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.

Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it

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

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

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

pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The

to eat and drink. No matter

resembling an apple, growing on

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

not very

sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the

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

after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up the fruits we lobbed her

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

however, maintained a clear head. She’d sensibly

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

continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in

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

shrugged

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

matters? These girls can be

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

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

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

peaks, 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

for now. The other girls

be home soon,”

our steps, we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead

out loud, “When I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet.

in. “I’ll take everyone out to high

a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was a

lucky to make it out of here alive. Let’s focus on getting out

cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us

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

question lingered in my mind

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

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

a faint smile

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

in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty

night,” Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door of

yard and began sounding

leashed to a rope. It strained

ruckus. Out

understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped.

hadn’t brought us any closer to

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

out of the cottage just then. She tugged

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

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

understood. He did, however, let

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

The lamp burned dimly at 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 grime at damp spots

small heaps of blackened dirt that covered the

out two bowls from a cabinet and

to gesture furiously. He seemed to

The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled

it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather

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

since we’d really tasted anything.

corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and

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

father and daughter came to understand that

however, by

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 cottage. Compared to spending a night out in the open mountains, however, this was considered

was already up in the tree in his yard plucking

basket, picking up the soft

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

it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like

against the door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of

really. I was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our

quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d

we take a

out into the yard

communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice

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hauled me along into

on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a phone only

efforts at miming remained futile. We departed after a good while,

sitting 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 city. We may even meet some

ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for

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

get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t have to wander around so aimlessly

agreed that this was 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 mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional

criminal act, regardless

were enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!” they

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

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

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 and

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