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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the

two were making things

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

can't

retracted the entire shipping

sleep in the Arcadia tonight, see who could last longer, and

the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs alike,

a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed

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

by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake

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

this was the

outside, it

but saw no sign of the

returned to the

triple-checking and finding nothing, she finally opened

the place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

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

the trio cleaned up the gator droppings

"Should we dry

the idea repulsive.

of fuel stored in the Arcadia,

still felt off to Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't

with ease, so why bother coming ashore

figure it out, she

were buried

brain could tell it was Snowflake

wonder the red-eyed

to 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

family, you won't

keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal

said it, it went in one ear and out the

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

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

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And

eggs that the two had stashed away. This

weren't afraid of heat, and a simple