Chapter 316: Sudden news × a turn for the worse × despair?
The barrier kept out intangible but real things such as Nen, poisonous smoke, and flames, but it did not repel humans.
Hisoka had been able to break in and then use the barrier as a special wall because he had noticed this.
Also, although most of the people inside appeared to be attacking with firearms, some of their bullets clearly carried Nen. These were probably Emission users too.
However, these Nen users seemed more like people who had only just awakened to Nen and barely understood the basics.
Joey even had the impression that all they could do was release Nen in a simple fashion, without having even identified their own affinities.
As a result, some of their bullets were strong, while others were weak.
Overall, they posed no threat at all to Joey and the others.
Relying on large-caliber weapons to injure Nen users like them was still nowhere near enough.
Hisoka counterattacked as he dodged. Bungee Gum stretched into a long strip before him, directly catching the bullets that continued toward him as he knocked the others away.
But unlike an ordinary defense, every spot on Bungee Gum struck by a bullet stretched into an extremely long cavity.
Then Hisoka shifted the position of Bungee Gum in his hands slightly, and the bullets that had failed to pierce his Nen suddenly rebounded in the direction they had come from.
Even without the soldiers' Nen coating them, the rebounding bullets still carried tremendous speed and force!
Those soldiers, who were clearly beginners, could not possibly defend themselves against the bullets with their own Nen.
Instead, they fell in droves under the bullets.
But not all the soldiers were beginners. The moment the bullets shot toward the First