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?”

of all taster monsters? How was that

Everybody had those thoughts.

Cheol-Ho’s voice echoed inside

hold on a

injury started to shout toward

There’s no way

matter what, it means that someone is coming to

person speaking to Bae Cheol-Ho

Bae Cheol-Ho looked around.

gave up

on the central shelter and run away when the Grade 3 monsters came to attack,

it was hell outside

convinced them

here

to last

made up his

then walked over to

keep it

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

to frown while watching

no choice but to keep

strength into his shaking hands

“Sigh.”

“Hey, let's go.”

to

the people who were

started to quickly move as

couch and put it

anything else to throw outside! What is up with the kid making the

now from lack of

We need to prevent as many monsters from getting

noises stopped for

“Kihehe! Hehe! Kihehehe!”

monster’s laughing started to

quickly snapped

was because of the voice echoing

send the first round of

should get at least a little better than now if they could hold on for just a

starting to take hold

they didn’t

started to think about how much time

Baaaaang! Bang! Baaaaang!

could feel his legs slowly starting

“Ugh!”

even have the strength to grumble

could

who watched him struggle asked Bae Cheol-Ho

they’ll get

Cheol-Ho could not respond to that question. It could not be

take them

distance between Park Jin Tae's

in comparison to most central shelters, but it was still quite the

not just the distance we have to worry about right

past the monster obstacles to get

a little longer, but Bae Cheol-Ho

if the sun goes down during that

passing 5 pm as they fought against the monsters to get here,

‘…They might not come.’

Cheol-Ho was thinking about the worst

was his job

thing he could say to

will get here if we keep

to give them at least

to get past this difficult situation, as

the information Park Jin Tae gave us is

had not

why it was the thing he could

“Hyu, hyung-nim!”

then heard the person who was looking out the crack in the window on his

‘Are they already here?!’

toward the person thinking that the reinforcements

"General-nim!”

floor ran down the

the person who had called him

“Ah.”

let

person's face was despair

the scout who

appeared in the sky! It seems to be a

their faces filled with

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

nobody worth chatting

had toyed with them left after saying

after that

another flying monster in

couldn’t help but become

Cheol-Ho started to speak

“…That's not possible.”

information said that only seven Grade 1 monsters would appear

was another

Was this information wrong?

mind started

looking out the window

I, it seems to be heading toward

His voice was shaking.

quickly spread to everybody

to

“Damn it!”

supporting the door and urgently ran toward the crack

“Hyung-nim, over there-”

person at the window pointed in a direction for

“…Ho.”

Cheol-Ho let out a

put even more fear on the faces of the others

next to Bae

it is descending extremely

was descending extremely quickly as he mentioned. It looked as if

whispered quietly so that only Bae

should we run

looked up at the sky before barely managing to open

We will start with the people in

move the old

“Hold on!”

person had to stop talking after hearing

looked toward Bae Cheol-Ho in

“Hyung-nim?”

“…What is that?”

the window instead of looking at the other

gaze was focused on the monster

said a single

“…A person?”

the building

to mumble

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