Chapter 119: School Shooting (1)
Her previously planned escape route had assumed the attacker was only using the car. If he had a gun and was about to switch from ramming with the car to shooting, then both the teaching building and the scenic lake were no longer safe options.
The classrooms in the building could serve as cover, true—but in a school shooting, wouldn’t the shooter’s primary targets be large groups of students? Putting herself in the shooter’s perspective, Everly realized that if she were the attacker, she’d barge into the building while classes were in session and cause chaos among the crowded rooms.
As for the scenic lake, it was no safer—too shallow, with water so clear that it offered no hiding place at all. If the attacker wanted, a few sweeps of a gun would easily hit someone; the resistance of moving in water would make dodging nearly impossible.
Everly had also considered sneaking up from behind while the shooter was still bent over reaching for the gun, taking him out before he even noticed.
But her current position made that impossible.
After the recent crash, the black car was about 12 meters away, and the passenger side—the side closest to Everly—was the one nearest her. This meant that if she wanted to attack the person inside, she would have to move around the front or rear of the vehicle to bypass the car body blocking her.
And during the entire maneuver, she absolutely could not draw the attention of the person inside.
If the attacker caught sight of her through the passenger-side window, all it would take was a simple squeeze of the trigger, and Everly would be sent straight to heaven.
Everly had almost no time to react—the person in the car could stand up at any moment and start firing indiscriminately at everyone around.