The large mosquito's compound eyes gleamed faintly as it watched the supersonic fighter jet approaching from afar!
"Approaching the airspace above the coastal area of Yamanashi Prefecture. The giant mosquito monster is directly ahead. Shooting it down is child's play! Over!"
In the cockpits of two F-15J/DJ fighter jets, the leading pilot was a man in his early thirties with a square face. If anyone from the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force saw him, they would undoubtedly be astonished. He was none other than the legendary active-duty Japanese pilot, Eizo Komachi!
Eizo Komachi was assigned to the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force's Komatsu Air Base in the Central Defense Zone (a real location, don't take it as fiction). This defense zone covered a large area in central Japan, with over 100 aircraft, 12 radars, 2 anti-aircraft missile groups, and 40 Patriot missile launchers!
It's worth mentioning the "crazy" incidents in the Japanese military that Jia Yan mentioned before. There has always been tension among the Japanese navy, army, and air force. One of the most famous instances was during World War II when the navy and army were almost at odds, nearly erupting into civil war within Japan itself. Despite this internal conflict, they still managed to declare war on several major powers around the world and fought remarkably well, showing Japan's martial prowess.
This situation persisted to the present day. The Japanese military still had deep-seated tensions between its branches. Currently, it was the Ground Self-Defense Force that was leading the rescue operation on Mount Fuji, while the Maritime Self-Defense Force was naturally not involved. The Ground Self-Defense Force hadn't received any requests or tasks for rescue operations.
Therefore, upon receiving reports of the giant mosquito and seeing it on the radar, Komatsu Air Base immediately sprang into action!
This giant mosquito was formidable, wasn't it? Even the Self-Defense Forces on the ground had suffered losses to it. If they could take down this giant mosquito at Komatsu Air Base, wouldn't it be a slap in the face to the Ground Self-Defense Force?
That was the thinking of the high-ranking officials at Komatsu Air Base!
Moreover, knowing that this giant mosquito had previously escaped from the hands of a fighter pilot and even inflicted injuries, they prudently dispatched the leader of the 303rd Squadron from Komatsu Base as the lead pilot!
So now, one of the two F-15J/DJ fighter jets was the lead aircraft piloted by Komachi, while the other was piloted by a second lieutenant from the 303rd Squadron, who had an excellent record in training exercises, as the wingman!
The two jets formed the smallest combat formation and headed towards the giant mosquito!
Meanwhile, on Jia Yan's side, there was complete unpredictability. Firstly, he didn't anticipate that Japan would launch an attack during such a sensitive time, and secondly, he didn't expect to be confronted by two fighter jets this time!
"Should I bring this basket with me or not?" Jia Yan glanced at the basket he was holding.
The basket itself wasn't much, but it contained a lot of azure semi-liquid!
He wanted to take it to a safe place and study it carefully before deciding whether to ingest it.
Should he discard it now? It seemed a pity, but keeping it would affect his combat effectiveness!
He gazed at the semi-solid azure liquid in the basket with his compound eyes, contemplating.
This liquid still had the jelly-like appearance, as if enticing Jia Yan to ingest it quickly!
Jia Yan looked at the substance and made a determined decision!
"I've succeeded in taking risks so many times before, so this time, I'll trust my animal instincts once again!"
He plunged his mouthparts into the basket!
Due to his recent mutations, Jia Yan hadn't used his mouthparts for combat. Originally, such a crucial organ couldn't be used for fighting. Of course, this didn't mean that Jia Yan's mouthparts had weakened; in fact, quite the opposite!
At this moment, his mouthparts were as hard as iron.
With a swift motion, he pierced into the jelly-like substance!
"Huh!"
As his mouthparts pierced through, Jia Yan suddenly felt a very familiar sensation.
It was a feeling of merging with something foreign but somehow integral to himself, as if this azure liquid should be a part of his body!
The gleam in Jia Yan's eyes grew brighter!
Without hesitation, he unleashed his instinct and began to ingest!
Sizzle!
Despite being semi-solid, the azure liquid in the basket couldn't withstand the mutations Jia Yan had undergone through his ingestion organs. As long as it wasn't a solid, Jia Yan could completely absorb it!
Now, the azure liquid in the basket visibly diminished as Jia Yan continued to ingest it.
The more he ingested, the brighter the gleam in his eyes became.
His ingestion speed also increased, despite the basket being about thirty centimeters in diameter and containing quite a lot of azure semi-solid. In about ten seconds, Jia Yan had completely absorbed it!
Meanwhile, the two fighter jets were approaching within a kilometer of Jia Yan amid the deafening roar of their engines!
This was already a very close distance. For fighter jets traveling at supersonic speeds, it was almost instantaneous!
Yet, Jia Yan continued to plunge his mouthparts into the basket, fiercely sucking up the last drop of semi-solid azure liquid!
Sizzle!
The giant mosquito sucked up all the azure liquid in the basket!
Then, its abdomen swelled slightly.
In that instant, Jia Yan knew!
He had gambled correctly once again!
After absorbing the azure liquid into his body, Jia Yan could feel it reacting with the azure crystalline substance he had previously absorbed!
In mid-air, the giant mosquito's body seemed to emit a faint azure glow within those short few seconds, almost as if it was undergoing a subtle transformation...
However, this faint glow wasn't enough to catch the attention of the pilots in the jets.
Even Jia Yan himself wouldn't notice the subtle addition of a hint of blue to his otherwise black body if he didn't pay attention.
In the midst of battle, the two pilots in the fighter jets saw the giant mosquito floating in the air, seemingly unguarded against their rapidly approaching advanced aircraft!
Naturally, they didn't feel offended that the giant mosquito seemed to disregard them. After all, it was just a monster; who would get angry with a creature that likely lacked any intelligence!
So, Eizo Komachi, the lead pilot, immediately opened fire after signaling to his comrade!
The F-15J fighter jet was a highly distinctive combat aircraft, known for its effectiveness in dogfights and close-range attacks on enemy ground targets!
The F-15/DJ, modified by Japan, boasted even stronger close combat systems. Equipped with the famous M61 Vulcan Gatling gun from the United States, it was claimed to have overwhelmingly defeated China's latest fourth-generation prototype fighter, the J-20, in close combat. However, this claim was subject to debate.
Nevertheless, these two mature human fourth-generation fighters were engaging in close combat with a giant mosquito?
Even though it was only about two meters in size, even with its wings fully extended, covering an area of no more than four meters, the giant mosquito was now facing two massive creatures with wingspans of 13 meters and lengths of 19 meters respectively.
But the two aircraft in the air still opened fire first!
They didn't close in.
Because the precedent set by the previous aircraft was there. They couldn't afford to repeat the same mistake.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The powerful onboard cannon of the F-15J opened fire!
The deafening sound reverberated through the air, with tongues of fire rushing forth like a tsunami of death, shooting out one by one!
The giant mosquito remained still in place, seemingly startled by the sudden appearance of the two massive aircraft!
The pilots in the two aircraft both smiled. This giant mosquito was so foolish. The aircraft from the previous incident had been damaged by it. It seemed that the strength of the aircraft in that region wasn't much!
When seizing the "Senkaku Islands" in the future, they wouldn't need to worry too much about the aircraft from that region!
Thinking this way in the cockpit of the aircraft, Sukezō Komachi waited for the massive firepower of the cannon to tear apart the giant mosquito before him!
Boom! ——
The first cannon shell hit the body of the giant mosquito with pinpoint accuracy!
The figure of the giant mosquito was almost instantaneously thrown far away. Relative to the combat power of the giant mosquito, its weight of only a few dozen kilograms was simply too light. It was hit by the first cannon shell and, even before the second attack arrived, was thrown in an arc tens of meters away!
In that moment, neither of the two pilots saw the sudden burst of blue light on the body of the giant mosquito that had been hit by a shell.
"Captain, we got him!"
"Isn't it too hasty for us to come out together? This giant mosquito is nothing to fear at all!"
The two men in the aircraft celebrated together, and their two F-15J fighter jets, due to inertia, flew past this airspace!
Just as the two aircraft were about to turn around and observe the results of the battle ahead...
Buzzing...
A faint sound could be heard near the coastline.
Buzzing...
What was supposed to fall down to certain death, in the eyes of the two pilots, was the giant mosquito. But at this moment, it was glowing blue all over, without a single scratch, gently flapping its wings!
There was a strange color in Jia Yan's compound eyes.
He wasn't stunned just now, nor was he frightened by the two aircraft!
It was because he had consumed so much of the blue liquid that he felt something connecting in his body!
So he didn't make any evasive actions, waiting for the changes in his body to unfold!
The previous mutation of Jia Yan, in addition to the credit of the black liquid, was also because he had devoured the blue crystal.
And now, he had consumed so much blue liquid!
The previous blue crystal had added a strange blue substance to his body, which had saved his life several times in critical situations!
And now, after consuming the blue liquid, although Jia Yan had considered whether the two very similar substances would have any correlation, he had never expected that these two things would be so closely connected, as if they were one and the same substance!
The original order should have been to devour the semi-solid state blue liquid first and then merge with the blue crystal, which would have been smoother. But Jia Yan did the opposite!
He merged with the most difficult blue crystal first, and now it was the blue liquid!
These two substances complemented each other.
Because he had already merged with the blue crystal before, Jia Yan had already borne the pain of mutation, and his body had been waiting for the blue liquid to initiate the mutation!
Now that the blue liquid was in place...
He would undergo a mutation process without any pain at all!
In other words, he could completely fight while letting his body undergo a new mutation!
Looking at the two Japanese fighter jets turning away in the distance, the compound eyes of the giant mosquito glowed even more with a hint of blue light!
"Come on!" Jia Yan said coldly in his heart.