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 squared off, fierce

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

only intensified

two were making

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

you can't beat

entire shipping container into the

in the Arcadia tonight, see who could

the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and

out, Stella and Jasper discussed how

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

the next day, well-rested and fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper

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

was the

it

the lookout, but saw no sign

returned to

finding nothing, she finally opened the

was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

creatures, unable to catch their prey, had vented

cleaned up the gator

suggested, "Should we dry

found the idea

the Arcadia, with no need to

Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance,

hunted fish in the sea with ease, so why

it out, she

gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite

with half a brain could tell it was Snowflake

the predators' offspring, it was no wonder the

at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just

this family, you won't go

you keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see

said it, it went in one ear and out the

a bone spared, turning the

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

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear. "And

she picked up the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time,

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