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 squared off, fierce and

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified

exasperated; these two were making things

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

you can't beat 'em,

the entire shipping

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

the Arcadia, and everyone, humans

in their room, after a shower and lights out, Stella and

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

next day, well-rested and fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even

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

was the

outside, it was

opened the lookout, but saw no sign

returned to

triple-checking and finding nothing,

the place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

damn creatures, unable to catch their prey, had vented

trio cleaned up the gator

ever thrifty and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it out and use it

found the idea repulsive.

in the Arcadia,

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

hunted fish in the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore for

it out, she checked

dozens of gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply

brain could tell it was Snowflake and Cooper's

no wonder the

was furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because

this family, you won't go

stashing all sorts of

it went in one

bone spared, turning the area around the house

defend his mate,

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear. "And you, you spineless

that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of

heat, and a simple