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.

that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it

in a

Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly reduced to bits

Nora gulped, then quickly

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

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

resembling

of trekking

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

Tessa, however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a

and short, however, climbing naturally

was resigned to waiting on

greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in

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

surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me

fruits down. Laurel continued

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

merely shrugged in

of you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should hurry along,” I

trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things

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

we encountered. The rest of the way, though

of water, fruits, and a side of

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! We’ll be able to call

solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued their walk with renewed

everyone! Let’s get to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we

peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of

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 for the

everyone

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

lucky to make it out of here alive.

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

love, never say

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

did I want? That question lingered in my

any food I was especially craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person

Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody

a faint

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

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

to hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door of the

rushed out into the yard

other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against

heard the ruckus.

to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly

us any closer

seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly in a bid to chase us off his

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

man for a while. He then grew noticeably

a few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to convey

He did, however, let

walls were caked with soot,

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

stack in a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together

dirt that covered the tent looked sure to be full of

from a cabinet

the language barrier, the man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to be inviting us

us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever

starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us for more

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

really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus thoroughly satisfied

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

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

Somehow, both father and daughter came to understand that we

stumped, however, by what

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

we blearily woke the next morning, the man was already up in the tree in his yard

a basket, picking up the soft

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

doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked

arms, leaning against the door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something

of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be

quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d

we take a break

ignored Nora. She marched straight out into the yard and began picking up

still couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and

never say never

me along into the village

thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a phone

remained futile. We

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

aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She plopped down onto

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

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

the thought and

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

shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She

were enthusiastic. “Leave it to

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

returned with their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the police to be hot on their

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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