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

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

only intensified

these two were making things

gators' ferocity, and she didn't feel

can't beat 'em,

retracted the entire shipping container

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

danger in the Arcadia, and everyone, humans and

and lights out, Stella and Jasper

tougher fight than dealing

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

the Arcadia, weapons loaded and even flamethrowers at

was the

it was eerily

the lookout, but saw no

they returned to the sea at

finding nothing,

the place was

They resembled pig dung.

their prey, had vented their frustration with

the gator droppings around the

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

idea repulsive.

had plenty of fuel stored in the Arcadia,

felt off to Stella. Considering the level of the gators' vengeance, it couldn't just

hunted fish in the sea with ease, so why bother coming ashore

to figure it out, she checked around the

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

with half a brain could tell it was Snowflake and

it was no wonder the red-eyed gators had been

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

family, you won't go

stashing all sorts of rubbish, see how

many times she said it, it went in

everything, not even a bone spared, turning the

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

No scolding, no hitting.

by the ear. "And you, you

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

a simple flame