Next to him, there was a middle-aged woman, looking at everyone slightly nervously, holding a little baby with twirling fingers in her arms.
"Meeting you is truly a blessing from God." Professor Seir's voice was choked with sobs, and his skinny hands tightly held Dick's arm.
"Don't worry, what happened to you? Where did Tyson go?"
"It's a long story, you guys sit down first, sit down first. Gods bless you, Julian, someone finally came to save us."
The woman named Julian also nodded happily.
"Are you all demon hunters like my son? Sit down quickly and I'll get you some water."
"No need to bother." Russell quickly waved his hand, "What happened?"
They found a chair next to them and sat down, and then Professor Seir slowly recounted their experiences during this period.
It turned out that even though he managed to trick Tyson into returning to the Bacchus Empire, and after some good talk and fetters of family ties, Tyson still agreed to accompany his father to do the absurd experiment.
But the experiment first used horses as utensils, which made Tyson a little unhappy.
Hearing this, Dick sighed secretly:
Tyson's two-meter body can strangle an ogre with one hand, but he always feels sad for the monkey in the laboratory.
The genomes of these horses are 93% similar to humans...
When conducting biological experiments on humans, instead of using horses, how about using humans?
Scientific progress will always involve sacrifices, and as long as those sacrificed are not the same kind, then it makes sense.
Professor Seir on the side continued:
"But a few days ago, Snake Cult actually launched a riot in Cez. We were separated from Tyson at that time.
Before leaving, Tyson is worried that there will be a bigger riot in the entire Bacchus Empire, so let's go back to the elf ruins we accidentally discovered before."
Dick thought secretly:
A few days ago, I'm afraid it was Two-Faced Priest and Manslayer who cooperated.
Previously, Two-Faced Priest changed his strategic plan and wanted to attack Northern Kingdoms with Manslayer first, and then maybe later turn to attack Bacchus Empire with the barbarian army, but he did not expect to be defeated by himself.
In this way, the larger Snake Cult riot in the empire was suppressed.
"We sneaked back through the path on the other side of the ruins, and everything went smoothly.
But a week ago, in the cave next to the path, White-Headed Widow Centipede woke up from his deep sleep.
In addition, Tyson is not here, and the nearby Drowner smelled our scent and wandered in front of the door all day long, so we were trapped."
"Do you still have food these days?"
"I just finished eating this morning. During this time, even a few horses starved to death.
Fortunately, they are dead, and we can throw their bodies into White-Headed Widow Centipede's cave to temporarily relieve its bloodthirsty hunger for us."
Dick took out fresh food from the space badge without saying anything.
The space in his current space badge is not small, and in the blink of an eye, the tables were piled up into a hill.
"That's enough, that's enough, dear." Professor Seir looked at his wife aside, "Hurry up and eat. If you are hungry, the child will starve too."
Seeing how happy they were, the three demon hunters also laughed heartily.
"Professor Seir, I'm here this time..." Dick hasn't finished speaking yet.
"I know, I know, the experiment failed.
However, Tyson's body has indeed been strengthened, and it can be considered a success from this aspect.
I believe you are here for that purpose, right?"
Professor Seir pointed to a human-shaped instrument warehouse on the side. Fluorescent patterns like nerve veins danced on the instrument's alloy surface, and twelve diamond-shaped energy tanks were slowly rotating.
"As long as you install a White-Headed Widow Centipede egg on the instrument now and enter here, you will become stronger when you come out.
I have opened up a lot now. Since Tyson likes to be a witcher, let him be one. But you must at least help me find him."
"Don't worry, wait until this matter is over..."
Geralt took out a conch microphone hanging around his neck.
He spoke to a small mouth of the microphone, and a light streamed from it:
"Little Yennefer, we have arrived at the laboratory, Drowner has finished cleaning up, you can come over."
"Got it, Geralt."
Not long after, a purple halo flashed in front of everyone, and a portal appeared in front of them.
Little Yennefer, wearing quartz glasses, walked out of the portal. After she waved her hand, the portal disappeared.
"Well, this is the Professor Seir family, right?"
Putting aside the small talk between Little Yennefer and Sel, the three demon hunters had passed through a cage of horses and walked deeper, because that was the place where White-Headed Widow Centipede spawned as mentioned by Professor Seir.
In front of the damp cave, the three of them started a discussion.
Geralt slowly explained, "White-Headed Widow Centipede are arthropod monsters that usually burrow into the moist soil to rest. After we kill them, we can obtain their eggs."
"But I think there is a problem now." Dick said,
"Currently we only have three demon hunters. Centipede eggs may be enough, but Witcher Order has more demon hunters than these. What should we do in the future?"
The two nodded slightly.
"So I think we just need to stun the male and female centipedes inside, or restrain them, and take some of the centipede eggs instead of taking them all.
According to the Geralt habits you mentioned White-Headed Widow Centipede, if they find that all their eggs are gone, they will leave here."
Geralt nodded, "Dick, if there are very few centipede eggs inside, how to distribute them?"
"Then I'll come first, and then..." Dick hesitated.
"Geralt You go first." Russell said with a smile, "Geralt is stronger. If he goes first Secondary Mutation, Witcher Order's strength will increase more obviously."
"Okay, that's it.
"Little Yennefer will need help later. I remember that sorceresses usually carry some energy stones with them. Look over there."
Dick pointed at a stone embedded in the notch on the top of the cave, "That energy stone must have run out of energy, so these White-Headed Widow Centipede just woke up and will have to replace it later."
"Okay." Geralt nodded.
At this time, Little Yennefer and Professor Seir also came over.
"I heard your conversation, that's no problem.
After a while, Dick and Geralt went into the cave to deal with the centipedes, while Russell was responsible for protecting me and casting spells. When the time comes, I will cast sleeping magic on the two centipedes. Do you think this arrangement is okay?"
The combatants have been allocated.
The three demon hunters drew their long swords. Geralt and Dick looked at each other and stepped onto the soft soil in the cave.
Russell is holding a long sword and protecting Little Yennefer, while Little Yennefer is chanting a spell in a low voice.
The Sel family watched the battle slightly nervously.
The two demon hunters' leather boots had just made six footprints when the ground exploded.
Dick's right shoulder sank slightly, and a kite turned over and rolled towards the left wall;
Geralt kicked off the ground with his left foot, leaving a distance of three finger widths from the poisonous jaw that broke out of the ground.
Eight pairs of legs stirred up a fishy wind, and the carapace, as pale as a corpse, was densely covered with purple blood vessels.
This is White-Headed Widow Centipede - a giant centipede with barb-like poisonous claws embedded in each segment of its plastron. When it raises its three-meter-long body, the compound eyes at the end of the second pair of tentacles are glowing with blue phosphorescence.
They suddenly burst out of the ground and attacked with a clear purpose - to kill the demon hunters who invaded the territory and decorate their lairs with their skulls.