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.

the door, Cooper and

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the pounding

was exasperated; these two were making

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

you can't beat

retracted the entire shipping

who could

in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs

and lights out, Stella and Jasper

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

armed themselves to the teeth.

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

was the round that

it was

opened the lookout, but saw no

returned to the

nothing, she finally

was littered

They resembled pig dung.

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

the trio cleaned up the gator droppings around the

thrifty and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it out and use it

the idea repulsive.

of fuel stored in the

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

with ease,

it out, she

were buried in the snow, and quite deeply

half a brain could tell

no wonder the red-eyed gators had been so

nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this house, I won't

family, you won't

keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal

it went in one ear

turning the area around the house into a

his mate, pushing Stella's hand

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear. "And you, you spineless

unleashing her tirade, she picked up the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them

of heat, and a simple flame