Chapter 121: School Shooting (3)
“Huh, the gunfire seems to have stopped.” Sitting in the passenger seat, Misha tilted her head and listened for a moment, muttering in confusion.
Everly stopped her wandering thoughts and listened as well, then nodded. “Seems like it has. Probably ran out of ammunition.”
“Then the campus police should be able to go in now.”
“Yeah.”
As she spoke, Everly adjusted the car slightly and drove it onto a slope on the right side of the school gate. With the Jeep’s high chassis, she didn’t even need to get out—just looking through the window, she could see the situation around Teaching Building No. 2 in the distance through the fence.
She saw that after the gunfire inside the building ceased, the campus police didn’t act immediately. Instead, they waited cautiously for a while before finally raising their guns and entering the building one by one.
At the same time, some of the students and teachers trapped inside began to react. Rather than continuing to sit and wait for death, they seized the precious moment when the attacker had stopped firing, gathered their courage, rushed out of the classrooms, and ran through the three exits to the outside of the building.
The city police responsible for evacuation saw the survivors and immediately ran forward to assist them, organizing these trembling and crying survivors into groups and escorting them toward the school gate.
More than a dozen campus police officers against a killer who had likely run out of ammunition—the outcome seemed obvious.