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.

the door, Cooper and Snowflake

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the pounding

was exasperated; these two were making

the gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel

can't beat

the entire shipping

in the Arcadia tonight, see who could last longer,

no danger in the Arcadia, and

a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how

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 some sleep and figure it out

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

out of the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to face the

or lose, this was

it

saw

returned to the sea

triple-checking and finding nothing, she

place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

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

up the gator droppings

handy, suggested, "Should we dry it out and use it as

idea repulsive.

the

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

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

she checked around

gator eggs were buried in the snow,

half a brain could tell it was

offspring, it was no wonder the red-eyed

was furious. She 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 a

you

you keep stashing all sorts of

she said it, it went in one ear and

everything, not even a bone spared, turning the area around

had barely reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away

No scolding, no hitting.

by the ear. "And

unleashing her tirade, she picked up the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into

weren't afraid of heat, and a simple flame probably