Song Xuehai was somewhat shocked upon hearing this. "How do we find these seven souls?"
"One by one." Li Se didn't explain much. Even if he did, Song Xuehai might not believe him.
As it happened, Song Xuehai felt a sense of wonder. This was the first time he had heard of anyone needing to find seven souls. If anyone else had said this, he would have immediately dismissed them as a charlatan. Yet, it was Li Se speaking, and he couldn't be sure if it was true or not.
"Doctor Li, I'll accompany you." Song Xuehai also wanted to witness these so-called seven souls.
Li Se shook his head. "I can go alone."
"Then, let me know once you've found the seven souls," Song Xuehai said.
After parting ways with Song Xuehai, Li Se drove to Ren'ai Hospital. Finding these seven souls wouldn't be easy, especially since some time had passed and it would require considerable effort.
He took out a copper coin, and Li Se's finger tapped it. The coin flashed with a beam of light, but it quickly vanished. Soon after, the coin began to move, acting as a guide.
Both the three souls and seven souls preferred to stay in places with heavy yin energy. Li Se could already guess the location: the hospital's morgue.
As expected, the copper coin pointed towards the morgue. However, before Li Se could enter, he heard a familiar voice from within.
"Damn it, I've had a few minor spirits killed. I have to find new ones again. Where are there so many minor spirits?" he heard a gruff voice cursing.
Upon hearing the voice, Li Se knew who it was. It was the Daoist priest who had escaped him earlier. He hadn't expected to encounter him here.
"I can only hope to get lucky." The Daoist priest took out his compass. His purpose in coming to Ren'ai Hospital was simple: to find minor spirits. Many infants, shortly after birth, lost their three souls and seven souls, which was quite common. He was targeting these very souls.
"Once I've nurtured these minor spirits to be powerful, and I meet that brat again, I'll kill him!" the Daoist priest swore fiercely.
"Who are you going to kill?" Li Se asked as he walked in.
"Holy cow!" The Daoist priest was thoroughly startled. He turned his head and saw the young man who had pursued him last time. He couldn't believe his eyes. "You... how did you find your way here?"
"It just means your luck is bad!" Li Se snorted, flicking the copper coin in his hand.
*Bang!*
The Daoist priest tried to escape, but the door was blocked by Li Se, and the copper coin struck him squarely in the chest. He slammed heavily against the wall, spitting out a mouthful of blood. Seeing Li Se about to attack again, he quickly raised his hands. "Fellow Daoist... esteemed Fellow Daoist, let's talk. We have no enmity between us. There's no need for this. I'm just trying to make a living."
Li Se walked over and stepped on the Daoist priest's chest. "I won't kill you, but you have to tell me. Have you seen the seven souls of a little girl?"
"Yes, yes, yes. After a whole night, I found the seven souls of the same person. They're still very small, only about a year old," the Daoist priest quickly replied.
"Release them!" Li Se said coldly.
The Daoist priest opened the gourd at his waist, and the souls flew out. Li Se tossed his copper coin, and the souls turned into beams of light, burrowing into the coin.
Three souls had been recovered!
"Um, can you let me go now?" the Daoist priest asked pitifully.
Li Se didn't answer the Daoist priest's question. Instead, he let the copper coin return to his hand. Following the coin's movement, he quickly found the remaining four souls and shouted, "Receive!"
These four souls were all captured within the copper coin. With this, all seven souls were collected. It had taken Li Se a considerable amount of time. As for the Daoist priest, without a second thought, he called Tang Xi. Coincidentally, Tang Xi was at Ren'ai Hospital, and she arrived within minutes.
"You scoundrel, you have no martial ethics!" the Daoist priest cursed even as he was being apprehended. He knew very well that if he were captured by the Enforcement Department, his fate would be truly dire.
"This guy has been on our wanted list for a long time. I didn't expect you to catch him," Tang Xi said, looking at Li Se with a complex expression.
"It was just a coincidence," Li Se replied casually.
"Speaking of which, what are you doing here?" Tang Xi asked curiously.
Li Se said casually, "Just passing by, and I happened to run into this Daoist priest. I came in and caught him."
Tang Xi had her subordinates take the Daoist priest away and then said, "Oh, right. You're a doctor, and I heard you've delivered babies before. Come on, a friend of mine is about to give birth, and I need you to help."
Li Se gave a wry smile. "Officer Tang, I'm a royal physician, specializing in treating illnesses, not delivering babies."
"Come with me!" Tang Xi was always decisive. She grabbed Li Se and left.
They soon arrived at a hospital room. Tang Xi's friend was around the same age as her, with a large belly, but she looked extremely weak. In this room, Li Se also saw a familiar face: Liu Dawei, whom he had met before.
"First, deposit twenty thousand yuan. Your wife's body is too weak and needs proper nourishment," Liu Dawei said to the pregnant woman's husband.
"Another twenty thousand yuan?" The husband looked dejected. His financial situation wasn't particularly good, but he had already spent over twenty thousand yuan. Now, he needed to deposit another twenty thousand, which made his scalp tingle.
"Do you think I want this?" Liu Dawei said with a helpless expression. "Your wife's body is too weak. It's already a miracle that the baby has been preserved. If her body isn't properly treated, she might not even be able to give birth!"
Upon hearing this, the husband didn't hesitate any longer and was about to go and make the payment.
"Wait a moment!" Li Se called out to him.
"Tang Xi, who is this?" the husband asked, confused.
"Brother Meng, this is a doctor. Little Rui's body has been weak, and she hasn't improved after such a long time in the hospital, so I brought him," Tang Xi introduced Li Se.
Meng Qi looked at Li Se with some doubt, primarily because Li Se was too young. Naturally, he didn't trust him as much as he trusted a large hospital.
"What do you mean 'no improvement'?" Liu Dawei, in the ward, seemed displeased. "If our hospital hadn't been treating her all this time, could the baby have been preserved until now? It's good to spend some money to ensure the baby is born healthy, isn't it?"
"Liu Dawei, you really are a dog who can't change its ways!" Li Se mocked.
"You bastard..." Liu Dawei was about to curse, but upon seeing Li Se, he froze. "It's you!"
The first time Li Se met Liu Dawei, he felt that this doctor lacked medical ethics. Now, it seemed he hadn't been mistaken. He turned to Meng Qi and said, "Can I see some of the prescriptions he's written?"
"Okay!" Meng Qi nodded and gave Li Se all the consumption records from the hospital recently.
After reviewing them, Li Se sneered, "An X-ray every day? And some of the nutrients are repetitive. Dr. Liu, you're truly a great doctor, aren't you? Are you treating patients as ATMs?"