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 off, fierce

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified

two

ferocity, and

you can't beat

retracted the entire shipping container into the

tonight, see who could

the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs

out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to handle the

hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with

to the

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

lose, this was the round

it

lookout, but saw no

they returned to the sea at

and finding nothing, she finally opened the

the place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

their prey, had vented their frustration with

trio cleaned up the

"Should we dry it out and

the idea

stored in the Arcadia, with no need to burn gator

gators' vengeance, it

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

to figure it out, she checked around the

of gator eggs were buried in the

brain could tell it

it was no wonder the red-eyed gators

She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because

you won't

all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal with

said it, it went in one

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

his mate, pushing

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear. "And you, you

her 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

weren't afraid of heat, and a simple flame