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 pounding

was exasperated; these two were making

gators' ferocity, and

you can't beat

shipping

tonight, see who could last

the Arcadia, and everyone,

and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to handle the

them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much thought, with no best plan

and fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the

loaded and even flamethrowers

lose, this was the round

it

opened the lookout, but saw no sign

returned to the

nothing, she

the place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

their prey, had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk

up the

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

found the idea

the Arcadia, with no

something still felt off to Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just be a fleeting

with ease, so why bother coming ashore for

it out, she checked around the

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

with half a brain could tell

it was no wonder the

pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just

you won't

stashing all sorts of rubbish,

times she said it, it went in

a bone spared, turning the area around the house into a

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

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And you, 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

heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare