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

Chapter 201 A Moment of Synchronization

Time ticked by, and Caesar couldn't resist sticking his mouthpiece into the water again, stirring it back and forth.

It doesn't really help, but doing something so pointless can slightly alleviate the male bear's anxiety.

Caesar paced back and forth along the edge of the ice, and every splash of water stirred up by the wind would make him look there, and he couldn't help but hope that two little heads would pop out of the water.

But the results always disappointed him.

The male bear finally plopped down on the water's edge and vigorously rubbed its ears with its paw.

At that moment, he realized that what worried him was not Guo Mi's claws swinging at him, but that she knew about the accident that happened to Little Bear.

Guo Mi..., you must be very sad.
This thought weighed heavily on Caesar's heart; he knew clearly that he did not want to see this happen.

Caesar sat by the water like a stone statue, motionless, his head bowed as he gazed at the surface.

He suddenly stood up and jumped into the water!
This time, he didn't show off his superb water-entry skills; the entire bear was like a huge rock, splashing water high with a "thud".

The enormous male bear leaned back, its massive body deftly disappearing beneath the ice, its long fur spreading out in the water like a giant white pom-pom.

The head, peeking out from the center of the fluffy ball, opened its eyes, its four paws moving skillfully as it turned its head to search.

Under the polar night, the faint light was almost completely obscured by the thick ice, and it was only natural that Caesar would find nothing while searching in the almost pitch-black water.

In such darkness, even the slightest panic could cause him to lose his way.

When it resurfaced, at least five minutes had passed.

This is the maximum time most adult polar bears can hold their breath underwater, but it is definitely not something a cub can achieve.

The fate of the bear cubs is already sealed. Beneath this thick layer of ice, in some corner, the bodies of two polar bear cubs are probably already floating, rising and falling gently with the waves.

Perhaps they have already sunk deep underwater.

After a moment of silence, Caesar did not go ashore, but instead dived back into the water.

He wanted to find the bear cub's body.

For bears, the carcasses of their own kind are meaningless. Fresh carcasses might serve as temporary food, while stale ones are likely to only contribute to air pollution and could even bring disease.

Risking getting lost and drowning under the ice to find the bodies of two bear cubs would seem absurd to any bear.

Caesar knew perfectly well that he was doing something foolish; he couldn't even figure out why he was doing it, yet his mind was filled with thoughts of:

At least we should find the bear cub's body.

Even so, it didn't make Guo Mi sad or upset, and he still wanted to do it.

As the male bear aimlessly searched for the cub's body in the water, a moment of clarity flashed through his mind, like cool seawater flowing into his brain through his ears, briefly putting him in sync with Guo Mi.

If he didn't understand why Guo Mi was considering whether the berries could be propagated, and was simply blindly following her instructions, and didn't understand why Guo Mi had an unconscious pity for the dead animals, even her own prey.

Now he felt he might understand a little bit of her feelings.

However, things didn't go as planned. The glacier that had nurtured Caesar, the overlord of the ice plains, kept disappointing him.

Having reached the limit of his breath-holding ability, Caesar had to drag his increasingly heavy limbs back to the surface.

A large bear head popped out like a bubble breaking through the ripples on the water's surface, disturbed by the cold wind.

The male bear maintained its balance and inhaled fresh air into its nostrils, gradually relieving the feeling of suffocation.

He has no plans to return to shore yet.

Just as Caesar was about to return to the water, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a dark shadow appearing on the edge of the ice. To be precise, it was two dark shadows huddled together, shivering in the howling wind.

Caesar froze, floating in the water, looking up blankly at the two pairs of beady eyes on the ice, still shaken. After a long while, he raised his paw and wiped his bear face.

The salmon and fish bones nestled together. Little DouDou watched as the male bear, soaking in the water, used his strong front paws to climb onto the ice floe and stride towards them, leaving a trail of dripping water droplets in his wake!

Seeing the other party approaching aggressively without slowing down, looking as if it was about to crash into him, the little bear was so frightened that it scrambled backward and scrambled to its backside.

And in the end, he did indeed crash into it!
With a forceful push of its nose, it flipped the nearest salmon upside down!

