Jia Yan's compound eyes gleamed as he stared at the huge fireball below.
The F-15J was engulfed directly in the flames, and the enormous shockwave spread out, causing Jia Yan, who was hundreds of meters away, to retreat slightly!
Then, the aircraft in the air disintegrated into several pieces, and they fell towards the ground.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!
The ocean below was splashed with water sprays as the aircraft fragments crashed into it, creating waves as high as a person!
During this time, Jia Yan saw an ejection device activate, ejecting the pilot from the explosion, and then a parachute opened. However, since the aircraft was not high above the sea surface, the parachute barely reduced the speed, and the person crashed into the sea!
If a person falls freely, jumping into the water from a height of thirty meters, the hardness of the water's surface due to the inertia of the fall feels almost as hard as cement!
And the location where the pilot jumped from was far more than thirty meters!
So even if the person didn't die, they would be seriously injured.
Jia Yan didn't care about this person at all. His compound eyes were still glowing as he stared at the wreckage of the aircraft, and then the gleam in his eyes intensified!
"Nice! Last time, I barely managed to damage the F-15J aircraft in a head-on confrontation, without even the strength to fight back. But now, I can actually engage two Japanese aircraft head-on and make them all crash! My aerial combat skills have indeed improved a lot!"
Jia Yan felt exhilarated in his heart and couldn't help but exclaim in satisfaction!
Meanwhile, at the Komatsu Air Base in Japan, the command center was quiet.
The aerial battle just now could actually be roughly observed on the monitoring radar here.
That giant mosquito had actually shot down two pilots from the Komatsu Air Base successively! It was worth noting that these two individuals were not only highly skilled pilots from the Komatsu Air Base, but Komachi Eizo had several combat experiences. Yet, they couldn't handle a giant mosquito alone!
This...
The senior officials of the Komatsu Air Base, standing behind the liaison officer, and the highest-ranking officer in charge, Susa Masakatsu, were trembling rapidly, as if they had just experienced a nightmare. He even jumped up!
"Quick! Send out rescue aircraft. Also, urgently gather twenty pilots. Equip them all with weapons and send them out to pursue this giant mosquito for me."
Finally, after the battle ended, he issued the command!
The entire air base immediately became busy!
Launching twenty fighter jets was no small matter. This had to be reported to multiple parties. Even the military base of the United States stationed in Japan had to be informed. Otherwise, others might think that you were sending out a combat group like this to bomb them.
There were also responsibilities for the battle-damaged aircraft, as well as reports to be filed upwards. These matters made Susa Masakatsu, the highest-ranking officer at the Komatsu base, feel unprecedentedly overwhelmed!
"This giant mosquito is unexpectedly difficult to deal with. If I had known, I wouldn't have sent out fighters to intercept it in the first place! This is just..." This person felt extremely frustrated. He thought he could earn some face for the Self-Defense Forces by exterminating the giant mosquito, but he didn't expect to suffer losses and come back with nothing but trouble!
It seemed that Susa Masakatsu's position might not last long!
Just as he was thinking about this, the liaison officer with an unpleasant expression approached and said, "The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department just called to question us. Why didn't we inform them in advance? Because the evacuation of the civilians wasn't carried out beforehand, and the small town where the fighter jet crashed just now suffered heavy casualties! They said they would definitely sue us in the parliament!"
Hearing this, Susa Masakatsu's facial muscles trembled even more vigorously!
He was defeated.
He had caused a storm in the upper echelons of Japan, and Jia Yan was completely unaware of it. Even if he knew, he would have ignored it!
But for the dozens of fighter jets that were coming to the rescue, they posed a significant threat!
However, the first thing on the giant mosquito's mind was, of course, to execute its original plan!
The tumultuous waves in the ocean continued to crash below.
And the crashed F-15J aircraft kept sinking and resurfacing amidst the waves.
It was already destroyed, broken into several pieces, but the main body was still on the largest wreckage.
Jia Yan looked at the aircraft and then his compound eyes flickered with light, flying directly downwards!
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!!
Even before approaching the wreckage of the aircraft, the fluid on his body emitted a sound like a person who had been hungry for a long time, eager to feast, making random noises!
Then, Jia Yan stepped on the wreckage of the aircraft!
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!!
The fluids, seemingly unable to enjoy their feast, rushed downwards, and Jia Yan quietly felt that these fluids seemed like laborers, rapidly decomposing the metal of the aircraft below and swiftly breaking down the substances inside, transporting them into his body!
