Chapter 119

Nothing good came to mind when I tried to figure out how I would deal with another me. Of my kind I mean… ugh I gotta ask elder what his kind call me.

When the time comes and If they turn out to be human in mushroom form I only hope I could reason with them but if not … I suppose I’d have to kill them just as elder and his ilk have done with the rest of my kind.

A glimmer of hope crosses my mind however. If they turn out not to be human just some baseless creature with no intelligence hopefully the moment I try to connect to them they just turn out to be just another limb I could attach to myself and subjugate.

In any case I turn to more important matters and I check in on the lichen mushrooms. Thankfully multiple of them still seem to be doing good work converting sunlight into energy but more importantly they’re handing some of that energy into me. For the most part though they haven’t increased their output as much. Tiny increments at best but ultimately if I wanted a mushroom that absolutely blasted me with nutrients I would have to wait a long while.

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All the lichen mushrooms were good for right now were great daylight indicators. I was getting my nutrients mainly from the lichen themselves.

The excess nutrients that I found nothing to do with were directed into the primitive bank system. Several bricks of mycelium were already stored tightly underneath my original birthplace. Whenever I needed nutrients I would cannibalize them and use them for what I need.

The idea to create an actual hub system like the system Elder most definitely uses was put on permanent hiatus. I really don’t know how Elder would take it if I suddenly cut off a price of the hub. Presumably I would ask first but even broaching the subject seemed iffy.

How would that conversation even go, ‘hey elder do you mind if I cut off a bit of your mycorrhizal network in order to build one of my own?’ I wouldn’t be surprised if it killed me right then and there.

I joke, but I’m still not completely sure if it wouldn’t. After all after killing 5 of us… well I’m sure it’s gotten used to it.

I mean It’s not like I’m that attached to my species seeing, I’ve only been a mushroom for the past month or so, it’d be illogical for me to feel so conflicted about it but I can’t help but feel that those that elder killed might have been humans too.

Stupid fucking idiot humans without a thought about the harm and damage they did but humans nonetheless.

I mean elder didn’t even give them a chance to talk, they really could have been humans reincarnated into mushroom bodies.

I’ll never know though.