Chapter 118 Heat Stroke
Guo Mi was in a deep sleep, and his heavy breath sprayed out, causing an unknown flower beside his face to tilt sideways. Before he could straighten up, another breath came one after another.
The sparse petals sadly withered to the ground, and the remaining flower disks hung dejectedly.
The bear that destroyed it turned over, its ears twitched twice, and then went to destroy another flower.
Guo Mi was not dreaming, but her brain did not feel like it was resting. She even had the energy to think about some things. It was as heavy as her eyelids.
Subconsciously, she knew it was time to wake up, but she couldn't open her eyes no matter what, and her body forced her to stay where she was and sleep.
During this period, she rarely ate, and mostly ate wild fruits. She was so hungry that she even picked up grass to eat. Occasionally she caught one or two prey that were pitifully small.
Guo Mi took a few bites to taste and then gave it to the little bear.
She didn’t know if it was because of this that bears living in cold areas would hibernate because they lacked food and wanted to save energy.
But now the autumn is halfway through, it can be considered late autumn at most, and it is far from the time when Guo Mi thinks he should hibernate.
Guo Mi thought in confusion. His clear thoughts only lasted for a while and began to become chaotic again.
Sure enough, sleeping is the brain sleeping, and the self-consciousness cannot last long.
She was about to compromise with herself, thinking that she would just fall asleep and wake up when it was time to wake up in an hour or two. A panicked cry came into her ears:
"Guo "Mi, Guo Mi, wake up, wake up!"
Salmon anxiously leaned into Guo Mi's ear and called her, but all he saw was that she was motionless, and her eyes were slightly twitching under her closed eyelids. The child is spinning around.
She didn't care about anything else and just used her paw to push Guo Mi hard!
After some actions, Guo Mi finally opened his eyes as if frightened, and stared blankly ahead. After a second or two, he seemed to have returned to his thoughts and shook his head vigorously!
Seeing that she was awake, Salmon felt happy. He quickly remembered what he should do and said quickly:
"Guo Mi, something happened to the fish bone!"
Guo Mi had just woken up when he heard the thunderous news. He quickly dragged his heavy body that had just woken up and followed the salmon, asking anxiously:
"What's wrong?"
Salmon opened his mouth, but suddenly thought of something, his eyes were a little guilty, his eyes flickered, and he answered only when Guo Mi asked for the second time:
"He , he seems to be too hot and is sick!”
Guo Mi’s mind went “boom”, he is sick because of the heat, isn’t that a heatstroke? !
Now is not the time to ask her, "I haven't felt hot all the time. Why did I just have a nap and then I got heat stroke?"
All she knows is that heat stroke is not as common as it sounds, and if not treated properly it can lead to death!
There are not a few people who die from heat stroke every year in the world, and countless cats and dogs die from heatstroke. This is a wilderness with no hospital!
Guo Mi quickened his pace and followed the salmon for a long time without seeing the shadow of the fish bones. He hurriedly asked:
"You are staying next to the berry bush to eat fruits, why have you walked so far? ?”
Little Bear is usually well-behaved, and in such a strange place, he knows how to stay where Guo Mi can see him as soon as he opens his eyes, but today he was uncharacteristically different.
Salmon ran wildly ahead, and his eyes flashed when he heard Guo Mi's words.
They did stay by Guo Mi's side at first, but it was too hot and they couldn't help but pant. They were too close to Guo Mi to hear, so they went far away. Take a few steps.
Later, the heat became unbearable, and there was always the damp and slightly fishy smell unique to water sources in the air.
Although the previous times they found damp soil, this time they couldn't withstand the high temperature and searched again.
I originally thought that even if I found moist soil, I would press it hard twice to see if I could squeeze out the water. But if I couldn’t lie on it and let the water vapor cool down, I would be fine even if I could eat two mouthfuls of soil.
As a result, he walked further and further, and before he could find the fish bones, he suddenly fell to the ground!
Salmon was startled by his appearance. Although the little guy usually has a more mature personality than the cubs of the same age, he still panicked when faced with his brother's painful appearance.
The first thing she could think of was Guo Mi, so she ran back with all her strength.
Guo Mi listened to her intermittently talking about being thirsty and looking for water, and his eyes fell on her tight little ears.
I feel like she has said a lot less.
Finally seeing a "giant tree" that was rarely seen in the north, Salmon was overjoyed:
"There!"
Guo Mi looked over and finally saw the tree. When I saw the familiar white-haired dumpling, I quickly walked over to take a look. The fish bone was lying on its side under the tree, its limbs were twitching slightly, its mouth was wide open, and it was panting rapidly and violently. It drooled all over the floor. There was a pool of yellow water next to its mouth, and you could still see the residue of berries mixed in it.
This should be vomit.
There were varying degrees of purple spots on the gums and tongue of his open mouth. Guo Mi's eyes narrowed. This was obviously a symptom of heat stroke.
And it has been delayed for a long time.
Salmon was spinning around anxiously:
“What should I do, Guo Mi, what should I do...”
Even if he didn’t understand what happened, the little bear realized that he was related to his own blood The younger brother who has always depended on each other is now at a critical moment.
Even when faced with an adult bear dozens of times bigger than himself, the little bear could hold back his fear of standing up to protect his younger brother. Faced with this moment, his psychological defense finally collapsed, and his voice was filled with tears and whimpering.
The pathos in her voice urged Guo Mi.
Guo Mi looked around. There were only trees and grass here, and nothing else. There were no medicines, no medical equipment, not even simple first aid medicines.
There are only trees, only grass, trees...
She finally noticed the giant tree in front of her. Its large and wide leaves were green in color and its branches were spreading. This was not an ordinary cold-resistant plant. Some characteristics.
Polar bears are not heat-resistant, and the temperatures that can cause heatstroke in polar bears are not actually considered warm for plants.
Besides, it’s autumn now, and it still has green leaves.
Guo Mi quickly scanned the surrounding environment. Only this tree was very tall. The broad crown blocked most of the sunlight, causing most of the surrounding plants to be low.
It monopolizes all the sunlight, but that's not enough.
For plants to grow well, fertilizer, sunlight and water are all indispensable.
Animal droppings make great fertilizer, but what exactly attracts them to this site?
Guo Mi was sure almost instantly that there must be a water source around, and it was quite a large one!
She immediately went to look at the roots of the tree.
This tree is already very big, so big that its roots even break through the soil and are exposed in the air.
Most of these exposed roots extend in one direction, with only a few scattered ones extending in other directions.
The direction of the water source is self-evident.
Guo Mi made a quick decision, went up and picked up the fish bone by the back of the neck, and headed towards the root of the tree with great effort.
Yu Gu is now a half-grown bear, and she can no longer carry him easily on her back like before.
After dragging the fish bone for two steps, Guo Mi was in pain from the roots of his teeth to his gums.
Salmon wanted to help, but found that he was in the way, so he had no choice but to follow along.
Guo Mi's whole mouth hurt, especially the teeth that bit the fish bones. We had to be careful not to bite him, but also not to let him blurt out, so we had to use clever force, which was very embarrassing for Xiong.
She could only stare longingly in front of her eyes, hoping to see the water source soon.
After all, the tree is so huge, no one knows how far its root system extends.
Here comes another little knowledge:
Polar bears are actually very intolerant to heat. They have thick subcutaneous fat, their fur is transparent, and their skin is dark, so they absorb light. The heat it brings is far greater than that of ordinary animals.
Polar bears in zoos have more or less adapted to the warm temperatures around them, and the temperatures that can cause heat stroke are much higher than in wild polar bears.
For wild polar bears, in the early years, temperatures of 5 degrees above zero could even cause heat stroke.
Although the temperature has risen rapidly in recent years, polar bears have to adapt to the environment in order to survive. Most polar bears that survive the survival of the fittest can tolerate higher temperatures, but they are still afraid of the heat.