Chapter 89 Ground Squirrel’s Food Storage
The next day Guo Mi slept until midnight again, and then wandered around with the little bear.
I haven’t eaten for two days. My stomach is hungry and my mind is empty. I want to rest after taking two steps. I close my eyes while walking. I don’t know whether I am sleepy or starved to death.
Guo Mi has lost most of his thinking ability and relies entirely on instinct.
The little bear followed and looked more and more worried. Salmon trotted two steps to catch up with her and whispered:
"Guo, Guo Mi, are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
Guo Mi looked down at her with blank eyes:
"Huh? No."
Fishbone He also ran forward and said worriedly:
"Guo Mi, are you unhappy about anything? If you are sad, can you tell us about it? Although we may not be able to help you, it would be better to say it, right?"
Guo Mi was in a daze. She looked up at the sky, then lowered her head at him:
"Are you unhappy...are you?"
She tilted her head and thought for a moment:
"I don't seem to be unhappy, I think I'm normal."
It's almost a calm and slightly crazy state.
Little Bear shouted in his heart:
Where is it normal? !
While speaking, Guo Mi walked forward for a moment, sniffed, and then his eyes fell not far away, with a glimmer of light flashing in his eyes:
“There is something to eat. "
The two little bears turned their heads in doubt. Before they could see clearly what it was, Guo Mi had already rushed out and raised his paws towards the grass in the distance!
A nimble little figure quickly shuttled through the bushes, cleverly avoiding Guo Mi's claws, and ran straight towards a small slope in the distance!
Guo Mi turned around and gave chase, but of course it was too late. The small animal with gray patterns had already gotten into the hole on the slope.
The two little bears realized what they were doing and trotted over quickly, only to find that Guo Mi had already started digging at the entrance of the hole!
This is a ground squirrel's hole.
Ground squirrels look very similar to common squirrels, but they are burrowing animals and like to store food in holes underground.
Probably because the arctic climate is cold and the vegetation is sparse, there are no trees suitable for making holes.
This kind of gadget is not as big as Guo Mi’s bear claw, so it can only be used as a snack.
The holes they dig are very deep. Once they get into the hole, it is difficult to get out. Generally, no bear will take advantage of them.
...Because the energy required to dig holes is not proportional to the energy replenished by eating them.
But for the little bears now, what they care about is no longer whether catching this ground squirrel will fill their stomachs, but whether Guo Mi will cheer up again.
The results disappointed them.
Guo Mi had very little spirit left. After digging his claws, he became discouraged. He muttered "Forget it" and leaned down on the slope next to him.
The little bears looked at each other, and the salmon took the lead in digging towards the hole dug by Guo Mi, and then the fish bones joined the battle!
The two little bears flew up and down with their claws, scattering soil everywhere
Salmon dug while panting and saying:
"Guo Mi, you may not be able to catch it, maybe we will dig it out soon!"
The fish bones are working hard, and the claws are even leaving afterimages!
The two little guys actually didn't know what happened to Guo Mi. Maybe she was just tired, maybe because she was hungry.
Digging up a ground squirrel doesn't seem to change anything, but that is the prey Guo Mi wants, and their intuition tells them that they will be much happier if they dig up a ground squirrel.
However, the ground squirrel's hole was intricately packed with countless underground chambers. The two little bears followed the hole and even dug through one of the animal's granaries, without even seeing its shadow.
The warehouse used by a small ground squirrel to store food is very large, 40 times its body size. There are many seeds of grass and trees rolling out, and some are berries stained with soil.
Although the main road dug by the little bear did not reach the end, it seemed bottomless.
Maybe the ground squirrel has escaped along the other exit of the hole, and they are destined to have done a useless job.
The two little bears were all dirty, with some mud stuck to the tips of their fish-bone noses, and the white hair on their paws was dyed yellow. They sat there in such a miserable state, their pitiful eyes falling on Guo Mi.
