Okay, look. The reasons for Chris hanging out in the outskirts of the city are unimportant and definitely not illegal. The thing that matters here is that he's been distracted from whatever Completely Sensible and not-at-all-frowned-upon-by-CONDOR thing he was doing by the appearance of a spaceship. He contemplates just ignoring it for a minute, but outside of Karkat, (who Chris likes well enough, but he also has a perpetual case of the morbs,) he never gets to meet aliens like at all ever. What's even the point of joining the Trailblazers if you don't get to see cool shit like that?

(Saving lives and helping people. That's the reason.)

So Chris decides to speed over in the vague direction of the ship and-- oh, yes. That's definitely the person he's looking for. Chris waves an arm to get Nihlus' attention - the idea that he could be here with hostile intent clearly doesn't even occur to him - and jogs up closer. "Alright, mate? Need any help?"