I ordered my underlings to take over the stuff that the students were carrying. We headed straight past Eungbong crossway to get to Shelter Hae-Young.

Kang Ji-Suk and Byeon Hyuk-Jin pushed aside the barricade that was blocking the entrance. Lee Jeong-Hyuk and Choi Da-Hye came running out.

“Did something happen?”

I nodded slightly in response to Lee Jeong-Hyuk’s question. I then opened my notepad and asked him to bring the elder over. He acknowledged the request and headed to apartment 104.

After a few moments, Lee Jeong-Hyuk came back with the elder. I laid out the vegetables, soil, and chickens I’d brought over from Dae Hyun San Park. The elder’s eyes went wide.

“Amazing. Where did you get these precious things?”

- They were on a farm in Dae Hyun San Park.

“Fu fu, I guess god is watching over us after all.”

- But sir, there’s barely any chicken feed for the chicken. I tried to bring as much as I could, but I know it won’t be enough.

“We can get more chicken feed when we go out to get food. I’d say don’t worry about it. We can also give them millet or make stew out of the sweet potato or potato roots that we can’t eat.”

- They eat that kind of stuff too?

“That’s what everybody did back in the day.”

The elder smiled gently and examined each of the nine chickens closely, muttering comments about each of them—‘look at this one’, ‘look at how plump this one is’—clearly still in awe.

The Lee brothers and Choi Da-Hye looked at me.

“We’re going to have to...