129: Chapter 8: The View From a Kilometer High!
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This time, Jia Yan has truly made up his mind â heâs going to cross the ocean!
Moreover, heâs flying to the southern region of the Island of Wa!
Apart from the Ryukyu Islands and other Japanese islands, the nearest mainland of Wa is over a thousand kilometers away from Fujian Province!
This is nothing short of repeating last nightâs long flight!
Moreover, itâs likely he wonât encounter any islands that would allow Jia Yan to access the internet during his journey, so heâs essentially flying blind.
Taking extra detours would waste a lot of stamina.
In the vast sea, this task is several times more difficult!
âIn order to complete this nearly impossible task, I must be fully prepared.â
Jia Yan flies in the sky, continuously contemplating everything.
Those two assassins probably see Jia Yan as a human and have already taken a flight to the Wa Kingdom, hence their urgent call for help.
After all, if they had just wanted to inquire about Jia Yanâs family, a quick phone call should have sufficed!
Then they arranged a flight to the Wa Kingdom, calculating the time, they must have thought that when Jia Yan contacted them, he was already in Wa!
Of course, they could never have imagined that this âsenior,â had spent ten hours flying all the way from the north of Huaxia to the south!
He flew for such a long time to the south just to see Father Jia once.
And now, starting from Fujian Province, Jia Yan still has to cross the ocean using his own wings to reach them!
The risk is enormous.
Of course, this shouldnât be their most shocking discovery.
If these two knew Jia Yanâs true identity, the most shocking thing would be that Jia Yan is indeed a mosquito!
How could they have imagined that the being they kept calling âseniorâ is indeed a âbugâ, a mosquito monster!
Crossing the ocean is indeed very dangerous, so dangerous that Jia Yan has no confidence.
But he believes that with his flying speed, plus his stamina and willpower, as long as he doesnât encounter any storms, he should be able to reach there slowly!
After all, Wa is not far from Huaxia, and there are plenty of small islands along the way to rest on.
For this reason, Jia Yan even thought of a relatively correct route.
This route has many islands!
Starting from Fujian province, he would fly to the visible Bao Island, then from there, fly to the Ryukyu Islands, where many islands are visible, and then after that, flying northwards to the inland of Wa would be relatively simple.
This is Jia Yanâs basic plan.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
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âSqueak!â
As Jia Yan flew over a small village, his compound eyes moved slightly.
There were some soft grunts of domestic pigs below.
Hearing these sounds, Jia Yan didnât think much and immediately changed direction to head down!
Before long, the soft grunts of these pigs turned into squeals.
Despairing cries echoed all around!
Then, an incredibly large mosquito rose abruptly from the village, like a rocket launching into the sky!
Jia Yan had drunk a full belly of fresh blood.
Perhaps due to the mutation, the inherent ecological form of a mosquito, which can only suck one type of blood at a time, had been changed by Jia Yan!
This time he sucked the blood of five large domestic pigs, only then did he start to feel a bit satiated.
Normally, a mosquito sucking different types of blood could easily cause a rejection reaction, causing issues with their body.
In general, mosquitoes digest the previously ingested blood before they suck the blood of the next host.
Moreover, they do not have excretory organs.
Before feeding, they spit out a little of the remaining blood from their mouths!
However, Jia Yan had now broken the old ecological pattern of mosquitoes, not only does he digest food much faster, but his body no longer rejects different types of blood.
Even if the blood of different types coagulates in his abdomen, he can effectively absorb and convert it into nutrients!
This feeding was to ensure the necessary nutrients and energy!
The mysterious liquid initially remaining in his body after the mutation, had completely disappeared after last nightâs two-thousand-kilometer journey.
Now, if he needs to fly another two thousand kilometers, whether his body could handle it is one thing, but just considering the energy and nutrients in his body, heâs already running out!
So when Jia Yan heard the sounds of the pigs, he immediately went down to âdineâ without any hesitation!
He didnât target a single pig as the volume of blood it could offer would be insufficient to satisfy his current size.
So Jia Yan sucked from five pigs, with his sharp proboscis, he penetrated the pigsâ bodies and immediately started extracting the blood, they didnât have the slightest chance to resist!
Immediately, the piercing screams of five pigs sounded!
Luckily, Jia Yan was fast enough, disappearing before humans could respond to the noise!
It seemed like he hadnât been noticed!
âGood!
Having replenished my food and nutrients, Iâll continue flying towards the seaside!
The second long journey is about to start!â
As Jia Yan flapped his wings, after his experience of long flight last night, he felt a lot more at ease.
Through exercise and contemplation, his feeling of flying was different!
Now when Jia Yan extended his wings, there was a natural feeling in the midst of it all!
After soaring to a height of over two hundred meters, he randomly twisted his wings at an angle, and his body transformed into a very expressive pose, spinning a few beautiful tricks in the sky!
Thud!
Then, with a fierce flap of his wings, he broke through the air and dashed forward!
Flying as he wished, Jia Yanâs flying ability had reached this level!
Zip!
Zip!
Zip!
Jia Yanâs current flight seems effortless, though he still exerts power, and the sour ache of exertion still persists.
But the overall feeling is different, and Jia Yan himself can sense this distinction.
In the past, he flew with all his might, just for the sake of flying!
Now, he has mastered various subtle flying techniques, completely transcending his initial state.
This, in his view, is what it truly means to fly!
Gradually, Jia Yan flies higher and higher!
With a body length of one meter and wingspan of about two meters, only large birds could possibly have these proportions.
During the day, who knows how many people can see Jia Yan from the ground.
Given this, Jia Yan is reluctant to fly too low.
He could easily become a subject studied through peoplesâ binoculars!
If he attracts attention from military aircraft, he could be in big trouble!
Furthermore, testing his ability to fly high may be advantageous for his ambitious plan to fly across the ocean!
Thus, he continues to rise in altitude!
Due to the warm southern weather, the high altitude doesnât feel too cold.
He ascends to approximately three hundred meters.
âThis is acceptable.
There hasnât been much change in the oxygen content of the air at this height!â Jia Yan makes a small comparison, feeling that thereâs the possibility to rise even further!
And so, he continues to ascend!
Four hundred meters!
Five hundred meters!
Six hundred meters!
The scenery below diminishes, buildings become mere dots, and trees are as small as grass.
Roads reach out to the horizon.
One thousand meters!!
High!
Extremely high!
All the scenery on the ground has changed, everything appearing toy-like â even forests and large mountains have been reduced to tiny objects!
In contrast, those on the ground have difficulty clearly seeing Jia Yan.
Trusting the safety of this height isnât reliable â itâs just that this is the highest he can manage for now.
Any higher, and all ambition would be in vain!
At an altitude of one thousand meters, the oxygen content in the air is reduced by 10%!
The temperature has also rapidly dropped around six degrees!
Heâs able to withstand the cold, but Jia Yan realizes that no matter how quickly he breathes, the sense of oxygen deficiency doesnât ease up at all.
He continues to breathe!
The evolved âbreathing musclesâ and the correspondingly evolved rough respiratory system seem a little overloaded at this point.
But Jia Yan persists at this height!
If he canât endure one thousand meters, how will he conquer the higher altitudes of two or three thousand meters in the future?
So, heâs striving to exercise his respiratory capabilities!
Moreover, heâs considering whether he can reduce his bodyâs dependence on oxygen through further evolution in the future?
Of course, these are all things for the future.
Right now, soaring in this high altitude, he experiences an extraordinary view.
Itâs a vast flat landscape.
A curve appears on the horizon, demonstrating the Earthâs roundness.
Of course, itâs not a significant curve, as one thousand meters still isnât high enough.
The view from one thousand meters high, however, is completely different from the ground!
The vast and beautiful scenery is refreshing.
Anyone who suddenly comes across this kind of view would undoubtedly experience awe and a shift in mood.
Of course, those afraid of heights better not look.
Just glancing downward from a thousand meters could induce dizziness.
Obviously, Jia Yan wonât get dizzy.
At this moment, heâs vigorously flapping his wings and observing the scenery in front of him!
âFly westward!â
The rising sun is behind him.
Comparing it to his direction, he knows where the west lies.
With this, he immediately flaps his wings and heads for the opposite side of the sunrise!
During the daytime, he can rely on closely monitoring the sun and following his intuition to generally avoid mistakes!
After about an hour of hard flying, vast mountains, forests, and cities pass under Jia Yan!
Eventually, a stretch of deep blue water appears within Jia Yanâs sightline!
âThe sea!â
Jia Yanâs eyes slightly tighten.
He has finally reached the seashore.
In just one hour, he has traversed an entire province to reach the coastline!
âYu Long, wait for me!
You dare break my fatherâs legs, Iâm heading to the Wa Kingdom for you right now!â
Jia Yanâs compound eyes flicker with a cold light, then his flying speed suddenly accelerates!
Meanwhile, in the Lands of Wa.
Here is a rocky beach where variously shaped black rocks can be seen everywhere.
This beach doesnât hold much touristic merit, and so is deserted.
However, at this moment, two blood-soaked men are curled up under a large rock on the beach, panting heavily.
Waves steadily lap against the rocks on the shore, soaking the lower bodies of the two men.
However, they carry on as if oblivious, lying there as if on the verge of death!
However, these two arenât actually about to die.
The current desperate situation would still take a bit more to completely overcome themâŠ
To be continuedâŠ
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