Chapter 617 - Climax 30...

They both climbed up the stairs knowing that what they were going to do next was probably a huge risk. It could probably get them killed or trap them in some sort of snake hole. But they also knew that now they had no other option. They quickly walked inside the corridor and took careful steps on the corridor trying not to slip on their faces on top of the slimy venom. Soon, they passed the crushed face of the snake, which was even now releasing more venom.

"So much of venom from just one snake?" Stefen whispered looking at the dead snake as they crossed its cut body.

"So how many snakes do you think, it will take to fill an entire pool with venom. The kind we saw in the middle corridor." Xio Lee questioned Stefen as they walked much closer to the hole in the left corner of the corridor.

"Hmmm... Alive snakes, too many but for dead snakes, even one is enough. At this rate within minutes the entire corridor can turn into an overflowing pool." Stefen spoke casually and then pondered at his own words. "Shit! It means, that soon the venom will start filling up this hole possibly drowning us!!!?"

"YES! Which also means that we have chosen the correct path. That is why this hole is built so low on the wall so that it starts to fill up quickly. But this also means that it is an important path hence it is guarded in such a way. Lets us be quick now." Xio Lee entered the hole bending down his neck,walking ahead quickly. Stefen too followed him inside the dark hole, which looked like a gigantic metallic pipe going all the way to the left.

They both quickly started to walk inside the long straight tube like structure which had a sharp stench of the snake's venom. Suddenly they came across a long black slimy fabric lying in front of them. "This is the snake's skin I believe." Xio Lee whispered as they stepped on it walking ahead further. They walked for several more minutes until they reached the end of the path. Xio Lee quickly took out his knife while Stefen took out a gun as they had reached the end of the path and were about to step somewhere quite dark. But they had no idea where they were going to land! Suddenly they felt something sticky on their feet and they looked at each other in shock as they realised that the venom had started to fill up the long tunnel. "Jump!!"

Meanwhile...

The other family members had gathered outside the building thinking of a perfect plan to go ahead. "One of us will have to stay here. We need to stay connected to the west woods, if we need help." James spoke up pensively and turned to look at Lillian and Elizabeth. They both were the best people, who were experienced about the woods besides Xio Lee.

"Ok then, I shall remain here waiting for you all. I have enough bullets too, if somebody attacks me." Lillian spoke up nodding her head and she quickly walked towards the road leading to cages of the lions.

"Ok then rest of us can divide ourselves the same way as earlier and enter the building."Kareem spoke up looking at the tall dark building.

Everybody walked up to the building holding their respective weapons in their hands. While Kareem and Raol climbed the sun roof of the building, breaking in inside the building through a balcony whereas, Rose and Rhehan had opted to enter the building through the main gate. Lillian and James entered the building through a glass window, situated at one corner of the building.

Rose and Rhehan once again turned to touch their backs with each other as they walked further ahead inside the long corridor, pointing their guns in front of them. The corridor was unusually empty and they walked a little further ahead, when suddenly the main gate behind them was slammed shut and they both turned to look at the gate in surprise.

Several men were standing near the gate and each one them aimed a gun at the couple, which looked more like an arrow and a dart. The couple turned to heir left and saw some more men, standing with the same type of gun. They realised that suddenly they were surrounded from all the directions. They both started shooting the men rapidly, but they were soon hit by the darts all over their body from every direction. Rhehan tried to avert the darts with the help of his bracelet and they both covered each other's frontal body, while they still kept shooting the men with their other hand.

Their were now three metallic darts that had pierced Rose's back and suddenly another dart hit her hand making her to lose grip of the gun. Rhehan who was shooting the men was trying to cover Rose's back  from his other hand was shot by several darts on his back too. The darts could no longer hit Rose now as every dart deviated back to hit the man who shot it but Rhehan was still getting shot on his back.

As more and more darts hit him, they both had started to get a little weak. Rose quickly took out another gun from her jacket, trying to hit more men, while Rhehan who was still standing wrapping the girl's back, was also trying to shoot them with his other hand.

A tear fell down from Rose's eye as she looked at Rhehan who was still trying to finish all the men, but not removing his hand from her back. The more men they shot, more men appeared from all directions. The girl was now in tremendous pain as the darts had made her back extremely stiff. She hugged Rhehan and slowly started to pull out the stuck darts from his back, while still shooting the men with her other hand.

Rhehan understood what he had to do and he too quickly started to remove the darts from her back with one hand preventing them to infect their bodies for a long time. Soon Rose had removed  at least seven darts from her hand, from the man's neck and back. "Hold your bracelet in the middle, right above our heads." She whispered as Rhehan also had now removed all the darts from her body, making her back move a bit.

Rhehan with a heavy heart removed his hand from her back and placed his hand above their heads, praying for it to work.