The situation briefly became deeply awkward.
Faced with Nie Yun, a kidnapper who might as well have been holding a knife to a beautiful woman's throat and demanding that her boyfriend surrender, the two captains had no idea how to tell him that they actually had nothing to do with the woman.
If they absolutely had to name a connection, it would probably be that they had come with the same intention of abducting her, so they were actually in the same line of work...
Well... whether in looks or sheer presence, their fellow villain, the Gemini Civilization... had lost hands down!
Still... this misunderstanding did give the Winged Race captain a few ideas.
"Ahem! Captain, allow me to introduce ourselves first. We are the Far Eastern Rangers of the Gemini Civilization, and this is indeed an outlying territory of our civilization.
"But I'm very sorry to say that the primitive civilization on that planet isn't nearly as important as you seem to think. At most, it is an insignificant subordinate civilization within our territory.
"And we have only come here for a routine civilization observation!" The Winged Race captain weighed his words before offering this explanation.
He now regarded the other party as a civilization expanding its frontiers, just like their own, which meant that his purpose in coming here was most likely territorial expansion as well!
Strictly speaking, the Solar System had not yet been formally incorporated into the Gemini Civilization's territory. But if the other party knew this territory was unclaimed, he might seize it under the universal convention of first come, first served, bringing him into conflict with the Gemini Civilization's expansion strategy.
If their civilizations were at comparable levels, might all the wrangling between them turn into a territorial dispute lasting hundreds of years?
So,