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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified the pounding

these two were

gators' ferocity, and she didn't

can't beat 'em,

retracted the entire shipping container into

tonight, see who could last longer, and deal with it

Arcadia, and everyone,

after a shower and lights out, Stella and

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

fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper

weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to

or lose, this was the

outside, it was

saw no

they returned to the sea

triple-checking and finding nothing, she finally opened

the place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

damn creatures, unable to catch their prey, had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk

up the gator

"Should we dry it

idea repulsive. "No

in the

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

with ease,

figure it out, she checked around the

gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply at

a brain could tell it

the predators' offspring, it was no wonder

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

family, you

you keep stashing all sorts of rubbish,

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

even a bone spared, turning the area

when Cooper came to defend his

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear.

picked up the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed them not far

of heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't