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.

away earlier, then

caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with a few

stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly

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

quite a lot of

No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew we wouldn’t go

spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a tree a few steps

those apples?” Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face

wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all and bring them along for something to

own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along

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

a few attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the

she’d managed

clear head. She’d sensibly

shrieked, terrified at the thought of having to face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite

throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up

aloof at the side. Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since

shrugged in

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

trivial matters? These girls can

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

encountered. The rest of

of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we considered

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

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

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

peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us in the

As Tabitha 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 products

everyone out

feel as if I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash

lucky to make it out of here alive.

cool statement rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of

say never

indeed get to go home this time around, what would you want to do

want? That question lingered in my mind

“I want to see the person

curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re

gave her a faint smile but declined to

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 be many inhabitants

counted shining in the dark, there were probably thirty to

night,” Nora suggested, already making

suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert at our sudden

other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to

the ruckus. Out stepped

but none of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We

after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone

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

woman, approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at the

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

Tabitha made a few

did, however, let us into

was a dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked

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 filled the entire

of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It

heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent

man took out two bowls from a

continued to gesture furiously. He seemed

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

Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of

whole day, we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a

had been a few days since we’d really tasted

and his daughter squatted in a corner. They

them. Along with her hand signals, she

father and daughter came to understand that we were here to borrow

by what exactly

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 was

we blearily woke the next morning, the man was

tree with a basket, picking up

beam a smile in our direction. It was

mused,

the door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something sad?”

feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our

all been destined!” Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d

her temple, groaning, “Can we

ignored Nora. She marched straight out into the yard and began picking up fruits with the young

words but smiles and gestures seemed to

say

me along into the village

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

efforts at miming remained futile. We departed after a good while,

by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results

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 locked up,”

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

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

cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of what we should do

Who knows if there’s

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

were enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!” they

of the villager’s yards under the pretense of

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

at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had assumed that both girls were foraging for

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