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.

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

snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it

everywhere. Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had

Nora gulped, then quickly

lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming with

eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew we

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

those apples?” Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking

quickly 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

off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was no longer as concerned

Being rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally

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

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

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

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 my

helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down.

“What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that

merely shrugged

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

These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I

wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe

encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing as treacherous

ample supply of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves rather fortunate

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 we walk on, we’ll surely

for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and

everyone! Let’s get to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we urged

crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us

get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll

everyone out to

declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora

however, remarked rather evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out of here alive. Let’s focus on getting

Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay

never say never

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

That question lingered in my mind as I continued trudging

wasn’t any food I was especially craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give him a hug, and apologize to

she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re in love

a faint smile but declined to

when we finally reached saw signs of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a

number of lamps we’d counted shining in the dark, there were probably thirty

suggested, already making her way towards the door of the nearest

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

dog was leashed to a rope. It

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

of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed

hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that we were in

confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at

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

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

made a few hesitant motions with

if he understood. He did, however, let us into

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

the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at

the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out

covered the tent looked sure to be full of

two bowls from a cabinet and placed them before

gesture furiously. He seemed

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

be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the

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

few days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled

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

with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words, emphasizing each

both father and daughter came to understand that

however, by what exactly a phone

help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to spending a night

man was already up in

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

our direction. It was as if she was eagerly

mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a child with her slender

crossed her arms, leaning against the door frame. “Why? Are

as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us. It doesn’t matter what other

Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally

temple, groaning, “Can we take a break from philosophy for

Nora. She marched straight out into the yard and began picking up

words but smiles and gestures seemed to

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

must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however,

at miming remained futile. We

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

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

than the average villager. If we manage to explain our

leaped to her feet in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us home.

thought and

there’s even a functional police station around here? I

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

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

the villager’s yards under the pretense

fruit, fully expecting the police to be hot on

been enraged at the two girls’

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