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.

and Snowflake squared off, fierce

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the

exasperated; these two

humans was inciting the gators' ferocity,

can't

shipping

see who could last longer,

danger in the Arcadia, and everyone,

and lights out, Stella and

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

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

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

or lose, this was the round

it

saw no sign

to

triple-checking and finding nothing, she

was

They resembled pig dung.

to catch their prey, had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk about holding

the trio cleaned up the gator

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

the idea repulsive. "No

the Arcadia,

to Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't

hunted fish in the sea with ease, so why

it out, she checked around the house

were buried in the snow, and

half a brain could tell

no wonder the red-eyed gators had been so

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

this family, you

sorts of rubbish, see how

she said it, it went in

bone spared, turning

came to defend his mate,

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear. "And you, you

tirade, she picked up the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole,

a simple flame probably wouldn't scare