Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 978

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 109
35. Song-ja Bae (5)
The Farmers’ Cooperative.
Literally a farmers’ collective.
It was fair to say they were one of the greatest powers in Cheese Village.
Their greatest weapons numbered two.
First was the garden that operated twenty-four hours a day.
They shared all privately-owned gardens among themselves, and thanks to this arrangement, when some farmers were away playing the game, other farmers who remained could utilize those gardens.
The cooperative’s farm ran endlessly, and crops accumulated infinitely.
Here emerged the cooperative’s second weapon.
Cold storage.
An extremely expensive and difficult-to-manage item, but when everyone’s money pooled together, things changed.
All of the cooperative’s crops went into cold storage.
Thanks to this, they could preserve goods for about a week and wait for favorable market prices.
Doughnutz decided which crops to sell at which prices.
He was quite skilled at it.
The profits generated were divided by percentage according to the amount each member invested in the cooperative.
This was a capitalist system reminiscent of the stock market—a sophisticated organization that only someone with a mind like Doughnutz could calculate and construct.
The cooperative seemed to be dominating Cheese Village quite effortlessly this way.
But then a variable appeared.
[Dotorimuk: Owl Black exists…!!]
Truly fertile soil had emerged.
And it was in the house of Danmuji, who wasn’t part of the cooperative.
After that, the village spoke of nothing but the fertile soil.
“Is the harvest yield really 300%?”
“Well, everything grown there comes out as top grade.”
“And you don’t even need to water it that often?”
“Where on earth did Almond get that from?”
“Maybe he made it himself?”
“There’s even talk that he made it from Almond’s dung….”
To the extent that such nonsensical rumors spread, the fertile soil was an item that captured everyone’s attention and became the object of envy.
“Ah… if only we had fertile soil….”
“Shh. Quiet. Don’t say things like that inside the cooperative. It ruins the atmosphere here.”
“Oh, is that so?”
For a while, even mentioning the fertile soil was implicitly forbidden within the cooperative.
The object of envy and jealousy.
Everyone’s wish, the fertile soil!
“This… what on earth is….”
And now it lay spread out right before Hong-cha’s eyes.
She could never have imagined it.
The soil that naturally formed in her own field from monsters dying and burning away.
What she saw before her eyes was the fertile soil already laid down and Almond holding a block of fertile soil in front of it, smiling.
The person who had laid down the soil she’d most yearned for in this moment of despair when everything had burned and collapsed.
Almond.
Ding.
[Hong-ga donated 20,000 won.]
[My savior who came to ruin my life]
The message was exactly as the donation said.
My savior who came to ruin my field, Almond.
-He’s giving this?
Hahahahaha
Let’s just become Hong Song-i, ugh ㅠㅠ
-???: No, the agricultural cooperative has never done anything like this…
-Haha
-Maybe this Knight thing isn’t so bad after all…
-???: I pledge my loyalty, great lord!
Hong-cha’s viewers were also gradually leaning toward Almond’s side.
Most of all, Hong-cha herself was greatly shaken.
Colleagues who casually laid down fertile soil, who came running when her house was burning, and whose hearts raced when fighting together.
The reason the fire started in the first place was because of Almond, but like the black soil laid out before her eyes, that past was completely erased from Hong-cha’s mind.
At this, Almond grinned and pointed to the field.
“You just farm together with Hongsong-i and Resong-i, and split the profits with me.”
Hong-cha couldn’t help but salute.
Snap!
“I pledge my loyalty to the Knight order with my life aaaahhh!!!”
hahahahahaha
Haha, that’s it~
-Haha
-Look at that momentum
-Ah, that guy’s got the makings of a great general!
Huh?
I’m with the agricultural cooperative, though?
Why is my hand… moving on its own….
To make matters worse, Lemon also salutes following her.
“M-me too!! I pledge my loyalty!”

* * *
A short while later.
Almond departed with Bongbong and the others toward Danmuzip.
Hong-cha remained at her homestead, rebuilding the ruins together with Resong.
Resong came over and asked casually.
“Older sister. Did you switch sides to Almond?”
That salute from just moments ago was sincere, no matter who looked at it.
To Resong, who knew Hong-cha well, it seemed even more so.
“What? We’re the agricultural cooperative. What are you talking about?”
“Huh? But you said you’d ambush our Almond just now… and in the end, you didn’t.”
“….”
The original plan was to make Almond let his guard down while conversing, then suddenly draw a blade and stab wildly.
“Ugh. I don’t know.”
Hong-cha answered dismissively, her expression slightly irritated.
Even she found it difficult to understand her own heart.
“Well, whatever. Let’s just enjoy the present, right?”
“….”
“This is seriously amazing. Hehehehe.”
Resong lifted the fertile soil excitedly.
“It’s really doubled.”
Hong-cha gazed at the fertile soil Resong held up with a peculiar expression.
“Huh.”
Something she had found strange began to take concrete form in her mind now.
“Resong. But doesn’t our interference block remain active?”
“I’m under joint ownership with you, older sister.”
“No, not you. I mean Almond.”
“Almond would naturally have the interference block active, right?”
“Then how did he lay down the fertile soil?”
That’s right.
The interference block literally blocks interference. It’s not just that he can’t take things away—he can’t affect this land in any way whatsoever.
Taking crops that have risen above the ground, taking objects placed upon them—that’s fine. But structures and the land itself are untouchable.
Careless Almond had overlooked this detail and made an excuse.
But did he always have luck on his side in such matters?
Resong provides an explanation instead.
“Didn’t the monsters overturn all of it and break the block?”
When monsters overturn and churn the soil, the interference block is released.
So Almond was able to take some of the fertile soil, but not all of it.
He gave it all away because leaving even a single piece would expose the recipe.
“Ah….”
Hong-cha nodded as if it was nothing of consequence.
“Those monster thugs. How much damage did they cause?”
Hong-cha and Lemon couldn’t experience their own interference blocking, so they didn’t know.
Among the many fertile lands here, some of them had interference blocking activated.

* * *
Regardless of what Hong-cha’s true feelings were, everyone who witnessed her in the surroundings believed she had betrayed them.
The Agricultural Cooperative was no exception.
“Hong-cha… she really defected?”
Doughnutz, seated at the head of the table, asks in a grave voice.
Greentea hangs her head low, and Baeksuk nods.
“Sigh….”
Doughnutz couldn’t believe it.
Hong-cha had clearly been a loyal member of the Agricultural Cooperative and a major asset.
She possessed the largest territory within the Cooperative and recorded the highest production output. More than anything, she was the one who had devised this operation.
“What on earth happened?”
“The monsters didn’t go to Danmuzip. They went to Hong-cha’s place.”
What?
At Baeksuk’s testimony, other Cooperative members begin to murmur.
“What do you mean? You said they’d go to the biggest place! You did!”
Someone points at Doughnutz.
“That was certain.”
“Then why! Did they go to Hong-cha’s!!”
The criticism turns toward Doughnutz.
Ppulranem sees his chance and slams the table, raising his voice in protest.
“I told you!!! This bastard needs to be removed!?”
The one he points at with accusatory gestures is naturally Doughnutz, the Cooperative’s chairman.
The crop espionage operation, received as a last chance, had failed, and now Hong-cha and Lemon, two of the main forces, had defected to the enemy.
It was the absolute worst scenario.
In stock market terms, it was like failing to check a competitor while also having the technology of a flagship product stolen.
Doughnutz lowers his head and offers an apology.
“I apologize. As the person responsible, I feel my inadequacy. Regarding what happened this time, I have nothing to….”
Even as he lowers his head, some Cooperative members throw eggs and cabbage at him.
You might think it’s too harsh to throw things at someone who’s bowing their head.
But it was justified.
“…I have something to say!!!!”
Doughnutz suddenly rolls his eyes back and completely changes his demeanor.
-I have something to say lol
-You said you had nothing to say didn’t you??lol
-He always has something to say
-???: Has something to say.
Doughnutz, who had completely botched the operation, had the audacity to speak up.
“You keep saying ‘let’s hear it, let’s hear it!’ Like I got everything wrong!”
“You did get everything wrong!”
“I didn’t get it all wrong! Everything was right except for the potato illusion! The monster going after Hong-cha—they must have sold their fields or done something!”
Doughnutz had grasped it precisely.
“What!? They sold their fields to avoid the monsters? Those guys? Do they refuse to make kimchi because they’re afraid of maggots!?”
However, selling fields was an unconventional move for farmers.
Land size directly determined productivity.
“Most importantly, if they sold it, the transaction record should show up on the village bulletin board! But it doesn’t, does it?”
Real estate transaction records are displayed on the village bulletin board.
That’s why Danmuji sold it cheaply to Bigfarm.
“….”
Land value is an asset that appreciates just by holding it.
The thought of selling it to Bigfarm wasn’t easy to conceive, but considering the fertile soil they possessed, it was possible.
“That’s because he sold it to Bigfarm….”
Doughnutz tried to explain.
“What? Selling the land back to Bigfarm at cost price? You’re like someone selling an apartment to a construction company at the original price when leaving, aren’t you? Huh?”
“What, what!? That’s not what I’m saying, just listen to me….”
“How dare you have anything to say! Even if you had a hundred mouths, you’d have nothing to say!”
Ppulranem pressed the attack again.
Doughnutz didn’t want to take it, so he made excuses.
“Why are you deciding that!? If I have something to say, I have it to say! You maggot!”
“What!? Maggot? Are you done talking!?”
“No? I’m not done! I keep saying I have something to say! What do you mean ‘done’!”
“What!? Want to go at it once? Huh? 90s style!?”
Then Ppulranem finally drew his sword.
Shing!
“Oh, oh no! This isn’t right! Everyone, please calm down!”
Pickle stood up and stopped Ppulranem.
“Let me go! Let go! I’ll slice that bastard’s neck and put it on the nightstand here! Then we can talk!”
“How can he talk if you slice his neck!? How are you running this association like this!?”
“Back in my day, we ran the National Assembly the same way! Agricultural cooperatives like this are meant to be run with fists!”
“???”
Pickle, a member of the new generation hearing stories from an era when only the strong survived for the first time, was momentarily dumbfounded.
‘Did he really run the National Assembly like that?’
haha that’s hilarious
Hahahahaha
90s style lol
-Back then, you couldn’t pass a bill if your combined martial arts rank was below 7 dan~
Wow, that’s so shameless lol
-Now this is it
-Y2K-style general assembly lol
That’s when it happened.
While Pickle was momentarily distracted, Ppulranem burst forward and swung his blade.
“Die, you old fool!”
Clang!!
Doughnutz drew his sword and blocked the strike.
“I refuse! You old fool!”
-This is hilarious lol
-These old guys lol
-What is this lol
-Settling disputes through duels is a time-honored tradition
-This is killing me lol
As befitted a newly established village, their method of reaching consensus had reverted to ancient customs. Indeed, whether in Europe or Asia, there were times when everything was settled through duels.
And such duels typically don’t end one-on-one.
Thud!
Baeksuk, standing beside Doughnutz, suddenly leaped to his feet.
“But hasn’t Doughnutz been leading this cooperative all this way to get us here!?”
“Now that we’ve come this far, isn’t it time for him to step aside!?”
The Middle-aged Detective rose to his feet, taking Ppulranem’s side.
Shink! Shink!
The cooperative split into two factions, each drawing their swords.
-Haha this is insane lol
-Amazing
-Getting all the famous scenes lol
-This is legendary lol
-Cooperative civil war lol
“Look at all the landless thugs siding with Doughnutz! Is it because sharing fields benefits them!? Huh!?”
“Shouldn’t we create a world where people can live well even without land!?”
Those with less land sided with Doughnutz, while those with more land sided with Ppulranem.
Their ideologies had been fundamentally different from the start.
Ppulranem believed that shares should be distributed proportionally to the size of one’s land.
Doughnutz believed it was premature for that, advocating for fair shares now, with the remainder used as mutual aid to support newcomers, which would strengthen the organization.
This sharp ideological conflict finally erupted through this incident.
“What, what did you say!?”
“Kill them!”
“Take this!”
Clang clang clang!
Countless blades clashed.
“Argh!”
“Doughnutz! Kill Doughnutz first!”
Ppulranem pushed through the throng of people and thrust his blade toward Doughnutz.
“You insufferable yangban!”
Clang!
Doughnutz deflected Ppulranem’s sword.
-Lmaooooo
-Total chaos lol
-Wow
-So this is all because of Almond’s potato magic, right?
The members of the agricultural cooperative clashed blades against one another.
Even as they fought desperately, a lingering doubt remained in their minds.
Could the agricultural cooperative truly survive this?
What if they hadn’t bothered to check Almond back then?
That question haunted them all.
In the midst of this chaos.
[‘Jello’ has logged in.]
[‘Chocosong’ has logged in.]
Jello and Chocosong logged in.

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