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.

away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly

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

Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly reduced to bits of

gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting late,

lot of mushrooms.

drink. No matter what else happened to us, at

journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling

of trekking had left her face flushed and dripping with

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 and bring them along

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 mushrooms along the way and was no longer as concerned about getting food as the rest of us

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

was resigned to waiting on

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

maintained a clear head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look

at the thought 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! Let me eat another

shook her head helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel

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

merely shrugged in

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

trivial matters? These girls can be

ensure that we had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the

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

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 trail,

now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued their walk with

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

our steps, we crossed another peak and indeed saw

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

too, joined in. “I’ll take everyone out

eat some steak. I feel as if I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into

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queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go

did I want? That question lingered in my mind

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

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

faint

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

dark, there were probably thirty to forty households scattered

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

Woof!” A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert at our

each other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against

the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man with

After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed the border into

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

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

out of the

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

and gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to

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

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

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

a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was

heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure to

took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed

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

food was steeped in

Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us

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

been a few days since we’d really tasted anything. The

we ate, the man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and

uneasiness, Nora persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately

worked. Somehow, both father and daughter came to understand that we were here

however, by what exactly a

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 spending a night

the next morning, the man was already up in the

daughter stood beneath the tree with a basket, picking up the

beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit her simple

doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a

“Why? Are you thinking of

as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be

philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally managed to pique

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

ignored Nora. She marched straight out into the yard

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

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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,

at miming remained futile. We departed after a

better. We returned to find them sitting side by side, disconsolate. Laurel 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 may even

ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She

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

leaped to her feet in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may

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

if there’s even a functional police station

participate in any criminal act, regardless

were enthusiastic. “Leave it to

yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a

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

two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being

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