Chapter 79: The Headless Little Ghost

Because he was sitting in the very last row of the bus, there was a step.

So after the little girl's head fell off, it immediately rolled forward with a gurgling sound.

She scrambled up in a panic, wanting to pick up her own head.

But the seat was too high, and her little short legs couldn't reach the ground to begin with; on top of that, her head had fallen off and she had no eyes, so she stumbled and was about to fall forward.

Shen Siyuan moved quickly, reaching out to grab her body, set her back on the seat, then bent down and picked up her head.

The little girl's eyes were red, both sad and wronged; tears rolled down her fair cheeks in big drops, fell to the ground, and quickly vanished as if they had never existed.

Shen Siyuan placed the head into the little girl's hands, and she skillfully pressed it back onto her neck.

To an ordinary person, this would be a very bizarre and terrifying thing, but Shen Siyuan did not feel afraid—only angry.

The killer was truly too vicious; it seemed it wasn't just a slit throat, but her head had been chopped clean off.

A surge of viciousness rose unbidden in his heart—damn, what kind of person could do this? Such a cute little girl, and they still had the heart to?

"Where's your home?" Shen Siyuan continued to ask.

Hearing this, the little girl's small face was full of blankness.

She seemed to think about the question, and only after a good while said, "Take the No. 6 bus, ride six stops, and you'll reach my home."

"Six stops?"

Shen Siyuan heard this and looked out the bus window.

He had boarded at Nanshui Lane; the bus had already passed two stops, and four more would be Nanshan Garden stop.

But clearly, the little girl's home couldn't be at Nanshan Garden stop—that was a park.

Besides, the six stops Lin Yunduo mentioned, he didn't know which stop she was counting from.

For the moment, Shen Siyuan had no idea where the home she spoke of was.

So he said, "Come back with me first, I'll help you find your family."

The little girl nodded, then realized her head was about to fall off again and hurriedly cupped it with both hands.

Then she gave Shen Siyuan a silly smile.

"I caught it, it didn't fall."

That joke wasn't funny at all, and Shen Siyuan felt a complicated mix of emotions inside.

So he opened his mouth and continued, "Can you tell me about what happened to you before?"

"Before?"

Lin Yunduo held her own little head, seeming to fall into memory.

"Daddy and Mommy had to go to work-work, I was home all alone…"

"When Mommy had a day off, she'd take me to the park to play…"

"Daddy was always very busy, but I liked going fishing with him…"

"Hehe, I even caught a big crab once…"

"Mimi meows meows, this year she's two years old, all fluffy…"

"I miss Mimi, and Daddy and Mommy…"

……

The little girl's words were jumbled and out of order; as she spoke she grew sad again, and big drops of tears slid down from her big eyes.

"Daddy said brave little kids don't cry, I'm not a brave little kid…"

At this point, Lin Yunduo's body began to tremble slightly, as if receiving signal interference, and even grew somewhat blurry, as though she had thought of something that terrified her immensely.

"I'm a brave little kid, I won't cry, I won't cry…"

She kept muttering to herself, as if comforting herself; gradually her body finally steadied. This scene made Shen Siyuan feel extremely astonished—this little girl seemed very unusual.

"Mommy said crying makes you look like a little calico cat, but Mimi is very cute, not ugly at all…"

She reached up to wipe her tears, and the motion was a bit too big—her neck immediately rotated 270 degrees, and she hurriedly straightened her head back.

"Alright, no more crying. Big brother promises you—I'll help you find Daddy and Mommy, and I definitely will."

Lin Yunduo nodded immediately upon hearing this, but almost shook her head right off, hurriedly cupping it with both hands again, looking cautious and careful.

That appearance made one feel it was funny and pitiable at the same time.

At this moment, Shen Siyuan reached his stop, so he hurriedly stood up and called to the little girl, "Get off with me."

The little girl hesitated for a moment before getting up.

Seeing that Shen Siyuan had already walked to the back door and was about to get off, she hurriedly followed with her little short legs in a fluster; she walked too fast and carelessly, and her head once again rolled off with a clatter.

Only the headless body remained, falling to the ground, both hands still fumbling about on the floor.

Under the dim light, it was indescribably eerie.

Shen Siyuan hurriedly reached out to help her body up first, then lowered his head to help her look for her head.

The bus driver instinctively glanced at the rearview mirror to check if all the passengers had gotten off, then saw Shen Siyuan's strange behavior and couldn't help feeling a chill; he hurriedly stepped on the clutch and drove hastily away from the stop.

"Your head falling off all the time like this isn't going to work."

Shen Siyuan looked at Lin Yunduo, who was holding her head in both hands, and felt quite helpless.

Hearing this, Lin Yunduo's big eyes welled up with tears, looking very wronged, on the verge of crying.

"Alright, I was just saying it offhandedly, don't fall over again. Here, I'll hold your hand." Shen Siyuan reached out his hand.

Lin Yunduo looked at the palm Shen Siyuan extended, then let go with one hand and placed it in his palm.

"Let's go."

Shen Siyuan held her hand and walked toward his rented room.

But just then, Lin Yunduo suddenly tugged at him and stopped walking.

"What's wrong?" Shen Siyuan turned his head back and asked in surprise.

Lin Yunduo took her head off her neck, then held it in her arms with one hand, for it turned out one hand couldn't steady her head.

"This way it won't fall off," she said happily.

Shen Siyuan:...

"Is there no other way?" Shen Siyuan asked.

Hearing this, Lin Yunduo instinctively wanted to shake her head, then realized her head was in her arms, so she used one hand to sway her head left and right twice.

Shen Siyuan was amused by her action and felt no fear at all.

Shen Siyuan was still curious about ghosts, so he asked Lin Yunduo many more questions.

However, the little one's life after death was very dull, basically spent getting on buses, getting off buses, and looking for her mom and dad, repeating this over and over; no one knew how she managed to endure it.

Of course, in the process, she had also seen many kinds of people.

In her words, little babies grew into big brothers and big sisters, and big brothers and big sisters grew into grandpas and grandmas.

But for all these years, not a single person had ever seen her, spoken to her, and held her hand.

This made her very happy.

"Big brother, you are so amazing," she said.

Lin Yunduo lifted the head in her arms with her hand and looked at Shen Siyuan, her big eyes full of joy.

"Look ahead."

Shen Siyuan reminded her, then took her hand and walked into the dim alley.

Shen Siyuan clearly felt that the hand Lin Yunduo held onto suddenly tightened, her body tensed up, and she trembled slightly.

It seemed the dim alley had left her with a great psychological trauma.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

Shen Siyuan simply squatted down and reached out to pat her little head.

The held hand was released, and Lin Yunduo immediately put her head back on her neck.

Then she stared blankly at Shen Siyuan, because no one had touched her little head in a long time; before, her dad, mom, and big brother loved to pat her little head the most.

Tears swirled in her eyes, as if she wanted to cry again.

"Why are you crying again?"

"I'm not crying," the little one insisted stubbornly.

"Then big brother wronged you. Lin Yunduo didn't cry. Lin Yunduo is the strongest."

"Mom and dad call me Duoduo."

"Duoduo? That's a very nice name."

Shen Siyuan thought for a moment, summoned the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, formed a hand seal with his fingers, and in Duoduo's dazed expression, directly drew her into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.