novelonline Chapter 2923 When Night Falls (41)
Chapter 2923 When Night Falls (41)
Chapter 2923 When Night Falls (Forty-one)
Jenna shook her head. She was not the type of person who liked myths very much. She was more interested in pop music and comics. Her brother liked audio equipment and motorcycles, and his concept of vampires was still basically that of villain monsters in video games.
But she soon realized what the question was referring to. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Do you think those legends are not just legends, but some of them are true?"
Jenna immediately went over all the information about vampires in her memory, but she really didn't know much and didn't have much useful information.
She originally wanted to ask Batman for help, but she thought Batman should be very busy now, so she sent a text message to Cyborg, asking him to send all the information he could find about vampires, even if it was just folk rumors, as long as it was related to vampires, she wanted it.
Cyborg has a strong ability to collect information. A few minutes later, he sent a lot of things, all organized into categories.
Aquaman was actually a little curious as to why Jenna was so absent-minded along the way, but seeing Zan's silence, he thought that the brother and sister must have encountered something, so he didn't bother them.
While thinking, Jenna also discovered that everyone in the Justice League was very tolerant of the two of them. Batman did not pursue what happened to Zan, Superman was curious but did not ask, and Wonder Woman comforted herself before leaving.
He was supposed to act as a messenger and security guard when he returned to Atlantis with Aquaman, but he was distracted the whole time and Aquaman didn't say anything.
Jenna had actually always been somewhat dissatisfied, because she and her brother were insignificant in the Justice League, and they were always doing small errands. For example, this time, because they walked on the seabed the whole time and there was basically no danger, Batman asked them to protect Aquaman, which was actually just to give them something to do.
But now she feels that this is also good. They are not perfect colleagues, but they are close to perfect family.
Because she was too worried about her brother, Jenna's brain was at full capacity. She quickly browsed through all the information and grasped the key points almost instantly.
Pure-blood nobles? Do vampires also have a pure-blood dispute?
Jenna saw the concept in the synopsis of a romance novel about vampires.
The male protagonist of this novel is a third-generation vampire, and the female protagonist is a young vampire who was accidentally bitten and has been carefully hiding her identity.
Then, quite unsurprisingly, all vampires were very opposed to this marriage, arguing that if they got married and had offspring, the impure blood in the female body would cause the offspring's power to decrease.
Jenna didn't have the patience to read the bloody story behind it. She instinctively felt that there was some basis for this bloodline legend.
Modern humans have realized the disadvantages of consanguineous marriage. Almost all countries have laws prohibiting consanguineous marriage, especially marriage between siblings, because there is a high probability that the children born in this situation will have defects.
But if vampires are divided into different strengths based on the thickness of their bloodlines, then the closer the marriage, the thicker the bloodline, and the stronger they are, right?
So if we use the ritual of the First Embrace to transform offspring, will the offspring be stronger if the vampire's bloodline is thicker?
Jenna felt that her speculation made sense.
Then, combined with the theory of soul pollution, does it mean that the more concentrated the blood of a vampire, the more evil the offspring will be?
Jenna always felt that something was wrong.
Jenna's understanding of evil is somewhat different from that of others, because she feels that any extreme good or evil means irrationality, and irrationality is roughly equivalent to a decrease in intelligence.
For example, an extremely kind person cannot bear to see anyone suffer. As soon as someone shows pity, he can't help but give that person everything he has. Isn't such a person very easy to be deceived?
The same goes for evil. When Jenna realized that the traitor was actually the Flash, she thought that the Flash actually had many more efficient ways to be the traitor. Not to mention that he would never be discovered, but at least he could delay it longer.
If Hal hadn't become so miserable, everyone might have had to stay there for at least two or three more days. In Jenna's opinion, the Flash's actions against Green Lantern were definitely intentional, and he wanted to torture Green Lantern on purpose.
It was this evil thought that caused him to be irrational and unable to act as the insider with the highest efficiency.
If the purer the blood of a vampire, the more evil it is, then wouldn't the higher the level of a vampire, the lower its IQ would be? Then what's the point of developing this race?
Jenna couldn't believe the conclusion she had drawn. If that was the case, then wouldn't the Vampire King be the biggest idiot in the world?
If this is the case, the reason why the soul of this stranger in front of him is so rational may be because the one who bit him was not a high-level vampire.
