Mental Network

Slime Mold was a creature skilled at designing complex transportation networks.

It could always intuitively find the best and shortest route between two points, forming a channel for material transfer and quickly transporting the nutrients it found back to the main body for storage.

In this regard, Mimi not only saved on route planning and design, labor, and effort, but also on the resources required for construction.

All she needed to do was mark the fixed points on the map. Around those points, the Tunneling Insects would automatically design the optimal routes.

The fixed points of the upper mycelial network were trees.

The fixed points of the middle network were living creatures.

The difference was that, as moving points, they could not form a connected material network.

But they could form a connected mental network.

The upper mycelial network was like planting a seed, ignoring it completely, and harvesting the fruit once the time came.

The middle network, however, required careful cultivation.

How could other creatures be incorporated into the insect colony system without assimilating them into a part of the insect swarm under Mimi's absolute control, thereby achieving cooperation and symbiosis between them?

This was the answer Mimi had found.

This was a small squirrel commonly seen in the forest. During the first three seasons of the year, before winter arrived, it would gather as much food as possible to survive the winter.

As usual, it was going through an ordinary day.

With its mouth stuffed full of various nuts, it happily ran through the forest on its way home.

The journey was not entirely safe and carefree. There were many predators in the forest, and it needed to avoid them.

But what was even more dangerous were its own kind.

As a young squirrel, it did not yet