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.

flung away earlier, then brought

caught in a daze. Without

snake had been utterly reduced

looking on turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting

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

we stumbled upon the occasional spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew we wouldn’t go

a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing

panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed and dripping

wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s

a good plan. We 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

it her best shot. Being rather plump and short, however,

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

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

maintained a clear head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look out for

shrieked, terrified at the thought of having to face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat another apple to calm my

shook her head helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in

woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that snake mess with

shrugged in

Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the

time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I

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

was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of

and a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves rather

fade. We still hadn’t found ourselves a suitable resting spot for the night, however. Nora grew visibly anxious, 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!

now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal

quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we urged each other. Our spirits

indeed saw flares of light

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

in. “I’ll take everyone

to eat some steak. I feel as if I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into

make it

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we indeed get to go home this time around, what would you want to

That question lingered in my mind as I continued trudging

moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to

surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re

faint smile but declined to

had fallen when we finally reached saw signs of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its inaccessibility, there didn’t seem to be many

dark, there

place to hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested,

into the yard and began sounding the alert

terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed

cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a

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

we’d made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer

into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further

of age, ran out of the cottage just then.

man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered

gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to convey

if he understood. He did,

dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked

villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare

in a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust

the tent looked sure to be

from a cabinet and placed them

gesture furiously. He

was steeped

starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an

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

tasted anything. The pickled onions

in a corner. They gazed

Nora persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand

understand that

however, by what exactly

then, we’d have to take shelter in this

blearily woke the next morning, the man was already up in the

daughter stood beneath the tree with a basket, picking up the

beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit her

the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like

her arms, leaning against the door frame. “Why? Are

been enlightened. How we live our

philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally managed to pique

massaged her temple, groaning, “Can we take

marched straight out into the yard and began picking up fruits with

words but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice for

love, never say

home, Nora hauled me along into the village in our hunt

must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a phone only met with

efforts at miming remained futile. We departed after

to speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should

know how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we

a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to them, it might be our

local police,

at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of what we should do to capture the attention of

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

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

however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!” they cried

of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed

their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the police

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

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