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.

Tabitha had flung away earlier, then

head thus maimed; the snake seemed to be caught in a daze.

the snake had

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

our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot

the occasional spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least

a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a tree a

trekking had left her

a few down. “It’s grown in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We

fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten

and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather

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

fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in the fruits of her

She’d sensibly warned, “Look

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

fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in her

Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that snake

merely shrugged in

be quick! Once we’re done picking the

These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I

we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that

that snake that we’d killed was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing

our ample supply of water, fruits, and a side of

to fade. We still hadn’t found ourselves a 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 there must be a village or two nearby. If

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

to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we urged each other.

crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of

myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat myself to some cosmetic

in. “I’ll take everyone out to high tea, then.

feel 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

evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out of here alive. Let’s

dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay

say

“Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home this time around, what would you want to

question lingered in my mind as I continued trudging forward,

a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss

curiously pressed,

faint smile

at was located in quite a rural area of

in the dark, there

night,” Nora suggested,

out into the yard and began

each other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to

had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man with tan,

of us understood what he was trying to 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 home. We’d

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

ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at the

He then

Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to convey

couldn’t tell if he understood. He did,

sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire that

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

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. There was dust everywhere.

covered the tent looked sure to be

two bowls from a cabinet and placed them

continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to be inviting us

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

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

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

we’d really tasted anything. The pickled

and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with a tinge of

their uneasiness, Nora persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her

that we were here to borrow

however, by what exactly a

then, we’d have

was already up in the tree in his

the tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let tumble

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

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

Are you thinking

reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened.

quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring

massaged her temple, groaning, “Can we take

into the yard

words but smiles and gestures

say

hauled me along into the village in our hunt for

on the door of the next

efforts at miming remained futile. We

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 further in. Perhaps

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

knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to them, it might be

police,

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

on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even

any criminal act,

were enthusiastic. “Leave it to

villager’s yards under

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

Nora nor 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

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