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.

and Snowflake

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the

these two were making

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

can't

entire shipping container into the

sleep in the Arcadia tonight, see who could last

danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and

a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how

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 just

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

flamethrowers at the ready, it

or lose, this was the round

outside, it was eerily

the lookout, but saw

to the sea at

triple-checking and finding nothing, she finally

place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

creatures, unable to catch their prey, had vented their frustration with

cleaned up the

suggested, "Should we dry

idea

stored in the Arcadia,

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

fish in the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore

she checked around

of gator eggs were buried in the snow, and

tell it

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

furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose,

you won't

stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal

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

not even a bone spared, turning the area around the house

his

No scolding, no hitting.

Cooper by the ear. "And you, you

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

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