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..."

only intensified the pounding

these two were

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

can't beat 'em,

the entire shipping container

in the Arcadia tonight, see who could last

no danger in the Arcadia, and everyone,

out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to handle

a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much thought, with no best plan in mind,

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

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

lose, this was the round that

it was

saw no sign of the

they returned to the sea

nothing, she finally opened

was

They resembled pig dung.

catch their prey, had vented

trio cleaned up the gator droppings

thrifty and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it

found the idea

of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no need to burn gator

something still felt off to Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just be a fleeting encounter in the food

fish in the sea with ease,

she checked around

and behold, dozens of gator eggs were buried in

brain could tell it

was no wonder the red-eyed gators had been

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

this family, you

all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal with

she said it, it went in one

even a bone spared, turning the area around the

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

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear.

away. This

heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare