Aginna set the first and second floors of the hotel ablaze. He also blocked the stairs with black flames, so even when You Xin climbed in from above, the black flames still barred his way.
The fire drew everyone's attention. After all, those were black flames.
Aginna was still creating black torches inside and throwing them out of the second-floor windows. Every so often, something flammable could be seen being hurled out, landing in the crowd or in the temporary medical tents.
For a time, things burning with black flames rained down everywhere.
Whenever a mass of black flames hit the ground, countless people fled in terror.
It was as if any place with black flames had become forbidden ground. The black lines had already terrified the civilians, and they were even more afraid to touch these black flames.
Black flames spread throughout the quarantine zone. The Blue White Society not only refrained from putting out the fire, but arranged for the civilians to evacuate while urgently bringing in a batch of Flamethrowers.
The black flames being thrown out could clearly be bounced back with an Air Wall, and could easily be extinguished with ordinary firefighting equipment. Yet Hua Yin and the others did none of that. They simply waited for the Flamethrowers to arrive and solve the problem in one stroke.
This could be called the prudent choice. Since they already knew one method would work, they might as well use it. There was no need to recklessly test unknown methods.
There was nothing wrong with doing this when facing a Contained Object. The mistake lay in the premise.
That was how habitual thinking worked. Once people assumed an answer was correct, they rejected every other possibility. The less room there was for error, the more serious this kind