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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified

two

of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity,

can't beat 'em,

entire shipping container

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

in the Arcadia,

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

to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with

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

even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time

this was

it was eerily

saw no sign of

they returned to the sea at

and finding nothing, she finally opened the

was littered

They resembled pig dung.

their prey, had vented their frustration with excrement.

cleaned up the gator

ever thrifty and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it out and use it

found the idea

had plenty of fuel stored in the Arcadia,

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

ease,

she

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

tell it was Snowflake and Cooper's

wonder the red-eyed gators had been

her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this house,

you

stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I

how many times she said it, it went in one ear and out

not even a bone spared, turning the area around

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

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear. "And you, you spineless

picked up the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice

heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare