Basic question about inferior limit for a function

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I'm trying to figure out the following detail from the proof of a proposition. But It's been a while since I've worked with inferior limits:

Let $E$ be a topological space, $a \in E$, $\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$, and $f:E \rightarrow \tilde{\mathbb{R}}$ a function. If there exists a neighborhood $V$ of $a$ such that

$$\lambda \leq \tilde{f(V)},$$

then

$$\lambda \leq \varliminf_{x \to a} f(x).$$

Could you give me an idea?