Then, he started to feel a bit itchy. Although the pain was still some distance away, it was indeed an uncomfortable feeling!
"So this is how my mutation process works! No wonder I experienced intense pain during previous mutations. After all, this is a complete change in the body, involving changes in some fundamental biological aspects!"
Jia Yan looked at his body rapidly "filling up," and there were layers upon layers of the mysterious fluid being secreted. His body was gaining weight.
Due to his previous ingestion of the mysterious azure crystal, his body seemed to have been developed, and the cellular matter was waiting to be supplemented. Therefore, this time, he didn't feel much pain, at least compared to before. Jia Yan could observe his "mutation" process relatively calmly!
Jia Yan found that the tissue secreted by his body was not just devouring metal. Although metal was the main target, it also selectively integrated other substances from the aircraft.
What surprised him the most was that these fluids even absorbed seawater!
Through a "path" composed of a clot of fluid, the seawater beneath his feet was absorbed into his body. Then, Jia Yan's body swelled up like a balloon, rapidly expanding!
The seawater, metal, and some other substances from the aircraft went through a mysterious process of decomposition and reorganization by the clots, initiating another round of mutation in Jia Yan's body...
Soon, Jia Yan's body seemed to be enveloped by a sticky substance.
This substance was none other than the semi-solid clotted tissue!
The compound eyes of the giant mosquito were also submerged in the clots, though it was unclear to what depth.
Jia Yan could only sense that his swallowing action had ended! What was changing now were the internal organs within his body!
"This sensation feels like the internal organs in my body... are dissolving!"
Jia Yan finally felt pain! He first felt that certain parts of his body were rapidly decomposing. This process was certainly not comfortable, and during decomposition, it seemed that his body would also produce some simple substitute organs. These substitutes would temporarily replace the decomposed internal organs, ensuring that his bodily functions were not greatly affected!
"What is the principle behind this? Could there be a machine controlling these changes inside my body?"
Jia Yan trembled slightly, thinking of this terrifying idea!
While he had endured the pain of previous mutations, this time, due to a decrease in pain intensity, he pondered much more!
Because he was experiencing the process of bodily changes, Jia Yan suddenly felt some fear towards the miraculous series of changes within his body!
Everything seemed so perfect. It was as if there was indeed some kind of intelligence guiding the mutation process, which didn't seem like something ordinary!
So what exactly was going on?! Was there really something in the dark controlling everything? Could it even control the mutation process?
"Impossible!"
Jia Yan immediately pushed this eerie thought out of his mind!
His mutations involved too much unpredictability and irregularity!
Just like the first mutation, there was nothing around him except the train carriage, and the only thing he had swallowed was the purple-red liquid!
The subsequent black liquid, mysterious fluids, and now the deep blue crystals and semi-solid substances—these different substances appeared in different scenarios, swallowing different materials, and even his body's condition was different each time!
After much thought, Jia Yan finally came up with a possibility!
That is—biological self-evolution!
"I remember reading some books and news before, all saying that insects have the strongest evolutionary ability among living organisms. They are also the organisms most suited for evolutionary receptors. The most typical example is a news program that mentioned a factory nearby. Due to environmental pollution, the surrounding trees were contaminated with black color. A species of insects that relied on those trees for survival originally had green as their protective color. However, because the trees were contaminated with black, within a few years, their descendants evolved into a black species. The entire earth could no longer find their color counterparts, which shows just how strong the evolutionary ability of insects is!"
"And as for me, it should be because I have intelligence. After swallowing these substances that promote mutation, according to my own biological instincts, I underwent rapid evolution!"
"That's right! It's all thanks to the incredibly strong evolutionary ability of insects!"
"The most typical example is when I swallowed the black liquid. Because I was constantly being battered, the mutation process that should have increased my body size was forcibly interrupted, turning into enhanced defense instead! Even after that, I found that I could actually defend against bullets!"
The more Jia Yan analyzed, the more he arrived at a conclusion that he could accept. In reality, this was the only explanation for why he underwent random mutations but always ended up with favorable outcomes!
"As for those other insects and bugs, because they lack intelligence, their biological instincts for evolution are far lower than mine, which makes them unable to endure the mutations. Even if some of them undergo the first mutation due to luck or special circumstances, they would not be able to undergo a second mutation!"