Chapter 309: Reunion × The Last Chance × Beyond Saving
He fell extremely fast, and the flames grew rapidly hotter as Joey continued his descent.
When even he, sheltered inside his Spacesuit, could feel the temperature rising, he stopped. The Spacesuit was not particularly effective against high temperatures, but Joey had no way to improve it, so he could only keep wearing it for now.
Looking farther down from here, he still saw nothing but thick black smoke. Even concentrating a large amount of Nen in his eyes did not let Joey see through it.
But as his En expanded, the black smoke blocking his view gradually dispersed.
The flames below came into view. They were a scarlet red.
Without thinking further, Joey activated Weather Report and began extracting the remaining oxygen below.
Yet as the oxygen gradually disappeared, the flames before Joey's eyes did not vanish. They continued burning on clumps of pitch-black material.
Joey frowned. What he saw did change somewhat as the oxygen disappeared.
A trace of black aura appeared on the flames. It was the same substance that enveloped the entire Black Whale 1, and the flames seemed to be consuming it as they burned.
As for why the flames produced thick smoke, that was because of the material engulfed in them.
Joey had never seen that black material in the Prince District. Though he did not know what it was, he could tell that it released toxic gas when burned.
And as far as he could see, more than half the shattered cargo containers in this warehouse area actually held that pitch-black material.
Joey licked his somewhat dry lips, beginning to understand Kakin's arrangements.
Replenishing the black aura required people aboard to die, the flames needed the support of the black aura to burn, the