Chapter 87 Losses caused by heavy rain
When Guo Mi woke up, half of the water that could cover her body had receded, her hair was half dry, and she had a musty smell all over her body.
The clouds covering the sky have dispersed, and the sun shines through the thick clouds, dyeing the edges of the clouds with a layer of orange light, which is warm and eye-catching.
The storm last night was like a dream, replaced by the moment of peace and beautiful scenery now.
Guo Mi stood up, Salmon slid down her back, and continued to sleep on the ground.
Fishbone slept with his paws in the air and began to roll into the water unnoticed. Guo Mi stretched out his paws to fish out a handful before he completely rolled into the water.
She shook her fur and sat on the ground in a daze for a while. Then she stretched out her paws to push the two cubs awake and waved them back:
She wanted to go back and take a look. Her hole.
…Then Guo Mi collapsed.
The hole didn't collapse, but it made her collapse even more than if it had collapsed!
The carefully maintained hole filled with dried flowers has been filled with rainwater and now looks like a bottle filled with water.
Guo Mi stood at the entrance of the cave, looking at the muddy water that was about to overflow the cave and fell into deep thought.
She tentatively put her paws into the water and stirred it, then raised it up, looking at her paws that were stained yellow by the mud, and finally recognized the cruel reality:
Her hole It was completely scrapped.
If you want to drain out the water, you have to dig down at least half of the cave entrance. Even then, the originally rammed cave wall has been soaked in water. The heat in the Arctic in summer is only relative to the temperature in winter. In fact, The upper temperature will not exceed 10 degrees, and I don’t know how long it will take for such a deep and wet hole to dry out.
In other words, there is no need to rescue this hole.
Guo Mi was a little decadent, but after sitting at the entrance of the cave for two minutes, she suddenly remembered -
She seemed to be more than just this one, this was a cave, and there was another important one. The most important hole!
The giant fur ball jumped up from the ground with a "scratch". Its round body was faster and more flexible than ever before, and it ran towards the hole next to the flower field!
The two little bears didn't know what was going on, so they spread their paws and ran after her.
The three bears hurried to the flower field.
The vast sea of flowers that used to be brightly colored has become a mess. The ground is covered with splashed petals, the flower stems are broken, and the leaves have fallen.
Guo Mi stood in front of the flower field and took a deep breath. He stepped forward and his paws suddenly became wet. The water that had been blocked by the broken branches and leaves suddenly covered the back of his paws.
Her heart sank, and she walked quickly to the entrance of the cave, and pushed aside the flowers and plants covering the entrance with her paws!
As expected, the hole had already been filled with water, maybe because it was blocked by grass. It was not as serious as the water in Guo Mi's nest, but half of the hole was still filled.
The fish hiding inside have long been submerged.
Guo Mi didn't care about anything else and just got into the hole. His claws were exploring everywhere in the water. When he touched a fish, he lowered his head and picked it up with his mouth and threw it out of the hole.
After searching for a while, he came out of the cave again. His white hair was soaked in crimson mud, and he looked very embarrassed.
She lowered her head and counted the fish she fished out. Only twenty-nine of the thirty-two fish were left, so she went back into the hole and soaked in the water for a long time with her head lowered. Then he took out the remaining three fish.
The salmon stretched out its claws and touched the fish soaked in water on the ground. It was not the kind of fish that had been hardened by drying. Instead, it began to soften. He raised his head and asked Guo Mi:
"Guo Mi, can these fish still be eaten?"
Guo Mi lowered his head and smelled it. There was no smell of spoilage, and said helplessly:
"It can be eaten, but it cannot be preserved any longer. . ”
The dried fish has been softened by water, and the water itself is not very clean. Without the sea salt attached to it, it will quickly become moldy and deteriorate.
Now the last bit of confidence Guo Mi had left for herself was gone.
She sighed and pushed the fish forward with her nose:
"Eat it."
The fish bone lowered its head and took a bite, its little face shrank into a ball, and its paws covered its nose. , after holding it in for a long time, I finally managed to say a small sentence: "...it seems a bit unpalatable."
It is definitely unpalatable, after all, it was already unpalatable before being soaked in water. .
Guo Mi also took a bite, his throat choked and he almost spit it out!
The fish itself, which is salty and fishy, becomes even more fishy when soaked in water, especially when the fish meat becomes moist again after being dried. The meat is half soft and half dry, like chewing rotten cowhide.
Not only is it unpalatable, it is simply a biological weapon made by a bear!
Guo Mi held the mouthful of fish in her mouth and mustered up the courage several times, but her courage did not last long enough for her to swallow the mouthful of fish meat down her throat.
After struggling for a while, he finally resigned himself to spitting out the fish meat in his mouth and said to the two little bears:
"...or don't eat it."
Food is indeed precious, but it is not worth the gain to cause health problems for these two mouthfuls of fish.
Guo Mi felt that her intestines and stomach were not strong enough to withstand the test of biological and chemical weapons, and there was no hospital here. She did not want to struggle for so long and eventually die of a digestive tract infection.
Salmon looked up at her.
The giant fur ball said that he should not eat it, but the pain in his eyes could not be concealed.
She looked at each other with the fish bones, then lowered her head and took another bite of the soaked dried fish, chewed it hard and muttered:
"Actually..., it's not that unpalatable."
< br>The fish bone swallowed the saliva, closed his eyes and bit it, shouting while chewing:
"Yes, it is still edible. It doesn't matter, Guo Mi, we can finish it!"
How could Guo Mi not know the kindness of the two little guys? She was very happy, but Still pulling the soaked air-dried fish steak aside, he said warmly:
"Okay, although you can eat it, you can't eat too much. Dried fish has no nutrition. Let's eat other things."
The two little bears looked at her blankly.
Guo Mi stood up pretending to be relaxed and walked towards the place where he usually hunts reindeer:
“Let’s go, I will catch the reindeer for you.”
However, they soon realized that it seemed, maybe, seemingly...
There is no way to capture the reindeer.
The original source of fresh water was originally very low, which was why rainwater could be accumulated to form a fresh water pool.
However, due to the heavy rain that lasted for a day and a night, the water level of the original freshwater pool surged away from the constraints of the waterfront and spread, and was mixed and connected with a saltwater river not far away that separated and extended from the sea. , forming a vast depression!
In other words, the original fresh water source has disappeared.
Guo Mi was dumbfounded. She looked at the unfamiliar turbid water in front of her. She couldn't believe that this was the source of fresh water where she hunted reindeer before.
I thought I was going the wrong way, but suddenly I saw a few protruding boulders on the water's edge not far away along the shoreline under my feet.
It looks familiar, and she has an ominous premonition in her heart, right?
I looked carefully and looked at it until I saw deer bones stuck in the cracks on the boulder. Then I realized in hindsight that this was probably the top of the boulder slope.
...So the vast ocean in front of us is really the original source of fresh water!
Guo Mi's mind was in chaos, but something suddenly made sense.
No wonder the boulders on the rocky slope are rounder than those under the cliff. That's it.
On heavy rain days every year in the rainy season, the water accumulated here will spread over the top of the stone slope, and once it is connected to the sea, there will be undercurrents.
Although the time here is short compared to the whole year, the stones will also be smoothed by the water over the years.
This is another trace left by time in nature.
(End of this chapter)