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.

that Tabitha had flung away earlier,

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

when the snake had been utterly reduced to bits of mangled

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

our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms.

we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened

resembling an apple, growing on a tree a few steps

trekking had

very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them

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

shot. Being rather plump and short, however, climbing

Laurel was resigned

fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging

a clear head. She’d

of having to face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite

helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down.

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

merely shrugged in

the two of you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re

they wasting time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes!

enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree.

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

and a

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

only viable solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued their walk

home soon,” we urged

peak and indeed saw flares of

“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 for the

take everyone out

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

lucky to make it out of here alive.

statement rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay

say never

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

in my

wasn’t any food I was especially craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see

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

gave her a faint smile but declined to

had 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

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

Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door of

yard and began sounding the alert at our

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

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

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

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

all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to

years of age, ran out of the

while. He then grew noticeably

gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few

He did, however, let us into

and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless

from the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to

cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It turned

heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure to

two bowls from

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

The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so

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

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

really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus thoroughly satisfied our

They gazed at us with curiosity and awe,

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

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

by what exactly a phone

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 spending a night out in the open mountains,

next morning, the man was already up in the tree

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

our direction. It was as if

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

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

I was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been

philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way.

temple, groaning, “Can we take

marched straight out into the yard and began picking up fruits with the

communicate with words but smiles

say never

along

we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a phone only

miming remained futile. We departed after a good

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

probability of that will 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

the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we

in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able

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

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

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

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

with fruit,

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, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had assumed that both

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