At this moment, inside the Zoo.
Su Chen hurried all the way to the entrance of the Lion Enclosure.
Only then did the heart hanging in his throat finally settle down.
He simply sat down flat on the lawn beside the gate of the Lion Enclosure, picked up the mineral water he had stuffed into his pocket earlier, and gulped down half a bottle in one breath.
Then he lay down flat on the lawn, panting heavily for a long time.
This trip to the Aquarium was simply countless times more perilous than the one in the Elephant Enclosure.
Facing the pressure of "it" head-on, combined with the inescapable surprise attacks, the impact on Su Chen was just too huge.
Fortunately, he picked up the note left by his predecessor, kept a quick wit, and thought of the key information.
Coupled with a tiny bit of luck.
Only then was he able to successfully escape with his life.
If Su Chen were to do it again, he wouldn't even be confident he could escape safely.
Just like that, Su Chen lay there looking at the blue sky for a long time before he completely calmed down.
He sat up, plucked a blade of grass at random, and twirled it unconsciously around his fingertips.
His mind began to ponder his subsequent plan.
With the experience from the Aquarium just now, Su Chen could tell that "it" had indeed gradually begun to break free from the shackles of the rules.
"It" had developed some new cognitions, such as jellyfish and the like.
This indicated that the opponent had become even more dangerous.
Because there were simply too many uncertainties in this, and heaven knew how many new, unrecorded cognitions generated by the rules the opponent still had!
If he carelessly fell into the opponent's trap again, it would surely spell complete doom.
Su Chen knew that from now on, he must never face the opponent directly again.
His mutilated body simply lacked the capital to contend with the opponent.
Therefore, he had to avoid the opponent.
However, according to his analysis, the Aquarium was clearly the exit.
If Su Chen wanted to get out, he really had to go to the Aquarium again.
This simply became a paradox.
Su Chen had no idea about the action trajectory of "it". If he ran into the opponent again in the Aquarium, wouldn't that still be a free gift?
He had to think of a foolproof method.
Just then, Su Chen suddenly remembered the notice posted in the Aquarium.
[Our staff wear red uniforms uniformly, and only conduct daily routine cleaning and inspection of the Aquarium after 12:30 at night.]
He hadn't paid much attention to this sentence before.
But right now, this happened to be a key piece of information-there were staff members in the Aquarium!
Yet during his tour of the Aquarium just now, Su Chen hadn't seen a single person.
This indicated that the opponent might not have started work yet.
Combined with what the rule stated about conducting routine cleaning and inspection of the Aquarium at twelve-thirty.
It meant that the red-clad staff might only start work after midnight.
And for a place like the Aquarium, it logically operated during the day.
Working at night-this working hour was obviously very strange.
To make a bold guess, perhaps this working time was to protect the staff from being harmed by "it".
In other words, "it" would not appear in the Aquarium during this time period.
Su Chen narrowed his eyes, feeling that this was a breakthrough.
It was worth taking the risk to try.
With a plan in place, the current priority was to conserve his strength and store up his energy.
Since he could only act in the middle of the night, he might as well sleep for a while in advance.
Anyway, he was currently in the Lion Enclosure, so his personal safety was definitely not a problem.
Thinking of this, Su Chen leaned back and lay down again.
After a whole day, Su Chen hadn't eaten anything, having only drunk half a bottle of water.
Coupled with his constant nervous tension, he was truly exhausted.
Now that he finally had a chance to rest, he quickly fell into a deep sleep.
He slept soundly this time.
It seemed he hadn't slept this sweetly in a long time.
In his dream, he first saw himself turn into an elephant.
Waving his tusks, he fought against seven or eight elephants with rabbit ears.
Facing several times as many enemies, he showed no fear at all and was exceptionally heroic.
In the end, he defeated all the enemies; those bizarre elephants fled in all directions, scrambling blindly before disappearing into thin air.
Seeing that the enemies had run away, he transformed back into a human shape.
At this moment, Su Chen felt a slight warmth on his arm.
He raised his left arm to look and found that during the fight just now, he had been injured by the opponent's tusks.
Su Chen didn't care about this wound, deciding to deal with it after he got back later.
Right at that moment, his body suddenly gave a jolt, feeling inexplicably that the scar on his arm looked somewhat familiar.
"Isn't this the scar on the Security Guard's arm?"
Su Chen said in shock.
So he hurriedly fished out his mobile phone and turned on the front-facing camera.
The appearance reflected on the screen turned out unexpectedly to be the face of the Security Guard.
Su Chen was taken aback.
He only felt his vision go black, then bright again.
He was surprised to find that he had arrived in a foggy world once more.
He turned his head to look around.
This place seemed to be filled with smog, with visibility less than five meters.
Seeing this, Su Chen turned on the flashlight of his phone and groped his way forward.
Before long, the outline of a metal sign gradually emerged from the mist.
He hurried a few steps forward and closed in.
As he approached, the characters on the sign gradually became clear.
Goat Enclosure!
Looking at these three large characters, Su Chen fell into confusion.
He remembered that there was no such area on the map.
Thinking this, his body involuntarily walked towards the Goat Enclosure.
Walking along the path for about ten minutes, the fog in front of Su Chen gradually thinned out a bit.
Taking advantage of the now unobstructed field of vision, he looked around thoroughly.
Then, he was completely shocked.
Because he discovered that the sky overhead was actually transparent, just like glass.
And on the opposite side of the glass was unexpectedly the Zoo.
Directly above his head was impressively that terrifying Elephant Enclosure.
Pure white elephants with rabbit ears were chewing on green grass one after another.
Su Chen hurriedly averted his gaze, fearing he would once again be affected by those bizarre elephants and have his own cognition altered.
As his gaze looked toward the east.
He noticed that at the edge of the horizon, a familiar Aquarium was actually embedded there.
He saw that the upper half of the Aquarium was in the Zoo, while the lower half was floating among the smog.
This Aquarium, which looked like a city in the sky, gave off a gloomy feeling no matter how he looked at it.
Su Chen was profoundly shaken.
Immediately afterward, he suddenly realized that according to his previous deduction, the Aquarium was located between the Surface World and the Otherworld.
Doesn't that mean he was currently in the Otherworld?
However, how on earth did he get to the Otherworld?
Regarding this point, he couldn't remember a thing.
Just as he was racking his brains in thought, a streak of sunset glow pierced through that transparent canopy and projected onto Su Chen.
Seeing this, he turned around and looked thoughtfully at that gradually setting, crimson sunset in the Surface World.
The sunlight, made somewhat distorted by passing through the canopy, did not bring any warmth to Su Chen.
Instead, it appeared somewhat eerie.
Not long after, the afterglow faded, and the setting sun plunged below the horizon.
The Otherworld seemed to become even gloomier.
Yet the next moment, before Su Chen could even withdraw his gaze, on the transparent dome on the west side of the Otherworld, a pitch-black sun plummeted down from the horizon of the Surface World.
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