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

Chapter 42 Ice Floes and Islands
Caesar's eyes welled up with tears, and he nodded honestly:
"hot."

Guo Mi raised her head and looked at the sun high in the sky.

These past two days she has indeed noticed that it's not so cold at night. The two little bears always sneak away from her embrace at night and run to sleep on the other side of the cave, it seems that it's a bit too warm to be near her at night.

Even without hugging the teddy bear, she can sleep soundly and comfortably until dawn.

I initially thought it was because she had been in the Arctic for a while and her body had gradually adapted to the climate.

It now appears that the gradual warming of temperatures is also a contributing factor.

Guo Mi looked at the frozen lake in front of her. There used to be a round piece of ice in the middle of the lake, like a small island in the lake, but now it has become much smaller.

The ice around the lake had become crystal clear. For the past few days, she had felt that the lake had expanded considerably, and now it seemed that it was not an illusion, but real.

Summer in the Arctic is finally almost here.

Guo Mi's eyes flickered, and the thought of the melting snow in summer filled her with anticipation.

Is summer coming soon?

Caesar was surprised by her reaction:

Are you looking forward to summer?

Summer is hot, and polar bears hate summer the most!
Guo Mi never expected this:
"Of course I'm looking forward to it!"

She didn't forget to confirm with Caesar again:
"I heard from other bears that the snow in the Arctic melts in the summer and flowers grow. Is that true?!"

Caesar's attention was initially drawn to the "other bear" she mentioned, but he quickly recalled that when he later came to find Guo Mi, there seemed to be another female bear with her. He felt inexplicably relieved and then focused his attention on Guo Mi's problem.

"Yes, in summer the snow melts in many places, and many flowers do bloom."

Guo Mi was finally relieved to hear Caesar's answer. She rarely had the patience to chat with Caesar properly, and said with a smile:
"Once all the snow melts, the island will definitely become very beautiful, and there will be even more food..."

Caesar had sensed something was off from the moment he heard her speak, and now he finally understood what it was:

"Wait, wait, you're going to stay on the island in the summer?!"

Some people looked at Guo Mi with inexplicable curiosity:
"correct."

Caesar was somewhat puzzled:
"But have you noticed? This lake isn't a real lake; it's just a hole in the ice. When summer comes, all the surrounding ice will melt, and then the lake will disappear!"

Guo Mi paused for a moment, then looked down at the ice beneath her feet. This ice was so thick; would it all melt in the summer?!
But then I thought, as long as the refrigerator door isn't closed, it will quickly return to room temperature.

In summer, the Arctic temperature rises quickly. Once the temperature reaches above 0 degrees Celsius, the entire Arctic becomes like a refrigerator with the power off but the door open, and it is not surprising that the ice and snow in most places melt.

Guo Mi hesitated for a moment and said:

"But what if the snow melts and there are other things we can eat?"

Caesar stared in astonishment. What food could there be on Summer Island?!

If you think about it carefully, there are indeed some, namely seabird eggs and walrus eggs.

Unfortunately, those bird eggs were only eaten for a taste; they couldn't fill our stomachs or even sustain our basic bodily needs.

Not to mention walruses, which are larger than polar bears. To hunt them, you can only choose walrus cubs, and the difficulty of success is self-evident.

Most importantly, that thing has a very thick skin, and it tastes like tree bark when you bite into it.

Caesar didn't understand why Gomi wanted to stay on the island. Normally, polar bears would float on ice before the ice floes completely melted and drifted away, so they could survive the summer safely with the help of the seals on the ice floes.

Caesar tried to dissuade Gomi from staying on the island:

"What's so good about those things on the island? Don't you like eating seals?"

Guo Mi was somewhat puzzled:

"Aren't there any seals on the island?"

Caesar:

"Most seals stay on ice floes. When they get tired of swimming in the sea, they will rest by climbing onto the ice floes through their blowholes or directly along the edge."

“You can come back to the cave in winter, but in summer the ice floes will drift away, and you can only sleep on the ice floes and won’t be able to go back to the island.”

