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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

noise only intensified the

was exasperated; these two

the scent of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel confident about facing

can't beat 'em,

shipping container into

sleep in the Arcadia tonight, see who could last longer,

in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs alike,

out, Stella and Jasper discussed how to handle

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

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

weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the ready, it was time to

was

it was

saw no sign of the

returned to

triple-checking and finding nothing, she finally opened

was

They resembled pig dung.

catch their prey, had vented their frustration with

the trio cleaned up the gator droppings

and handy, suggested, "Should we dry it

the idea

stored in the Arcadia, with no need

the gators' vengeance, it

with ease, so why bother

she checked

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

tell it was

offspring, it was no wonder the red-eyed

last night's danger, Stella was furious. She called over Snowflake and pointed at her nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this house, I

this family, you

stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how I

it went in

turning the area around the

Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And you, you spineless

up the gator eggs that the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them into the ice hole, she

heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare