Chapter 102: Mayflys Dream (2/2)

At this moment, the sun had already completely set in the west. Only then did the fragile body of the larva not dry up from the scorching sun.

A warm, moist summer breeze gently blew past. The larva felt a sense of suffocation. The air without water made it impossible for it to breathe.

However, its instincts made it hold on to the stem tightly and not fall back into the water.

After a wave of suffocation, Jiang Li quickly felt that the discomfort was disappearing, and what appeared instead was the stiffness of his entire body.

His shell was hardening in the air, soon becoming a hard shell that completely enveloped him.

Then, he felt a warm itch inside the body. This feeling made him feel drowsy.

Jiang Li did not resist and really fell asleep just like that.

In the glory of the summer night, a mayfly was quietly transforming on the stem of a lotus flower.

After an unknown period of time, Jiang Li felt a suffocating feeling that was present everywhere, and it caused him to wake up from his slumber.

The shell on the outside seemed to be too small. It was the shell that pressed down on him until he could not breathe.

Jiang Li wanted to escape from the restrictions, but he instinctively pushed himself forward. He wanted to bite through the membrane in front of him, but he discovered that his mouth had already disappeared.

Helpless, he could only struggle with all his might. Soon, a hole appeared in the old shell above his head.

Jiang Li squeezed his body out of the small hole bit by bit.

He could sense that his strength far surpassed that of his young self.

His body and older parts separated from him bit by bit. Jiang Li took the opportunity to exert force, and his entire body escaped from the old shell.

A pair of beautiful insect wings unfolded, and a pair of long tails swayed with the wind, looking like an elf spirit in his dreams.

This was an insignificant insect, an ancient winged mayfly.

Under the summer wind, his insect wings kept spreading out and becoming stronger. When the first rays of sunlight shone, he was about to spread his wings and fly.

The current Jiang Li had no mouth. He could not eat, but his thin body seemed to be bursting with infinite vitality in the wind.

Finally, the morning light tore through the sky, and a gentle and warm glow scattered towards the pond. Jiang Li discovered that the lotus leaves on the rocks around him had already been filled with mayflies like himself.

At this moment, the morning light was like a signal. The mayflies in the sky danced in groups and shone brilliantly under the sunlight.

Seeing the swarm of female mayflies, Jiang Li… no, the mayfly could not hold it in any longer. It flapped its wings and rose into the air.

However, for the ancient winged mayflies, there were far more females than males.

As soon as this mayfly flew up, it was pursued by hundreds of female mayflies who danced around it.

One female after another came up to rub their heads against it. The mayfly followed its instincts and released everything that it had accumulated over the past six years.

Just like that, it had the greatest day of its life.

It was as if the ancient winged mayfly had spent its entire life preparing for this one day.

The mayflies' wild dance continued under the sun for an entire day. No one knew how their tiny bodies contained so much energy.

It was not until dusk that the mayfly finally stopped its wild dance and landed on a lotus leaf in exhaustion.

The interior of his carapace was already empty. It had used up everything on this day.

Having completed the mission of reproduction, the meaning of its entire life was fulfilled.

The mayfly quietly lay on the lotus leaf, and the glow on the insect gradually disappeared.

In the last light of its beady eyes, it saw yet another, vigorous larva emerging from the water.