The white sedan gradually slowed down when it arrived at a relatively dense settlement. Xue Tian turned off the engine before unfastening his seatbelt, and Wen Xiang could only follow suit in silence.
The pinkette then signaled him to immediately get out of the car, and Wen Xiang nodded in response. Opening the car door, the black-haired man then stepped out of the car.
Xue Tian had already gotten out of the car, and Wen Xiang could see how the weirdo in cotton candy hair talked to an elderly lady who was standing not far from the car. The two people were talking in another language, perhaps in Bahasa, and Wen Xiang couldn't understand a word.
However, his body flinched when he saw Xue Tian suddenly point his finger at him. The elderly lady turned to him while waving her wrinkled hand, and Wen Xiang could only bow his head awkwardly.
Wen Xiang was not good with strangers, and his social skills suck for real. That was why he chose to nail his feet on his current spot instead of walking over to Xue Tian and the lady.
Xue Tian looked annoyed because Wen Xiang looked like a dumb statue, but then he excused himself from the elderly lady and ran toward the taller man.
"Mbah Siti said that you're handsome and wanted to talk to you, but all you did was stand here like a standee. You're so proud of your look, aren't you?" Xue Tian questioned him while squinting his blue eyes toward him.
Wen Xiang frowned upon hearing a foreign word coming from the man's lips. "What is 'Mbah'?" He asked back instead of answering Xue Tian's question.
Xue Tian responded with an 'Ah,' seeming to just realize that Wen Xiang didn't know Bahasa at all.
"The word 'Mbah' means grandma," the pinkette explained. "I have so many nice neighbors in this area, and you have to pay respect to them if you want to live in my house. I don't want to be seen as a bad guy, you know?"
The blue eyes squinted at him again, and Wen Xiang felt a little uncomfortable under the gaze. "Maybe they'll be afraid of me, and that's not my fault because I was born with this scary look on my face," he replied.
Wen Xiang noticed how the elderly lady looked a little shocked before waving at him earlier.
Xue Tian rolled his eyes when he heard Wen Xiang's words. "Do you think you look scary because of your tattoo?" He questioned the taller man again. "This place's name is Kotagede, and the people here are used to seeing tourists who came from abroad. They're also used to the lifestyle of those visitors. Seeing a man with a tattoo is not a new thing for them."
The shorter man gave him an explanation, and he took some time to reflect. 'Maybe I'm just overreacting?' He thought to himself as he recalled the elderly lady's look earlier.
He was not an ordinary person, and he had never interacted with people outside of 'business.' Other than Chang Jianyu, he didn't have anyone who would talk to him as a normal person.
Ah, Chang Jianyu. He had cut ties with the man, and he didn't even let the man know that he had arrived in this country. That was not necessary, anyway. Less contact with Chang Jianyu, fewer risks that Black Lotus would find that man.
"Hey, are you coming or not?"
Wen Xiang blinked in confusion when he heard the question. He was in deep thought, and he didn't realize that Xue Tian had started walking without him. The pinkette only stopped walking when he realized that Wen Xiang didn't follow him.
The raven-haired man finally walked over to the pinkette. "I thought that it was your house?" He questioned the pinkette while pointing at the house where Xue Tian parked the car earlier.
Xue Tian chuckled upon hearing the innocent question. "I can't park my car in front of my house, so I have to leave my car here," he explained the situation to the other man. "Now we need to walk to my house. It's not far from here. We only need to walk 300 meters."
That was quite strange. Usually, car owners would park their cars in their own garages, but Xue Tian chose to leave the car in someone else's house. Xue Tian also mentioned that he couldn't park the car in front of his house.
Now Wen Xiang started to feel curious. What kind of house was owned by the pink-haired man?
He covered his curiosity with a flat expression as they started walking toward Xue Tian's house. The area was so crowded with houses, and each house looked like sticking to the other.
Xue Tian led him to walk on narrow paths, and Wen Xiang started to understand the reason behind the man's statement earlier.
Xue Tian couldn't park the car in his own house because the paths to his house were too narrow. In some areas, he couldn't even walk side by side with Xue Tian without brushing his shoulder with the latter.
And when there was a motorcycle coming from ahead of them, he had to step back and walk behind the pinkette to let the bike pass them.
"You've never come to a place like this?" Xue Tian questioned him without turning to him. "Most buildings in this area are old, and we can say that this area is like a heritage site. You're so lucky because I bring you here. Tourist loves to come to this area."
Wen Xiang could confirm Xue Tian's statement when he saw the structures of the buildings. Even the walls already looked so old, so the area was indeed something like a heritage site.
"What if there's an earthquake?" Wen Xiang suddenly voiced his question.
"Huh?" Xue Tian replied while turning his head to Wen Xiang, who was walking behind him. "What about an earthquake?" He continued.
"Yogyakarta is prone to earthquakes, right? What if there's an earthquake here? With these old buildings and this narrow path, how are we supposed to evacuate ourselves?"