In Love, Never Say Never

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In love, never say never chapter 641

“Let’s go that way!” Nora called to us. She spotted Tabitha and Laurel just climbing out of the hole. “What’s up, you two? If you’ve had a good rest, let’s move on!”

The two women nodded as they dusted the dirt and grime off their wrinkly clothes. They glanced at Tessa, who was still immersed in her prayers. Tabitha mumbled, “She’s so pious. Do you think God with really bless her?”

Nora shrugged. “Let’s go!”

The forest was rather humid in the morning. The soil had become loose. One could hear the soft crunching of the earth just by stepping on it.

“Ah!” Laurel screamed. Then, she squatted on the spot she had previously stepped on and began to scrape at the ground.

Very soon, we saw what had been hiding underneath the earth. It was a cluster of yellowish-white fungi. Some of them had been crushed under her feet.

Only a few short and stout ones were spared.

“Mushrooms!” Tessa, who had been reciting her prayers the whole time, promptly came forward and started digging up the plants from under the fertile soil. She wiped the dirt off and began to swallow them a few pieces at a time.

Laurel, looking equal parts terrified and worried, wondered, “Do we… eat them raw? Just like that?”

Tabitha turned around and, indeed, managed to find other mushrooms of the same variety under some rotten leaves.

She passed some of them to us. “Yes, this kind of mushrooms can be eaten raw. There used to be plenty at my place and we did this all the time. Sure, they won’t satisfy our hunger, but it’ll have to do for now. Let’s eat!”

They dug in. The rest of us, having barely eaten anything for a day, followed suit.

Nora helped herself to some mushrooms. A while later, she looked at Tabitha, a question on her mind. “Are you sure we won’t have any hallucinations after eating these? Once, I watched the news about poison testers in the south. They usually do that come May and June. Those who really did get poisoned are said to be able to ‘transcend reality’.”

Tabitha chuckled. “Well, if you know which ones to eat and which ones to avoid, basically you won’t have any hallucinations.”

Laurel found many other kinds of mushrooms in the soil. She turned around to ask the expert, “What about these?”

Tabitha nodded. “Sure, but we’ll need to cook them. If not, we’ll see things that aren’t there.”

“That’s a pity. None of us have a lighter, otherwise, we could have made ourselves a feast supplied by Mother Nature herself,” Nora sighed as she stuffed more mushrooms into her mouth.

“Ah!” Tessa shouted all of a sudden, prompting everyone else to look towards her, surprise hanging on our faces.

“What? Has your God decided to show Himself?” Nora spoke in annoyance.

Tessa’s face turned pale, her body stiffened, as she muttered, “B-B-Bamboo snake…”

All of us followed her gaze simultaneously. There was a tiny green snake, about fifty centimetres in length, hanging around the leaves of the tree next to her.

We would not have noticed it if we had not been paying attention. The snake spat out its forked tongue. It looked like it was preparing an attack.

“This snake is venomous. We have to be careful!” Tabitha yelled, her face pale and haggard.

I scanned the surroundings from the corner of my eyes. There was a branch that must have been snapped in half by the wind. One of its ends seemed rather sharp.

“What now! What now! I’m going crazy just looking at that ugly thing! Ah, it’s giving me goosebumps!” Nora stood close to me. Driven by anxiety and fright, she clung tightly onto me as if her life depended on it.

I wanted to comfort her, but I was scared too. The creature was inches away from us, equipped with venom!

“Is it not too late if we run now?” Nora muttered, already backing away.

“It’s too late!” Tessa said, her voice trembling. “This is a bamboo snake. It’ll come after us.”

“Damn it! But we can’t just stay here like this!”

Laurel was so scared that she was shaking uncontrollably, her face completely drained of color.

“Kill it!” Tabitha proposed. Despite being scrawny, she dared to glare at the reptile hiding among the leaves with a wicked glint in her dark eyes.

Tessa was closest to the snake. Any careless movements and the snake could latch onto her and sink its fangs on her neck.

But she was too frightened at the moment to do anything. Her body kept shaking. “Don’t provoke it, you guys. I’m scared.”

