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

Chapter 179 I've given you everything!

Guo Mi was stunned for a moment. She looked down at herself, then looked up at the earless male bear opposite her, and felt a surge of emotion that brought tears to her eyes.

After all this time, finally someone... oh no, finally a bear can tell the difference between a round face and a flat face!
Uh, that doesn't seem right either, even Bada can tell them apart.

The surging emotions of being exonerated instantly subsided, and Guo Mi's teary-eyed state vanished immediately, replaced by a serious expression as she looked at the bear with the missing ear.

The bear with the missing ear was so quick to change his expression that he couldn't react in time. He stood there dumbfounded for a long while, carefully observing Guo Mi, but he still couldn't tell whether she was happy or unhappy.

However, he quickly put on a ferocious and evil smile, and chuckled in a low voice:

"Hmph, what are you doing here, a brown bear, instead of staying where you belong? This is our polar bear territory, get out of here!"

As he spoke, he stretched his neck, his small pupils gleaming with ferocity, and hopped and leaped a few steps toward Guo Mi, slapping the ground with his claws.

"Get out of here, get out of here!"

"..."

It's truly unbearable to watch. Even if you saw this kind of behavior in a zoo, it would generally be considered "mentally retarded".

Guo Mi's face showed a "so he's an idiot" expression as she watched the male bear approach her, its ears folded back, and it casually licked the seal blood off its lips.

The bear with the missing ear immediately stopped its bluffing and looked at Guo Mi warily.

"What are you going to do?"

Guo Mi looked at him, puzzled.

Actually, when she first saw the male bear with the missing ear, she hesitated about whether or not to compete for the prey.

She didn't blindly snatch food; she was quite wise in choosing her "victims."

The targets are generally bears that are outwardly strong but inwardly weak and prone to backing down, or bears that are willing to share food with their own kind.

Moreover, under normal circumstances, she would wait for the other person to eat some.

Such "victim bears" are characterized by two main traits: first, having already eaten their food, they are not overly attached to the remaining food; and second, they do not become bloodthirsty and impulsive in fights, thus avoiding mutual destruction.

If Guo Mi doesn't seriously injure him, he won't fight back desperately. In the end, Guo Mi usually gets the food easily, and the bear whose prey is stolen neither gets nothing nor leaves with serious injuries.

This is why, despite the many bears complaining about having their prey stolen, they did not launch a group attack on Guo Mi.

After all, it's all too common for a weak bear to have its prey stolen by a stronger one.

Although Guo Mi frequently snatched food, she did so after she had already filled her stomach, so even if she was beaten, it was only a minor injury.

For those weak and thin bears who are not strong in combat, they might prefer to see Guo Mi rather than bears like Caesar or the earless male bear.

At least she has the little one with her, so she won't relentlessly pursue them.

Of course, Guo Mi never intended to treat them that way.

So later, there were even occasional bears that, upon seeing Guo Mi appear, would, before she could even "kindly" ask if they could give up their prey, voluntarily save themselves the trouble and quietly walk away.

However, this is a very rare case. Most of the bears whose food is stolen are male bears, and they are not willing to give up on "rescuing" them so quickly.

Guo Mi noticed more than once that the bears that were frequently robbed had a very weak will to resist. They would just stand next to their prey and only leave after each bear had scratched them twice. She was very puzzled by this.

In her view, leaving voluntarily or being swatted away by two claws was clearly a worse situation than leaving with the bears, but the bears seemed to have the complete opposite of what she thought.

However, the bear with missing ears was clearly not among Guo Mi's choices. It was just that when she met him, his every move was strange, and although she had never seen him before, he always made Guo Mi feel a strange sense of familiarity. That's why she wanted to stay and test him.

She licked the blood off her mouth, took two steps forward on her paws, but the bear opposite her, the one with the missing ear, suddenly tensed up and took two steps back.
"Don't get agitated, don't get agitated, I mean no harm."

Guo Mi stopped raising her paw in mid-air, glanced at him with a slightly confused look, and the male bear took two steps back, looked at her raised paw, and said:

"I don't compete with brown bears for food, maybe..."

He paused, then spoke to Guo Mi in a consultative tone:
“We can share it together.”

...?
This change is too fast! If you didn't know better, you'd think that the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage had turned into a bear along with her.

Well, it was a pleasant surprise, as we could share the prey without having to fight for it. Guo Mi readily agreed and lowered her claws.

The bear with the missing ear seemed relieved, taking two hesitant steps towards Guo Mi, its eyes fixed on her as it slowly approached. He was completely different from the bear that had bitten its own kind earlier. Guo Mi couldn't help but raise her paw to touch her furry face, beginning to doubt herself: Was he really that terrifying?

The bear with the missing ear, after confirming several times that Guo Mi showed no signs of suddenly bursting into action, quickly walked over:

"How about we divide the prey, then you take your share and I'll take mine?"

Guo Mi's heart skipped a beat, but she remained silent, pretending to be enigmatic as she looked at him.

The bear with the missing ear seemed extremely unwilling to be in the same space as her.

With a swift tearing and biting motion, it divided the seal into two equal parts. Turning its head, it saw two polar bear cubs peeking out in the distance. After hesitating for a moment, it took some more from its own portion and then asked Guo Mi:

"Is this okay?"

Guo Mi remained silent, only staring intently at him.

The bear with the missing ear paused, gritted its teeth, and took a small portion from its own portion, forcing a smile:

"What about this?"

Guo Mi's round ears twitched, and she slightly raised her chin, her eyes looking disdainful.

Even though the brown bear in front of him was smaller and shorter than him, and could not even see the top of his head while sitting there, the bear with missing ears always felt that she was looking down on him.

He took a deep breath, repeatedly rummaged through the meager amount of meat in front of him, and finally pushed it all towards Guo Mi, his tone revealing his vulnerability:
"Fine, you can have it all! But!"

He turned his head, and said with little confidence:

"Next time, stay away from me. I won't bother you, but don't try to take things from me!"

The bear with the missing ear stood up angrily, his whole body screaming "I guess I'm just unlucky today," and prepared to turn around and leave.

Guo Mi suddenly called out to him:

"and many more!"

The bear with the missing ear was somewhat distraught and turned around to shout loudly:

"I've given you everything, all of it! I've given you as much as I could take from you!"

This time, Guo Mi spoke to him:
"I know, don't get agitated."

The bear with the missing ear didn't listen and continued to shout:
"What else do you want from me? How come you brown bears can show up anywhere?! This is the Arctic, this is ice floes, is this a place for you to appear?! You are simply..."

Guo Mi reached out her paw and pulled the last bit of meat that the earless bear had given her back to him, nodding at it:

"this is for you."

The bear with the missing ear stopped complaining abruptly, staring wide-eyed at Guo Mi in disbelief. He opened his mouth, then stammered:
"Give it to me?" Really?

Guo Mi's tone was certain:

"Here you go, eat."

The bear with the missing ear seemed to have lost all ability to think. It hung its head blankly, its mouth agape, and before biting down, it asked uncertainly:

"Then, then I'll eat it?"

Guo Mi raised her paw and shook it:

"Eat."

"I really ate it?"

Guo Mi looked at him with a smile:
"Eat."

The bear with the missing ear lowered its eyes, hesitated for a moment, then rolled its tongue around and swallowed the whole piece of meat into its mouth. It barely chewed twice before swallowing it whole. Then it quickly looked up at Guo Mi:

"You're the one who told me to eat this."

Guo Mi hummed in agreement, then peeled another piece of meat for him, casually saying:

"what's your name?"