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 Snowflake squared off, fierce

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

only intensified the

two were making

of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity,

you can't beat 'em,

entire shipping

could last longer, and

was no danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs

and lights out, Stella

made them hard to target, a much tougher fight

8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth.

flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to face

this was the round

it

lookout, but saw no sign of the

to

and finding nothing, she finally

the place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

unable to catch their prey, had vented their

trio cleaned up the

we dry it out and use

found the idea

stored in the

the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just

with ease,

out, she checked around the

were buried in the snow, and quite deeply at

tell

it was no wonder the red-eyed

and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the

you

stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I

matter how many times she said it, it went in one ear

spared, turning the area around the house into

to defend his mate, pushing

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And

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

afraid of heat, and a simple flame probably