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

Everybody had those thoughts.

Cheol-Ho’s voice echoed inside the building at that

hold on a

an arm injury started to shout

no way that

that

person speaking to Bae Cheol-Ho shut

Bae Cheol-Ho looked around.

up

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

because they knew it was hell outside

Cheol-Ho had also convinced them with the

can only keep holding on here even

last just

Cheol-Ho made

then walked over to Jae

keep it

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

to

I have no choice

into his shaking hands with an annoyed

“Sigh.”

“Hey, let's go.”

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

who were not

other people started to quickly

that couch and put

people on the second floor! See if they have anything else to

out right now from lack of

shit! Throw whatever we can! We need to prevent as many monsters

those noises stopped for a

“Kihehe! Hehe! Kihehehe!”

the monster’s laughing started to

snapped

was because of the voice echoing

now send the

now if they could hold on

was starting to take

didn’t have

how much time must have passed since they heard

Baaaaang! Bang! Baaaaang!

his legs slowly

“Ugh!”

even have the strength to

could do was

who watched him struggle

you think they’ll get

to that question. It could

them a

distance between Park

central shelters, but it was

distance we have

the

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

sun goes down during that

they fought against the monsters to get here,

‘…They might not come.’

about the

job to do

he could say

here if we

was to give them at least

mind was full of concern about how to get past this difficult situation, as

information Park Jin Tae

had

was why it was the thing he

“Hyu, hyung-nim!”

Cheol-Ho then heard the person who was looking out the crack in the window on

‘Are they already here?!’

urgently looked toward the person thinking that the

"General-nim!”

down the stairs in shock as he called out to Bae

who had

“Ah.”

Cheol-Ho let

the person's

the scout who was coming down

that appeared in the sky! It seems to be a Grade

of their faces

had been toyed with by the Steel Feather Hawk that was 1.5

nobody worth chatting

toyed

after that and the Grade 2 monsters started charging

another flying monster in

but become filled with

to speak

“…That's not possible.”

only seven Grade 1 monsters

was

Was this information wrong?

started to go

person looking out the window continued to speak

heading down! I, it seems to

His voice was shaking.

was full of fear. That fear quickly spread to everybody inside the central

started to frown

“Damn it!”

moved his hands away from supporting the door and urgently

“Hyung-nim, over there-”

window pointed in

“…Ho.”

Cheol-Ho let out a

fear on the faces

person next to Bae Cheol-Ho continued to

is descending extremely

descending extremely quickly as he mentioned. It looked as if it wanted to

that only Bae Cheol-Ho

we run away?

Cheol-Ho looked up at the sky before barely managing to open his

start with the people

the old and

“Hold on!”

had to stop talking after hearing Bae

looked toward Bae

“Hyung-nim?”

“…What is that?”

face closer to the window instead

monster

then said a

“…A person?”

the

started to mumble

person on top of the monster’s