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.

the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought

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

the snake had

Nora gulped, then

to pick quite a lot of

eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew

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

those apples?” Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking

not very sweet, but it’s edible. We

with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along

plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather

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

She greedily ate any fruits she’d managed

maintained a clear head. She’d

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

throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in her

remained aloof at the side. Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since

merely shrugged in

quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits,

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

a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We

The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing as

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

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.

only viable solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable

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

indeed saw flares of light

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

in. “I’ll take everyone out

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

lucky to make it out of here alive. Let’s focus

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

say never

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

question lingered in my

any food I was especially craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see

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

a faint smile

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

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

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

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

to each other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a

the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged

was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might

brought us any closer to home.

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 bid to chase us

sixteen years of age, ran out of the

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

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

He did, however, let

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

that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp

fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It turned to grime at

covered the tent looked

two bowls from a cabinet

continued to gesture furiously.

food was steeped in chili.

dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us for more exotic and unusual

we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of

we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions

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

their uneasiness, Nora persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she

that

however, by

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 battered cottage. Compared to spending

blearily woke the next morning, the man was already up in the tree in his

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

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

frame. “Why? Are

if I’ve been enlightened. How

destined!” Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d

“Can we take a break from

yard and began picking up fruits with the

with words but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice

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head home, Nora hauled me along into

thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a

miming remained futile.

was the first to speak. “If we

We don’t know how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we

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

in touch with the local police,

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

the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station around

remained steadfast in her conviction that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless

enthusiastic. “Leave

Tabitha walked boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under

fruit, fully expecting the police

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 for food

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