The Witcher: Darkness Falls

In his field of vision, he saw a blurry, translucent sphere.

In addition, there is flowing liquid around the sphere, and even some strange things can be seen, a bit like hair.

Mara's voice came to his ears: "How is it? Did you see it? This is a cell! It is the smallest unit that makes up our human body."

Lyon naturally knew this, he had seen related words in Sicori's notes.

Sikori had been troubled by this when he was conducting research on the mutation of demon hunters.

Because mutations involve the microscopic field and the cells are too small for human eyes to see, let alone study.

However, wizards can observe it with the help of magical equipment.

The word "cell" was also defined by wizards, and they also defined words such as gene, bloodline, genetic information, etc.

Except for the word "bloodline" which has been replaced by "DNA" by modern human scientists, the other words are basically still used.

The mutation of the demon hunter involves the issue of genetic mutation, which requires the use of instruments for microscopic observation.

Unfortunately, Hickey couldn't afford such expensive equipment, and even if he had gathered enough money, he wouldn't be able to use it.

All wizards' sophisticated equipment requires magic to power it, but demon hunters cannot use magic due to their own reasons.

Sikori was forced to resort to the most primitive method - exhaustive enumeration.

He could only rely on the incomplete information in his hands, which were left by his predecessors.

He could only rely on these experiments bit by bit, and he didn't even know whether there was any problem with the information in his hands.

Therefore, he took a detour for hundreds of years.

In the end, he did make a breakthrough, and the results of hundreds of years of hard work have created the present Lyon.

But Leon's mutation is still incomplete, at most slightly better than Sikori himself.

Leon didn't know how big the gap was between him and a truly fully mutated demon hunter, because he had never seen a fully mutated demon hunter.

He even said that he had never seen a demon hunter other than Sikori.

Leon looked at the device called a microscope in front of him in surprise. He didn't expect that this instrument, which did not have any magical fluctuations, could actually see such small cells!

"This is incredible... Can you see genes using this?" Lyon turned around and asked.

Mara, who was originally smug, froze her expression.

She raised her eyebrows and said, "I'm surprised you even know the term gene, but unfortunately, I can't."

"No? Then how did you observe DNA? Or the double helix structure?" Leon asked puzzledly.

He remembered that Chris mentioned these things when he first told him about them, and he seemed quite proud of them.

Fred smiled and said, “Of course this cannot be observed with a microscope, it requires other instruments and it cannot be observed directly.

I don't know where you got this information from, but if it's wizards, well... they shouldn't be able to see specific things, right?

I visited the wizard in Nilfgaard, who was the emperor's magical advisor.

Although he is not engaged in research in this area, he knows a little about it and said that he did not observe it directly, but only projected it using some magical means. "

Leon nodded. There was no mention of this in Sikori's notes, and Chris himself did not say it clearly.

"Come on, let's see something else." Fred, like a tour guide, happily introduced to Leon the work in other areas of the large laboratory.

"This is a centrifuge, mainly used to separate cell tissues..." Fred introduced them to Leon one by one.

The researchers were very surprised. They didn't know who Leon was and why he was worthy of Fred's personal explanation.

Could it be some great noble?

But it doesn’t look like it!

Leon followed behind Fred and was able to open his eyes.

There are at least five main machines here, each of which is very valuable, and the subsequent maintenance costs are frighteningly high.

The microscope is actually the cheapest one among them...

"Next is this, I know this is the part you are interested in." After about two hours, the whole large laboratory was finally toured.

Fred was in charge of project number 11 - breeding and hybridization.

But under this big project, there are many small projects that require the cooperation of many researchers to complete.

Finally, they came to a small door at the innermost part of the large laboratory.

"The laboratory here is only temporary. It was built in a hurry, and it is difficult to meet the requirements of a real laboratory in terms of temperature, sterilization, etc." Fred said to Leon as they walked.

The laboratory in Karna Manor was only established half a year ago, and many places do not actually meet the laboratory environmental requirements.

"However, fortunately, goblin cells have very low environmental requirements, which is amazing..."

Fred opened the door and frowned slightly, but there was no one inside.

"Where's Chris? Isn't he here today?" Fred asked loudly.

Someone immediately answered, "I saw it very early in the morning, and then it left in a hurry. It should have gone to Laboratory 25. It is said that they are going to dissect the monster they caught a few days ago today."

Fred didn't say anything, he invited Leon into the small room in front of him.

"Did you catch any monsters?" Leon asked curiously, "What kind?"

As the forests and swamps are gradually recovering, and the storm season that just passed some time ago brought a lot of rainfall, many monsters deep in the swamps have become active.

But those monsters, whether it was the dragonfly monster or the newly discovered human-faced newt, seemed to be beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Unless the king sends troops, or they spend a lot of money to hire mercenaries to help.

Of course, if they are willing to spend money, Lyon doesn't mind taking the commission and making some money.

These researchers seem to be very rich. After all, the equipment here is very valuable.

Even if they are not paying for it, if they use the guise of an experiment, those nobles who have already tasted the sweetness will probably be willing to donate generously, right?

“Uh… I’m not sure about this, I haven’t paid much attention to it.

The monster might be a rare beast that ran out of the forest due to the recent flooding of the swamp.

They are doing an autopsy today. If you are interested, I can take you to see it." Fred said.

"Thanks, of course, if I may. What is this?" Leon nodded.

He walked into the door, and then his eyes were attracted by what he saw.

It was a glass test tube that was half a meter thick and more than one meter high.

The glass test tube was placed on a wooden base, with four black hoses connected to it, which in turn were connected to other strange instruments.

However, these devices were not what interested him. What attracted his attention most was actually the things in the test tubes.

An oval-shaped tumor was immersed in the red liquid in the test tube.

"How is it? Isn't it amazing?" Fred asked with a smile, his tone full of pride.

"What is this?" Leon walked closer. The tumor seemed to be alive, contracting and expanding as if it was breathing!

Fred smiled and said, "This is what I'm going to introduce next. It's called a pouch! I'll explain it to you slowly..."