The Witcher: Darkness Falls

After leaving the town, Leon did not immediately head to the cemetery.

It's still too early for the ghouls to appear.

They don't like sunlight and are active during dusk and night.

Moreover, the zombies appeared in groups, even a small-scale one had five, which was a considerable number.

In addition, their teeth and claws carry a lot of deadly bacteria. If you are injured by them, the wound is likely to become infected and inflamed.

Without prompt medical treatment, even a demon hunter could die.

What's more, what's even more terrible is that because ghouls are nocturnal creatures, they are more active at night than during the day, and therefore more dangerous.

Unless Leon has a way to find their lair during the day, he must be fully prepared before dealing with these corpse-eating monsters.

Lyon spent half a day making a fire in the wild and boiling the corpse-eating bio-oil.

This is the nemesis of corpse-eating creatures. Applying corpse-eating oil on a steel sword can bring more powerful lethality to corpse-eating creatures.

The materials for making corpse-eating bio-oil are also very simple, just dog oil and dandelions.

Dog oil or other animal fats are the basic materials for making sword oil. He collected some while hunting on the road.

In the past, he did not have the extra space to store these materials, so he could only hunt wild dogs or wolves before the battle and refine their fat on the spot.

But now that he had the Ring of Ether, he could store some for emergencies.

After refining the ghoul bio-oil, he immediately rushed to the cemetery to see if he could find any trace of the ghouls so as to track down their lair.

The cemetery was covered with weeds, and occasionally broken, pale bones could be seen.

There are horses and there are people.

Leon guessed that this was probably the place where corpses were dumped. After all, many people would die in a war, and not all bodies would be collected in time.

In urgent situations, the bodies of soldiers who died on the battlefield or farmers who were implicated in the war would be gathered and dumped in one place.

This place will become a paradise for wild beasts and monsters, and the corpses of these dead people will be their most delicious food.

Likewise, people used these beasts and monsters to dispose of the corpses and prevent the occurrence of plague.

Lyon saw potholes everywhere, pits of varying sizes, filled with weeds. These were dug out by wild beasts and monsters.

He didn't see any weapons on the ground, so he thought that all the iron products had been picked up.

"Mandra!"

Before he had taken a few steps, Leon saw four mandrakes.

Only half of this thing's head is exposed, with several leaves of different sizes growing on it.

"Lucky! This is a good thing. One plant is worth at least fifty florins! It's more expensive than gold!" Lyon walked forward.

He carefully dug out the things with a dagger, and at the same time carefully wrapped them with cloth and picked them up.

The juice of fresh mandrake is poisonous and can only be used as medicine after it is dried.

"Wild mandrakes are more expensive than farmed ones. I've got at least 200 florins. This is much easier than completing a mission." Lyon collected the four mandrakes and planned to find a chance to sell them for money.

He looked around again, but unfortunately, it was gone.

Leon had to give up the idea of ​​making a fortune by collecting herbs and searched for traces of zombies around him.

He estimated that if the experimental creatures had not appeared here recently, it would not be his turn to collect these four mandrakes.

"The zombies also appeared three months ago. Three months ago, in early or mid-December, this place was still covered with ice and snow. Did the zombies run here because they were hungry?" Leon guessed why the zombies came here.

Ghouls are not bears and do not have the habit of hibernation. The cold winter only makes them move slowly.

When they are hungry, they will leave the forest or swamp and enter areas with human activities in search of food.

He felt something strange.

“Three months… It seems that the earliest task posted on the notice board was three months ago, and then there were more and more cases of missing children.

Is there any connection between the two?"

He was very sensitive to the number three months because his most recent mission also took place within this time period.

However, he was sure that the child was definitely not stolen by a zombie.

They will not steal children, but will eat them on the spot, and will also attack adults.

However, he always felt that there must be some connection between the two things.

Moreover, goblins have appeared here recently, so could the incidents of ghouls and missing children be related to the True God Church?

"Could there be followers of the True God Church nearby?" Leon pondered.

In his impression, the True God Cult can resurrect monsters that became extinct ten thousand years ago, and even created other monsters based on goblins.

Maybe they were the ones who lured the zombies out.

“I wonder if all the monsters that escaped from Nilfgaard City have been cleared out.” Leon suddenly thought of this.

When Madison and his team broke into the secret laboratory under the Karna Manor, they let a lot of other monsters go.

He shook his head, clearing his mind and focusing again.

"Three months... three months..." He was thinking about the connection between the zombies and the missing child incident while looking for the zombies' traces.

It didn't take long for him to discover it, and the trace was very fresh.

"What is this?" Leon squatted down.

Using tracking, he saw a series of messy footprints in front of him.

These footprints looked like they were made by someone walking barefoot, but he knew very well that they were definitely not left by humans.

Ghouls look like skinned people crawling on all fours, so some people speculate that they are monsters that are mutated from human corpses.

But Leon knew that corpses would not mutate, they would only rot, and ghouls were creatures from another world.

Although they look like humans, judging from their limbs and claws, we can be sure that they have nothing to do with humans.

The footprints in front of us are like this. The front end of the human foot has left deep marks on the ground. Human toes cannot do this.

This was caused by the claws of the ghoul.

In addition, Leon also noticed that there was a dark red substance on the weeds in front of him, and there was actually a faint residue of magic on this substance.

He didn't reach out to touch it, in case it was poisonous.

He lowered his head and sniffed it. It had a strong smell of blood.

"What is this? Could the zombies be attracted by these things?" Leon pondered.

He looked around and saw these strange substances elsewhere.

Not only that, he also found several broken bones.

"It's a human leg bone, and it belongs to a baby. It doesn't look like it's from a hundred years ago." Leon picked up a pale bone.

The bone was very thin and incomplete, but Leon still determined that it belonged to a human being, and a child at that.

The leg bones of an adult are not so small.

The flesh and fascia on the bones all disappeared, and the bone marrow inside also disappeared.

The bones are very new, not the result of natural decay hundreds of years ago.

The reason why Lyon made this judgment was that the dirt on the bones and flesh was not dry, as if it had accidentally been stuck there after falling off a few days ago.

These bones also have a strong smell of blood. If there are a lot of these things, they will indeed attract zombies.

"Magic residue, but unfortunately the magic fluctuations are not exactly the same as those of the monster that stole the child. These are more like residues left over from some kind of medicine refining...

Who fell here? Is there a wizard nearby? "

Leon frowned, and at this moment, he suddenly remembered another thing.

The second story about monsters told by drunkard Sidam while in the tavern.