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

seemed to be caught in a daze.

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

girls looking on turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly

to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain

down to eat and drink. No matter

we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on

The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed and dripping

in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them

like a good plan. We 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

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

while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground

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

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

terrified 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 apple to calm my nerves,”

down. Laurel continued picking them up

doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got

merely shrugged in

be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should hurry along,” I

girls can

wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet

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

water, fruits, and a

crossed few peaks, daylight slowly began to fade. We still 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, which means there must be a village or two nearby.

for now. The other girls found Nora’s

be home soon,” we urged each other. Our spirits lifted

we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light

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’ll take everyone

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

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

rest of us decided to pay no

say

get to go home this time around, what would you want

question lingered in my mind as I

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

seemed taken by surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re in

a faint smile

when we finally 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

Nora suggested, already making her way towards the

yard and began sounding

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

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

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

brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that we were

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

a young woman, approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of the cottage just

a while. He then grew noticeably

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

He did, however, let us into

we entered was a dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls

the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned

The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It turned to grime at

covered the tent looked sure to be

took out two bowls from a cabinet and

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

was steeped in

onions. I think it’s supposed to be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest

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

a few days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus thoroughly satisfied our

we ate, the man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They

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

understand that we were here to borrow a device to

however, by what exactly a

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 out in the open mountains, however, this was

the man was already up in the tree in his yard plucking

basket, picking up

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

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

frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something sad?”

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’d finally managed to pique

groaning, “Can we take a break from philosophy

the yard and began

words but smiles and gestures seemed

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me along into

century! Surely someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however,

futile. We departed after a good

returned to find them sitting side by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we

be really 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

a little more than the average villager. If

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 so aimlessly

cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of what we should

in a village on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station

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

Tabitha, however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!” they

Tabitha walked boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then

their arms laden with fruit, fully

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

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