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 crashing firmly

to be caught in a daze.

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

turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s

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

stumbled upon the occasional spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else

red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a tree a few

Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had

in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can

Tessa, however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d

shot. Being rather plump and short, however,

after a while. Laurel was resigned

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

maintained a clear head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look out

wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat another apple

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

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

merely shrugged in

talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should hurry along,” I broke

can be

a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe

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

of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we

however. Nora grew visibly anxious, 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. If we walk

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

indeed saw flares

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

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

to eat some steak. I 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

to make it out of here

glances, the rest of us decided to pay

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get to go home this time

in my mind as I continued trudging forward, deep

was especially craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give him a hug, and apologize to

seemed taken by surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody

a faint smile but declined

at was located in quite a

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

suggested, already making her way towards the door

out into the yard and

leashed to

evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man with tan, weathered

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

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

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

of age, ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at the man’s

urgently conferred with the man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and

gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to convey our

understood. He did, however,

walls were caked with soot,

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

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

dirt that covered the tent looked sure

two bowls from a

the language barrier, the man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed

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

exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the

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

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

squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and

communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words, emphasizing

both father and daughter came to understand that we were here to borrow a device to

were stumped, however, by what exactly

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

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

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

in our direction. It was as

rethink the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked

Are you thinking of something sad?” she quizzed, raising an

feel as if I’ve been

discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies

“Can we take a break from

marched straight out into the yard and began picking

smiles and gestures seemed to suffice

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Nora hauled me along into the village in our hunt

the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a

at miming remained futile. We

Laurel hadn’t fared much better. We returned to find them sitting side by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any

road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be

policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation

excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us home.

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

mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional

any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped

enthusiastic. “Leave it

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

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

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

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