Chapter 12: The Gray Line

"Three?" Zhou Fan looked up in amazement, according to the news he had inquired, there were now more than sixty people in the patrol team, and the probability of three people was not too low.

"Yes, there are three people, one is me, and there are two deputy captains, if anyone can get started, then the village will definitely give a deputy captain position, and the salary will be increased accordingly. Lu Kui said with some feelings.

"Even if you can't really get started, you don't have to be too frustrated, practicing the first four styles of the Tiger Twelve Styles can still play a certain role in strengthening the body even if you can't get started. Lu Kui was afraid that Zhou Fan would be discouraged and would not study again, so he comforted him and said.

Zhou Fan no longer spoke, but carefully studied the first four styles of the "Tiger Twelve Styles", Lu Kui told him that this "Tiger Twelve Styles" can only be learned by the patrol team, so this book cannot be taken away by Zhou Fan, and he must memorize the first four styles.

So that he will be able to practice on his own tomorrow.

As for why it is strictly forbidden to spread the word?

Lu Kui said that this was stipulated in the cool weather, and he didn't know the specific reason, but as far as he knew, if the villagers who were not on the patrol learned it, it was important to say whether they could deal with the strange monsters with a little more strength, but when the village was alive and dead, those who were unwilling to join the patrol team might become some kind of hidden danger.

Zhou Fan's memory is very good, it only took him half an hour to memorize the words and maps of the first four styles, and after he confirmed it, he asked Lu Kui for the words in the book that he didn't understand.

There are too many meridian acupuncture points and some martial arts terms, these questions are exactly what Lu Kui, a martial artist, is most familiar with, and Lu Kui is not difficult to answer.

Lu Kui also said while accurately pointing out the location of a certain acupuncture point on himself or Zhou Fan, which made Zhou Fan gain a lot.

Zhou Fan also understands that if he studies with newcomers in the patrol, I'm afraid Lu Kui won't have the patience to teach him like this, in Zhou Fan's opinion, it is a very cost-effective deal to pay one-third of his life and get Lu Kui's careful teaching.

Time passed gradually, and after all the questions in Zhou Fan's heart were solved from Lu Kui, it was already close to the middle of the night.

Zhou Fan hurriedly stood up and said goodbye, he borrowed the fire to light the candle in the lantern.

"Then you go back first, practice by yourself tomorrow, and if you don't understand something, come back to me in the evening." Lu Kui stood up and sent Zhou Fan out.

Zhou Fan was playing the lantern, he suddenly remembered another question, and he hurriedly asked: "Brother Lu, can you deal with strange things by learning martial arts?"

Lu Kui laughed and said, "Afan, this is impossible, if the monster is so easy to deal with, then the patrol team will not die so many people." ”

"If that's the case......" Zhou Fan's brows furrowed, he wanted to say what is the use of learning?

"Afan, don't underestimate martial arts. Lu Kui said in a deep voice, "Martial arts is the foundation of all cultivation, it may not be able to deal with most of the weirdness, but it can make you strong, when danger comes, those who run fast will always have a better hope of surviving than those who run slowly." ”

Zhou Fan was stunned for a moment, he knew that he was thinking about it, and he said with an awe-inspiring face: "Brother Lu, I remember." ”

If it weren't for Lu Kui's reminder, Zhou Fan would almost have a contempt for martial arts, wouldn't what he wanted was to use all means to live well?

"Brother Lu, my father and mother said that you are a monk, is martial arts a part of cultivation?"

"Didn't I tell you that martial arts are the foundation of all cultivation?" Lu Kui was stunned for a moment and said, "This is actually not what I said, but I heard it from a senior in the cool weather, you just remember it." ”

Zhou Fan didn't ask any more, but said goodbye and turned to leave.

Lu Kui stood by the door, looking at the lantern that was fading away in the darkness, he grinned, "This kid is ambitious, but he doesn't know what his talent is?"

"It's really dark. Zhou Fan carried the lantern and walked on the path, the surroundings were dark, and he looked up at the sky.

The sky was dark, and the stars and moon were not visible.

"Could it be that the heavens in this world are like this?" Zhou Fan shook his head, didn't think about it again, and continued to rush home.

Zhou Fan looked around from time to time, and found that there was no sense of fear, knowing that the Yin Ghost was definitely not nearby.

