Webnovel Author In The Apocalypse World-Chapter 85: Something Feels Off

Kim Haru felt increasingly excited.

While waiting for the devices to charge, he planned to take a shower. After his shower, he found the system’s lunch still on the collection page: steaming hot beef rice.

There were generous portions of beef along with carrots, celery, potato chunks, mushrooms, black fungus, lotus slices, corn kernels, diced ham, and several other side dishes, all mixed with a rich broth.

The seasoning was just right, and the aroma alone was enough to stimulate his appetite.

Turning on the TV, Kim Haru ate while watching an animated show.

By coincidence, the TV in this world happened to be airing "Mech Touch," which he had watched over eight hundred episodes in his previous life. He had heard that it had exceeded a thousand episodes, but he didn’t know if it had been finished in this world.

It was perfect timing for dinner.

After enjoying a hearty meal, he noticed that the phone and game console were still not fully charged.

Looking at the messy pile of items, Kim Haru suddenly felt a pang of regret.

It had felt great to buy everything, but now he faced the aftermath of the chaos. It was impossible to just leave everything as it was; items not in their proper places were truly an eyesore.

He thought he should have tidied up the mess before taking a shower—it was a miscalculation.

After putting everything that belonged in the drawers into the drawers and arranging what needed to go on the wall accordingly, he organized everything neatly. Only then did Kim Haru head off for a shower.

At that moment, the game console he had been thinking about was fully charged.

Although the phones had also charged and powered on, without any network or signal, they couldn’t do much. They could only play the offline games installed on them. How many offline games did those phones still have? Compared to a simple gaming console, they were far less appealing to Kim Haru.

Kim Haru decided to disregard everything else and quickly dove into bed with a game console that caught his eye.

He began to explore.

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After playing with the game console until it ran out of battery, Kim Haru finally remembered that he needed to sleep, but he had no idea how much time had passed.

At that moment, he realized just how exhausted he was; his eyelids felt heavy and barely opened. He simply set the game console aside, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

As he drifted into a muddled slumber, a strange thought suddenly flickered through his mind.

...It seemed like something had been off ever since he returned?

Just as that feeling registered in his mind, he completely succumbed to sleep.

Whatever that odd feeling was could wait until he woke up.

...

Kim Haru slept right through lunch and finally woke up.

The first thing he did upon waking was plug in the game console that had run out of battery the day before. This task had turned into a leisurely affair last night, leading him to prepare a combined breakfast and lunch.

After filling his stomach, he finally grasped the strange feeling that had occupied his mind before he went to bed. It seemed to originate from the plot of land where he sensed something unusual.

Kim Haru walked outside the wooden cabin, passing by the spot where he had thrown the water bottle yesterday. He remembered to grab it as well to avoid making another trip later when it was time to water the plants.

Standing in front of the plot of land, he stared at it for a moment before finally identifying the source of his discomfort.

In the vegetable garden enclosed by wooden fences, neat rows of newly sprouted green shoots stood proudly, presenting a pleasing sight.

Kim Haru loved this orderly arrangement and was admiring it when a strange sensation washed over him.

—He couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off about the vegetable garden before him.

He walked around, examining it from top to bottom and side to side, even circling the garden twice, and finally, his gaze landed on a series of raised patches of soil.

The originally raised soil patches, with their identical height and curvature, had all been personally shaped by Kim Haru using the system tools. At that time, he had marveled at the satisfying neatness of it all.

But now, those curves had changed.

Taking a few steps forward, Kim Haru noticed that several soil patches differed from the surrounding ones. Some had risen too high, others had spread out more than they should, and a few had soil that seemed more compact than the rest.

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The differences were subtle, and if it weren’t for Kim Haru’s occasional mild OCD, he might not have even noticed.

Most of the altered patches were near the edges of the fence. He dug into a few of them but found no strange traces. He wondered if the vegetables growing inside had changed the shape of the soil, which wasn’t entirely impossible.

Unable to find a clear reason, and since it wasn’t a major issue, Kim Haru put the matter aside.

As for the altered soil patches, Kim Haru took out a hoe and gently tidied them up. Soon, the patches were neat and orderly again, pleasing to the eye.

That day, Kim Haru’s life was incredibly leisurely.

The chair that he had bought had been cleaned and placed under the shade of a tree, where it offered shelter from the wind and rain. With his fully charged game console in hand, he enthusiastically played for the entire day.

The watering for the day had been finished long ago.

It wasn’t until evening, with the sound of gentle rain tapping outside, that Kim Haru finally drifted off to sleep.

The next morning, the air still carried the fresh scent that lingers after rain.

Kim Haru glanced at the vegetable garden. The crops hadn’t suffered from the rain; in fact, today he wouldn’t need to water them at all, leaving him with plenty of free time.