"I absolutely cannot become an ordinary male mosquito! If I'm going to die after living for twenty days, what's the point of coming back to life once?"
Jia Yan still firmly believed in his original vision.
The biggest difference between male mosquitoes and female mosquitoes is that female mosquitoes have the habit of storing nutrients.
Their source of nutrients is precisely sucking animal blood!
Although this lifestyle annoys most animals. As the dominator of the Earth, humans even define mosquitoes as pests, but being able to make the dominant species of the Earth extremely wary is precisely the successful proof of female mosquitoes on the evolutionary path.
Apart from the blood-sucking that terrifies everyone, they can also live much longer compared to male mosquitoes.
Some can even survive the winter, with a lifespan of over a year!
But why can males with the same genes only live for less than a month?!
So Jia Yan firmly believed that as long as he also learned to store nutrients, he would definitely be able to live longer!
During the larval stage, it was this grayish-white organic matter. When the mosquito era came, he would also learn to suck blood, and even find out if the nutrients researched by humans were effective for his body!
Everything is for survival!
Living one more day is one more day!
Living one more hour is one more hour!
Survival! This is Jia Yan's another strong desire besides revenge!
"Bang! Make me stronger! Bang bang bang!" Jia Yan controlled his tiny body and crazily slammed against the cobblestones!
"Good! That itchy feeling is back! Keep hitting! I want this new exoskeleton to be even tougher! Hit it!!"
A sense of tenacity emerged in Jia Yan's heart. Regardless of the old skin peeling off his head, the newly grown skin was extremely tender, but he still kept hitting the surface of the cobblestones!
Bang!
Bang!!
Bang!!!
At a certain moment.
'Plop!' In Jia Yan's auditory organ composed of fluff, there seemed to be a faint sound of silk breaking.
His body felt light, and his entire body detached from the old skin.
The second molting was completed just like that!
"Very good, the effect of this exercise is even stronger. The newly grown exoskeleton is unexpectedly quite hard from the start!"
Feeling the strength of his body, Jia Yan was very happy.
But he didn't stop training.
Instead, he bounced his body and slammed into the cobblestones again!
"Just after molting, the growth potential is highest. I want it to be completely solidified when it grows up, even tougher."
The switch for Jia Yan to be ruthless to himself seemed to be completely turned on.
No madness, no success!
If you want to defy the heavens, you must be crazy.
Yes.
Without going crazy and being ruthless to oneself, nothing will change!
He completely ignored the new skin and the pain transmitted to his brain, just repeatedly hitting the cobblestones!
The pain was more than twice as intense as usual.
Jia Yan even felt some larval blood seeping out from the surface of the exoskeleton, but this blood quickly dissolved into the sewage, making it unclear.
Insect bleeding is rare because their blood is in deep-seated hemocoel organs and is not prone to bleeding.
So Jia Yan's larval body at this moment can be regarded as issuing the most severe warning!
Jia Yan paused slightly, but in his cold compound eyes, there was still a strong sense of refusal.
"I won't die so easily. This training torture won't kill me! Ah!!!!!"
He, con, tin, ued, to, hit!
After two molts, the larva continued to grow rapidly in the crevices of the small cobblestones!
Five days passed quickly.
The third molt, which should have come long ago, had not yet arrived after waiting for a long time.
But this is even better. At least Jia Yan thought it was a good thing. The more different from ordinary larvae, the more it meant that his method of self-training was not deviated.
The night passed, and the sunny day arrived.
A dark-colored larva slowly swam out of the nest formed by two cobblestones.
Its body was very large, at least larger than most larvae.
Its exoskeleton was marked with traces, and some places were even damaged.
But on these exoskeletons, there was a toughness that other larvae's exoskeletons didn't have.
Jia Yan controlled this strong larval body and suddenly bounced in the sewage!
His speed was already very fast, almost instantly, he swam several centimeters away.
Don't underestimate just a few centimeters. For a larva's body, it's like a human running a hundred meters in less than ten seconds, which is simply incredible!
Jia Yan's current way of swimming, compared to other larvae who can only instinctively move vertically up and down, is completely different.
Yes, he is no longer an ordinary larva.
"My body started itching yesterday, but the old skin shows no signs of shedding. It seems that I trained too harshly."
Jia Yan felt his body, which had undergone two molts. He now felt a little swollen, and the third molt that should have taken place yesterday still hadn't arrived.
Thud! Thud!
Jia Yan's speed was extremely fast. His way of swimming had already exceeded the category of ordinary larvae.
Compared to most larvae that can only swim vertically up and down, Jia Yan's bouncing body not only swims up and down faster but also moves left and right at almost the same speed.
This is just a slight change in posture that can be achieved. At least for Jia Yan, who has human intelligence, it is not a problem at all.
The bouncing method he started training from the beginning of his life has made his waist and abdominal strength extremely strong, which is the main reason for his fast speed.
"The third molt should be today. After this molt, I only need one more molt to metamorphose into a mosquito. Before that, I must reserve more nutrients!"
Jia Yan swam towards those grayish-white organic substances.
Perhaps it was because of the safety of these days that he forgot that there was a terrifying predator near his "home"!
Plop!
There was a sudden explosion in the water!
A figure that was extremely large relative to a larva sprang out from the soil, and in the blink of an eye, it shot towards the place where Jia Yan was!
The water scorpion's speed was too fast when hunting, so fast that ordinary larvae couldn't react at all!
But that didn't include Jia Yan!
After a moment of shock in his heart, Jia Yan immediately exerted his powerful waist and abdomen, and with a powerful leap, he narrowly escaped from the double hooks of the water scorpion's mouth!
Crack!
The hard double hooks hit Jia Yan's abdomen, but they didn't cause any harm.
The water scorpion seemed to be somewhat surprised. Seeing the little thing in front of it escape death, it changed its posture and prepared to attack again!
But before that, Jia Yan had already exerted all his abdominal strength and suddenly stretched his body! He escaped from this area of the water!
"So terrifying! I almost got eaten!"
Jia Yan was extremely frightened. Being attacked by a huge predator is definitely not an
enjoyable experience.
Compared to the body of the water scorpion, the larva is still too small. Even if Jia Yan trained to death, he couldn't fight it!
"I was careless this time. I must be careful next time!"
Jia Yan looked back and found that although the water scorpion had not caught any prey, it was not discouraged. Instead, it calmly sank back into the water.
It buried its body near the mud and continued to wait for prey to take the bait.
Jia Yan avoided that area and started to swallow the grayish-white organic matter nearby.
Although encountering danger, he couldn't hide like a turtle, otherwise, the efforts of these days would be in vain.
Just when Jia Yan was about ninety percent full, he suddenly felt extremely itchy all over his body!
"Hmm... it's time to molt!"
Itching is a precursor to molting!
Jia Yan quickly accelerated, carefully avoiding the area where the water scorpion was, and returned to the crevice formed by his own cobblestones.
Entering the crevice, the surface of the cobblestones inside was completely smooth, and the water plants had been completely worn away by Jia Yan's repeated hits these days.
The itching symptoms of Jia Yan's body became more intense!
"Why is it still painful! Isn't molting supposed to be very simple!"
Jia Yan waited for a while and found that no matter how he shook his body, the outer layer of old skin refused to crack, which made him panic.
"Yes, it should be because I trained too harshly. This new exoskeleton is already too hard. It's not like ordinary larvae, who can shed this layer of skin easily!"
Jia Yan forcibly calmed his mind and then looked at the smooth surface of the cobblestones...
Since the normal way doesn't work, I'll learn from snakes and rub against the stone surface!
He controlled his body to swim near the cobblestones, leaning against the stone surface, and constantly rubbing up and down!
Painful! But very comfortable!