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.

door, Cooper and Snowflake

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified the

exasperated; these two were making things

of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel confident about

can't

the entire shipping

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

no danger in the Arcadia,

lights out, Stella

and their skulls were 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 no best

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

Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers

was the round that

it

saw no sign

returned to the

and finding nothing, she finally

the place was

They resembled pig dung.

their prey, had vented

the trio cleaned up the gator droppings

we dry it out and use

the idea repulsive.

the

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

with ease, so why bother coming

it out, she checked around the

eggs were buried in the snow, and quite

a brain could tell

predators' offspring, it was no wonder the red-eyed gators had been

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 house, I

this family, you

all sorts of rubbish, see how

how many times she said it, it

spared, turning the area around the house

Cooper came to defend his

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear.

the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed them not

gators weren't afraid of heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare