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..."

intensified the

these two were

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

you can't beat 'em,

the entire shipping container into

see who could last longer, and deal with

in the Arcadia,

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

on land, and their skulls were incredibly tough. Darting through the snow made them hard to target, 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 out

8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even

the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was

was the

it was

lookout, but saw no sign

to the sea

and finding nothing,

the place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

vented their frustration

cleaned up the gator droppings

suggested, "Should we dry it out

the idea repulsive. "No

of fuel stored in the Arcadia,

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

sea with ease, so why bother

she checked around

gator eggs were buried

a brain could tell it was Snowflake

offspring, it was no wonder

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

family, you won't go

of rubbish, see how

how many times she said it, it went in one ear and

not even a bone spared, turning

defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with

No scolding, no hitting.

grabbed Cooper by the ear. "And you, you spineless

stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice

a simple flame