Chapter 12

And funny it was. Once this damn huge mushroom grew it was taking even longer to grow then my regular mushrooms, I mean why wouldn’t it? But I was still getting anxious that some rude arrogant creature would snatch it before it fully grew. I was growing it far away from the river, I didn’t want it so easily visible that any predator stopping by for a drink of water would eat it on their way for a drink.

The exchange was complete too so that was something to be happy about. I was taking some of the carbons from the mycorrhizal network and I was bringing the water back from the river and grabbing some carbons while no one was metaphorically looking.

I was basically acting the part of another tree. So it shouldn’t raise too much attention.

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I also finished growing a regular mushroom, which I grew along the bde project mycelium pathway, and one of my smaller ones, which I grew along my sensory network, in conjunction and got that sweet, sweet ratio. I was growing them, as I suspected, at a 60:1 ratio. Meaning in the time I grew 1 regular mushroom I grew 60 mini mushrooms. I wonder what the ratio would be with the huge one.

I wasn’t doing jack shit else besides my other projects so I split my attention again and focused on growing some mini-mushrooms while paying attention to the huge one.

Was I growing too accustomed to splitting my attention? Maybe but I was a mushroom with no one but me for company. Doing things the human way, one thing then another right after was less efficient.

I still have my morals and ethics but pretending to be something I wasn’t and limiting myself from growing in new and efficient ways was not something I could afford. i’m in a pretty bonkers situation and although it may not look it I could die from something that I could not counter in the traditional human way. Burning and killing. I needed all the advantages I could get and not utilizing my full range of capabilities seems idiotic.

Hmm I’m so much more motivated as a mushroom and more dare I say it smarter than I ever was as a human.

Is it because of my mycelium growth?

And more importantly is this a good thing or a bad thing?