18 Floors Above the Apocalypse

Chapter 475

Cooper couldn't quite decide if he was feeling guilty or just completely oblivious to the pain as he wagged his tail non-stop at the person cleaning up his mess. Lying in the snow, he exposed his belly, begging for a rub.

Stella was fuming. She quickly knelt down to check his wounds.

There were two gashes on his leg, clearly from sharp teeth, and his back bore distinct claw marks.

Stella examined the corner of his mouth, where he was hurt, and found a tuft of white fur.

This fur... a polar bear?

Impossible, the size difference was too great.

Jasper surveyed the scene and guessed, "Wolf?"

Stella instinctively thought that couldn't be right. After all, it had been ten years since the calamity, and life was tough even for humans, let alone animals...

But then again, the survival instinct of animals was no less than that of humans. Perhaps some had indeed survived.

A Snowflake?

Had Cooper lost or won?

Without further thought, ensuring there was no danger around, Stella carried him into Arcadia.

After disinfecting and bandaging his wounds, she pointed at his nose and scolded, "Cooper, if you ever dare to be this reckless again, believe me, I'll throw you out, you hear?" What could Cooper say? He just played the pathetic card and kept wagging his tail.

Reprimanding him for half an hour wasn't enough for Stella; she even vented on Jasper, "Aren't you supposed to be his trainer? Look how you've spoiled him into being so rebellious." Chasing after an Arctic wolf, truly courting death!

He was lucky to come back alive today, but what about next time?

Jasper took the scolding in silence, "......"

Despite her anger, knowing Cooper couldn't jump around with his injuries, Stella bundled him into a backpack.

They left Arcadia, braving the biting wind as they made their way home.

With all the commotion, it was dark by the time they got back.

Stella was serious this time. She made Cooper sit on the floor for a time-out, and at dinner, he got nothing, not even a whiff of the steamy chicken legs.

Cooper looked pleadingly at Rosie, his doggy eyes spinning.

Rosie didn't dare intercede; his sister-in-law was genuinely furious.

After dinner, Jasper began a two-hour lecture on doggy discipline.

It wasn't until Stella's expression softened that he finally stopped the reeducation.

morning, as Stella was enjoying her sleep, Cooper sneaked in, nudging her with his head,

charm

her back

stubbornly, refusing

the morning, Stella knelt down to check

was no sign of

heal; the wound had closed up in less than

well, doing everything to please

Stella thought he had learned his lesson, he ran off

cuddling in her arms, the next he bolted without

are notoriously vengeful pack animals. Worried they might be lurking around, Rosie patrolled the snow mounds periodically but never found any tracks. Just as they were starting to relax, it happened

anyone could follow, he

her liver ache. She sat down on the snow

out for group revenge, she wouldn't stand a chance even if she caught

on seeking his own demise,

constantly scanning the

hour later, a brown shadow

exclaimed in surprise, "It's

he was injured

him once was love, but twice was

gritted her teeth and gave him a couple of lashes with a

be the result of having too

time, she starved him for

ideological education must

the scoundrel dog promised all too well to her face, but as soon as his wounds healed, off he ran

Stella was hot on

lean white

have been invisible were it not for its

after it with abandon, as

up with, and the two tumbled in the

her pistol, aiming to shoot the

gun, only to find the two were fighting too fiercely, now buried

were moving too fast, entangled together,

about Cooper's safety, she tossed the gun to

was no way he could

was fighting and moving, now more than two hundred

was he doing? Such a short distance and

grabbing the

that the Snowflake blended into the snow, making precision shooting extremely

dog and a wolf were locked in a tight chase; a careless shot could easily hit

by accident Cooper was injured or killed, Jasper seriously

wolf, Cooper didn't seem to be at

on, whether from exhaustion or