Or there is another possibility, Jenna thought of another legend, that is, the more generations of vampires there are, the weaker their power is. For example, the fourth generation is much weaker than the third generation, and the fifth generation is weaker than the fourth generation.
This is actually quite scientific. If each generation was stronger than the previous one, the universe would have been destroyed long ago because of their increased entropy.
Jenna speculated that the power that the so-called Embrace Ritual can bestow on the next generation of vampires is limited, which is why each generation is inferior to the previous one.
If his brother's soul was more seriously polluted, it meant that he might have been bitten by an older vampire, but the stranger was fine, probably because the vampire who bit him was younger.
Seeing Jenna's expression, Schiller knew that she might have guessed part of the truth.
After coming to this world, Moonlight Schiller witnessed a vampire attack. The vampires attacked Zatanna premeditatedly, and the leader embraced Zatanna.
But the result was naturally not unexpected. Several vampires were killed by Schiller. Zatanna, who had just been transformed into a vampire, was chased by Schiller all the way and finally ran to Constantine.
Schiller keenly discovered that there were obvious differences between the vampires he killed. Some of them looked no different from humans and knew to run away after being chopped by him, but some were very crazy, and the more serious the injuries they suffered, the more they looked like lunatics.
So theoretically, those who look more normal are the strong ones, but in fact the opposite is true. Those who look more normal are relatively weak, while those who go crazy can perform all kinds of fancy magic.
At that time, Schiller realized that although they were all vampires, there were differences between them individually. The stronger the power, the less powerful their brains were, and the more powerful their brains were, the less powerful they were.
Schiller didn't know how this race developed into this, but so far, he had not found any vampire who was both civil and military.
Take Zatanna for example. Zatanna has always been relatively sober. When she found out that she couldn't do anything to Schiller, she ran away quickly and ran to Constantine familiarly, instead of fighting with Schiller on the spot.
But vampire magic didn't seem to bring her much benefit. The power she gained was of the kind that took several seconds to transform into a bat and run away. Not only did it not make her stronger, but the vampire's weakness of fearing sunlight and holy artifacts made it impossible for her to even use the magic of irony properly.
On the other hand, the Flash seems to have gained more benefits from his vampire blood. At least he can deal with Green Lantern Hal in the Speed Force, which is enough to prove that he is stronger than before.
But his brain seemed to be insufficient. What kind of amazing wisdom made him think he could torture Green Lantern first and then threaten Batman?
Vampires have basically blocked their own evolutionary path. The purer the bloodline, the lower the IQ, and the more mixed the bloodline, the higher the IQ. How can they play like this?
And Constantine and Schiller have actually begun to study why this is the case.
Their plan went smoothly. After the disaster of the Flash's invasion broke out in the past timeline, some vampires immediately realized that if they did not stop the Flash, they would either be killed in the past or starved to death in the present.
In Arkham Asylum headed by the Penguin, the bitten madman came to Constantine and asked him to find a way to solve the past disaster. Constantine also took this opportunity to come into contact with more vampires, and like Schiller, discovered the differences between individual vampires.
But he knew more of the truth, so he could naturally guess how this evolutionary path of the reverse Tiangang developed.
Let’s start with Mary’s amazing plan.
From Mary's perspective, her plan might have been fine, but she forgot one very important thing - she was human.
Mary is a vampire, but she is also a human. She is not an ancient relic like Dracula. She is a human who has contracted with the source of power of blood magic. Although she has become a vampire, human blood flows in her body. Otherwise, how could she reproduce like humans?
The child she gave birth to with the third generation also had human blood in his body, and if the two of them got married again, it would be equivalent to two close human relatives getting married.
Humans who marry their close relatives will only suffer from intellectual or physical defects because the human physical potential limits itself. But these vampires are different. They have powerful energy in their bodies, and the blood defects brought about by marriage between close relatives will be more obvious on them. This is the origin of the blood-sucking monster that masters four kinds of magic.
But before the eldest prince and the second princess were killed, they had already left behind quite a few descendants, and these descendants have given birth to more descendants over the years, which means that most of the current vampires have the blood defect of inbreeding.
Moreover, the closer the bloodline is to the eldest prince and the second princess, the more obvious the blood defect is. A large proportion of vampires nowadays have this defective bloodline, so it would be strange if there were no problems.
Constantine didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this result. He felt that they didn't need to come up with such a complicated plan. If they just left it alone, the vampires would eventually exterminate themselves.