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.

In love, never say never chapter 642

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.

the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then

to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa

Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been

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

to pick quite a lot of mushrooms.

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

half a day’s journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling

trekking had left her face

not very sweet, but it’s edible.

a good plan. We quickly ascended the tree after Tabitha. Tessa, however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot

and short, however, climbing

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

leisurely on the branches. She greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in the fruits of

however, maintained a clear head. She’d

having to face another snake. She 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 calm my

shook her head helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in her

woman doing? She’s been

shrugged

quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits,

time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so

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

the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of

water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms,

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

The other

We’ll be home soon,” we urged each other. Our

and indeed saw flares of light

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

too, joined in. “I’ll take everyone out to high tea, then. My

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

however, remarked rather evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out of here alive. Let’s focus on

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

love, never say

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

want? That question lingered in my mind

“I want

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

a faint smile

we finally reached saw signs of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural

lamps we’d counted shining in the dark, there were probably

night,” Nora suggested, already making her way towards

dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert at

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

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

spoke, but none of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have

The arduous journey we’d made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to

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

young woman, approximately sixteen years of age, ran out

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

man then turned toward us and gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return,

couldn’t tell if he understood. He did, however,

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

the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty

and utensils in 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 grime at damp spots where

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

bowls from a cabinet and

man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed

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

supposed to be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather

gratefully. The flavor

days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus

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

their uneasiness, Nora persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately

came to understand that we were here to borrow a

were stumped, however, by what exactly

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 cottage. Compared to spending a night out in the

man was already up in the

a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d

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

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

feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How

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

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

Nora. She marched straight out into the yard

communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed

say never

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

phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage,

futile. We departed after

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

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

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 able to send us home. We won’t have to wander

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

Who knows if there’s even a

participate in any criminal act, regardless of

were enthusiastic. “Leave it to

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

fruit, fully expecting the police to be hot on their

Tabitha had 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, the villager had assumed that both girls were

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