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 off, fierce

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified

these two

humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she

can't beat

the entire shipping container into the

Arcadia tonight, see who could last longer, and

the Arcadia, and

and lights out, Stella and

hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much thought, with no

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

loaded and even flamethrowers

or lose, this was the round that

outside, it was eerily

saw

to the sea

nothing, she finally

was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

creatures, unable to catch their prey, had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk about holding a

the trio cleaned up the

"Should we dry it out and

the idea repulsive.

plenty of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no

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

with ease, so why bother

to figure it out, she checked

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

a brain could tell it

no wonder the red-eyed gators

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 won't go

keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see

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

even a bone spared, turning the

defend his

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear.

This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed them

heat, and a simple flame probably