Chapter 27

The huge chem mushroom was definitely earning its moniker. The thing was enormous. About the size of a sapling. Better yet animals were most definitely avoiding the area around it.

I certainly don’t know what it was but they were certainly avoiding the area. Hell I even think the little squirming bastard insects were even ditching the area. I couldn’t feel their legs brushing against my mycelium sensory network as much anymore.

Definitely hit the jackpot with this compound. I should grow some of these chem mushroom around my original location. I’ve grown so much that my original location atop the log was just a small part of myself but I still felt most … at home? No. Not a home. A home has family and I have none now.

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It feels like the area around the log is kind of like my central location. Which yeah duh of course it is. But it feels like what I imagine an Artificial intelligence feels like. A whole bunch of routines carrying out its duties and a whole bunch of hardware its inhabiting but its main programming, what makes it tick, lies in a central location.

Likewise I’m carrying out various different tasks and my body spans a large expanse but my… main thinking power, I guess, lies on and around my log.

Weird.

Never really thought about it like that.

But I need to keep it safe and having couple of reprepelling chem mushrooms around it helps ease my mind a bit. So I do so.

These mushrooms are going to be regular sized chem mushrooms, however. My huge mushrooms while definitively giving off bd energy aren’t very practical. They just attract attention.

While I grow a couple of the repelling mushrooms around the periphery of the log. I checked back on the other mushroom I found. Time had passed and still no signal. This was definitely just a dumb mushroom.

I don’t know what i’ll do with it. Maybe keep it as another pet like buttons?

Hmm.