Chapter 29

I hit a snag.

While the idea of absorbing another mushroom sounded like it could work, I hit upon something I was too dumb to realize.

Assimilating a mushroom and mycelium of my own kind was easy, but assimilating a mushroom of another kind was what I imagine getting used to a transplant organ feels like. You had to constantly keep reminding that new organ that being apart of a new organism was business as usual.

People who had a new organ had to keep taking a pill so their bodies wouldn’t attack the new organ. I on the other hand don’t have the luxury of taking a simple little pill. I had to constantly keep the mushroom in line.

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Well I had to keep both myself and it in line. I had easier time of it because I could control myself into not attacking what isn’t me. But the other mushroom was non sentient it felt like it was being attacked and it continually tried to attack my mycelium.

In the end I had to attack some of its own mycelium. I separated it from the rest of it and assimilated just that bit. Then I used that tiny assimilated bit to connect to the foreign mushroom’s mycelium.

That tiny assimilated bit basically kicked and screamed but at least I wasn’t dealing with that with the whole mushroom. Once I got used to the sensation and the new mushroom i’ve connected to, I tried figuring out what type of mushroom it was.

Which was going to take me a bit to figure out how to do so. Cuz’ It wasn’t like I could just feel what type of mushroom it was like how I checked on my own mushrooms. This was just a separate entity I was now connected to.

I wanted to assimilate it so I could do internally check out what it was, but it just kept rejecting me.

And I know its just following its natural biological processes but it kind of stung.