Chapter 102: Mutated Crops
The moment he arrived, Joo Joowon already knew through the zearch threads that there were people on the eleventh floor.
However, they were not currently inside their own apartment.
Joo Joowon hesitated for a moment.
Should he avoid them and simply climb through the window to return home directly?
Or should he walk over openly?
After thinking about it for a bit, he ultimately chose to head over anyway.
There were quite a few apartments on this floor where he had previously placed potted plants outside the doors.
After the rain, he had no idea what might have happened to them.
He deliberately made his footsteps a little louder.
As soon as he stepped into the corridor, he saw someone in the corner looking at him cautiously.
Everyone was wearing helmets to protect their heads, so Joo Joowon could not recognize who the person was.
He took out his key and opened the door.
Seeing this, the other person immediately let out a sigh of relief.
The apocalypse had only begun a few days ago and order still existed.
Most people had not yet fallen into truly desperate situations, so no one was thinking about robbing or extorting Joo Joowon just because he was alone.
He slipped into the room that he had turned into a complete mess.
After entering, he retrieved his spider silk, and only then did he notice the pot of cat grass.
To his surprise, the cat grass had not turned into a new monster.
Instead, it had withered.
The one meter tall cat grass had completely broken through the flowerpot Joo Joowon had planted it in.
The exposed roots looked somewhat weak.
Perhaps because it had been unable to find a suitable place to take root, the cat grass had eventually withered.
A lot of wheat ears had fallen onto the ground.
Joo Joowon used spider silk to pick them up one by one.
The cat grass he had planted was actually wheat.
It was the kind of wheat seeds he had bought online, five kilograms for 200 won with free shipping.
As the saying went, cheap things rarely had good quality.
If these seeds were planted properly as food crops, they probably would not produce anything worthwhile.
However, if they were only being used to grow cat grass, then they were extremely economical and practical.
Normally, these seeds would never grow all the way to flowering and producing wheat ears before withering in their pots.
He had never expected that, with the help of the black rain, they would actually produce wheat ears.
Judging from their appearance, they seemed to be fully mature.
The grains looked plump and healthy.
It had been many years since Joo Joowon had worked in the fields or grown crops.
Naturally, he could not tell whether the wheat was good or bad.
He simply collected all of it.
Glancing at his system panel, he saw that the item inventory did not display the wheat’s actual name.
Instead, it had been labeled as [ Unknown Crop × 80g ]
A few stalks of wheat grass planted in a one gallon flowerpot would never produce a large amount of grain, even after forming ears.
After putting away the wheat, Joo Joowon hesitated for a moment.
Then he walked to the storage cabinet next door and hung the remaining cat grass seeds outside the window, planning to bring them back upstairs later.
Although he currently had no conditions to plant them, and although the seeds themselves were not particularly good, there was always a chance that he might find a better place while hunting zombies over the next few days.
There were simply too many people living in this residential complex.
Joo Joowon would much rather find a detached villa or perhaps a bomb shelter with better defenses.
It would be even better if there were a piece of land where he could grow some crops.
In any case, he had no intention of staying in this residential complex forever.
Who knew whether the consequences caused by the Spider Zombie destroying the walls that day might suddenly erupt one day?
Since everything valuable had already been moved out of the apartment long ago, Joo Joowon did not linger inside.
Carrying his lock opening tool, he walked back outside.
With other people around, he had no intention of exposing his ability to control spider silk.
The moment he stepped outside, he noticed that another person had appeared in the corner.
Most likely, the original person had informed the newcomer.
Joo Joowon paid no attention to them and instead walked over to the neighboring apartment, unscrewed the peephole, and used the lock opening tool to open the front door.
The moment the two people witnessed this scene, their eyes widened in shock.
Every time they wanted to open a door, it took an enormous amount of effort.
After all, they were not professional locksmiths, nor did they possess any suspicious side occupations that involved such skills.
Picking locks was incredibly difficult for them, and they also had to worry about making too much noise and attracting zombies.
The plant Joo Joowon had left in this apartment was a cactus.
The flower pot was much smaller than the previous one and could easily be covered with a single hand.
However, unlike the low quality wheat grass, the cactus possessed undeniable vitality.
The moment Joo Joowon approached it, he realized that the cactus had not withered like the cat grass had.
Instead, it had burst through its original ceramic pot and grown from the size of a fist to the size of a human head.
Joo Joowon activated Enhanced Cognition and examined it carefully.
There was no glow surrounding it at all.
On top of its head bloomed a small red flower.
If he remembered correctly, this should be a very common cactus species known as the Hibotan cactus.
He even had one sitting on his office desk.
After thinking about it for a moment, Joo Joowon tried to use spider silk to pluck the flower from the top of the cactus.