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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified

these two were making things

humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and

you can't beat

the entire shipping container into the

see who could last longer,

the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs

their room, after a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper

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

themselves to the teeth. Even

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

or lose, this was the round that

outside, it was eerily

the lookout, but saw no sign of

returned to the sea at

nothing,

place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk about holding

the trio cleaned up the gator droppings

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

found the idea repulsive. "No

had plenty of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with

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

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

it out, she checked around the house

eggs were buried in the snow, and

with half a brain could tell it was Snowflake and Cooper's

it was no wonder the

at her nose, scolding,

this family, you won't go

keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal

many times she said it, it went in

bone spared, turning the area around the

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

No scolding, no hitting.

by the ear. "And you,

gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This

of heat, and a