Can someone fill me in on the story again? I still don't get why An Ze wants to find his s...

I'm not very good at explaining things but a mushrooms life purpose is to basically take care of its spore until it is ready to develop itself. I believe it explains this in the story which is the reason it's so important for him to get it back. What the spore does is not mentioned in the story yet and I don't want to say too much because it is a spoiler but I recommend just continuing the story to see how everything develops ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶

It's equivalent to losing your child in a sense

Can u spoil me?

Are u sure you want a spoiler? It'd spoil very major stuffs in the ending so....

Yeaaa i love being spoiled for sum reason

Haha okay then! Spoiler below
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An zhe (lil mushroom) sacrifices himself and dies toward the end. But his spore remains with Lu Feng and gradually grows, turning into a carbon copy of An Zhe (lil mushroom). The spore is basically his clone. And he gets reborn through his spore. Lu Feng had to wait for quite a long time though.

So his rebirth also had his soul and memories? Also can u explain the lore towards the earlier chapters bc I thought the spore belonged to an zhe friend who died at the beginning and how was an zhe able the clone his friend idk if im making sense but I just don’t understand the beginning. Also how long did leng feng wait for the rebirth?

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Oh no....I think you got everything messed up. Let me explain as best as I can. There's a lot of details but I'll try to give very simple explanations.

This is a world far into the future where one day the magnetic field of earth that protects our environment suddenly disappears. UV and cosmic rays start invading our planet, causing genetic mutations in other animals (mainly insects and other micro-organisms). These dangerous mutants are able to infect human beings and transform them into brainless beasts (xenogeneic). Think of them as viruses who infect people immediately in contact of blood.

Just to be clear, mutants and xenogeneics (human beings who get infected and transform into mutants) do not have any conscience or ability to think like a human being left. Their intelligence level turns into just like an insect's (in most cases).

Except for Lil Mushroom, who is our main character of the story. He is, as his name suggests, actually a mushroom (fungi). He was growing in the abyss, in his own world.

Abyss is the outside world, or more like the uninhabited areas of the world. If you have watched AOT, think of this as people/societies living inside walls (human base) in extreme quarantine and scientific protections while the outside world (abyss) roams with dangerous mutants and forests.

This is where the story starts: An zhe, a young man, goes into the abyss with his fellow "friend". There he gets brutally attacked by a mutant beast. His friend ditches him right at the spot and runs for his life without trying to save An zhe. An zhe was already at the verge of dying but thankfully he was in the area where Lil mushroom was growing.

Lil mushroom starts feeding on An zhe's bleeding body and somehow gains it's own "human conscience". This is a very important point of the story which might feel a little complicated but let me try to explain.

This incident is never heard of before because it's usually brainless mutants infecting people and turning them into brainless mush as well. Not the other way around where an organism (lil mushroom) comes in contact with a human being (An zhe) and gains "human conscience". In a way, in this case, Lil mushroom (a fungi) got infected by a human being.

After gaining the ability to think like a person, Lil mushroom tries to stop An zhe's bleeding and save him. But An zhe tells him that it's no use. He has already been wounded and infected. He is a xenogenic now. It's over for him as the human base only allows pure human beings to enter.

Hearing the word "human base", Lil mushroom suddenly becomes desperate. He tells An zhe that he has to go to the human base cause someone from there stole his spore (as ya'll already know, it was Lu Feng).

An zhe warns him to never go there as Lil mushroom will immediately be killed. But Lil mushroom tells him that reviving his spore is the only purpose left in his life. An zhe still warns him, offers Lil mushroom to completely feed on his body and leaves him his human base id cards as he passes away. Lil mushroom slowly takes over An zhe's dead body and basically turns into a human being. With the help of An zhe's id cards and An zhe's body, he manages to enter the human base.

Please note that Lil mushroom is his OWN person with his own conscience and personality. An zhe and him are two SEPERATE individuals even though they share the same body. An zhe is already dead and done with. He never gets reborn. Lil mushroom gains human conscience and takes over An zhe's body. This is Lil mushroom's story, a fungi who got infected and turned into a human.

As this was a reverse case, he is unable to infect another human being in any way, unlike other xenogeneics or mutants.

I'm sorry to ask more questions after you explained all this but is there a reason why Lu Feng didn't kill An Zhe(lil mush) when he saw him at the entrance gate of their base? I don't mind spoilers.

Okayy I think I get everything now cause the part in the beginning I didn’t know what the heck was going on for real, tysm for clearing everything up!

There was no exact reason ever given in the novel. It's up to the reader's interpretation. Probably the author's early way of showing Lu Feng's immediate attraction/weakness towards Lil mush?

Lu Feng is brutal as an arbiter. He probably has the highest kill counts in the history of arbiters. Very much the last person to hesitate shooting someone from a mere suspicion. Lil mush was genuinely an unique case. Despite suspecting him, Lu Feng didn’t kill him and sent him for the buffer period. Even the doctor got surprised! Lu Feng really wanted to give Lil mush the benefit of the doubt.