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 Snowflake squared

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified

was exasperated; these two

the gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel confident

can't beat

entire shipping container

could last longer, and

was no danger in the Arcadia, and everyone,

shower and lights out, Stella and

made them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much

they armed themselves to the teeth.

flamethrowers

or lose, this was the

outside, it was

opened the lookout, but saw no

they returned to the sea at

finding nothing, she finally

place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

creatures, unable to catch their prey, had vented their

trio cleaned up the gator droppings around the

suggested, "Should we dry it out and use it as

found the idea repulsive. "No

the Arcadia, with no need

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

fish in the sea with ease, so why bother

to figure it out, she checked around the

buried in

half a brain could tell it was Snowflake and Cooper's

no wonder

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

this family, you won't go

stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how

many times she said it, it went

even a bone spared, turning the area around the house

Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with a

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And you, you spineless

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

of heat, and a simple flame