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.

In love, never say never chapter 642

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.

had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly down on the

thus maimed; the snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it

when the snake had been

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

lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming with

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

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

near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed and dripping with

It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all

own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was no longer as concerned about

plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather insurmountable

a few attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned

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

maintained a clear head. She’d

another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat another apple to calm my

continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking

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

merely shrugged

Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should hurry along,” I

can

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

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

ample supply of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we

“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 be able to call for

to be the only viable solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued their walk with renewed

be home soon,” we urged each other. Our spirits lifted

and indeed saw

Tabitha 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

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

I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was

“We’re lucky to make it

Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay

love, never say

turned to me and queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home this time around,

question lingered in my

craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give him a hug, and apologize to him

she curiously pressed, “Is

her a faint smile but

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

dark, there

hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested, already making her way

yard and began sounding

the dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against

cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a

say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed the border

peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d

man’s 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

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

urgently conferred with the man for a while. He then

few hesitant motions with her

if he understood. He did, however, let us into his

within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless

lamp hung from the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably

in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It turned to grime at damp spots where rainwater

of blackened dirt that covered the tent

man took out two bowls from a cabinet and

barrier, the man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to

in front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled

pickled onions. I think it’s supposed to be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite

in rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled

a few days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus thoroughly satisfied our

daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with a tinge of

to communicate with them. Along with

and daughter came to understand that we

by what exactly

seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this

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

up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let

our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit

and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a child with

“Why? Are you thinking of something sad?”

this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live

discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all

temple, groaning, “Can we take a

out into the yard

couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed

love, never say

desperation to head home, Nora hauled me along into the village in our

the door of the next cottage, however,

at miming remained futile. We

the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should try moving further in. Perhaps we’ll get to the city.

though. We don’t know how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She

about getting locked up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than

get in touch with the local police, they

the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish

a village on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even

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

however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it

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

with fruit, fully expecting

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

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