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

Chapter 123 The Little Bear Watching Summer

Far from the Arctic center, where the climate is neither too cold nor too warm, the trees have managed to retain their verdant greenery for a longer period.

A female polar bear lay comfortably on the grass, her mouth open and breathing slightly, her eyes squinting to avoid the direct sunlight.

A little polar bear was running around wildly beside her, rolling on the ground every now and then, with bits of grass sticking to its body, adding a touch of green to its white fur.

The cubs are full of energy and get carried away with their playfulness, sometimes even running over to stomp on their mothers before running away again before the mothers get angry.

Several times in a row, Summer lost her previous leisurely and relaxed state, and she lay there helplessly enduring the little bear's excessive energy.

Fortunately, this boundless energy dissipated quickly. Before long, the little one felt tired, wobbled over to his mother, and slumped to one side—

He lay down on his back with his four legs pointing upwards.

She rolled around on the grass twice, then rested her head on her mother's body, closed her eyes, and soon began to snore softly.

When the little bear gets excited, it can lift up all the dirt on the ground, but when it quiets down, it falls asleep in less than two seconds.

Summer was used to this, letting her lean most of her weight on her, and then she closed her eyes again. The mother and daughter quietly enjoyed this rare moment of tranquility.

However, accidents always happen unexpectedly. When the mother bear smelled the scent of other bears, she immediately abandoned her lazy demeanor, opened her eyes, and a sharp glint flashed in them.

However, she quickly realized that the scent she smelled was far less intense and strong than that of an adult bear:
This is the smell of a cub.

Summer felt a sense of relief, but immediately became wary again.

The presence of cubs indicates the presence of a mother bear. Although not as threatening as male bears, they are still a significant potential hazard.

She turned her head and made a gurgling sound in her throat, urging the little bear to stop sleeping.

The little brat was very unwilling, rubbed his head against her body, tilted his head and lay on the ground refusing to get up.

Summer simply stood up and strode away.

The bear's head, which had been resting against her, slid off and hit the ground.

Even if there were thick grass, or even if it bumped directly onto a rock, the force wouldn't even be a tickle to the little bear.

But she could clearly sense her mother's anger, so she dared not act recklessly anymore. She quickly stood up, and although there was still some reluctance in her eyes, she obediently followed her mother closely.

Summer hesitated, wondering whether she should leave early. She could only smell the bear cubs; she couldn't smell the mother bear at all.

...A lone bear?

Unlikely.

As she pondered this, the scent of the bear entered her nostrils once more, and she stopped abruptly after taking only a couple of steps.

The little bear following closely behind her had its head drooping and was drowsy. It didn't notice that the big bear in front of it had stopped and bumped straight into it!
The little guy was startled, took two steps back and almost fell on his bottom, shook his head, and was now completely awake.

Summer looked up and sniffed again, feeling that the two scents she smelled were somewhat familiar.

She was certain that she had smelled it before.

Where exactly did I smell it from...?

The mother bear lowered her head in deep thought, and finally found the source of the two scents in her jumbled memories.

Aren't these the two little cubs that Guo Mi adopted, Kaya's cubs?
The sharpness in her eyes was replaced by surprise.

Those two little brats are still alive?!

But weren't they in the snowy mountains? How did they end up in such a far place? Are they like them?
But she didn't seem to have seen Guo Mi on the ice floes either.

Oh, right, Guo Mi!
Why can I only smell the bear's scent, and not hers?

Although there is speculation that Guo Mi might have difficulty raising the cubs, since they weren't her own children, she simply abandoned them, and the cubs, not knowing the way, wandered all the way here.

But summer quickly dispelled this speculation.

Because those two cubs couldn't possibly have survived this long on their own, and apart from Guo Mi, no other bear in the entire Arctic would adopt those two cubs.

So it must have been Guo Mi who raised them to this age.

Where did Guo Mi go?
Could it be that you raised them until they were half-grown and then abandoned them because you thought they had a chance of survival?

Why bring it all the way here to throw it away?

Xia Tian glanced around and couldn't help but twitch her lips. If she really took them this far away and abandoned them, it would probably mean she didn't want them to live.

She let her imagination run wild for a while, but in the end, she couldn't control her curiosity and comforted herself by thinking that even if it wasn't a lone bear cub, the mother bear that suddenly appeared would be Guo Mi.

So the female polar bear couldn't resist the temptation and once again defied the common sense of survival for polar bears with cubs, raising her paw and walking towards the direction from which the scent was coming from.

At a distance of about 400 meters, Xia Tian soon saw two bear cubs standing in front of a small earthen mound not far away, their heads facing each other, craning their necks to look up at the mound.

Before we could even see what they were looking at, the two bear cubs suddenly attacked with their claws!
The bear's four paws swung up and down, leaving only afterimages. The damp soil, bits of grass, and pebbles were all shoveled into the air and then landed not far away.

Summer was amazed by the speed and skill with which the bear cubs dug the hole.

This guy's ability to create problems has already surpassed hers. Honestly, if it were her digging, she probably wouldn't be this efficient.

As the bear dug, the hole on the slope grew bigger and bigger. Finally, with a swipe of its little paw, a hole suddenly appeared in the pit wall!

The bear started digging the hole even faster!

Before long, the fragile soil layer suddenly collapsed, and a bunch of things rolled out of the suddenly appeared hole with a "crashing" sound.

Another ground squirrel has lost its precious food storehouse!
In the summer, I smelled it, and it smelled like berries and seeds.

The salmon and fish bones not far away looked at the scattered fruit at their feet with delight and exchanged a happy glance.

The salmon lowered its head and pawed at the surface:

"It seems like there are many more berries and seeds that I've never seen before."

Fishbone asked hesitantly:

"Shall we eat?"

They hadn't eaten for a while, and these berries were a hard-won food source.

The food was already so scarce that it could barely fill our stomachs. If we further reduced the supply of fruits that we didn't even know if they were edible, we would probably only be able to taste them.

The salmon lowered its head and sniffed the fruit, just like Guo Mi did. The smells were sweet, sour, and bitter.

She looked at the fish bones.

The little bear's longing gaze fell on the berries on the ground, and it swallowed mouthful after mouthful of saliva, but could only endure its hunger.

The salmon gritted its teeth:

"I'll eat first, and you can eat if you're okay."

She plans to do what Guo Mi did: test the salmon for poison!
Fishbone immediately refused:

"I'll eat first. I'm big, so I should be able to handle it if I get poisoned."

The salmon thought this was nonsense; anyone poisoned would feel terrible, so what was the point of talking about whether they could endure it?! Therefore, it also refused.

"No, I'm the older sister, I should be the one taking care of you, so I'll eat first!"

"I'll go first, I'm big!"

"I'll go! I'm the older sister!"

……

The little bears were making a huge fuss, and Xia Tian listened with great interest from a distance. Her gaze fell on the scattered nuts, and she recognized most of them.

Once I confirmed that everything was edible, I immediately felt relieved and continued listening to the bears' argument.

Both bear cubs were afraid of being poisoned by the other, so they fought over who would be the first to eat.

After listening to the whole thing, Xia Tian had only one question in her mind: how exactly did Guo Mi raise the bear cubs to produce two such cubs?

Look at these two little rascals, it seems they're planning to rely on each other from now on.

"The strange mother bear has raised two more unruly cubs."

Summer thought strangely, but then she realized that this was the little bear raised by Guo Mi, and it made sense.

Meanwhile, the argument between the two bear cubs in the distance finally came to an end, and they had reached a result that satisfied both of them!