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.

and Snowflake squared off,

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the pounding

was exasperated; these two were making

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

you can't beat

retracted the entire shipping container

could last longer, and deal with

the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs alike,

and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed

quick on land, and their skulls were incredibly tough. Darting through the snow made them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union

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

the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at

was the round that

outside, it was

lookout, but saw no sign of the

to

nothing, she

place was

They resembled pig dung.

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

the gator droppings around the

ever thrifty and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it out and use

the idea repulsive.

the Arcadia, with no need to

felt off to Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it

the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore for

out, she checked around the house

gator eggs were buried

half a brain could tell

it was no wonder the

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

you won't

keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal with

many times she said it, it went in

not even a bone spared, turning

defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you,

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

gators weren't afraid of heat, and a simple