The male bear sniffed the cub from forehead to belly, his loud inhalation echoing through the room!

This behavior is really offensive, especially being sniffed on the belly by a notoriously fierce male bear. Who can guarantee that he won't suddenly open his mouth and tear open that tender fur to taste the fresh bear cub meat?
The salmon was terrified and struggled to escape, but Caesar pinned it to the ground with his claws, rendering it unable to move. It could only stand stiffly as Caesar smelled it from head to tail.

Fortunately, Caesar seemed to really only intend to sniff it once. He quickly used his paws to push her aside, raised his head, and his "gloomy" gaze fell directly on the fishbone next to him, who was also stunned with fright.

Fishbone finally snapped out of its daze when it noticed his gaze, and immediately bristled, turning around and frantically pawing at the ground with its four paws, trying to escape.

Before it could run more than a few steps, it was grabbed and pulled back by Caesar's huge claws. Caesar skillfully pressed it to the ground, sniffed it from head to toe, then shoved it aside in a second, and finally shook its claws in disgust.

The little bear lay sprawled on the ice, looking at Caesar with a black line on its head. Not content with just waving its paws, it went to the water's edge and dipped its nose in the water as well.

The disgust is palpable.

A surge of resentment welled up inside him.

Why force them to do such excessive things for no reason, and then act so disgusted in the end?

They're not rotten fish or shrimp. Besides, this male bear isn't exactly clean; he's rather slovenly.

Guo Mi takes them to have their fur cleaned every day!
The salmon complained to the fishbone, who wholeheartedly agreed, but hesitated at the end and whispered:
"He seems to bury his prey after eating it, lick the blood off his fur, and even go into the water to wash it..."

The salmon was speechless. After thinking about it carefully, it seemed that it was indeed true. Caesar was quite clean, even cleaner than most bears.

But why does she think he smells bad?
No, that's not the point!

The salmon shook its head and said to the fish bones:
"None of that matters. What matters is why he made us smell them?"

Fishbone's gaze quietly fell on Caesar's fur, which was still dripping wet.

Recalling how he had climbed ashore without even shaking off the water and hurried towards them, a terrifying, unbelievable thought surfaced in Xiong's mind.

The little bear's words rose to his throat, he swallowed them, thought for a moment, then rose again, finally hesitatingly speaking in a voice so soft it was almost inaudible:

"Did he go into the water to look for us?"

The family matter has moved to the next stage, so let me briefly explain what happened.
The reason it happened was that my maternal grandparents, who were harvesting scallions, originally owned a piece of land, but they got old, and the land was left idle.

A relative from the same village secretly occupied the land and planted things on it.

It just so happens that my grandparents' house needs renovations recently because it's too old. My mom, who was chopping scallions, felt bad about the flowers she planted and suddenly remembered that piece of land. She wanted to move the flowers there, only to find that the land had been taken.
Then the other person also spotted Sha Cong's mother, rushed over, and yelled at her, "You've been married for so long, why are you coming back to fight me for her!" (Original words)

...Yeah, it's that outrageous.

My grandmother came out of the house when she heard her calling. She wanted to tell her not to make a scene and to talk things out, explaining that the land was indeed ours (this probably triggered her). Suddenly, the woman across the street pushed my grandmother to the ground.

My grandmother is 80 years old, only a little over 1.4 meters tall. Her bones are brittle and she can't get up on her own. She bumped her head and got a big bump.
The other person was very rude, yelling, "So what if I pushed it? If you die, I'll just send a wreath at most" (her exact words). But she probably realized she had caused trouble and turned to leave.

The woman, nicknamed "Scallion Mom," tried to stop her (she is also very petite, only 1.5 meters tall), but was slapped and repeatedly tackled and pushed to the ground, ultimately resulting in an irreversible lumbar fracture.
This is a rough outline of what happened.
Sorry to have kept everyone waiting so long and to hear about what happened in Sha Cong's family, but after thinking about it for a long time, in order to prove that I'm not making excuses, I've decided to briefly mention it to everyone.

Finally, thank you all for your support! I will work hard!