"Cough, cough, cough!" Someone simply couldn't bear the black dust; it felt just like being in the midst of a sandstorm, causing their eyes to smart painfully from the irritation.
The continuous coughing replaced the initial unbelievable screams, the intense coughing so desperate it seemed they would cough up their lungs.
"Cough, cough... no, it's no use, we can't stay outside, run into the houses!"
So much black dust was severely affecting visibility, not to mention breathing.
One after another, the villagers hurried back to their homes.
To avoid being choked by this stuff.
Moreover, they discovered that as the massive quantities of black dust poured down from the sky, the places that were ablaze with raging flames became covered with this black ash. These black ashes, like sand used to suppress fire, quickly smothered the flames. What remained of the fire in Lingchen County, which had been burning widely, was finally diminished, with only a few sporadic places still ablaze.
