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.

Cooper and Snowflake squared off,

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the

these two were making things

the gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel

you can't beat

the entire shipping container into

see who could last longer, and deal with it at

danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs alike,

out, Stella and

them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops.

AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake had

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

this was the round that

it was

but saw

returned to the sea at

triple-checking and finding nothing,

place was

They resembled pig dung.

had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk

cleaned up the gator droppings

suggested, "Should we

idea repulsive. "No

stored in the Arcadia, with no

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

fish in the sea with ease, so why bother

she

and behold, dozens of gator eggs were buried in the

could tell it was Snowflake and

was no wonder the red-eyed gators had been

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 house, I won't

this family, you won't

all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal with

she said it, it

turning the area around the house into a

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

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear. "And

had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she

a