"That's something I've wondered about too." Chen Xuan was less optimistic than she was. "The Dimensional Limit Organization may not know the full story behind the dragon's death, but that doesn't mean its theory is wrong. Someone might have opened a passage between the two worlds before Liu Shuyue killed the dragon."
"Before you did?" Lin Qing asked in surprise. "Who?"
"I don't know," he answered honestly. No one could answer that. Unlike the enormous disturbance Liu Shuyue had caused, the earlier passage might have been no more than a tiny, inconspicuous crack—and it might not have opened in the wide-open sky.
His view wasn't based entirely on speculation.
"Do you remember Su Xingwan?"
"That friend of the Gu family's eldest daughter?" Lin Qing's eyes narrowed slightly at the mention of the Gu family.
"Shadow Demons appeared in her dreams," Chen Xuan said quietly. "I've always found that strange. There shouldn't be anywhere in this world for demons to live."
"According to Su Xingwan, her nightmares started a year ago. That was before I met Liu Shuyue."
Lin Qing froze. "You mean someone crossed over from Little Shuyue's world a year ago?"
"A year ago from our perspective. In Liu Shuyue's world, it might have been ten years ago, or even a hundred. Before I went there, there was no way to measure the difference between the two worlds' flow of time." Chen Xuan shook his head. "If that's true, then Nano-Lifeforms will appear in the future whether I become the store manager or not. They're something the Dimensional Limit Organization and the Gospel Society created together by chance."
Lin Qing's expression shifted uneasily.
For the first time, she doubted her mission.
She had seen what happened when the Dimensional Limit Organization gained the upper hand. Now the organization had