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

was exasperated; these two were

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

you can't

shipping

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

danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans

in their room, after a shower and lights out,

much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's

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

weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to face the

was the

outside, it was eerily

lookout, but saw

to

and finding nothing,

was littered

They resembled pig dung.

catch their prey, had vented their

the gator droppings around

handy, suggested, "Should we dry it

idea repulsive.

the Arcadia, with

the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just

hunted fish in the sea with ease, so why

out, she checked around the

and behold, dozens of gator eggs were buried in

half a brain could tell it was Snowflake

was no wonder the red-eyed gators had been so

nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new

family, you

all sorts of rubbish,

matter how many times she said it, it went in

even a bone spared, turning the area around the house

to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And you, you spineless

had stashed away. This time, instead

weren't afraid of heat, and a