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

in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with a few

stopped, satisfied, when the snake

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

we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain

No matter what else happened to

spotted a red fruit, resembling

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

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

good plan. We quickly ascended the tree after Tabitha. Tessa, however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d

and short, however,

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

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

clear head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look

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

down. Laurel continued picking them up in her ungainly

“What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her

shrugged

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

girls can be so flippant about things

wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe to be consumed later on

that snake that we’d killed was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing as treacherous as that

water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves rather fortunate

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

be the only viable solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable

to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we

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

take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides,

joined in. “I’ll take everyone out to high

cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest

lucky to make it out of here alive.

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

never say never

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

I want? That question lingered in my mind

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

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

faint

was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its inaccessibility, there didn’t seem to be many

the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households scattered

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

dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and

other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed

the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man with tan, weathered

was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We

after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer

man’s foreign tongue threw us all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake

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

man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and

Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying

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

clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire that

would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at

cottage was, in fact, a tent

of blackened dirt that covered the

out two bowls from a

the language barrier, the man continued to gesture

food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so slightly, asking, “What dish

rather adventurously. She had more of an

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

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

corner. They gazed

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

understand that we were here to borrow

by what exactly a

for the man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to

the next morning, the man was already up

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

our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit her simple joy to

and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused,

door frame. “Why? Are

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

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

“Can we take a break from philosophy

into the yard

words but smiles and gestures

say

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

must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s

remained futile. We departed after

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

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

the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our

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

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

knows if there’s even a functional police station

steadfast in her conviction that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped off before

“Leave it to us!” they cried

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

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

kindness of the villager. The owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft.

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