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,

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the

two were

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

can't beat

shipping

Arcadia tonight, see who could

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

room, after a shower and lights out,

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

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

flamethrowers at the ready, it was

or lose, this was the round that

outside, it was

but saw no sign of

returned to the

nothing,

the place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

their prey, had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk about

up the gator droppings around

"Should we dry it out and use it

found the idea

in the Arcadia, with no need to burn

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

fish in the sea with ease,

she checked around the

behold, dozens of gator eggs were buried in the snow,

half a brain could tell it was

it was no wonder the red-eyed gators had been

her nose, scolding, "Don't think just

family, you won't go

keep stashing all sorts of rubbish,

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

a bone spared, turning the area around the

reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you, you

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

and a simple flame