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.

that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly down on

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

the snake had been utterly

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

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

No matter what else happened

a day’s journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a tree a few

of trekking had left her face

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

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

short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather insurmountable challenge for

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

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

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

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

fruits down. Laurel continued picking

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

shrugged

quick! Once we’re

trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things

wiped out the entire tree. We even took

only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of

water, fruits, and a

saw a couple of manmade paths along the trail,

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

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

peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us

I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat

joined in. “I’ll take everyone out to

declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was a rather lovely girl, particularly when

however, remarked rather evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out of here alive.

rest of us decided to pay no heed

love, never say never

get to go home this time around,

I want? That question lingered in my mind as

After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I

seemed taken by surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it

faint smile

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 seem

of lamps we’d counted shining in the dark, there were

night,” Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door

A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding

leashed to a rope. It strained against its tether,

ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man

trying to say. After

peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that we were in another

cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly in a bid to

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

while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the axe in

gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to convey our

did, however, let us into

down within. Its clay walls were caked with

filament lamp hung from the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare

some bowls and utensils in a neat stack in a corner. 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

dirt that covered the tent looked sure to

man took out two bowls from a

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

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

we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously.

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

days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions

the man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us

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

and daughter came to understand that we were here to borrow a device to

were stumped, however, by what exactly a

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

man was

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

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

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

Are you

as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live

with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way.

we take a break from

the yard and began picking up

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

say never

me along

When we knocked on the

miming remained futile. We departed after a

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 to the city. We

aren’t careful,

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

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

the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and

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

shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped off before

Tabitha, however, were enthusiastic. “Leave

yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They

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

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 girls were foraging

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