Chapter 4 Old Dreams
The night in the Arctic was very long. Guo Mi endured the coldness and slept for a while. After being woken up by the cold wind, he could no longer fall asleep. He could only huddle in the arms of the two cubs. Among the withered branches, I looked up and counted the stars.
I have to say that although this ghost place is cold and desolate, with ice and snow everywhere and no food, the only good thing is that the stars are brighter than other places.
When she was taken to the zoo, she could only count the stars with her head raised, but the stars there were very small and few, and many were buried by the clouds and mist.
She had to face those enthusiastic tourists during the day. Really, she never had a good day in the zoo!
I remember one day a little boy threw a fruit into Bear Mountain.
The two bears around him were fighting for the half of the apple he had thrown down, and they began to slap each other's ears, and they kept humming and growling.
The two bears were fighting, the sound was getting closer and closer, and she turned away as usual.
The next second the "bear ball" wrapped up in a ball whizzed past her, rolled down the rockery with a crackle, and finally hit the eight-meter-high cement guardrail!
The noisy surroundings fell into silence for a second or two, and then burst into cheers even louder than before!
She looked up at the little boy behind the high glass fence. The little boy was also looking at her, with a wicked smile on his lips.
Just when an ominous premonition arose in her heart, the little boy dropped another half-ripe apple!
The apple drew a parabola in the air, and then hit her in the head. Before she had time to react, her vision went dark in the next second!
A fat brown bear rushed over from a wild boar nearby, knocking her upside down, then stepped on her belly with its thick bear paw, preparing to snatch the apple before her!
The heavy injuries from her companions were far more serious than that apple. At that time, she only felt that her eyes were black, and her internal organs were about to be stepped out by the stupid bear!
The brown bear on top of her stretched its neck to catch the broken apple not far away, and seemed to have no intention of leaving. Finally, she couldn't bear it and kicked the bear away!
The bear's paw hit the opponent several times in a row until he was knocked unconscious. Finally, he added a kick and kicked the opponent off the rockery!
The brown bear that climbed up tremblingly under the rockery was so frightened by her that it lowered its body and ran away hastily against the cement wall without even daring to raise its head!
The other brown bears around were also so frightened that they huddled in the corner and did not dare to move.
Guo Mi remembered that she only had time to breathe a sigh of relief, but she did not expect that this wonderful brown bear fight would attract the attention of enthusiastic tourists!
They bought apples from the zoo one after another, and then threw them towards the bear mountain in the circular pit, trying to make the bears inside fight for food again!
An apple that was originally fought over by two bears was now everywhere, falling from the sky with clatter, and then smashed to the ground, breaking into pieces.
Behind the glass fence are the faces of people who are so excited that they are deformed, and they are blushing and shouting:
“Let’s fight, come on!”
“Don’t you want to eat? Let’s fight!”
Seeing their ferocious expressions, flushed faces, and splashing saliva, Guo Mi suddenly felt uninterested at that time.
She felt like a circus clown, like a toy, without dignity.
In the eyes of these humans, bears are just tools for entertainment.
Guo Mi looked back at the pile of brown bears huddled in the corner. They looked longingly at the pulpy fruits that fell on the ground, but they did not dare to step forward due to her intimidation. They could only One or two looked at each other eagerly.
Guo Mi was also hungry, but had no appetite.
Seeing the longing in their eyes for the smashed apples on the ground, she suddenly felt inexplicable powerlessness in her heart.
Standing up from the ground and shaking her fur, she glanced at the bears who did not dare to step forward, then slowly walked to the corner of Bear Mountain and sat down facing the wall.
The bear behind him cheered and ran towards the broken apples on the ground. He lay on the ground and licked the broken apples into his mouth, unwilling to give up at all.
With her eyes closed, as expected, she heard the tourists above her yelling and cursing, muttering "disappointing".
Some people even dropped apples directly on her.
Although the thick fur resisted most of the pain, she was still annoyed by the harassment, so she simply lay down on the ground and covered her head with bear paws.
Interpersonal relationships in human society are complex and hypocritical, and various rules and procedures make them look more respectable.
But if the target is a mute bear or other animal, without the constraints of rules, many people will become hateful.
Recalling this, Guo Mi looked at the stars in the sky and sighed. Various parts of his body suddenly began to hurt. The red faces and curses of the tourists behind the glass fence that day, It was the most unforgettable thing in her life.
Because then they started to get more serious, as if they had found something new and interesting, and they smashed fruits of considerable weight at the bears in the pit.
And because of her large size and special coat, she was the first to bear the brunt, and soon she was surrounded by smashed fruits.