“What are you scared of? You recite your prayers all the time, right? Your God will protect you. Go on,” Nora said, with great irony.

In a situation like this, no one could afford to be distracted.

Tabitha turned to instruct Tessa. “Okay, here’s what we’re going to do. I’ll count to three. You get ready to dodge. I will throw a rock and see if I can hit it.”

What?

Tessa was on the verge of tears. “You can’t possibly hit it! The chances are slim. What if you hit me instead? I’ll die!”

“Do you have other ideas?” Tabitha asked a rhetorical question. Tessa shook her head in despair.

“It’s a gamble then!” With that said, Tabitha slowly bent down and picked up a stone.

Tessa was really having a breakdown, but time was running out and we had no other choice. We had to take our chances.

“One, two, three… Duck!” As if on cue, Tessa promptly moved away.

Tabitha flung the stone towards the bamboo snake hiding among the leaves.

Wild animals often had faster reflexes than humans.

The bamboo snake evaded Tabitha’s attack. Angered, it made its advance on Tessa, who had just barely got out of its way.

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A reactionary creature like this was even more fearful when it sprang into action.

It’s going to get Tessa! I hastily picked up the branch I’d spotted earlier on the ground and jabbed its sharp side at the snake.

Thankfully, that single thrust pierced through the snake’s mid-section and successfully pinned it down.

Its head and tail, however, remained wriggling furiously.

Tessa was still recovering from her fright. Anger and shock coursed through her, forming a volatile mix of emotions.

away earlier, then brought it

a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it

everywhere. Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been

Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting late, and we

slowly forged our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain

stumbled upon the occasional spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to

a day’s journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a tree a

of trekking had left her

the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can

quickly ascended the tree after Tabitha. Tessa, however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was no longer as concerned about

shot. Being rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a

clumsily made a few attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up

on the branches. She greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in the

clear head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look

then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let

throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up

the side. Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling

shrugged

Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should hurry along,” I broke

matters? These girls can be so flippant

had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet

we’d killed was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way,

of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves

insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade paths along the trail, which means there must be a village or two nearby. If we walk on, we’ll surely meet someone! We’ll

solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable

We’ll be home soon,”

and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us in

strode forward, she fantasized out loud, “When I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat myself to some cosmetic products that I’ve been eyeing

in. “I’ll take everyone out to high tea, then.

exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was a

“We’re lucky to make it out of here alive. Let’s focus on getting out

glances, the rest of us decided

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we indeed get to go

question lingered in my mind as I continued trudging forward,

a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give

seemed taken by surprise. Then she curiously pressed,

faint smile

life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its inaccessibility,

of lamps we’d counted shining in the dark,

Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door of the nearest

out into the yard and began sounding

dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against

of the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped

of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed

all froze. The arduous journey we’d made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that we

foreign tongue threw us all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly in a bid

age, ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at

for a while. He then grew noticeably

made a few hesitant motions with her hands

couldn’t tell if he understood. He did, however, let us into his home

Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire that was burning in its

from the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save on electricity costs. Shadows filled

tent

of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure to be

two bowls from a

to gesture furiously. He seemed to be inviting us to

in front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so slightly, asking, “What dish

rather adventurously. She had more of

endured hunger for a whole day, we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a hint of sourness, was quite

really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus

in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with a

in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words, emphasizing

both father and daughter came to understand that we were here

however, by what exactly a

into another roadblock. We could only wait until the next day for the man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to spending a night out in the

was already

the tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let tumble onto

over to pick up some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as

mused,

“Why? Are you thinking of something sad?”

really. I was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us. It doesn’t matter what other people

destined!” Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been

her temple, groaning, “Can we take

the yard and began

couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice for

say never

home, Nora hauled me along into the

knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals

efforts at miming remained futile.

to find them sitting side by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results

though. We don’t know how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be

bad about getting locked up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to them, it might be our

the local police,

was the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and

if there’s even a functional police station around here? I

steadfast in her conviction that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped off before our discussion

enthusiastic. “Leave it to

and Tabitha walked boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under the

of them returned with their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the police to be

owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha

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