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.

earlier, then brought

to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with a

only stopped, satisfied, when the snake

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

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

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

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

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

down. “It’s grown in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all and

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

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

Laurel was resigned

branches. She greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck,

head. She’d sensibly warned,

huge bite of the apple in her hand.

fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in her

remained aloof at the side. Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that snake mess with her

merely shrugged

of you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re

are they wasting time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be

we had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the

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

and a side of mushrooms, we

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! We’ll be able to

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

home soon,” we urged

peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us in

out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat myself to some cosmetic products

everyone out to high tea, then.

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

rather evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out

statement rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us

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“Scarlett, if we indeed get to go

question lingered in my mind as I continued trudging forward, deep in

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

curiously pressed, “Is

a faint

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 inhabitants

number of lamps we’d counted shining in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households scattered throughout

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

into the yard and began

Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a

cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man with tan,

to say. After a

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 were in another

cottage seemed to further mistake our

out of the cottage just then. She tugged at the man’s

for a while. He then grew noticeably

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

tell if he understood. He did, however, let us

stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire that

ago. The lamp burned dimly

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

small heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure

from a cabinet and placed them before

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

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

whole day, we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of the

we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus thoroughly

They gazed at us with

with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a

came to understand that

were stumped, however, by

the next day for the man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take

next morning, the man was already

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

she’d beam a smile in our direction. It

makes you rethink the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused,

Are you thinking of something sad?” she

turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us. It

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

we take a break from philosophy for

She marched straight out into the yard and began

communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice

say never

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

phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals

efforts at miming remained futile. We departed after

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

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

policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to them,

in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t have to wander

promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of what we should do to capture the attention

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

her conviction that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act,

enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!”

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

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

Nora nor Tabitha had counted 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 foreigners, the villager had assumed that both girls were foraging for food

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