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..."

noise only intensified

was exasperated; these two

gators' ferocity, and

you can't beat 'em,

the entire shipping

who could last longer, and deal with

was no danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs

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

to target, a much tougher fight

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

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

this was the round

outside, it was eerily

lookout, but saw no sign of

to the sea

nothing, she finally

the place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

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

the trio cleaned up the gator

we dry it

idea

of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no need to burn gator

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

hunted fish in the sea with ease, so

she

buried

could tell it was

offspring, it was no wonder the red-eyed

night's danger, Stella was furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the

you won't

sorts of rubbish,

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

turning the area around the house

when Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with a paw, "Whine...

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear.

had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed them

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