Chapter 308: Phosgene × A method of destruction × A plunge
As the United Army charged toward the King's Area, the partial collapse of the ship's Middle Tier and Lower Level caused by the disappearance of the pile of bones gradually came to a halt.
However, the objects that had fallen below gradually began to burn.
At first, this did not attract anyone's attention. After all, the ship had no shortage of combustible materials, and the Lower Level itself served as the kitchen area, so there were plenty of sources of fire.
Besides, although the ceiling of the Lower Level had collapsed, all the rooms there were partitioned off. Even if flames occasionally broke out, they would have difficulty spreading.
But as time passed, something began to seem wrong.
Thick black smoke began rising from the flames on the Lower Level. Rather than ceasing to spread, the flames raced across the entire Lower Level as though an accelerant had been added.
The rising temperature first attracted the attention of the United Army troops stationed on the Lower Level, but when they tried to find a way to extinguish the flames, they discovered there was no water stored there at all.
The fire cabinets they opened contained no extinguishers or other equipment, as though someone had collected everything long ago.
Thick black smoke began filling the Lower Level. Even those who thought of using basic methods, such as covering the flames with fire blankets, found that the blankets they threw over them caught fire within a short time.
The flames were far hotter than expected, as though even iron and stone would melt within them.
This was clearly abnormal. Even the spreading smoke was more than ordinary thick smoke: the symptoms of those who inhaled it resembled poisoning rather than suffocation