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

these two were

ferocity, and

can't beat 'em,

retracted the entire shipping container

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

in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans

after a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to

were vicious by nature, quick on 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 best plan in mind, they decided to just get some sleep and figure

8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth.

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

this was the round

it was

saw no sign

to

finding nothing, she

the place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

had vented their frustration with excrement.

trio cleaned up the gator droppings

"Should we dry it out and use

the idea repulsive.

stored in the Arcadia, with

level of the gators' vengeance,

in the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore

to figure it out, she checked around the

gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply

could tell it was Snowflake

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

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

you won't go

stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I

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

even a bone spared, turning the area

had barely reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you,

This time, instead of tossing

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