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.

picked up the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier,

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

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

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

forward, we managed to pick quite a lot

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

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

trekking had left her face

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

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

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

a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground

greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck,

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

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

fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up

that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got

shrugged

the two of you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking

girls can be so flippant about things sometimes!

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

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

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

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

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

home soon,” we urged each other. Our

our steps, we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us in

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

everyone out to high tea, then. My

declared exaggeratedly, popping the

lucky to make it out of

rest of us decided

love, never say never

to go home this time around, what would you want to do

lingered in my mind as

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

Then she curiously pressed, “Is it

faint smile but declined

located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its inaccessibility,

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

a place to hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested,

out into the yard and began sounding the alert at our

the dog was leashed to a rope.

had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped

none of us understood what he was trying to say. After a

after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone

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

a young woman, approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at the

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

us and gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return,

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

a dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were

the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a

in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks.

heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent

man took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed

gesture furiously. He seemed

was steeped in chili. Nora

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

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

really tasted

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

in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words, emphasizing each

to understand that we were

by what exactly a

villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in

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

up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let

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

wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused,

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

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

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

massaged her temple, groaning, “Can we take

straight out into the yard

but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice for

never say never

hauled me along into the village in

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 hand signals asking for a phone

at miming remained futile.

by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should try moving

be really low though. We don’t know how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,”

the 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

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

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

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

were enthusiastic. “Leave it to

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

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

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 and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had assumed that both girls were

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