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 the pounding

these two were making

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

you can't

shipping container into the

tonight, see who could last longer, and

no danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs alike,

in their room, after a shower and lights out, Stella

a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much thought, with no best plan in mind, they decided to just get some sleep and figure it

day, well-rested and fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake had bulletproof vests, Rosie having altered Snowflake's

even flamethrowers at

lose, this was the round

it

the lookout, but saw no

they returned to the

nothing, she finally opened

the place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

unable to catch their prey, had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk

trio cleaned up the gator droppings

ever thrifty and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it out and use it as

the idea repulsive. "No

fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no need to

Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just

in the sea with ease, so why bother coming

she checked around

gator eggs were buried in the snow,

with half a brain could tell it was Snowflake and

it was no wonder the red-eyed

to last night's danger, Stella was furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't

family, you won't go

all sorts of rubbish, see

it went in one ear and out

everything, not even a bone spared, turning

to defend his mate, pushing Stella's

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear. "And you, you spineless

away. This time, instead of tossing them

gators weren't afraid of heat, and a simple