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 squared off,

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified

these two were making

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

you can't beat 'em,

retracted the entire shipping container into the

in the Arcadia tonight, see who could

danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs alike,

shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to

tough. Darting through the snow made them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union

and fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake had bulletproof vests, Rosie having

and even flamethrowers at the ready, it

or lose, this was the round that

outside, it was

saw no

they returned to the

triple-checking and finding nothing, she finally opened

place was

They resembled pig dung.

damn creatures, unable to catch their prey, had vented their

trio cleaned up the gator droppings around

and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it out and use it

the idea

fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no

felt off to Stella. Considering the level of the gators'

fish in the sea with ease, so

figure it out, she checked around

gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply

could tell it was Snowflake and

was no wonder the red-eyed

at her nose, scolding,

family, you won't

of rubbish, see how

said it, it went in one ear

not even a bone spared, turning the area

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

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear.

This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed them not far from the

and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare