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.

up the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly down on the

snake seemed to be caught in a

the snake had been utterly

on turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting late, and we should get

pick quite a lot of

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

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

trekking had left her face flushed and

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

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

short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather insurmountable challenge

while. Laurel was resigned to waiting

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

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

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

throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in

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

shrugged

quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits,

These girls can

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

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

ample supply of water, fruits, and a side

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! We’ll be able to call for

The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued

We’ll be home soon,”

and indeed saw flares of light ahead

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

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

Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the

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

rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest

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get to go home this time around,

lingered in my mind as I continued trudging forward,

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

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

gave her a faint smile but declined

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

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

suggested, already

A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert at

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

evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged

spoke, but none of us understood what he was trying to say. After

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

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

of age, ran out of the

the man for a while. He

Tabitha made a few hesitant motions

couldn’t tell if he understood. He did, however,

was a dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless

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

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 was dust everywhere. It

that covered the tent looked

man took out two bowls from

man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to be

food was steeped

Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an

rather gratefully. The flavor of

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

corner. They gazed at us with

Nora persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke

understand that we were here to borrow

stumped, however, by

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

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

daughter stood beneath the tree with a basket, picking up

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

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

“Why? Are you thinking of

I feel as if I’ve been

discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies

groaning, “Can we take a break from

yard and began picking up fruits with

words but smiles and gestures

say never

our desperation to head home, Nora hauled me along into the village in our

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

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

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

the road up ahead is. If we aren’t

“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

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

we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching

knows if there’s

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

enthusiastic. “Leave it

Tabitha walked boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a bundle of

arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the police to be

girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners,

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