The Witcher: Darkness Falls

Leon was waiting at Chris's house, where Chris's wife entertained him.

At the same time, he was not idle.

While Chris was out looking for someone, he asked Chris's wife Ellie to tell him what happened when the child was missing.

"Nothing strange happened, I was cooking at home that day and Link was playing with Spike in the yard, Spike was the dog.

He is already four years old. I told him not to run around because he has to bring food to his father later.

He was very obedient and I was busy in the kitchen.

Then I heard Spike yell.

You know, the dog likes to bark at anyone who walks by the door, but I didn't take it seriously and just told Spike to shut up.

But that day was unusual. Spike didn't obey and his barking became louder and louder.

I had just thrown the vegetables into the pot and had no time to deal with it, so I shouted 'Link! Shut up Spike!' But Link didn't answer me.

Spike was still yelling, and I couldn't stand it anymore, so I went out.

As a result, in the yard, except for Spike who was barking at the crows in the tree, Link was gone!

I yelled Link's name, but no one responded.

I remember that someone in the village also lost a child, and the child was lost at home.

I hurried to look for Chris. We called everyone we could, but we still couldn't find him until dark in the afternoon!

Wuuuuu…Link has been missing for almost half a month, my poor Link…” Ellie cried.

Leon recalled what she had just said and extracted some key information from it.

"He disappeared in the yard... If he was a human trafficker, Spike would have chased him out." Leon thought to himself.

He stood up and said, "Ma'am, can you take me to see where Link disappeared?"

Ellie wiped her tears and said quickly: "Of course, Master, please follow me."

Leon followed Ellie to the east side of the courtyard outside the door. Next to their house, there was a wooden doghouse under a big tree.

As they came over, Spike, a big yellow dog came out of the kennel, wagging his tail.

It had an iron chain around its neck, and it tilted its head back to lick Ellie's fingers, whimpering.

"It was here. Thirteen days ago, Link was playing with Spike here, and then he suddenly disappeared." Ellie said.

Leon squatted down and carefully examined the marks on the ground.

Thirteen days had passed, and the effect had faded a lot, but he still saw something.

There were footprints everywhere, from different people, at least four people, and dog paw prints.

In it, he found Link's footprints, small and messy.

It seemed that Link was so panicked before he disappeared that he didn't even scream for help.

"What could it be?" Leon turned his head and looked around, and found that Link's activity range was only in this area and not anywhere else.

This means he did not run out of the yard.

Leon's pupils dilated as he directed his magic power to his eyes.

In the past, when he used the tracking ability, it would consume a lot of energy.

But now that he has magic power, he naturally doesn't have to waste his mental energy.

Leon stared at the ground, and the scene in front of him changed instantly.

After he cleared away all distractions, Link's footprints became clear in his eyes.

What he didn't expect was that in addition to Link's footprints becoming clearer, he actually saw traces of remnants of magic!

"Magic..." Leon was a little surprised.

He wanted to lock onto the remaining traces of the magic, but unfortunately, there was too little remaining magic, and it was diluted by time, so he could only see a little bit. As for the movement track of the magic, it was no longer traceable.

"Master, have you found anything?" Ellie's voice came from behind.

Leon’s eyes returned to normal, he stood up and said, “Well… there are some small discoveries, but not enough for me to make a judgment.

Let's wait for others, maybe we can gather more useful information."

An hour later, people came to Chris's house one after another.

More than two hours later, Chris came back and brought back a couple.

"He is Hilt Frank Ron, and this is his wife." Chris pointed at the thin man with dark eyes and the woman beside him.

Hilt looked at Leon and said, “Demon Hunter, I heard that you are not extinct yet!

Chris said you are here for a mission. What are you going to do?

"Master, you must help us. We are willing to pay any amount of money!" Mrs. Hilt said excitedly.

"Wait a minute, let's hear what the witcher says." Hilt held his wife and looked at Leon suspiciously.

The rest of the people also looked at Leon.

Leon saw distrust, anxiety, hatred and all kinds of expressions in their eyes. He was used to it.

"I'm here for a mission. The first step is to investigate and collect some information. I don't have enough information at the moment.

Can you tell me what happened before your child disappeared?" Leon said.

Everyone looked at each other, and then someone spoke first: "My child is..."

Once one person speaks up, the others, even if they have doubts, will follow suit, as if they are looking for someone to listen to their complaints.

After more than two hours, these people finished speaking.

Lyon also got the information he wanted from their stories.

Except for two families whose children disappeared after going out to play, the other nine families, like Link from Chris's family, disappeared right beside their adults.

When adults are busy with their own things and their attention is not on the children, the children disappear.

Moreover, these children are all under four years old, which means they have certain mobility but not strong mobility.

Two of them were only three months old! One of them was Hilt's child.

At that time, Hilt's wife left the child in the yard to bask in the sun and went into the house to look for something.

In less than half an hour, I came out and found that the child was missing.

Leon fell into deep thought. He was certain that magic was definitely involved.

But he was not sure whether the one casting the magic was a person or something else.

"Demon Hunter, what are your plans?" Chris asked.

Leon groaned and said, "I have some clues. I can be sure that your child was not taken away by human traffickers or wild animals."

"Not human traffickers? Then what is it? Is there a ghost?" A father stared at Leon and said with ill intention.

Leon shook his head calmly and said, "It's not a ghost. I found traces of magic in Chris's yard. Someone used magic to capture Link."

As soon as these words were spoken, the parents immediately started talking about it.

"Ridiculous! Why would you cast magic to capture our children? There haven't been wizards here for hundreds of years!"

"That's ridiculous. We all know each other in the village. We haven't seen any strange people appear!"

"I doubt your ability, demon hunter? Did your brain get damaged when you mutated?"

……

The doubts continued to come, and Leon listened calmly.

He has long been immune to these malicious voices.

After everyone had finished venting, Leon continued, “Every word I said was true. I saw Link’s panicked footprints in the yard, but Mrs. Ellie didn’t hear Link’s cry for help. She only heard the dog barking. This is enough to explain everything.

Before Link disappeared, he struggled but could not make any sound.

Everyone, when your children were kidnapped by human traffickers or taken away by wolves, wouldn’t you cry out?”

Leon's question made everyone quiet down.