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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the

two were making

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

you can't beat

shipping container into the

the Arcadia tonight, see who could last longer, and deal

was no danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs alike,

a shower and lights out, Stella and

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, they decided

8 AM, they armed themselves to

Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to face

this was

it

the lookout, but saw

returned to the sea at

finding nothing, she finally

place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

damn creatures, unable to catch their prey, had vented their

cleaned up the gator droppings around the

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

the idea repulsive. "No

fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no need

the gators' vengeance, it couldn't

the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore for

out, she checked around the house

were buried in the snow, and

half a brain could tell it was

offspring, it was no wonder the

Stella was furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think

this family, you won't go

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

many times she said it, it went in one ear

not even a bone spared, turning the area around the house

when Cooper came to defend his

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you, you spineless

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

heat, and a simple