The Witcher: Darkness Falls

Two days later, Lyon left Grampian to investigate the goblins.

For him, the best way to investigate is to trace back to the source and track back along the goblin's escape route, so that he can find the laboratory directly.

However, the earliest goblins happened half a year ago.

Coupled with more than a month of thunderstorms, its trace has long been undetectable.

Unless there is a wizard who is good at time spells to cast a spell to trace history, there is no other way.

However, before investigating, he needed to confirm one thing.

Leon rode to the village of Crete, but he did not enter the village. Instead, he followed his previous footsteps and came to the vicinity of the goblin's nest.

Now, the entrance to the goblin's lair has collapsed, blocking the entrance tightly.

This was the work of Maddison and his soldiers.

Madison personally saw off the living woman in the cave - the shell, and then after leaving, he blew up the entrance to the cave with a bomb.

This place can now be said to be a tomb, a tomb where the remains of thousands of people are buried.

Leon looked at the entrance blocked by rubble. There was no other smell here except the smell left by the bomb explosion.

This means that no goblins came out of it.

But it's true. Madison and his men threw all the remaining bombs in, more than a hundred of them.

The power of the bomb explosion was like an earthquake. From here into the cave, the rubble blocked the road for at least ten meters.

Not to mention the goblins, even if the hobgoblins or trolls came, it would take more than ten days to move the things.

There is no way that ordinary goblins can crawl out from inside.

Leon withdrew his gaze and began to search around the nest.

Soon, he found a huge corpse in a bush about a hundred meters away from the cave entrance.

The corpse was not complete. It was torn and most of the flesh had been violently torn away, leaving only some green fur and fascia that were difficult to bite through.

Flies hovered over the corpse and maggots lurked beneath the tattered fur.

"Forest troll." Leon thought to himself.

This is a male forest troll, and the pregnant female forest troll they found in the cave should be the wife of the dead male in front of them.

Leon turned his eyes away from the corpse of the forest troll and continued his investigation nearby.

Finally, an hour later, he finally found some useful information.

After eliminating a lot of interfering information, he found a series of footprints leading in another direction deep into the forest.

This is the goblin group.

Moreover, they were running from another direction.

Lyon jumped on his horse and followed the trail of footprints.

The traces of this trail of footprints were very faint, and he had to dismount and investigate carefully every time he tracked a certain distance.

Maybe it was because of the previous heavy rain, or maybe it was because it had been a long time, at least a month.

All in all, the goblins left very few traces, so he had to look carefully to avoid losing them.

Finally, at noon, he stopped in front of a swamp.

The trace disappeared, lost in the swamp.

However, at this moment, Leon no longer needed to continue searching for the goblins.

Because he saw a gap blatantly exposed at the edge where the swamp met the mountain.

It's like a dress, soaked in water.

Leon let the horse move freely while he walked along the edge of the swamp towards the mountain.

The abundant rainfall brought by the heavy rain caused the swamp to spread over an area, and the foot of the mountain, which was supposed to be smooth, now became steep and slippery.

Leon leaned as close to the mountain as possible, holding onto the branches and roots growing on the mountain, and carefully approached the crack.

About three meters below his feet was a swamp. The water in the swamp was not deep, but it was very turbid.

Lyon looked further into the depths of the swamp. Except for some tiny bubbles rising from the water and then bursting to cause small ripples, the water surface was calm.

But Leon knew that beneath the calm surface of the water, there must be danger lurking.

He remembered that a month ago on the Alba River, they were attacked by a dragonfly monster.

The monsters have been emerging from deeper into the swamp as human activity has waned at the swamp's edges.

Leon knew very well that there were not just dragonfly monsters, there must be others.

Leon walked calmly towards the crack, and nearby he found traces of goblins.

Moreover, the closer he got to the gap, the more obvious the goblin's tracks became, so obvious that he didn't even need to use his tracking ability to see them.

If you call Madison over now, he will be able to see it at a glance.

He saw that the grass and trees were broken near the swamp, and in some places the grass was pulled out by the roots, revealing loose soil.

In some places, the grass and trees were lying down, as if something was pressing on them and preventing them from standing up straight.

Moreover, it also saw a broken claw entangled with the grass and tree roots, firmly stuck in the soil.

It was a broken claw of a goblin, with a small amount of blood around it, the result of being washed away by rain.

Leon stopped and looked around the gap, and a picture gradually emerged in his mind.

The group of goblins, who were terrified by McLaren's killing, rushed into the cracks in the cave like crazy.

As he expected, the crack led directly out of the cave.

This passage is the retreat route the goblins left for themselves. It is possible that they only walked through it once or twice and never again.

This time, the appearance of McLaren and Leon put the goblins in a crisis of life and death.

Led by the goblin leader in the cave, they escaped one after another from the back road, which was the gap that Leon saw in the nest.

They ran out of this cave, but the goblins didn't know that heavy rain that had lasted for more than a month had caused the swamp to swell and submerged half of the exit of the gap.

Then, the terrified goblins ran out of the cave.

One after another, they plunged into the swamp in panic and then struggled to climb to the shore.

The splashes and sounds they caused constantly told the monsters in the swamp that there was food here.

Just like throwing a bug into the water, it will quickly attract fish.

The monsters in the water heard the news, opened their claws or mouths towards the goblins, and began to enjoy the goblin buffet.

Some even chased the goblins that came ashore. They jumped out of the water, crushed the grass and trees, and dragged the goblins not far from the shore.

It is also possible that it can swallow the goblin's thin body into its mouth in one bite and cut off its arms with its powerful bite force.

Lyon looked at the water in front of him. It was like casting bait for fishing. The goblins had already risked their lives to prepare the nest in advance.

There must be a lot of monsters gathered here, waiting for him to jump down.

"I have to be careful..." Leon thought to himself.

But unfortunately, a stone slipped from under his feet and fell into the water, making a small splash.

But the sound of the stone rolling into the water was so crisp, especially in this situation.

"Maybe the monster didn't hear it." Leon thought to himself.

It was just his wishful thinking.

He saw that not far away, about twenty meters away from him, a slight ripple suddenly appeared on the water surface.

It was like someone twisted a piece of flat silk.

Leon pulled out the steel sword.