Little Mushroom: Chapters 10 - 12 (EN) or 21 - 24 (CH)

[x_los]

Welcome to Week 4's "Little Mushroom" (小蘑菇) discussion for English chapters 10 - 12 of Book 1 and Chinese chapters 21 - 24 (inclusive). This spreadsheet contains the schedule and concordances of the chapter endings across the Chinese and English versions. There's an associated Discord server (ask superborb for an invite if you'd like one), and we'll be running comment posts here.

This discussion will wrap up and next week's will begin on May 8th.

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SPOILER POLICY: I personally don't give a fuck or even like to give unearned credence to the concept, so since I'm writing the post, anything's fair game.

Comments

Chapter 12, EN

[x_los]

Wait, can he still get to the main city where they're holding his spore? I thought everything but outer District 6 shut down, basically?

Maybe that line about the inner city having a different security system means that's somewhere the book hasn't taken us yet, where An Zhe hasn't yet had occasion to go.

Why did they retreat to District 6 in preference to the inner city, then? Was it just closer?

Re: Chapter 12, EN

[superborb]

Main city was unaffected, right? The science guy wanted them to evacuate to there originally.

I wonder if we're about to get some class difference, if there's a higher security residential area than where everyone else gets to live.