Chapter 24

With how big my network has expanded I now often feel tiny little imprints of small creatures. None however interested in my huge chem mushrooms.

A good thing too, cuz’ if a tiny little rabbit wound up eating them I’d feel bad.

I need further outwards. So far I’ve been focusing on my little area and doing my little projects. But if I want to continue to innovate and thrive as I have been I can’t be stagnate and stick to one area. I need new stimuli to grow. I don’t think I would have grown at such a fast and unique rate as I have without the desire to interact and manipulate my surroundings.

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It just makes sense to grow outward.

So I do so.

Just like when I started project bde I grow a mycelium pathway straight and away from my log. Obviously in the opposite direction. If I grew that way id only find the stream again.

About 480 mini mushroom growths and I run into to something fascinating.

I think I found another mushroom. And not just like the fungi mycorrhizal that serves as the hub, but an actual honest to god mushroom.

I grow bit of mycelium towards the ends of its mycelium.

Is it sentient? Is it of the same species?

Will it just be a dumb mushroom?

I finally reach its mycelium tendrils and … Oh gosh what the hell do I do?

Should I send it some nutrients?

See if we can communicate through morse code? Not that I know morse code. But I can send some of nutrients its way in some sort of pattern. If its intelligent it’ll send something back right?

I draw some nutrients from the hub and start sending it all the way out towards the new mushroom contact.

I’ll go with a simple 1-2-3, then 1-2, then 1 pattern.

Will it send something back?