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.

door, Cooper and

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified the pounding

was exasperated; these two were making things

humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel

you can't

shipping container

see who could last

Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs alike,

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

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,

8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake had bulletproof vests, Rosie having altered Snowflake's

flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to face the

lose, this was the round that

it

but saw no sign

to the sea

and finding nothing, she finally opened

was

They resembled pig dung.

vented their frustration with excrement. Talk

the gator

we dry it out and use it

found the idea repulsive.

the Arcadia, with no need

Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just be

sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore for

it out, she checked around

dozens of gator eggs were buried in the snow,

could tell it was Snowflake and

wonder

at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride

family, you won't

keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal

said it, it went in one ear

even a bone spared, turning the area around

his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with a

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear. "And

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

and a simple flame probably wouldn't