Chapter 46

i decided on a location.

It was just far enough away that I suspected it would allow me to grow the mushrooms to full adulthood and even develop its spores.

Besides, however distant the location is to the frontline won’t matter as much, I suspect. The fire is still steadily crawling ever onwards. The frontline and thus the fire will definitely be within the mushrooms range. it wasn’t a matter of if it’ll be in range just a matter of when.

i still tried to grow that perfect spore on the monument. To see if I could repeat my one success. But the variables kept changing. I suspect even with the help of the wind detecting mushroom it would still take me ages to perfect.

That one saying kept repeating in my mind, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

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That saying is typically attributed to Albert Einstein but it really doesn’t apply here. I’m not insane and I know it can be done. i just did it. It’ll just take time, time I don’t exactly have.

I concentrated on funneling more nutrients towards the wind detecting mushroom. It was slow going the nutrients were fluctuating in the hub. I think the trees knew what was coming and were using the hub’s nutrients to prepare somewhat.

But I don’t think this meant they were intelligent though.

Plenty of plants responded to outside stimuli. Venus fly traps famously responded to insects landing on their surfaces. But considering the two events here: the fire and the fluctuating hub were happening simultaneously it definitely suggested that they were related.

In fact I remember watching a nature documentary about the relationship plants have with their environment and it mentioned something called Mother Trees.

These trees were old as all hell and helped other trees in the area. However in the case it was chopped down it released a fuckton of nutrients into it’s mycorrhizal network. This sounded like a good thing but it was actually the opposite. Forests without one will have a tough time getting back to snuff.

I kept one eye on the hub for a flood of nutrients. As shit it would be in the future for the general environment there might not be one if I don’t finish all my preparations.

Those nutrients could help me grow all I need in the short term.