18 Floors Above the Apocalypse

Chapter 489

Jasper and Cooper took off like a shot.

As they bolted, the distant red dots started closing in faster, like they had rockets strapped to them.

Inside the house, Snowflake sensed something was off and bared her teeth, ready to charge out the door. Stella and Rosie instinctively grabbed their guns.

The two women and the wolf reached the door just as Jasper and Cooper came barreling back in.

"What's going on?" Stella asked.

Jasper quickly deadbolted the door, securing all three locks. "A pack of gators."

No sooner had he spoken than a series of thuds hit the door.

Bang! Bang! Bang! The impacts were rapid and fierce, shaking the entire shipping container like a tin can in a storm.

Stella was baffled. The gators hadn't bothered them last night when they came ashore to lay eggs. Why were they attacking now?

The banging didn't let up; it only got more intense.

Front, sides...

Even through the container and layers of ice, Stella could imagine the swarming chaos outside.

She approached the lookout point with her gun, trying to get a glimpse.

In the gloomy watchpoint, a pair of red eyes suddenly appeared.

Cold and bloodthirsty.

Holy smokes, red-eyed gators.

If it weren't for the lookout point being just 20cm wide, trapping the gator's head, they'd be flooding in.

Even so, the trapped gator kept wriggling, trying to get inside and devour them.

Could it be because she threw their eggs into the sea?

After a whole day, any traces or scents should have been scattered by the wind and snow by now.

Stella was puzzled, but the eerie red eyes made her quickly close the lookout.

She put on night-vision goggles and peered through a higher watchpoint, spotting a mass of gators outside, easily a few hundred.

If they broke through the container, the three humans and five dogs wouldn't even be enough to pick their teeth with.

door, Cooper and Snowflake squared off, fierce

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified the

two were

humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel confident

can't

entire shipping

sleep in the Arcadia tonight, see who could last

the Arcadia, and everyone,

out, Stella and Jasper discussed

them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's

and fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake had bulletproof vests, Rosie having altered

out of the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to face the gator

was

outside, it was eerily

saw no

to the sea at

finding nothing, she finally opened the

place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

unable to catch their prey, had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk about

up the gator droppings

"Should we dry it out and use it as

the idea

of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with

Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just be

with ease, so why bother coming

figure it out, she

behold, dozens of gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply at

brain could tell

was no wonder the red-eyed

Stella was furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just

this family, you won't

all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal with

many times she said it, it

a bone spared, turning the area

reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with a

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear. "And

This time, instead of tossing

weren't afraid of heat, and a simple flame probably