196 The Training

"Pa!"

Jerry slapped himself. The jolt woke him up.

Of course, he wasn’t a masochist; he had a bug as big as two palms sucking his blood on his face. The slap crushed it into a mess of guts, and blood splattered all over his face.

The jungle’s insects were unusually huge, caused by some unknown reason. One speculation said that during the dinosaur era, the insects on Earth were unusually big as well. Their size had something to do with the amount of oxygen concentration in the air. Apparently, the thicker the oxygen concentration, the bigger the creatures’ size.

Jerry had learned of such knowledge in the books, but reality and theory were two different things!

For example, it might not cause much panic to happen across a mosquito that is the size of one’s finger in real life, but a mosquito that is 2 palms big, now that is hair-raisingly scary.