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.

away earlier, then brought it

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

only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly

pale. Nora gulped, then quickly

we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming with rich,

down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened

we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple,

Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed

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

belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the

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

attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up

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

She’d

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

down.

remained aloof at the side. Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that snake mess

shrugged in

Once we’re done picking the fruits, we

can be so flippant about things sometimes! I

we had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe to be consumed later on our

we’d killed was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way,

water, fruits, and a

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

solution for now. The other girls

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

another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us in

rejoiced. As 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

“I’ll take everyone out to

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

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

rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay

say never

“Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home this time around, what would you want to

in my mind as I continued trudging forward,

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

by surprise. Then she curiously

her a faint smile

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

counted shining in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households scattered

a place to hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested, already

rushed out into the yard and began

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

the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged

say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed

crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far

of the cottage seemed to further

young woman, approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at

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

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

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

stripped down within. Its clay walls were

from the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save on electricity costs. Shadows filled the

a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched

dirt that covered the tent looked sure to be full of

from a cabinet and placed them

gesture furiously. He seemed to

front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever

dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an

day, we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a

since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions

in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with

attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words, emphasizing each syllable

understand that we were here to borrow a

stumped, however, by what exactly

another roadblock. We could only wait until the next day for the man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d

the man was already up in the tree in his

beneath the tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally

beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly

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

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

this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be

This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way.

we take

out into the yard and began picking up fruits with the

but smiles and gestures

say

hauled me along into the

the door

efforts at miming remained futile. We departed

side by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should try moving further

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

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

with the local police, they may be

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

village on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station around here? I wondered

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

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

yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed

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

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

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