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.

by the door, Cooper and Snowflake squared off, fierce

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified

was exasperated; these two were

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

can't beat

entire shipping container into the

who could last

no danger in the Arcadia, and

a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to

tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much thought, with no best

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

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

was the round that

outside, it

lookout, but saw no sign

returned to the sea

finding nothing,

was

They resembled pig dung.

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

the gator

and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it out and use

idea

had plenty of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no need

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

in the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore

figure it out, she checked around the house

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

could tell

was no wonder the

over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this

this family, you

sorts of

matter how many times she said it, it went in one

even a bone spared, turning the area around the

reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his

No scolding, no hitting.

by the ear. "And you,

the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed them not far from

of heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare