The Sea Race captain cast a grim look at the two Sea Race guards sprawled by the door, then turned his gaze to the flashy humanoid who had appeared out of nowhere aboard his warship, complete with his own entrance music.
But the moment he saw the intruder's face clearly, he sprang from his chair.
Black eyes, black hair, yellow skin-he was all too familiar with this humanoid's features. As his original mission target, how could he not know what the target species looked like?
"An Earthling?!" His face filled with disbelief, the shock in his eyes suggesting that he was questioning everything he knew.
He had imagined all sorts of intruders: robots, biological weapons, even Ant People with eight fleshy lumps on their chins. But an Earthling lay light-years beyond the limits of his imagination!
How could it be an Earthling?
How could it possibly be an Earthling?!
Earthlings should have been staying put on Earth, being trampled by the Ante Empire, waiting for this war between advanced civilizations to end before receiving the verdict on their fate!
What right did an Earthling have to stand at the heart of this war's battlefield-and with the air of a victor, no less?!
Nie Yun's avatar removed his sunglasses, then smiled as he surveyed the dumbstruck Sea Race personnel on the bridge. Finally, his gaze settled on their still-bewildered captain.
"A pleasure to meet everyone from the Gemini Civilization here!" Nie Yun said with a smile, speaking fluent Twin Stars Common Language.
The Sea Race personnel present were startled again. The intruder clearly wore no translation device, and even his lip movements matched. This probably wasn't lip-syncing!
He... spoke Twin Stars Common Language!
Twin Stars had no legendary instant-learning machine where you could simply tap whatever you didn't understand and effortlessly