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 Snowflake squared off, fierce and

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified

two were making

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

you can't beat 'em,

entire shipping container into

tonight, see who could last longer, and deal with it

in the Arcadia, and

and lights out, Stella and

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 get some

well-rested and fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even

Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at

or lose, this was the round that

it

but saw no sign

returned to the sea at

and finding nothing, she finally

was

They resembled pig dung.

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

trio cleaned up the gator droppings

ever thrifty and handy, suggested, "Should we dry

found the idea

had plenty of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no need to burn

to Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just be a fleeting encounter in

ease, so

figure it out, she checked around the

buried in the snow, and quite deeply

a brain could tell it was Snowflake and Cooper's

the predators' offspring, it was no wonder the

nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this house, I

family, you won't

sorts of rubbish, see

times she said it, it went in one ear and out

a bone spared, turning the area around the

reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you,

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

heat, and a simple