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..."

noise only intensified

was exasperated; these two were making

gators' ferocity, and she

can't beat 'em,

the entire shipping container into

could last longer, and

Arcadia, and everyone, humans and

room, after a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to

incredibly tough. Darting through the snow made them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing

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

and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time

lose, this was

outside, it was eerily

opened the lookout, but saw no sign

returned to the sea at

nothing,

was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk about holding a

trio cleaned up the

"Should we dry it

the idea repulsive.

of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no need to

gators' vengeance, it

with ease, so

to figure it out, she checked around

and behold, dozens of gator eggs were buried in the snow,

tell it was Snowflake and Cooper's

was no wonder

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

this family, you won't go

of rubbish, see how I

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

not even a bone spared, turning the area around

defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear. "And you,

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

a simple flame probably wouldn't scare