Even though her fur was thick and she was hit too many times, the pain was unbearable in the end. She stood up and walked to the door of the cage where she slept at night.
The door was naturally closed, but there was a passage from the cage to the park, which could barely hide a bear. She tried her best to shrink her body into the passage, trying to isolate herself from the tourists outside. This move caused dissatisfaction among tourists, who began to complain to the staff selling fruits and meat next to them.
Then as expected, she heard the sound of the cage door being opened behind her.
Then a bamboo pole was poked into her butt from behind, and it was pushed harder and harder, urging her to go out and continue to be beaten.
In the end, she had no choice but to walk out of the passage, facing the fruits that kept falling above her head, and tried her best to dodge, but with little effect.
If ordinary people were in that position, they might just feel that they are unlucky, or they might call those tourists crazy.
But Guo Mi, who is a wildlife photographer himself, once went to nature up close as a human to get along with these wild animals. In the end, he became an animal and experienced all this again.
After that day, whenever he was dreaming, Guo Mi always thought about what position human beings are in nature, how to get along with nature is the right way, and how they should face it. this world.
But one thing is for sure, when she truly becomes a wild animal, and becomes a wild animal in captivity, she will discover how terrifying humans are to animals.
With such complicated thoughts, Guo Mi brought the two cubs closer to his arms, and then fell asleep in the cold wind.
At this moment, another person thousands of miles away is also in collapse.
The oily secretary looked at the two real polar bears in front of him, and looked at each other with another staff member next to him:
"What's going on? Didn't you say there were only two polar bears? One was transported yesterday. Why are there two ends here?”
The staff next to him also shook his head in confusion:
“I don’t know, I heard that there are only two ends.”
The managers and breeders in this garden can speak well. , all were interrogated for illegal capture of wild animals and animal cruelty.
Now these are all temporary helpers who are only responsible for sending the animals away.
After all, the owner of this zoo already owes a huge debt to the group. Just for the sake of fame, the chairman does not want to spend too much money to hire any experts.
The greasy-headed secretary had an ominous premonition in his heart, so he took out his mobile phone and started dialing the number:
"Wait for me to ask."
After a while, he hung up the phone and said with an ugly face:< br>
“I’ve already asked, and there are indeed only two polar bears.”
Now everyone present started to sweat on their foreheads:
"Then, what kind of bear was the one sent away the day before yesterday?"
The greasy-headed secretary took a deep breath, and his eyes fell on the two polar bears trapped in the cage. The more he looked at it, the more something was wrong, and he couldn't help it. He took a closer look and said:
“No, these two bears look different from the one the day before yesterday. Why is this face so small? The big round face on the other side didn’t look like this yesterday!”
A staff member next to me also looked closer and agreed:
“It’s really not that long! In this way, the round face of the bear yesterday looked quite similar to that of a brown bear..."
His voice became weaker and weaker until it disappeared. He looked at each other and took a deep breath!
Could it be that... the one yesterday was a brown bear? !
The greasy-headed secretary’s back felt cold. It’s over. The company has publicized the release of wild animals. If there is news about brown bears being sent to the North Pole, wouldn’t it be all over? !
He was the one who introduced the zoo owner to the boss, but it was a disaster.
The boss is already very dissatisfied with him and this zoo. If he messes up again, won't he lose his job? !
Thinking of this, the secretary grabbed the shoulder of the staff member next to him and said:
“Where is that bear now? Send the bear back quickly!”
The colleague was from the Northeast and his face was wrinkled. At the same time, he held back a sentence for a long time:
"Then... That's no use. The black blind guy... um, the brown blind guy... ah no, the white blind guy has already been put on the plane. He probably landed early this morning. Where can I get him back for you? "
< br>The folder in the oil-headed secretary’s hand fell with a sound, and he held his head in both hands:
"What should I do?!"
He scratched his hair irritably, and his hair, which was delicately decorated with hair wax, was scratched into a prickly head!
After a while, his eyes darkened, he stood up suddenly, picked up the folder on the ground and quickly flipped through it twice, he breathed a sigh of relief:
“This bear was captured illegally. No registration has been done. Just send it to the North Pole. Let’s take down the video of releasing it and just pretend it doesn’t exist!”
The staff next to him hesitated:
"If this...brown bear is sent to the North Pole, wouldn't it..." Is he dead?
"Then do you want this brown bear to live, or do you want to keep your job!"
Everyone present did not dare to say anything anymore.
A trace of evil flashed in the secretary's eyes:
"Just pretend that today's incident never happened. I will handle the rest personally. You'd better keep your mouth shut. If it leaks out, Half a point, don’t blame me for being rude!”
(End of this chapter)