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.

up the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly down on the snake’s

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

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

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

forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming with

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

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

of trekking

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

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 getting food as the

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

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

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

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

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

down. Laurel continued picking them up in her

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

merely shrugged in

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

These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes!

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

we’d killed was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing as treacherous

of water, fruits, and a side

grew visibly anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade paths along the trail, which means there must be

other girls

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

indeed saw flares of light ahead of us in

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 longest

joined in. “I’ll take everyone out to high

feel as 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, particularly when

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

glances, the rest of us decided to pay no heed to

never say

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

want? That question lingered in my mind

craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to

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

faint smile

located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to

in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households scattered throughout the

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

yard and began sounding the alert at

dog was leashed to a rope. It strained

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

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

peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so

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 to chase us off his

sixteen years of age, ran out

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

Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with

he understood. He did, however, let us into

entered was a dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot,

have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save

a neat stack in a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It turned to

small heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure to be full of

two bowls from

the man continued to gesture

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

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 than the rest of us for more

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

really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus thoroughly

the man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with

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

and daughter came to understand that we were here to borrow a

stumped, however, by what

then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to spending a night

was already up in the tree in his yard plucking

picking up the soft fruits he’d

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

mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like

crossed her arms, leaning against the door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something sad?” she

been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us. It doesn’t matter what other people

with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally

massaged her temple, groaning, “Can we take a break from

the yard and began picking up fruits with the young

but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice

love, never say

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

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.

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

how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for

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 ticket

leaped to her feet in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may be

had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and

mountain. Who knows if there’s

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

enthusiastic. “Leave

boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a bundle of items and sprinted

fruit, fully expecting the police to be

enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account

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