Chapter 158

My work on my various projects, aside from restoring the burnt clearing, was on a momentary hiatus while I worked out how in the hell the nodule work. Now that it did though I wanted to check in.

The pain mushroom was doing fine. I had long past stopped giving it nutrients to bring it back into full health. Strangely enough the bit I had incorporated into myself wasn’t fighting as hard as it once had, which alluded to it … maybe having some kind of limited intelligence.

Which meant the pain mushroom itself was intelligent.

Once I contact the by pain mushroom and it hopefully says something I’ll immediately disconnect that tiny bit of mycelium from myself and apologize.

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I can’t imagine what the hell it thought was happening when I first did that but I’m sure it would have freaked the fuck out, I would have. Hopefully I earned back some karma points for giving it nutrients and saving its life.

Actually I could contact it now but right now I want to check on the rest of my things before I contact it or buttons.

Deciding what to check up on next was kind of hard but eventually I decided to check up on the lichen mushrooms which were doing really well actually.

The algae were reproducing faster than what I expected and while still not reaching the same amount of nutrients I was getting from the lichen themselves it was still more than what I expected. I was expecting a long drawn out reproduction period but I guess not. Turns out my cells were an ideal environment in which to grow.

Maybe it had to do with the abundant water I put in the mushrooms. Hm.

Speaking of the lichen, I had a number of mycelium tendrils connected to a lot of them and was siphoning a respectable amount of nutrients in a short amount of time.

It had to be said, this lichen idea of mine was brilliant!