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.

stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought

to be caught in a daze.

splattered everywhere. Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly reduced to bits of mangled

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

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

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

fruit, resembling an apple, growing on

trekking had left her

very sweet, but it’s

own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was no longer as

plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather insurmountable challenge

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

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

maintained a clear head. She’d sensibly warned,

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 eat another apple to

helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in

that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with

shrugged

quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should hurry along,” I broke

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

besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took

the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing as treacherous as

ample supply of water, fruits, and a

anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade paths along the trail, which means

only viable solution for now. The other

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

another peak and indeed saw flares of light

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

joined in. “I’ll take everyone out to high tea, then.

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

evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out of here alive. Let’s

our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of

love, never say

if we indeed get to go home this time around, what would you want to do most

I want? That question lingered in my mind as I continued

wasn’t any food I was especially craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see

taken by surprise. Then she curiously

faint smile

we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area

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

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

out into the yard and began

dog was leashed to a

had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man with

us understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped.

any closer to home. We’d even gone so

our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at

years of age, ran out of

woman urgently conferred with the man for a while. He then

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

did, however,

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

sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a

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 damp spots where rainwater had seeped

heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent

bowls from a cabinet and placed

continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to be

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

a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an

flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a hint of

been a few days since we’d really tasted

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

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

father and daughter came to understand that we

stumped, however, by

Until then, we’d have to take shelter in

woke the next morning, the man was

picking up the soft fruits he’d

in our direction. It was as

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

arms, leaning against the door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something sad?” she quizzed, raising

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 doesn’t matter

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

massaged her temple, groaning, “Can we take a break from

the yard and began picking

couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed

say

to head home, Nora hauled me along into the village

someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for

futile. We departed after a

“If we can’t get any results here, we should try moving further in. Perhaps we’ll get to the city. We may even meet some fellow

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 locked up,” Nora countered. She plopped

a little more than the average

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

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 local

if there’s even a functional police station around

that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its motive.

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

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

arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the police to

the villager. The owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’

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