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.

that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it

snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation,

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

other girls looking on turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go.

pick quite a lot of mushrooms.

eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we

we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing

those apples?” Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left her

scaled the tree and tossed a few down. “It’s grown in the wild. It’s not very

good 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

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

attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting

fruits she’d managed

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

shrieked, terrified at the thought of having to face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let

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

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

shrugged

Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking

discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about

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

The rest of the

and a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves

visibly anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade

to be the only viable solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s

home soon,” we urged each other. Our

steps, we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of

As Tabitha 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.

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

steak. I feel as if I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d

lucky to make it out of here

rest of

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and queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home this

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

I concluded, “I want to see

surprise. Then she curiously

a faint smile but

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

we’d counted shining in the dark, there

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

yard and began sounding the alert at

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

of the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out

he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha

all froze. The arduous journey we’d made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to

foreign tongue threw us all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to

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

young woman urgently conferred with the man for a while. He

man then turned toward us and gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to convey

couldn’t tell if he understood. He did, however, let us into his

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

used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a

a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It turned to grime at

covered the tent

bowls from a cabinet and placed them before

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

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

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

in rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions,

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

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

Nora persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with

worked. Somehow, both father and daughter came to understand that we were here

however, by what exactly a

from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have

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

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

time she bent over to pick up some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction.

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

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

I feel as if I’ve been

tendencies she’d been harboring all this way.

temple, groaning, “Can we take

Nora. She marched straight out into the yard

still couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed

say never

head home, Nora hauled me along into the

around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door

efforts at miming remained futile.

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 in. Perhaps we’ll get to the city. We may even meet

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

thoughtfully. “Surely, the local 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

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

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

conviction that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of

enthusiastic. “Leave it to

villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then

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

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

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