Chapter 52 Summer Preparations
Caesar never came back after leaving that night. Guo Mi was in a bad mood and gave up after two days, and continued living with the two cubs.
Life is always full of partings, and so is Xiong Sheng.
The only difference is that Slok will still appear at the lake
-he comes to play with the little bear.
He said that Caesar ignored him. In order to avoid being discovered by other male bears and continue to bully him, he decided to stay away from those male bears.
The two cubs will not bully him. They are also the only cubs allowed by the mother bear to touch him.
Slok couldn't stand the loneliness after living away from his kind for a few days, so he simply came to see Little Bear.
Guo Mi’s observation period for him is finally over, and he can now play around with the little bear.
The male bear was swimming in the lake with his cub, with the fish bones lying on his back, and the salmon learning to imitate his swimming movements.
Slok was satisfied as long as he had the bears with him. He climbed ashore after playing enough in the water, shook his fur on the shore, sat next to Guo Mi and watched the two cubs learn to swim, and said regretfully:
"I wonder if my little bear cub can swim."
Guo Mi asked him:
"Don't you often go to see them?"
Slok Somewhat lost:
"I can't find them. I haven't seen them for a long time."
This is not good news for him, because his mother left this area and went to other areas.
The North Pole is huge. He has tried to find it, but in the end he failed.
He didn’t understand if the fact that he couldn’t find the mother bear and her cubs now meant that they had gone to live somewhere else.
Guo Mi vaguely heard him talking about his childhood with Caesar and their mother. She knew what he was worried about and comforted him:
"Maybe I just left temporarily because of the seasonal change. Maybe I will come back when the weather is colder."
She lowered her head and looked at the ice under her feet. The edge had changed from the first foggy white to the current crystal clear one. Transparent.
This is the message that the ice is starting to melt.
The "Iceland" in the center of the lake has long since disappeared, and she may not be able to bring the little bear here again in two days.
At that time, the entire glacial lake will disappear.
Slok also realized this and jumped up suddenly:
"Oops, it's so late!"
Guo Mi looked up at the sky with some confusion, the sun was at noon.
Slok has already stood up, and hurriedly walked out:
“It’s already this time, the ice floes may have drifted away, and if we don’t get on the ice floes, we may be dead this year. Gotta stay on the island!”
In summer, the seals leave with the ice floes, making it difficult to live on the island.
Slok turned around halfway and asked Guo Mi, who was still sitting there:
"Aren't you coming with me?"
He thought Guo Mi was For the safety of the little bear, he continued: < br>
“It’s okay. Although there are many bears on the ice floes, the ice floes in summer are much more difficult to move than the glaciers in winter. Especially the male bears are afraid of trampling on the ice, and the probability of chasing down the cubs will increase. Greatly reduced.”
He tilted his head and wondered:
“Didn’t your mother take you on an ice floe when you were a child?”
Guo Mi silently thought in her heart that she really hadn’t, but she said with a smile on her face:
“I want to stay on the island this summer.”
A polar bear can stay in the water for four or five hours and march dozens of kilometers. If forced by death, it can even march on the island. Hundreds of kilometers!
This is their trump card for survival on the ice floe.
Guo Mi didn't have such a trump card, she couldn't do it, so she had no choice but to give up her prey, the fertile ice floe, and choose to stay on the island.
Even if food is scarce, there is still a glimmer of hope for her to stay on the island. If the ice breaks or melts on the ice floe, her chances of survival are slim to none, let alone the two cubs.
Slok looked at Guo Mi in surprise.
Staying on the island, you still have to feed two cubs whose appetites are getting bigger and bigger? !
How is this possible? !
He advised kindly:
“If you don’t think about it, staying on the island in the summer is not just a matter of lack of food.”
Guo Mi’s eyes were firm, I have made up my mind:
“I know, but I can only stay on the island this year.”
Let her try again and hopefully next year she can catch up to at least half, if not all, of the polar bear's swimming abilities.
Only in this way can she safely take the bear onto the ice floe. Seeing that she was not going to change her mind, Slok thought to himself, "How stubborn", so he had no choice but to leave first:
"Then I'll leave first."
He has to catch up with the ice floe, and he also has to find Caesar before catching up with the ice floe. Although he is a cold-blooded brother, he will feel safer staying with Caesar.
Guo Mi said goodbye to Slok and finally had time to calm down and plan for the future.
Not only Caesar, but also Slok told her that food is scarce on the island in summer.
Guo Mi is not blindly optimistic. The words of the two male bears mean that the summer island may not be as beautiful as she imagined.
Is there any way to stock up on some food in advance?
Guo Mi’s eyes fell on the icy lake in front of him.
The lake is a seawater lake, and newly caught sea fish will contain salt as long as they are not left on the snow for a long time.
Since arriving in the North Pole, Guo Mi was finally able to use human knowledge for once and found a place with strong winds and plenty of sunshine.
First use the bear claws to dig out all the surrounding snow, and then use your body weight to compact the soft soil bit by bit.
It won't snow anymore. It only takes one day for the mud platform made by Guomi's "Xiong Worker" to dry and harden, becoming a natural sunbathing platform.
Guo Mi spent all his rest time in the afternoon fishing, transporting the caught fish to the terrace over and over again.
To keep the salt from escaping, the fish cannot be left on the snow for long periods of time, so she has to be transported back and forth several times.
Fortunately, there are two little bears. They have grown up and can help transport fish together.
Although they didn’t know what Guo Mi was doing, the two little furballs still obediently helped run back and forth without a single word of complaint.
Guo Mi has never thought about finding something to put the fish on, and then drag a lot of them away at once.
Unfortunately, this is the Arctic, and cold zone plants do not have the wide leaves unique to tropical rainforests, so Guomi can only give up.
After carrying it back and forth several times, the fish finally covered the natural terrace. Guo Mi breathed a sigh of relief, and then took the little bear back to the lake, preparing to fill his stomach for the day.
When I came back in the evening, all the fish on the terrace had disappeared, leaving only a few huge bear paw prints and two rows of small bear footprints.
Guo Mi's eyes darkened, he lowered his head and smelled it, it was an unfamiliar smell.
It should be another female bear looking for food with her cubs, and they found "a gift from nature" here.
Guo Mi had no choice but to blame her for being careless and taking things for granted. She had nothing else to blame.
She had no choice but to change a place and re-build the terrace overnight. She came to the lake early the next day and started catching fish. This time she ate while catching fish. She reluctantly brought two cubs to pad their bellies and then stayed there. By the terrace.
At night, I dug a hole next to the balcony and barely slept in it with two little bears.
......
When Slock arrived at the coast, the ice floe had not completely drifted away. He breathed a sigh of relief and looked around, trying his luck to see Caesar.
After my hope failed, I had no choice but to search hard, and finally I saw him on the beach after looking for the smell.
Slok was overjoyed, and Le Diandian ran over:
"Caesar!"
Caesar looked back at him and then looked away, lying down on the huge stone on the beach.
Slok came up to him, opened his mouth and couldn't stop:
"It's already this time, why don't you get on the ice floe? Are you waiting for me? I'm fine Touched..."
Caesar closed his eyes and endured Slok's noise, until he heard him say:
"Guo Mi said she would not go on the ice floe, and she would stay on the island. It's strange, there is no food on the island at all, she How can you raise a little bear if you stay on the island? Also, why haven't you gone to see her recently..."
Caesar opened his eyes and was not surprised when he heard the news.
The round-faced plate bear has always been stubborn, and what he said is useless. Of course, it is also possible that she does not want to hear it...
The male bear felt agitated and turned over his paws. Ears covered.
Slok stopped when he had nothing to say. He lowered his head and found that Caesar's eyes were closed tightly, as if he didn't listen to what he said at all.
He wasn't angry either. After all, he had been used to it since childhood. He just calmed down for a while before continuing:
"Caesar, it's going to be too late. Let's get on the ice floe quickly."
Caesar opened his eyes and looked at the exposed rocks on the beach where the ice and snow had melted. He squinted his eyes and remained motionless. He didn’t know how long it had been before he whispered:
“I won’t float this year. Ice.”
(End of this chapter)