The Witcher: Darkness Falls

At night, Leon lay in bed to rest.

But he was soon awakened by the sound of quarreling.

He immediately opened his eyes and habitually placed his hand on the steel sword beside the bed.

But when he heard the content of the quarrel, he relaxed.

"Please forgive my recklessness. I just haven't seen it. You know, I'm a biologist. What I want most is to discover and study new organisms. I..."

"Shut up, or I'll throw you overboard now, for all the help you've given me during the day!"

"I……"

"I told you to shut up! Impossible!"

"Haha! If you disturb my sleep again, I'll kill you!"

"Get out of here!"

"What happened? Is the monster out of control?"

"Bullshit, it's the 'weirdo' who's out of control, bastard!"

"Don't be angry, you'd better go back quickly, Zival, put away the axe and go to bed! Quick!"

……

Leon opened the door and walked out, and more and more people came out like him.

"Go back to sleep, sorry to disturb you, it's okay!" Ganmier shouted to the travelers who stuck their heads out.

At this moment, Ganmir had taken off his heavy armor and was wearing a white singlet, with his long light golden hair flowing down.

He has a burly build, but an exceptionally handsome face, which creates a strong contrast under the bright moonlight.

But during the day he was wearing heavy armor, and no one could see his full face.

Gammill looked at Leon and nodded.

"What happened?" he asked as he stepped forward.

The dwarf Zival that Leon noticed was still a little excited and had just calmed down.

His two brothers also stared angrily at the door not far away. That was Stan's room.

Camilla on the side seemed a little anxious, but was calmed down by the halfling and dwarf who were traveling with her.

"Leon, I really should have listened to you and been careful of that bastard!" Zival said in annoyance.

Leon looked at Zival, and Gammill beside him explained: “That scholar stayed up late at night and cut Camilla’s skin with a knife.

He said he wanted to take some blood and take it back for research.

But Camilla's leather is relatively thick and cannot be cut by ordinary knives.

Then he poked hard, hurting Camilla, but luckily it also woke up Zival, otherwise someone would have been murdered tonight."

"That damn bastard!" Zival cursed.

Leon understood. This was the reason why Stein spoke for Camilla when they first boarded the ship.

The other party probably wanted to take this opportunity to study Camilla carefully.

Knocking monsters are not common nowadays, they are all found in deep mountains and forests.

If you don't go to Mahakam to investigate, or look for it in the deep mountains and forests, most people think that this thing is extinct.

As for this matter, Leon had a rough idea during his conversation with Stein before nightfall.

The other party talked to him a lot, and he was indeed impressed by his profound knowledge.

But this does not mean that he agrees with all of Stein's views, especially on genetic engineering.

Although the other party did not reveal much information in this regard, Lyon still keenly captured some key information from his few words.

In the city of Nilfgaard, at the Imperial Academy, relevant scholars have already begun research in this area.

The research of genetic engineering is by no means a matter of overnight.

The other party also mentioned a double helix structure called DNA, which is said to be the key to genetic engineering.

DNA carries genes. If the DNA is broken and the genes on it are recombined, or if the DNA is directly embedded with the DNA they want, new organisms can be created.

Stan said something a lot, but when he saw that Leon didn't understand, he explained it in another more popular way.

Just like playing with building blocks, by constantly changing the composition of the blocks, you can change the final building shape of the blocks, which is equivalent to creating new creatures.

Leon listened to the general idea, but he was not very interested in it.

What really interested him was that it seemed that wizards were involved in this genetic engineering, and even the nobles of the Nilfgaard Empire were funding it from behind.

It doesn't take much thought to guess that wizards are involved. After all, Stein mentioned that the so-called DNA is smaller than bacteria.

Bacteria are a kind of microorganisms, which he had seen in Sicori's notes. If they are not properly controlled, the entire experiment will fail.

But he had never seen bacteria, because it was impossible for humans to see them with the naked eye, not even a witcher, because they were too small.

Smaller than the tip of a hair.

But DNA is smaller than bacteria, and even bacteria carry a lot of DNA in their bodies.

How to observe such a small thing? He couldn't think of any other way to do it except using magic.

Moreover, wizards were far ahead of ordinary people in the study of genetics, but at that time they just called it bloodline.

Their participation in research is simply to pick up again what they had put down before.

But ordinary people, that is, the nobles, also got involved. Why?

They should know how destructive the modified monsters are.

More than five hundred years ago, a war broke out between the northern kingdoms, between Prince Maribor and Duke Elland, for the throne of Temeria, which lasted for several generations.

Historically, this war was called the Endless War, but it was ultimately ended by a monster created by Alzu - the Saliva Demon, a giant centipede monster.

Not long after that, Alzu himself died in the mouth of an out-of-control demon.

This is what Lyon learned from the history book left by Sikori.

The history that he knew was impossible for the well-educated nobles in the Nilfgaard Empire not to know.

The transformed monsters are so powerful that they can even affect the direction of a war.

Aren't they afraid that the experiment will get out of control and bring devastating consequences to the city of Nilfgaard?

"It seems that these noble lords have their own plans, as do those wizards." Leon thought to himself.

He does not support genetic modification, although his living environment will become better if there are more monsters.

But deep down, he didn't really want that to happen.

"Go to bed early, we won't arrive in Yamulak until tomorrow night," said Ganmire.

Leon nodded. He glanced at Stan's closed door, but saw the other person's gaze through the window.

Leon didn't look at him. He just reminded Zivar, "The other party hasn't given up yet. You'd better be careful, and your friends too."

Leon glanced at the knocking monster squatting on the ground, which was still half a head taller than him, and then turned around and went back into the house.

The next day, everything was normal except that the boat was shaking uncomfortably.

They docked at nightfall, and everyone got off the boat to rest, complaining.

Leon saw Stein hurriedly running off the boat and disappeared.