In the port of Tulum, the shopkeeper with a ghostface is the strongest person in medicine known to Joe.

If it weren't for the fact that his face was so intimidating, he would definitely be qualified to be one of the few masters in Tulum Port.

When it comes to potions, and some quirky abilities, Joe absolutely trusts the judgment of the shopkeeper with a ghostface.

He said Ecstasy, then it must be Ecstasy.

He said that the transcendent secret art, then it must be the transcendent secret art.

"What are they doing with these girls?" Joe leaned back against the counter, a little uneasy, and tapped his fingers on a dirty glass jar in front of him.

In the pale yellow liquor, a black and white ring-shaped stripe all over the body, more than two feet long, the venomous snake with the thickness of a little finger suddenly twitched, and it was faintly visible that it opened its mouth, and a wisp of yellow venom erupted from its fangs, and the color of the wine became darker.

Joe trembled with fright, hurriedly withdrew his hand, and subconsciously moved away from the counter.

"Alive?" Joe almost didn't yell.

"It's really rare, the medicinal wine I concocted with a secret method is, of course, all living creatures into medicine." The grimace shopkeeper took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood on his face: "Hmm, this can of Three Snakes Wine, in another half a year, it will be completely dead." ”

Joe's face twitched, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

That's why your pharmacy business has been half-dead like this, right?

"What are they doing with so many girls?" The grimace shopkeeper pulled out a stool from under the counter, sat on it, lewed his elbows on the counter, supported his chin with his palms, and frowned in thought.

"There is no doubt that in the two days after the mid-autumn night, the entire port of Tulun was in chaos, as long as people with a little means want to take the opportunity to do something illegal and undisciplined, it is the easiest opportunity to fish in troubled waters."

The grimace shopkeeper took out a large blue and white porcelain bowl from the drawer of the counter, and a strong umami smell came to his nose, and the big bowl was soaked in marinade with dozens of golden-headed blue-bodied centipedes the thickness of little fingers.

"I didn't expect you to come today, I did less." The grimace shopkeeper gently pushed the large porcelain bowl forward.

Joe coughed dryly, pulled a stool from the side, and sat down across from the grimace shopkeeper.

"I'm scared to live, but it's a good food, you know, I've always loved it. Supremely delicious, really. Qiao smiled dryly, trying to resolve the embarrassment that he had just been frightened by the raw materials for soaking wine.

The two of them didn't use utensils, but went straight to grab the big centipede soaked in the bowl and overflowing with fragrance, skillfully peeled off the shell, revealing the white and tender meat inside, and swallowed it in a big gulp.

A centipede entered his abdomen, and a hot breath slowly spread, and Qiao only felt warm all over his body, and a thin layer of sweat oozed from his forehead.

"Huh?" Laprahi's shrill and thin voice sounded in Joe's head: "Medicine Gu Secret Food Technique, have you eaten it more than once?" It's no wonder that your body was born with serious injuries, and the acquired ones made up for it a little too much. ”

"Look at your fat and crimson, you've made up too much."

Joe didn't bother with Laplachi, and now he didn't bother with Laplasi.

The 'Midnight Snack' concocted by the Grimace shopkeeper is extremely scary, but extremely delicious, and has a strong tonic effect on the body.

Six years ago, when he first met the shopkeeper of Grimace, Joe was tricked into eating the first bite of the secret 'small snack', and then he couldn't stop and became a loyal fan of the 'dark cuisine' of the shopkeeper of Grimace.

"Uncle, you continue to say, I came to you just to ask you for help." Qiao Mali picked up a large centipede, stuck out his tongue, and licked the delicious juice on the shell.

"Take these girls away." The grimace shopkeeper squinted and said, "It won't be an ordinary human trafficker." The cost is too high, the cost is too high. The secret medicine and secret technique that can make me accidentally tricked are used to kidnap a few ordinary girls? ”

"Jack, Jerry, and Bourne, they have a lot of money." Joe added: "What if, it's a kidnapping? ”

"Then, kidnap Jack directly, why deal with a few little girls?" The grimace shopkeeper swallowed three big centipedes in a row: "So, it's not an ordinary abduction, it's not an ordinary kidnapping." So, what's the use of these little girls? ”

Joe's mind flashed with inspiration, and he quickly named the two strange black shadows he had encountered on the night of mid-autumn.

The white mist, the fluttering flute, the vicious rats and moths.

"Corrupted Spirit cultist, you killed one more?" The ghost-faced shopkeeper's eyes widened, his face twitched violently, and he looked at Qiao in great shock: "No, you didn't kill him completely, he destroyed his transcendent weapon and escaped with the power of the corrosive spirit." ”

"You destroyed his body, but you didn't destroy his soul."

The grimace shopkeeper's gaze revealed a chill that made Qiao Du feel uncomfortable. He took out a fist-sized brass bell from a drawer on the counter and shook it vigorously.

In the sound of 'ding ding', there was a sound from the second floor of the pharmacy, and after a while, the sound of stairs sounded, and two young men who looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old, with crooked melons and rotten dates, rubbed their eyes and staggered out of a small door in the corner of the medicine cabinet.

"Teacher." The two teenagers bowed respectfully to the shopkeeper with a grimace.

