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.

the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing

head thus maimed; the snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without

satisfied, when the snake had

gulped, then

slowly forged our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot

down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us,

spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a

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

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

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

rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally

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

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

She’d sensibly warned,

of having to face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That

throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them

that woman doing? She’s been

merely shrugged in

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

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

we had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe to be consumed later on our

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

supply of water, fruits, and a

“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 on, we’ll surely meet someone! We’ll be able to call for

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

We’ll be home soon,” we

steps, we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light

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

take everyone out to high

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

make it out of

rest of

say

to go home this time around,

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

wasn’t any food I was especially craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give him a

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

a faint smile but declined

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

counted shining in the dark, there

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

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

Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a

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

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

arduous journey we’d made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer

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

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

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

Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her

understood. He did, however, let us into his home

dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked

The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty

The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust

small heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked

took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed

gesture furiously.

at the bowls in front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora

it’s supposed to be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than

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

days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled

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

with

understand that we were here to

were stumped, however, by

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

morning, the man was already up in the tree

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

a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit her

it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a

against the door frame. “Why? Are

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

philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring

her temple, groaning, “Can we take a

straight out into the yard and began picking up fruits with

words but smiles and gestures

never say never

along into the village in our

on the door of

futile. We departed after

“If we can’t get any results here, we should

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

about getting locked up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to

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

had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of what we should do to capture the

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

participate in any criminal

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

of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a

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

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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