An Unorthodox Guide to Conquering Another World

"Seriously, you should have told me first! You scared me to death!" Betty said, puffing out her cheeks.

“Hmm… Susanna is right. It’s best if we hold hands right now, in case the number of people suddenly decreases or…” Annie stroked her chin, looking at them, and continued in a low voice:

"A sudden increase."

The atmosphere fell silent, and Annie noticed that her two companions' faces had turned pale.

"I was just using a horror movie reference to lighten the mood, why did you guys take it so seriously?" Annie said, shrugging.

"What do you mean by 'live up the atmosphere'? It just adds to the horror!" Betty said angrily. After Annie said that, she felt a little uncomfortable, as if someone was watching her from behind.

"Alright, this is an aquarium in the city center, not some secret ruin. There are thousands of people up here, so what's there to be afraid of?" Annie had no choice but to say something more to comfort them.

"I... I think... it's best to walk hand in hand..." Susanna said tremulously, leaning closer to Betty.

That was the only option. So the three girls held hands and walked forward in a line. Susanna was so scared that as they walked, she ended up clinging tightly to Betty's arm.

"If Linda were here, she might be able to come up with a solution; she always gets high marks in spellcasting classes..." Betty muttered.

It's a pity that guy is too stingy; he dragged his dad along and refused to join them. Sigh... If Mr. Ya Feng were here, he'd surely have a solution, right? He's an adult...

As Betty was thinking, Susanna suddenly let out a soft cry.

"Susanna! If you keep doing this, I'm really going to pinch your nose!" Betty said angrily.

"No, no...didn't you hear other footsteps besides ours?" Susanna said in a trembling, weak voice, her face filled with fear.

Hearing her say that, the two of them held their breath and listened carefully. They could indeed hear faint, scattered footsteps getting closer and closer from the corner of the other corridor.

The three girls' expressions changed simultaneously. They immediately huddled together, facing that direction. Betty raised her wand, nervously swallowing hard. Although her toes were trembling, she still stood in front of her companions, preparing to face the unknown.

"Betty, Betty...maybe, should we run away?" Susanna said, her voice trembling as she gripped Betty's arm tightly.

“What if, what if it’s a living person…” Betty said, but she found herself starting to worry about encountering something strange.

Just as they were filled with fear, an ordinary-looking middle-aged man in a black work uniform came out, followed by a family of three with their child.

"Oh, did you three get lost here too?" the staff member said, raising an eyebrow.

"You, you are... a staff member here?" Betty asked cautiously.

“Look at the clothes I’m wearing,” the other person said. “Because of a malfunction in the control room, one side of the underwater tunnel was closed, causing many tourists to be trapped here and unable to find a way out. So I was sent down to find you and lead you out.”

He pointed to the tired-looking family of three beside him.

"They were just found too, and they just happened to run into you, so they'll come out with me."

The three girls exchanged a glance and immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Their stiff bodies relaxed instantly, and they almost collapsed to the ground.

"Thank goodness..." Susanna exclaimed, patting her chest with a look of relief.

“Well, thank you for your help,” Betty said.

"Okay, come with me." The staff member in black walked forward.

The three of them followed along with the family of three.

They chatted briefly with the other party and learned that they had also come here but had been trapped for a long time and couldn't get out. The child was already exhausted and asleep, being held by the father.

They walked forward together and soon noticed that the repetitive corridors around them had changed.

"Finally, we can get out..." Betty sighed.

At that moment, Anne tugged at her sleeve.

"What's wrong?" Betty asked.

Anne stared at the staff walking ahead and asked in a low voice:

"Betty, do you remember what color the aquarium staff uniforms were?"

"Is there even a question? Of course it is..."

Betty stared at the staff member, about to answer, when suddenly her voice caught in her throat.

She suddenly remembered that all the employee uniforms she saw outside were blue; she had never seen any employees in black uniforms.

“But, but maybe, they’re special employees…” she said.

"Yeah…"

Then Anne pointed to the employee's feet.

Betty and Susanna looked over together and then noticed that with each step the other person took, a faint bloodstain was left on the sole of their foot!

Because of the dim lighting and their relaxed state of mind, they didn't notice this at all!

The three girls stopped abruptly, frozen in place, their faces deathly pale.

"What's wrong?" The employee turned around and looked at them.

"Is there a problem?" The face was devoid of any emotion, like a human skin mask welded onto the face, with only the mouth moving.

"No, nothing. Oh, I, I suddenly feel like I need to use the restroom... Um, could I leave for a bit?" Betty suppressed her fear and tried to make her tone sound calm.

"There's no restroom here. You can go outside soon," the employee said expressionlessly.

"We're a little tired too. How about we rest for a bit?" Betty said again. It was clearly cold here, but she felt herself sweating.

The employee looked at them and suddenly fell silent, staring intently at them. The family of three also looked at them with confusion, not understanding what was going on.

The three of them felt a chill run down their spines and huddled together, with Susanna gripping Betty's hand tightly, too afraid to move.

"You can't rest here, come with me," the employee said.

"Or...maybe I should just forget about it..."

"Didn't you hear me? I said, follow me—go!"

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To their horror, the employee's head split into three pieces, revealing sharp teeth and a long, scarlet tongue protruding from the center.

The terrifying image grew larger and larger in Betty's pupils.

"Ughhhhhh!!"

The three screamed in terror. Betty was the first to react. She chanted a spell loudly in her already weak voice, and a strong beam of light shot out from the wand, hitting the employee and sending him flying into the wall.

"Run! Run!!"

She immediately shouted, also reminding the family of three, and then, disregarding everything else, grabbed the hands of her two companions and ran.

