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.

the door, Cooper and Snowflake squared off,

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified

two were making things

of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she

you can't

entire shipping container into

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

in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans

their room, after a shower and lights out,

the snow made them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much

fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to

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

or lose, this was the

it was eerily

the lookout, but saw no sign

returned to the sea

triple-checking and finding nothing,

the place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

vented

up the gator droppings around

we dry it

the idea repulsive.

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

to Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't

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

out, she checked

dozens of gator eggs were buried in the snow, and

brain could tell it was Snowflake

was no wonder the

over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're

this family, you won't go

all sorts of rubbish, see how

it

bone spared, turning the area

to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And you,

unleashing her tirade, she picked up the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed

afraid of heat, and a simple flame