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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

only intensified

these two were making things

scent of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel confident

can't beat

the entire shipping container into the

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

was no danger in the Arcadia,

their room, after a shower and lights out,

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,

day, well-rested and fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even

of the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the

this was the round that

it

the lookout, but saw no sign of the

to

finding nothing, she finally

was littered

They resembled pig dung.

prey, had vented their

trio cleaned up the gator droppings around the

suggested, "Should we dry

the idea

of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no need to

Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't

in the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore for

out, she checked

buried in the

brain could tell

no wonder the red-eyed gators had been so

and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this house, I won't

family, you

stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I

it went in one ear

bone spared, turning the

to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with a paw,

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you,

her tirade, she picked up the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of

heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare them