Nie Yun irresponsibly left Catherine to handle the fleet's miscellaneous affairs and walked out of the bridge with his two "bodyguards," heading for his commander's quarters.
Safety first. In enemy-occupied territory, Nie Yun, their resident 007, had always been cautious. Yet as he walked, the atmosphere around him veered sharply away from a spy thriller and slid almost straight into an idol drama...
EH6... Oh, it should have been called the Fallen Angel now. Many of the warship's crew had heard about the arrival of Nie Yun and his companion and found all sorts of excuses to come gawk at them. As a result, Nie Yun had rather a lot of "chance encounters" along the way...
He practically covered the short distance with a welcoming crowd lining his route, meeting almost everyone aboard the warship in the process.
He politely smiled and waved at several female officers of the Winged Race who were making eyes at him, immediately setting off a chorus of "He's so handsome!"...
Uh...
Nie Yun quickened his pace slightly, privately marveling at how much the women of the Winged Race outnumbered the men. The male-to-female ratio aboard the Fallen Angel was nearly one to two.
As far as Nie Yun knew, the Winged Race had experienced a long period of matriarchal society, and women also outnumbered men in their population.
According to research by Winged Race biologists, the gender imbalance was, roughly speaking, caused by an uneven proportion of genetic chromosomes analogous to X and Y.
Precisely because of this, even though males had an innate advantage in physical strength, women of the Winged Race had never held a low social standing.
Senior female military officers like Ishar, Catherine, and Amelia were quite common. Female officers even outnumbered their male counterparts.
Nie Yun had little interest