It was mid-February and the soft grass meant he wasn’t hurt. Spring had come extraordinarily early to the Abyss this year. An Zhe glanced sideways and saw a white and plump mushroom had just unfolded its umbrella cover. It wasn’t fully unfolded but presumably, it wouldn’t take long before thousands of spores came out from under the umbrella cover, diffusing outward like a mist.

Other mushrooms had many spores while he only had one and it wasn’t here. He bit his lip. Just then, he heard Lu Feng comfort him, “Don’t be afraid.”

He didn’t speak and Lu Feng continued, “I don’t want a spore.”

“What about my spore?”

“Do you want to know?”

“I want to know.”

Lu Feng picked up a strand of his mycelium. He asked, “Other mushrooms have many spores. Why do you only have one?”

“I don’t know.”

“When did you know you were a mushroom?”

An Zhe thought carefully. “A long time.”

“Was there an opportunity?”

“It was raining.”

“What else?”

“I broke but I didn’t want to die yet.”

“Did it hurt?”

An Zhe shook his head.

Lu Feng asked, “Is there anything else?”

An Zhe could only think of one thing. “It was raining.”

Lu Feng seemed to think about it before wondering, “Can you blend with many creatures and can you tell how much you have integrated? Is it active or passive?”

An Zhe shook his head. He did come into contact with living things, either actively or passively, but he didn’t know if he had acquired the genes. The only time was when he completely absorbed all of An Ze’s blood and tissue, gaining the ability to become human.

He heard Lu Feng inquire, “Have you seen a snake?”

An Zhe nodded. He had certainly seen a snake.

“A snake will shed its skin and the original skin will become scrap while it crawls out of the original skin. Many creatures do this.”

For a while, An Zhe didn’t know what Lu Feng wanted to express and just listened.

“However, My Polly says this is still different from your life form. There is a trait in some single-celled eukaryotes.” Lu Feng explained lightly, “When the environment is bad, it will stop growing. The man part of the body will form a cyst that falls into a deep sleep and is revived in the right environment.”

An Zhe frowned. He seemed to understand what Lu Feng was saying but he still couldn’t express it accurately.

“You are a fungus. It might not be the same species but you are all simple-structured organisms.”

An Zhe felt that Lu Feng’s words weren’t good and pushed the man out.

Lu Feng didn’t move and just watched An Zhe with a smile in his eyes. “Haven’t you remembered?”

An Zhe stared at his mycelium. “You mean, I… my spore grew into me?”