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,

"Bark! Bark! Bark!"

"Howl... Woo..."

intensified

two were making

the scent of humans was inciting the gators' ferocity, and she didn't

you can't

entire shipping

see who could

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

lights out, Stella and Jasper discussed

made them hard to target, a much tougher fight

fed by 8 AM, they armed themselves to

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

lose, this was the round that

it

saw no sign

they returned to the sea

and finding nothing, she finally opened the

place was littered

They resembled pig dung.

unable to catch their prey, had vented their frustration with excrement. Talk about holding

up the gator droppings

suggested, "Should we dry it

found the idea

in the

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

sea with ease, so why bother coming

figure it out, she checked around the house

of gator eggs were buried in the snow, and quite

tell it was Snowflake

offspring, it was no wonder

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

family, you

of rubbish, see how I deal with

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

bone spared, turning the area around the

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

No scolding, no hitting.

ear.

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

heat, and a simple