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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

only intensified the

two were

of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity,

can't beat

entire shipping

the Arcadia tonight, see who could last longer, and deal with it

the Arcadia, and everyone,

room, after a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper

nature, quick on land, and their skulls were incredibly tough. Darting through the snow made them hard to target, a much tougher fight

themselves to

of the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the

this was the round that

it was eerily

opened the lookout, but saw

to the

and finding nothing,

the place was

They resembled pig dung.

to catch their prey, had vented their frustration with

the gator droppings around the

and handy, suggested, "Should we

idea repulsive. "No

the Arcadia, with no

level of the gators' vengeance,

with ease, so why bother coming

to figure it out, she checked

gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply

tell it was Snowflake

the predators' offspring, it was no wonder the red-eyed gators

called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose,

this family, you

of rubbish, see how I

matter how many times she said it, it went in

everything, not even a bone spared, turning

had barely reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his

No scolding, no hitting.

by the ear. "And

eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed

gators weren't afraid of heat, and a simple