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.

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

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

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

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

we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming

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

spotted a red fruit, resembling an

trekking had left her face flushed and dripping

few 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

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 the rest of us

best shot. Being rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather insurmountable challenge for

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

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

clear head. She’d

Nora shrieked, terrified at the thought of having to face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge

then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in her

doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that snake mess with her

shrugged in

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

discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant

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

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

ample supply of water, fruits, and a

resting spot for the night, however. Nora grew visibly anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade paths

viable solution for now. The other

the village quickly. We’ll be home

peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us

surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat myself to some cosmetic products

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

cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the

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

cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest

say never

“Scarlett, if we indeed get to go

my mind

pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give him a hug, and apologize to him

curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re in

her a 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 to be many inhabitants

in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households scattered throughout the

hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested,

out into the yard and began sounding the alert at

terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope.

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

to say. After a

peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so

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

years of age, ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at

for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the axe

made a few hesitant motions with

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

clay walls were caked with soot,

decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save on electricity costs. Shadows

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

heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure to be full of

two bowls from

gesture furiously. He

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

exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an

for a whole day, we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of

a few days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus thoroughly satisfied our

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

with her hand

came to understand that we were here to

were stumped, however, by what exactly

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 a night out in the

the man was already up in the tree in his yard

up the soft fruits he’d

a smile in our direction. It was as if she

mused, looking rather wistful.

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

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

tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d

her temple, groaning, “Can we take

She marched straight out into the yard and began picking up

couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and

love, never say never

our desperation to head home, Nora hauled me along into the village in our hunt

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

efforts at miming remained futile. We departed after a good while,

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 may

aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She

more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to them, it might be

touch with the local police,

up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish

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

that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless

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

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

of them returned with their arms laden with fruit, fully

owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on

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