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"Is the high priest of the cult hiding here?"

Bai Ze looked at the aquarium with its doors tightly closed and asked Lu Xingyao for confirmation.

After obtaining the relevant information, they left the performance hall and conducted a divination.

The last place that appeared was this aquarium that had been acquired years ago and had not been open for a long time.

"Osiris is the god of the underworld in ancient Egyptian mythology. His most famous story is that after being killed and dismembered by his brother Set, he was resurrected with the help of his wife Isis."

Xia Yunli explained from the side, "And His resurrection also symbolizes the rising tide of the Nile."

"The underworld represents the hidden and dark underground, and the ocean is related to water, so it is not surprising that the master of the Libra of Osiris would choose a closed aquarium as his base."

For the ancient Egyptians, water was of paramount importance. In their creation myth, the world was born from the ocean, and then the land emerged from the water, allowing humankind and the gods to be created.

One of the key factors that shaped this worldview was, of course, the annual flooding of the Nile River, on which they depended for survival, which brought agricultural abundance. The phenomenon of crops withering and flourishing year after year due to the flood was developed into a view of life and death with an afterlife, and even the myth of Osiris's resurrection was based on this.

As a distorted reflection of mythology, anomalies named after it must also possess similar properties.

That is, a god after death, just like the underworld.

Upon realizing this, Bai Ze suddenly understood.

"When you were trapped in the Qingqiu Otherworld, you mentioned that you originally had your eye on Mingming... Wasn't your plan to use her power against the cult back then?"

Speaking of which, the tarot card Xia Yunli drew when she performed a divination on the phantom thief's notice was also the "Death" card. Besides hinting at Xia Xingzhi's existence, it might also be a foreshadowing of these underworld gods.

The underworld, the harbinger of doom, and Osiris—they all have one thing in common: they are all associated with myths of death.

"That's all in the past."

Xia Yunli turned her head away expressionlessly. "I have reformed."

Then you shouldn't avoid eye contact.

At this moment, the person they were talking about poked a small head out of Bai Ze's pocket.

She looked left and right: "Should we go in now?"

In fact, according to her idea, it would be best to make full preparations first, borrow a group of combatants from Leia to test the other party, and then they would wait and see.

After all, the last time she blindly believed in her own prediction, it was a twist of fate that led to the lifting of the high-risk anomaly.

Even Lu Xingyao learned to be cautious after her lesson.

Ultimately, they were just there to invite a band, so why did it turn into them causing trouble for the god of the underworld?

"Instead of hesitating, we should just show up at their door and give them a surprise."

The cult members he had encountered before were all masters of pranks, either performing sacrifices or bringing anomalies to the school to carry out suicide attacks. If he left a high priest of the cult who possessed a mythical-level anomaly unattended, who knew what kind of nonsense the other party would come up with.

Bai Ze even suspected that the recent series of anomalies highly related to the element of "death" might be related to the high priest of the cult, "The Libra of Osiris".

Even the poltergeist phenomenon encountered by Xia Yunli's band can be included in this category.

Bai Ze held the door shut and pushed it open without much effort.

A bottomless darkness lingered before my eyes like mist, with not a single ray of light piercing through.

"The place ahead should be similar to my underworld."

Mingming seemed to be frightened and shrank back.

"Another other world?"

Bai Ze patted her through her pocket as a reassuring gesture, "It's rare that you'd speak up to remind me, well done, Bruce!"

"Who is that?! And I'm only doing this because Kagami is also there..."

She was making a ruckus inside her pocket.

"Does this deity favor you because you're both tsundere?"

Bai Ze seriously raised academic questions to Xia Yunli, earning him a glare from the phantom thief girl.

"I'll go in first."

She was the first to step into the darkness.

Bai Ze and Lu Xingyao followed closely behind, welcoming the familiar spatial changes.

The first thing you breathe in is the sea breeze, which carries a salty, fishy smell.

The original aquarium has long been closed, and besides, the entrance should first be a lobby to welcome visitors.

It's impossible to actually fill a whole ocean like we see now.

The vast ocean, with its white waves, flows freely, and through the rolling waves, you can see all kinds of rare fish, while the coral reefs are as colorful as a jungle.

The only problem is the altitude.

This crystal-clear ocean sits atop the sky, where even the reflections of the white clouds are clearly visible. A shimmering silver oarfish swims through the clouds, its tail swaying and creating ripples.

The three people who entered the other world were standing on a golden desert, but compared to the sky and sea, it looked more like fine sand on the seabed.

"A simulated aquarium...another world?"

Xia Yunli had put on a fox spirit mask at some point—ignoring Lu Xingyao who was excitedly shouting, "I have one too!"—and surveying the empty surroundings.

She reached out and stroked a tuna swimming through the air in front of her.

"Then we'll become fish in a tank?"

After Bai Ze steadied himself, he followed her gaze.

All around were small groups of fish, swirling and swimming in the air.

What a magnificent scene, as if everything were floating in the air, without any support.

"If I could, I'd want to be Garchomp."

Lu Xingyao picked up a seashell from the fine sand.

"Those aren't fish anymore... Do you want to be kept here as ornamental animals for the rest of your life?"

"Being locked in a fish tank with my senior, never to come out again, doesn't seem so bad—wouldn't that get a high score?"

"It's just scary. I'm starting to think about learning 120 ways to escape from prison."

Perhaps it's because, compared to other other worlds, the scenery here is even comparable to a resort.

This completely ruined the tense atmosphere.

This clearly angered the ruler of the other world.

"Uninvited in to my garden, and they're even flirting... Are all the new recruits at the Disaster Management Bureau this rude?"

A voice abruptly interrupted the conversation, followed by a downpour of seawater.

A water column connecting heaven and earth cascades down from the sea of ​​sky like a waterfall, its sparkling droplets splashing like a handful of pearls fallen to the ground.

A woman holding a scale emerged, water droplets sliding down her wheat-black skin, her vital areas only bound by white bandages.

Before Bai Ze could see clearly, his eyes were blocked from both sides.

"You, a walking adult content creation, have the nerve to accuse others of being rude?!"

Lu Xingyao accurately retorted.

"Hello, as the notice stated, I will come here to steal your precious possession."

Xia Yunli covered his right eye while calmly greeting him.