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, then brought

a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with a

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

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

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

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

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

The near-constant rate of trekking had left her

It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all

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 food as

rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed

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

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

head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look

shrieked, 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

her head helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking

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

shrugged in

about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re

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

tree. We even took

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

a

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,

other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued their

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

our steps, we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us in

good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat myself to some cosmetic products that I’ve been eyeing for the longest

in. “I’ll take everyone

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

make it out of here alive. Let’s

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

say never

to me and queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home this time around,

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

want to see the person I

Then she curiously

her a faint

of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural

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

suggested, already making her way

Woof!” A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert at our

dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against its tether,

cottage had evidently heard the ruckus.

After a

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

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

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

the man for a while. He then grew noticeably

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

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

within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the

farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save

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

dirt that covered the tent looked sure

out two bowls from a cabinet and

to gesture furiously. He seemed to be inviting

of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so

be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us for

in rather gratefully. The flavor

really tasted anything.

man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with a tinge

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

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

by what exactly a phone

then, we’d have

woke the next morning, the man was already

daughter stood beneath the tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let tumble onto

she bent over to 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

you rethink the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused,

frame. “Why? Are you thinking of

I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives

philosophical tendencies she’d been

temple, groaning, “Can we take a

into the yard and began picking up fruits with

but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice

never say

home, Nora hauled me along into the village in

twenty-first century! Surely someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next

miming remained futile. We departed after

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

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

Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to them, it

Laurel leaped to her feet in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may be

most 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 the attention of the

there’s even a functional police station around

in any criminal act, regardless of its motive.

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

yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a bundle of items

with fruit, fully expecting the police to

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

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