A Sudden Claim

He believed he could use this line of reasoning to conceal his true purpose in coming to this star system, then use it as a pretext to have humanity take his fleet away from this star region.

This was akin to cutting off his own arm to save himself. He would use a single fleet as the price to draw humanity away and reduce the number of competitors for the Starry Sky Treasure. As for the Gurji Civilization, the person in charge of this fleet could only hope that the Orange Star Civilization's leader would find some other way to send them away.

Honestly, their requests to join the Star Alliance, have humanity take them to Star Alliance Headquarters, and learn about how the Star Alliance operated were all quite reasonable.

If the Star Alliance had truly been founded by a Level 5 Civilization, with humanity merely one of its member civilizations, humanity might really have agreed to take them to Star Alliance Headquarters. Unfortunately, the Star Alliance had been founded by humanity itself. Its full name was the Star Voyage Alliance.

Moreover, humanity had come here for the Small Universe left behind by the Precursor. In a sense, their goal was the same as the Orange Star Civilization's. How could they possibly leave just like that?

At that moment, someone aboard the Lyra suggested to Yue Yuan, "Chief, if we refuse them, we'll expose ourselves. So no matter what, we can't refuse them, but we also can't really take them to any Star Alliance Headquarters."

"We can't refuse, but we can't agree either? What nonsense are you talking about?" Upon hearing this familiar sort of rhetoric again, another Command Department member could not help but complain.

That person did not mind and continued slowly, "Stay calm. We can pretend