Chapter 64

Unfortunately, I did not find many more colonies of lichen.

The number of trees I grew on counted in the 20’s so far. But I’ve only found 4 in total.

Counting the one I originally found, I had 5 colonies of lichen that I was connected with.

These would definitely help in completing my plan but … I guess I was just hoping for more.

Stolen story; please report.

I was mostly done cannibalizing my mycelium and mushrooms though. I still had about the size of half a neighborhood block of mycelium and mushrooms left in front of the fire to slow its advance.

Once the mycelium bulwark, which I was what I was now calling it, was burned through the fire would advance quickly and the fire would continue on its destructive path before I had a chance to contain it.

I had water pumping on all the trees I’ve successfully grown on now but I feared that without a proper blockade the fire would just skirt around them and carry on its destructive path through the forest.

in order to build that blockade I needed to find out the fires current complete size and then find the appropriate trees to spread my mycelium on. I was already on that but I was worried the fire’s length was going to be even larger than how long it took me to reach the fire’s opposite side…

The fire couldn’t back track and burn what was already burnt though so that was one less worry. And while I seriously doubt I had to grow on its opposite side, I was still going to build a mycelium network and maybe a couple mist mushrooms and pump water there.

Just to be safe.