Chapter 19

To test if it was even possible to bind the compounds to my spores, I started growing a regular mushroom on my log. I really do hope it works. This would definitely add another layer of defense to my continued survival.

Some 60 mini mushroom growths later and the experiment was just about to get started. I started first by taking some compounds from the hub and directing them to the mushroom and while they were on their way I started the process of growing my spores. I wanted the compound to bind itself to my spores while they grew so it was only in its preliminary stages, but I was a little anxious to get this process started.

Why?

Because not to geek out or anything but I was basically recreating the move stun spore from the Pokemon games!

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Ugh I loved those games so much growing up.

I wonder if there were anything else I could replicate. Not even just from Pokemon but from other shows. Like could I become parasitic? Become like those cordyceps from the last of us tv show and take over human beings? I could become mobile. I mean Ideally it wouldn’t be humans. That’d be fucked up but taking over insects? Like normal cordyceps mushrooms. Oh yeah that’d be the fucking move.

Unfortunately I don’t think thats something I could replicate. I’m not a cordycep fungus id think I would have noticed. I would have to run into one, take over its mycelium and somehow replicate its ability and I don’t even know if there are any in this world.

I was getting a little ahead of myself thinking of all the possibilities. For now I focused on the project. I was using the same compound as the one I was using at the second site. This was just a test run to even see if it was possible to do this.

And a couple of more mini growths later, a success.

Hehehe.

The compounds were successfully bound to my spores which were growing along the gills of my mushroom. I ejected them into the air as a proof of concept.

When I finally found a compound that worked on the animals, I’d release the spores as soon as I felt them approaching a nearby sporing mushroom. And with my sensory network expanding it’d be a simple thing to detect.