Everyone felt a pang of melancholy. Their thoughts were tangled.
Fortunately, they were all strong-willed. Otherwise, just thinking about humanity's future would have been enough to drive them to despair.
Even a powerful Interstellar Fungi Civilization had become part of the Star Alliance, yet its people were still forced by circumstance to sell their own kind and live at the bottom of society.
Humanity did not even qualify for a place at the bottom.
The status of an Interstellar Civilization, which they had fought so desperately for and still could not obtain, was merely a ticket admitting a grown child into a society of brutal competition.
Once humanity left the greenhouse, it would have to protect itself.
After a moment of silence, An Lu Ban asked, "Then what's the point of eating these Moronic Fungi? They've been raised for five thousand years. Will eating them make us immortals?"
Huang Ji smiled. "Eat them? Could you digest them?"
"Of course not. The beneficial bacteria in the human body probably can't break them down at all." Luo Yan squeezed the fungus and found it hard and heavy.
Huang Ji said, "Eating it directly won't work, but I can refine it into a serum."
"This strain was grown in Earth's environment, so it must be suited to us."
"It's an exceptionally advanced medicinal ingredient. It stores energy with incredible efficiency, breaks down all kinds of substances, including heavy elements, and absorbs intense radiation."
"I can refine it into a fungal liquid that lives in symbiosis with humans. It would spread through every cell in our bodies and replace our microorganisms, helping us digest substances we otherwise couldn't."
"Because the symbiotic bond would be artificially imposed, they would die if we died. To survive, they would secrete the nutrients we need even if we