Need help understanding proof about connected sets.

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I am struggling with the very last line of this proof:

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I mean, where does he get the existence of $z_1$ from?, and all the info about it?

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If $z \not \in \overline{B}$ then there is an open neighbourhood of $z$ disjoint from $B$, $z_1$ is then some element of this nbd, larger than $z$ and smaller than $y$.