Chapter 18 Blood Mosquito

Jiang Yan also bought a batch of kerosene and alcohol while in Rich Country.

Besides being used as fuel and lighting, kerosene has many other uses.

The freezing point of alcohol is -117 degrees Celsius, making an alcohol burner a good choice in frigid weather.

Additionally, during her visits to these countries, she also stocked up on some common medications and acquired a thousand first aid kits, and bought twenty AEDs.

As for prescription drugs, like in her homeland, the control abroad was extremely strict.

She managed to buy some through certain channels, but the quantity was not large.

After bustling through several countries in quick succession, only a trifle of her originally over three billion was left in her account.

However, what needed to be bought, what could be bought, was more or less all purchased.

On the morning of July 6th, Jiang Yan, with the remaining two small targets in her card and a Space full of supplies, wearily boarded the flight back home.

*

As she stepped out of the cabin door, the scorching sunlight coupled with a wave of heat hit her face.

Jiang Yan slightly furrowed her brow.

Before returning to the country, she had checked the local weather. Just before disembarking, there had also been a report on local temperatures on the plane.

She was aware of the sudden rise in temperature in Anming over the past few days.

But she hadn't expected her own body temperature to feel much hotter than the forecast, much, much hotter.

Could it be that the natural disaster starting on August 8th was coming earlier...

A bad premonition rose within Jiang Yan.

"Miss, hello, welcome back to Anming. Please, this way!" As Jiang Yan descended the stairs, a young man dressed in a white shirt, black trousers, and white gloves warmly greeted her.

Since her mother sold the company, they hadn't employed a driver at home.

Being a super VIP of the airline, she normally had their car directly take her home every time she returned to the country.

This time was no exception.

The young man politely took the carry-on suitcase from her hands and only climbed into the driver's seat after she was settled in the business car.

The car soon left Anming International Airport, taking the bypass expressway.

"Miss, is the air conditioning temperature comfortable?" the young man asked softly while driving.

Jiang Yan muttered an affirmative, retracted her gaze, glanced at the dashboard, and furrowed her brow again.

Anming City was known for its pleasant four-season climate, like a perpetual spring city.

The hottest month was July.

But normally, the temperature in July would range from 18 to 25 degrees Celsius, very comfortable.

If one stood under a tree or in the shade, it would even feel chilly.

However, the external temperature displayed in the car was now 38 degrees.

This was clearly abnormal.

Suddenly remembering something, she took out her phone and opened the apocalyptic warning posts she had previously circulated on major websites.

As expected, several websites had already deleted her posts.

One website had even banned her anonymous account.

However, on one of the second-ranked national websites, there still lingered a post from when she was in Windmill Country.

The displayed IP address was naturally from Windmill Country.

After quickly scanning, most of the comments were in a joking tone, some quite harsh.

Mostly, people took her warning as merely a prank for more internet traffic.

[@Pretty Xiao Guo: The apocalypse is coming? Do I need to panic a bit? Roll eyes.jpg]

[@I'm Emperor, so give me money: Looking at the IP, it's not domestic. Be careful of ulterior motives!]

[@Ahahaha: Exactly! The experts haven't spoken yet! Some people in society are just very bad!! Don't believe it, let the blogger take a walk. You could predict the apocalypse, why not predict your exact date of death?]

[@Foot-scratching Man Loves to Slurp Noodles: Damn it, another mind-boggler, my stockpiled rice from years ago already has bugs!]

[@Half-cute Baby: Asking timidly, is my inability to sleep because of poverty related to this warning? If so, can I hold the blogger accountable for compensation?]

[@Three and a half inches of leg hair: The apocalypse is coming, I guess I won't have to pay my mortgage, car loan, and other debts, right? Dog head.jpg]

[@King Jiji who loves eating mangosteen: Wish the world peace, and the country flourishes! Pray.jpg]

[@Account has been cancelled: Only fools would believe...]

[@Snail House Sanlitun: Feels like the climate has been abnormal recently, thankfully my home's fridge and freezer are stocked, planning to buy a bit of everything. Got scared during the previous rush to buy vegetables...]

[@Taboo-Free Zhang Daming: Since it's like this, I'm driving my doomsday car off to hide in the deep mountains! And I'll bring my dog. Bared teeth.jpg]

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"Bang!!!"

Jiang Yan was engrossed in reading when a violent crash sound suddenly came from the front of the car.

At the same moment, "squeak—" the business car stopped abruptly, and Jiang Yan's body involuntarily lurched forward.

Fortunately, the business car had a large seat spacing and was equipped with seat belts, so she wasn't bumped on the head.

Plus, it was not rush hour; otherwise, the abrupt stop would surely have led to a rear-end collision.

Jiang Yan almost entered the Space within a second.

"Fuck! What the hell!!"

The driving young man couldn't help but curse softly, then quickly turned his head in apology, "I'm sorry, miss. I frightened you just now. You didn't hit your head, did you?"

As Jiang Yan replied, "It's nothing," but after looking at the windshield, she suddenly stiffened, "What is—"

At the upper right corner of the windshield, a large mass of bloody muck mixed with black jointed appendages clung tightly, and a red viscous fluid began to slowly trickle down the glass.

At first glance, it was a horrifying sight.

The appendages twitched slightly, then quickly drooped.

It was unclear what it was specifically.

"Snap!"

Eventually, the gooey mass slid down the window.

"Miss, I apologize, but could you please stay in the car for a moment? The car was struck by some strange insect. I'll go and check."

Saying this, the young man took off his sunglasses, exited the vehicle, set up a red warning triangle at the back of the car, and then hustled to the front, taking out his phone to take continuous snaps of the windshield and ground, and then made a call.

Since the young man drove a public car, if he couldn't ascertain that the responsibility wasn't his own, he had to bear the cost of any damage to the car.

Jiang Yan stared at the lingering bloodstain for a few seconds, then pulled out a medical face mask from her pocket, actually from the Space, and put it on before exiting the car.

The sun was too dazzling today; she was already wearing a hat and sunglasses, and now with the mask, she covered herself thoroughly.

Through the mask, she still smelled the strange tinge of blood in the stifling air.

The moment she clearly saw the "thing" on the ground, Jiang Yan's scalp tingled and her body instinctively stepped back several paces.

Because in the sticky red fluid, she distinctly saw the slender mouthparts unique to mosquitoes, along with shattered wings and several black legs with white spots!