Seeing that she had guessed, Xu Chenyang reluctantly nodded.
Chu Yu asked again, "Is everything there?"
Xu Chenyang replied coldly, "The souls we collected recently are all there. However, the ones we collected before were all used for alchemy, so they're gone."
Chu Yu's face darkened. This meant that the souls of those victims who had lost their souls could not be restored, and they would never be able to return to normal in the short term or permanently.
"asshole!"
Chu Yu angrily slapped him across the face.
Xu Chenyang's face was swollen and red from the slap. He was furious, but dared not speak out.
After scolding Xu Chenyang, Chu Yu calmed down and began to clean up the mess. She had Jiang Huai'an and the others take Xu Chenyang and the workers who had been affected by the puppet technique out of the basement.
Afterward, she collected the red bottles from the shelf and put them into her Qiankun bag. She then carefully searched the surrounding area to make sure nothing was missed. She extinguished the fire under the alchemy furnace, threw out a destruction talisman, and destroyed the alchemy furnace and all the documents on the shelf.
Xu Chenyang's medicine-making formula and specially made medicine-making furnace must not be known to outsiders. Otherwise, if someone with ulterior motives finds out, they might imitate it and harm others.
After doing all this, Chu Yu left the basement.
As the group walked out of the factory gate, Song Ze, who had been waiting outside, finally felt relieved to see them emerge safely.
He hurried over to greet them: "Thank goodness, you're finally out! I was so worried about you."
Jiang Huai'an raised the corner of his mouth with a hint of pride and said, "With my junior sister taking the lead, we'll definitely achieve twice the result with half the effort. You don't need to worry at all."
Song Ze glanced at Xu Chenyang, who had been arrested, and praised her with admiration: "Young Madam is indeed amazing, so powerful and domineering, she's my idol!"
Chu Yu replied calmly, "It's not that exaggerated. Because I made preparations in advance, things went more smoothly."
Curious about what happened in the basement, Song Ze asked gossipily, "Young Madam, what's going on in the basement?"
Chu Yu didn't want to talk to him too much at the moment, so she said, "I'll tell you the details after things are done."
She turned to Jiang Huai'an and instructed him, "You call the police and have them come and arrest these people. Also, remove the puppet spell from these workers and have them all go to the police station for questioning. I'll go to the mental hospital first and send back the missing souls of Sima Mingchao and the others so they can recover as soon as possible."
The sooner the missing soul returns to the body, the greater the chance of recovery. She needs to hurry up and get this done.
Jiang Huai'an understood and gave her an OK sign: "You go first, leave this to us, we'll handle it."
"Um."
Chu Yu led Song Ze back to the car, started the engine, and sped away into the night.
Unbeknownst to anyone, on a rooftop not far away, a black crow stared intently in the direction the car had gone until it disappeared into the night. Only then did it spread its wings and fly away hastily into the distance.
...
An hour later, the car arrived at a grove of trees near the mental hospital.
After getting off the car, Chu Yu led Song Ze to the pavilion in the grove. It was already past two in the morning, and there was no one around. It was dark, empty, and desolate.
Chu Yu took all the small bottles containing souls out of his Qiankun bag and placed them on the stone table.
She tore off the talismans from all the bottles, opened each bottle cap, and chanted a spell. The sealed souls flew out of the bottles and floated in mid-air, flickering like fireflies.
Upon seeing this, Song Ze's eyes widened in astonishment: "Wow, is this what a human soul is?"
Chu Yu gestured for him to be quiet, indicating that he should not speak so as not to disturb the spirits. Song Ze nodded and stopped talking.
Chu Yu looked at the spirits, pointed to the mental hospital across the street, and said to them, "Go back to your own bodies quickly."
The souls all flew towards the mental hospital, except for one soul that remained in place, staring blankly at Chu Yu.
Chu Yu looked at the wisp of soul and guessed who it was. She said, "You are Xiao Shuo's soul, right? Your body is in another hospital. Go back into the bottle first, and I will take you there later."
The wisp of soul flickered and obediently returned to the bottle.
Song Ze looked at the bottle, his expression somewhat excited; the young master's soul had been found.
He was happy for a moment, then looked in the direction of the mental hospital and asked Chu Yu, "If we let those souls return to their bodies, will they be able to return to normal?"
Chu Yu shook her head: "It's not enough yet. Even if their souls return to their bodies, because their souls were scattered before, it will be difficult for their three souls and seven spirits to reunite. They need to take Soul Gathering Pills to use the energy of the pills to help their souls fuse quickly."
She took out two bottles of Soul Gathering Pills from her Qiankun bag and placed them on the stone table. She then used a summoning spell to summon Tao Susu and instructed her, "You sneak into the inpatient department and give these Soul Gathering Pills to the patients whose souls have returned to their bodies."
"Okay."
Tao Susu took the Soul Gathering Pill and was about to leave when Chu Yu, remembering something, immediately stopped her: "There are still some patients whose souls were taken by Xu Chenyang to refine pills and can't come back. In this case, we can only give them Soul Nourishing Pills to slowly restore their missing souls. As for how long it will take to restore their souls, that depends on their fate."
She took out two bottles of Soul Nourishing Pills from her Qiankun bag and handed them to Tao Susu, specifically instructing her: "Don't mix up the two kinds of pills."
Tao Susu smiled confidently and said, "Don't worry, I can tell the difference."
After saying that, she transformed into a gust of wind and flew into the mental hospital.
An hour and a half later, Tao Susu returned.
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