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.

earlier, then brought it crashing firmly down

a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa

snake

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

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

the occasional spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew

a day’s journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling

Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed and dripping with

the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all and bring them along for something to

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

gave it her best shot. Being rather plump and short, however,

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

any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in

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

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

throwing fruits down. Laurel

“What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here!

merely shrugged

be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we

matters? These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I fumed

that we had enough and a little more besides, we’d 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, though bumpy, contained

ample supply of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we

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. If

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

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

and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us

Tabitha strode forward, 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 I’ve been eyeing for

“I’ll take everyone out

as if I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash

remarked rather evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out of here alive. Let’s focus on getting out

cool statement rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of

say never

if we indeed get to go home this time

lingered in my mind as

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

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

a faint smile but declined to

saw signs of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains,

in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households scattered throughout the

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

the yard and

the dog was leashed

cottage had evidently heard the ruckus.

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

made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so

foreign tongue threw us all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly in

a young woman, approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at the man’s

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

few hesitant motions with

he understood. He did, however, let

within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire that was burning in its

lamp hung from 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 filled the

in fact, a tent stitched together out

blackened dirt that covered the tent

man took out two bowls from a

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

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

try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of

we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy

had been a few days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus

They gazed at

her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words,

and daughter came to understand that we were here to borrow

however, by what exactly a

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

woke the next morning, the man was already up in the

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

pick up some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit her simple joy

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

frame. “Why? Are you thinking of

really. I was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us. It

tendencies she’d

“Can we take a break from philosophy

yard

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

never say never chapter

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

thought. When we knocked on the door of the

futile. We departed after a

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

If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked

knows a little more than the average villager.

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

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

were in a village on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station around here? I

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

and Tabitha, however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it to

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

with fruit, fully expecting the

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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