A moment later, the door to Leticia's room opened again.
Leticia walked in and was surprised to find that Lamia had indeed changed into a new set of clothes.
It was a white maid outfit with golden patterns, the same style as her own princess dress but in a completely opposite color scheme.
One look at the clothes and it was clear they were sisters.
Though she didn't know why her sister had prepared a change of clothes in advance, and she found it rather improper for her to change in front of Lord Su Mo, she was not concerned with such trivial matters at the moment.
What concerned her was the atmosphere between the two.
Lamia was kneeling beside Su Mo in a submissive and extremely dignified manner, gracefully pouring him tea. She looked more like a maid than a princess.
And most importantly, hadn't Lamia's attitude towards Lord Su Mo suddenly become much more intimate?
She had been a bit reserved before, but now she was leaning slightly against him, completely unconcerned about the physical contact.
"Lamia?" the straightforward vampire girl asked, puzzled.
"Please come in, Sister!" Lamia said, acting like the lady of the house, welcoming the true owner of the room. "Don't just stand there in a daze. It's not good to keep Master waiting!"
"Oh!" Leticia nodded blankly and immediately walked over. She keenly noticed that her pillow and Lamia's changed clothes were gone, tossed somewhere unknown.
Lamia's expression also seemed much more refreshed, as if she no longer needed to endure anything.
As she puzzled over these details, Canary followed her into the room, pushed her into the seat Lamia had previously occupied, and looked at Lamia with a smile. "Congratulations, congratulations. So not all vampires are as dense as Leticia. The younger sister is actually more reliable than the older one!"
Hearing this, Leticia tilted her head, subconsciously ignoring the slight coolness of the chair beneath her, and asked, "What are you talking about, Canary? What congratulations?"
"A blockhead like you wouldn't understand!" Canary wagged her index finger, a foxy smile that Leticia hated appearing on her face. This girl, speaking in riddles again!
As she was feeling confused, Lamia, who was beside her, lowered her head slightly and smiled in a very proper tone. "Miss Canary is overthinking things. Even I may not be worthy of such an honor. It is only because Lord Su Mo is generous enough to accept me as his personal maid!"
"Personal maid?" Hearing this, Leticia was a little surprised. It wasn't that she was surprised a vampire princess would become a maid—after all, given Su Mo's status, it was Lamia who was punching above her weight. She was surprised that Su Mo had such a need.
After glancing at Kāla, she immediately said, "If Lord Su Mo needs a maid, Kāla's skill in this area is..." The straightforward girl made a proposal that left even Kāla speechless. Fortunately, before she could finish, Lamia interrupted.
"Sister, you misunderstand. It's not that Lord Su Mo needs a personal maid, but that he is generous enough to accept me as his personal maid." As she spoke, she stole a glance at Su Mo, her tone becoming slightly shy. "After all, with my current physical condition, I can't do much else besides serving Master."
Hearing this, Leticia became worried. "Physical condition? Lamia, are you not feeling well?"
"N-no," the girl quickly shook her head, her tone vague. "It's just that some of my curse's characteristics are not suitable for too much contact with outsiders. As long as I stay by Master's side, I'll be fine."
Hearing her say this, Leticia was relieved. "That's good." But what curse makes it necessary for her to stay by Su Mo's side?
As Leticia showed a puzzled expression, Lamia naturally changed the subject. "With Master here, you don't need to worry, Sister. Master can solve all my needs at any time... Besides that, shouldn't we be discussing important matters now?"
Hearing her say this, the others finally remembered Su Mo's original purpose.
"Lord Su Mo, how was it? Did you find anything?" Canary asked immediately.
"Mhm," Su Mo nodded. "The results of the investigation have more or less confirmed my hypothesis. I roughly understand the environment in which the vampire clan was born."
Hearing this, Leticia, Canary, and the others all showed curious expressions.
"So quickly... Could you explain it to us?"
"I can," Su Mo nodded. "The types of vampire curses are very broad, but in most cases, they are mixed with the images of succubi and ghouls, shaping vampires into a monster race with a completely different morality from humans."
"If you put it together with the biological characteristics of the vampire clan itself, you will find that these traits are very similar. Even in the curses, the image of vampires is still a species that is active only at night, sucks blood or engages in cannibalism, and has a very abnormal moral standard."
"That's slander!" the righteous Leticia said with a hint of anger. "We Knights of Little Garden are definitely not such inhuman monsters!"
She was a member of the vampire clan herself; how could she not know if they had such vile habits?
She was furious about the embellished content added by the poets of Little Garden, but she also knew that the people present would not be deceived by such a crude lie.
However...
"That may be the case from the perspective of vampires, but from the perspective of human history, these slanders may not be without reason." As someone who understood the truth, Su Mo gave the most surprising answer. He actually agreed with the content of the curses?
