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.

door, Cooper and Snowflake squared off, fierce

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified

these two were

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

can't beat 'em,

retracted the entire shipping container into the

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

Arcadia,

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

much tougher fight than dealing with Union Base's troops. After much

to the teeth. Even Cooper and Snowflake had bulletproof vests, Rosie

even flamethrowers at the

or lose, this was the

outside, it was eerily

saw no sign of

returned to the sea at

and finding nothing, she finally

place was

They resembled pig dung.

prey, had vented their frustration with

cleaned up the gator droppings

suggested, "Should we dry it

found the idea

the Arcadia, with no

the level of the gators' vengeance,

ease,

it out, she checked around

buried in the snow, and quite deeply at

with half a brain could tell

predators' offspring, it was no wonder

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

family, you won't go

you keep stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how

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

not even a bone spared, turning the

his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with a paw,

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And

the two had stashed away. This time, instead of

a simple flame