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,

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified

exasperated; these two

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

you can't beat 'em,

the entire shipping

could last longer,

danger in the Arcadia, and everyone,

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

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 some sleep and

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

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

this was the round

it was

the lookout, but saw no sign of

returned to the sea

triple-checking and finding nothing, she finally

place was

They resembled pig dung.

vented their frustration with excrement. Talk about holding

cleaned up the gator droppings

"Should we dry it out and

the idea repulsive. "No

had plenty of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no

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

with ease, so why bother coming ashore

to figure it out, she checked

eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply at

tell it was Snowflake and

offspring, it was no wonder the red-eyed gators had been so

last night's danger, Stella 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 won't

sorts of

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

bone spared, turning

Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate,

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear.

two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed them not

gators weren't afraid of heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare them