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 Snowflake squared

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified the

exasperated; these two were

the gators' ferocity, and she didn't

can't

the entire shipping container

see who could

in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs

a shower and lights out, Stella

fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much thought, with no best plan in

AM, they armed themselves to

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

lose, this was the round that

it

saw

returned to

finding nothing, she

place was

They resembled pig dung.

to catch their prey, had vented their

cleaned up the gator droppings around

ever thrifty and handy, suggested, "Should we dry

the idea repulsive.

stored in the Arcadia,

Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't

the sea with ease, so why bother coming

to figure it out, she

gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply at

tell it was

it was no wonder the red-eyed gators had

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 new bride in this house, I won't teach you a

you

keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I

she said it, it went in

everything, not even a bone spared, turning the area

Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate,

No scolding, no hitting.

by the ear. "And

tirade, she picked up 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

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