Chapter 0212 – A Kind Heart Is Like the Sun
Stopping the staff, Chen Ge greeted them, “What are you looking for me for?”
Wang Hailong was sweating profusely as he gasped and squeezed out of the crowd, “My brother opened his mouth last night! He’s outside the paradise right now, saying that he has something very important to tell you!”
”Take me there.” Things were just as Chen Ge had guessed, he looked at the tourists waiting in line, briefly explained to Uncle Xu, and opened the Underworld Marriage Scene first, while then he left with Wang Hailong.
”Sorry for disturbing your business again.” Wang Hailong wiped the sweat on his forehead, “Shenglong has had too much suffering these past five or six years, I just can’t calm down.”
”I can understand.”
The two of them came to the entrance of the paradise, across the road parked a Hot Pot City’s purchasing vehicle, on the body of the vehicle there were also a few big words written in dragons – Dragon Tiger Square.
”Over here.” Wang Hailong led Chen Ge towards the van, “You’ve seen my brother’s appearance before, he’s afraid of scaring others so he doesn’t dare to show his face.”
After five or six years of stalemate with the long and thin ghostly shadow, Wang Shenglong’s mind was as clear as a child’s. However, his body had become severely deformed, and he spent almost an entire year in his room, so fat that he couldn’t even get into bed and could only spread a blanket on the floor.
At the mention of that boy, Chen Ge remembered Quasimodo, the bell ringer in Notre Dame de Paris.
Chen Ge remembered that when they first met at the Heming apartment, Wang Shenglong drew him a picture.
The monster in the painting stood on the boy’s shoulder, gazing at the people around the boy, seemingly ready to jump on the others at any time.
Wang Shenglong seemed to be using that painting to tell Chen Ge that he had a hard time, and that if he didn’t do what the long, thin ghostly figure said, the monster would jump onto his family and hurt others.
He alone took all the aggression, stuck to that not-so-fair game, and didn’t open his mouth to say anything for five or six years.
Wang Hailong opened the back door of the van, and there was a small mountain of shadows in the deepest part of the compartment.
”Shenglong, I invited Boss Chen here, what do you have to say to the others in a hurry.”
Hearing Wang Hailong’s words, the shadow took two steps forward and the whole minivan shook.
”Don’t move, it’s better for me to go in.” Chen Ge and Wang Hailong entered the van and closed the door behind them.
This was the second time he sized up Wang Shenglong up close, he couldn’t project Wang Shenglong’s age at all from his appearance, his features were all covered by fat, and his body was generally wide horizontally and vertically.
”Well ……”
After years of not opening his mouth, Wang Shenglong had already forgotten how to pronounce the words, his voice was strange, unable to speak complete Chinese characters.
”Don’t be in a hurry, write down whatever you want to say.” Chen Ge initially kept his distance from Wang Shenglong as he stood at the door of the car, ready to jump out of the car immediately if something went slightly wrong.
However, after observing him for a while, Chen Ge realized that Wang Shenglong was indeed different from before.
The most notable point was that the stench on him that only Chen Ge could smell was gone.
Taking out his notebook from beside the seat, Wang Shenglong effortlessly held the watercolor pen and wrote down three words on the book.
”I won.”
Three simple words, but it took Wang Shenglong five or six years of his life to destroy a man just because of those three words.
The words on the paper were written heavily with each stroke, and one could tell that they contained Wang Shenglong’s inner emotions.
”Boss Chen, do you remember the story I told you before?” Wang Hailong was afraid that Chen Ge wouldn’t be able to understand it and quietly came to his side: “When my brother was young, he played a game with the ghosts and monsters to see who would speak first, this game lasted for almost six years, and now looking at the situation it should have been my brother who won.”
After saying this, Wang Hailong lowered his voice and added, “Boss Chen, my brother is just sick, no matter what he says, you must obey him.”
Chen Ge twisted his head and glanced at Wang Hailong, this big and burly man also had a delicate side.
”Your brother is indeed very good, this game has been played by many people as far as I know, but your brother is the only one who won the game.” Chen Ge shook Wang Shenglong’s fat hand, “You’re amazing.”
The pencil swung, and Wang Shenglong wrote a few more sentences on his notebook, “It’s only leaving for a while, it said it will come back for me.”
”It will come back again?” Seeing the words Wang Shenglong wrote on the notebook, a question surfaced in Chen Ge’s heart, “That monster has been spending nearly six years with you, why did it suddenly leave?”
”It sensed a threat, so it awoke from its slumber and tried to forcefully occupy my body, and it left after it failed.”
”Felt a threat? Was it because of the appearance of Dr. Gao and I?” Chen Ge continued to inquire, “When did the monster awaken?”
”Two days ago at three o’clock in the morning.” Wang Shenglong honestly answered on the paper.
Looking at the date on the paper, Chen Ge was a little surprised that two nights ago, he happened to be live in the third sick building.
”I entered the world behind the door and awakened Men Nan’s master personality, could the monster awakening be related to the third sick building?”
Chen Ge pondered in his mind and felt that there should be some connection between the two, but it wasn’t the main reason.
”That night, before and after the monster left, did you find anything strange or hear any eerie sounds?”
”There were footsteps walking backwards in the hallway.”
”Walking backwards?”
Wang Shenglong wrote a bunch of words on the paper, but still couldn’t explain it clearly, his forehead sweating anxiously.
”It’s fine, this is already a very important clue.” Chen Ge also didn’t understand the difference between the sound of footsteps walking backwards and the sound of normal people’s footsteps, he took out his cell phone and called Team Yan in front of the two Wang brothers.
”Captain Yan, regarding the case of the third sick building, I’ve obtained another important piece of information, the patient at large may have appeared near the Haiming Apartments.”
The monster on Wang Shenglong’s body had snuck out from behind the door of the third patient building, it was out of control and not with the other monsters.
It was highly likely that the other monsters in the third sick building had appeared near it if it could make that monster feel afraid.
The monsters inside the door of the third sick building could only stay outside the door for a long time if they were attached to a living person, so if you think about it, the footsteps that Wang Shenglong heard walking backwards that night were probably from the third sick building patients.
Wang Hailong listened to the conversation between Chen Ge and Wang Shenglong, he thought Chen Ge was fooling Wang Shenglong until Chen Ge took out his cell phone and talked to Team Yan, then he panicked.
”What’s the situation? How come the police were called while we were chatting?”
He suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter, Chen Ge didn’t seem to be joking.
”Boss Chen, what were you all just talking about? The police are coming to Haiming Apartment?” Wang Hailong looked nervous.
”Your brother’s story is related to another case, that’s all I can tell you.” Chen Ge said a few more words to Wang Shenglong and got out of the car.
Wang Hailong was uneasy and chased after him, “Boss Chen, my brother has always stayed at home, he definitely hasn’t done anything bad, and it’s impossible for him to go and do those things that break the law.”
”This I know, to be precise, the monster in your brother’s story is related to the case.”
”Monster?” Wang Hailong’s face changed, and he didn’t know what he was thinking about, and only after a long time did he ask, “Then will my brother be affected? He’s already suffered too much, it’s not easy for him to speak.”
”Don’t worry, it won’t affect your brother.” Chen Ge glanced towards the vehicle, like a small mountain, Wang Shenglong shrank in the corner of the van, he hid in the shadows where the sunlight couldn’t shine, his fat hand holding a water brush as if he was drawing.