Their minds went blank, with only the thought of escaping remaining. They ran a long way without taking a breath, passing through corridor after corridor. They didn't even know where they had run to. They stopped panting and collapsed to the ground when they were out of breath.

"Huff, huff..."

Anne knelt on the ground, clutching her aching chest and panting, while Susanna, lying on the ground with her buttocks sticking up, was almost too scared to breathe.

"That, that... is it a monster? Why is it here!?"

Betty caught her breath and immediately cried out in terror.

"I, I knew something was wrong here! It's obviously haunted!" Susanna exclaimed, looking up suddenly, tears welling in her eyes.

"This is like a hunting cage from a horror movie! We're all trapped here! And then we'll be hunted down by those monsters and brutally killed! Waaaaah, we're doomed!" she screamed in terror, scratching her head.

"Calm down!"

Anne slapped her on the head hard. Susanna covered her head, looked up, pouted, and looked at her pitifully with teary eyes.

Anne sighed helplessly, then hugged her and patted her head to comfort her.

"Could it be...could it be that this is a ghost realm? One of those spatial magic traps? Have we fallen into a ghost realm?" Betty realized something, recalling the concept of ghost realms she had seen in her magic book before.

"No way...why would a ghost realm appear in an aquarium?" Annie said.

"Could it be... that we've stumbled into some evil sorcerer's plan?"

"It can't be that simple..." Annie sighed, then continued:

"However, as we just saw, Betty's magic was still able to defeat him, and that monster didn't seem that strong,"

"Mainly... it was so scary. When I saw it just now, my heart almost jumped out of my chest." Betty patted her chest with lingering fear. She had only ever seen those monsters with open heads in horror movies before, and now that she had actually seen one, the visual impact was really too strong.

“I really hope that family ran away too…” Betty whispered.

"Let's worry about ourselves first." Annie looked around; after this escape, she was back in this dimly lit corridor.

"Hey, look over there."

Just then, Betty noticed something and pointed to a spot not far ahead, where a green light was flashing.

Upon closer inspection, they realized that it was actually a green sign for an emergency exit.

The three walked over cautiously, and there was indeed a door there.

"Yes, for export?"

"Well, I'm not sure..." Betty said, looking at the green sign. After what had happened, she wasn't even sure if she was still in the normal space.

But she had no other choice at the moment, so she raised her wand and cast a lock-picking spell on the lock.

The door opened.

They carefully pushed it open, and a faint blue light shone through.

Inside was a huge aquarium, even bigger than the one we had just seen the narwhals in; it seemed like the top was nowhere in sight.

The aquarium here has no underwater coral reefs or other decorations, only the ripples of the deep blue water reflecting huge, wriggling shadows on the surrounding walls. The aquarium is large and empty, with only a few small fish swimming around.

"This place...it feels a bit..."

Betty was about to say something when she suddenly saw Anne, who was walking ahead, freeze in place, as if she had seen something incredibly terrifying. Her pupils contracted and her lips trembled.

"What's wrong, Annie?"

"You, look..." Annie pointed forward, her voice trembling.

Betty and Susanna looked in the direction she pointed, and their expressions of fear were no less than when they had seen the three-faced monster.

Inside the huge, deep blue aquarium, the carcass of an elephant slowly drifted over, the blood gushing from its neck spreading in the water like ribbons, carrying it along with it as it floated.

Chapter 141 Now is Xiao Guang's shining moment

"Why are there elephants here..." Betty felt like she was dreaming, having a bizarre nightmare.

They soon discovered that it wasn't just elephants; animal carcasses were floating and swimming towards them in the water.

Various animals that can only be seen in zoos—giraffes, zebras, rabbits, lions, and even kangaroos—are floating in this aquarium. Their numbers are enormous, and they are all gathered together. From a distance, Betty mistook them for a school of fish, but now that they are floating closer, she realizes that they are all animals that could not possibly exist here!

"Betty, Betty, Anne, something's definitely wrong here... We, we'd better get out of here quickly..." Susanna tugged at her sleeve in alarm.

Betty snapped out of her daze and clearly realized that something was off about the place; it definitely couldn't be a safe exit!

They hurriedly tried to leave, but when they turned their heads, they saw a figure in a black uniform blocking the doorway. And it wasn't just one person; more and more figures in black uniforms emerged from the darkness, surrounding them completely.

A large group of people, all expressionless, stared at them and mechanically approached them.

"No, don't come any closer!" Betty shouted, raising her wand.

But it was clearly useless; they were closing in. In desperation, Betty quickly chanted a spell, and a dense fireball condensed, shooting out and exploding among them.

But when the smoke cleared, they emerged unharmed. Some had wounds from the explosion, but the flesh around the wounds quickly healed within seconds.

"No, no way..." Betty looked at this scene and felt a little exhausted. With her current level of magic power, that last shot was already the highest damage she could deal.

"Are we... going to be eaten...?" Susanna sobbed softly in despair.

Just then, a whooshing sound came from above, and a pink light fell down. In an instant, all the black uniforms in front of them exploded and turned into fragments that scattered in the air.

Just as the three were at a loss, a figure landed in front of them.

Are you all alright?

The three saw a beautiful girl with long pink hair, a tall and voluptuous figure, wearing a pink dress, with a bright pink gem on her chest, and holding a peculiar magic wand in her hand.

"You, you are..."

The three remained huddled together, their hearts still filled with the joy of escaping their predicament. After experiencing these strange events, they were no longer sure whether what had come was "human".

"I... my name is Momoo... just think of me as a sorceress, here to solve the problem of the calamity beasts," Momoo said, flicking her wand.

"Are you from the Secret Service?" Betty asked.

“Just consider me that,” Momoo said seriously, looking at the three little ones.