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

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

only stopped, satisfied, when the snake

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

forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming

No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew

half a day’s journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple,

The near-constant rate of trekking had

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

belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was

and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather

attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up the fruits

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

head. She’d sensibly warned,

huge bite of the apple in her

fruits down.

woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her

merely shrugged in

you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking

time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about

wiped out the entire tree.

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

a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves rather

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. If we walk

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

Let’s get to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we urged each other. Our spirits lifted at

another peak and indeed saw flares of light

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

in. “I’ll take everyone out to

exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was

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

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

say

get to go home this time around, what would you

That question lingered in my mind as I continued trudging forward,

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

Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody

faint smile but declined to

of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to

the dark, there were

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

rushed out into the yard and

other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to

of the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out

understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed

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

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

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

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

few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to convey our

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

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

would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts,

neat stack in a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny

small heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure

two bowls from a cabinet

continued to gesture furiously.

The food was steeped in chili. Nora

be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had

The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with

tasted anything. The pickled

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

them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic

that we were here to borrow a device to

were stumped, however, by

Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to spending

man was already up in the tree in his yard plucking

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

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

door frame. “Why? Are

feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us. It doesn’t

been destined!” 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 for

Nora. She marched straight out into the yard and began picking up fruits

but smiles and

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

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 phone only met with

remained futile. We departed

and Laurel hadn’t fared much 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

how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves

than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation

the local police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t have to

that this was the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into

the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station around here? I wondered

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

enthusiastic. “Leave it to

under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed

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

enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager

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