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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified the pounding

was exasperated; these two were making things

scent of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity,

you can't

the entire shipping container into

sleep in the Arcadia tonight, see who could last longer, and deal with

Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs

lights out,

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,

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

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

this was

outside, it was eerily

the lookout, but saw no sign of

they returned to the sea at

triple-checking and finding nothing, she finally

was

They resembled pig dung.

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

cleaned up the gator droppings around the

we

found the idea repulsive.

the Arcadia, with no

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

the sea with ease, so why bother coming

it out, she checked

dozens of gator eggs were buried in

a brain could tell it

predators' offspring, it was no wonder the red-eyed gators had

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

family, you won't

stashing all sorts of

how many times she said it, it went in one ear and

bone spared, turning the area around the

barely reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with a paw, "Whine...

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear. "And you, you

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

a