The man next to Jo Min Yeh stiffened up.

He opened his mouth to speak.

“…How do you know the number of survivors from our original shelter-”

The auditorium had become silent. The people slowly started to realize the meaning behind the numbers Cale was mentioning after hearing Kim Tae Hoo's comment.

Everybody here were leaders or chief executives of the newly created central shelters.

That meant that the chances of them being leaders or people in charge of an original central shelter or smaller shelters were high.

The people Cale had just called had all been leaders of the now destroyed original shelters.

Kim Tae Hoo instantly started to sweat.

‘176 people. That’s the number of people who survived from our shelter!’

The numbers Cale was saying was the number of people who managed to survive through the hell that had appeared when the original shelters were destroyed.

Of course, there were more people in the new central shelter where Kim Tae Hoo was the leader.

But that was the number of people who had made it out of his original shelter.

“…How did you?”

‘How does this person know about that?’

Cale started to speak again as the ability users started to stiffen up.

He was looking at the man next to Kim Tae Hoo.

“Ability user Park Young Hoon. You had quite a lot of survivors. 412 people.”

Park Young Hoon's jaw dropped.

Cale looked at the people who couldn't hide their shocks and held in the bitterness he was feeling.

Kang Il-Rae, Jo Min Yeh, Kim Tae Hoo, and Park Young Hoon.

He didn’t know what these people had experienced when their original shelters had fallen.

What monsters appeared, what buildings were destroyed…

How these people managed to survive…

He didn't know about any of that.

Cale remembered what happened around Korea on that day but had not been there to record it.

But he did remember the numbers.

Numbers were data that could give an overview of what had happened even without knowing the details.

The number of survivors from the original central shelters.

That hellish time had been recorded on a few sheets of A4 paper.

It did not record the number of dead people.

They could not check those numbers.

There were too many people.

When the world first experienced the cataclysm…

Quite a lot of people had died.

Then, when the original shelters crumbled…

Humanity faced danger once again.

That was the reason that the new central shelters that could fit tens of thousands of people had less than 10,000 total occupants.

This was why only the number of survivors were recorded.

There weren't any records of you if you died.

The original central shelters…

Cale slowly looked around at the people who had been leaders of those shelters as he started to speak again.

“Do I need to keep going?”

The entire auditorium was quiet.

Jo Min Yeh quietly started to speak.

“Is this the power of foresight?”

The number of survivors.

That wasn't enough to claim it to be foresight.

describe how this man who looked like a teenager could know the number of survivors from shelters around

Jo Min Yeh, was keeping his mouth shut as he glared at Cale

looked around before continuing

I will

the platform. Choi Han was by the wall of the auditorium

Cale started to speak.

probably just came for information and there may be some of you who will fight with us here in Seomyeon, but many of

kill an unranked monster in Seomyeon? Why do I need to do that? It's hard enough for me to survive. It’s hard enough to care for our

going through people’s mind even without

aware of that

the atmosphere inside the

now

Prophecy.

word caught people's

“The future.”

wasn’t actually making a prophecy; he was just telling them the

central shelters and people will

nodded

who had recognized the defensive

will develop their abilities even more.

to speak with

these monsters and we will be able

people who had felt chills at Cale’s ability just now were starting

will start to expand our territory once again; similar to what our ancestors had done, starting from the area

now

what they want in the

slowly start

stopped after saying

many people, if not all

the greedy people, even

of them to experience

was the only way to give them the data to survive the

Because of that…

speak with a smile on

in order for us

the auditorium and it felt as if

smile on his face

of you will

That was the truth.

was the future

people will die. Selfish people will die. People who were chasing after greed, going after the greater good, sacrificing themselves, running away on their own, all

disappeared from his

that will happen in

down at the

change what I saw

Il-Rae started to

change something

eye contact with Kang

after seeing the gaze of the person he had called

an unfathomably deep gaze, started to

“0 people.”

even think about the meaning behind that

people who died at the original central shelter

started to gasp in

number of survivors

Nobody had died.

less than 100 people would

past that Kim

present had changed and therefore, the future has

the

that everybody here

He really meant it.

Why?

number of people,

save as

pass a list with the names of those people

strong enough to look after those people and make sure they don't end up on that

you heard

to

“Nothing beats numbers.”

strong or not, whether monsters

nothing. There are no monsters that can win when going up against a

how humans managed to survive

Kim Rok

unranked monsters are the greatest enemies for humans to recreate society in the

focused on what Cale

because they are monsters with unbelievable strength that can destroy

loud enough for everybody in the

you don’t know when that enemy might

die whenever and wherever because of a strong enemy with unfathomable

words was heavy to these people who were slowly starting to trust what Cale had to

of the people who were listening

just use your

knows when I will

asked flinched

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