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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified

exasperated; these two

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

can't beat

entire shipping container

the Arcadia tonight, see who could

danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs

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

them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much thought, with no best plan in

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

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

was the round that

outside, it was eerily

lookout, but saw

to the

finding nothing, she finally opened

place was

They resembled pig dung.

unable to catch their prey, had vented their frustration

up the gator droppings

suggested, "Should we dry it out and use

the idea repulsive.

had plenty of fuel stored in the

gators' vengeance, it couldn't just be a fleeting encounter in

fish in the sea with ease, so why bother

out, she

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

brain could tell it was Snowflake

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

at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're

you won't

stashing all sorts of rubbish, see

times she said it, it went in one ear and

bone spared, turning the area around the house into

Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you,

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

afraid of heat, and a simple flame