Chapter 14: I Am the 'Predator'!

The bat's high-pitched screech echoed as it swooped in from afar!

Perhaps this bat had only treated Jia Yan as an ordinary mosquito. So when it approached, it must have been surprised. The prey it intended to hunt turned out to be hundreds of times larger than typical prey!

"Perfect timing, I don't have a suitable opponent. You come, let's fight!"

Jia Yan vigorously flapped his wings in the air, making a 180-degree turn and charging head-on towards the bat!

His heart was filled with determination. This would be his heroic feat!

It was his first face-to-face battle with a predator.

Compared to grasshoppers and cicadas before, which were herbivores and had no attacking ability, killing them was not worth praising.

But this time, the culprit who had been chasing him several times was here—the bat!

Jia Yan had a deep-seated hatred for this type of natural enemy.

When he had just become a mosquito, he was terrified by a bat on the first night. Later, he dared not venture into the wilderness and stayed in human towns. Then, when he first came to this forest, he was chased by a bat, leaving him terrified. He had to use human ingenuity to lure the bat into crashing into a tree to escape.

Now, as a super-sized mosquito, if you still dare to come, do you think I'm easy to bully?

Jia Yan's eyes were filled with resentment. Of course, perhaps this bat didn't recognize him...

As the two creatures rapidly closed in, the bat on the other side finally seemed to realize that the familiar figure, growing larger and larger in its biological radar system, was getting closer and closer...

In the next moment, the bat desperately wanted to turn back!

It was almost startled. This mosquito was almost the same size as itself, with six long legs that looked much larger than any other creature it had encountered!

But by the time it moved, the distance between them was very close.

Without hesitation, Jia Yan's six long legs fiercely grabbed at the bat!

He heightened his attention because this bat was capable of attacking!

As expected, when the bat's front legs were just about to grab onto Jia Yan's body, it opened its mouth and bit down towards his legs!

The bat's teeth were sharp, and Jia Yan couldn't guarantee whether his slender leg exoskeleton could withstand its bite.

So he decisively withdrew his legs, but the four mid-legs and hind legs below instantly grabbed onto the bat's legs!

The time for the aerial confrontation was fleeting. Just as Jia Yan grabbed the bat's legs with his mid and hind legs, the two had already passed each other!

"Squeak!" The bat screamed fiercely in the night.

After grabbing the bat's legs, Jia Yan's long legs refused to let go. The four long legs firmly wrapped around the bat's legs, suspending it in mid-air!

Being dragged by Jia Yan for a moment, the bat's body immediately arched up, attempting to bite Jia Yan's legs with its teeth!

In that instant, Jia Yan decisively released his legs, allowing the bat to freefall.

The aerial combat was very brief, but in the final moment, Jia Yan increased his flying speed to about 70 kilometers per hour!

This extreme speed was enough to throw off any object!

And that was precisely what happened to the bat.

With a "thud" sound, due to inertia, the bat was smashed to the ground and kept tumbling, unable to stand up!

Clearly, it was injured!

Jia Yan's heart grew cold. After spinning once in the air, he flew towards the bat on the ground again!

"Squeak—"

The injured bat kept flapping on the ground, and its right wing was visibly twisted in a grotesque manner, clearly broken!

Jia Yan didn't care about all this. He flew directly above the bat's head, and the stinger on his abdomen protruded...

A sting!

"Squeak..."

The bat let out a miserable cry. Since Jia Yan attacked the struggling bat while flying, the sting wasn't very accurate, only piercing one of the bat's wings.

But that wing was instantly pierced through!

The bat let out a cry of pain, but its mouth reacted quickly, immediately biting down on the position where Jia Yan's stinger was about to retract!

"Oh no!" Jia Yan's heart skipped a beat.

He felt a severe pain coming from the sting.

The stinger was injured!

He quickly flapped his wings and flew upward.

The dark clouds in the sky grew thicker, indicating that a heavy rain was about to pour.

And under this terrible weather, the battle between a mosquito and a bat reached its climax!

Soaring into the sky, Jia Yan looked down and saw tooth marks on his stinger. Although his exoskeleton was slightly damaged, it wasn't a big deal. His stinger was the most heavily mutated organ on his body, capable of withstanding tests like these!

But he was still injured.

Jia Yan hovered in the air. Below, the bat with its wings damaged and legs injured crawled on the ground, facing the sky, staring at Jia Yan flying above, constantly gnashing its teeth.

It was threatening what it saw as a terrifying opponent.

Perhaps this bat didn't realize that even if it drove away its enemy, it would still meet a tragic end due to its injuries.

Or perhaps it would die from its injuries, or be eaten by other predators in the forest.

But Jia Yan wouldn't let it meet those two kinds of death!

He would take matters into his own hands and kill this bat!

The bat kept raising its head, showing its teeth, but there were moments of fatigue, just as it lowered its head!

Jia Yan quickly descended!

He didn't avoid the bat's sharp teeth with his long legs but pressed down heavily on the bat's head with his two front legs!

A tremendous resistance came, and the bat was about to turn its head and bite Jia Yan's approaching front legs!

Two legs weren't enough, so he used four!

Four weren't enough, so he used six!

All legs, press down hard!

Jia Yan pressed his entire body down!

In this moment, his inherent fierceness surfaced again. Although defeating his opponent severely wounded it, it was enough. But he still fought desperately, wanting to completely kill the enemy!

This was what fighting felt like—a thrilling and exhilarating experience!

Jia Yan had fallen in love with the feeling of life-and-death battles!

With all six long legs exerting a downward force, a burst of force hit the bat's head from above!

The bat opened its mouth, but at that moment, it was suppressed by Jia Yan's six long legs, unable to bite any part of Jia Yan!

"Sting!"

In that instant, Jia Yan's abdominal stinger plunged downward!

"Squeak!"

The bat suddenly erupted with intense force, using both its hands and feet to throw Jia Yan, who was pressing down on it, away!

Jia Yan crashed to the ground, causing several leaves to flutter into the air.

After a few seconds, Jia Yan crawled up from the ground.

He looked at the bat writhing on the ground.

He had just stabbed it with all his might, piercing through its chest. Its heart was probably ruptured.

Jia Yan watched for several seconds, and then the bat slowly stopped moving...

Perhaps, in its moment of death, it might regret how it provoked this peculiar "prey" before it.

"It's dead!"

Jia Yan remained silent for a moment, then staggered forward.

As a result of this battle, there were two not-so-serious bite marks on his sting, and he felt a slight sprain in one of his middle legs, which he couldn't use now.

It could be considered a pyrrhic victory.

"I'm still not strong enough. I won so brutally against just a bat, and I call myself powerful?"

"So, I need to become stronger! I must visit the factory of the Northeast Wild Tigers again and attempt a third mutation!"

"Otherwise, even if I live a few more years, I'll just be a gigantic mosquito hiding here and there, timid and fearful."

Jia Yan's confusion vanished completely, replaced by a determined look in his compound eyes.

He finally decided on the path he would take in the future!

He would start getting stronger!

Transform into a mosquito born for combat!

In the future, he wouldn't fear bats, birds, or even...

Not even humans?!

The somber haze in the sky finally brought down a few cold droplets toward the earth.

Raindrops, one by one.

Jia Yan bathed in these dripping raindrops, probing his mouthparts into the bat's abdomen.

He wanted blood!

This bat would become his first prey obtained through his own strength, by sucking its blood.

Due to his size, the likelihood of Jia Yan quietly feeding on blood in the future had greatly diminished. If he didn't want to truly inconvenience himself by sucking on plant juices, he would have to defeat opponents one by one, killing them or knocking them down, in order to feed on their blood.

His mouthpart was inserted into the bat's heart area, where the wound from his sting was pierced, and blood was constantly oozing out.

The proboscis didn't need to be inserted; it continuously sucked at the wound!

When there was no more blood, he pierced into the bat's body, trying to suck out all the blood into his abdomen!

How exhilarating!

Perhaps the bat's blood wasn't really that delicious.

But the taste of sucking the blood of the first prey he caught with his own hands would definitely be different.

"From now on, I am no longer the prey, but the predator!"

"I am no longer a weak creature. I want to become the strongest predator! The blood of any creature under the sky, I want to suck it. Even if it's lions or tigers, I will definitely suck it someday!"

"If they dare not let me suck, I'll beat them until they obediently let me suck!"

"But to achieve these goals, I must become stronger."

"Because I am a unique mosquito with a human soul. I have mutated to this extent now. Why should I continue to endure? Why can't I think of higher things? I was really foolish before. Isn't the purple-red liquid from the Northeast Wild Tigers' factory my great fortune!"

"I hope it can still allow me to continue mutating. Although the likelihood of this is not great, but... I must try!"

Rumble...

The raindrops in the sky, from the initial drizzle, instantly turned into pouring rain! The rice-sized raindrops fell down, hitting Jia Yan's now hardened exoskeleton, then slid down along his streamlined body, falling to the ground.

In the midst of the thunderous roar, a bolt of lightning, like a giant dragon tearing through the sky, ripped the sky apart!

Under the white light, in the land, there was a gigantic Chinese mosquito, with its two antennae pointing towards the sky. At its feet lay a bat, blackened by death. The corpse of death juxtaposed with the gigantic mosquito's body, under the white lightning, was eerie and terrifying...