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?”

taster

Everybody had those thoughts.

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

hold on a little

with an arm injury started to shout toward Bae

way that

what, it means that someone is coming

to Bae Cheol-Ho

Bae Cheol-Ho looked around.

already gave up

give up on the central shelter and run away when the Grade 3 monsters came to

it was hell outside as

convinced them with the information in

on here even if we end

to last just one

made up

over to

it up

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

to frown while watching

I have no choice but to keep

more strength into his shaking hands with an annoyed

“Sigh.”

“Hey, let's go.”

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

people who were not severely

to quickly move

that couch and put it

have anything else to throw outside! What is up with the

right now from lack of

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

those noises stopped for

“Kihehe! Hehe! Kihehehe!”

the monster’s laughing started to

they quickly snapped

was because of the voice echoing in

the first

little better than now if

thought was starting to take hold in

they didn’t

to think about how much time

Baaaaang! Bang! Baaaaang!

could feel his legs slowly starting to

“Ugh!”

didn’t even have the strength

he could

watched him struggle

do you think they’ll get here? Hopefully they get

to that question. It could not

take them

thinking about the distance between Park Jin

most central shelters,

just the distance we have to worry

get past the monster obstacles to

a little longer, but Bae Cheol-Ho was certain that it would be a long

sun goes down during

they fought against the monsters to get

‘…They might not come.’

about the worst possible

was his job to do

was the only thing he could say to the

here if

give them at

concern about how to get past this

Jin Tae gave

information had

why it was the thing he could

“Hyu, hyung-nim!”

looking out the crack in the window on his behalf

‘Are they already here?!’

toward the person thinking that the

"General-nim!”

on a higher floor ran down the stairs in shock as

saw the person who had called him from the

“Ah.”

Cheol-Ho let out a

person's face was despair and

all then heard the scout who was coming

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

faces filled with

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

nobody worth

that had toyed with them left after

remaining Grade 1 monsters started to run wild after that and the Grade

flying monster in such a

help but

to speak at that

“…That's not possible.”

information said that only seven Grade 1 monsters

was

Was this information wrong?

mind started to

out the window continued to speak

is heading down! I, it seems to be heading

His voice was shaking.

quickly spread to everybody inside

Cheol-Ho started to

“Damn it!”

door and urgently

“Hyung-nim, over there-”

person at the window pointed in a direction for

“…Ho.”

let

gasp put even more fear on the faces of the others inside

to Bae

is descending extremely

as he mentioned. It looked as if it wanted

so that

we run away? We

at the sky before barely managing to

start with the people in

move the old and the

“Hold on!”

person had to stop talking

looked toward Bae Cheol-Ho

“Hyung-nim?”

“…What is that?”

the window instead of looking at

focused on the monster that was descending faster and

said a single

“…A person?”

the building

mumble in disbelief through

person on top of the