Ch.256256. The Farming Company That Feeds Hunters

As the mining part-time job was nearing its end.

There were many discussions about the part-time job on Hunters.

– Isn’t the part-time job ending soon?

– I wonder how it went.

– But do those people even know what the world is like now?

– What’s the point of knowing… They just need to work safely and each gets 9 billion.

– True… The best way to help is for the breadwinner to earn money while the family doesn’t worry.

– I’m jealous. I wish I could live in a mine for 90 days without thinking and get 9 billion.

– Who said B-rank hunters were difficult to deal with? There’s a company that provides such generous retirement funds.

Everyone was curious about the news.

No contact.

No updates on their current situation.

Absolutely no news, making people wonder if something happened, yet Farming Company was steadily doing business, so it didn’t seem like anything was wrong.

When families inquired out of concern, they only received mechanical responses saying “they’re alive and well,” leading conspiracy theorists to freely speculate that they might all be dead already.

But it was hard to dismiss it as just a conspiracy theory because even when entering dungeons, it’s not easy to be out of contact for 90 days straight.

While it made sense that communication would be impossible since the farm was in another dimension and a massive dungeon, it was still difficult to believe that they could take hundreds of people there and provide food for them daily.

The results would soon be revealed.

Would the people who went in be okay?

– Honestly, doing that kind of work for even a month would drive me crazy, how could they do it for 90 days? Especially hunters?

– For real lol. There’s nothing to do in a mine, unless they’re having group sex or something…

– Most of them would be men, right?

– There were some women too.

– What do they even do there? No internet. Working in the mine all day and then being too tired to do anything but sleep doesn’t sound easy.

We’ll know the results when they come out.

As the date approached, people’s interest began to peak.

And Farming Company posted another announcement.

– The 2nd miner recruitment is up.

– Wow. Are the conditions the same as before? No, they’re different?

– Hey, the conditions have changed lol

– Huh? Lol why did the price go up?

– 1.5 times increase lol

– Holy shit please take me too, I’ll even be your sex toy.

– 15 billion for 3 months? That’s insane…

Same conditions, same period, same job.

But the compensation was increased by 1.5 times.

They announced that recruitment would begin three days after the first group returns, with plans to hire regularly if all goes well, and even mentioned the possibility of permanent employment.

– Lifelong career: Miner

– Wasn’t mining a dead profession?

– Miner’s annual salary: 60 billion lololol

– What the hell comes out of that mine that they’re willing to spend so much money to hire people?

– Farming Company can afford to spend money freely regardless…

– For real lol

This time, they weren’t just recruiting miners.

– What’s this? Farming Company posted another announcement? General staff recruitment? Food, massage, fitness, facility management, etc. Regular recruitment for villa management staff. Mining village staff recruitment.

– Wow…

– And there’s this too. Monster elimination and resource collection team recruitment. Also B-rank or higher, recruiting in party units, 400 people. Wow… this pays 400 million per day.

– Does that include hazard pay?

– Well, what hunter job isn’t dangerous?

– This is crazy…

Hunters earn a lot of money.

Especially B-rank hunters around level 60, since surviving to that level means they naturally earn more on average.

Dungeons at that level have fewer people entering them, and the resources that come out are often difficult to obtain.

So these hunters earn a lot.

But they also spend a lot.

Unless you’re in the top 0.01% of hunters, most spend as much as they earn.

Dungeons aren’t places where you can just stroll in and pick up money lying around.

Hunters say:

They’re just self-employed workers risking their lives.

The characteristic of self-employed people is that they appear to earn a lot, but that’s not all profit.

It’s revenue.

Not all revenue becomes profit.

Armor, weapons, and items needed to enter dungeons.

It’s not a one-time purchase; they need to be constantly replaced and upgraded.

And the potions needed when entering dungeons.

These are lifelines.

If you suffer an unexpected attack from a monster and get injured, you could die from infection without a healer.

Even if you don’t die, injuries reduce your combat ability, and reduced combat ability means death by monster, not natural causes.

The price of consumable potions shows why alchemist is such a popular ability, and hunters reluctantly always stock up on potions, driving prices through the roof.

Then there are the monster hides and resources obtained.

Many are valuable, but many are not.

Not everything from high-level dungeons automatically turns into money.

Over 80% are common resources that can be found even in low-level dungeons.

In Earth terms, just grass, wood, and stones.

These make up the majority, with one or two special resources mixed in, which may or may not be expensive.

Naturally, valuable resources are rare, and such rare resources don’t come easily.

Even when they do, there’s a problem.

It would be great if you could go in alone and clear a dungeon, but since that’s impossible for ordinary hunters, you need to increase your numbers for safety, which lowers the distribution ratio.

After investing, taking cuts, and distributing, you’ll certainly have money left, but to aim higher, you’ll need to invest even that.

The conclusion is that even if you earn a lot of money, you need a lot of money.

That’s why opportunities like this rarely come to mid-tier hunters.

The life of a hunter who can’t give up because they’ve struggled through dungeons and leveled up.

For hunters living day by day dreaming of striking it rich, the opportunity to safely(?) earn over 10 billion in 3 months of hard work is truly eye-popping news.

There were even many inquiries from overseas about how to participate.

Korean hunters cheered for Farming Company on this point as well.

– I cheer for the fact that they only accept nationals.

– Especially since they don’t accept Chinese mixed-bloods, I’ve decided to only use Farming Company lol

– For real lol. Support Farming distribution. It’s a patriotic company.

– Honestly, where else can you find a place like this these days?

– Farming Company is the only company that takes care of its own citizens.

– I hope they don’t even accept hunters who got foreign citizenship and work abroad. I heard they’re coming to Korea after hearing about this sweet part-time job.

– Yeah, I already saw posts saying they’re obviously cut lol

– Is Kim Suhyun really a god?

– If he just hands out national subsidies now, I’d vote for him if he ran for president.

– Hasn’t he announced his candidacy yet?

– Lololol

Whether jokes or serious comments, such talks were circulating.

And at that timing, Team Leader Kim Jinhyeop came to me.

“The association has set up a schedule with designated support countries.”

“How much did they get?”

“Officially, it seems they’re organizing an expedition team to help as a friendly nation. Since sending just the CEO would obviously lead to public backlash, they plan to mix in other hunters. Legally, hunters must cooperate under the judgment of the Commander-in-Chief in crisis situations or to help friendly nations.”

“My reputation has been quite good lately.”

“Yes. Due to Farming Company’s recruitment announcement, mid-tier hunters are showing unlimited trust in Farming Company. They probably hope some benefits might trickle down to them.”

“Money is rotting away anyway, so I should spread it around. The farm is also severely short-handed.”

Bringing outsiders into the farm would normally be absolutely impossible, but after using them as solid workers in another biome, it’s hard to give up the taste.

It’s efficient, first of all.

Of course, using strong creatures from rift dimensions or other powerful beings could also be efficient.

Beat them up and tell them to work if they don’t want to die, and they’ll work faithfully enough if fed well.

The fact that we’re still using Black Monkeys effectively proves this.

But humans can communicate.

Communication and the farm’s dignity, if you will?

With many intelligent beings gathered, it feels like a neighborhood where people live.

Slaves everywhere.

Seeing slaves of unknown species working makes you wonder if they’re doing well or harboring other thoughts—it’s depressing. But humans will work harder than slaves if you just give them the reward they want: money.

I hear the number of outsiders who want to become slaves is growing.

It was time to carry out the planned operation.

“It’s time to go to the Abyssal Sea.”

It’s not a special operation.

It’s just a coincidence.

The timing of entering the Level 7 biome that I’ve been preparing for overlaps, so it’s not that I can’t participate, but that I can’t even answer whether I can participate.