Trash of the Count's Family

Chapter 573: Night of Potential (9)

At the central shelter closest to the one Cale was at…

“Fuck!”

Jae Ha-Jung who was taking on the role of supporter at this location was frowning with both of his hands shaking.

The tree trunks coming out of his hands were tightly binding a large iron door.

Baaaaang! Bang!

But the iron door looked ready to break at any moment from the banging.

No, it was already starting to break.

The door had dents here and there and it was starting to bend, slowly causing gaps to appear on the sides.

And beyond the iron door…

“Kihehehe!”

They heard the laughter of an animal that resembled a monkey.

The banging on the iron door became louder every time it laughed.

“Fuck!”

He started to frown.

‘It’s toying with us!’

The monster was toying with the people who were hiding inside and doing everything they could to resist.

But that was slowly coming to an end.

“Hyung-nim!”

Bae Cheol-Ho, the ‘General’ at this central shelter, clenched his hand that was holding a piece of paper after hearing Jae Ha-Jung's desperate voice.

It was the information that Park Jin Tae, the leader of the nearby central shelter, had brought him last night.

He had thought that the fearless Park Jin Tae had finally gone crazy after hearing that it was information from one of his shelter’s ability users with the power of foresight.

But everything on that paper was true.

The monsters appeared along with the solar eclipse. The weaker Grade 3 monsters came charging in first.

Then, seven taster monsters appeared.

This extremely accurate foresight gave him the chills, but this information allowed them to last until now.

…Yes, until now.

It didn’t look as if they could last any longer.

“Ugh.”

“Huff, huff!”

There were injured people groaning in pain behind Bae Cheol-Ho.

And in front of him…

Beyond the breaking iron door…

“Kihehehe!”

He could hear the red monkey monster’s laugh as the other monsters started to approach.

He could see the Grade 2 monsters getting closer through the only crack on the boarded windows that they had purposely left in order to be able to look out.

The other Grade 1 taster monsters that had been leisurely enjoying the situation from the rear were approaching as well.

This all started to happen once the Steel Feather Hawk disappeared.

“Hyung-nim!”

"General-nim!”

Bae Cheol-Ho could hear people shouting for him from multiple directions.

The veins on the hand clenching the paper looked ready to burst, but he was just looking at the iron door that was on the brink of breaking with a stoic expression.

But he could not do that any longer.

“Hyung-nim! I can't hold on any longer!”

Jae Ha-Jung shouted toward Bae Cheol-Ho while looking as if he was going to cry.

His shaking hands and sweat-drenched body were telling them that he had reached his limits.

Bae Cheol-Ho grabbed his weapon again.

If it was difficult to last inside the building, he needed to at least head outside and lure the monsters away.

Bae Cheol-Ho started to speak.

“…Jae Ha-Jung.”

Jae Ha-Jung started to frown as if he knew what was about to happen.

Bae Cheol-Ho and Jae Ha-Jung started to speak at the same time.

“You can sto-”

“Hyung-nim, I will do what I can to hold on a little loon-”

It was at that moment.

{Starting now.}

Everybody inside the building shut up.

It was that voice.

They could not forget the voice that they heard during the solar eclipse. It was the voice that had been providing them with information every hour.

{We will now send the first round of reinforcements.}

Jae Ha-Jung and Bae Cheol-Ho looked toward each other.

Bae Cheol-Ho clenched his fists again.

{Please hold on a little longer.}

The woman continued to speak.

{The first round of reinforcements will take care of all taster monsters.}

Bae Cheol-Ho released his clenched fists.

Jae Ha-Jung started to mumble.

“…What? Is that even possible?”

care of all taster

Everybody had those thoughts.

Cheol-Ho’s voice echoed inside

on

with an arm injury started to

way that is

it means that someone is coming

to Bae

Bae Cheol-Ho looked around.

gave up

to give up on the central shelter and run away when the Grade 3 monsters came to attack, but most of

it

convinced them with

can only keep holding on here even if we end up

needed to last just one

Cheol-Ho made up

walked over to Jae

Ha-Jung! Please keep it

iron door that was barely being maintained by the tree trunks rather than to

Ha-Jung started to

choice but to

into his shaking

“Sigh.”

“Hey, let's go.”

people were shaking their heads but still walked over to the iron door and pushed against it with

were the people who

other people started to quickly move

and put it

floor! See if they have anything else

now from

need to prevent as many

those noises stopped for

“Kihehe! Hehe! Kihehehe!”

was because the monster’s laughing started to become

they quickly snapped

of the voice echoing in their

the first round

better than now if they could hold on for just

to take

they didn’t have

started to think about how much time must

Baaaaang! Bang! Baaaaang!

legs slowly starting to lose

“Ugh!”

have the strength to

could do

who watched him struggle asked Bae Cheol-Ho

you think they’ll get here?

could not respond to that question. It could not be

take them

about the distance between Park Jin Tae's central

comparison to most central shelters, but it was still quite

distance we have to worry

to get past the monster obstacles to get

on a little longer, but Bae Cheol-Ho was certain

if the sun goes down during that

the monsters to get here, if the sun went

‘…They might not come.’

about the worst

his job to

the only thing he

will get here if we keep holding

give them at least a

about how to get past this difficult situation, as

the information Park Jin

information had not

was the thing he could trust the most right

“Hyu, hyung-nim!”

was looking out the crack in the window on his behalf shouting in

‘Are they already here?!’

urgently looked toward the person thinking that the reinforcements

"General-nim!”

higher floor ran down the stairs in

who had called him from the

“Ah.”

let out

saw on the person's face

the scout

monster that appeared in the sky! It seems to be

faces filled with

with by the Steel Feather Hawk that was 1.5 times stronger than the other Grade 1 monsters

nobody worth chatting with

Steel Feather Hawk that had toyed with

wild after that and the Grade

monster in such

couldn’t help but

Cheol-Ho started to speak

“…That's not possible.”

only seven Grade 1 monsters

was

Was this information wrong?

started to go

looking out the window continued

monster is heading down! I, it seems

His voice was shaking.

was full of fear. That fear quickly spread to everybody

started to frown after

“Damn it!”

away from supporting the door and urgently

“Hyung-nim, over there-”

at the window pointed in a direction for

“…Ho.”

let

on the faces of the others inside the

person next to Bae Cheol-Ho

it is descending

large monster was descending extremely quickly as he mentioned. It looked as if it

quietly so that only Bae Cheol-Ho

run away? We can’t

the sky before barely

with the people in the

We will move the old and the

“Hold on!”

stop talking after hearing Bae Cheol-Ho

looked toward Bae Cheol-Ho in

“Hyung-nim?”

“…What is that?”

face closer to the window instead

gaze was focused on the monster that was descending faster

said a

“…A person?”

filled the

mumble in

a person on top of