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.

by the door, Cooper and Snowflake squared

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the pounding

was exasperated; these two were

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

you can't beat

entire shipping

who could last longer,

danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and

and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed

were vicious by nature, quick on land, and their skulls were incredibly tough. Darting through the snow made them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with

to the teeth. Even Cooper and

and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to

this was the round that

it was

but saw no

returned to

triple-checking and finding nothing,

the place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

vented their frustration

the trio cleaned up the gator

"Should we

the idea repulsive.

stored in the Arcadia, with no

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

hunted fish in the sea with ease, so why

to figure it out, she checked

were buried in the

a brain could tell it was Snowflake and Cooper's

wonder the red-eyed gators had been so

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

you

you keep stashing all sorts of rubbish,

it, it went in one ear and out the

even a bone spared, turning the area around the house into a

when Cooper came to defend his mate,

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear.

This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed

and a