For Chen Xuan, his understanding of this term is limited to the replica pedestrian street in the Jiang City World Window.

A lavishly decorated concrete stone gate stands at the entrance of the long street. According to the promotional board, it’s a one-to-one replica, yet for the World Window itself, its biggest role is to collect entry tickets.

Chen Xuan originally thought he would only see replicas in this lifetime, but unexpectedly, five minutes later, they stood in front of a massive stone-built ruin. The top of the door frame had collapsed, but the two square pillars on either side, along with the impressive reliefs above, all spoke of its former identity.

Arc de Triomphe.

It was enough to prove that the connected street was the Champs-Élysées—one of Paris’s famous sights.

Now it wasn’t just Elorie; even Chen Xuan stood in front of the stone gate somewhat in a daze.

France’s capital... has become a forsaken land?

This should be something that happens in the future.

Yet Lin Qing never mentioned such a future.

Even if Ability Users attacked the nuclear submarines, their target would be the United Kingdom, and a single nuclear strike wouldn’t completely turn a city with a population of over ten million into a wasteland.

"This is... my world."

Elorie suddenly whispered, "There’s a candy store at the southern street entrance of the gate square, decorated colorfully, making people want to go in at first glance."

She pointed to a two-story house surrounded by weeds and plants by the street side, its walls severely weathered, yet traces of red and orange colors were still faintly visible.

Then she turned to the opposite side of the street, "Across from it is a flower shop. I rarely go there, but the proprietress is a warm person who enthusiastically introduces flower types whether one buys or not, and once she starts talking, she can’t stop."

Chen Xuan looked over and indeed saw an old building there, the roof had caved in, and it was impossible to tell if it sold flowers.

"I should have realized sooner." Elorie’s voice carried a hint of choking, "The place we fell from is Concord Park. I often walk this road... I know every store in these buildings."

"In this world, is her homeland destroyed?" Liu Shuyue quietly asked Chen Xuan.

"It seems likely. But the exact time difference is unclear, perhaps decades, perhaps centuries..." Chen Xuan replied softly.

He roughly understood what was going on.

Elorie’s world highly resembles the world Chen Xuan is in; perhaps the distribution of countries and cities is nearly identical, with only slight differences in details. That’s why when she crossed to this side, she quickly adapted, integrated into society, and even passed the Dimensional Limit Mechanism’s recruitment.

The same goes for the Demon.

The entire issue lies in that rift.

The uncontrolled rift not only transmitted the wrong location but likely also the wrong time.

At this point in time, the world known by Elorie had already undergone tremendous changes.

Chen Xuan coughed twice and shared his speculation, "...I think the current primary task is to find the way back. Just because changes occurred at this time point doesn’t mean they also occurred to your relatives and friends. As long as time stretches long enough, any world will ultimately face destruction."

After a moment of silence, Elorie took a deep breath and said, "You’re absolutely right... I was panicking."

She rubbed her eyes and, regaining her spirit, said, "I shouldn’t feel sad. This is the divine guidance given to me. If we can discover the cause of the disaster, perhaps we’ll find a way to prevent it when we return!"

Once the girl collected her emotions, the three continued westward.

With that, Elorie transformed into a guide.

"Want to find big shopping malls? No problem, several comprehensive commercial plazas are just in the western section of the Champs-Élysées. People say it’s a shopping paradise."

She directly used honorifics towards Chen Xuan and Liu Shuyue.

Chen Xuan felt it wasn’t necessary, but she didn’t change her tone.

"By the way, how did you realize our worlds were different?"

"Actually, I didn’t recognize it at first." Elorie scratched her head awkwardly, "After locating the Demon, my first thought was to call for support. At the time, I was searching for a phone booth to make international calls... but you all don’t seem to use those anymore."

A phone booth... That was something rare even twenty years ago. "What happened next?"

"Later, I borrowed a phone from a kind person to make the call, but the number was always absent. Subsequently, seeing the Dimensional Limit Mechanism’s TV advertisement, coupled with no one wearing a Ring of the Mind, I realized something was off."

