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.

and Snowflake

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified the pounding

was exasperated; these two were making

gators' ferocity,

can't beat

entire shipping container into

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

no danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and dogs

after a shower and lights out, Stella and Jasper

and their skulls were incredibly tough. Darting through the snow made them hard to target, a much tougher fight than dealing

by 8 AM, they armed themselves to the teeth. Even Cooper and

the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at the

lose, this was the

outside, it was eerily

the lookout, but saw no

they returned to the sea at

nothing, she finally opened the

the place was littered with

They resembled pig dung.

prey, had vented their frustration

the trio cleaned up the

we dry it out

idea repulsive. "No

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

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

hunted fish in the sea with ease, so why

figure it out, she

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

a brain could tell it

was no wonder

nose, scolding, "Don't think just because you're the new bride in this house, I won't

family, you won't

you keep stashing all sorts of rubbish,

it went in

spared, turning

had barely reprimanded Snowflake when Cooper came to defend his mate, pushing Stella's hand away with a paw,

No scolding, no hitting.

ear. "And you, you

the two had stashed away. This time, instead of tossing them

of heat, and a simple flame probably wouldn't scare them