Perhaps it was because everyone trusted advanced civilizations that, even after coming to someone else's home planet and potentially facing an ambush, they still chose to believe in them.
Yet even the first group to come for a trade had never imagined that the entire royal clan of a star region, the Kro Civilization, which even in the Xandar Empire had a fairly decent reputation, could be so shameless.
Although the Kro Civilization had established almost no diplomatic ties abroad and had chosen not to communicate much with other civilizations,
the Kro Civilization's piloting technology, along with the Kro who left their planet to venture through the universe, had earned it a rather good reputation.
Compared with the universally acknowledged rogue civilizations in the universe, the Kro Civilization was definitely considered one of the better ones.
Yet this very civilization had begun acting like a bunch of ruffians because it wanted to fight, and it was targeting those space teams that came to trade.
The first battle had even caused a huge sensation throughout the entire civilization, and the betting pools formed around that first battle had quickly sprung up everywhere.
All kinds of bets had been placed on the second wave.
No one had expected that the second wave would be Quill and the others, drawn there by the Galaxy Pure Water. They had not expected Quill and the others to pilot the Milan straight into such an obvious trap.
After all, if they had seen the ambush prepared on the landing platform and tried to leave in the Milan, they would immediately have been attacked by the fleet that had been waiting.
That would have given the Kro plenty of entertainment.
But the Milan had entered the trap directly and been captured without any ability to resist. That