The Witcher: Darkness Falls

"Yes, Falco himself doesn't quite understand it, but he said it's about genes or something like that. It's led by scholars from the Imperial College, and it's been implemented for more than half a year.

They were assigned to guard the lab, and it happened to be Falco's turn." Keli explained.

Madison frowned, thinking continuously in his mind.

"Laboratory... Could it be that the goblin escaped from this laboratory?

The Earl once said that these goblins might be related to some people in the Imperial College, and also to those missionaries...

Was it an experimental accident? Or was it because a test subject escaped, so the guards were strengthened?"

There were some laboratories in Grampian City. When he learned that the goblins might have escaped from a laboratory, he led people to search all the laboratories in Grampian City.

These have all been registered. After all, accidents may happen in the laboratories of wizards or experts and scholars.

If it is just an ordinary accident, it would be easy to deal with. But if something dangerous is leaked, such as toxic gas, they can find the relevant responsible person according to the registered information.

But Madison didn't find out anything. The goblins didn't escape from any laboratory in Grampian City.

And according to his understanding, the laboratory would only be guarded by the army unless it was an experimental mission requested by the emperor himself.

Other people's laboratories do not have this qualification. At most, they can hire some mercenaries to prevent the loss of experimental data.

Falco and his men are not mercenaries, but real city guards, and Falco himself is one of the sheriffs of the city guards.

Could it be that this matter has something to do with the emperor? And the emperor also knew about the accident?

Madison thought with a heavy heart that this would be difficult to deal with.

Although there are many precedents in history for impeaching the Emperor of Nilfgaard, there must be sufficient evidence.

Otherwise it's useless.

Zival asked, "Is that laboratory in the manor next to the Imperial College branch?"

The headquarters of the Imperial Academy is in Graupian Castle in the north of Nilfgaard, which is almost at the junction of the Nilfgaard region and the Grampian region.

Due to subsequent developments, the Imperial Academy set up a branch in the south of Nilfgaard a hundred years ago.

Kelly nodded.

Madison frowned even more tightly, as if more doubts emerged in his mind.

The location of the Imperial Academy branch is not remote. Although it is outside the main city of Nilfgaard, there are many people living around it, and there are also many patrolling soldiers. How could a little goblin escape?

It is possible to go through the sewers because the city of Nilfgaard was built on the site of a former dwarf city.

Although the underground sewer has a history of nearly a thousand years, it is still majestic and still in working order. The technology of this sewer cannot be replicated by humans today.

The goblins could easily escape from there, but based on his understanding of goblins, if they went into the sewers, they would definitely have multiplied in large numbers there.

At this speed, it is impossible for the city of Nilfgaard not to be attacked by the goblins!

"What's going on?" Madison's mind was a little confused.

Reasonable and unreasonable things were intertwined, making him feel a little dizzy.

Zivar said in a low voice with a gloomy face: "Camilla is in there too! There are many guards there, we..."

He closed his mouth.

They originally wanted to sneak in and snatch Camilla out.

But there were a large number of guards guarding there and they had no way to rush in.

Moreover, this matter cannot be spoken out.

He turned to look at Madison and found that this guy had a frown on his face, not knowing what he was thinking about.

Keli was instructing Jasmine to ask the cook to prepare more food to entertain them, after all, he and Retak looked very haggard.

It was already afternoon after dinner. Seeing that Keli really couldn't help, Zival couldn't bear to trouble a kind pregnant woman, so he had to take Retak and leave.

Madison chased after her and politely declined Kelly's attempt to keep her.

Originally, he planned to stay with Falco temporarily until he found Leon.

But after meeting Zivar and others, he changed his mind.

"Lord Madison?" Zival looked at Madison in confusion, not knowing what he wanted to do by following him.

Madison said while holding the horse, “Just now at the dinner table, Keli had no idea about this, so I didn’t ask any more questions.

But you are different, and you know it.”

Retak was a little confused, and Zival thought about it and seemed to have guessed something.

"About the goblins? Have you found out anything about your investigation?" he asked.

Madison shook his head and told the truth: "No, we suspected it was in a small town called Ryan, but we went there and found nothing. There was not even a trace of goblins there."

Zival was confused: "Then you have been doing this for so long... the demon hunter didn't find out?"

He still had confidence in Leon's abilities. After all, he had killed a dragonfly monster in the water!

“The demon hunter helped a lot. With his help, we destroyed the goblin’s lair, but the laboratory where the goblins were cultivated is still missing.

Leon suspected that the laboratory was actually in Nilfgaard City, and the Earl sent me to assist him, but he acted too quickly and I missed him." Madison explained briefly.

"The laboratory is in Nilfgaard..." Zivar's eyes widened after thinking about it. He looked up at Madison and said in disbelief, "Could it be the one at the Imperial Academy branch?"

A shocked expression also appeared on Ritak's face. He had heard about the goblins from Zival a long time ago.

This monster, which had been exterminated by their ancestors nearly ten thousand years ago, actually came back to life!

Madison shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I don't know. No one can guarantee it."

Retak immediately said, "Zivali, do you remember when we were on the ship, Stein once said that some people in the Imperial Academy were conducting genetic experiments? They called it genetic engineering!"

When they were on the boat, Stan liked to chat with Leon.

Although eavesdropping on other people's conversations is impolite, the boat is so small and they live very close to each other, so even if he doesn't actively eavesdrop, he can still hear something.

He often heard Stein excitedly telling Lyon about the genetic engineering of the Imperial College.

It seems that there is talk about using genes to create some living things.

At the time, he thought it was a joke, because creating living creatures was something that was difficult to achieve even for a wizard using magic, let alone a group of ordinary people.

But now he thought about it, the Imperial College seemed to have a magic school, and it was the only one on the continent.

If wizards were to join in, perhaps it would be possible to create living creatures.

So could the goblins have been “created” in the same way?

Zivar murmured, "Genetic experiments...Genetic experiments...Yes! I remember it!"

Madison paused and said anxiously, "Please tell me in detail. This concerns the fate of the entire Grampian and even the world!"