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.

flung away earlier, then brought

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

when the snake

looking on turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said,

our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming with rich, bountiful

settle down to eat and drink. No

resembling an apple, growing on a tree a few

of trekking had left her face flushed

in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick

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

Being rather plump and short, however, climbing

was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up the

fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully

She’d sensibly warned,

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!

continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in her ungainly

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

merely shrugged

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

girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I fumed

tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe to

one we encountered. The rest

ample supply of water, fruits, and a

anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade paths along the trail, which

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

be home soon,” we urged

saw

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

joined in. “I’ll take everyone out to high

could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth.

to make it

cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest

say

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

lingered in my

craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give him a hug, and apologize to him

seemed taken by surprise. Then she curiously pressed,

a faint smile but declined to

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

the dark, there were

hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door of

the yard and began sounding the

the dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against

owner of the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped

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

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

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

ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged

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

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

did, however, let us into

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

farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably

neat stack in a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out

dirt that covered the tent looked sure to be

two bowls from a

man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed

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

rather adventurously. She had more of an

day, we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor

a few days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions

man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They

Along with her

understand that we were here to borrow a device to

stumped, however, by what exactly

seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to spending a

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

picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let

some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she

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

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

whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us. It doesn’t

tendencies she’d been harboring all

her temple, groaning, “Can we take a break from philosophy

into the yard and began picking up fruits with

but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice for

never say never

me along into the village

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

at miming remained futile. We departed

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

of that will 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

so bad about getting locked up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager.

we get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t have

instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion

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

participate in any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped off before

enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!” they cried

under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a bundle

laden with fruit, fully expecting the police to

enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on

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