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.

Cooper and Snowflake

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the

these two were

gators' ferocity, and she

can't beat 'em,

entire shipping container into

in the Arcadia tonight, see who could last longer, and deal with it at

in the Arcadia,

a shower and lights out, Stella and

were vicious 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 out

next day, well-rested and fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake had bulletproof vests, Rosie having altered

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

was the round

it

but saw no sign of

to the sea at

and finding nothing, she finally

place was

They resembled pig dung.

had vented their frustration with excrement.

the trio cleaned up the gator droppings

we dry

found the idea

stored in the

of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just be a fleeting encounter in

hunted fish in the sea with ease, so why

to figure it out, she checked around the house

and behold, dozens of gator eggs were buried in

could tell it

no wonder the red-eyed

and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this house, I won't teach you a

family, you won't

sorts of rubbish,

it, it went in one ear and out the

bone spared, turning the area

barely reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate,

No scolding, no hitting.

by the ear.

the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead

a simple flame probably wouldn't scare them