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

Chapter 127 A Summer Journey

After some conversation, Guo Mi learned that since seeing Caesar in the summer, in order to avoid contact with the male bear again, she no longer lingered by the frozen lake, but instead chose to go onto the floating ice early in the morning.

"It's hotter than usual this year, and the ice is melting too fast."

"Summer is so pleasant," Xia Youyou said.

She and Big White were on an ice floe that shrank from large to small, eventually becoming thinner.

The ice floes are constantly moving with the sea. To prevent them from melting far from the shore, in the summer, we can only take Big White into the water where we can vaguely see the shore and then swim towards the coastline.

"It looked close, but when I actually started swimming, I found it wasn't that easy. The waves were too big, and I swam off course. It took me a whole day to finally get ashore."

"The whole day?!" Guo Mi exclaimed in surprise.

To swim continuously in the sea for an entire day?!
She couldn't help but admire the polar bear, thinking how truly excellent a swimmer it was! A wave of disappointment washed over her as she realized her own swimming skills were still only mediocre.

Summer didn't let her off the hook either, and immediately asked:

How's your swimming coming along?

Guo Mi was very guilty and gave a very vague answer:

"Yes, it's much better than before."

She was telling the truth. Compared to when she first met Xia Tian, ​​her swimming skills had improved a lot, but compared to Xia Tian's ability to swim in the sea all day long, it was still far from impressive.

If you speak out, you'll inevitably have to cover things up.

Seeing her like this, Xia Tian understood what was going on and didn't pursue the topic too much.

Although she spoke of it lightly, there were quite a few hardships involved.

First and foremost, there are the winds and waves.

Although the sea wasn't as turbulent as during the storm, the feeling of being hit by huge waves was unpleasant, especially later when Big White was exhausted, so Summer could only let her climb onto her back to rest.

Facing both the wind and waves and carrying the heavy little cub, Xia Tian thought for a minute or two that she might really die there.

Fortunately, they eventually made it ashore.

Summer, who had narrowly escaped death, said calmly:

"The serious consequences not caused by one's own mistakes are like waves on the ocean, disappearing without a trace once they hit the water. They are not worth dwelling on and torturing oneself."

"A true polar bear cannot be trapped in the past; it must forge ahead!"

She was radiant when she said this, and the white fur on her body seemed to glow in the sunlight!
Guo Mi felt that she was like some outstanding women in the human world, with extraordinary confidence and perseverance, and she looked at her with admiration!
After Xia Tian finished telling her own story, she started asking Guo Mi:

"What about you? It seems you didn't go aboard the ice floes but stayed on the island. Why did you go so far away?"

Guo Mi hesitated for a moment, but still briefly told Xia Tian everything that had happened.

"You're not a polar bear?!"

Summer's tone held a hint of surprise, but that surprise quickly turned into acceptance:

"No wonder! I knew your round head and chubby face didn't resemble a polar bear. So what kind of bear are you, a round bear?"

The brown bears' habitat is in another direction from the human town, far away from here, and we haven't seen any brown bears even in the summer.

Long-forgotten memories were stirred up again; the moment of arguing about the name seemed like it was just yesterday.

It was obvious the person on the other end wasn't paying attention, and Guo Mi's lips twitched:

"I am not a round bear, I am a brown bear."

Summer looked her up and down again:
"A brown bear? You don't even look brown."

This is the same problem again. It's complicated to explain. If it's about illness, then we'll probably have to explain exactly what the illness is, and by the end, Xia Tian probably won't understand either.

Guo Mi began to change the subject:
"We're not the same kind of bear. You're still willing to be my friend? Haven't you ever thought of me as prey?"

She hadn't forgotten how Caesar looked when he saw the black bear.

Summer's attention was successfully diverted, and she asked her in return:
"You said you saw a black bear with Caesar. Since you spent so much time with Caesar, did he ever feel the urge to eat you?"

Guo Mi was speechless for a moment, then muttered:

“He probably doesn’t know I’m not a polar bear.” She had originally thought that Caesar knew or didn’t care, but since meeting Bada, Guo Mi was no longer so sure.

Because Caesar wanted to kill Bada the moment he saw him, but showed no obvious hostility towards her.

After much thought, Guo Mi could only come to one conclusion: the male bear probably still thought she was a polar bear.

Summer smiled and said meaningfully:
"Prey is not determined by species. The old, the young, the weak, and the crippled are the prey. Those capable of fighting back are the opponents."

Guo Mi's eyes flickered slightly. If this conclusion were applied to human society, it would probably be equally applicable. Animals don't seem to be as simple-minded as humans think; they also have thoughts.

The little bear in the distance began its second hunt, and she and Summer stopped talking at the same time, focusing their attention on the salmon and fish bones.

The two bear cubs believed that their previous hunting failure was an accident, and that their hunting method was feasible, so they decided to try again as planned.

Summer guessed right; there's more than one nest of rabbits here.

If one litter of rabbits gets startled, another litter will follow; if the rabbits in one area hide, rabbits from another area will come out.

The bear cub has no shortage of hunting opportunities.

They set their sights on another rabbit brood, but this time they chased fish bones and ambushed salmon.

Fishbone, mimicking Guo Mi, crouched low and slowly approached, then suddenly launched an attack from a place where it could hardly be concealed!
She chose a clever spot, rushing directly towards the burrow closest to the rabbit!

If the rabbit wants to go back into its burrow, it must run in the direction of the salmon.

Timid rabbits rarely have such courage, so they stay away from the burrow entrance.

This allows the salmon to press their advantage and force them toward the direction of the fish bones!

Everything went smoothly until the final blow, when the fish bone, like the salmon, chose to bite directly with its mouth!

Guo Mi closed her eyes in guilt, unable to bear watching any longer.

The rabbit hopped left and right twice near the fishbone's feet. The fishbone couldn't react fast enough, and the rabbit escaped from its mouth again!

The two bear cubs watched helplessly as the rabbit burrowed into its den.

Summer stood by, annoyed by his lack of ambition:

"Why are you using your mouth again? Where did you learn that?"

It could easily break a rabbit's bones with a single swipe of its paw, yet it insists on trying to grab at that impossible thing with its mouth.

She hadn't considered the possibility of it being Guo Mi, because when they met, Guo Mi was swatting fish in the lake with her claws.

She thought Guo Mi was very good at using her claws!

Little did Guo Mi know that her head felt so heavy that she couldn't lift it.

It's hard to realize that a long-standing habit is a mistake. The little bear is used to using its mouth and wouldn't think that using its paws would be more convenient.

The little guy could only blame his own carelessness, which led him to try again and again.

Once, twice, three times...

On the fourth time, a rabbit even dared to crawl out of its burrow and stand tall, its ears perked up, watching them, its mouth and nose twitching, making "poof poof" sounds.

It looked like a mockery.

The two little bears finally realized that this method might not be able to help them catch the rabbit.

They had no choice but to abandon it and try another method.

They tried many methods, but they couldn't outrun the rabbits, and in the end, most of them ended with them helplessly watching the rabbits escape back into their burrows.

After chasing for an entire afternoon, Fishbone couldn't help but give up and lay down on the ground to rest, panting heavily.

He was not only tired and hungry, but also very thirsty.

The salmon was also very tired; at this point, both she and the fishbone had nothing but thoughts about Guo Mi.

If Guo Mi were here, she would definitely have a way to catch the rabbit.

Watching the rabbits leaping about wildly in the distance, darting out of their burrows one moment and running back into them the next, the salmon suddenly realized that they weren't quite like the reindeer that Guo Mi hunted; there was another animal that resembled them even more!

Those are ground squirrels!