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.

Cooper and Snowflake squared

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the pounding

these two were making

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

you can't beat 'em,

entire shipping

could last longer, and deal with it at

danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs

and lights out, Stella and

target, a much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much thought, with no

AM, they armed themselves to

and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time

was the

it was eerily

saw no sign of

they returned to

nothing, she

the place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

prey, had vented their

up the gator droppings around the

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

found the idea repulsive.

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

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

in the sea with ease, so

out, she checked

and behold, dozens of gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite deeply at

a brain could tell

wonder the red-eyed gators had been so

over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride

you

sorts of rubbish, see how I deal

matter how many times she said it, it went

everything, not even a bone spared, turning the

reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand

No scolding, no hitting.

ear.

she picked up the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she placed them not far

heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare