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.

by the door, Cooper and Snowflake squared off,

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

only intensified

these two were making

of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity,

you can't beat

shipping

in the Arcadia tonight, see who could last longer, and deal with it at

the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and

a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to handle

fight

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

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

lose, this was the round that

it

opened the lookout, but saw no sign of

returned to the sea at

triple-checking and finding nothing, she finally

was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

vented their frustration with excrement. Talk

up the gator

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

found the idea

in the Arcadia, with no need to burn

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

sea with ease, so why bother coming

to figure it out, she checked around the

were buried in

could tell it was Snowflake and Cooper's

was no wonder the red-eyed gators had been so

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

you

sorts of rubbish, see

matter how many times she said it, it went in one

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

Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate,

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear.

two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed them not far from

a simple flame probably wouldn't scare