Life and Death in a Hair's Breadth

[Early morning of the fifth day, before the county bank vault]

"This should be the place."

Vivian looked at the vault door before her, engraved with the image of a scale. Though she still did not know what was inside,

the invisible spacetime fluctuations before the vault, along with the faintly discernible eerie aura in the air,

made her feel that they had already touched upon the "truth" of Longevity Island.

As long as they could open the vault door, they might learn everything that had happened here, as well as how to leave this place.

"Kong, take that thing out."

"Mm."

As Chen Kong took out the golden chrysanthemum they had obtained with such difficulty yesterday, the scale pattern on the vault door reacted instantly.

Amid flickering golden light, the spacetime barrier before the vault door began to ripple.

"Sure enough, there is some kind of balance between this golden chrysanthemum and the deathly power saturating this island. Dawn is also the key point where this island's space and time intersect."

Watching the restriction before the vault door lift with his own eyes, Mi Yao could not help but say it aloud.

Vivian nodded, her expression grave as she looked at the golden vault door, as though she could see through it to something beyond.

A moment later, Vivian said, "Let's go. I have a feeling there's... something waiting for us behind this door."

With that, Vivian pushed open the vault door.

Boom.

Amid a heavy dragging sound, the vines around the vault door slowly fell away.

Then, an empty vault hall appeared before them.

At the center of the hall floated an enormous scale, with something resting on each of its two sides.

Everything was exactly the same as when Tiandao and the others had come here not