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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified

two were making

gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel

can't beat

shipping container into the

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

the Arcadia, and everyone, humans

lights out, Stella and Jasper

were vicious by nature, quick on land, 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

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

flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to face the gator

this was the

it was eerily

but saw

to

and finding nothing, she finally

was

They resembled pig dung.

damn creatures, unable to catch their prey, had vented their frustration with

up the gator droppings

handy, suggested, "Should we dry it

idea

of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no need to

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

in the sea with ease, so why bother coming

out, she checked around the

eggs were buried in the snow, and quite

a brain could tell it was Snowflake and Cooper's

wonder the red-eyed gators had been so

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 won't teach

you won't

all sorts of rubbish, see

many times she said it, it went in

spared, turning the area around the house into a

to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear. "And you,

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

and a simple flame probably