Mushrooms of every size and variety came together to form a world made entirely of fungi.
Enormous mushroom caps towered overhead, blotting out the sky and sun.
Beneath the caps, glowing mycelial networks spread through the shadows like colorful fluorescent lights.
Fine clouds of spores drifted on the breeze, while clusters of cherry-sized mushrooms grew all around their feet.
The northern players were stunned by the fantastical, magnificent sight. One after another, they stood there with their mouths open, unable to speak.
Only the fellow from Yunnan was an exception.
The Yunnan player [Mei Er] got excited in an instant—
"Holy shit! Green-headed mushrooms! Black boletes, yellow boletes, milkcap mushrooms, red onion mushrooms, morels, bamboo fungi, chicken-fighting mushrooms, matsutake, black termite mushrooms..."
Like he was reciting a menu, the guy pointed at the mushrooms of all sizes around him and rattled off a long list of names.
By the time he was done, he was practically drooling.
His teammates turned to stare at him in shock.
"You can recognize those too?"
To them, the entire place was packed with bizarre, multicolored mushrooms growing shoulder to shoulder.
They were nothing like the mushrooms in reality in terms of size, either!
Recognizing enoki mushrooms and matsutake would already have been impressive. How could anyone be like Mei Er, casually pointing at all these colorful mushrooms and reeling off such a long string of names?
Mei Er blinked, looking a little surprised himself. "Is that hard?"
"Would you fail to recognize a cabbage just because it became ten times bigger or three times smaller?"
His teammates were stunned again. "Is that even the same thing?"
"Of course it is." Mei Er was certain.
As he spoke, he walked over to a waist-high mushroom with a pale yellow cap and confidently took a huge