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.

and Snowflake squared off,

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the pounding

these two were

gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel confident

can't beat

shipping container into the

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

was no danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and

after a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to handle the

made them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's

and fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and

out of the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers

lose, this was the round that

it was

saw no sign of the

they returned to the sea at

finding nothing, she

the place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

had vented

up the gator

suggested, "Should we dry

the idea repulsive.

stored in the Arcadia, with no

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

hunted fish in the sea with ease,

figure it out, she checked

dozens of gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply at

half a brain could tell it was

it was no wonder the

danger, Stella was furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this

family, you won't go

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

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

bone spared, turning the area around

his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you, you

two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them

of heat, and a simple flame probably