"Practice, not just theory! All research needs to be demonstrated in practical combat to be effective!"
Jia Yan suddenly spread his wings among the trees!
On that small tree, he had thought of several attacking and defensive moves.
In fact, focusing on some key points, these moves were easy to come up with.
First and foremost, he needed to flexibly use his elongated and incredibly hardened six legs!
In the natural world, no animal's legs have such exaggerated proportions as insects. One of Jia Yan's legs is about 0.5 times longer than his body, which is around ten centimeters. With all six legs spread out, covering an area of about twenty centimeters, it's not an exaggeration!
And among animals similar in size to him, which of their legs are as terrifying when spread out?
So these six elongated legs are the key points for defense and offense!
Of course, it should be difficult for the elongated legs to contribute much to attacks, so in terms of attack, the only things Jia Yan could think of now were two!
Firstly, the mouthparts. His mouthparts are elongated, and the mouth needle inside is extremely sharp! Moreover, it can also be shot out from the upper and lower jaws at the front of the mouthparts, piercing into the enemy's body!
Of course, there is a bit of danger here, that is, the hardness of the mouth needle may not be absolute. If it accidentally pierces the enemy's bones, then his mouth needle might not necessarily remain intact.
As for the upper and lower jaws inside the mouthparts, although they have been greatly reinforced at this point, they are still relatively small. It's hard for them to help much in direct combat with enemies.
The mouth needle is one attack point, so next is an organ developed after the second mutation!
That is the tail organ located in the abdomen!
Originally, a mosquito's tail organ was only for mating, but the males of mosquitoes have a hard object similar to pincers wrapped around the organ. When not in use, it is completely 'clamped'. Now, after mutation, this organ has been greatly reinforced. Perhaps it's the nature of living beings, or maybe it's for reproduction. So the enhancement here is unexpectedly the greatest throughout the whole body.
That 'pincer' has mutated into a firmly pointed needle!
Extremely hard!
Anyway, Jia Yan felt that he might not necessarily need this part in the future. It just happened to mutate into a needle shape, so he would use it to sting targets like bees!
But this is a genital organ. I wonder if there will be any feelings when 'inserting' into the target...
Is it refreshing? Or spicy?
Ahem... That's enough thinking.
After flying up, Jia Yan looked around with his compound eyes.
He found that his compound eyes had also been greatly improved. Previously, things that were several tens of meters away couldn't be seen clearly, but now things around one or two hundred meters away could still be seen with a vague outline.
Anything further was just light and shadow effects, but it's certainly much better than before.
"Let's choose it!"
Jia Yan found his first prey!
On the verdant grass, a greenish large grasshopper was crawling on the grass leaves, happily chewing on tender grass.
This grasshopper had reached a length of three centimeters, which wasn't considered small, but compared to Jia Yan now, it was just a tiny creature!
Moreover, grasshoppers don't have much attack capability, so it was a good choice as the first training target.
Jia Yan flew over.
When the grasshopper sensed something approaching, it became alert.
Its body crouched slightly, ready to spring up in case of any emergency.
But it never expected that the creature approaching it would have such elongated legs!
When Jia Yan was about ten centimeters away from the grasshopper, a pair of front legs suddenly extended out!
Startled, the grasshopper's crouched body was about to spring up!
But it couldn't possibly anticipate that the creature approaching it would have legs even longer than its own body!
At the moment it jumped, those elongated legs had already reached out.
From a distant distance, they directly pressed onto the grasshopper's body!
Snap!
The grasshopper bounced, but the immense force of the elongated legs suppressed it back onto the grass blades.
At the same time, the other two elongated legs of the creature also reached out, helping the first two elongated legs, firmly trapping the grasshopper!
The grasshopper struggled desperately, its legs shaking the leaf under it vigorously.
However, its body had been suppressed by the creature, and no matter how hard it struggled, it was futile under the aerial assault, carried out by Jia Yan.
"Very good!" Jia Yan looked at the grasshopper being suppressed by his four elongated legs, and his heart was filled with determination...
Stab!
He exerted force from his abdomen and fiercely stabbed the grasshopper with the tail needle!
Crunch!
The sharp tail needle pierced into the grasshopper's body, and a weird moan seemed to emanate from the grasshopper's mouth, although that might just be Jia Yan's imagination.
At the same time, Jia Yan felt a strange sensation coming from his tail. This sensation almost made him release the grasshopper's body.
Indeed... inserting into the target's body with this 'genital' tail would produce some kind of sensation...
As for whether it's refreshing or spicy, let's not go into that. Our pure little mosquito feels a bit shy. Ahem!
The sharp tail needle pierced into the grasshopper's body. Despite its hard exoskeleton, the grasshopper's abdomen was pierced completely through by the tail needle under the powerful thrust!
"Very good!"
Jia Yan felt clear-headed. He released the suppression of the grasshopper with his four elongated legs.
But by this time, the grasshopper was already in a dying state. It dropped onto the grass, its legs twitching continuously but futilely.
Jia Yan continued to fly up.
Mosquitoes are not carnivorous animals, although he wanted to change his diet, he didn't dare to try eating grasshopper meat for now.
At least, the sensation of his mutated body didn't show any interest in meat. As for whether he would develop into eating meat in the future, that's hard to say.
He was purely training his combat abilities!
After being hunted by predators for so long, he wanted to have the ability to defend himself!
"A grasshopper that's completely defenseless is not enough!"
Jia Yan flapped his wings in the air, looking a bit reckless!
"Cicada――Cicada――"
Just as Jia Yan was searching for another suitable training target, a vexing noise suddenly came from his auditory organs.
This noise was incessant and echoed throughout the mountains and forests every day!
"Cicadas?"
Jia Yan's heart moved.
"The outer shell of cicadas is extremely hard. Let me try. If I can kill a cicada, then my combat power now can be considered quite terrifying!"
Following the sound, Jia Yan flapped his wings and flew over.
On the trunk of a tree more than ten meters high not far away, a black creature with a thick shell
was perched there, emitting noise.
This was a creature familiar to humans, a cicada.
Its body length was not much different from the grasshopper from before, both being a little over three centimeters, but its weight and shell thickness were on a different level.
Cicadas have an extremely hard outer shell. Their sound-producing organs are located at the base of their abdomen, and they can contract up to ten thousand times per second, producing a loud chirping sound.
Their formidable defense is also why they are more 'arrogant' than grasshoppers.
Jia Yan quietly flew over.
The cicada was also very alert. When it sensed the approaching 'giant' Jia Yan, it suddenly took off.
Jia Yan wasn't dismayed, because the cicada's flight was just symbolic. After flying up, it immediately landed on another tree about ten meters away, showing that it didn't have much concern about this 'monster.'
Obviously, the cicada had judged incorrectly!
Jia Yan flew over again, this time being extremely cautious in his movements.
Getting closer!
The distance between them was fifty centimeters!
Jia Yan's wings behind him vibrated fiercely!
His speed soared to the limit!
As if diving down when hunting prey, he descended at a terrifying speed!
Snap!
In an instant, Jia Yan grabbed all six elongated legs onto the cicada's body!
"Hmm? The grip is quite firm!" Jia Yan immediately noticed that the resistance from the six elongated legs was extremely strong!
The cicada's strength was definitely not comparable to the grasshopper from before.
"Come down!" Jia Yan used all his strength with the six elongated legs!
Helplessly, the cicada, completely defenseless, was suddenly grabbed off the tree trunk by Jia Yan's elongated legs with a downward momentum and was caught in the middle of the six elongated legs!
In the next moment, Jia Yan controlled all his legs, maintaining flight while entangling the cicada from all directions with his six legs!
"So strong!"
The cicada's continuous struggling with its legs made it very difficult for Jia Yan to entangle it. Fortunately, his six elongated legs were long enough and had enough strength to completely suppress the cicada, preventing it from breaking free!
The cicada changed its strategy. It began to flap its two pairs of membranous wings frantically!
It's worth noting that cicadas' membranous wings are extremely large, not only covering a large area but also relatively terrifying in terms of strength.
"Not good!" Jia Yan felt a bit strained, not because his legs couldn't hold onto the prey, but because his balance in flight was being disrupted by the flapping wings of the cicada. Both creatures began to fall towards the ground.
"Die!" Jia Yan gave up trying to control the cicada with his legs and aimed his mouthparts at the cicada's head, then shot out his mouth needle from them!
He could be sure that his mouth needle was exceptionally powerful after the mutation, but he wasn't sure if it could pierce through the cicada's tough outer shell and directly penetrate its head.
Swoosh!
A crisp sound echoed in Jia Yan's auditory organs.
The cicada, with its body flapping, almost stopped struggling in an instant, and then its body began to twitch involuntarily...
Jia Yan knew he had succeeded!
His mouth needle could indeed pierce through the thick outer shell of the cicada's head and directly penetrate its brain, stirring its brain organ into a mess!
The cicada twitched and gradually lost its vitality.
"Very good! Both attacking methods have met my expectations beforehand!"
Jia Yan abandoned the lifeless cicada entangled by his elongated legs...
This cicada might be innocent, but isn't it normal for creatures in nature to be hunted and killed?
Survival of the fittest.
Even Jia Yan, who had killed humans before, wouldn't care too much about the life of this cicada. Don't blame him for being too cold-blooded. After becoming an extremely weak mosquito, if he still carried the kind-hearted mentality of protecting 'small animals' like humans, Jia Yan would have died countless times already!
Right now, he was just feeling elated!
"I finally have real offensive and defensive capabilities! Haha!"