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.

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

the snake seemed to be caught in a

everywhere. Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly reduced to bits of mangled

pale. Nora gulped, then quickly

lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming

drink. No matter what else happened to us, at

spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing

The near-constant rate of trekking had left her

quickly scaled the tree and tossed a 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 for something

little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was no longer as

shot. Being rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather

Laurel was resigned to waiting on the

greedily ate any fruits she’d

maintained a clear head. She’d sensibly warned,

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

continued throwing fruits down.

Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her

merely shrugged in

are the two of you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we

These girls can be so flippant about things

tree. We even took the few that weren’t

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

fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves rather

daylight slowly began to 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! We’ll

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

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

we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead

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

“I’ll take everyone out to

eat some steak. I feel as if I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping

to make it out of here

our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay no heed to

love, never say

get to go home this time around, what would

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 I miss most,

taken by surprise. Then she curiously

gave her a faint

life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains,

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

Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door of

yard and began sounding the alert

each other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a

owner of the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus.

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

us any closer to home. We’d even

seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his

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

for a while. He then grew noticeably

Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with

tell if he understood. He did, however,

stripped down within. Its clay walls were

lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save on electricity costs. Shadows

utensils in a neat stack in a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent

the tent looked sure to be full of

bowls from a cabinet

barrier, the man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed

was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so

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

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

tasted

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

with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a

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

were stumped, however, by what exactly a

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

the man was already up in the tree in his yard plucking

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

fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit her simple joy

link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather

frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something sad?”

I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to

all been destined!” Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d

temple, groaning, “Can we take

marched straight out into the yard and began picking

still couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice

love, never say

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

we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s

remained futile. We departed after

hadn’t fared much better. We returned to find them sitting side by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should try

of that will 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 for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She plopped down onto the

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

“If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us home.

the most 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 of the local

if there’s even a

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

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

laden with fruit, fully expecting the police

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

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