"I don't know either!" I replied. "We'll find out when Lu Peng and the others come out."

"Leng Gou, is your formation ready?"

"Ready!" Ye Yang responded, activating the feng shui formation around him to conceal the four of us.

Nie Xiaochun pointed at the water, "Have you tested how deep the water is here? You two will be at a disadvantage if we fight here!"

The bottom of the canyon was a small river leading down the mountain, but this side of the canyon looked like a sizable lake.

The ancient tree with Xiao Hong's corpse hanging from it was half-submerged in the water.

Without testing it, no one knew how deep the water was, or what was hiding in it.

Although Ye Yang and I were decent swimmers, our skills would be greatly reduced if we had to fight in the water.

That was why neither of us had approached Xiao Hong right away.

I only waited a moment before I heard the sound of wading through the water in the canyon.

It was Lu Peng!

Yi Lu wouldn't make a sound wading through the water, so it had to be Lu Peng coming from the canyon.

I quietly gestured to Ye Yang and held my breath. The sound of wading stopped there.

When I peeked at the canyon exit, I saw a red dress like a fish, rushing out from the edge of the canyon against the current, heading straight for the ancient tree.

Then, I heard Yi Lu pleading, "Peng-ge, believe me, don't go out there. You can't see Xiao Hong. You'll regret it!"

Lu Peng said angrily, "I don't believe a word you say now!"

"If you didn't kill Xiao Hong, how did her clothes end up on you?"

"Yi Lu, tell me, why won't you let me see Xiao Hong? Speak!"

Yi Lu said with a sob, "I really can't let you see her. Please, believe me!"

"I used to believe you! But I don't anymore!" Lu Peng's wading became more frantic. At first, Yi Lu was begging him, but soon her pleas turned into sobs.

When Lu Peng forcibly dragged Yi Lu out of the canyon, he saw the corpse hanging from the tree.

"Xiao Hong!"

Lu Peng released Yi Lu and strode towards the ancient tree, but he hadn't gone far when he heard Yi Lu shout, "Don't go over there! Xiao Hong wants to kill you!"

Seeing that Lu Peng showed no sign of stopping, Yi Lu, as if she had made up her mind, shouted, "You killed Xiao Hong! She will come for revenge."

Lu Peng suddenly stopped, stunned for only a few seconds before turning around and roaring, "Bullshit!"

Yi Lu had calmed down by this time. "You really did kill Xiao Hong! Think about it, Xiao Hong never wore red clothes, don't you remember?"

"Xiao Hong said: My name already has the character for red in it, wearing red clothes would be adding red on top of red, which is inauspicious. Moreover, Xiao Hong would never wear a dress when we were on a mission."

"Don't you remember any of this?"

Lu Peng slowly turned around. "I... I think I remember."

Yi Lu said with tears streaming down her face, "Years ago, when we were treasure hunting, we encountered this ancient tree."

"Back then, there was no lake here."

"Only this tree!"

"Among the six of us, only you had the map. You said: Reaching here is the first checkpoint. You even told us a story."

"You said, long ago, there was a foolish woman who fell in love with a sorcerer who lived in the mountains. The sorcerer told her, if you want to marry me, you must first find me."

"I'll give you seven days. During these seven days, if you find me at any time, I will marry you at any time. If you still can't find me after seven days, don't bother me again."

"The woman put on a red dress and kept looking for the sorcerer in the mountains."

"She searched every corner of Da Meng Village, but she couldn't find the sorcerer anywhere!"

"Seven days passed, and she knew that once the midnight hour arrived, she would be completely defeated."

"She shouted the man's name like a madwoman for a full hour, until her throat bled, but he still refused to come out."

"Finally, she despaired. She said to the desolate mountains in a hoarse voice: I'll wait for you until midnight. If you don't come out to see me, you'll never see me again."

"The place where she waited for the sorcerer was under this tree."

"The woman watched the moon above her head change little by little, but she didn't wait for the person she was waiting for. In the end, she hanged herself on this tree in a red dress."

"Before she died, she saw that the man was hiding on the tree, only a few feet away from where she hanged herself. The man watched the woman struggle and slowly die, but he didn't lift a finger to help her."

"Finally, the woman spat a mouthful of blood on the tree, so there is a red spot on the tree trunk."

Yi Lu said, her face covered in tears, "At the time, you said: That woman is the guardian of the treasure. If you want to enter the treasure, you must first lure that woman out."

"If you want to lure out that woman, someone has to repeat what she did back then: hang themselves on this tree."

"You even prepared the red dress."