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..."

only intensified

two were making things

the scent of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity,

can't

retracted the entire shipping

see who could last longer, and deal with it at

the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs

after a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed

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, with no best plan in mind,

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

of the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the ready, it

was

it was eerily

but saw no sign of

returned to

finding nothing, she

the place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

to catch their prey, had vented their frustration with

the trio cleaned up the

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

idea

of fuel stored in the Arcadia,

level of the gators' vengeance,

hunted fish in the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore

figure it out, she checked

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

with half a brain could tell

was no wonder the red-eyed

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

this family, you

all sorts of

matter how many times she said it, it went

spared, turning

his

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And

eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of

gators weren't afraid of heat, and a