After arriving home, blowing out the white candle in the lantern, his father Zhou Yimu was sitting smoking a hookah, and Niang Guifeng was sewing clothes near the oil lamp, they were obviously waiting for Zhou Fan.

Zhou Fan's heart warmed slightly, his parents had died when he was a child in his previous life, and the love of his parents was very vague, but now he clearly felt it, they may not know that he was not the soul of his predecessor.

But Zhou Fan regards them as relatives in this world, whether it is for himself or for them, he has to live well.

When Zhou Fan came back, Zhou Zhou Mu didn't ask him how he was studying, but just asked him to go to sleep.

Zhou Fan cleaned up casually and went back to his room to sleep.

It's just that when Zhou Fan woke up after falling asleep, he suddenly saw the gray mist again, and the blood cells were still hanging high in the air.

Zhou Fan was taken aback, he originally thought it was just a nightmare, but he came back again.

Where is this, and why is he here these two days when he's asleep?

Zhou Fan can't get answers to these questions for the time being.

Zhou Fan took a breath, he had never seen such a strange thing, he didn't even know what would happen if he died in this strange space?

If he wasn't worried about dying here, he would never wake up again in reality, Zhou Fan wanted to try to kill himself, and if he killed himself, he might be able to wake himself up.

Zhou Fan thought about it and walked to the side of the boat, and cautiously stretched out his head to look out of the railing.

A skull was reflected in the mirror-like gray river water, and the skull's hollow eyes seemed to be staring at Zhou Fan.

Bai Sensen's skull seemed to be attached to the surface of the river.

Zhou Fan looked at this skull, he suddenly stretched out his hand, and there was an extra skull hand on the river mirror in an instant.

Zhou Fan took a deep breath of cold air, he took a step back and retracted his head and hands, because he saw strange black shadows swimming in the depths of the river, and he was not sure if those black shadows would jump up from the bottom of the water and bite off his head or arm in one bite.

It is now certain that the skull and skullman reflected in the river are his head and his hands.

Thinking about this, Zhou Fan couldn't help but caress his face with both hands, confirming that the skin and flesh on his nose, eyebrows, eyes, and face were all there, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.

Zhou Fan thought to himself, it was probably the weirdness of the gray river that caused him to reflect the white bones when he looked at the river.

Just as he was thinking, there were bursts of heart-palpitating roars from the depths of the drifting gray mist, like a terrible ghost screaming.

Zhou Fan's eardrums were shocked as if they were about to burst, he felt dizzy and dizzy, and his mind seemed to be captured.

Zhou Fan shook his head vigorously before he came to his senses.

The scream quickly became clear from far and near, and the monster with the sound was clearly speeding towards this direction.

Zhou Fan became nervous, he couldn't be sure if it was a dream or not, but he had to think about getting out of here, otherwise it would be bad when the monster arrived.

Zhou Fan turned on the deck, and he tried to find the entrance to the cabin, but there was no entrance on the deck.

A thunderous roar came from nearby, and Zhou Fan immediately reacted that it was the monster with the sound that had arrived, and he looked in the direction of the sound.

Crash!

There was a sound like something jumping out of the water, and from the gray mist a hundred meters away, golden flames the size of two small houses rose from the gray mist, which was the eye of the monster!

Zhou Fan's hair stood on end, and the gray mist made it impossible for him to see the true body of this monster, but the fear in his heart completely rose.

The monster jumped towards the wooden boat, leaping a hundred meters, its huge body was like a dark cloud covering the entire wooden boat, the size of this monster was so huge that Zhou Fan couldn't even see its basic form.

The monster's action was too fast, and Zhou Fan couldn't make the action of jumping into the river to escape.

Sou!

A ray of gray light like a hair swept across Zhou Fan's left side, and the gray line snag and pierced the monster's belly.

The gray line was small and not worth mentioning compared to the monster's body, but it was such a gray line that pierced the monster's body, and the monster let out a wail.

Its volume was shrinking wildly, shrinking to the size of a palm, and it was pulled forward by the gray line, past the top of Zhou Fan's head.

Zhou Fan's gaze followed the figure of the monster.

There was a square wooden table on the deck behind him, and an old man stood in front of it.

The monster eventually fell into the white jade plate on the wooden table.

The silver-haired old man was dressed in a gray robe with a mist pattern on it, and he held a light gray fishing rod with a dark gray fishing line hooking up with the monster jumping on the jade plate.

The old man didn't look at Zhou Fan, he was concentrating on looking at the jade plate.