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

to be caught in a daze. Without

splattered everywhere. Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly reduced to

then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting

pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient

upon the occasional spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what

a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing

panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left

It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all

a good 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

her best shot. Being rather plump and short,

a few attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up the fruits

fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging

clear head. She’d sensibly

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! Let me eat another apple to calm

continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking

She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we

merely shrugged

talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re

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

out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe to be consumed

only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing as treacherous as that

of water, fruits, and a side of

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 there must be a village or two nearby. If

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

get to the village quickly. We’ll be home

peak and indeed saw

fantasized out loud, “When I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood

joined in. “I’ll take everyone out

popping the rest of the stash she’d picked

remarked rather evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out

our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay no heed

never say never

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

want? That question lingered in my mind as I continued

pause, I concluded, “I want to see the

by surprise. Then she curiously pressed,

faint smile

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 inaccessibility, there didn’t seem to

lamps we’d counted shining in the dark,

the night,” Nora suggested,

the yard and began sounding the alert at our

clung to each other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against its tether,

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

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

made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that

confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly in a bid to chase

age, ran out of the cottage just then.

man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the axe in his

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

understood. He did, however, let us into

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

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

fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust

of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked

bowls from a

gesture furiously. He

us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever

exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than

rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a hint of

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

corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with a

Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke

and daughter came to understand that we were here

were stumped, however, by what exactly

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 spending a night out in the open mountains, however, this

we blearily woke the next morning, the man was already up

stood beneath the tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally

pick up some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit her simple joy

rethink the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a child with her slender

“Why? Are you thinking of

I’ve been

aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all

groaning, “Can we take a break from

the yard and began picking up

couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and

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head home, Nora hauled me along into the village in our hunt for

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 only met

best efforts at miming remained futile. We

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 to the city. We may even meet some

ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves

the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If

with the local police, they may be able to send

at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of

if there’s

that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless

“Leave it to

one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They

fruit, fully expecting the police to be hot

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

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