In Love, Never Say Never
In Love, Never Say Never Chapter 641-642-643-644-645
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.
had flung away earlier, then brought it
thus maimed; the snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it
the snake had
girls looking on turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting
we slowly forged our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient
occasional spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew we wouldn’t
journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing
rate of trekking had
very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all
plan. We quickly ascended the tree after Tabitha. Tessa, however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d
her best shot. Being rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed
made a few attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up the
on the branches. She greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to
however, maintained a clear head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look out for
huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat another apple to calm my
throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in
been fumbling
merely shrugged
the two of you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should hurry along,” I
discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I fumed
besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We
killed was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing as treacherous as that
water, fruits, and a side
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.
other
home soon,”
and indeed saw flares of light ahead
surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat myself to some cosmetic products that I’ve
“I’ll take everyone
Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash
evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out of here alive.
our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay no heed
say never
turned to me and queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home this time
lingered in my mind as I continued
“I want to see the person I miss most, give him a hug, and apologize to
Then she curiously
a faint smile but declined
was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its inaccessibility, there didn’t seem to be many inhabitants
we’d counted shining in the dark,
for the night,” Nora suggested, already
into the yard
to each other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope. It
the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a
say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed the border into
us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that
foreign tongue threw us all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake
sixteen years of age, ran out of
with the man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and
turned toward us and gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to convey our
if he understood. He did, however, let us into his
dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were
hung from the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save on electricity costs. Shadows
bowls and utensils in a neat stack in a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched
dirt that covered the tent looked sure to
two bowls from a
barrier, the man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to be inviting us to
front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled
exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us for more
dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with
we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus
and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with a tinge
to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words,
worked. Somehow, both father and daughter came to understand that we were here to borrow a device to contact
stumped, however, by what exactly a
fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this
the man was already up in the tree
with a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let tumble onto
in our direction. It was as if she was
happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a child with her slender
her arms, leaning against the door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something sad?” she
I’ve been
with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally managed to
temple, groaning, “Can we take a break from philosophy for
out into the yard and began picking up fruits with
couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed
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to head home, Nora hauled me along into the village in our
thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking
best efforts at miming remained futile. We departed after a
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
aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and
Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the
with the local police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t have to wander around
was the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a
there’s even a
shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped off
“Leave it to us!” they cried
to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a bundle of
returned with their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the police to
at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had assumed that both girls were foraging for food and ultimately
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