He couldn't understand why Guo Mi returned to the same place to rest every day; he usually slept wherever he happened to be. Guo Mi astutely grasped the key point in Caesar's words.

Drifting away?

"You mean that in the summer, large areas of ice floes around the island break off and drift away with the current to other places?"

"Yes."

Caesar was puzzled. How could Guo Mi not even know this? Was she really a polar bear?

The poor male bear still doesn't realize that the round-faced bear sitting in front of him is not the strange-looking polar bear he thought it was, nor the "fish bear" he imagined, but a real, completely different species of bear!
Guo Mi was struck dumb:

"You stay on the ice floes for months at a time?"

Imagine a ship without navigation, engine, or GPS, just drifting aimlessly on the vast ocean. It's even worse than a ship, since ice always melts.

If the ice melts halfway through the drift, wouldn't that mean she has no idea where she is in the sea and has to swim to shore on her own?!
This is too outrageous!

After receiving Caesar's affirmative answer, Guo Mi immediately expressed her opinion:
"I'm not going to the ice floes; I want to stay on the island."

Caesar finally realized that Gomi's thought process might be different from that of a normal polar bear, and he tried to correct it:
"The food on Summer Island is really awful, you won't like it, but the seal is delicious!"

He paused, then suddenly realized that even the floating ice floes could drift away, so it couldn't be...

Caesar tilted his head and asked tentatively:
Have you ever eaten seal?

Guo Mi is very honest:
"No, but if I have to go on ice floes in the summer just to eat seals, I'd rather not eat them."

Caesar refused to give up:
"We are polar bears, seals should be our main food, not fish. Seals are delicious!"

Guo Mi wanted to say that she wasn't a polar bear, but a purebred brown bear, but considering that it was best not to let the male bear know that she wasn't the same kind as him when she first arrived, so as to avoid causing more trouble, she ultimately swallowed those words.

But her attitude was very firm:

"I won't go onto the ice floes!"

Caesar was furious:
"How are you going to survive on the island in the summer if you don't go up the ice floes? You're also taking care of those two little brats!"

Guo Mi remained silent, stubbornly keeping her head down, her attitude making it very clear.

Caesar cursed inwardly:
"Stubborn Bear!"

After thinking for a moment, he decided to use a more subtle way to "lure" Guo Mi onto the ice floe with him:

"You've never eaten a seal, that's why you think fish are good. Here's what we'll do: I'll go catch a seal, you wait here for me, and you'll definitely change your mind after we eat it!"

Guo Mi was dumbfounded. She was about to say that she didn't actually like fish that much, and that her appetite wasn't that strong, but Caesar had already turned around and jogged away.

She tried to call out, but no one answered. All the male bear left her with was its receding figure and its ears bobbing up and down with each step.

……

Slok was lucky enough to catch a seal and had just enjoyed a delicious meal. Feeling like he hadn't had enough, he suddenly saw Caesar dragging half a seal forward, and his eyes lit up!
He called out loudly:
"Caesar, I'm here! Where have you been these past two days? I haven't been able to find you anywhere—"

Just as he was about to go over and snatch a few more bites, he realized that Caesar hadn't heard him at all and was dragging the seal away without looking back as he ran towards the snow-capped mountains.

Slok felt wronged, but this was followed by even more curiosity.

He had been searching for Caesar everywhere for the past two days, but to no avail. Now that he had finally spotted him, he discovered that Caesar was heading towards the snow-capped mountains.

It should be noted that Caesar usually spends most of his time in the ice floes area. In previous years, he would have been on the ice floes for a long time by this time to avoid being left behind on the island if the ice floes drifted away.

They're actually heading to the snow-capped mountains now?!

Filled with curiosity, Slok jogged off to keep up with Caesar at a distance, following him on the race.

Watching Caesar drag that half-seal so far, not even smelling his own scent, or rather, not paying attention to it?

His curiosity was now impossible to hide!

It wasn't until Slok followed Caesar to a frozen lake and watched Caesar proudly present half a seal to another bear that he saw something he never imagined he would see in his life!

His ruthless, mighty, and powerful older brother actually got slapped with a big paw by another bear?!

(End of this chapter)