Chapter 79

My anger aside, I was glad I didn’t have to wait for my lichen mushrooms to prove successful in order to help the poor pain mushroom.

I quickly transferred some nutrients from the hub to the pain mushroom. It felt weird not having to give anything to the hub. Usually I gave my hub water in exchange for some nutrients but since there were no trees connected to this hub to speak of it made things a bit simpler.

It still felt kind of wrong to not give anything back though so I made the decision to grab some water from my source and lug it all the way to the second hub but only after I had the mushroom back to full health.

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Waiting for the lichen mushrooms to provide all the nutrients I need would take a stupendous amount of time, but time I had in spades. I’m sure I could speed things up by going full cannibal but that isn’t my style. I already had multiple lichen mushrooms growing on the burnt section of the forest, hopefully the algae cells successfully reproduce.

If they don’t I’ll cannibalize all of the mushrooms and grow one new lichen mushroom with all of the nutrients from those I cannibalized…

That’ll force me to nibble from the lichen colonies every now and again for the algae cells, if I want to produce more lichen mushrooms though.

… speaking of nibbling I wonder when the animals will come back.

If and when they do those little bastards need to back off better stay away from my lichen mushrooms, I worked hard for them! Okay not really but I should take some of the repelling compound and incorporate it into the lichen mushrooms.

Just in case.