"Indeed! My flying speed has been greatly enhanced since the last mutation!"
Flying high in the sky until he could see the city lights in the distance, Jia Yan's compound eyes lit up as he turned away from the city he once visited.
The city in front of him was very familiar, it was the recently popular border town called Tumen that was making waves on the internet!
The reason for its fame was the recent conflict between foreigners and the military, as well as the appearance of Jia Yan, the giant mosquito, who saved a human child!
Jia Yan also had sentiments about this place.
He had visited this city several times.
The first time he came, he was only a little over a centimeter in size.
Compared to now, his body length had reached over a meter! It had increased nearly a hundredfold in a short span of just over a month.
This made Jia Yan couldn't help but sigh at the changes.
Of course, these were good changes. Compared to when he had to take a train or even a taxi to get to Liangshui Town, now he didn't even know how many times faster he was!
Wherever he wanted to go, he could fly there on his own with a flap of his wings.
Even the speed of the taxis on the ground couldn't compare to him!
If he didn't need to rest during the journey, his endurance and flying speed would even surpass the high-speed trains in Huaxia!
Only civil aircraft could be faster than him.
Jia Yan deliberately avoided human settlements.
Then he headed back to the cave!
"Although the mutation was successful, the temperature here is dropping again, and it may drop to around zero degrees in a while!"
Jia Yan felt the temperature in the sky beside him. By now, he was flying at an altitude of about two hundred meters.
He had to fly this high because his body was now large enough, with his wingspan reaching about three meters. If he didn't fly this high, he would easily be noticed by humans.
Flying this high, even if he was seen, humans would most likely mistake him for some kind of giant bird.
But the downside was that the temperature in the high altitude was much lower than on the ground!
"It's probably around minus two or three degrees. Fortunately, even though I still feel cold after the last mutation, my body functions haven't been affected at all. There hasn't even been any stiffness, which may be due to the mysterious liquid still present in my body!"
Jia Yan could feel that there was still a certain amount of mysterious liquid in his body, which not only allowed him to undergo mutation and enlargement but also served as highly efficient food.
The energy source in his body now was the mysterious liquid left over from the mutation.
As for the black liquid, it was probably consumed long ago during the mutation.
"Although I can withstand the current cold, if the temperature on the ground drops below zero, flying would be at least ten degrees below zero. The winter here is still dangerous for me, at least it won't be very comfortable. Regardless of whether I have the ability to endure it, for safety reasons, I should choose to leave the north!"
Thinking of this, Jia Yan spread his wings and flew back to the cave.
After all, he had already obtained everything he wanted from the factory and the underground world...
"Hmm!? Wait, what about that azure crystal! I don't seem to have seen it just now!"
Thinking of what he had obtained, Jia Yan suddenly realized something!
In the factory and the underground world, what he wanted to get was the black liquid and the mysterious liquid. During the battle in the underground world, he not only got these two things as he wished but also killed the Japanese monster Hengtianjiang and snatched the azure crystal from him!
Because it was something he accidentally obtained, and he had always thought that he wouldn't need it for the time being, he didn't pay much attention to where it was.
Instead of thinking about the dangerous moments, Jia Yan flew out of the cave and tried flying again.
But now that he had come to his senses, he realized that he hadn't seen the azure crystal before!
A sudden thought flashed through Jia Yan's mind, but as soon as it appeared, he dismissed it himself!
"It shouldn't have been assimilated by me. Let's go back and check. It must be somewhere."
With his thoughts racing, the place where the cave was located was already in front of him.
Jia Yan immediately lowered his altitude, and then his body folded its wings...
Swiftly, he flew back and landed in the cave!
"Sure enough, it's not here!"
The first thing he did upon landing was to search for the pocket containing the azure crystal, only to find that there was nothing inside!
Looking around, he saw the laptop and computer peripherals neatly placed in the corner.
He couldn't help but look down at his own body.
"Oh well, I thought it was just a fusion of some stones and metal exoskeletons, but I didn't expect even that dangerous azure crystal to be assimilated into my body!"
"How many miscellaneous things does this body have to assimilate before it's enough!"
Jia Yan shook his head helplessly.
But what exactly was the azure crystal?
He was puzzled. When he saw the azure crystal, he had a biological instinct that it was something both dangerous and extremely beneficial.
But if he had really assimilated the azure crystal into his body, why didn't he feel anything?
"No! If it were dangerous and painful, maybe I've already endured it."
Thinking of the intense pain during the mutation, Jia Yan finally understood that it was not simply the result of mixing the mysterious liquid and the black liquid, but also because his body had absorbed the azure crystal at that time!
"It seems that it was swallowed by me. Fortunately, I endured that kind of pain and near-death state, otherwise, I would just be a corpse now..."
Recalling it made Jia Yan shudder. No wonder he was almost fainting from the pain the other day.
Originally, as a human who had undergone several mutations, he should have developed some resistance to similar pains, but the other day he still couldn't bear it.
It turned out that it was because the coagulant absorbed the azure crystal into his body!
Jia Yan still had memories of his body exploding constantly at that time...
If he were still human, just recalling it would probably make his face pale.
It was really dangerous!
"Don't think about so many dangerous aspects. After all, I've already endured them."
"Since there's nothing worth staying here for anymore, let's leave. Maybe the factory has stopped production by now. Even if it hasn't, with so many troops there, it's not a place I can go and be reckless anymore!"
Thinking of the day before, when he escaped from the hail of bullets, Jia Yan felt another wave of fear.
If there had been a bullet that broke through the defense of the metal exoskeleton and hit him in the wings or elsewhere, he would have had to wait to be captured and then taken away for experiments.
"It's too early to leave now. After all, it's not long since the evening passed, and there are still many pedestrians on the road. It's better to wait until later for a long-distance flight!"
Jia Yan opened his laptop, wanting to check the trends on the internet. After all, he was now considered a minor internet celebrity. He wanted to see how humans were currently discussing him.
However, it had been many days since he last saved the girl, so the hype should have died down by now.
"Hmm?"
But when Jia Yan opened certain large forums, he suddenly found that there were even more posts discussing this 'giant mosquito' himself!
"What's going on?" Jia Yan was surprised. Although he had been seen by hundreds of soldiers from the Huaxia ** Brigade the other day, that was after all the military, and it concerned the factory and the underground world. The military shouldn't have leaked this information!
Then he discovered that the posts were referencing another post and video that had already been censored.
Although Jia Yan couldn't see that post anymore, from the descriptions, he knew that the people who posted the video not only witnessed his breakthrough of the military, but even captured it on film!
But before Jia Yan could be surprised again by the attention from humans, another topic dominated more sections of the forums, which left him utterly shocked!
"What? Six-legged creatures attacking Liangshui Town! This... this! Could it be the three two-meter-tall giant monsters from the underground world? Weren't they supposed to be completely immobile?"
Seeing these posts, Jia Yan was instantly astonished!
Upon careful examination of related news, he discovered that although there were relatively few posts about him, the internet was flooded with posts and articles about the sudden appearance of these 'six-legged giant monsters'!
Even major websites had special pages inviting professional biologists to discuss these giant monsters that had attacked human towns.
"So, these monsters woke up shortly after I left the surface world, and attacked the soldiers who had come down to the underground world!"