Chapter 165: 7.3

"Who are you?" 

[…] 

Pupa: How did we get transported to XuanLake's room? What kind of imagination you have in your head?!]

[Pupa: I told you to imagine his face and a town, why bedroom?!]

[You know, I just imagined standard stuff…]

XuanLake glanced at the rainbow portal behind Yunyu that slowly disappeared. He pointed his dagger closer to Yunyu's neck, "This kind of portal is a high leveled portal. Tell me, who are you and what is your intention entering my room?"

"B—Brother, please relax…" Yunyu lowered the dagger with his fingertip and continued, "I—I'm just a random player that is learning transportation magic, but I still don't know where the portal would lead me to. I'm not a threat, I swear."

XuanLake was still suspicious, but he finally pulled the dagger and sheathed it, "Then, please leave now. I do not want anyone inside my room."

[Aiya, what a hostile ma. He is very handsome though, hee.]

[Pupa: You always have the wrong focus, look at his right hand.]

Yunyu glanced at XuanLake's right hand and saw that he was readying a new spell, maybe a preventive measure in case this unknown man suddenly attacked him. 

[So hostile… what are his Breakmeter and Fatemeter?]

[Pupa: Breakmeter -30 and Fatemeter is -40.]

[Wait, -40 Fatemeter?! I didn't even do anything! I was just visiting!]

[Pupa: Well, you are intruding in his bedroom, of course, he will be hostile!]

[But it should not be a reason for -40 Fatemeter, that is so cruel!]

[Pupa: Let's just say that he has innate hostility to everyone. Because apparently, he has -20 Fatemeter with literally everyone, even the random NPC that sold cabbage on the market. You breaking inside his residence just worsen it.]

"B—Brother, please be civil. Aiya, I was just strayed because of my first attempt to use the portal!" Yunyu begged. XuanLake's eyes peered suspiciously;

"If it's so, then leave now," XuanLake said. In which, Yunyu responded with a sigh;

"I can't. I use an item called Aqua Mirror to open a portal, but somehow, it didn't get teleported with me. It's now inside my room in…"

[Pupa, quick, give me the town that is relatively far from here!]

[Pupa: Ander Town.]

"… in Ander Town."

Yunyu saw that XuanLake began to hesitate. Thus, Yunyu fed him more with lies, "I'm generally a weak player. I cannot do anything other than potion making skill and few weak attacks."

Yunyu used his passive skill, the god of cute stuff, and blinked while pouting cutely at XuanLake. XuanLake was a head taller than Yunyu. Thus he looked down when Yunyu looked up, "Brother, what is your name?"

"… XuanLake."

"Brother Xuan! Would you mind escorting me back to Ander Town? I will pay you!" Yunyu begged, "I know no one in this city, and I'm afraid that I will get robbed on my way around the city. Please, Brother Xuan!"

XuanLake looked down at this guy impassively. True, this guy was cute, especially with his doe eyes. But appearance was never something that would entice XuanLake. Because he knew that all of them were fake. 

"Do you have anyone you can contact in Ander Town? They might be able to get your Aqua Mirror here," XuanLake said. 

"I have no one…" Yunyu shook his head, "I am just a useless, low leveled player after all. It's just that I happen to pick up teleporting and creating a portal as my skill. But because it is so unreliable, nobody wanted to take me inside their party." 

Yunyu was trying hard to fish the pity out of Xuan's heart, but XuanLake was not budging, "So you have no one?"

"Yeah, I'm alone in this virtual world…" Yunyu looked down, "But I don't want to burden anyone. So I worked hard every day to make potions and sell them to the market. It is the only way for me to make money for a rented room in Ander Town."

Yunyu took the bag of money from his pocket, "Brother Xuan, this is fifty diamonds. It is my earning of one-week selling potions. Please escort me back to Ander Town!" 

XuanLake was unresponsive when Yunyu put the bag on his palm. Truthfully, he didn't lack diamonds, the premium currency of this game. Because he was a debugger, he also had access to take some diamonds from dead players. 

But XuanLake had another idea. He was traversing to this new dungeon that he found not far from Ander Town. He found it by coincidence as he was checking on some unidentified dungeon left by the developer before all players could not log out. 

He needed a scapegoat and a meat shield in case something went wrong there. Because he wasn't sure if this unexplored dungeon allowed respawning after players got killed, or it would act like tower 50 and above. 

Because after tower 50 in the Tower of God, any player's death means their existence will be erased from the game. Which was one of the reasons why the majority didn't even try. They were too scared to disappear forever. 

XuanLake looked down at Yunyu, and he finally had a slight smirk on his face, "Do you really have no one that will search for you in this game?"

"Nope!" Yunyu assured.

"Good," XuanLaker grinned, "Then I will escort you tomorrow morning. But we need to go to a dungeon near Ander Town first."

"Dungeon? But it's scary…"

"Don't worry, I swear that I will protect you," XuanLake said. 

Yunyu's eyes sparkled with hope, "Really?! Brother Xuan will protect me?" 

"Yes, of course," XuanLake nodded again.

[See? I know that my charm works well! Look at Xuan, we just know in less than thirty minutes, and he already promised that he will escort me back to Ander Town!]

[Pupa:… people have bad taste, I see.]

[Oh, come on, at least praise me once!] 

Yunyu protested, but there was something that actually bugged him;

[I think Xuan's hostility should have been decreased a bit. But why is Fatemeter not moving? Is he shy or what?] 

[Pupa:…]

"By the way, may I know your game id?" XuanLake asked.

"Oh! It's Cutiepie69! You can call me Cutiepie!"