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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

only intensified the pounding

exasperated; these two were making

scent of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she

can't beat

retracted the entire shipping container into the

who could last longer, and deal with

danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans

their room, after a shower and lights out, Stella

them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much thought, with no best plan

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

the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the

this was the

outside, it

opened the lookout, but saw no sign

to the sea at

and finding nothing, she finally

place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

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

the trio cleaned up the gator droppings around the

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

idea repulsive.

stored in the

the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just be a fleeting

ease, so why

it out, she checked around

buried in the snow, and quite

brain could tell it was Snowflake and Cooper's

the predators' offspring, it was no wonder the

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

you

you keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see

said it, it went in one ear and out the

spared, turning the area around

his mate, pushing

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear. "And

away. This time, instead of tossing them

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