Chapter 6

So the mycelium sensory network, which was what I was calling it, surprisingly worked.

I could tell the creature wasn’t dead in my vicinity and likely left once it couldn’t find more, so my mushrooms weren’t immediately deadly to living beings.

But I wanted to gather more data so I grew two more mushrooms.

As those mushrooms grew, I expanded my network. I could sense a lot of what I can only hypothesize were insects. The little insects didn’t kill my mycelium as they walked they merely brushed by sending tingling sensations down. It felt fucking weird but it was a price I was willing to pay because the network allowed me to gather more information about surroundings.

It was a bitch and a half to grow my little stalks of mycelium through the grasses though.

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While I expanded my sensory network I also worked on my big dick energy project, heh.

I had to amuse myself somehow so why not start the damn thing.

I mean yeah the predator but come on, I’m dying of boredom. Besides I’m just growing some mycelium in a straight line far from where I started.

This was going to be costly for some joke that only amused me but this endeavor was a slow going thing.

While I was giving my project about 3 percent of my nutrients, the rest of my energy and focus was spent on growing my network and consuming my wooden log.

My wooden log wouldn’t last long, though, at the rate I’m growing so I really needed to find another source to live of off.

Which was luckily enough an excuse to bump the percentage of nutrients I was devoting to my project.

If I went far enough I might find something interesting.

I know I said that I was lucky I wasn’t consuming excrement but tough times call for very, very desperate measures. I was holding out for another fallen and rotting tree but what are the chances of that?

No I needed to play this smart. If I could find a fruit producing plant that animals regularly stop by and eat at I can set up shop around the plant because those animals don’t completely eat the whole fruit and simply discard them on the ground when they’re full. Also like extremely gross but they also might poop nearby and I can subsist off that for a bit.

If this endeavor worked I could find multiple fruiting plants to grow around.