West Mountain Tunnel, Mingdu.
Long Xiaoyao drove with one hand and offered Li Chen a cigarette.
"Little bro, want a Huazi?"
Li Chen waved him off. "Don't. Fresh account, not even an adult yet!"
"Hahahaha! When your Brother Long was your age, I was already stealing cigarettes from my old squad leader."
Seeing that Li Chen wasn't smoking, Long Xiaoyao simply put away the cigarette he had been about to light.
"Little bro, where's that cheat item you mentioned? What is it?"
"Ta-da~"
Li Chen took out a small wooden hammer.
"Wait, what the hell is that?!"
Long Xiaoyao froze.
"Brother Long, remember what I told you before about past lives and reincarnation?"
Long Xiaoyao looked distracted. "That, what was it, the Daliyuan effect?"
"More or less. To tell you the truth, you and Sister Ye were lovers in your past lives. Your memories haven't awakened in this life yet. All I have to do is knock you both on the head with this little hammer, and you'll remember your past lives!"
Long Xiaoyao's eyes bulged. "Holy shit! Little bro, are you shooting a movie?!"
"It's true."
Hearing Li Chen's serious tone, Long Xiaoyao was fucking dumbfounded.
What the hell was all this reincarnation stuff?!
"Wait, how do you know all this? And if Ye Zhaolu and I are reincarnated, who the fuck were we in our past lives?!"
Sitting in the passenger seat with the little hammer in hand, Li Chen hesitated for a moment.
"Brother Long, if I tell you, you have to make sure you stay calm."
"Just fucking tell me! I've already accepted reincarnation. What else couldn't I accept... wait!"
A bolt of lightning flashed through Long Xiaoyao's mind. He suddenly remembered something, then looked at Li Chen in disbelief.
"Wait, could it actually be? Am I really Long Xiaoyao reincarnated?!"
The corners of Long Xiaoyao's mouth twitched as he looked at Li Chen.
"That's right. You guessed it."
"What?!"
Long Xiaoyao lost it and shouted.
He directly frightened the car beside them into giving way.
"Come on, man. I'd rather believe you're just making a meme."
Long Xiaoyao really felt as though he were eating noodles mixed with No. 42 concrete.
He truly hadn't imagined that the stale joke online about him being Long Xiaoyao would actually fucking come true.
Li Chen said earnestly, "You really are Long Xiaoyao reincarnated!"
"No way. Then does that mean Ye Zhaolu is that Ye Xishui from ten thousand years ago? So neither of us was a fucking good person in our past lives!"
Long Xiaoyao took a deep breath, not daring to open his eyes, hoping it was a hallucination.
He had come from a proper army corps and was the War God Temple's eighteenth War God!
And he was actually the fucking reincarnation of an Evil Soul Master from ten thousand years ago?
How could he accept that?!
Li Chen nodded earnestly. "Yes."
Seeing that Li Chen was still so serious, Long Xiaoyao felt his heart crawl. "Little bro, then who are you? How do you know all this? You're not a fucking god, are you?!"
"Uh, I'm not a god yet. I've received the God of Love's Divine Test. Helping you renew your marriage fate in this life is one of my Divine Tests."
"Holy shit~"
Long Xiaoyao wiped his face, unable to keep it together any longer, and hurriedly lit a cigarette to settle his nerves.
In just one minute, he had accepted reincarnation, learned he was Long Xiaoyao reincarnated, and found out that Li Chen was the fucking God of Love's successor...
Long Xiaoyao exhaled a huge cloud of smoke, feeling as though his brain was about to crash.
"Lord God of Love, don't do this. I'm a fresh account too!"
"I'm fucking begging you. Hurry up and tell me this is a dream. I really don't want to be Long Xiaoyao!"
Long Xiaoyao finished his cigarette in three drags and made a one-handed prayer gesture toward Li Chen.
Li Chen frowned. "Brother Long, it looks like you don't really want to recover your past-life memories."
"No shit. If I told you right now that you were a Limit Douluo Evil Soul Master in your past life, would you want your memories back?"
"Who knows whether I'll be Long Xiaoyao or Long Xiaoyao after I recover my memories? Will I still be me then?! Answer me!"
Long Xiaoyao lost it. Right now, he really wanted to throw Li Chen straight out.
Li Chen tried to persuade him. "Don't worry about that. Recovering your memories will only let you remember what happened in your past life. Your current self will still be in control in this life."
"No way! Little bro-no, big bro-I'm fucking begging you. I don't want a cheat like this!"
"I had no choice in my past life. Now I just want to be a good man!"
"Brother Li, let me off the hook. Put that little cheat hammer away, quick. I suddenly feel like things are going pretty smoothly between Zhaolu and me. Let's leave this rule-based weapon unused for now."
Li Chen sighed. "All right, then."
Only then did Long Xiaoyao breathe a sigh of relief.
Although, although he thought what Li Chen had said was fucking ridiculous.
But,
Long Xiaoyao remembered that when Li Chen first got to know him, he had contacted him out of nowhere.
And the very first thing he'd asked was whether he wanted a wife!
Thinking of this, Long Xiaoyao felt a faint chill in his heart. What this kid had said was very likely true!
So,
Even knowing that this Dream Memory Hammer could help him get together with Ye Zhaolu, he wouldn't dare use it now, no matter what.
Who the fuck wanted an old Limit Douluo geezer's memories stuffed into his head?
Li Chen didn't force him; in truth, he couldn't beat him.
Still, he wasn't in much of a hurry.
Over the past half month, Long Xiaoyao and Ye Zhaolu's relationship had clearly advanced considerably again. That was why he had earned enough Marriage Fate Coins to exchange for this Dream Memory Hammer.
Li Chen decided to wait and see a little longer. If things really didn't work out, he would give each of them a whack.
"Then we won't use it for now. Brother Long, I think you can still win Sister Ye over through your own efforts."
"Mm-hmm. Thanks, dear."
Long Xiaoyao leaned back in his seat. After hearing everything Li Chen had said, he felt as though he'd fucking seen a ghost.
"But little bro, where did you get this God of Love's Divine Test? Hasn't it been ages since anyone became a god?"
Long Xiaoyao asked curiously.
Li Chen opened his mouth and was about to speak when Long Xiaoyao's pupils suddenly contracted, and every hair on his body stood on end!
At the tunnel exit,
Two people stood there, powerful Soul Power fluctuations spreading from them!
"Not good!"
Long Xiaoyao reacted extremely quickly, grabbing Li Chen and kicking the steering wheel!
The next moment,
He pulled Li Chen through the car door, smashing it open as they flew backward, then fled behind them without looking back!
His beloved car rammed straight toward the two people, only to be annihilated the instant it touched their figures.
"Hehe, pretty quick reactions."
A woman's voice rang through the tunnel, accompanied by the ringing of a bell.
The ringing unleashed a sound wave,
Which rapidly spread toward the retreating Long Xiaoyao.
"Pfft!"
Long Xiaoyao immediately gave a muffled groan and spat blood.
"Brother Long, what's this?!"
Shocked, Li Chen looked toward the two people at the tunnel entrance.
Both figures were women, hidden in the darkness.
"Damn it! It's Dark Bell!"
Long Xiaoyao panted heavily. Dark Bell Nana's sonic attack had just struck him directly. One attack from this level-98 Dark Heavenly King had injured him.
"What?! How did they get here? And how could they set an ambush here?!"
Li Chen narrowed his eyes and instinctively moved to activate the silver bracelet Gu Yue had given him.
Long Xiaoyao suddenly forced a smile:
"Forget about that for now. They're here for me.
Little bro, you go on ahead. I'll be right behind you."
The next moment,
Before Li Chen could stop him, Long Xiaoyao grabbed him and hurled him straight toward the tunnel entrance!
Whoosh!
Li Chen felt everything around him spin wildly. In just a few breaths, he flew out of the tunnel, which was several kilometers long!
All Li Chen could see was Long Xiaoyao's retreating figure as he turned back and smiled at him, then spread his arms to block the two figures trying to pursue.
"Fuck!"
Li Chen flew backward, driving both hands hard into the ground, and slid a full kilometer before stopping.
"Don't let me find out who's behind this!"
Li Chen gritted his teeth, but rationally refrained from charging inside. Instead, he immediately called for help!
Inside the tunnel,
Dark Phoenix and Dark Bell looked at Long Xiaoyao with smiles.
"Not bad. Still protecting a junior when death is at your door."
Long Xiaoyao smiled. "Death at my door? We don't know who's going to die yet!"
"Hehe, you man, I have no idea what Silver Moon Douluo sees in you. But that's all right. Once we take you back to headquarters, I'll be sure to treat you well."
Dark Bell, Na Nali, whose appearance closely resembled a loli's, said with a smile.
Her voice was as shrill as a knife scraping glass, making listeners feel as though their eardrums would burst.
Long Xiaoyao froze. "Cai Yue'er? Did Cai Yue'er send you? What exactly are you doing in Mingdu?!"
"Hehe, what are we doing?"
Dark Phoenix, Leng Yulai, stepped forward.
"Turning you into one of us, of course."
Long Xiaoyao narrowed his eyes, inwardly crying out in alarm.
Of these two Dark Heavenly Kings, one was level 97 and the other level 98.
Both were higher-level than him.
Moreover, since these two dared appear in Mingdu so openly, they had probably made thorough preparations.
This is bad... I'm probably facing more peril than promise this time.
Long Xiaoyao thought.
He could even imagine what a terrible impact it would have if these people captured him and the War God Temple ended up producing an Evil Soul Master!
"Whew~"
Sweat covered Long Xiaoyao's forehead. At this moment, he had absolutely no idea what to do.
Suddenly, he looked toward the tunnel exit, where a small wooden hammer lay.
Is that... the Dream Memory Hammer Little Bro Li Chen mentioned? This thing can actually take that much punishment!
Long Xiaoyao was shocked. He finally believed Li Chen completely, and immediately afterward, a bold plan emerged.
There was no other choice.
Things had come to this. Relying on himself alone, he probably couldn't get out alive. He could only borrow his past life's strength!
Only by borrowing that Darkness Dragon Emperor's combat abilities from his past life would he have a sliver of hope of survival!
Long Xiaoyao made up his mind.