Chapter 51

Mulling it over some reconnecting to the log and depleting its resources is a must.

If I don’t, it’s resources will just go to waste. Where I should direct those resources is the question now.

I can maybe grow another stalky tendril to rest upon Jade’s body to see if it breathing but then thats it for quick and easy nutrients.

I do this though and I won’t be able to rapidly help buttons. But I don’t even know how to help it beyond what I am already doing. Thankfully the mist spores don’t require many nutrients so despite the fluctuating hub I’m still able to grow and release them consistently.

As I decide on what to do, I wonder if Jade really isn’t dead but just mesmerized by whats happening around it. Most likely if this world is anything even remotely like mine then nothing like what I’m doing to the environment is a common sight.

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This world definitely has a lot of similarities to earth like trees, animals, water, prey and predator dynamics. But I don’t think a mushroom affecting nature at this level of impact is an ordinary thing. Or maybe it is and thats why Jade felt comfortable enough to collapse here?

Holy shit has it met one of my kind before?

Pause.

Thats an assumption based on weak evidence… but if true wherever it came from has one thats capable of greatly affecting the environment. Which means I might not be the only intelligent mushroom out there capable of such feats.

Like I said an assumption, I can’t dwell on this too much. I might get obsessed with finding out where this hypothetical intelligent mushroom is and not dedicate myself to the immediacy of the fire.

So for right now I’ll just go ahead tap into the near depleted log and actually deplete it and use those nutrients to figure out if Jade is breathing…

Wait if… and this might be crazy but what if I find out how exactly big this fire, surround it with my mycelium and then drench the surroundings with water? The fire won’t easily spread outside the perimeter and it’ll eventually deplete the fuel in area within.

Except and I mentioned this before but most of what I can do impacts only the ground floor. The fire could spread from above and thus circumvent anything I do below. The mist mushroom spores help expand my range to keep everything moist but that would mean id have grow mushrooms in addition to the mycelium ill have delivering water to the area.

This plan could work but there was only one slight problem.

I don’t have enough nutrients for a project this big.