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.

Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing

a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with a

everywhere. Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been

Nora gulped, then quickly

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

to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew we wouldn’t go

journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a tree a few

those apples?” Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed and dripping with

very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all and bring them along for

sat a little way 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

best shot. Being rather 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 fruits

any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in the fruits of her

head. She’d sensibly

face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in

her head helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued

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

shrugged in

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

These girls can

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

we encountered. The rest of the way,

water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves rather

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

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

village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we

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

strode forward, she fantasized out loud, “When I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet.

everyone out to high tea,

cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash

“We’re lucky to make it out of here alive. Let’s focus on getting

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

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get to go home this time around, what would

want? That question lingered in my mind as I continued trudging forward,

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

surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re

gave her a faint

had 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

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

night,” Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door of

dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding the

Fortunately, the dog was leashed to

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

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

made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that we were in another

owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our

age, ran out

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

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

he understood. He did, however,

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

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

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

blackened dirt that covered the tent

took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed

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

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

think it’s supposed to be a starting 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

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

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

and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with

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

father and daughter came to understand that we were here to

however, by what

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 open mountains,

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

the tree with a basket, picking up the soft

in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying

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

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

as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us. It doesn’t matter what other

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

“Can we take a break

straight out into the yard and began picking up

smiles and gestures seemed to

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home, Nora hauled me along into the village

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

best efforts at miming remained futile. We departed

returned to find them sitting side by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get

If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She plopped down onto the floor

local policeman knows a little more than the

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

the thought

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

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

Tabitha, however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it

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

fruit, fully expecting the

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

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