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 squared

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified the pounding

exasperated; these two were making things

the scent of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she didn't

you can't

retracted the entire shipping container

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

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

a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how

much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much thought, with no best plan in mind, they decided to just get some sleep and

fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake had bulletproof vests, Rosie having

and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to

lose, this was the round

outside, it

but saw no sign of the

returned to

nothing, she

place was

They resembled pig dung.

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

cleaned up the

suggested, "Should we dry it out

found the idea repulsive.

the Arcadia, with no need to

gators' vengeance, it couldn't just

the sea with ease, so

figure it out, she checked around the

buried in the

could tell it was

the predators' offspring, it was no wonder

and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the

you

stashing all sorts of rubbish,

it, it went in one ear and

everything, not even a bone spared, turning the area around the house into

when Cooper came to defend his

No scolding, no hitting.

by the ear. "And you, you spineless

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

heat, and a