Chapter 42 Ice Floe and Island
Caesar’s eyes were moist and he nodded honestly:
“Hot.”
Guo Mi raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky .
In the past two days, she did find that it was not that cold at night. The two cubs always sneaked out of her arms at night and ran to sleep on the other side of the cave. It seemed that they got a little warm next to her at night.
And she could sleep peacefully and comfortably even without holding the little bear in her arms until dawn.
Originally I thought it was because she had been in the North Pole for a long time and her body gradually adapted to the climate here.
Now it seems that there is also a reason why the temperature is gradually warming up.
Guo Mi looked at the glacial lake in front of him. Originally there was a round piece of ice in the middle of the lake, like an island in the lake, but it was now much smaller.
The ice at the edge of the lake became crystal clear. In the past few days, she had always felt that the lake had expanded a lot. Now it seemed that it was not an illusion, but a reality.
Arctic summer is finally coming.
Guo Mi's eyes flashed, and when she thought of the ice and snow melting in the summer, she suddenly became excited:
"Is summer coming soon?"
Caesar's response to her The reaction was surprising:
“.Are you looking forward to summer?”
Summer is very hot, and they polar bears hate summer the most!
Guo Mi did not expect it:
“Of course I am looking forward to it!”
She did not forget to confirm it with Caesar again:
“ I heard from other bears that the snow in the Arctic will melt in the summer and flowers will grow. Is it true? ”
Caesar's attention was first focused on the "other bear" in her mouth, but he soon remembered that when he came to see Guo Mi later, there seemed to be another female bear beside her. He was inexplicably relieved, and then he relaxed his attention. On the issue of Guo Mi.
“Yes, the snow in many places will melt in summer, and many flowers will indeed bloom.”
Guo Mi was finally relieved after hearing Caesar’s answer. It was rare that he had the patience to have a good chat with Caesar. , smiled and said:
"When the snow melts, the island will definitely become very beautiful, and there will be more food..."
Caesar listened to her just now I felt something was wrong, but now I finally understand what is wrong:
"Wait, wait, you want to stay on the island during the summer?!"
Some people in Guo Mi looked at him inexplicably:
"Yes."
< br>Caesar couldn’t understand:
“But have you discovered that this lake is not a real lake, it is just a hole in the ice. In the summer, all the surrounding ice will melt away, and then this lake will The lake disappeared!”
Guo Mi was stunned for a moment and looked down at the ice under his feet. Would such a thick ice melt away in summer? !
But then I thought about it, as long as the refrigerator at home is left open, it will return to normal temperature soon.
The temperature in the Arctic warms up quickly in summer. As long as the temperature reaches above 0 degrees, the entire Arctic will be like a refrigerator with the door open after the power is cut off. It is not surprising that the ice and snow in most places melt.
Guo Mi hesitated and said:
“But, if the snow melts, there will be other things to eat, right?”
Caesar's eyes widened in surprise, where is there anything to eat on Xia Tian Island? !
If you think about it carefully, there are indeed some, namely eggs laid by seabirds and walruses.
It's a pity that those bird eggs are just like a taste in your mouth. Not to mention filling your stomach, they can't support the basic needs of the body.
Not to mention those walruses, first of all, they are bigger than polar bears. If you want to hunt, you can only pick walrus cubs, and the difficulty of success can be imagined.
The most important thing is that the skin of the thing is very thick, and it tastes like tree bark.
Caesar didn't understand why Guo Mi stayed on the island. Normal polar bears would wear ice floes before all the ice floes melted and floated away, so that they could spend the summer safely with the seals on the ice floes.
Caesar tried to make Guo Mi give up the idea of staying on the island:
"What are the delicious things on the island? Don't you like eating seals?"
Guo Mi was a little confused:
“Are there no seals on the island?”
Caesar:
“Most of the seals are on the ice floes. When they get tired of swimming in the sea, they will climb up the ice floes through their blowholes or directly along the edge to rest.”
“In winter, you You can go back to the cave if you want, but the ice floes drift away in the summer, so you can only sleep on the ice floes and can't go back to the island."
He actually couldn't understand why Guo Mi went there every day. Returning to the same place to rest, he usually slept wherever he went. Guo Mi keenly grasped the key points of Caesar's words.
Float away?
“You mean that in the summer, the ice floes around the island will fall off in large areas and then drift to other places with the current?”
“Yes.”
Caesar is a little confused, why doesn't Guo Mi know this? Is she really a polar bear?
The poor male bear still hasn’t realized that the round-faced plate bear sitting in front of him is not a simple polar bear with a strange appearance as he thought, nor is it the "fish bear" he imagined, but It's a real thing, another species of bear completely!
Guo Mi was struck by lightning:
“You guys stayed on the ice floe for several months?”
Imagine a ship without navigation, engine or positioning, just like this in the endless horizon. Drifting with the waves on the sea, it is even worse than a boat. After all, the ice will always melt.
If the ice melts halfway through the drift, doesn’t it mean that she doesn’t know where she is in the sea and has to swim ashore by herself? !
This is too outrageous!
After receiving Caesar's affirmative answer, Guo Mi instantly expressed his position:
"I won't go to the ice floe, I want to stay on the island."
Caesar finally realized that Guo Mi's brain circuit might be Unlike normal polar bears, he tries Picture correction:
"The food on the island in summer is really unpalatable. You won't like it. The seals are delicious!"
He paused and suddenly thought of the fruity ice floes. It will float away, not...
Caesar tilted his head and asked tentatively:
“Have you ever eaten seals?”
Guo Mi was very honest:
“No, but if you want to eat seals, I would rather not eat it when I go on ice floes in the summer.”
Caesar refused to give up:
"We are polar bears, and seals should be our main food, not fish. Seals are delicious!"
Guo Mi wanted to say that she was not a polar bear, she was a pure land brown bear, but she thought that she had just arrived here. It was best not to let the male bear know that she was not the same kind as him, so as not to cause more trouble. She finally swallowed this sentence.
But her attitude was very firm:
“I won’t go on the ice floe!”
Caesar was furious:
"How can you survive on the island in the summer if you don't get on the ice floe? You still have those two cubs with you!"
Guo Mi said nothing and stubbornly lowered his head, his attitude clearly expressed.
Caesar cursed in his heart:
“Stubborn bear!”
He thought for a while and decided to use a more tactful way to “trick” Guo Mi into following him on the ice floe. ：
"You have never eaten seals, so you think fish is a good thing. Let's do this. I will catch seals and you wait for me here. After eating, you will definitely change your mind!"
Guo Mi was dumbfounded. Just when she was about to say that she actually didn't like fish that much and her oral appetite wasn't that strong, Caesar had already turned around and trotted away.
She tried to call out, but she didn't call back. All the male bear left to her was the figure running away and away, and the pair of ears that bounced up and down as he ran.
......
Slok was lucky enough to catch a seal. He just had a delicious meal and felt that he was not satisfied yet. In the blink of an eye, he saw Caesar dragging half of the seal forward, his eyes Suddenly it lit up!
He greeted loudly:
"Caesar, I'm here. Where have you been these two days? I can't find you anywhere -"
Just as he was about to go over and have a few more bites, he found that Caesar didn't hear his call at all, and dragged the seal and ran towards the snow-capped mountains without looking back.
Slok suddenly felt aggrieved, but more curiosity followed.
In the past two days, he had been looking for Caesar everywhere, but found nothing. Now he finally saw him, but found that he was actually running towards the snow-capped mountains.
You must know that Caesar usually stays in the ice floe area. At this time in previous years, he would have stayed on the ice floe for a long time to avoid being left behind on the island after the ice floe drifted away.
Now you are actually running to the snowy mountains? !
Slok was filled with curiosity and trotted far behind Caesar, following him all the way.
Looking at Caesar dragging the half of the seal so far, he didn’t even smell his own scent, or in other words, didn’t care?
He couldn't even hide the curiosity in his heart!
Until Slok followed Caesar to an icy lake and watched Caesar drag half a seal to another bear as if offering a treasure. Then, he saw a scene he never expected to see in his life!
His ruthless and mighty brother was actually slapped with a big claw by another bear? !
(End of this chapter)