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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the

exasperated; these two were making things

the gators' ferocity, and she didn't

you can't beat

entire shipping

Arcadia tonight, see who could last longer, and deal

was no danger in the Arcadia, and

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

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

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

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

or lose, this was the round

it

but saw no

they returned to the sea

nothing, she finally opened

the place was

They resembled pig dung.

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

cleaned up the gator droppings around the

and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it

idea

stored in the Arcadia, with no need to burn

to Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just be a fleeting encounter in

with ease, so

to figure it out, she checked

of gator eggs were buried in

tell it was Snowflake

no wonder the red-eyed gators had been

furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose,

you won't go

you keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how

said it, it went in one ear and out

not even a bone spared, turning the

came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with a paw,

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you, you

This time, instead of

a simple flame