Charles Liu

The fungus is just a fungus.

Right?

There are fungus... He's trying to make more fungi.

It's a fungus among us.

There is nothing of evil stuff.

But what happens when humans are now threatened as a species by the fungus?

You find out we humans do monstrous things like kill and oppress and push away and isolate and so forth because we are afraid...

of what we have created from the global warming and from the natural reaction of nature, fungus, evolving to thrive in what we create.

For whom the bell tolls.

Absolutely.

Nowadays, right, we can't see these things, these biological monsters.

They're microscopic, right?

Unlike the macroscopic ones.

They're smaller than we are rather than bigger.

So they sneak in.

And they are as unknown and as unknowable as ghosts and spirits and so forth.

So it's the frightening part of it is that what we don't understand and what we don't know.

This has been true for all monsters throughout all of history.

But they were not... They had been co-opted by interstellar or non-human spores.

So instead of a fungus that had evolved from our earth, they had dropped in from somewhere in space.