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.

away earlier, then

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

satisfied, when the snake had

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

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

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

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

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

the tree and tossed a 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 for

plan. We quickly ascended the tree after 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 longer as concerned about getting food as the rest of

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

up after a while. Laurel was resigned

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

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

face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat another apple to calm my nerves,” Nora

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

the side. Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her

shrugged

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

discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant

enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took

aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained

a side of mushrooms, we considered

suitable resting spot for the 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!

solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal

Let’s get to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we urged each other. Our spirits

indeed saw flares

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

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

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 lovely girl, particularly

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

Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay

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get to go home this time

lingered in my mind as I continued

any food I 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

curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re in

a faint

was located in quite a rural area of

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

the night,” Nora suggested, already making her

A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard

was leashed to a rope. It strained against its tether,

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

he was trying to say. After

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

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

a young woman, approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of the cottage just

man for a while. He then grew noticeably

Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to

tell if he understood. He did, however, let

dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire that was burning in its

filament lamp hung from the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned

a tent stitched

small heaps of blackened dirt that covered the

out two bowls from a cabinet and placed

continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to be inviting

of us. The food was steeped in chili.

pickled onions. I think it’s supposed to be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than

gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a

since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions

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

with her hand signals, she deliberately

to understand that we were here to borrow

by what

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, however, this

man was already up in the

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

pick up some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our

wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a child with

leaning against the door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something

on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us.

with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way.

“Can we

into the yard

smiles and

say never

me along into

the twenty-first 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

and 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 results here, we should try moving further

don’t know how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for

local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to them, it might be

get in touch with the local police, they may be able

up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of what we

Who knows if there’s even a functional police station around here? I wondered

any criminal act, regardless

and Tabitha, however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it

of the villager’s yards under the pretense of

with fruit,

owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had assumed that both girls were foraging for

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