Chapter 22 ：Anopheles

The voice rang suddenly in my ears like heavenly music. Hearing the sound of her breathing echoing so close to my ears, I felt an inexplicable closeness and comfort. I really wished that I could immediately open my eyes and see the owner of this beautiful voice, however, helplessly, I couldn't do it.

In fact, it's not like I've never seen a beautiful woman before. In the days when I went to college and after graduation, I had dated a few girls with outstanding appearance. However, due to my addiction to games and lack of motivation, they all ended up breaking up. Later, I decided to concentrate on being a professional gamer and put my thoughts of women aside.

However, nowadays I do crave for a partner who can share my loneliness. She doesn't have to be my girlfriend, as long as this beautiful voice can frequently whisper a few words in my ear, I would already be satisfied.

The warm and soft voice sounded again, ''You guys said that his brainwaves reacted just now, it's really strange. Although this kind of equipment has been unmaintained, it's not exactly prone to malfunctioning. I think this person might actually have brainwave activity."

A nurse responded with a smile, "Even the doctor said it's a malfunction, so don't worry about it, Sister Lisa. In any case, even if he does become conscious, what can we do? It's still just a matter of waiting for him to recover on his own."

Lisa thought for a moment and said firmly, "We can't give up any chance for the patient to be cured. We have to strive for it even if there is a little bit of hope, this is about the patient's life. I've decided to come over and talk to him every day when I'm resting from now on, and I can also play some music for him to listen to. By the way, he was in a coma 20 years ago, right? What songs were popular in their time?"

Hearing those words, I was almost moved to tears. It's heartbreaking that I can't see or communicate with such a kind girl. But no, I've always been known for being calm and rational, and as a professional player, I had to remain calm.

Suddenly, the voice sounded again, "By the way, he hasn't responded for twenty years, just wearing this game helmet for less than two weeks, and this happened, could it be that this game woke him up?"

Both nurses giggled, but I was eager to defend her, "What do you know, this Miss Lisa is the world's number one genius, her IQ is not lower than mine!"

Miss Lisa muttered, "If that's true, then I must find him in the game."

A nurse laughed, "There are billions of people in the game, even if he's really in there, you don't know what name he uses, how can you find him? By the way, Sister Lisa, how many levels have you played in Fantasy Journey? What's the name?"

I immediately perked up my ears and heard her say, "I'm using my real name: 'Lisa', and I'm currently a level 25 Priestess." In this instant, my entire brain was occupied by the name "Lisa".

I don't know how long it took, the room was already silent, only the sound of birds chirping outside the window touched my hearing. I felt content, life was good. If one day I do make a full recovery, I will stop being addicted to the game and go out to enjoy the beautiful life.

However, there were still my friends waiting for me in the game, so I hurriedly re-logged into the game.

In front of me was still the same warehouse, but what surprised me was that the costumes, books, and gold coins were all gone, and in their place was the Priest's equipment and all kinds of sparkling gemstone jewelry.

I froze for a moment, and an impulse surged in my heart to grab these things and find that nurse named "Lisa" and give them to her. But my reason eventually overpowered the urge.

Obviously, the objects in this room were all illusions, traps laid by the Great God Ox-Head. This spell displays the appropriate treasures according to the deepest desires of each person's heart. It was conceivable that anyone who once touched these things would immediately be eroded by the residual will of the Ox-Headed Great God and be controlled like Ahan.

Luckily, the people from the hospital removed my helmet and forced me to exit the game, otherwise I might have been trapped as well. Since it was all an illusion before my eyes, there was no need for me to risk touching them again.

I pulled out a chunk of the potbellied devil's oil, threw it into the pile of jewelry, and sent out a fireball spell. The jewelry and equipment burst into flames. Magical fireballs were purer than natural fire, and given enough time, even high-level equipment could be melted. Soon, everything in front of them was reduced to ashes.

Halfway through the flames, the illusion disappeared. I saw that the medium used to release the illusion was a magical array of various beads, but I didn't want to take the risk, so I let the flames burn the beads.

