Little Mushroom: Judgment Day

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An Zhe lived in An Ze’s apartment and found a job at Boss Shaw’s studio to make real life dolls. This was one of the funniest part of the novel. Truly unforgettable! He even made a life sized doll of Lu Feng which saved him during an assassination attempt.

A lot of people dislike the writing style but I feel as though having such a simple way of translation gives room to experience more emotion. In a magical way I felt as if I was there right along with An Zhe. That’s the best feeling :) Finalmente conocemos el origen de las continuas mutaciones, ya no solo de plantas y animales, sino también de toda materia del mundo, con explicaciones detalladas pero lenguaje simple para que hasta un hongo pueda comprenderlas. Volvemos con las batallas sangrientas, muerte de personajes queridos y bastante tensión para preguntar a cada momento ¿esto tendrá final feliz? Y afortunadamente sí, aunque primero toca sufrir a montones (mi consejo es tener pañuelos a la mano). Anzhe looked at him and didn't know what to say. He could finally only mutter the name of this young human. "An Ze?" readerz @Rilise @Regalia1896 @Raneday @Raizendeville @Rabbitanairy @Ryss @Rurella @Rucce @RoseColouredSin @Rainess09Reading Little Mushroom reminded me so much of reading Sha Po Lang and Can Ci Pin by Priest, since these novels required brain cells because of the complexity. This novel is a heavy Sci-Fi novel with a lot of science terms and it made me feel so dumb, but it's great! This has an apocalypse setting with mutated creatures rather than zombies. Humanity was about to go extinct and the desperation to survive is quite palpable throughout the novel. The story is heavy and emotional. I felt hopeless myself at one point, thinking how can they survive this world.

An Zhe lives in a world that is pretty much entirely hostile to all life forms. Except for him, since he is just a little mushroom that takes human form and begins exploring what there is left of humanity in this place. What he finds seems to be more than any little mushroom should have to deal with and then there's Lu Feng, who teases him, who could possibly kill him at a moment's notice, but doesn't. Lu Feng, who also protects him in his own way, who stole his spore and who's just weird in general. But An Zhe does grow closer to Lu Feng, seeing beyond the cold Judge exterior that keeps most other humans away. Theirs is a somewhat understated but nontheless moving romance. This book was voted the most popular danmei novel of 2020. It was in my tbr for a long time, but I was turned away by the blurb. My advice: don’t read the blurb. It was the most misleading blurb ever. It sounds like a fluffy sweet book about a mushroom looking for its spore and stumbling into love. But nothing could be further from the truth. This book is brutal. Destructive. Unrelentingly cruel. It’s about humankind’s losing fight for survival at the end of the world. In other words, this is the kind of scifi romance I always dream to read - a hopeless world where love blooms. An Zhe began life as a little mushroom. He tried to save an injured human, An Ze, but failed. In the end, he fed on An Ze’s body and absorbed his genes in the Abyss where it was his home and became a human that looked exactly like An Ze. He also inherited his memories, his ID card and his belongings. Due to his special property of being an inert mushroom, the other living mutant beings were not interested in him unless they fed on mushrooms. Although An Zhe looked 100% human, he was still a mushroom which possessed mycelium and could change form from human to white mycelium (soft white thread-like roots of a fungi). To humans, he was a heterogenous species.

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An Zhe looked at his ankle. This was a human limb that supported the skeleton, muscles and blood vessels. Joints could move but they weren't flexible due to the limitations of the skeleton. The stratum corneum formed the fingernails, smooth, round and transparent. The final product was degraded and took the sharp tip of an animal's claws. The synopsis is so vague and honestly sounded too weird for me to bother reading, but HOLY SMOKES am I so glad I did. Considering I've been neglecting my sleep and instead reading this for 8 hours straight and could not stop for the life of me. tbh i don't get the whole geomagnetic frequency thingy, but i'm here to read the story of my little mushroom and his hot colonel bf <3 There's a few points that don't quite make this book a 5 stars to me. Book two has a lot of science talk that I struggled to grasp as a non-science person. I was incredibly invested in the main pairing's relationship but although I liked their romance, it didn't feel "romantic" to me. The epilogue chapters were also a bit confusing to read in terms of writing style and I felt like they could have been developed more. But An Zhe's mutation goes undetected by Lu Feng's eyes, and so a tale of humans and xenogenics unfolds...

However, let Lu Feng think he was still alive in the wilderness. The Judge had seen too many deaths.” The highlight of this volume was the attention to the emotional development of An Zhe, who finally comes to terms with the fact that he isn't just a mushroom with a single-minded focus, but has formed attachments and has human-like wishes of his own, and can also be self-sacrificing. Though not exclusively, a lot of this development is centered on An Zhe's relationship with Lu Feng, and his place in the uncomparably lonely world of the Arbiter. There were two chapters in particular I have in mind that did this beautifully and memorably. I'm certain these will incentivize a re-read much sooner than I would originally intend. This is extraordinary, absolutely thrilling. The writing and descriptions had me gripped from the beginning.

An Zhe is determined to go to the human base to search for his spore, which had been harvested by humans. Once there, however, he faces the omnipresent risk of discovery and certain death as he tries to keep his non-human nature hidden from the Judges, whose responsibility is to inspect for and eliminate xenogenics like himself. And of all the Judges, Colonel Lu Feng is the most perceptive and merciless--as soon as he determines that someone is a xenogenic, he will execute that person on the spot. Fragments of knowledge unfolded in An Zhe's mind. After five seconds of conversion, he knew the pollution index meant the speed at which genes were transformed. Now genes were flowing into An Zhe through the human blood. i can guess though - there's only one scene in the entirety of little mushroom in which a character breaks down sobbing and it's our little mushroom protagonist an zhe. maybe to show how the non-human character was actually the most human of them all? i don't know, it feels like a stretch. and it led to me being disappointed and detached from the story. They might not have known each other for too long, nor did they have much experience interacting with each other, so compared to the relationships between other people, theirs really did not count for much. However, for the two of them, for a xenogenic and an Arbiter, there was nobody else who could be like the other party. Esta segunda parte consolida Little Mushroom como una historia compleja, intensa y hermosa, no solo sobre la tenacidad de la humanidad cuando el fin se acerca, también del afecto improbable entre un pequeño hongo y un humano entrenado para aniquilar, dos seres que en teoría nunca debieron ni conocerse, y sin embargo, se volvieron la existencia más importante para el otro, en un slow burn excelentemente construido.