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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified the pounding

two

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

you can't beat 'em,

shipping container

the Arcadia tonight, see who could last

no danger in the Arcadia, and

and lights out, Stella and Jasper

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 sleep and

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

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

was the

it was eerily

saw no

returned to the sea

nothing, she finally opened the

place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

creatures, unable to catch their prey, had vented their frustration

the trio cleaned up the

and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it

the idea repulsive.

fuel stored in the Arcadia,

the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just

the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore for

figure it out, she checked around the

and behold, dozens of gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply

tell it was Snowflake and Cooper's

offspring, it was no wonder the red-eyed gators had

called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this house, I

you won't go

sorts of rubbish, see how

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

not even a bone spared, turning the area around the house into

came to defend his mate, pushing

No scolding, no hitting.

by the ear.

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

weren't afraid of heat, and a simple