When everything disappeared, I suddenly felt an unspeakable relief, as if I had overcome my greed, and my whole being seemed to have risen a level. I even began to admire myself.

Hurriedly rushing back to the great hall of the Ox-Headed Great God, I found that the others had already disappeared. I can't blame them for that, counting that I had been gone for maybe four hours, they probably thought that I had sacrificed myself to seal the Bull Head God and had already been resurrected back to the Lost Village.

I stepped onto the nearby teleportation array, and with a flash of purple light in front of me, I arrived at a huge cave.

The left side of the cave was brightly lit and appeared to be the direction out of the cave;the right side appeared to be dim, and I could see a tiger's head mark engraved on the cave wall. Apparently, they still considered that I might have gotten offline for something, so they left the mark. By the way, Leon really deserves to be a "Sculptor", the tiger's head he carved with his advanced sculpting skills is really very impressive. I'll have to ask him to carve one for my gear next time.

There was no torch on my body, and my eyesight was not good, so I could only grope my way towards the dim cave. After about thirty steps, a strange buzzing sound came from ahead. I listened carefully, but still couldn't recognize what it was. While advancing carefully, I threw out a detection spell ahead.

The detection result showed, "Anopheles mosquito, level 1." I remembered that when I was a kid, there was an insect called "mosquito". At that time, the world launched a large-scale anti-mosquito campaign, and mosquitoes almost disappeared from the face of the earth. Mosquitoes were the main vector of malaria, and with the disappearance of mosquitoes, malaria was virtually eliminated. However, judging from the name, these mosquitoes obviously carry Plasmodium.

I wouldn't dare try the legendary malaria. According to the results of the investigation, the "Anopheles" mosquito's HP and offense and defense are very low, but its agility is quite outstanding. Moreover, from the naked eye, the mosquitoes are very small in size and extremely large in number, so humans are simply unable to defend themselves against them.

Unfortunately, I didn't have any group attack magic, so I could only try to use both hands to send out a series of Gale and Fireball spells. The Anopheles mosquitoes were immediately in a mess like an explosion, most of them lunged towards the fireball, and as soon as the fireball was extinguished, they rushed towards me. As they got closer, I realized that their numbers weren't just huge, they were in the hundreds of millions!

My two spells, which had at most extinguished a few hundred Anopheles mosquitoes, obviously couldn't cope with such a huge number in front of me. I panicked and added an acceleration spell to myself and quickly fled. The buzzing sound followed close behind my ears, making my scalp numb. Luckily, after running out a dozen steps, the malaria mosquitoes didn't chase me anymore. It seems that they have a limited area of activity.

I was still in shock, and I thought to myself that Patriarch Leon and the others should have passed through this level by relying on the intermediate shield automatically formed by the "Nomadic God's Suit" and Jimmy's light-based shield. The shield is so small, I'm afraid they can only take one or two people at a time and make a few trips back and forth to complete it.

I looked helplessly at the dense swarm of mosquitoes, but with my high intelligence, I quickly thought of using the skin of "Ming Meng". Although it is easy to be pierced, but still can cope with the mosquito attack. The most important thing is that it is transparent and does not affect the line of sight.

To be on the safe side, I covered my whole body with three layers of "Ming Meng" skin, and I looked like a monster. But there was no time to think about image. I tried, and found that through the "Ming Meng" skin can actually cast fireball magic and not damage the skin, really an accidental discovery, it seems that in the future you can use this kind of skin as gloves.

I gathered the courage to walk into the mosquito swarm, first sent out a few fireball spells to both sides, attracting most of the Anopheles mosquitoes, and then rushed forward with great strides.

The reason why the fireballs can attract the malaria mosquitoes is because it has light. When the light dissipated, the mosquitoes naturally surrounded me, a human with glowing equipment all over his body. I kept releasing fireballs, but even so, my entire body was soon crawling with malaria mosquitoes. Eventually, the bright masked skin on my face was also attached. I had to repel the Anopheles mosquitoes on my face while advancing with my intuition.