When Tang Xi heard the gunshot, her expression changed, "There's an assassin!"
"Don't move!" Li Se pushed Tang Xi down beneath him, his voice low.
Due to their recent tumble, Tang Xi's clothes were disheveled, and she was even showing a bit too much. With Li Se pressing her down like this, her face flushed, but this was no time to dwell on such matters. She looked at Li Se and sneered, "This isn't coming for you, is it?"
"It should be from the Blood Gate assassin organization," Li Se said, trying to pinpoint the assassin's location. The appearance of this assassin allowed the Taoist priest to escape.
Tang Xi was surprised, "Who did you offend to hire people from the Blood Gate to kill you? I remember that assassin organization is quite large."
"I don't know," Li Se truly didn't know who had hired an assassin to kill him.
*Bang!*
Another shot rang out.
Li Se quickly grabbed Tang Xi and rolled to the side.
"You don't need to bother with me, I can run myself," Tang Xi said angrily.
Li Se had no time to care about anything else. However, during this roll, Tang Xi's clothes were torn, revealing a patch of snow-white skin.
Li Se, who was supposed to be dealing with the assassin, was drawn to this snowy white.
"You... seen enough?" Tang Xi asked, exasperated.
"Couldn't help it!" Li Se apologized slightly. After getting up from Tang Xi, his figure flashed, and another shot whizzed past him.
"In the building opposite!" Tang Xi shouted.
They both rushed towards the building opposite. The assassin seemed to know he had been exposed and stopped firing, clearly planning to flee. But he had miscalculated, as Li Se was too fast. The moment the assassin put away his sniper rifle, Li Se appeared before him.
"You..." the assassin exclaimed in alarm.
*Bang!*
Li Se struck out with his palm, sending the assassin flying.
By the time Tang Xi arrived, the assassin had already been subdued. She quickly said, "Let me take him back for interrogation."
"I'll do it myself," Li Se took out a silver needle and inserted it into the assassin's body.
"Ah!" In just a few breaths, the assassin felt as if tens of thousands of ants were biting him. After enduring for several minutes, he gritted his teeth and said, "Whatever you want to ask, I'll tell you!"
"What organization are you from?" Li Se asked.
"Blood Gate!" the assassin replied.
"Who is the employer?" Li Se asked again.
"I don't know, but our instructor does," the assassin answered through gritted teeth.
"Where is your instructor?"
The assassin shook his head in pain, "I don't know, and I've never seen the instructor. But if three assassins fail, the instructor will personally come out!"
Three assassins failed. Li Se mused. This assassin was the second one, meaning another assassin would come to assassinate him. Once the next one failed, the Blood Gate instructor would personally intervene, and then he could find out who the employer was!
"But even if the instructor fails, he won't tell you who the employer is," the assassin said through clenched teeth.
Li Se ignored the assassin and turned to Tang Xi, "Take him back. Assassins like this are usually fugitives."
Tang Xi nodded, looking at Li Se with a strange expression. She thought this guy was quite capable, and moreover, an Imperial Physician.
Before long, Tang Xi called her subordinates, who took the assassin away. However, she did not leave.
"Do you need something else?" Li Se asked, puzzled.
"You said last time you could cure my illness, is that true?" Tang Xi asked somewhat shyly.
"Of course!" Li Se couldn't help but look at Tang Xi's chest, "If nothing goes wrong, you should have breast cancer. But whether it's malignant, I need to check."
"How do you check?" Tang Xi asked.
"With my hands, of course," Li Se said with a strange expression.
Tang Xi's face immediately turned red. However, the major hospitals had said this illness couldn't be treated, only removed. As a woman, especially a beautiful one, how could she agree to such treatment?
"If it were you, would you also need to have it removed?" Tang Xi asked, struggling.
"No need!" Li Se shook his head, "That's the Western medicine approach. Chinese medicine is not like that."
Tang Xi breathed a sigh of relief, "Then let's go to my place."
Li Se followed Tang Xi to a rather upscale apartment. Tang Xi's home was a duplex, with both floors totaling about a hundred square meters.
"Should I take off my clothes?" Tang Xi asked with a blushing face.
Li Se was about to say no, but thinking of how this young lady had caused him trouble multiple times, he nodded, "Of course!"
Tang Xi bit her lip and struggled for a long time before slowly unbuttoning her clothes. Soon, a patch of snow-white skin was revealed to Li Se.
It was truly white!
Li Se couldn't take his eyes off it.
"Hurry up!" Tang Xi gritted her teeth.
Li Se didn't dare to delay. After a brief examination, he frowned and said, "It is indeed breast cancer, called 'ru yan' in Chinese medicine. It is caused by factors such as liver qi stagnation, depression of qi leading to stagnation, accumulation damaging the spleen, and deficiency of both liver and spleen, resulting from seven emotions affecting the internal organs. Western medicine only offers surgical removal, but for me, it's not necessary."
"Can you cure it?" Tang Xi asked excitedly.
"Yes!" Li Se nodded and took out the Thirteen Needles of Gui Men. He had Tang Xi lie down on the bed. Since she was not wearing a top, the vast expanse of white made Li Se's hands tremble slightly.
He immediately circulated his Qi cultivation technique to suppress his distracting thoughts, took a deep breath, and began acupuncture on Tang Xi.
After a session of acupuncture, Li Se wrote a prescription and handed it to Tang Xi, "Even I cannot cure your illness in one go. This is important conditioning and requires time. I will give you acupuncture again after some time."
"Okay!" Tang Xi nodded and took the prescription, then realized something was wrong, as Li Se's gaze was intensely fixed on her.
"Is it nice to look at?" Tang Xi narrowed her eyes, her voice laced with coldness.
"It's beautiful!" Li Se answered instinctively.
"Get out!" Tang Xi said angrily.
Li Se was somewhat helpless. This woman changed her mind faster than flipping a book. Just moments ago she was begging him for treatment, and now she was telling him to leave. This was what women were like.
After Tang Xi came out, she was already dressed. She looked at Li Se with complex emotions, and after a long while, she said, "Are you interested in joining the Enforcement Department?"
"Not interested!" Li Se's answer was firm, even though he didn't know what the Enforcement Department did.
"Don't you even ask what the Enforcement Department does?" Tang Xi was somewhat exasperated.
Li Se shook his head, giving the same answer, "Not interested!"
Tang Xi took a deep breath, and regardless of whether Li Se was truly interested, she said, "The Enforcement Department is specifically for people like you, the gifted and extraordinary. You should know that there are many ancient martial arts masters and those skilled in the esoteric arts in this world. The Enforcement Department has a rule: these ancient martial arts masters and esoteric masters cannot act against ordinary people. Once they do, it is a violation of the rules, and they will be subject to the sanctions of the Enforcement Department."
She paused, then snorted coldly, continuing, "You violated the rules. You acted against someone from the Sima family. That's why I targeted you. If you don't join, the Enforcement Department will keep a close eye on you, and we might even take action against you!"