Chapter 71

Spreading lichen to other trees was a difficult proposition.

I don’t even know how they propagate in the first place. I mean I watched a lot of nature programs and documentaries while I was depressed, but I don’t have perfect recall.

Yes I knew enough to recognize that a fungus bonded with an algae meant the organism was a lichen but i couldn’t even begin to…

Hold on its a fungus… yeah duh I knew that but I’m a fungus too wouldn’t they produce spores just like I could?

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Yeah that tracks, but then how could I induce that process in another fungus?

With the foreign … honestly I should just give the thing a name instead of calling it a foreign mushroom all the time. How about … just pain mushroom for now. Kind of a basic name but hey I cant come up with brilliant names all the time.

As i was saying with the pain mushroom I ripped a piece of mycelium from it and integrated it into my mycelium and it worked but that resulted in me fighting it constantly to get it to work with me.

Im assuming that if I did the same to the lichen it would result in the same thing … but wait what if I …

What if I rip some of its mycelium out and try to cultivate some of the algae in me?

Holy shit I am a genius!

I wouldn’t have to keep the fungus in line at all!

The fungus provides the algae a safe place to live in, who the fuck said I couldn’t take its place!?