Chapter 77

I finally reach the pain mushroom.

It’s alive but it’s in a really bad way. That thing is suffering just as much if not more than when I left it.

That plan to eventually somehow completely integrate it into myself and obtain a nervous system? Yeah, no. This is seriously making me reconsider.

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Im sure there are ways to mitigate the pain, like keeping the nervous system solely contained within my mycelium below ground as well as keeping any of my mushrooms disconnected to it and without one, but I can’t help but think that some burrowing creature out there would inevitably target my mycelium specifically and I’ll suffer just as horribly for it.

My concerns aside it was time to help the pain mushroom as best I could. I try to connect to the nearby hub and see what’s up but it takes a while to find the local mycorrhizal network but when I do make contact I find myself surprised.

I expected to find some nutrients to work with, enough so that I could heal the pain mushroom back to full health and not much else.

What i actually find is an over abundance of nutrients to work with. With no living trees connected to it the nutrients were just sitting there. And I suddenly find myself somewhat angry.

With access to this amount of nutrients, stopping the fire would have been reeeeeaaaally simple.