You decide to stay here longer and learn more of the history that's stored in the great mycelium net. You learn that since time immemorial the great mushroom meta-mind has made contact with other mushroom beings throughout our galaxy, all of them decomposers on their respective planets. Somehow through the process of eating life, they become more than themselves. Does it have to do with life force? Does it have to do with distributed consciousness? You have to find out.