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 off, fierce

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the pounding

these two were

of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and

can't beat 'em,

retracted the entire shipping container into

who could last longer, and deal with it

in the Arcadia, and

in their room, after a shower and lights out, Stella

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 plan

AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper

even flamethrowers at the ready,

lose, this was the round

it was

but saw no

they returned to the sea

nothing, she finally

was

They resembled pig dung.

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

the gator droppings around

suggested, "Should we dry

idea

stored in the Arcadia, with no

of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just

hunted fish in the sea with ease, so why

to figure it out, she checked around the

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

tell it

the predators' offspring, it was no wonder the red-eyed gators had been

last night's danger, Stella was 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

family, you won't go

you keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal with

how many times she said it, it

bone spared, turning the area

to defend his mate, pushing

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And you, you

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

of heat, and a simple