Ch.7474. Hair-Growing Tree

# Hair Growth Fruit

Despite its strange name, this is a fruit from a tree that’s extremely famous among Farming World users.

As the name suggests, it’s a fruit that makes hair grow.

It’s not a fruit with a special taste or one that enhances abilities, but rather one with the side effect(?) of causing excessive hair growth when eaten.

The issue is that this side effect can be an excellent medicine for some people.

– *Sob sob. Fuck.. I grew hair. Actual hair on my head.*

– *T_T Can’t Farming World resources come into reality?*

– *You Farming World bastards. You copied all the resources and hunters from reality, so why did you make up the Hair Growth Fruit on your own!!!!!!!*

– *Maybe the Hair Growth Fruit actually exists? We just haven’t found it yet.*

– *If it exists, it would be as valuable as the One Piece.*

– *Wealth for three generations shall be bestowed upon the one who finds it.*

– *It might be the only fruit that cures baldness.*

– *Is it really that significant?*

Though the hype has died down a bit now, when this fruit was first discovered in the early days of Farming World, it became quite famous, spreading not just among Farming World users but across numerous gaming communities.

There were even users who had created bald characters who posted proof of their abundant hair growth after eating the Hair Growth Fruit.

Many wondered why such a resource didn’t exist in reality.

As usual, people talked about it for a while, but since it was just game talk, the discussion eventually faded.

And contrary to what people thought, it wasn’t used as a baldness treatment medicine in the game.

After all, baldness isn’t some serious disease in Farming World.

In a world where you have to farm to avoid starvation and build strength to hunt monsters just to survive, losing a bit of hair due to stress or genetics isn’t important.

Rather, treating severed arms or broken legs would be more crucial.

So while there is a hair growth potion made from the Hair Growth Fruit in alchemy, everyone makes it once out of curiosity and then sends it straight to storage, treating this Hair Growth Fruit as a resource that’s more trouble than it’s worth.

It’s the same for me.

Both my father and grandfather have abundant hair.

Since it’s a genetic condition, the probability of me getting baldness is slim, so if this were Farming World, I might have cursed about receiving such a useless reward.

It’s practically equivalent to a main reward for completing an A-rank monster’s story quest, coming here when level 2 biomes aren’t fully mapped and level 0 biomes aren’t even finished mapping.

But if I could take this to reality, that’s a different story.

In reality, just one resource from a dungeon can change technological trends.

Depending on what resources emerge, existing resources become obsolete and disappear, and even companies ranked among the world’s top corporations can see their stock prices plummet and go bankrupt—it happens all the time.

In such a world, a baldness cure?

With the emergence of dungeons, a baldness cure is what many balding people are most hoping for.

In Farming World terms, it’s not a baldness treatment but a hair growth solution—not curing baldness but covering it up by making hair grow. But who cares about the process? They’re just people who want natural hair until they die.

“I’m rich.”

Money is something you can earn by farming diligently, as has already been proven, but the difference between that small income and the Hair Growth Fruit orchard I’ve acquired now is incomparable.

With this alone, I could essentially stop mapping and just harvest Hair Growth Fruits for the rest of my life and live comfortably.

Of course, I have no intention of doing that.

“Monster territories are surprisingly lucrative.”

As in Farming World, each monster territory has its own specialty product.

The Farming World game itself was designed with resources in areas where monsters are present, with the setting being that monsters are interested in these resources and protect them to own them. That’s the kind of setting it has.

So the Big Rats had sewers, and the Goblins had pure mushroom trees.

The Corrupted Forest is still being conquered, but it also had fields of corrupted healing herbs, and now with the Black Monkeys, their entire habitat is a massive Hair Growth Fruit orchard.

Challenge, success, and reward.

This clean and simple mechanism provides an irresistible dopamine rush.

“Hey. Collect all the dead monkey corpses from yesterday.”

“Kiki.. Understood, Chief!”

The monkeys show absolute loyalty to their chief.

If I had tamed them as slaves rather than becoming their chief, this level of loyalty wouldn’t have emerged.

The approach varies depending on the monster, but since I became their chief, they’re essentially slaves.

They might disobey if given a completely unreasonable order, but the characteristic of this species is that as long as I have power, they’ll even risk their lives for my commands.

They’re physical brutes with rocks for brains, so they don’t have unnecessary beliefs.

They gather their own kind for me to butcher one by one without any protest.

“I’ll bury the hides properly. The meat will be your food.”

“Kiki.. Chief. So wise.”

“A decisive chief. Good.”

The hides piled up like a mountain.

These are truly A-rank hides, and if I take them out, I could mass-produce armor comparable to gray wolf hide.

I bet Ms. Isumi would really like them.

It might not be a bad idea to recruit her into Farming Company while I’m at it.

“Let’s go. Carry the hides and follow me.”

I could move hundreds of monkey hides with my belt, but I deliberately have the Black Monkeys carry them.

After killing many, I now have about 100 of them.

To be exact, I can use 135 Black Monkeys.

Not all needed to follow, so I sent about 10 to the cabin.

Then I told the remaining Black Monkeys:

“You must have a hierarchy among yourselves? If not, establish one, and from now on, the second-in-command will come to receive orders from me. The lowest 30 should come to the cabin by 9 AM every day and follow my farm manager’s orders as if they were mine. That place is my farm. You have a duty to tend to it.”

“Kiki.”

“Kiki!”

Whether they’re slaves or NPCs, the important thing when using manpower in Farming World is to create a good system.

One that they can understand with simple commands.

Keep it clean and simple so they don’t make their own judgments or act on their own.

Minimize ambiguity and stick to direct commands like “Do this” and “Do that”—that’s the most effective and efficient approach.

And since they’re not simply programmed entities, rather than controlling everything myself, I pass control to the top monkey in a hierarchical manner, giving only the orders I want. This way, even though they’re slaves, I can use them for a long time without sowing seeds of discord.

“Tomorrow, clean up this place and pick all the Hair Growth Fruits to bring to the farm.”

“Understood. Kiki!”

The hierarchy seems to be already established, as Monkey #2, now second-in-command, answers.

“But Chief.”

And asks once more:

“Can we really eat all this meat? Kiki.”

The butchered meat yielded quite a lot per monkey.

With nearly 200-300 monkeys, that’s hundreds of chunks of meat.

“Eat it all. You need to eat to gain strength and make up for the dead monkeys’ share too.”

“Kiki.. Chief.. I’m touched.”

I don’t particularly want to eat monkey meat, just like goblin meat, so I’m not eating it, but seeing these monsters get emotional makes me realize they’re truly beasts.

They have no qualms about eating their own kind.

Well, maybe that’s natural. In modern society, there’s no reason to eat other humans except for truly sick preferences, but in Farming World, numerous monsters live in environments where they’d die if they didn’t eat their own kind. It would seem foolish to choose starvation for such a trivial reason.

So meat that’s useless to me is quite valuable food to them.

“Just bring this much.”

“Understood. Kiki.”

Still, just to be safe, I had them set aside some.

I won’t eat it, but once I install solar panels and a refrigerator, I can freeze some meat. I plan to take it out when I log out and sell it.

There’s a steady demand for monster meat.

Especially high-grade monster meat, as research shows that the taste improves proportionally with the monster’s abilities, and the meat trend is shifting from beef, pork, and chicken to monster meat.

The only drawback is that they can’t be raised for mass production, so the supply isn’t stable.

But that’s not a problem for sellers.

In fact, it’s a condition that allows for higher prices.

After wrapping things up, I quickly headed to the farm.

In my hands, I held five Hair Growth Fruits picked from the tree.