"Master, why do you say that?" Even Lamia, who had just met Su Mo, didn't think her master would be deceived by rumors. She looked at him with great confusion, wondering why he would say such a thing.
"If we assume that the content of the curses is true, and the vampire clan really has a history of devouring the corpses or parts of the corpses of their own kind, such as blood, when do you think this situation is most likely to occur?" Su Mo looked at Canary.
"During a food shortage?" Canary answered subconsciously.
Cannibalistic tribes' habit of devouring their own kind was basically for food, but this answer was a bit shallow.
The act of devouring corpses due to a simple food shortage should not be enough to affect the Divinity of a race.
If such a characteristic really existed, it either meant that vampires did indeed have a habit of devouring each other, or it meant that the vampire clan had to establish its Divinity by devouring corpses at the time of its birth.
If it were the latter, did it mean that devouring their own kind was a necessary condition for the birth of a vampire?
Thinking of the characteristics of the Third Stellar Particle, which could be inherited through live devouring, Canary suddenly had a thought. "No! It's not just that. Lord Su Mo, do you mean that the vampire clan is a race born by devouring the Third Stellar Particle from the blood or corpses of others?"
If so, the curse of the ghoul was not unfounded.
"That's a possibility," Su Mo nodded, then added, "Imagine, when the sun is undergoing abnormal activity, the Earth loses its habitable environment. Humans can escape Earth by building satellites, but no matter how large the satellite ships are, the resources inside are non-renewable."
Even if an ecological cabin was built inside the ship to store all the machinery that could provide food and essential life supplies to the maximum extent, under long-term deficit, the supplies the ship could provide would inevitably be less than human needs.
The Biosphere 2 experiment had already proven that an artificial ecological cabin could not maintain long-term stability like the Earth's ecosystem.
"In this situation, humans will fight among themselves for resources, and no matter how the fight goes, it cannot solve the fundamental problem. They will ultimately have to face dwindling survival supplies and a ground full of corpses." Su Mo sketched out a simple future development model.
To escape the sun, future humans would leave on spaceships, but the supplies on board would be exhausted before they could find a new home.
In the struggle for resources, humans would have to face a ground full of corpses and dwindling resources.
At this time, if survival was the top priority, one thing had to be put on the table: cannibalism.
Devouring corpses meant living longer; not devouring them meant dying.
Faced with this dilemma, although some would be willing to take this step, there would certainly be a large number of people who would rather die than do such a thing.
After all, simply eating people not only challenged psychological limits but also only allowed one to live for a few more days. Compared to the limited benefits, many people would probably rather starve to death.
Of course, having this thought did not mean they could suppress their biological instincts, especially after obtaining new information.
"At this time, a glimmer of hope is discovered. Humans find that the holders of the Third Stellar Particle cultivated in the laboratory can obtain endless energy from the universe without food."
"It is known that the Third Stellar Particle can only be obtained through inheritance and live devouring. Any other cultivation method will cause the Third Stellar Particle to quickly lose its activity."
"So, apart from the royalty who were born with the Third Stellar Particle as an Original Text embryo, what method can others use to become holders of the Third Stellar Particle?" Su Mo asked an incredibly cruel question.
Canary knew that the conditions Su Mo proposed were not something he had just thought up on the spot.
The particularity of the Third Stellar Particle meant that even the most cutting-edge scientists could only create a 100% compatible Third Stellar Particle Original Text through embryo transplantation.
To allow someone born without the Third Stellar Particle to obtain it, it could only be enriched through live devouring. In other words...
"Devour the corpses of other experimental subjects who hold the Third Stellar Particle!" Canary shuddered as she answered.
She had anticipated the possibility of human experiments, but she had never thought such experiments would occur under such complex circumstances.
If, in peacetime, the act of the rich committing the taboo of cannibalism by devouring experimental subjects to extend their lives and obtain better enjoyment was an unforgivable crime, then when the race was in crisis, when people's own lives were threatened, could devouring others to ensure one's own life still be called unforgivable?
If the answer was yes, it was equivalent to sentencing the future of humanity to death. If the answer was no, wouldn't that be condoning their cannibalistic behavior?
It must be known that acknowledging death and refusing to use humans as sacrifices had always been a typical sign of the development of human civilization and one of the bottom lines of existing human civilization.
To subvert this prohibition, from another perspective, wouldn't it mean...
"This is subverting the old human civilization of Earth and establishing a brand-new civilization for humans in the interstellar age!" Canary's eyes widened, finally understanding Su Mo's meaning.
If so, it could not only explain the vampire clan's fear of light, their bloodsucking characteristics, and the ghoul curse, but also the most important question: Why did the vampires in the curses have a moral concept completely different from that of humans?
Because vampires were a brand-new interstellar civilization born from the corpse of human Earth civilization.
A new civilization naturally had to match a new morality!