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..."

noise only intensified

two were

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

you can't

entire shipping

who could last longer, and deal

was no danger in the Arcadia, and

after a shower and lights out, Stella

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

fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake had bulletproof vests, Rosie having

flamethrowers at the ready,

lose, this was the

outside, it

the lookout, but saw

returned to the sea at

finding nothing, she finally opened

the place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

creatures, unable to catch their prey, had vented

the gator droppings

suggested, "Should we dry it

idea

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

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

with ease, so why bother

figure it out, she checked around the

buried

with half a brain could tell it was Snowflake and Cooper's

no wonder the red-eyed gators had

back to last night's danger, Stella was furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just

this family, you

all sorts of rubbish,

it went in one ear

even a bone spared, turning the

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

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear. "And you, you

away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed them not

afraid of heat, and a simple flame probably