Guo Mi lay motionless on the ground, still unable to withstand the condemnation of his conscience. He sat up and lowered his head, sniffing the scattered muddy seeds and berries, and finally stretched out his paws. He pulled out a small orange berry from the pile of fruits and stuffed it into his mouth.
"It tastes pretty good." Guo Mi muttered.
The small berries first splashed out sweet juice in the mouth, followed by a slight sourness without any astringency, which complemented the previous sweetness.
The two little bears looked happy, but soon their faces fell down again.
The salmon picked up the hemispherical seeds of unknown plants on the ground with his paws, and said in a low voice:
"Guo Mi, are we useless?"
Would other little bears be able to help the big bear hunt at their age, but they couldn't even dig holes.
Guo Mi was stunned for a moment:
“Why do you think so?”
Apart from anything else, two little furballs are much easier to worry about than normal little bears. At a young age, I restrained my nature and stayed in one place for the whole day.
No normal baby animal can do this.
Guo Mi looked at the dug ground squirrel hole that was beyond recognition. He suddenly realized and said with a smile:
“Didn’t you find it and eat it?”
The little bear was a little bit Confused, Guo Mi stretched out his paws to pull out many berries from the ground squirrel's dug-out "warehouse":
"Try it."
The little guy still felt that Guo Mi was just trying to coax them, so he picked two fruits at random and ate them wholeheartedly.
Salmon's eyes lit up. She ate the small fruit as if she had eaten nothing, but the faint sweetness remained in her mouth. She smashed it and said:
"It's delicious! ”
The fish bone on the side had a bitter look on his face. He held it in for a while before swallowing the fruit with difficulty:
“It’s so bitter...”
Guo Mi lowered his head and found that what he was eating was another kind of green and hard fruit. There was no need to eat this kind of fruit. Just by looking at it, you could imagine the bitter taste.
In order not to accuse it unjustly, Guo Mi lowered his head and smelled it:
A bitter smell penetrated his nose.
Guo Mi pulled the small green fruit apart with his claws, rummaged through the pile of fruits with his nose, and pulled out a few bright red fruits:
“Eat this.”
With a round shape and a red color that is almost dripping, the fish bones hesitated a little and asked Guo Mi in a low voice:
"Yes, will it be poisonous?"
Guo Mi hesitated for a while. Uncertainly:
"...probably not. , Ground squirrels eat these seeds and berries all the year round. If they are poisonous, they will not pick them off and store them in the hole.”
Fishbone was immediately convinced, lowered his head and took the fruit into his mouth, and his eyes flashed. Take the light and chew it quickly:
"Yummy!"
The three bears started to enjoy the berries that the ground squirrel had hidden in the hole like bullies. They ate all the delicious ones and pulled aside the bitter ones.
I also ate some nuts, all with soft shells and plump fruits. The ones that were difficult to open were small and were put together with the unpalatable fruits.
But berries are more popular!
Whether you want to eat or not is another matter, but it is enough to satisfy your cravings.
During this period, Guo Mi dug twice more at the entrance of the collapsed cave, and finally dug out another "warehouse", which was another pile of scattered berries and seeds.
Another addiction to your mouth!
I don’t know whether it was because they ate too much or because they chewed slowly, but after digging through the two warehouses of ground squirrels, the three bears actually felt as if they really had something in their stomachs.
Not full, but not hungry for the time being.
Guo Mi's heavy and depressed mood was relieved a lot by the sweet berries. Before leaving, he dug a hole and helped the ground squirrel bury the leftover bitter fruits and hard-skinned nuts. .
The hole she dug was larger than that dug by a ground squirrel. The bear's paws tamped the walls of the hole tightly, and the leftover berries and nuts inside were only enough to fill the bottom, making the entire hole look much empty.
After finally sealing the top, Guo Mi raised his paw and patted his masterpiece, feeling extremely satisfied.
Saving food in exchange for a bigger house, no matter how you look at her, she is a conscientious "bandit"!
The three bears left the "crime scene" in such a swagger.
(End of this chapter)