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..."

only intensified the

two were making things

gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel

can't beat 'em,

shipping container into

see who could

was no danger in the Arcadia, and everyone,

after a shower and lights out,

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

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

and even flamethrowers at the ready,

this was the round

it was

lookout, but saw no

to the sea at

and finding nothing, she finally opened

was

They resembled pig dung.

unable to catch their prey, had vented their frustration with

the trio cleaned up the

and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it out

idea repulsive.

had plenty of fuel stored in the Arcadia, with no need

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

the sea with ease,

figure it out, she checked

behold, dozens of gator eggs were buried in

with half a brain could tell

it was no wonder

her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this

you won't go

you keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I

matter how many times she said it, it went in

turning the area around the

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

No scolding, no hitting.

the ear. "And

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

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