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, fierce

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

only intensified

two

gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel

you can't

retracted the entire shipping

tonight, see who could last longer, and

danger in the Arcadia, and

after a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to handle the

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

up the 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

they stepped out of the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the ready,

or lose, this was the round that

it was eerily

the lookout, but saw no sign

returned to the sea at

nothing, she

place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk

the gator droppings around

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

idea repulsive. "No

in the Arcadia, with no need to burn gator

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

hunted fish in the sea with ease, so why bother coming

she checked

gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply

brain could tell it was Snowflake and

the predators' offspring, it was no wonder the red-eyed gators

last night's danger, 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 family, you won't go

stashing all sorts of

it, it went in one

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

defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And you, you spineless

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

heat, and a simple flame probably