CH 2

IQ Crush! (unsure what 智商碾压 means, comment if you know!)

The sun shined brightly, and a few flower petals swirled slowly the clean river water.

Wen Zilong had been floating on such a river for quite some time, with his tail facing up, and his breathing tube on the tail was constantly inhaling air.

With his head down, the bristles of his mouth constantly flicked the water stream, thus swallowing many bacteria and microorganisms.

Wen Zilong was enjoying this slow pace of life.

He did not need to worry about food, clothing or even studying! All he needed to do was to open his mouth, and hope that it would aid him in his journey of evolution. It would not be an exaggeration to say that “Eat sleep repeat” was his new motto for this life of his.

It was like living as a fairy.

Wen Zilong even thought it would be great if he could live like this forever.

However, there was one thing that motivated him to quickly evolve.

This was because he always had a suspicion – that his death was not an accident.

Although it looked like a car accident, he always faintly felt that the car accident was not a coincidence.

Furthermore, he had to find out what had happened to his parents and his sister who was in the first year of high school after his accident.

These were all of his concerns.

So, he had to evolve into a real mosquito and fly back as soon as possible, to see his family, and to check if his death was truly an accident.

Two days passed quickly, as Wen Zilong led his leisurely life.

Two days later, Wen Zilong began to shed his skin for the first time.

Through Baidu in the system, he knew that the larva of a mosquito had to moult four times before it becomes a pupa.

Moulting was excruciatingly painful for him.

First, he had to wait for the skin on the surface of the body to harden slowly, and then use the two slender short legs that he had just grown to peel off the skin and force it out from the inside.

Wen Zilong faced many difficulties when moulting for the first time.

However, Wen Zilong who was a human in his previous life, and had twice the strength of other mosquitoes, got used to it extremely quickly.

The other larvae around him shed their skin after working tirelessly, and all laid listlessly on the water, just like after coming out of a warm bath.

After Wen Zilong finished shedding his skin, he also laid listlessly on the water.

But it wasn’t because he was moulting that it was too painful, but because he didn’t bother to move.

If he was uncomfortable and unable to sleep well, only then would he move to a better spot.

After moulting, he found that his body was a little longer than before, and now it has measured six millimetres.

Furthermore, his eyesight has increased a bit, and he could already see a big tree three meters from the river bank.

This made him a little bit pleased.

Throughout the next week, he shed his skin three more times, and

gained some understanding of the surroundings.

The current of the river was quite weak.

There were also hundreds of larvae around him.

Many stayed still, but the others moved around.

However, most avoided the river’s upstream, because there was a frog, which was only as big as a fist by human standards, looked like a giant from their point of view.

The frog squatted in the grass all day, exuding its domineering spirit.

All nearby larvae, as long as they are within half a meter of him, will become its snack.

When the frog occasionally visited the nearby river, Wen Zilong, with his vision beyond ordinary mosquitoes, would spot it early and hide in the water.

The other larvae, who did not have his vision, would be oblivious to the imminent danger and fall prey to the frog.

That afternoon, Wen Zilong came to the water again.

He watched around carefully for a while and found that the frog did not know where it went, and that was no danger around it.

Wen Zilong felt relieved, and faced his tail on the surface of the river, with his head down, devouring bacteria and microorganisms in the river.

If only I could spend the rest of my life living like this, he thought.

Gradually, as the sun was about to set, other larvae gradually surfaced.

About ten minutes later, the water surface was covered with the same species as Wen Zilong.

Suddenly, Wen Zilong, who was burying his head in the water and swallowing freely, suddenly heard a strange sound that was hardly audible.

Harbouring doubts, he lifted his head from the water and looked in the direction of the sound with his pair of compound eyes.

In the setting sun, two behemoths shaped like airplanes were flapping their wings and flying down towards the water.

Obviously, these are two dragonflies.

The dragonfly at the back, swept down towards a larva three meters beside Wen Zilong.

The larva did not have Wen Zilong’s vision, and it was hence impossible for it to spot the predator as early as he did. As a result, there was no reaction by the larva when it was caught by the dragonfly.

And the other dragonfly swept down towards Wen Zilong.

“I’m next?!”

Wen Zilong saw this scene with his skill, he cursed in his heart, and tried to swim to the bottom of the river.

However, since the dragonfly was the natural enemy of mosquitoes, it naturally knew that larvae would hide under the water, so it was ready to intercept it in the water.

Puff puff puff–

The dragonfly flapped its wings and quickly swept over Wen Zilong’s head.

The six thin legs with spikes were already in the water where Wen Zilong was about to escape, as if landmines waiting for him to explode.

Had it been a ordinary mindless larva,being caught would have been inevitable.

But Wen Zilong was a larva with a human IQ.

In an instant, he turned his tail sharply and leapt forward against the water.

This jump unexpectedly launched him twenty centimeters forward – this was all because his strength and speed were twice as fast compared to other normal mosquitoes.

Just like this, he barely dodged the dragonfly’s catch.

The dragonfly froze for a moment.

If it had thoughts, it would definitely think: I must be dreaming, how can this guy be so fast?How can you jump this far?

At this time, it flapped its wings, raised its height, and then continued to sweep towards Wen Zilong.

And this time, it was the same as before, predicting his movements in advance, and sunk its six thin spiked feet into the water.

Wen Zilong repeated what he did, and with a speed and strength that was twice that of ordinary larvae, he jumped forward again, catching by the dragonfly by surprise yet again.

The dragonfly missed again, so he flew up again and tried to catch Wen Zilong for the third time.

Wen Zilong had no choice but to continue to jump upstream.

Fortunately, he was able to put some distance between himself and the dragonfly, as he was starting to feel tired. However, he was not out of the woods yet, as he had accidentally entered the territory of the frog.

Seeing that he had reached the territory of that frog, Wen Zilong became frightened.

He was being chased from the front and the back.

At this moment, the only thing he could do was to pray secretly in his heart that the frog just happened to be unwell today and was lying in his nest lazily, on vacation.

However, life was always not that easy.

After he finished praying, he suddenly found that in the grass more than half a meter in front, the frog was squatting there exuding its domineering spirit.

That was no surprise to anyone.

He cursed in his heart, Wen Zilong wanted to turn his head quickly and run towards the opposite direction from the frog.

But the other side is was close to the shore, and there was nowhere to escape.

Seeing that the dragonfly on his tail had swept down once again, Wen Zilong didn’t dare to jump forward anymore.

As a human, he knew that frogs cared more about moving things than still objects.

At this time, he was too close to the frog, and if he jumped forward like before, he would be jumping te his death.

So he stood still for an instant, motionless, as he secretly prayed in his heart: Frog, please look the other way…

At this point, the dragonfly was less than three centimetres away from the top of his head.

‘Damn it, it’s over… ‘ He thought.

Just when Wen Zilong was thinking this way, a noise could be heard above him.

Not far away, the frog opened his big mouth to reveal a blood-red tongue, which ejected like a spring.

It instantly wrapped the dragonfly and retracted it.

Then the big mouth was slightly agitated twice, and the dragonfly had already become his dead soul under his tongue.

“Phew–“

Wen Zilong let out a sigh of relief.

His body felt numb, as he had barely avoided the scythe of death.

Wen Zilong was still scared in his heart and glanced at the frog with the pair of compound eyes, only to see that this guy was obviously not happy yet and continuing to hunt.

Wen Zilong didn’t dare to make any big movement, and planned to sneak into the bottom of the water quietly, and then return to a safe area.

But at this moment, he found something beyond the eyesight of ordinary mosquitoes.

He found a small, orange translucent ball about three meters infront him.

“This is……”

While he was thinking, the system interface in his mind showed:

[One dragonfly egg is found, which can be upgraded to level 2 immediately after eating. 】