Walking all the way in the 'Strange Circle', he occasionally encountered a few groups of patrol members, but Zheng Zhenmu just stood a foot away and greeted them from a distance, and the two sides did not mean to talk closely.

After a few times, Zhou Fan saw that this was a rule of the patrol.

"I'm sure you've seen a little difference. Zheng Zhenmu glanced at Zhou Fan beside him and said slowly, "This is the second principle I want to tell you, don't get too close to the members of other groups in the field, even if they usually have a good relationship with you in the village." ”

"Is it because of the reason why the monster will possess or curse?" Zhou Fan's eyes carefully scanned the surroundings and asked, he had already heard Lu Kui say this.

"Weirdness is the main reason, but there is another reason, this is the patrol rule in order to reduce casualties, in the field, every team will remember this rule, if you forget the rules and rush close, the other party is likely to suspect that you are possessed by monsters and attack you with weapons. ”

"If that's the case, even if you die, you'll die in vain, and you won't be held accountable for the rules you broke and killed your team members by mistake. Zheng Zhenmu explained seriously.

"How is the distance between the two groups of people defined?" Zhou Fan asked.

"In principle, the farther away the safer, the rule is to stand outside the limit of the longest weapons of both sides. Zheng Zhenmu waved his hand abruptly and half-squatted down.

Zhou Fan also followed the half-squatting and looked ahead, but there were only a breeze blowing on the trail except for the miscellaneous trees and weeds.

After a while, Zheng Zhenmu stood up and continued to walk: "Walking in the wilderness, you can't keep moving forward, walk for a while and stop and observe carefully by feeling, in case something happens in front of you that catches you off guard." ”

"Is this the third principle?" Zhou Fan asked.

"No, it's just a little trick on patrol. Zheng Zhenmu stabbed the spear in his hand into a bush, and pulled it out again, only some grass clippings were stained on the tip of the spear, and he nodded reassuringly, "The third principle is the most important, and I will tell you later." ”

The more they walked, Zhou Fan and Zheng Zhenmu stopped again.

Outside the circle ahead are one rice field after another, and the rice fields in July are like golden carpets, with clusters of rice ears with diluted rice falling on the light green leaves.

Outside the circle, at the edge of the rice paddies far from the village, there are scarecrows.

Scarecrows supported by wooden sticks, dressed in old black or blue clothes, some with hats woven of weeds, swaying gently in the wind.

"When we arrived, the rice paddies were the two areas we were responsible for patrolling. Zheng Zhenmu said.

Zhou Fan estimated it, if measured according to the Mo circle, the width of the rice field is only about 100 zhang of the Mo circle.

The sun is shining.

After walking for a while, sweat oozed from both of their foreheads.

Zhou Fan and Zheng Zhenmu walked to the shade of a tree to enjoy the shade.

Zheng Zhenmu leaned his spear against the tree, he sat under the roots of the tree that came out of the dirt, took out the kettle and took a sip of water, and said, "If there is anything you want to ask, just ask." ”

Zhou Fan deliberately sat under the leaves about half a meter away from Zheng Zhenmu, he untied the straight knife tied around his waist and put it on his lap, took out the kettle to drink saliva and frowned and asked: "I originally thought that the fields in the village were in the village, but I didn't expect it to be outside the village." ”

Zheng Zhenmu was stunned for a moment and said, "Don't you know this? There is no suitable place to farm in the village, so you can only plant in the wild." ”

Of course, Zheng Zhenmu didn't know about Zhou Fan's 'amnesia'.

The old man sat in front of Zhou Fan, looking at the kettle in Zhou Fan's hand, and the weather was so hot that the old dog stuck out his tongue.

Zhou Fan raised the kettle high, fell down, and a string of water lines flowed out of the mouth of the kettle, and the old man stuck out his tongue, and not a drop of water was left into its mouth.

Zhou Fan put down the kettle and said, "The people who farm are ordinary villagers, so how can we ensure their safety?"

Zheng Zhenmu said casually: "The fields in the wild are all collectively planted and collected together, and when the collective planting or collection, the patrol team will send people to guard them, and sometimes the talisman master will also be present......

As he spoke, Zheng Zhenmu, who had been staring at the rice field in front of him, suddenly changed his mouth and said, "It's here." ”

What's coming?

Zhou Fan looked up at the rice field, and then his face changed greatly.

There was a large white light several acres in size, as if moving clouds, and dozens of scarecrows poured over the golden rice fields.

The white light parted over the rice field and divided into countless small white light clusters, which changed into a humanoid white light the size of a child.

It was like hundreds of children's white ghosts floating on the rice paddies, playing and laughing strangely.

Zhou Fan stood up, pulled out the knife from its sheath, and the small flame talisman he had been hiding in his cuffs was also slapped on the back of the knife, and the back of the knife had flame-like lines spreading.

Zhou Fan held a knife and looked at those children's white ghosts vigilantly, but he didn't know the bottom in his heart, with so many white ghosts, how many could he cut alone?

"Put away the talisman and the knife. Zheng Zhenmu didn't make any moves, he still sat on the root of the tree, and his face was very calm.

Zhou Fan just frowned, but he didn't listen to Zheng Zhenmu's words, he still maintained the posture of holding a knife, and his eyes were full of vigilance.

Zheng Zhenmu didn't have any dissatisfaction with Zhou Fan not following his orders, he just smiled and said: "This is the third principle I want to tell you, don't move in case of trouble." ”

"What's the solution?" Zhou Fan confirmed that those white ghosts were still lingering in the rice fields, and after not attacking, he glanced at the old man at his feet again, and the old man just stared at those white ghosts, and it didn't react much.

Zhou Fancai put his hand on the small flame talisman that was close to the back of the knife.

The small flame talisman fell off, and Zhou Fan hid the small flame talisman in his sleeve again, he had no idea of putting the small flame talisman into the talisman bag, because it was too slow to take out the talisman from the talisman bag, what he needed was to quickly paste the small flame talisman on the back of the knife.

The risk of losing this small talisman is nothing compared to saving your life.

Besides, as long as you are careful, the little flame charm will not be so easy to lose.

Zheng Zhenmu watched Zhou Fan's movements, and a hint of appreciation flashed in his eyes, his partner was obviously a very cautious person, he explained: "Don't move when you encounter a strange thing, that is, don't act rashly when you encounter a strange thing." ”

Zheng Zhenmu paused, thought for a moment and asked Zhou Fan, "Do you know the weird classification?"

Zhou Fan inserted the knife back into the scabbard, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "What grade?"

"Looks like you don't know. Zheng Zhenmu was not surprised, "Even Master Fu can't tell how many weirdness there are, but the official family still thinks about dividing them into ranks." ”

"As far as I know, there are two kinds of weirdness: swim and resentment, each of which is divided into three layers: white, black and blood, and the lowest layer of weirdness is white you. ”

Zheng Zhenmu pointed to the white ghosts on the rice field and said: "Those strange people are called rice children, named because they like to play above the rice fields, and they are a kind of Bai You. ”

"Rice child...... Zhou Fan muttered to himself as he looked at the rice child floating and frolicking above the rice field and laughing weirdly.