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 monsters? How was

Everybody had those thoughts.

voice echoed inside the building at that

on a

arm injury started to shout toward Bae

There’s no way that

what, it means that

Bae Cheol-Ho shut

Bae Cheol-Ho looked around.

already gave up on running

central shelter and run away when the Grade 3 monsters

because they knew it was hell outside as

Cheol-Ho had also convinced them with

keep holding on here even if we

needed to last just

made up

walked over to Jae

it up for a little

moved his hands toward the iron door that was barely being

Ha-Jung started to frown while

choice

strength into his

“Sigh.”

“Hey, let's go.”

walked over to the iron door

who were

to quickly move

that couch and put

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

right now

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

those noises stopped for

“Kihehe! Hehe! Kihehehe!”

was because the monster’s laughing started to

snapped out of

was because of the voice

the first round

now if they could hold on for just a

was starting to take hold in people's

they didn’t have much

much time must have passed since they heard

Baaaaang! Bang! Baaaaang!

legs slowly starting

“Ugh!”

didn’t even have the strength to grumble

he could do

him struggle asked Bae Cheol-Ho a

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

respond to that question.

them

was thinking about the distance between Park

close in comparison to most central shelters, but it was still

not just the distance we have

get past the monster obstacles to

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

goes down during that

pm as they fought against the monsters to get here, if

‘…They might not come.’

Cheol-Ho was thinking about

job to do

he could

will get here if we keep

at least

how to get past this difficult

information Park Jin

information had

the thing he could trust

“Hyu, hyung-nim!”

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

‘Are they already here?!’

person thinking that the

"General-nim!”

scout who was on a higher floor ran down the stairs in

the person who had called him from

“Ah.”

Cheol-Ho let out

saw on the person's face was despair and

the scout who was coming down the

seems to be a Grade 1 monster

their faces

Feather Hawk that was

nobody worth chatting

Steel Feather Hawk that had toyed

1 monsters started to run wild after that and the

another flying monster

but

started to speak

“…That's not possible.”

that only seven Grade

there was

Was this information wrong?

Cheol-Ho’s mind started

the window continued to speak at

monster is heading down! I, it seems

His voice was shaking.

quickly spread to everybody inside

Cheol-Ho started to frown after

“Damn it!”

hands away from supporting the door and urgently ran toward

“Hyung-nim, over there-”

at the window pointed in a

“…Ho.”

Cheol-Ho let

put even more fear on the

person next to Bae Cheol-Ho continued to

is descending extremely

as he mentioned. It looked as if it wanted to destroy

so that only Bae Cheol-Ho could

run away?

sky before barely managing to open his

start with

sir. We will move the

“Hold on!”

to stop talking after hearing Bae

Bae Cheol-Ho

“Hyung-nim?”

“…What is that?”

his face closer to the window instead of looking at the

focused on the monster that was descending

then said a

“…A person?”

the building

to mumble in disbelief through

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