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.

by the door, Cooper and

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

only intensified the

these two were making

ferocity, and she didn't feel confident about facing them

you can't beat 'em,

entire shipping container into the

could last longer, and

danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans

room, after a shower and lights out, Stella and

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 to just

day, well-rested and fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake had bulletproof vests,

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

lose, this was

outside, it was eerily

lookout, but saw no sign of the

returned to the sea at

nothing, she

place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

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

the trio cleaned up the

"Should we dry it out and use it

found the idea repulsive.

stored in the Arcadia, with no need

something still felt off to Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just be

sea with ease, so why bother coming

out, she checked around the

of gator eggs were buried in the

could tell it was Snowflake and

predators' offspring, it was no wonder

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

you won't

all sorts of rubbish, see how I

it, it went in one ear and

bone spared, turning

to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with a paw,

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you,

picked up the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time,

and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare them