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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the pounding

these two were making

was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel confident about facing them

you can't beat 'em,

entire shipping container into

who could last

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

a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper

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

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

even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to

this was

it was

lookout, but saw no sign

to the sea at

nothing, she

the place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

vented their frustration with excrement. Talk about holding

trio cleaned up the gator droppings around

suggested, "Should we dry it

found the idea repulsive. "No

of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with

still felt off to Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just be a fleeting encounter in the food

fish in the sea with ease, so why bother coming

figure it out, she checked around

of gator eggs were buried in the

tell it was Snowflake and

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

this family, you

of rubbish,

how many times she said it, it went in

spared, turning

had barely reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear. "And

the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing

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