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 Snowflake

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified

these two were making

the scent of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity,

you can't beat 'em,

entire shipping container into

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

no danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs alike,

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

incredibly tough. Darting through the snow made them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with

to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake had bulletproof

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

was the

it

but saw no

returned to the sea at

triple-checking and finding nothing, she finally opened

place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

prey, had vented their frustration with excrement.

cleaned up the gator droppings around the

we dry it

idea repulsive.

plenty of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no

Considering the level of the gators' vengeance,

the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore for

out, she checked

buried in the snow,

half a brain could tell it was Snowflake and

the predators' offspring, it was no wonder

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

you won't go

keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I

many times she said it, it went in

turning the area around the

Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's

No scolding, no hitting.

by the ear. "And you, you spineless

had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed them not far from

and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare them