"Happy Carp!" Gu Wanyin called out softly.
Unexpectedly, Happy Carp actually heard her. He turned his head, saw her, and excitedly ran over. "Boss Gu! I didn't expect to run into you here. How did you come to the demon realm? Wait, why are there two Boss Gus?"
Gu Wanyin and Gu Han exchanged glances.
It seemed they really did look quite alike.
Both Xiong Tao and Happy Carp had referred to them as two Boss Gus.
"I'm Boss Gu's other personality," Gu Han said mysteriously. "Because I've been diligently cultivating for a long time, I've gained a physical form, just like how you demons can take human form after working hard to cultivate. Understand?"
Happy Carp was bewildered by her explanation but nodded anyway. "Oh, oh, I get it! You're amazing!"
Gu Han kept a straight face, but the corners of her mouth twitched from holding back laughter.
Gu Wanyin secretly pinched her waist, then said to Happy Carp, "I'm here to rescue Nine-Tails, Tree Spirit, and Cat Er."
"Really?" Happy Carp grew even more excited. "I was just about to go rescue them too! Boss Gu, that's perfect, let's go together."
"You're going too?" Gu Wanyin was a bit surprised.
"Yes!"
As Happy Carp spoke, his face took on an indignant expression. "Nine-Tails sis, Tree Spirit sis, and Cat Er sis are always so good to us. When it's time for us to help them, those guys actually didn't want to come with me! Hmph, it's no big deal, I'll go by myself!"
Gu Wanyin hadn't expected that Happy Carp, who usually seemed silly and carefree, was actually such a loyal little demon!
It would be good to go with Happy Carp. After all, he was from the Koi Fish Clan, with incredibly good luck. Come to think of it, his luck was similar to her and Gu Han's invincibility buff.
Moreover, the eagle had mentioned several places to them, and they didn't know exactly where Nine-Tails and the others were being held.
With Happy Carp's good luck, they would surely waste less time.
"So where do you think we should go?" Gu Wanyin quickly asked.
"My intuition says... that way!" Happy Carp pointed in a direction.
Gu Wanyin and Gu Han looked and laughed.
The direction Happy Carp pointed was exactly where they had just planned to go.
It seemed their intuition was quite accurate too.
According to the eagle, going in this direction should lead them to the rebel leader's castle.
Reportedly, the rebel leader was the Demon King's elder brother.
Before the Demon King's parents passed away, they had passed the position to the current Demon King, which had displeased her elder brother.
He had schemed for several hundred years and finally launched this rebellion.
Before this, he had always played the role of a good brother.
That's why the Demon King was completely unprepared and ended up in her current state.
As they walked further, the sky gradually changed.
It became gloomy, with dark clouds gathering.
"It certainly looks like a place where a villain would live," Gu Han commented.
Gu Wanyin agreed.
"I see it, the rebel leader's castle!" Happy Carp whispered to them.
Gu Wanyin and Gu Han looked up and indeed, a castle was not far away.
However... this castle looked dilapidated, quite like a haunted house.
"What kind of taste does this rebel leader have?" Gu Han quietly criticized. "Are you sure people can live in this kind of castle?"
"Well, they're not people, they're demons," Gu Wanyin said with a smile.
Gu Han: "...That makes so much sense."
"How do we get in?" Happy Carp was eager and looked quite excited. "Should we just charge in?"
"No," Gu Wanyin immediately said.
True, the three of them wouldn't be in any danger.
But if they alerted the rebels, they might immediately harm Nine-Tails, Tree Spirit, and Cat Er.
So, before they found Nine-Tails and the others, they could only sneak in secretly.
"Let's go over and take a look first," Gu Han said. "Maybe there's some secret passage we can use to sneak in."
"Okay."
Happy Carp volunteered to take the lead.
After all, he was a koi fish. If he led the way, they were very likely to find a path to sneak in.
"Look, there's a river over there!" Happy Carp said. "This river might flow to some underground part of the castle. We could swim in from the riverbed."
Gu Wanyin nodded in agreement.
Happy Carp was a koi fish, so swimming in the river would be no problem for him.
And she and Gu Han had the invincibility buff, so even if they stayed underwater for a long time, they wouldn't drown.
As they were approaching the river, unsurprisingly, they encountered another barrier.
This barrier probably surrounded the entire castle.
It seemed the rebels were very cautious.
Gu Han excitedly took out her big hammer again.
"Eighty! Eighty!"
However, this barrier was clearly not on the same level as the previous one.
Gu Han hammered for quite a while, but the barrier showed no signs of breaking.
Gu Han was frustrated: "Has my big hammer lost its power?"
"Let me try," Gu Wanyin said.
She took out her gun and fired a shot at the barrier.
Her gun had a silencer, so they didn't need to worry about the gunshot alerting the demons inside.
However, even after the shot, the barrier remained unmoved.
Gu Wanyin frowned.
This was truly a bit tricky.
"Wait, didn't they say nothing could trap us?" Gu Han asked, confused. "So why are we being stopped by this barrier?"
"That's different," Gu Wanyin said. "Nothing can trap us means we can't be confined or imprisoned, but this kind of barrier is them creating their own prison. It's like they've locked themselves in their own territory. If we could freely invade someone else's territory, that would be going too far."
After all, whether it was the barrier on the mountain or the castle's barrier, it only surrounded a specific area. It didn't block all paths forward.
But if they didn't break through the barrier, they couldn't enter this area.
"So what do we do now?" Gu Han rubbed her temples, feeling a headache coming on. "We can't break through this barrier, and even if we forcibly broke through, wouldn't that alert the rebels inside?"
Gu Wanyin had thought of this point too.
She pondered for a moment, then suddenly placed her hand on the barrier.
"What are you doing?" Gu Han asked, puzzled.
Before Gu Wanyin could answer, Gu Han saw that a part of the barrier had changed.
There was actually a digital keypad on it, with six blank spaces beside it, and a sentence above.
"Please enter the password."
Gu Han was shocked: "Huh?"
This barrier was too modern!
It even had a password input!
"I just had a sudden idea and tried it..." Gu Wanyin was clearly stunned too. "I didn't expect it to actually work?"
Gu Han patted her shoulder and said seriously, "I strongly suspect you're a koi fish too."
But now, they had a real koi fish with them.
So they could leave the password input to Happy Carp!
