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Fungi digest dinner from the outside

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Eating normally is for lesser organisms. These entities just secrete aggressive digestive chemicals into the world around them, waiting for complex matter to dissolve into a convenient sludge they can politely absorb.

Fungi digest dinner from the outside
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