"Go and ask those little cubs if they have found anything in the past two days." The grimace shopkeeper pushed the bowl in front of Joe, and there was still half a bowl of big centipedes left in it.

He looked at the two teenagers and said in a deep voice, "Some people who seem to make people feel chills in their hearts, and highlanders, highlanders who don't look like good people, and all those who look suspicious. Or, who hears some relevant words, ten gold marks, who can provide useful news, ten gold marks. ”

The two teenagers were in good spirits at once, and they saluted the grimace shopkeeper before quickly running to the backyard.

"There is a curfew these days, so be careful on the road." The ghost-faced shopkeeper muttered in a low voice, "Don't be blackskinned...... Well, don't get caught. ”

A 'black-skinned dog' almost came out of his mouth, and the grimace shopkeeper looked at Joe in a black police uniform, and then forcibly swallowed the slanderous words back.

Qiao Gan laughed and waved his hand very angrily: "If you are accidentally caught, just say that you are on the orders of the special investigation team for the Mid-Autumn Bloody Case, and you went out on errands." If they don't believe me, let them come to me. ”

The two teenagers grinned, and one of them laughed in a low voice: "Young Master Qiao, if we are caught, we will not have the face to come to see you and the teacher." ”

Amid the laughter, the two teenagers scurried into the backyard, and then there was a slight sound of the sewer manhole cover being opened.

Joe shrugged his shoulders and grimaced.

This is the main reason why he came to the shopkeeper of Grimace in the middle of the night, and on the way, he accidentally completed a deal with Laprahi and got a good prescription, and asked the shopkeeper of Grimace to help identify it, which was just a convenient thing.

Joe knew that the shopkeeper of Grimace had been secretly adopting orphans long before he met Joe.

The younger ones are three or four years old, the older ones are seven or eight years old, and even eleven or twelve years old.

These little guys, who have unfortunately become orphans for various reasons, have already been doomed, destined to sink into the mud and become 'prey' to be trampled by others.

The shopkeeper of Grimace pulled them by the hand when they were on the verge of despair.

They were fed and clothed, and even taught to read and write and count and settle accounts. When they are older and have a little self-protection ability, the ghostface shopkeeper will let them fend for themselves.

Go to the restaurant to wash dishes and run the hall, go to the carriage and horse shop to clean the carriage and horses, help people repair the roof and paint the exterior wall, help people repair the lawn, take care of the garden, and even girls go to help other people's houses.

Because of their age and their own skills, these little guys are not engaged in a very good job. But at least they can support themselves, and as long as they work hard, they have a chance to climb the ladder.

The grimace shopkeeper saved these little guys from the tragic fate of becoming sloppy fireflies, pickpockets, and gang thugs.

These little guys regard the grimace shopkeeper as their biological father and have great respect for him.

These little guys, call themselves the 'Sparrow Gang'.

They are scattered in all corners of the port of Tulun, in all walks of life. They made friends and exchanged information, and they formed a large net that covered almost the entire port of Tulum.

Except for the grimace shopkeeper and his children, except for Joe, no one in the entire port of Tulum, even the deepest and most powerful local snakes, knew that in the secret of the port of Tulun, there was such a loose but absolutely well-informed network.

"What did you just think of?" Joe looked at the grimace shopkeeper curiously.

The shopkeeper stood up, he took out a small iron pot, added a few pieces of charcoal to the small charcoal stove, put the small iron pot on the small charcoal stove, and then added half a pot of oil to the iron pot.

Pulling open a drawer at the bottom of the medicine cabinet, the grimace shopkeeper took out a net of fist-sized giant hunting spiders.

It didn't take long for the effort, accompanied by the subtle sound of oil popping, a very rich, extremely evil attraction, so that the fragrance of Qiao's mouth full of saliva filled the entire pharmacy.

When the first fried big hunting spider came out of the pot, the grimace shopkeeper muttered: "The worst thing I can think of is that these girls are sacrificed to the spirit of corrosion." ”

"Hopefully they didn't collect enough sacrifices, and hopefully they won't have time for the ritual." The grimace shopkeeper muttered, "I'm good at potions, and I've only heard a little about these forbidden techniques. ”

"Anyway, it's not good." The grimace shopkeeper shook his head and said, "It's not good." Very bad. ”

"If something happens to little Mary, Joe, figure out how to do it." The grimace shopkeeper said in a deep voice: "That secret medicine is time-sensitive, it can last for about seven to ten days, and the power of that secret technique will also be weakened. ”

"Jack, sooner or later, they'll remember that their daughter is missing."

"And those people, what they want to fight for, is just a few days. I'm afraid that by the time Jack and the others remember that their daughter is missing, they'll have done it all. ”

"When it is dawn, I will ask people to secretly inquire about whether the same thing is happening on Yaolu Street and the surrounding neighborhoods." Joe shoved the last centipede in the bowl into his mouth, and then took a small plate of squeaky spiders.

Enjoying a terrible meal, the night passed quickly.

Joe's breakfast was a big bowl of scallion oil noodles cooked by the shopkeeper with a grimace.

After breakfast, I found a place to snooze for a while, and before noon, news came back from the 'Sparrow Gang'.