Deep affection knows no origin; remember the polar bear's love for you.

Chapter 116 We must bring her back to her hometown.
The initial low vegetation gradually gave way to taller shrubs, with broad-leaved plants interspersed among the common narrow-leaved ones.

The wind that brushed past her nose no longer brought a biting chill. Guo Mi stretched her body to her heart's content in the increasingly comfortable environment, slightly shaking her fluffy fur, her face full of comfort.

The little bear's attention was mostly drawn to some plants and animals it had never seen before, and it also found some other berries.

This time, Caesar wasn't there to tell them what they could and couldn't eat.

Guo Mi was the first to test the poison. Since the bear was so big, one or two pills probably wouldn't have much effect, so she always ate more than ten pills first, and then waited for about two hours to make sure she didn't feel any discomfort before letting the little bear try.

The berries here have a significantly higher sugar content than the berries I found in the berry grove before.

Guo Mi and her two bear cubs stopped to rest on a small patch of berries.

The salmon picked up two berries from under the leaves and swallowed them, its tongue crushing the skin and savoring the sweet flesh.

She could only taste the small fruit, but she didn't go looking for a third one. She just glanced at Guo Mi out of the corner of her eye to make sure she wasn't looking at her, and then quickly took a couple of deep breaths.

The fishbone lay beside him, its eyes closed, its limbs spread wide, its mouth slightly open, its chest and abdomen rising and falling rapidly, and four or five berries piled up beside its paws.

The salmon licked his lips, and after licking the fish bones twice, it moved its little head away, opened its eyes, and glanced at her weakly without saying a word.

The salmon, however, had already read the meaning in his eyes:
heat.

It's so hot that even being licked twice is unbearable.

Fishbone closed its eyes again, then simply rolled over, lying on its back with its four paws in the air. After a while, feeling the sun shining on its belly, it rolled back over.

The salmon sat beside him, mouth open, forcibly suppressing the urge to gasp for breath, mimicking the fish bones by taking small, rapid breaths, as if this would lower its body temperature and make it cooler.

The two bear cubs stared longingly at Guo Mi, who was lying in the sun, her eyes half-closed and drowsy, until she fell asleep with her head resting on her front paws. Only then did they seem to receive a pardon!

The fishbone inhaled deeply, trying to exhale and dissipate the heat from its body.

He took a couple of breaths and then stopped, holding his breath as he ran a couple of steps away before continuing to frantically inhale.

The salmon wasn't as badly affected as him, but it was still incredibly hot.

Looking at the small pile of fruit left behind by the fish bones, he nudged it with the tip of his nose:
"Eat something, in case you can't find anything to eat later, you'll go hungry."

Fishbone looked at the two fruits, stretched his head, opened his mouth several times, but still couldn't eat them. He could only say with difficulty:
"I can't eat."

Fruits that used to be sweet and delicious nowadays not only taste cloying but also make you feel thirsty.

The fishbone raised its nose and sniffed hard, but smelled nothing, and couldn't help but feel disappointed.

"I can't smell the water."

The salmon also sighed:
"I can't smell it either."

The air in this area is very mixed; even the smell of soil is stronger than before. Every time I smell something like water, I end up only seeing damp soil.

The little bears were almost ready to give up struggling, because the journey was making their bodies warm.

Fishbone took two more deep breaths and asked intermittently:

"Guo Mi, so you live in... such a hot place?"

The salmon, enduring the greasy taste, swallowed two more fruits:
"To be precise, we are still far from where Guo Mi wants to go, so the place where she lives should be even hotter than here."

Fishbone was somewhat desperate:

"Can we really go there with Guo Mi?"

The salmon remained silent, perhaps because they all knew it was impossible.

"But if we feel bad now, Guo Mi must have felt the same way when she was in the snow mountain."

She lowered her voice, sounding somewhat sad:
“Guo Mi has been staying in a place she doesn’t like for a long time because of us, so now it’s our turn to take care of her.”

If they show signs of being unable to tolerate the heat, Guo Mi will immediately give up trying to return to their homeland and instead take them back to the colder place.

Bada once told Guomi to give it a try, so that even if she failed, she wouldn't have any regrets. But isn't trying and failing also a form of regret?
So even though Guo Mi had asked them many times whether they felt hot and whether they could stand it, they never said that the temperature here was making them exhausted.

Even the urge to gasp for breath.

The salmon lowered its head, wanting to rub against the fish bones, but then stopped, remembering that he couldn't even bear to lick them. It lowered its eyes, as if it had made up its mind:
"Fishbone, even if we can't hold on until the end, we must get Guo Mi back to her hometown."

The fishbone's violently heaving chest suddenly stopped. After a long while, a small flying insect flew over the berry bushes, finally landing on the bear cub's nose before quickly flying away again.

Only one firm voice remained in the air:

"it is good."

……

The two male bears followed the scent left by Guo Mi.

Slok walked ahead with a cheerful grin, making jokes as he went:
"Wow, Guo Mi really went far. Are you that scary that she went to such lengths to avoid you?"

Caesar couldn't stand this and vehemently rejected it:

"She wasn't trying to avoid me."

Slok didn't even look back, continuing his idiotic behavior without learning his lesson:
"Then why did she run so far?"

Caesar was in low spirits and walked for a while before saying:
"She said the snow-capped mountains and ice floes were not suitable for her; she wanted to go to the forest."

"Not suitable?"

Slok was surprised and casually said:

"Why isn't it suitable? Don't polar bears all stay in snow-capped mountains and ice floes?"

Caesar's eyes dimmed, probably because she wasn't a polar bear.

Slok glanced back at Caesar, then ran back and bumped into him hard.
"Are you doubting that Guo Mi isn't a polar bear again?"

Then, before Caesar could speak, he shouted loudly:
"Come on, haven't we already discussed this? Although she looks a bit strange, and her personality and actions are a bit odd, she's definitely a purebred polar bear!"

His tone was so certain that Caesar's already firm belief began to waver again, and he patiently asked him the same question a second time:
"why?"

Slok immediately said:

Have you ever seen a bear that wasn't a polar bear at the foot of the snow-capped mountains?

Caesar exhaled a breath of hot air from his nose.

No, but what if Guo Mi is the first one?

Slok continued:
"Besides, she's so powerful. You didn't even see it that day. She beat the male polar bear so badly that he couldn't even fight back."

Caesar was puzzled:

"What does this mean?"

Slok shook his head:
"This means she's just as fierce as you; only polar bears have such powerful attacks!"

Caesar looked at him with a half-smile:
"We polar bears? You're in this 'group' too?"

Slok immediately jumped up and down, angrily shouting:
"Why do you turn around and mock me when I try to comfort you? I shouldn't bother with you at all!"

He walked away angrily, muttering to himself as he went:
"You even said Guo Mi wasn't trying to avoid you? If she wasn't trying to avoid you, why would she have gone so far?!"

He looked around and sighed:

"Where are we? Good heavens, there are probably only five polar bears left here, including us and the Guomi salmon bone, right?"

Caesar, who was following behind, paused almost imperceptibly for a moment, then suddenly said:
"more than."