Stopping the staff, Chen Ge went over and asked, "Do you want to talk to me about something?"
Wang Hailong was sweating profusely. He squeezed out of the crowd while panting. "My brother spoke last night! He is outside the park now. He said he has something very important to tell you!"
"Take me there." Things happened just as Chen Ge guessed. He looked at the tourists waiting in line, briefly explained a few words to Uncle Xu, opened the ghost marriage scene first, and then left with Wang Hailong.
"I'm sorry to bother you with your business again." Wang Hailong wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Shenglong has had a very hard time in the past five or six years. I really can't calm down."
"I understand."
The two arrived at the entrance of the theme park. Across the street parked a purchasing truck of the hot pot restaurant with the words "Longhufang" written in large flourishes on the body of the car.
"Here." Wang Hailong led Chen Ge towards the truck: "You have seen what my brother looks like. He is afraid of scaring others, so he dare not show his face."
After five or six years of stalemate with the tall and thin ghost, Wang Shenglong's mind became clear, like a child. But his body became seriously deformed. He stayed in his room for almost a whole year. He was so fat that he couldn't even get on the bed and could only spread a blanket on the floor.
When mentioning that child, Chen Ge thought of Quasimodo, the bell ringer in Notre Dame de Paris.
Chen Ge remembered that when they first met at Haiming Apartment, Wang Shenglong drew a picture for him.
In the painting, the monster stands on the boy's shoulder, looking at the people around the boy, and seems ready to jump on other people at any time.
Wang Shenglong seemed to be using the painting to tell Chen Ge that he had his own reasons, and if he didn't do what the Slender Man said, the monster would jump onto his family and hurt others.
He endured all the grievances alone, persisted in that unfair game, and did not speak a word for five or six years.
Wang Hailong opened the back door of the truck and saw a shadow like a small hill in the deepest part of the compartment.
"Shenglong, I've invited Boss Chen here. Tell him what you want to say."
After hearing Wang Hailong's words, the shadow took two steps forward and the whole truck began to shake.
"Don't move. Let me go in." Chen Ge and Wang Hailong entered the truck and closed the door.
This was the second time he looked at Wang Shenglong up close. He couldn't tell Wang Shenglong's age from his appearance. His facial features were covered with fat, and his body was as wide as it was wide.
“Hmm…”
Having not spoken for many years, Wang Shenglong has forgotten how to pronounce words. His voice is strange and he cannot pronounce complete Chinese characters.
"Don't be anxious. Write down whatever you want to say." Chen Ge kept a distance from Wang Shenglong at the beginning. He stood at the door of the car, ready to jump out and leave immediately if something went wrong.
However, after observing for a while, Chen Ge found that Wang Shenglong was indeed different from before.
The most obvious thing was that the stench on his body that only Chen Ge could smell was gone.
Taking out a notebook from beside the seat, Wang Shenglong held the watercolor pen with difficulty and wrote three words on the notebook.
"I won."
These three simple words consumed Wang Shenglong's five or six years of work, and because of these three words, a person was ruined.
Every stroke of the words on the paper was written with great emphasis, revealing Wang Shenglong's inner emotions.
"Boss Chen, do you remember the story I told you before?" Wang Hailong was afraid that Chen Ge would not understand, so he quietly moved closer to him and said, "When my brother was a child, he played a game with a ghost to see who would speak first. This game lasted for almost six years. Now it seems that my brother has won."
After saying this, Wang Hailong lowered his voice and added: "Boss Chen, my brother has just recovered from his illness. No matter what he says, you must follow his wishes."
Chen Ge turned his head and glanced at Wang Hailong. This burly man also has a delicate side.
"Your brother is really good. As far as I know, many people have played this game, but your brother is the only one who won the game." Chen Ge held Wang Shenglong's fat hand: "You are amazing."
With a flick of the pen, Wang Shenglong wrote a few words in his notebook: "It's just leaving temporarily. It said it will come back to find me."
"Will it come back?" Seeing what Wang Shenglong wrote in his notebook, Chen Ge had a question in his mind: "That monster spent nearly six years with you, why would it suddenly leave?"
"It felt threatened, so it woke up from its slumber and tried to forcibly occupy my body. After failing, it left."
"Felt threatened? Was it because of the appearance of me and Dr. Gao?" Chen Ge continued to ask: "When did the monster wake up?"
"Three o'clock in the morning two days ago." Wang Shenglong answered honestly on the paper.
Looking at the date on the paper, Chen Ge was a little surprised. Two nights ago, he was broadcasting live in Ward 3.
"I entered the world behind the door and awakened Men Nan's main personality. Could it be that the awakening of the monster is related to the third ward?"
Chen Ge pondered in his mind and felt that there must be a certain connection between the two, but this was not the main reason.
"That night, before and after the monster left, did you notice anything strange or hear any weird noises?"
"There are footsteps walking backwards in the corridor."
"Walking backwards?"
Wang Shenglong wrote a lot of words on the paper, but he still couldn't explain it clearly. He was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead.
"It's okay. This is already a very important clue." Chen Ge 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 Captain Yan in front of the two Wang brothers.
"Captain Yan, I have obtained another important piece of information about the case in Ward 3. The fugitive patient may have appeared near Haiming Apartment."
The monster on Wang Shenglong's body sneaked out from behind the door of the third ward. It was out of control and not with the other monsters.
The reason why the monster was scared was most likely because other monsters in the third ward appeared near it.
The monster inside the door of Ward 3 can only stay outside the door for a long time if it attaches itself to a living person. So, the sound of backwards footsteps that Wang Shenglong heard that night was probably made by a patient in Ward 3.
Wang Hailong was listening 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 called Captain Yan. Then he panicked.
"What's going on? Why did you call the police while you were chatting?"
He suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter. Chen Ge didn't seem to be joking.
"Boss Chen, what were you talking about just now? The police are coming to Haiming Apartment?" Wang Hailong looked nervous.
"Your brother's story is related to another case. This is all I can tell you." Chen Ge said a few more words to Wang Shenglong and got out of the car.
Wang Hailong was worried and chased after him: "Boss Chen, my brother has been staying at home all the time. He has definitely not done anything bad, and it is impossible for him to do anything illegal."
"I know that. To be precise, the monster in your brother's story is related to the case."
"Monster?" Wang Hailong's face changed. No one knew what he was thinking. After a long while, he asked, "Will my brother be affected? He has suffered so much and it's hard for him to speak."
"Don't worry, it won't affect your brother." Chen Ge glanced inside the car. Wang Shenglong, who was as tall as a hill, was huddled in the corner of the truck. He hid in the shadow where the sun couldn't reach him, holding a fountain pen in his fat hand, as if he was drawing.