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 it crashing firmly down on the

a daze.

when the snake had

gulped, then quickly

to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient

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

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

panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face

the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all and bring them along

own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and

gave it her best shot. Being rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed

resigned

the branches. She greedily ate any fruits she’d

a clear head. She’d

huge bite of the

down. Laurel continued picking them up

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

shrugged in

be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should

they wasting time discussing trivial matters? These girls can

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

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

a side

anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a

now. The other girls found Nora’s

be home soon,” we

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

myself out for a good

“I’ll take everyone out 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

“We’re lucky to make it out of here

Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay no heed

never say

get to go home this time around, what would you want to do most of

my mind as I continued trudging forward, deep in

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

taken by surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re in love

gave her a faint smile but declined to

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

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

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

suddenly rushed out into the yard and began

leashed to a rope.

heard the ruckus.

trying to say. After

any closer to home. We’d even gone so

all 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

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

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

Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in

He did, however, let

stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the

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

in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks.

dirt that covered the tent

out two bowls from a cabinet and placed

the man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to be inviting us

at the bowls in front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so slightly, asking, “What

exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite

The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a hint of sourness, was quite

since we’d really tasted

a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with a tinge

communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately

worked. Somehow, both father and daughter came to understand that we were here to borrow a device to contact

by

only wait until the next day for the man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter

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

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

up some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit her

rethink the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a child with her slender

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

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 what

the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally managed to pique her

groaning, “Can we take a break from

straight out into the yard and

but smiles and

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along into the village in our hunt for a

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

miming remained futile. We departed after

was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results here,

up ahead is. If we aren’t

a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to them,

touch with the local police, they may be able

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

in a village on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station around here? I wondered

her conviction that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped off before our discussion

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

the villager’s yards under the pretense

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

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

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