Chapter 8

As disgusting as this is I needed to make some decisions. Was it worth attracting the thing back so I could poop in my vicinity again.

I needed to direct the nutrients I got from the poop directly into creating two new mushrooms. This would let me see if the nutrients I gained by consuming the … product… would exceed the nutrients I lost by growing new mushrooms. While I did that I could also test the growth ratio between the big mushroom and little mushrooms.

Also it just hit me the predator might not poop every time it comes to consume my mushrooms. If I wanted to condition the animal to behave this exact same way again later I needed to encourage this behavior. Basically train the animal to do that every time it came for a meal. So this time I needed to grow three of them.

If next time it didn’t poop I would reduce the number of mushrooms until it caught on onto what I wanted.

But wait I’m not in an enclose environment. I couldn’t guarantee this same predator would come back and even if did who’s to say some other predator couldn’t come in and snatch them before the first predator came by.

No I needed to think about this further. I stopped the growth of all except one of my regular mushrooms. I still wanted that growth ratio.

If the first predator came by or any predator came by and snatched it before it completed its growth id be pissed but I wouldn’t grow another one. I wanted the growth ratio but it wasn’t the end of the world if didn’t get it immediately. Besides I just realized who said they had to grow on the log? My mycelium were pretty spread out by now I didn’t have to grow them on the log. I was just used to it because thats how I’ve been doing things so far.

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What if I grew them along the branch that’s meant to contact the root system.

Yeah. That makes sense.

But I’m planning for a potentiality, lets hope nothing goes wrong.

It was almost like Murphy’s Law was just waiting for me to say something because about 59 mini growths later, just as the regular mushroom was about to mature fully the thing just disappeared.

It caught me by complete surprise because none of my mycelium died yet, and alerted me to a predator.

Then it hit me flying creatures are just as capable of swooping in and eating my mushrooms completely bypassing my sensory network.

FUCK!

Well there goes that endeavor. I mean I got a rough estimate of the ratio but not to be a perfection freak I just wanted the exact ratio.

Man fuck birds. Fuck bats. And fuck this world.

As much as this sucked, I couldn’t let this get me down.

Training the predator was a no go but that didn’t mean it was a failure it just meant I needed to pick the right environment and the right circumstances to train a creature.

Getting the exact ratio was not vital to my survival, it was just something I wanted to do to know exactly how I’ve been doing things. I still have my tiny mushroom clock system going and I can find the exact ratio later on. Nothing but time and nutrients was lost.

And even then with contacting the root network I might gain my some nutrients by taking part in the messages exchanged by the plants around me.

Is the flying creature still here? the sensory network I have is only deployed on the ground not on my log so I don’t really know if its still here or not. i don’t even know if its possible to develop my sensory network up here. The one on the ground is camouflaged by the grasses I grow them throw, if I grow them on the log they won’t be disguised and will be easily spotted and perhaps avoided.

I’ve been consumed by two creatures now, I think its safe to say that I’m delicious, heh, and an active target for creatures in this place.

Lets not advertise my presence anymore than I have to.