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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the pounding

two

scent of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she didn't

you can't

entire shipping container into the

Arcadia tonight, see who could

the Arcadia,

a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how

hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's

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

they stepped out of the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was

was

it was

saw

they returned to the sea

and finding nothing, she finally opened

place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

unable to catch their prey, had vented

trio cleaned up the gator droppings

ever thrifty and handy, suggested, "Should we dry

idea repulsive. "No

stored in the Arcadia, with no need to

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

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

it out, she checked around the

were buried in the snow,

a brain could tell

the predators' offspring, it was no wonder

night's danger, Stella was furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new

this family, you

stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I deal

she said it, it went in one ear and out the

a bone spared, turning the area around

came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with a paw, "Whine...

No scolding, no hitting.

by the ear. "And you, you spineless

the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead

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