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

Everybody had those thoughts.

Cheol-Ho’s voice echoed inside the building at

on a little

with an arm injury started to shout toward Bae

no way that

it means that someone is coming

speaking to Bae Cheol-Ho shut

Bae Cheol-Ho looked around.

up

when the Grade 3 monsters came

was because they knew it was hell outside

also convinced them

holding on here even if we

to last

made up

walked over to Jae

Please keep it up

door that was barely

to frown while

I have no choice but to keep it

strength 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

people who

started to quickly move as

Go bring that couch and put

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

out right now

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

stopped for a

“Kihehe! Hehe! Kihehehe!”

because the monster’s

snapped out

of the

will now send the

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

starting to take hold in people's

didn’t have much

think about how much time must have

Baaaaang! Bang! Baaaaang!

legs

“Ugh!”

the strength to grumble

could do

who watched him struggle asked Bae Cheol-Ho

do you think they’ll get here? Hopefully

Cheol-Ho could not respond to that

them

between Park Jin Tae's central shelter and this

most central shelters, but it was

not just the distance we have to worry about

had to get past the monster obstacles

little longer, but Bae Cheol-Ho was certain that it

if the sun goes down during

as they fought against the monsters

‘…They might not come.’

was thinking about the

was his job

the only thing he could say

if

was to give them at least a

about how to get past this difficult situation, as he could not just

information Park Jin Tae

had not

why it was the thing he could trust the most right

“Hyu, hyung-nim!”

out the crack in the window

‘Are they already here?!’

Cheol-Ho urgently looked toward the person thinking that the reinforcements

"General-nim!”

was on a higher floor ran down the

saw the person who had called him from the

“Ah.”

let

the person's face was despair

the scout who was coming down

monster that appeared in the sky! It seems to be a Grade 1 monster based on

their faces

the Steel Feather Hawk that was 1.5 times

nobody worth chatting with

had toyed

monsters started to run wild after that and the

monster in such a

help but become

started to speak at

“…That's not possible.”

Grade 1 monsters would appear

was

Was this information wrong?

mind started to go

out the window continued to speak

the monster is heading down! I,

His voice was shaking.

That fear quickly spread to everybody inside the

Cheol-Ho started to frown

“Damn it!”

from supporting the door and

“Hyung-nim, over there-”

at the window pointed in a direction for

“…Ho.”

Cheol-Ho let out a

on the faces

Bae Cheol-Ho

is descending extremely

mentioned. It looked as if it wanted to destroy this

person whispered quietly so that only Bae Cheol-Ho

should we run away? We

looked up at the sky before barely managing to open his

with the people in the

move the

“Hold on!”

person had to stop talking after hearing Bae Cheol-Ho

Bae Cheol-Ho in

“Hyung-nim?”

“…What is that?”

face closer to the window

the monster that was descending

then said a single

“…A person?”

filled the building

mumble in disbelief through the

on top of the