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,

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the

two were making

of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she didn't

you can't

the entire shipping container

who could last longer, and

no danger in the Arcadia,

and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to

a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much thought, with no best plan in mind, they decided

themselves to the teeth.

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

was

outside, it was

lookout, but saw

they returned to the sea at

finding nothing,

was littered

They resembled pig dung.

their prey, had vented their frustration with

the trio cleaned up the gator droppings around the

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

idea

of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with

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

the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore for

she checked around the

eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply

half a brain could tell it was Snowflake and

the 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

this family, you won't

stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal

times she said it, it went

turning the area around the

had barely reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with a paw,

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear. "And you, you spineless

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

and a simple flame probably