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 firmly down on the

to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation,

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

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

we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The

No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew we wouldn’t

day’s journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing

of trekking had left her face flushed and dripping

grown in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all and bring them along for something

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

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

a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the

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

a clear head. She’d

of 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!

throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking

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

merely shrugged

be quick! Once we’re

trivial matters? These girls can be

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

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

our ample supply of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms,

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

only viable solution for now. The other girls

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

crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead

strode forward, she fantasized out loud, “When I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie

everyone out

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

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

cool statement rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay no heed to

say never

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

I want? That question lingered in my

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

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

her a faint smile

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

shining in the dark, there were

down for the night,” Nora suggested, already

A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard

leashed to a

ruckus.

understood what he was trying to say. After

hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that we were

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

approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of the cottage just

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

us and gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions

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

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

cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched

dirt that covered the tent looked sure to be full of

took out two bowls from a

continued to gesture furiously. He

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

pickled onions. I think it’s supposed to be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us for more exotic

gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a hint of sourness,

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

in a corner. They gazed at us

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

and daughter came to understand that

were stumped, however, by what exactly a phone

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,

morning, the man was already up in the tree in his

up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let tumble

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

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

door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something

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

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

groaning, “Can we take a break from

She marched straight out into the yard and began

but smiles and gestures seemed

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home, Nora hauled me along into the village in

twenty-first century! Surely someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a phone only met

miming remained futile. We departed after a

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

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

about getting locked up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager.

in touch with the local police, they may be able to

the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of what we should

mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station around

shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its

and Tabitha, however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it to

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

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

Nora nor 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 foraging for food and ultimately

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