"I thought... she took it in our world," Chen Xuan said in surprise.
"So did I." Lin Qing fell into thought. "It looks like this area was abandoned after the explosion. But why did Honglian leave a photo here? Could it be... she attended this Devil Conference in the original history too?"
And had she taken the photo to remember it?
The problem was that Chen Xuan shouldn't have interfered with the history Lin Qing came from. There would have been no warning from Elorie and no rebirth of New Paris. Crystal meteors had fallen from the sky and destroyed the world, forcing the survivors underground. Whether Jiangcheng even existed was unknown.
So how had Honglian appeared in a timeline that hadn't yet come into being?
Chen Xuan's mind ground to a halt.
"I'm afraid no one can answer that." After a long silence, Lin Qing shook her head. "We'd have to go to that point in time to find out what happened."
For now, there seemed to be only one way to do that.
But the thought alone gave Chen Xuan a headache.
Two timelines, with two Honglians from different eras in the store at once?
That was terrifying.
They spent the next few hours searching for the Organization's whereabouts. Through television and the internet, they followed reports from Jiangcheng and watched every video from the scene. But Xiao Kanong and his agents seemed to have vanished into thin air. They couldn't find a single clue.
Of course, Chen Xuan couldn't rule out the possibility that they had already slipped away. The explosion site was chaos. Fires burned everywhere, thick smoke hid the sky, and ground traffic had stopped completely. Only floating cars could reach the heart of the blast zone. Under those conditions, they could easily have escaped