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

Chapter 191 You're Staying Here
The salmon was startled by his gaze, and its trotting steps came to an abrupt halt. It instinctively took two steps back.

Just as the fishbone caught up, the salmon dove aside to block him, cautiously leading his younger brother back a step.

The little male bear immediately noticed that something was wrong with the bear in front of him, tilted his head, and whispered:

"What's up with him?"

The salmon's gaze followed Caesar intently, never wavering.

"I don't know, it just happened suddenly."

Caesar stared intently at the two cubs, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

The two bear cubs felt their hair stand on end from his gaze.

After an unknown amount of time, the male bear suddenly withdrew its gaze, raised its chin high, and once again swept its gaze down upon the two cubs, letting out a haughty snort:
"Humph!"

He looked at the two bear cubs as if they were scraps left over from other bears, his indifference tinged with disdain, yet seemingly mixed with a hint of...sympathy.
Salmon and fish bones:
"..."

The fishbone nuzzled against the salmon, who tilted its head and heard its younger brother mutter softly:
"Is he crazy?"

The salmon also found it difficult to explain, hesitated for a moment, and then said dryly:
"I don't know, maybe."

After all, many bears have raised similar questions about Caesar recently, suggesting he might have really gone mad.

On the other side, Caesar turned around and stuck his head into the hole again, pushing hard with his hind legs, trying his best to squeeze in.

In the end, only half of it went in, with the other half stuck outside the hole, and the cold wind relentlessly blowing on its upturned buttocks.

It tried to push forward with its two strong hind paws, but to little avail.

The owner of the bear's rear end seemed to fall into a brief silence, just sticking it out there silently, which looked somewhat comical.

A dozen or twenty seconds later, the bear's raised buttocks suddenly collapsed, and its massive body began to twist and roll on the spot. After a struggle, Caesar's head, still covered in mud, finally emerged from the hole.

The male bear raised its paw to pat the dirt off its nose, turned its head, and met two pairs of small eyes with subtle expressions. It seemed to realize its comical action just now, and stopped digging.

The two children, one adult and two children, stared at each other in silence.

A moment later, Caesar moved his massive body to his feet, casually shook his fur, circled the entrance of the hole once, and then stopped. He stretched his neck as if he wanted to stick his head into the hole again, but for some reason, he stopped again.

The male bear's series of awkward actions made it seem as if his murderous gaze had never happened, and the cub's vigilance was diminished considerably.

Especially when I saw him lying face down in front of the hole, reaching out his claws to dig at the entrance!
Caesar recalled how Gomi dug the hole, her two large claws flying up and down at the entrance!
At first glance, it seemed like everyone was working feverishly, but upon closer inspection, the operation only caused minor damage to the hole, seemingly without much effect.

The speed at which they dug the tunnel was far slower than that of Guo Mi.

Caesar raised his paws and looked at them in puzzlement. He then lay down on the ground and used his paws to break up the earthen walls that Guo Mi had compacted, preparing to dig out the soil inside bit by bit.

The little bear was jumping up and down in frustration:

"Stop digging! Stop digging!"

However, Caesar completely ignored them and focused on his work. Occasionally, when he found the two little creatures next to him annoying, he would push them away with his paw!
The little furball immediately rolled down the slope, tumbling all the way to the bottom!
The salmon, disoriented, stood up from the bottom of the slope and trotted back up, shouting:
"We can't dig anymore, or the hole will collapse and Guo Mi will be buried inside!"

Caesar's digging finally stopped.

The salmon had just breathed a sigh of relief when she realized that the male bear in front of her seemed to be staring at her!
The little guy was startled and secretly regretted that he had shouted too loudly. A male bear like Caesar would most likely have thought it was a provocation.

But Caesar had a different idea. He sat back and poked a hole in the nose.

"You two go in and dig!"

The salmon blinked, beginning to doubt its own ears!

What?! What did he just say?! Fishbone heard it too, and looked at Caesar with disbelief. How could he say such a shameless thing?!
Caesar couldn't wait any longer; he slapped the cave entrance again with his heavy claws, his message succinct:

"Dig quickly!"

The two bear cubs quickly retreated:

"no!"

Caesar's eyes widened; he'd never seen these two brats so defiant before. He said in a harsh voice:
"why not?!"

The salmon lowered its head and whispered:
"Guo Mi did not agree to you getting close to her."

Caesar was immediately displeased, his mood was extremely bad. He glared at the two speechless cubs and stopped asking them to dig a hole. He just turned his body away and stared at the entrance of the hole, sulking.

The little bear started to get scared, staring longingly at the cave entrance, wondering how to wake Guo Mi up.

Fishbone asked secretly:

"Salmon, is it alright to wake Guo Mi up?"

The salmon also hesitated:

"I do not know."

They are just little bears; they haven't experienced many things, and no bear has taught them common sense.

They don't need to hibernate either. Guo Mi's hibernation is an abnormal state for them, and even she herself doesn't quite understand it.

Whether interrupting her hibernation would harm her or not, Guo Mi never said, and they didn't know either.

So unless it's a life-threatening situation, Little Bear doesn't want to wake her up without a second thought.

The bear they encountered before was a strange male bear, but now it's Caesar. They are different, and the little bear was confused for a moment.

Seeing Caesar silently digging his hole again, the salmon, fearing he might collapse it, hesitated for a moment before stepping forward:

"I, we can help you dig a hole."

Caesar glanced at her briefly, quite surprised.

Guo Mi's two bear cubs are just as stubborn as she is. His threat to make them dig a hole was just a whim, and he didn't expect the two little cubs to obey.

Now that they were suddenly obedient, Caesar was a little unaccustomed to it.

The salmon, with its little head drooping, spoke very quickly:
“But you can’t wake Guo Mi up, and also…”

She looked up at Caesar and saw the bear watching them calmly, clearly waiting for her to continue.

The salmon swallowed hard.
"Guo Mi is asleep. If the cave entrance is widened, the scent will spread more, which may attract other male bears. You need to stay here until Guo Mi finishes hibernation."

There were seals buried inside the cave. The strange male bear was most likely attracted by that scent, and the cub didn't expect Caesar wouldn't be able to smell it.

However, the salmon realized that she and the fishbone would be no match for an adult bear, and that Guomi had been asleep for so long that she might not be in good physical condition even if she woke up.

Instead of this, why not...

The salmon glanced at Caesar out of the corner of its eye.

Although it has a bad temper, it won't harm Guo Mi... and most likely it won't bite them to death either, so it's a better choice.

Hibernation can be woken up, but the little bear didn't know that.