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.

that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly down on

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

only stopped, satisfied, when the snake

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

to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested

down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew

journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a

Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking

down. “It’s grown in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all

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 of

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

was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up the fruits

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

She’d sensibly warned, “Look out for

wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple

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

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

shrugged in

Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the

they wasting time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things

besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We

encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing as treacherous as

of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we considered

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

now. The other

the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,”

saw flares of light

Tabitha strode forward, she fantasized 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

“I’ll take everyone out to high

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

evenly, “We’re lucky to make it

rest of us decided

love, never say

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

want? That question lingered in my mind as I continued trudging forward, deep in

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

curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re in love

a faint smile but declined to

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 be many inhabitants

dark, there were probably thirty to forty households

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

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

dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against its tether, barking

ruckus.

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

us any

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

of age, ran out of the

while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the axe in

man then turned toward us and gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions

if he understood. He did, however, let us into his

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

sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save on

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

that covered the tent looked sure to be full

man took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed them

the man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to

of us. The food was steeped

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

flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a hint

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

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

Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words, emphasizing

daughter came to understand that we were here to

by what exactly

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

morning, the man was already up in the tree

up the

fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she

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

“Why? Are you thinking of something sad?”

if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us. It doesn’t

tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d

groaning, “Can we take a break

into the yard

words but smiles and gestures seemed to

say never

along into

When we knocked on the

at miming remained futile. We departed after a good

“If we can’t get any results here, we

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

little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to

her feet in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police,

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

were in a village on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station

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

were enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!” they

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

with fruit, fully expecting the police to be hot

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 foraging for food

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