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Chapter 45 Interloper or Participant? (Keep reading!)
Wei An's crisis here has been temporarily lifted. If he hadn't exposed Qiao Rongrong, he would definitely have died just now.

Besides, Qiao Rongrong almost killed her mother just now. If Wen Qiong hadn't reacted quickly and kept Qiao Rongrong here at the same time, it would be difficult for the mother and son to get through this difficulty this time.

Therefore, Wei An has no sympathy for Qiao Rongrong. This woman is good at hiding and has a vicious mind, so she really can't be a person along the way.

What he is most worried about now is his mother. When he came to Wen Qiong, Wei An wanted to help Wen Qiong take off the mask on her head, but no matter how hard he tried, the mask seemed to have fused with Wen Qiong's face. Cannot be removed.

"Don't move, don't pull!" Wen Qiong said, "It hurts, the mask seems to be connected to my head."

At first, Wei An thought that when his mother pulled off the butcher's mask, she was cursed by him, so the mask was put on her head.

At this time, after hearing what Wen Qiong said, he hesitated for a while, and asked, "Mom, do you feel anything strange in your head now? And the body too."

Wen Qiong put her hands down and let Wei An support her, she felt it quietly.

After a while, he shook his head and said, "I don't have any other feelings in my body, I just feel that my heart is on fire, and I really want to get dry!"

"Get bored?" Wei An stared at her blankly.

"Mom, feel it carefully again. If this thing threatens you, you should feel uneasy, but if... nothing..."

Wei An suddenly stopped talking, looking at Wen Qiong wearing a mask, an unbelievable conjecture rose in his mind.

What he didn't say just now was that if Wen Qiong had no other feelings and this thing couldn't be torn off, maybe this "mask" was a prop!
Wei An knew that even though the butcher had dragged Qiao Rongrong away, the little girl who had been hiding far away just now was still not approaching him. She was still hiding somewhere in the darkness, watching carefully.

"Is she afraid or hesitating..." Wei An withdrew his gaze from the darkness, and looked at his mother again.

Wen Qiong was no longer as flustered as before.

She tilted her head slightly, as if she was sensing something, and she seemed to be looking at something, and said, "Son, help me see, is there...a meat cleaver on the ground over there?"

Wei An followed her gaze, and saw that there was indeed a black thing on the ground not far away, but his eyesight couldn't tell what it was.

Let Wen Qiong stand on his own, Wei An walked over and squatted down to take a look, and it was indeed a meat chopping knife.

And judging by the appearance of this meat cleaver, it seems that it is the one that the bloodthirsty butcher was holding just now. At some point, this knife was abandoned here by him!

Wei An picked up the meat cleaver, waved it lightly twice, and found that it was light and weightless, and it didn't seem to belong to props.

A figure squatted beside him, but it was Wen Qiong who came over by himself.

She stretched out her hand, took the meat cleaver from Wei An, and danced slowly.

"This knife is very handy." Wen Qiong felt completely different from Wei An, "It's better than all the knives on the butcher stall over there just now."

"Is it just right for you to hold it?" Wei An was surprised.

"Exactly." Wen Qiong nodded.

Wei An suddenly stood up and took two steps back. Seeing his mother wearing a mask and holding a meat cleaver, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, but he didn't know what to say.

After a long time, he finally opened his mouth and said, "Mom, maybe this mask and meat cleaver...are all your props?!"

Wen Qiong hesitated for a moment, looked down at her own appearance, reached out to touch the mask again, and replied: "I think...it should be, this mask may not be able to be taken off. And with it, I feel that my body's strength has increased Quite a few, and this knife is so handy, even more handy than the knife I usually use when cutting meat in the kitchen. It's just... now I'm in a panic."

"Mom, calm down first." Wei An nodded and comforted him: "Is it a prop? It will remind you after the strange talk is over. That's how I got this ice cutter back then. And even if it's a prop, it It will only appear when you enter the ghost story, and you won’t be able to take anything with you when you return to the real world. Don’t worry, the mask will come off by itself.”

Her son has experienced it all the time, after hearing Wei An's words, Wen Qiong felt a little relieved.

What's more, she actually has no other abnormalities now. Apart from being dry, she has a sense of security that she has never had before.

"I feel that the butcher probably won't come to trouble us anymore. We can wait here safely until the 24-hour countdown ends." Wen Qiong said.

Because she didn't feel any more malice from the butcher just now, it seemed that she was approved by the other party after wearing the mask, and the guy seemed to have left her the meat cleaver.

Wei An turned his head to look at the little girl in the darkness again, and shook his head slightly: "It's not over yet."

Then he pointed to the dark direction: "The thing that the little girl wants is also in Qiao Rongrong's stomach. It may be their family's last wish. I'm going to have a look."

Now Wei An didn't know what would happen if he took the hidden mission and didn't complete it, but he didn't dare to let it happen.

If possible now, he still wants to try his best to complete this hidden task.

Besides, Wei An is not a participant now, he is an intruder, and after everyone returns safely after the countdown, there is a great possibility that he will still be left behind by the ghost talk, just like the last time in the pearl milk tea monster talk.

But this time the weirdness to face is the butcher, a C-level ghost story, not the kind of F-level ghost story pearl milk tea.

So taking advantage of this opportunity, he needs to take more initiative.

But one thing is good, that guy Jian Hui is the same as himself, he is also an intruder, and when the two intruders are together, there will always be someone to take care of them.

It's just that as an intruder, it is definitely more difficult to complete the strange talk than ordinary participants, so the initiative in the early stage should be higher, but Jian Hui doesn't seem to be worried at all, and has been adopting a conservative approach since entering this strange talk. Strategy - keep hiding.

Thinking of this, Wei An suddenly felt something was wrong, as if he had overlooked something.

At this moment, Wen Qiong said, "I'll go with you."

The two immediately looked back at Jian Hui, and found that the guy's face was ashen, his body was stiff, but he still maintained the same appearance as before, and he hadn't moved.

"Is the butcher's face so frightening? Look, it scared our investigators." Wei An said to himself, and then said to Wen Qiong: "Mom, you also saw the butcher's appearance, and it was from a short distance. Is it scary?"

Wen Qiong nodded immediately, looking at her appearance, ready to describe, but suddenly froze when she was on the verge of speaking.

After being stunned for a while, Wen Qiong finally said, "I...can't describe it. What's going on?"

"Don't talk about it, Mom, there's no need to describe it." Wei An waved his hand, "This may be a rule of strange talk, let's not break it."

After finishing speaking, he walked towards Jian Hui, patted the guy's stiff shoulder, and said, "Are you okay?"

Jian Hui was shocked, and finally came back to his senses, and looked at Wei An beside him. After a while, he shook his head violently, as if he wanted to get rid of the picture in his mind.

"No...it's fine."

Wei An said: "It's fine. Well, as you saw just now, the butcher should stop embarrassing us from now on. As 'intruders', I think we should discuss how to face the next problem."

"The intruder?" Jian Hui said in astonishment, "What intruder?"

(End of this chapter)