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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

only intensified

two were

the scent of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she

you can't

the entire shipping container

the Arcadia tonight, see who could last longer, and

the Arcadia,

a shower and lights out, Stella and

by nature, 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 Base's troops. After much thought, with no best plan in mind, they decided to just get some sleep and figure it

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

of the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers

or lose, this was

it was

saw no sign

they returned to the sea at

nothing, she finally opened the

the place was

They resembled pig dung.

had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk about holding a

trio cleaned up the gator

and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it

found the idea

in the Arcadia, with

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

the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore

figure it out, she

and behold, dozens of gator eggs were buried in

with half a brain could tell it

was no wonder the red-eyed

furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this house, I won't teach you

family, you

stashing all sorts of rubbish,

many times she said it, it went in one ear

turning the area around the house into

Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with

No scolding, no hitting.

by the ear. "And you,

she picked up the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into

heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't