Upon hearing Canary's further explanation, both Leticia and Lamia wore expressions of shock.
So that was it. The saying that the vampire clan hailed from the distant future of human civilization actually meant that.
If so, it could indeed explain the vampires' poor reputation and their strange characteristics.
Both bloodsucking and devouring corpses were for the purpose of replenishing the concentration of the Third Stellar Particle in their bodies.
As for the other negative evaluations, from the moral standpoint of Earth's civilization, a brand-new civilization born through devouring one's own kind was indeed synonymous with evil from its very inception.
Such a vampire race was both a future form of humanity and a form rejected by human history.
"But if that's the case, hasn't the vampire form already overcome the issue of survival resources and passed this crisis?" Lamia asked, perplexed. "Why did Master say before that the vampire form isn't the correct evolutionary path for humanity?"
As a princess with full marks in political wisdom, Lamia didn't think the vampires' inglorious birth was a fatal problem.
Firstly, this method of birth had nothing to do with their royal family; it was a sin committed entirely by the non-royal humans.
Secondly, discussing social morality in the face of a race's survival was an incredibly foolish thing to do.
Morality was never static; even group morality was far more susceptible to change than many people imagined.
If the vampire form could truly overcome the energy problem and completely transcend the apocalypse, even if it required committing the crime of cannibalism, it would surely become one of the correct options for humanity's future form.
Yet, Su Mo's denial of this indicated that the vampire form must still have an insurmountable problem.
"It's still the problem of photophobia," Su Mo explained. "The bloodsucking nature is related to the birth of the vampire clan, but in reality, for the royal family, bloodsucking is not a necessary act. This proves that mature vampires in the future do not need to sustain themselves by sucking blood or devouring the corpses of their own kind."
The original sin of the vampire clan's birth could be easily corrected in later generations, so it wasn't a major issue.
Even if they wanted to uphold worldly morality, they would only need to criticize their ancestors who wantonly enclosed land and plundered, just like in North America. It wasn't a big deal.
The truly important problem was the fear of light that even the royal family, even the later generations of vampires born far from their original source, could not escape.
"Even royalty like Leticia or Lamia fear the sun, which is different from the performance of a normal holder of the Third Stellar Particle Original Text," Su Mo pointed out.
The Izayoi Sakamaki of the original story had no such weakness.
"Do you mean that as holders of the Third Stellar Particle, the vampire form has a certain specific defect that prevents them from overcoming their photophobia like they overcame their bloodsucking instinct... and that's why it became the wrong evolutionary path?" Canary understood Su Mo's meaning.
A fear of light that could be overcome, like the bloodsucking trait, would not be a permanent defect.
An insurmountable fear of light indicated that the vampire clan's genes contained some unchangeable flaw, making it impossible for them to ever become a complete candidate for the Original Text.
"Correct," Su Mo nodded slightly.
Although the Third Stellar Particle could draw endless energy from information particles, just as Su Mo had repeatedly mentioned the difference between the first, second, and third perpetual motion machines, the endless energy referred to by the third perpetual motion machine was only endless for humans.
It could never exceed the limit of the third perpetual motion machine to reach the scale of the second, which was cosmic energy.
This meant that this energy source itself had a limit.
If they couldn't utilize starlight and relied solely on external information particle energy, the vampire civilization would be destroyed due to a lack of energy replenishment long before the heat death of the universe.
Although the vampire civilization could still exist for a very long time, for the continuation of the race, this was just a slow suicide, a long wait for death.
This was the true meaning of the "wrong evolutionary path" Canary had just mentioned.
"To abandon their home planet and continue in an interstellar civilization, they must remedy the defect of photophobia and become a complete form of the Third Stellar Particle," this was the so-called correct evolutionary path.
"If we follow Master's line of thought, our vampire clan must have made similar attempts, but they must have failed," Lamia said thoughtfully.
The vampires were not idiots; they must have tried to solve the same problem, but obviously, the outcome was not ideal.
So the question was, why hadn't the vampire clan, which had developed to the point of soaring through the sea of stars, succeeded in remedying their own defects?
According to Su Mo, given the long time the vampire clan could survive, they should have had enough time to research the Third Stellar Particle.
Unless the key to the problem was not simply the progress of research, but some critical elements.
It was precisely because of the lack of these critical elements that the vampire clan could not complete themselves and become the correct evolutionary form.
And in the context of the future, what element could the vampire clan absolutely not recover, no matter what method they used?
In the context of the future, an element that was both indispensable and had already been destroyed could almost only exist in one place.
"Earth!" Canary and Lamia said in unison, simultaneously realizing the crux of the problem.
"The vampire civilization's spaceships are missing key information that only exists on Earth. It is the lack of this information that has made it forever impossible for them to remedy their defects!"
Human history's rejection of the vampire form indicated that a correct form for humanity did exist.
The reason the vampire clan was labeled with the "wrong evolution" tag was because they had already made an irreversible mistake.
And in the corresponding worldview, the only thing that the spaceship-born interstellar vampire civilization could not reverse was the already destroyed home planet, Earth.
The subsequent reasoning was logical.
"In other words, as long as we find the key information that the vampire form is missing, we can deduce the correct human evolutionary form!" Canary's eyes shone as if she had seen the dawn of salvation.
She finally understood why Su Mo was so obsessed with the origin of the vampire clan's Divinity. This was clearly the best key to overcoming eschatology!
"You could say that," Su Mo nodded. "However, this key information is mainly for overcoming the Wind of Decadence... If the opponent is a mere Last Embryo from the Earth civilization era, there's no need to consider such a distant future."
For an apocalypse of the Earth era, the vampire form alone would be sufficient to solve the problem.
"A mere Last Embryo from the Earth civilization..."
Even though she understood Su Mo's meaning and knew he was not exaggerating in the slightest, hearing his tone, combined with her past knowledge of Little Garden's common sense and recalling the gods' terror in the face of the Last Embryo, Lamia couldn't help but let her small mouth fall open in shock.
"I've really ended up with an incredible Master!"