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.

Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly down

caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed

splattered everywhere. Tessa 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 should get

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

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

red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a

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

few down. “It’s grown in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s

Tabitha. Tessa, however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was no

rather plump and short,

resigned to waiting on the ground below,

she’d managed to

She’d sensibly

huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat another apple to calm my nerves,”

down. Laurel continued picking them

Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since

merely shrugged

Once we’re

wasting time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so

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

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

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

night, 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 on, we’ll surely meet someone! We’ll be able to

The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued their walk with renewed

everyone! Let’s get to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,”

we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of

I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat myself to some cosmetic products that I’ve been eyeing for the longest

too, joined in. “I’ll take everyone out to

Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was a rather lovely girl,

however, remarked rather evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out of

glances, the rest of us decided to pay

say never

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

my

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

by surprise. Then she curiously pressed,

a faint smile but

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

counted shining in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households

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

out into the yard and began sounding the alert

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

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

After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed

made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to

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

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

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

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

He did,

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

ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save on electricity costs. Shadows filled the entire

were some bowls 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

of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked

man took out two bowls from

barrier, the man continued to gesture

The food was steeped in

it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest

endured hunger for a whole day, we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a hint of sourness,

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

ate, the man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed

to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few

understand that we

by what exactly

to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter

was

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

beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to

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

door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something sad?”

if I’ve been enlightened.

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

we take a break from philosophy

the yard and began picking

but smiles

say

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

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

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

Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should try moving further in. Perhaps we’ll get

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

locked up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to them, it might be our

local police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t have

the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of

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

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

enthusiastic. “Leave

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

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

neither Nora nor Tabitha had 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

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