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So he didn’t want me dead –
He wanted to take me alive.
However, the second gunshot had happened so quickly after the first that it was hard to believe it was the same gunman.
Probably because it wasn’t.
There were single-bolt sniper rifles, where you had to eject the spent shell casing and load a new round by pushing a lever –
And there were semi-automatic sniper rifles, where the gun did the loading for you every time you pulled the trigger.
Semi-automatics were great for speed but usually encouraged the shooter to rush. And when a sniper rushed, he missed. Load faster, shoot faster, don’t take your time, miss the target.
In order for him to fire the first shot, then adjust the gun to take the second shot, and be that accurate, all within three seconds – he either had god-like abilities or the luck of the devil.
So there were at least two guys. In fact, there were probably multiple teams combing the woods. This was just the one that had stumbled across me.
Shit…
They’d probably radioed the other teams, which meant more were coming.
I had to get to Lucia and get the fuck out of here.
I needed my pistol. If I could fire at them as I ran, I might get to the house in one piece.
I angled my ax above me, trying to use the metal ax head to scrape my gun off the stump –
CRACK!
There was a metallic krck! and a shower of sparks –
And my Glock landed on the ground in front of me.
Unfortunately, the trigger guard and trigger were fucked all to hell – a twisted mass of metal. The sniper had placed his shot in order to ruin the gun.
FUCK he was good.
Not only that, but the shot had been louder – which meant the gunman was closer.
They were coming towards me.
I had to get to the house now.
I started crawling on my belly across the ground –
But when I peeked out from behind the log closest to the house, there was another CRACK –
And dirt exploded in a shower a few feet away.
SHIT.
That had been a warning shot.
Try it again and we’ll kill you.
They knew I would try to get to Lucia – so one of those sniper rifles was undoubtedly aimed at the back door of the house.
In the second it took me to open the door, they would have me dead to rights.
