Jia Yan felt himself shrouded by a massive black shadow.
He immediately disregarded the CHr-379 virus medication falling to the ground and somersaulted in mid-air!
Like a diver, he executed a perfect forward flip!
However, as a proficient nocturnal hunter, bats were naturally adept at their movements. A pair of claws almost instantly grabbed above Jia Yan's wings, narrowly missing his body as they brushed past him!
"It's still pursuing!" Jia Yan dodged two fatal attacks in a row, but this bat showed no signs of relenting, continuing its swift pursuit.
Jia Yan spotted a tree with a trunk the size of a bowl ahead and ruthlessly crashed into it!
Just as he was about to reach the trunk, he flapped his wings with all his might. Then, a tremendous gust of air emanated from between his wings, allowing him to dodge the tree trunk in an instant, bypassing it directly!
Meanwhile, the bat chasing from behind couldn't anticipate Jia Yan's move. Pursuing too eagerly, it ended up crashing into the tree trunk!
With a crisp 'thud', the impact was quite decisive!
The bat floundered on the ground, probably unable to get up for a while.
Seizing the opportunity, Jia Yan quickly flapped his wings and flew towards the darkness!
He hid behind a cluster of leaves.
The bat soon took flight again from the ground. Apparently disoriented from the collision with the tree, it flew oddly towards a thicket and disappeared from sight.
"Thank goodness it didn't think to seek revenge on me." Jia Yan cautiously flew out from behind the leaves, now even more vigilant.
Glancing behind him, he noticed that during his evasion, the capsule vial containing the CHr-379 virus medication had dropped somewhere on the ground...
"Forget it, I'll roughly remember this place and come back for it later!"
"Otherwise, searching on the ground now would not only risk encountering bats but also predators like frogs, which could lead to even more dangerous situations for me!"
Moreover, although the capsule-shaped vial wasn't large for humans, it was nearly the size of Jia Yan's mosquito body, and carrying it would only slow him down!
He could come back for it when needed or when he was ready to leave!
If it got damaged or taken away by animals in the forest, there was nothing he could do about it. He simply didn't have the capacity to take it with him now.
Jia Yan set off again.
This time, he progressed another one or two hundred meters.
There were no further dangers along the way!
As he oriented himself towards the direction of the moon in the sky and flew towards the estimated location in his mind.
Passing through a gap between two trees, Jia Yan suddenly felt something touch his front foot!
He was instantly stuck!
Oh no, it was a spider's web!
Jia Yan panicked internally and instinctively tried to struggle!
But in that instant, Jia Yan's human-like intelligence came into play.
"I can't struggle. The more I struggle, the tighter it'll get. Right now, only a small part of my front foot is stuck in the web. If I struggle, I'll end up completely entangled!"
Indeed, the situation was just as Jia Yan had analyzed. In the darkness, this large Chinese mosquito of his continuously beat its wings in the air, but the flapping wasn't vigorous. It was to ensure he remained suspended in the air!
His front foot accidentally got stuck at the edge of a spider web, causing it to vibrate. However, he remained calm and didn't choose to struggle but instead maintained balance and flew in the air!
"I'm only stuck in one part of the spider web. With my current strength, there's a chance I can free myself!"
"Fly with force in the opposite direction!"
Jia Yan flapped his wings, ensuring that the other parts of his body didn't get entangled in the web, and flew backward in the air in the opposite direction!
Instead of choosing to fly upward or forward, which would only worsen the situation.
A round-bodied orb-weaver spider, with a large abdomen, quickly crawled out from a leaf at the corner of the web!
It seemed to be the owner of this web!
This orb-weaver spider was not much smaller than Jia Yan, about 1.5 centimeters in length, but its body was sturdy, estimated to weigh three to five times that of Jia Yan.
Spiders on their webs could catch prey several times larger than themselves. Jia Yan believed that if he were firmly trapped in the web, he wouldn't escape the fate of becoming this orb-weaver spider's dinner.
"Hurry up!" He hastened his backward flight.
The strand of spider silk sticking to his front foot was violently stretched!
It looked like it could snap at any moment, but Jia Yan had no hope for that. One must know that the rigidity and elasticity of spider silk had been a challenge for human technology to mimic and overcome. If magnified to a certain extent, it would surpass any rope in the human world.
Instead of hoping the spider silk would snap, Jia Yan hoped that the part sticking to his front foot wasn't secure, and he put more effort into tearing it apart!
The orb-weaver spider moved swiftly. As Jia Yan desperately struggled backward, it was already close by!
Its cold eyes were fixed on Jia Yan's body.
What a big mosquito! It seemed like it could have a hearty meal!
Jia Yan seemed to read this message from its eyes.
The orb-weaver spider agilely climbed onto the strand of spider silk entangling Jia Yan and then extended its two forelegs, ready to grab Jia Yan's trapped front foot!
With almost the same instant, Jia Yan felt his body lighten, and he was flung backward!
His front foot had come loose from the sticky spider silk!
The orb-weaver spider on the web stared at its prey escaping with cold eyes. In its compound eyes, there was only a deep and chilling feeling.
Jia Yan didn't hesitate and swiftly flew in another direction!
"I was too careless. I must pay more attention to spider webs from now on! Even if it means slowing down, safety comes first."
He encouraged himself internally, reminding himself to be extremely cautious. The wilderness was too dangerous; one wrong move could lead to death!
There were too many dangers in the wilderness that he didn't yet understand, too many things that could kill him!
Of course, Jia Yan didn't underestimate himself. What he said before entering the forest about his advantages wasn't false.
His speed was indeed fast, his body was indeed strong. At least compared to ordinary mosquitoes, he was much, much more powerful!
And these weren't his greatest advantages now. His greatest advantage was having human intelligence!
Without human intelligence, he wouldn't have escaped the bat's pursuit just now or the crisis with the spider web. Could an ordinary mosquito use aerial maneuvers, anticipate a bat's movements, and then evade?
Facing the spider web was the same. A regular mosquito would struggle immediately upon getting stuck in a web, only to be tightly wrapped up more and more. In that case, it would only await becoming the orb-weaver spider's meal.
All these factors combined were Jia Yan's confidence!
"The two dangers just now happened in a very short time, giving the impression that the forest is indeed
too dangerous. But actually, it's because I'm still unfamiliar with the wilderness. Now, after experiencing these two dangers, as long as I learn from the experience, similar risks in the future will naturally be much smaller!"
"I can do it! As a mosquito capable of killing humans, I can definitely do it!"
Jia Yan pumped himself up!
He began to navigate around the spider webs in the forest.
Every time he heard the sound of flying creatures in the sky, he immediately took cover under the leaves...
Progress was smooth.
The dense forest area of Coolwater Town was a typical small forest zone in the northeast low mountain area, with abundant shrubbery and a variety of derived species.
And there were many predators.
Jia Yan slowly made his way through this dense forest. Compared to when he first entered the forest, he had slowed down a lot. Even though he might not cover a kilometer in an hour, this feeling was more reassuring. For him, the danger in the forest seemed to have decreased significantly.
"Another spider web ahead..."
After carefully avoiding a spider web, Jia Yan suddenly heard a distant, crisp chirping sound!
His heart skipped a beat, and he quickly looked up at the sky!
In the dark forest, it was difficult to see, but there was already a hint of light in the high sky.
Dawn was approaching!
"No, I have to find a hiding place quickly; otherwise, when daylight comes, there will be many more predators."
Thinking of daytime predators, Jia Yan's scalp tingled.
Although nocturnal creatures like bats were no longer active, there would be more birds like swallows and sparrows, as well as predatory insects like dragonflies and mantises. It would definitely be much more dangerous then!
Just as Jia Yan was anxious to find a hiding place!
He suddenly saw a large black creature appearing in his line of sight!
This large creature had fifteen segments all over its body, with each segment bearing long, slender legs. At first glance, it resembled a centipede, and from the appearance, this creature indeed shared similarities with centipedes, possessing the characteristics of an arthropod!
Jia Yan, an amateur enthusiast in zoology, identified this creature at first sight. It was indeed a close relative of centipedes, called a 'geophilid,' a poisonous arthropod!
Geophilids were quite common, and seeing them in the wild wasn't unusual.
But...
Seeing this geophilid, Jia Yan's compound eyes widened!
"Ordinary geophilids are about 25 millimeters in size, but this fellow is nearly 190 millimeters long! A geophilid over 19 centimeters long? That's too massive, it's completely illogical!"