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.

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

a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it

satisfied, when the snake had been utterly reduced to

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

our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and

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

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

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

few down. “It’s grown in the wild. It’s not very

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

best shot. Being rather plump and short, however,

after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking

leisurely on the branches. She greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to

head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look out

She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me

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

remained aloof at the side. Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since

shrugged in

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

can be so flippant about

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

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

a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves rather

for the night, however. Nora grew visibly anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade paths along the

The other girls found

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

our steps, we crossed another peak and indeed saw

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

everyone

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

it

glances, the rest of us decided to pay no

never say

turned to me and queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go

in my mind

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

surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody

a faint smile but declined

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

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

night,” Nora suggested, already

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

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

had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man

none of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while,

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

foreign tongue threw us all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his

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

for a while. He then grew

few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to convey our

understood. He did, however, let us into

Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire that was burning in

lamp burned dimly

fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It turned to grime at damp spots

of blackened dirt that covered the

two bowls from

language barrier, the man continued to gesture furiously. He

the bowls in front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so slightly, asking, “What dish

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

dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of

we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions

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

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

both father and daughter came to understand that we were here to borrow a

were stumped, however, by what exactly

help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to spending a night

we blearily woke the next morning, the man was already up in the tree in his yard plucking

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

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

Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She

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

shrugged. “Not really. I was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been

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

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

into the yard and began picking up fruits with

with words but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice for

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desperation to head home, Nora hauled me along into the village

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

remained futile. We departed after a good while,

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

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

so bad about getting locked up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to them,

“If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t have to wander

had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a

if there’s even a functional police station around here? I

steadfast in her conviction that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its

enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!” they

and Tabitha walked boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under the

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

neither 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,

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