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.

Cooper and Snowflake squared

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

only intensified the pounding

two were making things

the gators' ferocity,

you can't beat 'em,

retracted the entire shipping container

sleep in the Arcadia tonight, see who could last longer, and deal

no danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and

out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to handle

through the snow made them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much thought, with no best plan in mind, they decided to just get some sleep

AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake had bulletproof vests, Rosie having altered Snowflake's

even flamethrowers at the

was

it

the lookout, but saw no sign of the

returned to the sea

nothing, she finally opened the

the place was

They resembled pig dung.

had vented

the gator droppings around

we dry it out and use it as

idea

plenty of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no need to burn gator

the gators'

fish in the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore

she checked around the

buried in the

with half a brain could tell it was Snowflake and

was no wonder

and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this house, I won't teach

family, you won't go

you keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal with

it, it went

even a bone spared, turning the area around

came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you,

gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing

heat, and a simple flame