"What is this Ring of the Mind?" Chen Xuan curiously asked.

"It can prevent people from being tempted by the Demon, for instance, wearing the ring while sleeping will prevent the Demon from invading dreams."

Liu Shuyue couldn’t help but speak, "So this Demon... is it human?"

"Before becoming a Demon, they should have been human." Elorie nodded, "No one knows how they become Demons, as I don’t know how I became an Angel..."

"Pfft." Chen Xuan couldn’t hold back.

Elorie blushed, "I know calling myself an Angel is strange, but that’s what everyone calls me, and I can’t change it."

"So one day, you just suddenly knew you were a..." He involuntarily stalled, "Angel?"

"Yes, that’s how it was!" Elorie muttered with her head down, "As if I’d heard a divine calling and then gained the power to hunt Demons."

Chen Xuan couldn’t help but exchange glances with Liu Shuyue.

"What did you think of?"

"It resembles the moment a Cultivator awakens the ability of Qi Sensing." Liu Shuyue whispered.

"Indeed." Chen Xuan shared the same view. The instant a Cultivator perceives Qi, they know they’ve connected with the spirit of the world and will henceforth be different.

And normally, Ability Users defined by the Dimensional Limit Mechanism gain their abilities without realizing it, requiring a coincidental opportunity to activate them.

Furthermore, the so-called Demons and Angels prove that different worlds not only refer to abilities differently but also realize them uniquely.

"Who made the Ring of the Mind?" Chen Xuan asked again.

"The ring is just a regular receiver; its source of power comes from an extraordinary object we call the Flawless Crystal. A single Flawless Crystal can cover all of Europe, while other continents have their own Flawless Crystals, heavily guarded by national forces, perhaps even more important than nuclear weapons." Elorie explained seriously.

Wow... The Angel World’s secrets are truly abundant.

But come to think of it, it is a complete world different from his own, surely filled with unique things.

Wait, a thought suddenly emerged in Chen Xuan’s mind.

Lin Qing mentioned that the Dimensional Limit Mechanism controlled a very important infiltration point at the end of 2025, enabling the Mechanism’s already advanced technology to take a significant leap, eventually exceeding existing technologies. Preparing Jiang Siqi to enter the Mechanism was precisely to investigate the secret of this infiltration point.

Could it actually be this world?

He hadn’t considered this initially because the Dimensional Limit Mechanism was originally targeting the Wanderer, without mentioning the erosion news.

If his guess is correct, this is undoubtedly good news!

Since the Mechanism’s people can enter, then the people inside must be able to leave too. Even if the scanning gun cannot be repaired, as long as the Erosion Zone is found, they can return to Jiang City.

Moreover, Chen Xuan and Lin Qing had been planning to enter this world; the original plan was to infiltrate when the Mechanism first discovered the infiltration point and hadn’t attracted attention, by relying on Jiang Siqi as the "inside agent" to pinpoint the location and sneak in unnoticed. Who could have anticipated that, by a twist of fate, he and Liu Shuyue would end up crossing over here faster than the Mechanism?

"The commercial area is just those few buildings ahead." Elorie said.

Chen Xuan saw them too, the rare tall buildings along Champs-Élysées, approximately a hundred meters, which might have been landmark structures before abandonment. But now, they appeared as lifeless steel frameworks, with hardly any intact glass façades, and thick vines grew between the floors.

"If Building 99 hadn’t been wrapped in rocks, it should also be so grand." Liu Shuyue sighed, "Building houses so tall and then having to abandon them is truly a pity."

"Stop here." Chen Xuan suddenly frowned. Using the Divine Eye Technique, he saw some movement on the upper floors of the buildings. Moreover, the building closest to them was quite peculiar, with its upper part filled with many honeycomb-like hexagonal structures, nearly filling the spaces between floors.

This obviously wouldn’t be an inherent building structure.