned to space dust, and hundreds of once-lush planets were turned into uninhabitable death stars.

The most powerful warlords, who controlled the most planets, waged a merciless war to rule over all of humanity.

After the disappearance of the king, about 15 years later, the most powerful warlord faction finally achieved success in taking over more than 90% of the human territory.

“There is no king you miss. From now on, I am the new king.”

The master of the warlord power, the traitor of humanity who would become the new king, confidently declared so.

“It’s you guys. You’re the ones who ruined the world I worked so hard to create.”

“Who, who are you!”

“He was a king who wanted to be forgotten.”

As if by a miracle, the king returned.

And the survivors who gathered around the king began an endless war to drive out the traitors of humanity.

It was a time soaked in blood, and a universe covered in blood.

After endless destruction, conquest, and war, the king and his followers finally succeeded in annihilating the rebellious forces.

It was a long journey that took a full three years.

There are now fewer than ten surviving planets.

It was a victory that left only indelible scars, but despite this, there was hope on the faces of the survivors.

An old man who had lost both his children and grandchildren asked the king who was sitting on the throne.

“Your Majesty, where were you when we were suffering?”

It might be a rude question, but the king answered it nonchalantly.

“I was enjoying a break from my pastime in a corner of the universe. I spent my days plowing the fields, raising livestock, and selling drinks, wine, and meat to travelers, and that was my last rest.”

“then…….”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t realize for a long time that you were suffering so much.”

Because he had completely erased himself from the world and exiled himself to a corner of the universe, he was late in realizing that the world was falling apart.

I thought of it as a power struggle that naturally occurred after absolute power disappeared, and that it was a growing pain that humanity would have to go through anyway.

The old man said, sobbing.

“Are you going to abandon us again?”

“I will guard this place until my remaining time is up.”

The king kept his promise.

For the next ten years, he devoted himself to his duties as king, taking care of state affairs day and night.

Above all, the king put a lot of effort into establishing the right political structure for succession.

The subjects felt uneasy when they saw it.

He is a king who has already reversed his retirement and returned because he could not ignore the world crisis.

It was thought that the king was preparing for retirement once again.

Their fears became reality when the king announced a transfer of power to a new group of leaders.

“Your Majesty, please do not leave us!”

“Didn’t you promise in the king’s name? Would you break that promise yourself?”

The subjects and citizens wept and begged for a retraction.

The king laughed before them.

“Didn’t you promise? That you would guard this position until my time is up.”

“your majesty?”

“There is no such thing as an eternal king.”

The king, who had remained youthful for many years, began to age rapidly.

Only then did the world realize that the king’s time was running out.

He is a king who devoted over 600 years to the development and prosperity of mankind.

He suddenly disappeared to quietly enjoy his remaining old age, but had to return after only 10 years.

And then he squeezes out every last bit of his energy and pours it out on his citizens, and now he’s really about to disappear.

The king died in front of all citizens of the world.

Leaving behind a will they couldn’t understand.

“Thirty thousand years… I’m tired of the blood-soaked time. If luck permits, I’d like to spend this time running a small restaurant or something.”

* * *

“Mr. Ha? Mr. Ha?”

Ha Soo-young opened her eyes slightly at the hand shaking her shoulder.

Looking around, I realized that the sun had already set well past noon. Looking at the time, it was 2 p.m.

“You must be very tired. You must have taken a long nap in a place like this.”

“Ah, I’m the boss.”

Ha Su-yeong, who was still half asleep, muttered and stretched as she got up.

“If you fall asleep in a place like this, you might get bitten by a snake. You have to be careful.”

“Yes, I understand. I guess I was just too tired. I think I just laid down for a bit and fell asleep right away.”

I think I lay down on the makeshift wooden table for a while, looked up at the sky, and lost myself in old thoughts, but before I knew it, I fell asleep.

“I think I was dreaming.”

“Was it so?”

“It wasn’t like a nightmare, it was more like a difficult dream.”

“I had a dream about something that happened to me in the past that was difficult. But it was only the most recent.”

“Oh, I see.”

Jeon Seong-ryeol recalled that he had lost his beloved lover.

I thought maybe that was the dream.

“Think positively. I once heard that dreaming about difficult things means things will go well in the future.”

“Hey, even so, it’s just a dream. Just because you had a dream doesn’t mean your reality changes or anything. It’s just that your old memories got mixed up while your brain was resting.”

Ha Soo-young said nonchalantly, and Jeon Seong-ryeol did not open his mouth anymore.

Looking at Ha Soo-young, who was quietly looking up at the distant sky, leaving only those words behind, I felt a deep, inexplicable loneliness.

‘You said it was nothing… … That can’t be true.’

Seongryeol Jeon, who decided that Ha Sooyoung had been dreaming about her dead girlfriend, couldn’t help but feel sympathy.

But it would be rude to offer any more consolation.

“But this life… this is the first time since I opened my eyes.”

“What are you talking about?”

“That dream. I had it for the first time today.”

“I guess your subconscious has been rejecting it. That’s why it hasn’t appeared in your dreams until now.”

“I think so. The last fatigue I experienced… That’s why the memories are more vivid.”

Ha Soo-young muttered quietly.

The workers were busy picking mushrooms.

Now that I’ve gotten pretty good at it, the speed at which I can collect mushrooms has gotten several times faster than before.

The process of picking, packaging, storing, and loading passes naturally, like the flow of water.

“Boss, this time, can we leave 3 meters on each side? In that corner over there?”

“Yes, please do so.”

“It’s good to leave it as food for wild animals, but I’m worried that if a wild boar comes and destroys it all, what will happen?”

The task leader spoke with concern, and Ha Su-yeong smiled as if nothing had happened.

“On the contrary. They are left there deliberately to keep wild boars away.”

“Are there wild boars on this mountain?”

“There aren’t any on the mountain, but there are a lot at the bottom of the mountain. It seems like they often come in by avoiding the barbed wire.”

“This is a terrible thing. How can a wild boar climb over a four-meter-tall barbed wire fence?”

The person in charge of the work was half in doubt, and Jeon Seong-ryeol, who knew the situation, laughed silently to himself.