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.

the door, Cooper and Snowflake squared off, fierce

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified the pounding

exasperated; these two were

scent of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and

you can't

the entire shipping container

see who could last longer, and deal with it at

in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans

out, Stella and

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, with no best plan in mind,

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

and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time

or lose, this was the round that

outside, it was

but saw no

they returned to

and finding nothing, she finally opened

was littered

They resembled pig dung.

prey, had vented their frustration with excrement.

the gator

suggested, "Should we dry

the idea repulsive. "No

plenty of fuel stored in the

of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just be

ease, so why bother coming ashore for

she

were buried in the snow, and quite

tell it

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

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

this family, you won't

sorts of rubbish, see how

matter how many times she said it, it

spared, turning the area around the

reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate,

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And you, you spineless

two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them

a simple flame probably