Ch.234234. Annoying You? Just Get Rid of It

To be honest, you could say I half-induced this situation.

I essentially used a strong WWE move by threatening that Farming Company would stop supplying the resources they wanted if they didn’t shut up the sugar cartel that was unfairly attacking Farming Company with their garbage logic, along with the politicians who were taking their bribes and causing trouble.

Everyone must know.

That Farming Company wouldn’t actually stop doing business.

How much money Farming Company makes.

If they roughly calculated how much pure profit comes from membership fees sold to VVIP and VIP members, and from a single auction, they’d understand what a huge loss it would be to give up business just because of some annoying troublemakers.

But even knowing this, it’s always the desperate ones who dig the well.

People have already tasted what Farming Company offers.

Cosmetics.

Not just for simple skin care, but with magical effects that whiten and rejuvenate skin—who would use this just once?

There’s a reason people spend hundreds of thousands at dermatology clinics for consistent care.

The taste of youth.

Once you experience the sensation of reversing age, it’s hard to give up unless you run out of money.

Especially for wealthy people, since youth and health are precisely what money can’t buy—if they can purchase these with money, they’ll never give them up.

No wonder there are so many movies about buying youth with vast fortunes.

Moreover, Farming Sugar is a medicine that allows you to have both taste and health simultaneously—something impossible to achieve otherwise in this era.

Who calls Farming Sugar a seasoning?

This is medicine.

If you want to see how far humans can enjoy flavor while managing blood sugar, just eat Farming Sugar.

With its already disclosed ingredients and thoroughly analyzed composition, Farming Sugar has shocked people by revealing that even without cooking, just taking a certain amount like medicine maintains the effect for eight hours, keeping blood sugar levels low no matter what food you eat.

This is revolutionary.

Why did low-sugar foods become popular?

Because meals composed of foods that don’t raise sugar levels can somewhat mimic taste while providing fullness and satisfaction. But with Farming Sugar, you don’t need to eat foods with similar tastes.

Kimchi stew loaded with sodium. Rice soup. Spam. You can eat them all.

You can eat spicy food hot enough to numb your tongue, salty and sweet foods—anything that maximizes human happiness can be consumed freely with Farming Sugar.

For the rich, this is a blessing.

When appetite-suppressing weight loss drugs came out, the wealthy paid for injections to lose weight.

Combined with Farming Sugar, they can reduce portions while still enjoying flavor.

So in the end, my WWE was a technique that someone would have to suffer from even if I didn’t give up.

Well, I didn’t think they would go this extreme.

– OMG

– What’s this? Isn’t that the congressman who was attacking Farming Company?

– He got murdered…

– No suicide note, no attempt to disguise it as suicide, just an outright murder—scary

– Farming Company?

– Who knows… They might have acted directly like when they eliminated the dark site… or it could be the bigwigs currently tied to Farming Company.

– The important thing is that a murder happened openly, yet everything’s quiet.

– Who’s going to sell them out? lol Even at a glance, this will be linked to Farming Company. Even if they catch the culprit.

– Would they drive out the world’s only SSS+ hunter and Farming Company, which is already earning foreign currency equivalent to a national budget?

The party leader whose son was murdered appealed tearfully to the public, but the response was cold.

– Breaking News) XX Party Leader: Evidence found of receiving money from sugar cartel.

– Received 2 billion won to spread unfounded slander against Farming Company and establish related policies.

Various pieces of evidence simultaneously flooding the media quelled the chaotic atmosphere.

Thinking they would face severe backlash if this continued, XX Party members quickly stepped up to defend their party leader.

They issued statements deploring the pressure that shook the foundations of liberal democracy and insisting on thoroughly investigating the perpetrator of this incident, but…

Within a week, three congressmen died.

There was no time to respond or do anything.

Each night, someone would be found dead, and the next night, someone else.

Everyone was terrified and took every precaution. Even the government, sensing this was going too far, mobilized police and the Hunter Association to protect XX Party members despite criticism for wasting public resources—but they couldn’t prevent it.

“Do you really not know?”

“No, I don’t.”

“…I understand.”

Things had gotten so bad that even Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop called me, indirectly asking if I could stop now. He said he would handle things well himself and used the justification that continuing would create an atmosphere of anxiety among ordinary citizens.

From my position, there was nothing I could do since I had no way of knowing who was responsible.

Naturally, it would be impossible for me to undo the WWE I had set in motion to stop these murders.

If I did that, my future words would lose all credibility.

Everyone would just laugh it off saying, “That guy’s using WWE again.”

So the intimidated side had no choice but to withdraw first.

While waiting, I did call Kelin just in case.

“Kelin. It wasn’t you, was it?”

“Huh? Suhyeon. That’s not our style. We don’t need to assassinate people—our way is to dismantle the entire party.”

“…”

“Let me know if you need it. I’ll do it for you.”

“Hmm… no. I think it’ll be fine. Someone’s handling it well.”

The scale was definitely different.

I was curious to see Kelin’s method too, but now wasn’t the time.

Anyway, thanks to some unknown hardline problem-solver, the sugar cartel’s operation against Farming Company ended in less than ten days.

While some conspiracy theories about forceful silencing circulated, the accurate ingredient analysis had been released and user reviews were so positive that the conclusion was that XX Party had made baseless claims after taking bribes.

I thought this incident would pass as just a happening, but it created a bigger ripple in South Korea than expected.

“Oppa. This incident you caused. It hit XX Party pretty hard.”

“Why?”

“The party leader was a strong candidate for the next presidential election, but he took a direct hit. Being labeled a traitor who took money to try to drive out a next-generation global company—his approval rating plummeted from 58% to 22%. Does that make sense?”

“Is Farming Company that significant?”

“It is now. But looking at the sales figures… it scares me a bit. Am I qualified to manage this?”

I don’t spend much time on Earth these days.

I mostly let Dad handle things and just come occasionally to sell new items or restock, but the trickle-down effect seems quite significant with people coming to buy not just domestically but from overseas as well.

Moreover, the money received from VIPs and VVIPs comes in entirely as foreign currency income.

While I don’t pay taxes on those amounts, I’ve been hearing a lot of praise for using that money to build Farming Company and create jobs.

It was an incident that confirmed my influence was greater than I thought.

If anything, I wished for more such incidents.

This event garnered a lot of attention from overseas as well, which was reflected in my YouTube subscriber count exceeding 100 million.

And the controversy wasn’t over yet.

“I should kill all those ungrateful bastards?”

“Gasp.”

“No, not like that kind of killing.”

Originally, I had planned to occupy just a special position in the sugar substitute market with a premium feel and limited quantity.

Farming Sugar wasn’t enough to take over the entire sugar substitute market yet—we still lacked enough cloud sugar trees, and even with the absorption fruit expanding our capacity as much as possible, it wasn’t enough to capture the entire market share.

But if they’re going to damage Farming Company’s image and declare war like this, I need to crush them completely.

What we’ve done so far is just defense, not uprooting the problem.

“Do we have any crops that can be cultivated like a ‘petit’ Farming Sugar?”

“Oppa. I was already working on creating such varieties.”

Kim Sujeong seemed to share my thinking on this, as she smiled ambitiously.

“I’ve extracted components from cloud sugar fruit and absorption fruit to enable mass production. If we clear the remaining part of the Steam Forest and plant them, we can produce 100 tons every 15 days from the fields.”

To capture market share, we’d need to produce over 1 million tons annually, or more than 50,000 tons every 15 days.

But we don’t necessarily need quantity to capture market share.

Just enough for everyone who needs it to consume.

If we can produce enough to make sugar substitutes unnecessary, there’s no reason to choose inferior alternatives.

“We need to expand the biomes quickly too.”

It’s a large quantity, but to produce an effective amount of resources for Earth’s 7 billion population, Farming Company needs to manage more land.

I need to work harder.

While I was thinking about this…

[Farming Day begins.]

“Huh?”

The event started without warning.