“Shoot it” she instructed him.
“Are you sure this will work?” he had asked skeptically.
“It will” she told him confidently as she smiled with pride at her husband who was across the room.
Jack raised the pistol and aimed it at the lab rat and fired. The force of the bullet had pushed the rat a few centimeters from its initial position on the counter. Sheryl’s mother had quickly moved towards the counter and picked up the rat. She took it to Jack and showed him the spot where the bullet had hit. Apart from a small mark made by the force of the bullet the animal was not harmed. There wasn’t even the slightest indication that the bullet had penetrated through the skin.
“This is brilliant” he said astonished. The animal was alive and well and tests confirmed that it was just as healthy as it had been before it had been shot.
“We need to inform HQ” Sheryl’s father had said
“Yes we do” Jack had said.
“I’ll go and call them right now” he had informed them and rushed to his office. He picked up his phone and dialed the number but it wasn’t HQ’s number. It was the number of a business typhoon who illegally supplied weapons to armed militia and wanted terrorists. Jack had told him that he had a formula that would change the whole nature of war and he would give it to him for the right price.
Unfortunately for Jack; Sheryl’s father had been outside his office and had accidentally over heard the whole conversation. It was at this moment that he knew...
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