Nick was, of course, pulling Dahlia's leg.
What he had seen back then had not been English words, but proper Chinese, in a standard Fangsong typeface, no less.
When he had come clean to the girl about his origins in the secret laboratory, he had not mentioned his so-called past life. That was Nick's deepest secret, one even Aunt Mary did not know.
Many films and television shows in this world resembled those from his past life, including horror films about extraterrestrial monsters like Alien.
Although the monsters looked more or less the same, this world's "Alien" film series was called "Alien Monster" in Chinese, and its English title was not "Alien," but "One Thing."
The plots were vastly different, too, and there was not a single familiar face among the actors. The only similarities were the two franchises' places in their respective worlds' film history and their release dates.
The same was true of Dahlia's world. After the two of them escaped the Canyon, while they were hiding here and there, Nick had even squeezed in a search between sending information to the major news agencies, wanting to know whether that world had an American television series similar to Grimm.
It turned out that world really did have a show with a similar premise, but it had been banned after just one season for excessive gore and sexual content, because its director was a Czech guy.
Of course, that American fantasy series was not called Grimm, either, but One Thousand and One Nights.
Nick therefore believed that, even according to his own theory of parallel worlds, the world of his past life should qualify as the primary world, or at least the one best at "projecting signals."
Of course, he did not say that aloud, and Dahlia had visibly