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Luna’s owner stood nearby, watching nervously, worried it might fall.
Meanwhile, Cresent, the Moonlight Howling Corgi, paid no attention to Luna’s safety.
It busied itself darting back and forth across the Greenhouse, exploring it enthusiastically even though the glass hadn’t been installed yet.
"You should make some toys for Luna when you have time," Kim Haru said. "The farm is full of dogs, and there’s no other cat to keep it company."
Come to think of it, he could also make some toys for the Cryo Wolf—chew toys and frisbees, perhaps.
He couldn’t let them keep tearing through the forest.
If they angered the mutated plants, it wasn’t clear who would win in a fight.
Kang Hose smiled. "Alright."
With the Greenhouse frame completed, only the glass installation remained.
While waiting for the Starlight Armored Bug to produce the glass, Kim Haru turned his attention to the seeds harvested during the fall.
These seeds, which painstakingly cleaned by Go Okrim after being scavenged from the mutated black pig dung, had been stored in Kim Haru’s system backpack for freshness.
They looked as good as new when he took them out.
One watermelon seed had already sprouted when it was found.
Kim Haru returned it to the system backpack for now—it would only be planted once the Greenhouse was fully set up.
As for the other seeds, they needed to be nurtured first.
Pumpkin seeds were easy to identify—there were about thirty of them.
Winter Melon seeds looked somewhat similar but fewer, with fewer than twenty.
Hami Melon seeds were the rarest, only five in total.
There were also cucumber and zucchini seeds, around ten each.
Looking at the seeds, Kim Haru suddenly thought of following the mutated black pigs in spring to see where they ate all these melons.
The variety of seeds was unexpectedly rich.
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However, that was a task for later.
For now, Kim Haru carefully sorted the seeds, misted them with water, covered them with cotton cloth, and placed them in a heated indoor space.
All they needed was regular watering to keep them moist until they sprouted.
In order to ensure the wild seeds germinated, Kim Haru also bought some from the system store and placed them alongside the others, treating them with the same nurturing method.
More than 2,000 Starlight Armored Bug worked together to consume sand and produce glass.
In less than five days, Kim Haru obtained enough glass panels to cover the entire Greenhouse.
Calling on Go Okrim and Kang Hose for help, the three of them spent an entire day installing all the glass panels.
The newly constructed Greenhouse didn’t feel much warmer than the outside at first, but Kim Haru wasn’t in a rush.
To truly complete the Greenhouse, there was one final step left—heating.
A Greenhouse doesn’t generate heat by itself just because it’s enclosed.
Its purpose is to retain heat, maintaining any warmth that is introduced into the space.
That warmth could come from sources like fire, hot water, or steam.
Even in his previous life, where winters weren’t as harsh, the Greenhouses required artificial heating—let alone in this much colder, post-apocalypse world.
This wasn’t something that troubled Kim Haru.
He opened his system’s construction interface and built a new barn.
Then, he dismantled the heating system from the newly built barn and installed it into the Greenhouse.
As for the now unheated barn?
"Give it to your Zombie-bots," Kim Haru said, handing the new barn over to Go Okrim.
After all, the zombie-bots didn’t need heating.
A barn without a heating system was perfectly adequate for them.
Go Okrim: "..."
With the heating system installed, the Greenhouse’s temperature rose steadily.
Soon, the snow inside melted into water, soaking into the soil.
It was time to try planting!
Kim Haru immediately summoned all the available labor on the farm: twelve dogs, one cat, a Ginseng Spirit, and three humans—including himself.
Everyone entered the Greenhouse to start tilling the soil.
After over a month of freezing winter, the land had become rock-hard.
Even though it had thawed, the soil was still too firm to plant anything directly.
Fortunately, apart from Kim Haru, an ordinary human, none of the others—whether dogs, cats, or ginger spirit, including the two ability users—had any trouble with the task of tilling.
As for Kim Haru, with the help of a system-provided hoe, at least he wasn’t the one holding everyone back.
The previously cultivated land was much easier to re-till than when it was first broken.
In less than half a day, the entire plot of soil was loosened and softened, looking just as it had in the autumn.
The sprouting seedlings of the melons that was nurtured earlier, had grown into plump little green shoots, radiating vitality.
Kim Haru planted the young seedlings into the soil, spacing them out evenly and installing automated watering devices at intervals.
These devices, which had been packed away after the autumn harvest, were now being put back to good use.
After planting all the melon seedlings, there was still more than half of the Greenhouse space left unoccupied.
Kim Haru decided to plant a batch of sugar beets.
He no longer wanted to grow rice or wheat.
The Pyeongseong Safe Zone already cultivated enough of those staples to meet his needs.
However, he remembered that sugar beets could be used to produce sugar.
While the system-equipped kitchen in his wooden cabin provided sugar for seasoning, there were no sugar products left in the Pyeongseong Safe Zone.
Sugar, even for people who don’t particularly like sweets, becomes something they long for when they can’t have it for an extended period.
Although Kim Haru didn’t yet know how to process sugar from sugar beets, that didn’t stop him from planting some.
Winter was long enough for him to spend time in his study researching how to extract sugar from the beets.
Go Okrim and Kang Hose never questioned any of Kim Haru’s decisions.