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.

picked up the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing

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

stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly

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

quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was

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

fruit, resembling an apple,

apples?” Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face

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

her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was

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

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

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

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

thought of having to face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made

fruits down.

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

merely shrugged in

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

time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant

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

killed was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained

a

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

The other girls

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

indeed saw flares

I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie

everyone out

eat some steak. I 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

“We’re lucky to make it out of here alive. Let’s focus

rest of us decided to pay no heed

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to me and queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home

in my mind as I

concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give him a hug, and apologize to him

taken by surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re in

gave her a faint

village 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

dark, there were probably thirty to forty households

for the night,” Nora suggested,

A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began

Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a

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

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

brought us any closer to

the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us

a young woman, approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of the cottage just then.

young woman urgently conferred with the man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the axe in his

Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands

he understood. He did, however, let us into

stripped down within. Its clay walls

filament lamp hung from the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned

a tent stitched together out of gunny

that covered the tent looked sure to be

man took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed

to gesture

the bowls in front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so slightly, asking,

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

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

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

his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed

with her hand signals, she

father and daughter came to understand that we were here to

by what exactly a phone

for the man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared

woke the next morning, the man was already up

basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally

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

makes you rethink the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like

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

shrugged. “Not really. I was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up

tendencies she’d been harboring all

groaning, “Can we take a break from philosophy for

ignored Nora. She marched straight out into the yard

but smiles

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

on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking

miming remained futile. We departed after a good

We returned to find them sitting side by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any

longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She plopped

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

with the local police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t

that this was the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching

there’s even a functional police station around

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

however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it

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

of them returned with their arms laden with fruit, fully

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,

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