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.

that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought

head thus maimed; the snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with a few

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

Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go.

slowly forged our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain

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

fruit, resembling an apple, growing on

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

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

own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was no longer as concerned

Being rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed

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

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

head. She’d

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

throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in her ungainly

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

are the two of you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should hurry

These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes!

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

aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy,

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

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

other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued

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

we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us

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

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

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

rest of us decided to pay no

never say

go

lingered in my

pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give him a

she curiously pressed,

her a faint

fallen when we finally reached saw signs of human life. The 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

of lamps we’d counted shining in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households

hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door

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

Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against its

the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged

but none of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed the border into

hadn’t brought us any closer to

all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at

years of age, ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at

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

gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands

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

cottage we entered was a dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire

decades ago. The lamp

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

covered the tent

took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed them before

language barrier, the man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to be

food was steeped in chili.

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

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

tasted anything. The pickled onions thus thoroughly satisfied our

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

persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few

came to understand that we were here to borrow

were stumped, however, by what exactly

run into another 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

next morning, the man was already up

tree with a basket, picking up the soft

some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our

link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She

her arms, leaning against the door frame. “Why? Are

and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened.

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

massaged her temple, groaning, “Can we take

marched straight out into the yard and

still couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice for

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our desperation to head home, Nora hauled me along

the 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

efforts at miming remained futile.

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

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 floor with a sigh,

local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to them, it might be our ticket

right!” Laurel leaped to her feet in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able

up instantly at the thought and launching into a

on the mountain. Who knows if there’s

shouldn’t participate in any criminal act,

were enthusiastic. “Leave

boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing

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

had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora

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