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.

stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing

maimed; the snake seemed to be caught in a

snake had been utterly reduced to bits

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

pick quite a lot

occasional spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew we wouldn’t go

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

of trekking had left her face flushed

scaled the tree and tossed a few down. “It’s grown in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all and bring them along

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

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

was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up

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

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

surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her

down. Laurel continued picking them up in her ungainly

been fumbling with her things ever since

shrugged in

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

matters? These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I fumed to

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

one we encountered. The rest of the way,

and a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves rather

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

now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued their walk with

quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we urged each other. Our spirits lifted at

another peak 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 gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat myself to some cosmetic

take everyone out to high tea,

as if I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was a rather lovely girl, particularly when

make it out of here alive. Let’s focus on getting

Exchanging glances, the rest of us

love, never say never

“Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home this time

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

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

Then she curiously pressed, “Is

gave her a faint smile but declined to

had 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, and perhaps due to its

number of lamps we’d counted shining in the dark,

for the night,” Nora suggested, already making her way towards

yard and began sounding the alert at our sudden

was leashed to a rope. It strained against its

of the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man

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

The arduous journey we’d made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so

to

years of age, ran out

He then grew noticeably

few

he understood. He did,

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

lamp burned dimly at

some 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.

that covered the tent looked sure to

took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed

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

the bowls in front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever

I think it’s supposed to be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us for

endured hunger for a whole day, we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of

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

we ate, the man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed

with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few

father and daughter came to understand that we were here to

by what exactly

We could only wait until the 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 man was already up in

tree with a basket, picking up the

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

and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking

“Why? Are

whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us.

with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally

her temple, groaning, “Can we take a

out into the yard and began

but smiles and gestures

never say

hauled me along into the

Surely someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of

miming remained futile. We departed after

and Laurel hadn’t 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

longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora

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

we get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us

agreed that this was the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of what we should do to capture the

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

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

however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!” they

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

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

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

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