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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified the

two were making things

gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel confident about facing them

you can't

the entire shipping container

who could last longer,

no danger in the Arcadia, and

out, Stella and Jasper discussed how

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

fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper

stepped out of the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to face

or lose, this was the

outside, it was eerily

opened the lookout, but saw no sign of

to the sea at

and finding nothing, she finally opened the

was littered

They resembled pig dung.

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

trio cleaned up the gator droppings around

we dry it out and use it as

found the idea repulsive.

the Arcadia, with no need

the level of the gators' vengeance,

with ease, so why

she checked

dozens of gator eggs were buried in the snow,

a brain could tell it was Snowflake

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

was furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just

family, you won't go

sorts of rubbish, see how I deal

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

turning the area around the house

Cooper came to defend his

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you,

the two had stashed away. This time, instead of

afraid of heat, and a