Surviving the Apocalypse with my Multiplier System novel Chapter 115

Julian placed his arm around her, hugging her. "Don’t worry, I won’t let it anywhere near you," he whispered.

Kia took the pistol out of the holster and slowly lowered her window. She aimed for the snake’s head, but when she finally shot, the bullet missed, hitting its body.

The giant snake quickly reacted, coiling its body and hissing in anger. It shifted its body to move at very fast speed, ramming into the van.

"Quick! Shoot it again! I don’t want that thing inside with me!" cried Percy. He was squatting on his seat, ready to jump out of the van if he had to.

Kia lifted her pistol and aimed once more, this time trying to hit its body as many times as she could.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

She shot the pistol three consecutive times, hitting the snake’s body each time. Unfortunately, this didn’t kill the creature, but caused it to slither away into hiding.

"No, it’s going inside the laboratory! Why couldn’t you aim better?" cried Percy. He didn’t want to go out knowing that an angry python could be lurking around any corner.

Julian was also disappointed in the turn of events. He quickly realized that just because someone was on the guard team didn’t mean they were fully trained. Kia’s display of marksmanship was very poor, in his opinion.

"Let’s go. The snake got hit a few times; it might bleed out to death," said Julian from the back seat.

Kia and Kenzo got out of the van, followed by Julian and Rayne. Rayne wasn’t happy, knowing that the snake survived, and clung to Julian like a koala.

Percy was so scared, he was practically crying. "No, no! I don’t want to get out of the van! I’m going to stay here!" he cried as Kia tried to pull him out of the car.

"Fine, stay here. Just don’t regret it when it slithers back here for you," she said, turning away.

"Okay! I’ll come! Okay! Just don’t leave me," he quickly hopped out of the van.

The group slowly proceeded forward into the government lab. The entrance looked like any typical modern-day lobby area, with marble floors and a sleek, clean design. The only difference was that past the lobby, there was a checkpoint set up requiring a keycard to proceed further inside.

"Great, how do we get past this chain-link fence? We don’t have keycards... not that they would help us now," cried out Percy.

Rayne shook her head. When he first introduced himself, he seemed like a ruthless bad guy, but after spending some time with him, she felt like he was a bit of a pansy.

She reached into her backpack and pulled out a pair of bolt cutters. "Well, looks like these finally came in handy!" she announced, acting like she’d had them the entire time.

"Oh, you came prepared. Good job," said Kia, approvingly.

Rayne walked over to the chain-link fence and began snipping the chains to cut out an opening. The bolt cutters were new and of good quality, making the process quick and easy.

A few minutes later, she finished, making a decent-sized hole in the fence for them to walk through.