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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified

was exasperated; these two

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

can't beat 'em,

the entire shipping container

could last longer, and deal

was no danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and

a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed

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 some sleep and figure it

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

even flamethrowers at the ready, it

was the round

outside, it was eerily

but saw

returned to the

finding nothing, she

place was

They resembled pig dung.

vented their frustration with excrement. Talk

the trio cleaned up the gator

we

idea repulsive.

had plenty of fuel stored in the Arcadia,

of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just

sea with ease, so why

figure it out, she checked around the house

buried in the snow,

could tell it was Snowflake and

no wonder

her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new

you won't

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

it went in one

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

when Cooper came to defend his

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And

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

of heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare them