Chapter 53

Something about this situation reminded me of that hiker who got caught in between two rocks and had to cut off his own arm to escape.

At least he didn’t have to self cannibalize. Lucky bastard.

They even made a movie about him. Obviously I’m not getting that; there’s no ‘they’ to make one.

I put my self lament to the side for a moment, realistically speaking? I’m in a way better position than he was.

I don’t feel any pain here.

Not a mushroom growth goes by where I don’t thank my lucky stars I don’t have a nervous system like that foreign mushroom. Well I have a bit of it assimilated into me but that ain’t the point.

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Viscerally speaking, having to saw through your own hand as a human trumps whatever the fuck I got going on.

Self cannibalizing is a perfect way to repurpose what resources I have and use them to combat and hopefully stop the fire which would have completely eradicated the resources I’m trying to repurpose anyways.

But there’s just something about self cannibalizing that puts me off.

I’m still going through with it but I’m not happy about it and my metaphorical eye is fucking glued to the hub waiting for the influx of nutrients that indicates the death of the mother tree.

First things first I need to know if this thing is even possible.

By now the log’s nutrients are tapped out. Which was just enough to grow that long tendril to check jade’s breathing. They in fact were breathing. Thank fuck.

My guess that it was in shock and depressed might be on the money with this one.

Anyway, all that’s left in the log is my mycelium which makes it a worthwhile target to experiment and see if self cannibalism can even be done.

In all honesty, targeting the log felt like the most comfortable choice. I’ve disconnected from it multiple times that at this point it just felt like a prosthetic limb. All this was new territory for me though. I’ve never not once heard of a mushroom that could do this. To be fair half the shit I get up to is something never been done before.

Sure Ive heard that two different species fungi could parasitize one another but never outright a mushroom that consumes itself.

But I guess I need to add this to the list of shit mushrooms could do cuz for a fucking wonder it worked.